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Wasco County Demonstration Site

Program Description

Staff Contact: Tonya Aitkin

Wasco County is bordered on the north by the Columbia River and figured prominently in the state's early history. The county seat, The Dalles, gained fame as the town at the end of the Oregon Trail and Indian tribes gathered for generations near Celilo Falls to trade and fish. Today, the local economy is supported through agriculture, forest products, manufacturing, hydroelectric power, and transportation. The current population consists of 22,500 residents; Latinos comprise about 9.3 percent of this total.

Wasco County 4-H sponsors an after school program Monday-Friday at Colonel Wright Elementary School. Children in grades K-5 engage in physical activities and in arts and crafts, gardening, and nutrition-related activities. The program expanded in the fall of 2005 to include homework and reading assistance. Without the program, most of the participants would be home alone.

More details can be found in the sections relating to local vision and mission statements, program goals and objectives, and key program outcomes.

Updated March 2006