Miracle Worker
The Story of Helen Keller
Proceeds Benefit Local Non-Profits!
NOTE CHANGE: Local area signers for hearing impaired members of the audience were originally planning to be available during the matinee performance on August 17. That date has changed to the Friday evening performance, August 22nd.
Miracle Worker is a remarkable story of an extraordinary woman who was hired in 1887 to teach Helen Keller, a 7-year-old child who had been left blind and deaf after an illness as an infant.
50% of the proceeds will be donated to some of our own home-grown Miracle Workers— non-profit organizations in the Gorge who work tirelessly to make our communities better places to live:
The Hood River Lions; The Next Door, Inc.; SMART (Start Making a Reader Today)
Show times: August 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7:30 p.m. with one matinee on August 17th at 2:00 p.m.
Miracle Workers has been produced locally by Wayne Tengwall and Debra Jones.
Ticket & Sponsorship Information
Tickets $15 / $12 for seniors and students 17 and under, available from
- Waucoma Books in Hood River
- Collage of the Gorge in White Salmon
- Hood River Lions Club Members
- The Next Door
- SMART Volunteers
Lions Fight Against Blindness
On June 30, 1925, in Cedar Point, Ohio, during a speech at the Lions International Convention, Helen Keller challenged Lions to become “Knights of the Blind in the crusade against darkness.” Lions accepted that challenge. In the 83 years since, Lions Club has faithfully and tirelessly committed their service to the blind and visually impaired.
Lions Clubs International is recognized worldwide for their commitment to the fight against blindness. They demonstrate their commitment to sight conservation through eyeglass recycling, sight partnerships, and many programs. Through the SightFirst Campaign, Lions have given financial resources to provide safe drinking water and medicine to prevent river blindness. They have helped built eye hospitals and clinics to provide sight restoring cataract surgery. Currently, the Lions Campaign SightFirst II has raised over $150,000,000 to continue in that mission.
Clubs like the Hood River Lions Club raise money to fund a wide variety of local and state wide programs such as the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation, Oregon School for the Blind, Oral Hull Camp, and guide dog training programs. Over the last 10 years the Hood River Lions Club Foundation Trust has given over $1,000,000 in grants to Hood River County non-profits to fund a range of community programs.
Partners to Raise Funds for Local Miracle Workers
The Hood River Lions Club is currently partnering with the Columbia Center for the Arts, and Plays for Non-Profits, to present “The Miracle Worker” as a fundraiser. When director Lynda Dallman approached the Hood River Lions Club about co-sponsoring the production, incoming president Wayne Tengwall saw the partnership as a natural extension of Lions service to the blind and the community.
More About the Performance
The play tells the story of Annie Sullivan, hired in 1887, to teach Helen Keller, a seven year old child who had been left blind and deaf after an illness as an infant. This remarkable story will be brought to life on August 15, 16, 22, and 23 at 7:30 pm, and on August 17 at 2:00 pm at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River. 50% of the proceeds will benefit local area non-profits.
Helping Hands will be selling refreshments as fund raiser during all five shows.
More Information
For ticket information or advertisement sponsorship contact Wayne Tengwall, of Columbia River Bank, at 387-3450, or Lynda Dallman, of The Next Door, at 386-6665 ext. 109