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Clarence Noon a former business rep for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 55 and later Council 5, passed away Feb. 25 in Keizer, Oregon. He was 81. Noon held a degree in physics and was a math teacher before going into commercial painting and joining Salem-based Painters and Tapers Local 724 (which has since merged into Painters Local 10). He was president of the local and was hired as a business rep by the District Council. He  served in that capacity until retiring in 2001 at age 62. Clarence Clyde Noon was born Sept. 26, 1939 in Alliance, Nebraska. Aft...

By Rod Belisle I have been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) for 34 years, and a member of the IBEW and United Workers Federal Credit Union for just as many. If you are new to the credit union, welcome. If you are not new, but have noticed changes, you are correct. “This is not your father’s credit union” as they used to say, although some of you may actually be able to say that with some accuracy. This credit union was developed by the union trades seeking a method to invest our union wages into a union-run, union-managed financial institution that ...