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LaVon Hall, a member of the Historic Union Community Hall Board, examines a copy of a painting of the Last Supper on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in the chapel of what is now part of the Catherine Creek Community Center, Union.Alex Wittwer/The Observer
UNION â Sounds that could pass for echoes of the past, elegant architectural features of yesteryear and hidden history.
The old Methodist Church building complex in Union has all this plus something it did not appear to have until two months ago â a promising future.
The former Union United Methodist Church building complex, now named the Catherine Creek Community Center, no longer is in peril after a new local nonprofit, the Friends of the Historic Union Community Hall, purchased it from the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. The nonprofit raised $25,000 to make the purchase, which was finalized Feb. 24.