LA GRANDE — The late Mike Voss, a tireless community volunteer, will be saluted Feb. 22-23 at the annual La Grande Gun Show.

The gun show will be conducted in memory of Voss, who founded the event in 2015 and directed it through 2019.

“He did it for the community,” said Sheila Evans, the director of this year’s gun show and president of the Island City Lions Club, which is hosting the event.

Voss, a Summerville resident, died June 3, 2019, at age 62. The gun show show will have a table displaying photos of Voss to honor him.

The event Voss, who also was a member of the Island City Lions Club, started has had a combined two-day attendance of at least 1,500 each year, and Evans believes it will draw at least this many people again next weekend.

The La Grande Gun Show Feb. 22 will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Feb. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Blue Mountain Conference Center, 404 12th St. All proceeds from the show each year go to the Lions Club, which spends the money on community service projects.

Part of the money the Lions will raise will be from the breakfasts and lunches it serves both days at the gun show.

This year’s show will have 50 vendors, some selling collectibles, Evans said, the likes of which can’t be found in many other places. At least 300 gun sales took place at the 2019 show, and Evans said she anticipates at least that many this year.

The gun show is one of about 45 in Oregon and again will be the first major gun show of the year in Northeast Oregon

For information on the gun show, call Evans at 541-910-8377 and leave a message.