The Silverton boys basketball team defeated Sherwood 55-47 March 6 at home. The Foxes next head to Eugene to face Pendleton 1:30 p.m. March 11 at the University of Oregon’s Mac Court.
Thanks to more than a quarter of a million dollars in federal grant money, students walking and biking to Robert Frost Elementary School should see some improvements on their route next fall.
Mount Angel City administrator candidates Mark Kunkler, Susan Muir and David Weiser had a busy schedule during their visit Feb. 19 and 20.
On a recent Tuesday night, 15 people sat in a circle on a couch and folding chairs, in a living room at the back of Silverton United Methodist Church. As they prepared to take in a lecture on healthier eating choices that help prevent cancer, more than a few made jokes about the plates of cookies and cupcakes that were still lined out on the coffee table in front of them.
At work, Glenn Klecker is an award-winning knife and tool designer whose work is known world wide. At home, however, Klecker is the dad that carves wooden toy knives that make his 6-year-old son, Nathan, the envy of every little boy in their Silverton neighborhood.
A lease was signed Feb. 21 for Seven Brides Brewing to take over the First Street building constructed as Copeland Lumber Co. and most recently serving as the Traeger barbecue warehouse.
As of press time on Feb. 24, the boys’ basketball team was ranked fourth in state in the 5A Coaches Boys Basketball Poll and was in first place in the Mid-Willamette standings. The team’s league record is 12-1 and 21-2 overall. It will compete in the state playoffs, with first and second round games scheduled the first week of March and the state tournament March 11-13.
When Silverton community members gather in The Oregon Garden pavilion on Saturday, March 13, they will not only celebrate Silverton High School Athletic Department’s rich past, they will help to pave the way for its future.
Kids and counselors circle the campfire, singing camp songs and cowboy ballads to music played on a guitar – it’s a tradition at Canyonview Camp, one that creates lifetime memories. Even more so for Matthew Price, son of the guitar-playing camp director, who was raised at the Christian camp.
Naseem Rakha is a journalist, mother, editorialist, poet and now, due to the success of her debut novel, The Crying Tree, she can add award-winning novelist to that list. The story of a mother’s emotional journey to forgive her son’s killer has won the 2010 Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Award. Rakha’s first foray into fiction was the only traditional novel that made the winning list this year.
Four Benedictine Sisters recently celebrated Jubilees at Queen of Angels Monastery. Sr. Corinne Clay and Sr. Agatha Meissner marked 70 years as Benedictines, Sr. Mechtilde Fennimore celebrated her 60th jubilee, and Sr. Rocino Moreno Soto celebrated 25 years as a religious.
According Feeding America, one in eight Americans is struggling with hunger. To raise the awareness of hunger in the community, Silverton Area Community Aid is hosting the Empty Bowls Soup Dinner Sunday, March 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 303 N. Church St., Silverton.
Mount Angel has a strong sense of its past. Many descendants of the original white settlers still live and work here. The town’s German Catholic heritage is commemorated each year as residents put on one of the state’s premier community festivals, Oktoberfest. Historic buildings like St. Mary’s Church and Queen of Angels Monastery have been carefully preserved and archives at the monastery and Mount Angel Abbey are treasure troves of historical documents and photographs. Yet, with all this rich history, Mount Angel has no historical society or museum. That may be about to change.
What’s it like to have been raised by an Irish mother? St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to share that experience with you. My mom, Marie Byrne, was born into a farming family in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Erie. She arrived at Ellis Island, New York, in 1920 at 17 years of age, to be a nanny for an affluent stockbroker’s family.
As if I needed another reminder of my inadequacies, a recent trip to the hardware store provided a whole new shopping basket full.
Jim Schaecher, a retired partner of Butsch Insurance Agency in Mt. Angel, takes his community as a matter of course. Not so his peers, who considered his efforts worthy of his being chosen Mt. Angel’s 2009 First Citizen.
A warm chuckle punctuates Irene Willig’s speech – it is a manifestation of her relationship with everyone around her. She loves people and the love is returned.
Mt. Angel’s 2009 Business of the Year is really several businesses rolled into one and stuffed in sausage casing. Mt. Angel Sausage Co., 105 S. Garfield St., makes sausage; sells sausage, sauces and nuts online and at its pub restaurant; and is a catering service as well as a concession provider at fairs, festivals and sporting events.
Members of the Mt. Angel Volunteer Fire District will receive the 2009 Volunteer Organization of the Year Award at the Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce First Citizen Awards Banquet Feb. 22 in St. Mary’s Parish Hall.
By Steve Ritchie
Apathy bothers Alex Morrissey. A lot.
“I can’t stand to just sit back and watch what is going on without being a part of it,” said Morrissey, who was recently selected Mt. Angel’s Junior First Citizen for 2009. “I take a lot of pride in Mt. Angel and Kennedy High School.
“People used to tell [...]
Well, it looks like the fine folks at ‘ol Toy-yoter sure are taking their lumps. Being a car guy, I just don’t get it… they say Prius owners may experience “unintended acceleration”…what does a Prius have, like 6 horsepower? With that kind of earthshaking power any acceleration might certainly be “unexpected” but hardly cause for alarm. Besides, it’s not like the brakes don’t work……
The Importance of Being Earnest, a play written in 1894 by Oscar Wilde, opens the last weekend in February. It is Silverton High School Theater Department’s second play in the new school auditorium, but the theater has already hosted several community events.
The closure of Monitor Elementary School this June will result in new students for both Scotts Mills and Butte Creek schools in the fall of 2010.
Six Silver Falls School District employees will be recognized as Employees of the Year at the First Citizen banquet Feb. 20.
The search for a new Mt. Angel city administrator that began with 46 applicants from 20 states is now down to three candidates from two states.