By James Day Silverton’s best fact-filled teams will battle it out for a good cause Friday, March 10 at the First Christian Church. That night at 6 p.m. the Silverton Kiwanis’ fundraising Trivia Bee will be held, with the bulk of the funds raised going to the Silver Falls Library’s Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. The event also will benefit […]
By Melissa Wagoner When the Silver Falls Library District held a strategic planning session in the fall of 2021 Director Christy Davis discovered a need that had very little to do with books. “Quite a few people have reached out to me from the community – leaders and everyday citizens – expressing concern about the polarization that they are feeling, […]
By Melissa Wagoner In 2019 Christy Davis attended a Repair Fair – an event put on by Marion County Environmental Services (MCES) in Salem that encouraged community members to bring broken items – those in danger of being thrown out – in order to have them repaired by an expert. “What I saw at the Repair Fair was awesome,” Davis […]
By Melissa Wagoner The smiles are as numerous as the books on the shelves at the Silver Falls Library – which opened its doors to the public for the first time in 15 months on June 8. “We’ve been open now for a half hour and so many happy people are coming in to see us…” Director Christy Davis wrote […]
By Melissa Wagoner Christy Davis of Silverton recently had to say goodbye to her mother, Maxine Davis, for the last time – but first she had to say hello. “Immediately she was stressed out because she was supposed to know me,” Christy said of their initial greeting during her last annual visit. Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Maxine’s memory was […]
By Melissa Wagoner Once she set her sights on moving to Silverton everything just fell into place for Christy Davis, the new Silver Falls Library Director. “I hesitate to use the word magical – but it was pretty great,” she said. Davis, who has nurtured a love for libraries since her childhood days in Bloomington, Indiana., had been working for […]
