The moment Dr. Michael Kim and his wife, Lina, first saw Silverton they knew this was it, the town they wanted to call home. As they drove in on Highway 213 that day, “the view from Oak Street looking down the hill was gorgeous – something clicked,” he said.
Kendall T. Pyper came to a crossroad in his life when he lost his job as the band teacher at Silverton High and Mark Twain Middle schools in 2003 due to “unrelenting budget cuts.” “My wife and I decided that I needed a more stable career, and a more lucrative one at that, if we were to provide the lifestyle for our children that we had envisioned,” Pyper, 33, said. He has been married 12 years to his wife, Lainie. They have four children – Jasmin, 8, a third-grade student at Eugene Field; Alyse, 5, a kindergartner at Eugene Field; and twins, Kendric and Spencer, 3.
