THURSDAY, SEPT. 11 Entertainment Noon ’til Midnight Festival Happenings 8:30 am Russian Museum open ’til 6 pm 10:00 am Queen of Angels Monastery tours ‘til 5 pm 11:00 am Booths open ’til 10 pm 1, 3, 5, 7:30 C’est LeCabaret, Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center 5:15 pm Vespers at the Abbey Church 6:00 pm Softball Tournaments at Ebner Park The […]
By Dixon Bledsoe Walking around Scotts Mills during the 25th annual SummerFest, visitors felt like they were living Americana. In a summer filled with festivals celebrating harvests, tractors, cartoonists, and freedom, Scotts Mills SummerFest has the obligatory corn dogs, barbecue, face painting and craft booths. But there was a feeling about SummerFest that made it unique. Like the horseshoe contest, […]
The event started 25 years ago when the Scotts Mills Fire Department Women’s Auxiliary organized a parade.
“The event was such a success that a group of people decided to start the Scotts Mills SummerFest,” said TR Williams, the nonprofit group’s president.
When John Labovitz was asked to create the poster for the eighth annual Silverton Fine Arts Festival, the local photographer envisioned taking photographs of local artists working in their medium.
“We are known as an arts town and even though we have a great selection of local and regional artists, I thought about highlighting some of our local artists,” Labovitz said.
Hang on to your baseball cap, here comes Homer Davenport – as in Homer Davenport Days – Silverton’s three-day celebration of the famous newspaper cartoonist and native son.
Lennez Hitzemann, president of the festival board, is busy during the final hours before the event, but able now to reveal who will be leader of the hometown parade on Saturday, Aug. 2. The grand marshal will be Marcella Gentzkow, who originally suggested the name for the nearly 30-year-old festival honoring Davenport. Gentzkow, formerly of Silverton, now lives in Mt. Angel.
By Dixon Bledsoe The celebration of Homer Davenport, the local boy who made good as an internationally renowned political cartoonist, returns for its 28th year Aug.1- 3. But to ensure the festival runs smoothly, volunteers are needed. How to get involved To help out call 503-508-9591, visit www.davenportdays.com.or attend a board meeting held Tuesdays, 6 p.m. or 8:30 a.m., at […]
By Linda Whitmore The Oregon Garden, which celebrated its seventh anniversary June 29, is blooming like an established landscape. Now solidly rooted, Silverton’s botanical garden is flourishing. Not only have the individual garden spots been expanded and plants within them matured, the Garden is on sound financial footing, allowing for further growth and development. There has been a bloom of […]
By Kristine Thomas
A visit to Silver Falls State Park is like traveling back in time for Louie Hubbard of Salem. The Douglas fir, hemlock and cedar trees may be taller and rounder, but each season the temperate rainforest redecorates itself with brown, red and gold for the fall and brilliant shades of green for the summer. The waterfalls continue their cycle from a trickle in late summer to an awe-inspiring crashing force in winter.
The park still has the same ambiance and majestic beauty it did when he first visited it in the 1970s, Hubbard said.
“I think what’s wonderful about the park is that every time you come back, it is still the same,” he said. “In this day and age, there aren’t many things like that. The park has been well cared for, for many generations to enjoy.”
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