Music will dance in the air Saturday, May 1, as the Marion County Citizens Band hosts the first Mid-Willamette Valley Community Band Festival at Silverton High School, 1456 Pine St.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The second annual Wurstfest is Feb. 12 – 14. This year’s festival includes and additional night of fun, an elimination-style Valentine’s dance to find the couple married the longest and gifts for the ladies who attend the festival on Valentine’s Day.
After nearly four decades of selfless community service, Steve Potter will accept the coveted 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award during the 39th annual Silverton Chamber of Commerce First Citizen Banquet set for 5:45 pm, Friday, Feb. 20.
The volunteers and staff at Silverton Area Community Aid are getting ready to launch the 33rd annual Food Drive. Between Oct. 12 and 16, SACA volunteers will deliver empty sacks to doorsteps and community members will be asked to fill them with nonperishable items and set them out for pick-up by 9 a.m. on Oct. 17.
When Connie Beard said “Ich will” in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany to then Army Capt. Jerry Lauzon, it came with a rider that once his military service was finished, they would return to God’s Country, her native Oregon.
A year ago, Phil Kramer was working 16-hour days getting his newly purchased vineyard and winery remodeled and ready to re-open. Now, the new tasting room is done, the existing winery building is back in business after being taken down to the studs, rebuilt and re-clad in tin and concrete and visitors are enjoying glasses of wine while sitting at patio tables in a new outdoor garden-centered event area.
Seemingly undaunted by the need to raise $30,000 in less than 30 days, more than 75 optimistic supporters of the Silverton Area Senior Center showed up for its ground-breaking ceremony Aug. 18.
Sometimes a great idea just comes to the right people at the right time. That’s how Mt. Angel’s Webentanz (weavers’ dance) – also known as the May pole dance – got started.
To meet Tsipora Ann Berman, is to learn that yoga is more than an exercise. A master holistic education specialist, movement therapist, yoga instructor and science teacher from Kennebunk, Maine; Berman recently opened a yoga studio in the Silverton Hills. Geared for ordinary people in everyday life, her classes and sessions are an eclectic blend of yoga styles suited for all ages and fitness levels.
The Oregon Garden is not just another pretty place. Home to more than 100 bird species, a variety of wild animals, a small but highly skilled team of horticultural professionals and a dedicated group of educational partners; the project showcases some of the best things Oregonians hold dear. It is a place with many one-of-a-kind collections of trees, plants, blossoms, birds, animals and people.
By Jan Jackson Not long after his election results hit the national media, Silverton Mayor Stu Rasmussen, the nation’s first known transgender elected official, was approached by several production companies to possibly create a reality TV show based in Silverton. In early April, a crew from a large production company came to town and shot tape for a teaser/preview reel […]
The volleyball nets were gone and there was no music to dance to, but when the Class of ’49 reunion committee members dropped by the old Mt. Angel Academy gym to give Sr. Joeine Darrington her invitation to the party, they shared memories and laughed about the good times they had there 60 years before.
When Silverton-area resident Karen Kidd first learned about Freemasonry, the fraternity’s so-called “no women allowed” rule intrigued her. However, when she did a Google search on the subject, she found there had been women Masons in the past, there are women Masons now and if she chose, she could become one.
As Kidd continued to investigate Masonry, she began to fall in love with it. She became a Freemason in a Seattle-area Lodge in 2006. In a March 2008 ceremony in Manchester, England, she was honored by many of her Malecraft Brethren when her essay “I am Regular” won the World Award in Internet Lodge No. 9659’s Short Papers competition. This past April, Cornerstone Book Publishers (New Orleans, La.) published her book detailing the lives of women who managed to be made Freemasons early in the organization’s history and some who tried but failed.
Haunted Chambers; The Lives of Early Women Freemasons, is not only the most complete list of early women Freemasons to date but includes as much detail about their lives as can still be found.
To borrow a phrase from the upcoming Northwest Travel Writer’s Conference, it is a Blackberry, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, iPhone world. If you still cling to fond memories of the old party-line telephone, you may not be ready for it. If you have already discovered any of these ways to communicate with friends, family and business associates, you are already on board. If you are not quite sure what the terms mean, read on.
Today, the award-winning company harvests timber on a variety of private lands, builds and maintains miles of logging roads, and provides jobs for more than 30 families in the Mid-Willamette Valley. The Schmitz were recently awarded the 2008 AOL Logger of the Year Award for their work in the woods and the major role they play in Associated Oregon Loggers.
As a staff member for U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield in the 1970s, Vic Gilliam got a glimpse of the challenges and rewards of public service. Gilliam now has the opportunity to put those lessons to work. On Dec. 28, 2007, Gilliam was appointed to replace the late Rep. Mac Sumner. In November, Gilliam, a republican, was elected as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and along with his peers, he feels honored to be of service.
Twenty-five years in the hotel-sales business and a life-time love of gardening has made Kate Cutler’s corporate sales job with Moonstone’s hotel garden properties a good fit. In Silverton, Moonstone’s Oregon Garden Resort has hosted more than 14,000 guests since it opened Oct. 1, implying it is a good fit for the public as well. In the meantime, Cutler’s passion for the resort, the garden and the community of Silverton, is helping her drive sales beyond expectations.
By Jan Jackson When Shaun Rottner talks about how the Bavarian Haus Restaurant and Lounge won the 2008 Mt. Angel Business of the Year award, he quickly credits his brother and chef Eric Rottner for the food, long-time hostess and former owner Ginger Mikkelsen for the hospitality, his wife Jackie GrosJacques for her marketing and management sense and the […]
Mt. Angel is throwing another party and this time it is to celebrate the end of winter, the beginning of Lent and the gastronomic wonders of German sausage (wurst). The event, cosponsored by Oktoberfest and Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce, is set to take place in the Oktoberfest Building in Mt. Angel on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 21 and 22. It will be a place for families to come, eat, drink and be merry in all matters Bavarian.
Volunteers assembling a display of warmth and color sure to melt a cold January heart are getting ready for the second annual Stitches in Bloom Quilt Show, on Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31, at The Oregon Garden.
The Message in the Trees “Like a letter in a bottle that’s tossed far out to sea, This special tag has been placed upon your Christmas tree. Let me introduce myself, I’m a child at Silver Crest, A school in tree farm land, way out in the West. I wonder where you’re reading this poem sent just to you. And […]
