By Jay Shenai Nicole Dennis is a “Timberwolf” leader with a scouting organization known as the Baden-Powell Service Association, or BPSA for short. She makes time for scouting for herself and her eight-year-old daughter Reece, in between running her own sales business and waiting tables at restaurants, because of the importance to her of experiencing the outdoors. “I enjoy the […]
A young woman pays a backward glance over her right shoulder in Tonya Smithburg’s portrait entitled Graceful. Behind her trails a dirt road into the countryside, along the darkness of a fenced-in woodland. The woman appears to be at a crossroads – she is looking back, but she is not turning back.
Sitting in Creekside Grill’s lounge, relaxing at the end of a long day, Molly Ainsley is still making her pitch. Her product: SortaSausage, a vegetarian substitute for ground meat, made with soy and vegetables. It’s like a loose ground meat, with a Middle-Eastern flavor profile, she said, a little on the spicy side, with tomato and garlic.
For Silverton resident Holly Mulford, helping the orphans of the Democratic Republic of Congo was never much of a choice. “When you hold them in your hands, they’re not just pictures on TV anymore,” she said. “I know their names.”
It’s an offer that’s difficult to refuse: guaranteed gold in every pan. But for prospectors who make their way to Camp Dakota’s Lucky Strike Mine, anyone willing to stake a $5 “claim” can score treasures of all sorts, including gold, amethyst, crystals and Native American artifacts.
There were parties for both Republican Vic Gilliam and Democrat Rodney Orr in Silverton on election night, with people in both camps crowding around laptop computers and watching large-screen televisions for announcements of early election results.
The weather-beaten, wood-carved sign for Family Medical Group in Silverton has been a fixture in the Silverton community for many years. Generations of residents have come through its shade-covered doors, for checkups, diagnoses and treatments for themselves, their parents, their children.
When he’s not representing the people of Oregon House District 18, or seeking their vote, Vic Gilliam is a part-time actor.
Oregon’s economy took center stage in a political debate between two Silverton residents vying to represent District 18 for the Oregon House of Representatives. The debate was organized as part of Homer Davenport Days in Silverton. Before a crowd of roughly 100 festival-goers, Republican incumbent Vic Gilliam and Democratic challenger Dr. Rodney Orr squared off Aug. 7 on a makeshift stage at Coolidge & McClaine Park.
These days, John Ritchie lives by himself at Mount Angel Towers, a senior independent living community, in a single-bedroom unit with a tiny kitchen and a grandfather clock in the living room next to his recliner, which chimes every quarter hour. There he reminisces on his life, and World War II, and the fortune that kept him alive while so many others perished.
Mike Grant doesn’t mince his words when asked about his thoughts on Measure 67. “Cowardly, deceptive and foolish,” said Grant, owner and founder of The Grant Company, a design-build commercial contractor in Mount Angel.
For boys seeking their moment under the Friday night lights, the experience of contact football just got a little closer. Starting this fall for Silverton youth in third and fourth grades, the tackling will begin. In January, Silverton’s organizers of boys’ football opted to join the Mid-Valley Pop Warner League youth football program.
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.
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.
The sign still hangs at 222 High St. in downtown Silverton, a two-level standalone commercial building with fatigued blue paint. The sign reads: “Nautilus of Silverton: Health and Fitness Club.” Another sign, “For Lease,” hangs on one of the side doors facing the alley. Venetian blinds cover the few windows. Inside, roughly 5,000 square feet once held 12 cardio machines, 17 strength machines and some free weights, said business owner Mike Thompson, just enough for someone to come in, pump up and get out.
Hallie Day’s toughest obstacle is self-confidence, she confides, but looking at her resume you wouldn’t think it.
For Christine Bradbury, an event planner by trade, planning the perfect event is an obsession, but she’s got a pretty demanding client coming up.
The brainchild of Dr. Frank Lord, emergency physician at Silverton Hospital and now medical director of the program, WellspringHeart is an instructional program devoted to the reduction of cardiovascular disease by changing lifestyles. Launched in November 2007, the program has had roughly 200 patients so far.
Ask Jerry Ambris what his favorite movie is and he will tell you without hesitation: Mel Gibson’s Braveheart. The 27-year-old executive director of the North Willamette Valley affiliate of Habitat for Humanity says he can relate to the image of a face-painted William Wallace on horseback, sword in the air, rallying his troops to stand together and fight against overwhelming odds.
The Monitor community is gathering on Saturday, Nov. 21, to share a hearty Thanksgiving dinner together and to help their neighbors who are having a tough time. The dinner is from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Monitor Inn.
Consider it a $1.2 million Christmas gift months ahead of schedule but one that will take several years to fully enjoy. In a letter dated Oct. 7, Silverton city officials received a stunning proposition from Larry Epping, owner of Granada Land Co. and a Salem-area real estate developer, about 40 acres of his property on Ike Mooney Road.
