By Dixon Bledsoe When Jim Brueckner started teaching at Silverton High School in 1973, girls didn’t play basketball. Nationally, Title IX changed that in 1972. In Silverton, Brueckner did in 1976. At the first tryout, 90 girls showed up to vie for 30 spots, none having played basketball. Brueckner and his assistant coach Tom Steers held free camps for girls […]
By Brenna Wiegand Former Silverton Police Chief Rick Lewis was shocked to hear he’d was chosen to receive Silverton’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. He never expected to receive such an award. He said to his wife Pat: “Wow – they remember me?” “He’s just an amazing man, when you look at what he did for our police department and how […]
By Kristine Thomas Verlene Beard is quite certain her friends and family “don’t have a clue” what she does on a given day. They just know she’s always busy and if they want to reach her to not to call her home phone, because she won’t be there. “They know to call my cell phone first,” she said, laughing. “It’s […]
Silverton Chamber of Commerce has chosen Douglas and Antonia Jenkins to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at Silverton’s First Citizen Banquet Feb. 19.
