By Linda Whitmore Planter boxes add pizzazz to a patio or porch, fit nicely on an apartment balcony and give flair to store fronts and downtown businesses. In driving through the communities of the Willamette Valley one can see amazing examples of pots, planters and baskets of trailing fuchsias and petunias, cheery daisies and brightly colored geraniums. To learn how […]
Despite its board having to make some “tough decisions,” Silverton Together continues to fill community needs – by pulling together with others in Silverton.
Although Ruth Cock wasn’t there back when Silverton’s senior services started, she’s been associated with those who were. And her own leadership spans 30 years.
“All the world’s a stage, and the men and women merely players …” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It. Don Kelley, Silverton attorney and theater aficionado, sees things similarly. He firmly believes that as people move through their various roles in life, they benefit from early exposure to theater. Soon local youths will have an opportunity when Missoula Children’s Theater returns with its summer program.
Silverton Together is keeping it together. Like the clients it serves, the 16-year community assistance organization is facing economic challenges and difficult times call for difficult measures.
He suffered the horrors of the Holocaust, yet Les Aigner says he is “one of the luckiest men alive.” His wife, Eva, was terrorized by the Nazis as a small child and says the fact she survived is “a miracle.”
During an extended Memorial Day weekend, a local winery and a local brewery will debut their new Tap Room. And “local” is their byword. Chris Deckelmann, co-owner of Vitis Ridge winery with his wife, Sharon; and partners Bruce and Sally Eich and Glen Bruenger; is pleased about the project they are joining in with Seven Brides Brewery.
When the Farmers’ Market opens Saturday, May 8, there will be several new features, including a new director. Courtney Basile, who took the reins about six months ago, uses the word “more” a lot when describing this season.
The image of hands giving a lift to someone reaching for help, or hands clasped in warm greeting, both seem appropriate for the new Helping Hands Thrift Store in Silverton.
A prim little white house surrounded by a meticulously neat garden has been donated to the city of Mount Angel to become a park. The donor, Henrietta Saalfeld, 91, lived in the house at 195 E. College St. since early childhood and now resides at Mount Angel Towers.
This year’s Ladies Night Out – themed “Wild West Women” – brings some new features to the party. “It’s getting bigger every year,” said Stacy Palmer, Silverton Chamber of Commerce executive director, and for this event, “We’ve turned up the fun!”
There are two slogans that apply to Molly Ainsley: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” and “Think globally, act locally.” Ainsley, owner and operator of Rolling Hills Bakery and Café in Silverton, had launched her business shortly before the economy crashed. Although it has been a popular place for a cup of coffee and a muffin or a slice of quiche; it’s been a tough go. A year ago, friends offered to help serve in the morning so she could reduce labor costs. This not only got her over the hump for the short term, it allowed Ainsley a bit of time to think about her options.
Kids and counselors circle the campfire, singing camp songs and cowboy ballads to music played on a guitar – it’s a tradition at Canyonview Camp, one that creates lifetime memories. Even more so for Matthew Price, son of the guitar-playing camp director, who was raised at the Christian camp.
A lease was signed Feb. 21 for Seven Brides Brewing to take over the First Street building constructed as Copeland Lumber Co. and most recently serving as the Traeger barbecue warehouse.
A warm chuckle punctuates Irene Willig’s speech – it is a manifestation of her relationship with everyone around her. She loves people and the love is returned.
Endorsements by city leaders encapsulate the breadth of service provided to the Silverton community by Denny and Genie Stoll, recipients of this year’s First Citizen Award, however, much of the tribute is unspoken, but felt, in the lives of people their work has touched.
For Dennis Downey, Silverton Together’s Celebration of Families is “all about the kids.” He loves seeing Christmas through children’s eyes.
Mt. Angel residents Paul and Pat Zollner wrote and recorded a song titled “Christmas in Mt. Angel,” which begins: “Church bells of St. Mary’s are ringing in my mind, Once again they call to me, ‘Come home, it’s Christmas time.’
A telephone call shook up what he calls “a normal Sunday,” bringing 12-year-old Jordan Dark some exciting news – he had been selected to design a pair of athletic shoes for Nike. That call led the Mt. Angel Middle School student to experiences he could never have dreamed – including the likely opportunity to meet his favorite sports hero.
By Linda Whitmore Richard “Rick” Ernst has done a great deal of genealogical study about the Cooley family – his mother’s ancestors – tracing them back to the 1740s in Virginia. Like other American pioneers, subsequent generations of Cooleys moved westward. Some were among Silverton’s early settlers and through the years the name Cooley has become world renowned for the […]
Only three families made up the Gibson Wagon Train of 1849. Gibson was the captain; the other families were Glovers and Graves.
Thirty thousand dollars in 30 days – the community did it, and Ray Hunter, president of the Silverton Area Senior Center is ecstatic.
Philis Schmidt has made die Früchtsäule for Oktoberfest every year since 2002, but, although she uses a variety of beans and lentils, herbs and spices; she’s not cooking up a dish to be sold in one of the many food vendor chalets.
By Linda Whitmore People often say they get more out of volunteering than they put in. Among them are the youngsters who participate in the Apple Tree School Supply Drive. Throughout their summer vacation, 41 students ranging in age from 9 to 17 meet twice a week to plan, organize and execute the collection of everything from pencils and crayons […]
By Linda Whitmore Since James and Lucinda Brown trekked across the Plains, seven generations have called Silverton home. Through the years, the Browns have been influential in the development of the community and its resources. James and Lucinda Brown and their four children left Independence, Mo., in April 1846 on a half-year journey to Oregon. They carried their belongings in […]
