Aumsville residents can expect an array of summer recreation activities at the new Porter-Boone Park Recreation Facility – and two more parks projects, thanks to two new grants awarded by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
Opal Creek, Fisherman’s Flats, Three-Fingered Jack – all local points of interest and most recently names given to rooms at the newly renovated lodge at Detroit Lake.
More than 345 babies have been wrapped in love because of a Stayton woman’s philanthropy. Helen Klamp has donated that number of baby quilts and plans to keep donating to the Santiam Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Fore! Watch out, folks. Golf balls will be flying during two area youth benefit golf tournaments this month.
The Calendar Girls – and Guys – are coming to Stayton. A few years ago, the popular movie about senior English ladies photographed discreetly naked to raise funds for their church was shown at the local movie hall.
When Dave Delapp got a call from his grandson asking for help, he didn’t think twice. “But the call I got was a huge scam,” said the grandfather from Lyons. “When I got the call at 10:30 in the morning, I could swear it was my grandson’s voice. A half hour later, he called back, then three times on my cell phone.”
Partially for school credit and partially for fulfilling my own long-desired pilgrimage to Asia, I decided to study in Seoul, South Korea this summer to soak up the culture and learn the incredibly funky language. Here are some excerpts from my travels thus far in one of the most fascinating, friendly and beautiful countries I’ve ever been to.
Sublimity resident Diane Kaser feels a responsibility to rescue items others have abandoned. An avid collector of antiques, Kaser was at a thrift store when she spied a photo album dating to the 1800s. Glancing through the black and white photographs, she felt an affinity for the people.
The clutch is the Rodney Dangerfield of auto parts. No one really wants one, unless it is attached to a means of transportation. Teenagers — mine in particular — hold a high level of contempt for clutches.
Mehama Ball Park is fast becoming a community place to go, thanks to volunteer efforts that grew the park from an empty field in the ’60s to the three fields that it has today.