Wine tasting and more Cascade Foothills Winegrowers’ Taste. Learn. Celebrate. Saturday, April 30, 1-5 p.m. Mount Angel Festhalle, 500 Wilco Hwy. Tickets: $10 per person at cascadefoothillswine.com. Includes 10 wine tastes and an afternoon of music and wine education. By Kristine Thomas Jan Wallinder can offer chardonnay, pinot noir, Leon Millot and dessert wines to visitors at Forest Edge Vineyard […]
By Kristine Thomas Silverton residents Carol Wallace, Carol Heist, Mary Goodson and Kathy Bovee all share a love of fabric, texture, design, colors and patterns. They enjoy the challenge and creativity of creating quilts. What sets each of them apart is how they use each of those elements to create something that is entirely their own. Although their work differs, […]
By Steve Ritchie Chickens, marijuana and false alarms at businesses are some of the issues the Mount Angel City Council wrestled with in 2015. A scorecard of council actions reveals chickens are in – as long as you have no more than six hens and zero roosters, marijuana is legal – but you won’t be able to grow or sell […]
By Vern Holmquist Wow! As I am writing this, I realize 2016 is almost here and I am still sitting at this infernal machine trying to make sense of what is going on in our world. Our world has gone a little crazy. While I can no longer quote it accurately, I remember something from a Mark Twain Tonight CD. […]
By Steve Ritchie Even as the number of visitors to Oregon state parks swells, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) is finding new ways to reach out to the public. The latest example of this outreach is a partnership between OPRD and KUNP, a Spanish language television channel affiliated with Univision which is carried on Portland, Vancouver, Salem and […]
Words have a way of empowering and providing guidance. Our Town contacted local religious leaders asking them what words of inspiration, guidance or hope would they share as we begin 2016. Hope “Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God!” (Psalms 42:5 […]
By Carl Sampson Here we are again, standing on the precipice of an entirely new year. It’s a blank slate that we will fill in for the next 366 days — 2016 is a leap year. I just hope we do a good job. Some folks start the year with a list of resolutions. I am usually one of them. […]
By Kristine Thomas With families gathering for the holidays, now is a good time to talk about a family emergency plan. And maybe create emergency care gift packages. Silverton Health Safety and Environment of Care Officer Justin Huff said he and his wife are planning to have the theme of emergency items like water filtration kits, flashlights and first aid […]
By Dixon Bledsoe As much as it pains me to say this out loud, it isn’t hard to understand the allure of Donald Trump to some people desperate for leadership and real change. He offends me in most ways possible, but I can see why some people are falling head-over-heels for the loud-mouth billionaire. They envision him flying his corporate […]
By Steve Ritchie On my fourth day in Beijing, I got a call quite early in the morning. Still jet-lagged, I reached for the phone and answered groggily. “Hello.” “Good morning Mr. Ritchie. This is Su Ling from the front desk. We just wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and see when we could deliver a birthday cake to […]
By Steve Ritchie My trip to China to cover the Track & Field World Championships this summer started with another, shorter trip. After waiting for months to hear about my media credential for the biennial championships, I finally received an email from the Local Organizing Committee in Beijing. I needed to gather about 10 documents, and go in person to […]
By Steve Ritchie When Chris Bischoff and the Oktoberfest board wanted to add a half marathon race to this year’s Oktoberfest activities,w they didn’t have to look far to find the right person to organize the event. Mount Angel native Matt Bauman helps put on more than 30 races annually through his Race Northwest business, and he and his wife […]
By Brenna Wiegand Brandi Teeney has two passions – sharing God’s love and swimming. This summer, she dove headlong into both. After graduating from Silverton High School last year, Brandi set out with 13 other young women for Australia, Latvia and Amsterdam as students in the Discipleship Training School (DTS) of Christian missionary organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The […]
By Brenna Wiegand What can transform the landscape and cut garden water usage by 30 to 50 percent? Mulch! Mulching is simply spreading a layer of something – bark dust is a good example – over the existing soil between plants. Mulch is (usually) organic material – decaying leaves, grass clippings, bark, rock, sawdust, paper, hog fuel, humus… Filbert shells! […]
By Kali Ramey Martin If you would have told me five years ago that I’d be living in a little white farmhouse right smack dab in the middle of 120 acres of grass seed, I would have laughed in your face. Since I was a kid, growing up in landlocked Eastern Washington, I’d been determined to live in a city. […]
By Brenna Wiegand Pressing into the operating table at Silver Creek Animal Clinic, 11-year-old Brynn Walker’s eyes are fastened on the incision veterinarian Jenny Bate is making in the belly of an out-cold dog. Now on tiptoe, she’s riveted as the vet produces the patient’s uterus and ovaries. Brynn listens intently to the veterinarian’s warm and generous instruction. Usually such […]
By James Day Gymnastics’ loss proved to be diving’s gain in the case of Silverton’s Madison Cock. A former level 9 gymnast for the Athletic Edge in Salem who had to give up the sport for health reasons, Madison switched to diving just over a year ago and has made a big splash in the new sport. In her first […]
By Kali Ramey Martin “Close your eyes,” my mom said from around the corner as I covered my face with my hands. “On the count of three…one…two…THREE!” It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. Long, emerald colored velvet with a nipped in waist. Soft, supple sleeves which ended in pin-tucks and the most delicate lace. A matching peter […]
By Melissa Wagoner Katie Rablin has known what she wanted to do for her career since a science class at Silverton High School when she gave a presentation on acupuncture. “I’ve always been interested in Chinese medicine,” Rablin said. Although her interests have never wavered, her path has encompassed more than she originally imagined. Starting out by attending massage school […]
By Brenna Wiegand Ralph Fisher doesn’t just know of his predecessors; every day he traverses the same 100 acres Joseph and Theresa Fisher settled in 1879, keeping alive the family tradition of raising livestock. The two grand children that Ralph and Sue Fisher were blessed with in the last two years mark seven generations on the family farm. The Fishers […]
By Brenna Wiegand They are some of Silverton’s youngest business owners – a group of hardworking, motivated young adults who chose to go after their dreams and make something of their own instead becoming 9-5 employees. Each business owner has an interesting story. Here’s a glace at the young entrepreneurs and the path they chose to take. Abiqua Acres Dairy […]
By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball team has won the Mid-Willamette Conference championship. The Foxes took a hard-fought 57-54 overtime win Feb. 20 at Central High School to improve to 11-1 in league play, three games in front with just two games to play. It was the second overtime win of the season for the Foxes against the […]
By Jim Kinghorn A baby was born last month in Cleveland, OH at preciously 10:11 on 12/13/14…. No word on if it also had a birthmark in the shape of the winning lottery numbers… Even if you missed Law Enforcement Appreciation Day last week it’s not too late to tell your local police officer thanks for all they do to […]
By Jim Kinghorn Belgium is already known for horses, waffles and chocolates, but three Silvertonians want to add beer to that list. Local Belgians (well, one out of three isn’t bad), Sheldon Lesire, Eric Druliner and Dale Coleman started a “nano” brewery called Belgian Underground Brewing a while back and need your help to get to the next level. bit.ly/BUBkick […]
By Brenna Wiegand All’s well that ends well. Scotts Mills has a new mayor, thanks to 11th-hour write-in campaigns by Joe Fleischman and Paul Brakeman for the Nov. 4 election. Fleischman won the election with 34 votes; Brakeman had 25 votes and 22 voters wrote in other candidates. The open city council seat was filled by write-in candidate Dusty Craig. […]
