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Sheltering Silverton

State funds boost shelter project

By James Day Sheltering Silverton has received a $564,683 grant from the state to assist in the agency’s emergency shelter operations in Silverton.The funds were part of a $10.4 million pool of state money awarded to Marion and Polk counties and distributed by the Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance.  Sheltering Silverton will use the bulk of the new funding, $300,000, to […]

Humbled – Dumitrescu honored as First Citizen

By Stephen Floyd When Hilary Dumitrescu learned she was being honored with the First Citizen Award by the Silverton Chamber of Commerce, she was in the company of friends and past award winners. The Silverton resident, community organizer and business owner said they had the wrong person, that others in the group were more deserving than she was. But she […]