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Wednesday February 21, 2024 | Volume 148, Issue 08
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Council approves $2.89 million loan application
Funds would complete waterline replacement project By DAVID HAYES Itemizer-Observer
The Dallas City Council gave the green light Feb. 5 for city staff to apply for a $2.89 million loan to fund Phase 2 of its Clay Street waterline replacement project. The application is to the Safe Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund through Business Oregon. The project will replace the city’s 16-inch, 1949 era finished water transmission supply line. According to the staff report, this line is vulnerable to leaks and failure and has shut off valves that are no longer operable due to its age. Gary Marks, Dallas public works director, explained the project was broken into two phases. See LOAN, page A3
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A parade anchors the city of Dallas’ Sesquicentennial activities Feb. 17, celebrating its 150th anniversary. See more photos from the day’s festivities online at www.polkio.com.
Dallas celebrates 150th anniversary
‘Wizard of Oz’ hits DHS stage
Ray of Sunshine joins food court
By DAVID HAYES Itemizer-Observer
Since Elliot Grass was in middle school, she’d always wanted to play the villainous part in a theater production. Now in her senior year at Dallas High School, Grass has had her wish fulfilled twice in two iconic roles – the evil stepmother in Cinderella and her latest undertaking as the Wicked Witch of the West. Glass and her cast members star DHS’s latest production, “The Wizard of Oz.” “I’ve been having a lot of fun with my part. Getting to play the villain character,” Glass said. “It’s very fun getting to behave in a way I wouldn’t normally outside theater.” Glass, if the acting gig doesn’t pan out, has a backup vocation. She’s already an accomplished playwright. Dallas theater program director Blair Cromwell explained that at the Oregon Thespians Regional Acting Competition on Feb. 3, the organization only selects four student playwrights to showcase their work at the State Conference in April.
By DAVID HAYES Itemizer-Observer
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The Dallas High School cast rehearses a scene from “The Wizard of Oz” which runs in the Bollman Auditorium Feb. 22-24. Grass was selected for her play “Off the Rails.” “She is the first student to receive a perfect score in this event statewide,” Cromwell said. Glass explained “Off the Rails” is a series of four short stories, all taking place in 1916, adding she had a lot of different ideas, but decided See OZ, page A3
... info Dallas High School Theatre’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” Feb. 22-24 at 7 p.m. | Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Bollman Auditorium, 1250 SE Holeman Ave. Tickets are $12 for adults, $7 for students and seniors DHS students with ASB cards are free Purchase tickets online at www.dhstheatre.org/buy-tickets
For so many entrepreneurs, the COVID shutdown proved a major interruption in launching their long-dreamt endeavor. For Summer Sunshine Smock, the global pandemic proved an opportune time to reassess her career and take it in a completely different direction. From the comfy confines of her food cart Ray of Sunshine Homecooking & Bakery in the center of Dallas’s Gather Food Court, Smock shared the tale of how she abandoned rubbing elbows into (not with) celebrities and traded it all in, to gamble on her baking prowess. Smock, who swears her parents were not hippies (wink, wink) said she was a massage therapist for 10 years, attending to music acts and See FOOD, page A8
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