Our Town Life: January 15, 2018

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Silver Falls School District....4 Oregon Garden Foundation....5 Arts & Entertainment

Man About Town.........11 Sports & Recreation

Wrestling teams..................12 Business

Christopher Wicks.........6

Something to Celebrate

First Citizen.........7 Elks scholarships.........10

Samurai Madame sushi........13 Marketplace................13 People Out Loud.........14 Rose of Sharon in bloom.

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Board asks White to resign.......4 Grant ‘gift’ for the Garden........5 Arts & Entertainment

Love Is Strong As Death debuts..6 Something to Celebrate

First Citizen award announced...7 Elks award scholarships.........10

Man About Town.........11 Sports & Recreation

Wrestling season opens.......12 Business

Samurai Madame sushi........13 Marketplace................13 People Out Loud.........14

Writers workshop offered........8

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Civics 101

Cyber censure

School board asks White to resign over social media comments

By Paula Mabry

It’s a common axiom in the United States that everyone has a right to their own opinion. It’s even a given one has the right to express their opinion. But where, and how, there’s the rub.

For Silver Falls School District Board Member Todd White the where has been through social media channels. It’s the how that has – once again – gotten him into a position of public rebuke.

that posed the possibility of a call for White’s resignation for any future offenses.

On Jan. 8 that’s just what came to pass, with the board voting 5 – 2, with White and Ron Valoff dissenting, to call for White to step down.

Valoff explained he was “disappointed, extremely disappointed” by White’s comments. “But I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water. I’m not willing to say it’s time for him to step down.”

“It’s not about expressing your opinion,” fellow board member Tim Roth told White, “It’s how it’s done.”

Board Member Shelly Nealon said it was a matter of cyberbullying. She noted the board had standards of conduct.

White, who was officially censured by the school board for his social media commentary in December 2016, was the focus of a new complaint in December 2017.

There was a packed district conference room Jan. 8 to follow the complaint review to its resolution.

Dana Smith, a former board member and current Silverton City Councilor, acting as a private citizen, lodged a complaint Dec. 11 citing White’s social media forum comments and emails. Smith had been a target of White’s commentary.

Smith charged White with not adhering to the board’s code of conduct and submitted testimony – including printouts of conversation threads – for board review.

In March 2017 Smith agreed to a $100 civil penalty

after she neglected disclose during a council meeting that she had financial interest in a property applying to connect to the city sewer main. She voted on the connection. The matter was reviewed by the Oregon Ethics Commission, and the penalty concluded the commission’s interest. It didn’t conclude White’s.

“We are accountable to the standards,” she said. Adding that they expect students, teachers and staff to adhere to them.

Nealon urged the board to distance itself from White’s behavior.

Board Member Tom Buchholz acknowledged it was a continuation of some of the issues that led to the original censure.

“That’s just not how you communicate your views in public... Not how elected officials should act,” he said.

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“I believe everything I said was 100 percent accurate and true,” White told the board. “You can ask, but I don’t think I should.” Following the vote he reiterated “I don’t plan to resign.” His term runs through 2019.

During the subsequent public comment portion of the meeting several members of the audience spoke on the issue. For the full meeting go to vimeo.com/250325736.

Following the meeting, with no further board action on the matter envisioned, audience members began to talk of recall.

Silverton resident Laurie Chadwick said eight volunteers stepped forward that evening. As of press time, the procedures and costs of a recall were still being investigated by the group.

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By Paula Mabry The Oregon Garden Foundation and the City of Silverton have been offered a fiscal bouquet of debt forgiveness by Marion County. Think of it as a retroactive $6.1 million tourism grant out of Oregon Lottery funds.

The proposal, if accepted by all parties, would free the foundation of indebtedness to the county, advance the city’s recovery of invested sewer fund dollars by decades, and remove the county from future obligations and responsibilities for the Oregon Garden.

County offers plan to forgive Oregon Garden debt proposal, even with subordination, the city would be repaid in 7.5 years rather than in the original 70-plus years.

From Moonstone Resort, which has had the contract to manage the Oregon Garden since 2006, the proposal looks for continued payments to the foundation to match the TOT amount. Those proceeds come from royalties, memberships, events and rentals.

The foundation, according to the proposal, would continue to hold the 99-year lease from Silverton for the garden site. It would commit to a good faith effort to pay off the remaining $2.2 million in debt.

Brentano said in making the proposal, the county had some expectations or conditions.

With the restructuring, new donations to the foundation would not have to go toward the repayment of debt, but could be directed toward garden enhancements.

He said the county would also like the city to subordinate its financial claims to the other individuals and organizations waiting for repayment. In subsequent discussion it was estimated that under the county’s

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She noted Brentano’s comment that the county would like to have an agreement wrapped by July 1 seemed reasonable.

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“Marion County has been an amazing partner of the Oregon Garden. This is a generous offer,” Mayor Kyle Palmer said.

Calling the proposal “a fantastic offer,” in-coming foundation board chair Mary McNatt said, “If this debt is lifted what is left is manageable.”

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Moonstone will also be asked to continue providing meeting and office space for the foundation board and its staff. Moonstone would continue to manage the garden.

Marion County Commissioner Sam Brentano, in presenting the proposal to the city council Jan. 8, said those looking back on the history of Silverton will point to Jan. 8 as “a special night.”

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Arts & Entertainment

Mini-opera debuts

By James Day

Silverton composer Christopher Wicks will debut a new mini-opera with a pair of matinee performances next month at the Mount Angel Abbey.

Love Is Strong As Death was inspired by an English folk ballad, The Unquiet Grave. It performs at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 and Feb. 10.

“The action is mostly internal,” Wicks said, “a dream-like meditation on some difficult themes, with a closing impression of great fortitude and hope.”

Two sopranos, Aimee Amend and Alison Seeber, and baritone Bennett Bailey will perform the three-character piece, accompanied by pianist Debra Huddleston.

In the story, Iseult, a mortal woman named for an archetypal lover from Celtic legend, is mourning her dead lover, a warrior named Tristam, and disturbing the peace of his grave. A third character, the Angel, attempts to console Iseult and lead her back to the living.

“There’s a long-range symmetry set up in terms of the opening and closing trios, and the alternation between utterances by Iseult and those by Tristam, with the Angel singing briefly between each one,” Wicks said.

“I wrote much of the text myself (all that isn’t Biblical quotation) and Tristam sings in the fixed form known as sonnet, while Iseult’s words are in the French fixed form known as villanelle.”

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Wicks said he previously composed a few operatic “pipe dreams,” but Love Is Strong As Death is the first to make it to the stage.

Christopher Wicks Education: bachelor’s in composition from Marylhurst in 1997 (much of the work was done at Eastman School of Music from 199294); master’s in composition in 1999 from the University of Montreal; master’s in organ in 2006 from the University of Oregon; fellowship in the American Guild of Organists, 2009.

He composed a one-act opera for full orchestra for his master’s thesis at the University of Montreal and also collaborated with the late Silverton writer Marilyn Hall on another opera.

The university piece has not been performed and only an unstaged recording of the final duet of the Hall collaboration was made.

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Wicks also has composed two lengthy song cycles, one on the poems of St. Theresa of Lisieux (1873-1897) and another on the poetry of Sappho, who wrote in the sixth century B.C.

Love Is Strong As Death will be performed at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 and Feb. 10 at the Mount Angel Abbey library auditorium. The concert also will include two of Wicks’ violin sonatas.

Both pieces, Wicks said, have been performed and recorded more widely “but they may not qualify as operas.”

Wicks will perform three sonatas at 7 p.m. March 2 at Silverton United Methodist Church, 203 W. Main St., as part of First Friday activities.

When asked about the challenges in composing the new opera Wicks said “I think a perennial challenge which I face, and many other composers and writers also, is the necessity of so much self-application to bridge the gap between beautiful-seeming but somewhat vague notions of what I would like my work to be, and having marks on the page or minutes of music recorded which manifest those notions in a concrete and specific form.

The concert includes a premiere of a viola sonata Wicks wrote for Marjory Lange, as well as sonatas by Mozart and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Lange will play violin in addition to viola and Wicks will accompany her on piano.

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serious career as a classical composer with Silverton as your home base.”

feel that this place is as good for it as many places.”

But in this age of instant global communication Wicks has had compositions performed in South Korea and all over Europe as well as published both internationally and domestically.

Love Is Strong As Death has a running time of approximately 30 minutes. The concert will open with two of Wicks’ violin sonatas featuring Stephanie Barth, concertmaster of the Salem Philharmonia, on violin with Wicks at the piano.

“That said, this piece flowed fairly easily once I stuck my head down and got to work.”

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Something To Celebrate

Awards announced

Andy Bellando named 2017 First Citizen The Silverton Chamber of Commerce has announced its 2017 award winners.

Silver Falls School District Superintendent Andy Bellando has been selected as 2017 Silverton First Citizen. He is being honored for his volunteer service to the chamber, as a member of Silverton Rotary, as a board member for Silverton Area Community Aid, and on city committees.

Bob Holowati will received the Judy Schmidt Lifetime Achievement award for his work with Kiwanis, Relay for Life, and volunteer support of the community’s festivals.

Sue Roessler will receive the Distinguished Service Award for her work on the After School Activities Program serving middle school youth.

Les Schwab Tires of Silverton is the Business of the Year. “They are active

in almost every event as a sponsor or donor of supplies,” Silverton Mayor Kyle Palmer noted in making the nomination.

Silverton’s First Citizen Banquet – “Bringing the Community Together” will be held Feb. 3, 6 p.m. at The Oregon Garden Pavilion.

The Future First Citizen, who had not been named by press time, will also be honored. Silver Falls School District will recognize Teachers and Classified Employees of the Year and local service organizations will honor their Member of the Year.

Tickets, $40, are at silvertonchamber. org (click on events) or at the chamber office, 426 S. Water St. Stories about the chamber award winners will be in the Feb. 1 Our Town.

Lynn Keith Gretchen Rhyne James Grosse Richard Halter Barbara Kleve Harold “Hal” Nielsen Lawrence Hannan Jean Mary Brooks Bertha “Bertie” Morey James “Jim” Ario D. Ann Vasconi Allen John Birch James Adcock Robert Klaus Adelene Hammelman Gladys “Leora” Woodward

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Gretchen’s biggest joy and love in her life is her daughter, Diana Rhyne-Stee, married to Tom. She is also survived by her totally opposite sister, Justine Fogarty of Silverton. A nephew, Josh Fogarty of Silverton, who has come so far and his wife, Kerry, also survive, as does a niece, Kate Fogarty, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Josh’s son, Dillon.

Special thanks go to Salem Hematology/Oncology’s John Strother and William Pierce, and to Silverton Legacy Health’s Julian Uselman, for their compassionate care and support given to Gretchen over the years.

At a later date Gretchen will make her final Alaska cruise with her family when her ashes are scattered at sea.

Memorials can be made to your choice, but a suggestion from Gretchen would be: Salem Dogs Rescue, Dianne Young, Director, 3345 Huckleberry SE, Salem, OR 97302.

A Celebration of Life will take place Sunday, January 28, 2018 from 1-4 p.m., at Oregon Garden’s Lotus Room.

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Molalla author hosts writer’s workshop at Silverton Senior Center

By Nancy Jennings

Key topics discussed at the Writer’s Workshop

Calling all aspiring writers age 50+, mark your calendars!

Thursday, Jan. 18, kicks off a fun and detailed Writer’s Workshop at Silverton’s Senior Center. Free to members and $2 per class to non-members, the workshop will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. each third Thursday of the month. Presenter L. Lee Shaw is the recent winner of the Library Journal’s 2017 Indie E-book Award for her book, Aging Out. A standout in the Young Adult category, the Molalla resident’s book focuses on three teens on the verge of aging out of the foster care system. They have their suitcases packed and are worrying where they will live next. Weaving in the teens’ association with some senior residents at a geriatric care facility going through their own housing challenges, she created a poignant story full of heart.

Shaw, 69, has always loved to write. Ever the child with a vivid imagination, she can envision a scene of a story and “hear

Author L. Lee Shaw

• Explore writing genres, length criteria, and helping each participant to determine what it is they want to write.

• How to create settings including an exploration for establishing historical and fantasy/sci fi worlds.

• Discuss how to develop fictional characters and people for nonfiction, including information on libel concerns when utilizing real people.

• Plus... Plotting; beginnings and endings; revisions and editing; different publishing models (self, indie, traditional); and other tricks and tips to develop a personal writing life.

• Determine time periods are covered in a writing project and establishing them through description. Also, how to track the elapse of time in the story.

For information, contact the Silverton Senior Center at 503-873-3093 or visit 115 Westfield St., Silverton.

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the voices clearly.” Her husband, Andrew, is the first person to read her writing.

Having been a paralegal for decades and a technical writer for 10 years, Shaw now enjoys being a part of the creative writing world. She has self-published two books – and has two more coming soon.

Love Imperfect is about an adult romantic relationship, and is due out in February.

Flunking Magic, a chapter book aimed at third - sixth graders, explores a young, good witch’s experience at being bad at magic and being placed in a Special Ed class and having to accept her situation.

“My friend is doing all of the art illustrations,” Shaw said, adding that her seven-year-old grandchild is especially excited to read the book, which will hopefully be released close to the

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Her advice to all the creative minds out there who want to become a published author is simple. “Persistence. Too many writers are looking for it to be fast, especially in this modern age where everything is instantaneous. Rejection happens, and it’s easy to get sidetracked,” she said. “It has to be a burning dream.”

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Eight awards of $550 each and two awards of $1,000 each went to the top girl and the top boy. The $1000 awards went to Brenna Beyer and Bradley Phelps, both from Silverton High School.

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Elks District judging and Brenna Beyer won Top Girl for a prize of $1,800.

Jonathan Valladares-Cormier won Top Boy, receiving $1,800. Haven Seltman earned third place-girl for $1,400.

Their applications will go on to Elks State Judging to compete for more scholarship awards.

The local awards were presented during Lodge 2210’s Scholarship Banquet Jan. 7.

Featured speaker was Cal Kaser, one of the original founders of the Silverton Youth Fund. The Youth Fund was started in 1968 to sponsor scholarships and other youth activities. Since that time the Youth Fund has sponsored well over $200,000 in youth activities and scholarships.

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Foxes have star power, JFK starts from scratch

As the new year begins and the competition gets stiffer the Silverton High wrestling team seems locked and loaded for a strong season.

The Foxes feature returning state champion Kaden Kuenzi, who is just a sophomore, senior Jacob Whitehead, a state runnerup a year ago and sophomore Matthew Guenther Kaden Kuenzi. who placed sixth at state in 2017. The Foxes also return junior Madison Shockley, who took third at 113 pounds in the state girls competition.

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said. “He has been an awesome addition to the team and has a great partner in Roth around the same size.”

Giving the Foxes a boost this season is that they are hosting the Mid-Willamette Conference district meet Feb. 9-10. help us see how our wrestlers match up against other district wrestlers,” Foxes coach Keegan Davis told Our Town.

“Until we see them compete it’s hard to say how they will do. However, I am pleased with the positivity and hard work that this team has shown so far.”

Davis has more than 40 wrestlers on this year’s squad. Many are new to wrestling but Davis said “it has been great to have a young and excited squad. Although many are inexperienced they work hard and are eager to learn.”

Among the youngsters making contributions are freshman Owen Magill at 170 and sophomore Hayden Roth.

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“This is awesome for our wrestlers because they will get an opportunity to showcase their hard work in front of a home crowd in their own gym,” Davis said.

The Kennedy wrestling program has nine wrestlers competing in its first season offering the sport.

The squad is a “little smaller than I would have liked,” coach Dewey Enos told Our Town. “But the nine we got are tough and committed, which I love to see.”

Top performers so far have been 106pound freshman Mateo Morrow and 170-pound junior Bryce Vandervort. Both athletes are ranked seventh in the state in Class 2A-1A. The Trojans are competing in Special District 1, which includes teams as far north as Vernonia and Knappa and as far south as North Douglas and Waldport.

Monroe hosts the district meet Feb. 2-3.

Hoops: The Kennedy girls continue to reign No. 1 in Class 2A. The Trojans came into the week 14-1 overall and 3-0 in the Tri-River Conference. Kennedy’s lone loss was at Dayton, which is ranked No. 1 in Class 3A. Kennedy, which has finished fifth, first and third in the past three state tournaments, has a deep and balanced roster. In the Trojans’ 47-40 league win Jan. 5 against No. 8 Central Linn, Kaylee Brown led the squad with 11 points, while Kaylin Cantu and Sophia Carley added

ten apiece and Hannah Arritola and Ibeth Gomez contributed six apiece. Brown and Gomez came off the bench in the Central Linn game.

The Trojans have senior leadership with Brown, Cantu, Arritola, Molly Jaeger and Abby Frey, and 6-foot sophomore Carley is strong and athletic in the post.

Another run to Pendleton might be in the cards.

The Trojans’ boys squad also was 3-0 in the Tri-River heading into the week and ranked No. 2. Kennedy is 8-7 overall but faced a challenging nonleague scheduled that included five Class 3A squads and one in Class 4A. Kennedy is likely to battle with No. 3 Western Mennonite and No. 8 Santiam, last year’s 2A champions, as the conference race heats up.

Silverton, meanwhile, started MidWillamette Conference play this week.

The Foxes’ boys squad is off to a flying start with an 8-1 record and the No. 1 ranking in Class 5A. Competition in league is expected to come from Central, South Albany and defending champion Crescent Valley. Silverton’s girls are 7-3 and ranked No. 8. Three other MWC teams are in the top nine: No. 1 Central, No. 5 Lebanon and No. 9 Crescent Valley.

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Marty Schrock loves to play with his food – in a sushi chef kind of way. Combining an admiration of Japanese food culture with a hearty French food influence, he and his wife, Mar’cia, tied on their aprons and opened “Samurai Madame” in November. Silverton’s first take-away sushi eatery is located across from City Hall.

A whimsical large wooden cutout samurai figure with crisscrossed swords on his back and holding a frying pan (“very Peasant French”) greets visitors on the outside wall of their building. During warm seasons, customers will be able to lean over a quaint Dutch door and place their orders on the Water Street side. A walk-in pick-up area located on Jersey Street provides shelter from winter weather.

They offer daily Makizushi (“maki”), Japanese sushi rolls filled with various fillings. They also offer daily rice bowl specials which are topped with savory “countryside French style” meats and slowcooked vegetables – courtesy of Mar’cia.

Customers have the choice of white or brown rice.

“I learned to make sushi a couple of years ago. All of our food is fresh and there’s no frying here,” Marty said, adding they are proud to offer healthier “fast-food alternatives.”

Marty, 43, and Mar’cia, 40, have been married 21 years and have four daughters: Willow, 18, Sophie, 16, Thaile, 15 and Naomi, 10. The adventurous Silverton family hit the road about a year ago and took an ambitious cross-country tour in their van. They traveled 8,000 miles and covered a massive 26 states in 37 days.

“That was our big trip before the girls got too old,” Marty said.

The couple is excited to share the experiences of owning and running a family business with their daughters. They have worked together before, owning the Silver Falls Cafe & Country Store (when it was known as The Dial Station) for two years. Marty has worked in real estate.

Mar’cia worked as a teacher’s aide at Silver Crest for three years. She is finishing up anthropology studies at Chemeketa Community College, with plans on attending Oregon State University.

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There’s just something about Lucy.

Maybe it’s the smile, or the pterodactyl laugh that comes deep from her cute little belly out of the blue. Maybe it’s the absolute joy on her little face whenever she hears the “Happy Birthday” song.

“Alexa, play Happy Birthday!”.

Beaming smile, knowing she is the only one who has ever had, is having, or ever will have a birthday song that is exclusively hers. Maybe it’s the way she lights up when “Big Bird”, aka Uncle Trevor, strolls into the room and whisks her away in his Giant Condor-like talons and eight-foot wingspan, holding her high enough to come close to getting her first buzz cut on the ceiling fan. Perhaps it is because she is “Mama’s girl one week”, “Daddy’s girl’ the next, and then suddenly, her parents are chopped liver, all because “Gramma” walks in the room or, on rare occasion, “Papa” wants to nibble on her “chickey meat” (tender baby neck meat that is both juicy and ticklish).

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It is often fatal. But thank Heaven for Legacy Silverton Medical Center’s stellar ER, which helped Lucy get diagnosed quickly and fast-tracked by ambulance to

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook and social media in general.

It has many uses, good and bad. It has an ugly tendency to impersonalize relationships and never clearly articulates the poster’s intent. Was that sarcasm? Are they mad at me or did they just forget to put in a “happy face” emoji or “LOL?” But then along comes Lucy. What a God-send Facebook turned out to be.

Simply put a brief post about what is going on and you won’t get 30 status questions from 30 well-meaning people in the produce aisle at Roth’s. You can also dispel rumors quickly.

Lucy is blessed to have her “village” raise her, along with some awesome parents.

One message posted, “It’s a tumor, and we are praying that Friday’s surgery is successful and shows it to be benign” on Facebook, and well over 1,000 “thoughts and prayers” replies come back, heart-

felt, not mechanical. A Texas buddy of mine from the Air Force, a friend in Pennsylvania, a bucket of strangers, and a lot of friends and families, feeling the hashtag, #ILOVELUCY. The village hits its collective knees, asking God to give us a Christmas miracle in this holiest time of the Christian year. Make the tumor benign and give this precious child a chance to take her first steps, use the “big girl potty,” drive a car and, Heaven forbid, have some boy show up at the door for the senior prom in a tux with his baseball hat on backwards.

Time moves with the speed of a glacier to what will be the happiest or worst possible Friday ever.

Friday arrives, a surgeon and anesthesiologist with beaming smiles pop into the waiting room and, like God, say “All is good.” The tumor is benign.

Highly unlikely to ever come back. Lucy is cancer-free. One prayer is heard, but a thousand is like an enormous and beautiful symphony. God is great and life is good in the village.

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SILVERTON Christina Williamson Broker 873-3545 ext. 315

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Branstetter HUBBARD Principal Broker,

Chuck White Broker 873-3545 ext. 325

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GRI 873-3545 ext. 303

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#T2451 PriVaTe sUBdiVision $318,900

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$189,000 Wonderfully maintained home in COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL a private subdivision with your own private access to a 2.59 2.13 acres zoned ID off Delaney RD SE Exit on acre park on the Santiam River, great spot for Squirrel Hill RD SE. Property is undeveloped FOR LEASE/COMMERCIAL fishing or swimming. Private backyard with surcommercial land located just South of the Pacific rounding forests, outdoor living area with a hot Pride gas station. Great visibility from I-5 with tub. Open floor plan, master on the main level, easy access to freeway. Lots of potential for a wood stove in the living room that can heat the commercial enterprise wanting to locate outside house. RV storage/parking. Call Meredith at ext.

Salem city limits. Call Chuck at ext. 325 324 or Ryan at ext. 322. (WVMLS# 727848) (WVMLS# 727845)

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FOR LEASE/COMMERCIAL FOR RENT WOODBURN SILVERTON STAYT TOWNWOODBURN KEIZER LAN BARELAND/LOTS HUBBARD SILVERTON TOWN #T2338 silVerTon Parcel Buildable #T2452 2.13 coMMercial acres 2.13 OTHER COMMUNITIES STAY 6,365 sqft Lot Call Chuck at ext. 325 $69,900 acre lot. Zoned ID Call Chuck at ext. 325 COMM AUMSVILLE/ HUBBARD $189,000TOWN WOODBURN LA (WVMLS#709283)

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#T2411 readY For dreaM HoMe .34 FOR sold-#T2429 BUilaBle 2.85 aces Acres Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext.

2.85 Acres Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at 322 $79,900 (WVMLS#718207) #T2440 locaTion, locaTion, locaTionBARELAND #T2341 2 HoMes on 2 acres 3 BR, 2 BA ext. 322 $225,000 (WVMLS#724203) COM #T2440 locaTion, locaTion, 4 BR, 1.5 BA 2247 sqft Call Mason at ext. 303 1367 sqft. 2.630 Acres Call Chuck at ext. 325 #T2452 2.13 coMMercial acres locaTion 4 BR, 1.5 BA 2247 sqft Call OTHER COMMUN $324,000 (WVMLS#725845) $549,900 (WVMLS#709561) F 2.13 acre lot. Zoned ID Call Chuck at ext. 325 Mason at ext. 303 $324,000 (WVMLS#725845) IN TOWN NEW sold-#T2429 BUilaBle 2.85 aces #T2452 2.13 coMMercial acres 2.13 $189,000 (WVMLS#727845) #T2442 greaT locaTion 3 BR, 2.5 BA acre lot. Zoned ID CallCOUNTRY/ACREAGE Chuck at ext. 325 2.85 Acres Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at 1534 sqft Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at BARELA $189,000 (WVMLS#727845) ext. 322 $225,000 (WVMLS#724203) ext. 322 $298,600 (WVMLS#726272) IN TOWN NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION sold-#T2441 HisTorical FarMHoUse sold!#T2441 HisTorical FarMHoUse 5 sold-SALEM – #A2435 UPDATED 1950’s 5 BR, 1.5 BA 2847 sqft 4.27 Acres Call COUNTRY/ACREAGE BR, 1.5 BA 2847 sqft 4.27 Acres Call STAYTON/SUBLIMITY HoMe 3 BR, 2.5 BA, HOME 1725 sqftCONSTRUCTION Call MereIN TOWN HOME CONSTRUCTION IN TOWN NEW Meredith at ext.NEW 324, Ryan at ext.

322 sold! #a2438 rUral seTTing 3 BR, 2.5 Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext. 322 dith at ext.

324, Ryan at ext.

322 $264,600 $379,900 (WVMLS#726136) COUNTRY/ACREAGE BA, 1461 sqft Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan $379,900 (WVMLS#726136)COUNTRY/ACREAGE (WVMLS#724469) at ext. 322 $428,700 (WVMLS#724647) #T2445 HigHlY desiraBle area #T2446 greaT FaMilY HoMe 4 BR, 3 BA neW-#a2451 PriVaTe sUBdiVsion in STAYTON/SUBLIMITY saleM – #T2443 loTs oF cHaracTer 3 BR, 2 BA 1344 sqft 2.59 Acres Call 2780 sqft Call Chuck at ext. 325 $449,950 lYons 3 BR, 2.5 BA, 1696 sqft Call Mere4 BR, 1.5 BA 1395 sqft Call Meredith at ext.

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322 (WVMLS#726473) COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL dith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext. 322 $318,900 324, Ryan at ext. 322 $249,000 (WVMLS#726243) $283,000 (WVMLS#726458) #T2445 HigHlY desiraBle area 3 BR,

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For renT – l43577 3 bedroom 3 bathroom BARELAND/LOTS neW-#T2447 oPen Floor Plan house in amazing treed setting! 2 large decks surround 3 BR, 2 BA 1782 sqft. Call Marcia at ext. 318 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL FOR LEASE/COMMERCIAL the house. Fireplace and pellet stove (coming soon), 2 or Becky at ext. 313 $225,000 (WVMLS#727565) car attached garage. Private setting! Partial unfinished basement. Room and storage in abundance. No pets.

BARELAND/LOTS neW-#T2448 WonderFUllY UPdaTed FOR LEASE/COMMERCIAL FOR LEASE/COMMERCIAL No smoking. House on well and septic. $1700/month 3 BR, 2.5 BA 1719 sqft Call Meredith at ext. $1800/deposit. Call for more details.

324, Ryan at ext. 322 $309,800 (WVMLS#727801)

FOR RENT TOWNWOODBURN KEIZER AUMSVILLE/TU FOR RENT FOR RENT WOODBURN TOWNWOODBURN TOWNWOODBURN KEIZER KEIZER TOWN BARELAND/LOTS BARELAND/LOTS AUMSVILLE/TURNER WOODBURN TOWN TOWN OTHER COMMUNITI AUMSVILLE/TURNER AUMSVILLE/TURNER 16 • January 2018 ourtownlive.com Our Town Life 303 WOODBURN Oak Street • Silverton • www.silvertonrealty.com WOODBURN 503.873.3545 • 1-800-863-3545 OTHER COMMUNITIES