Our Town North: March 15, 2021

Civics 101

Civics 101

Hefty price tag tied to Silverton debris pile disposal – Page 5

Silverton city manager applicants meet public on Zoom – Page 4

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Something to Think About

City manager finalists meet public. 4

Do you repair or replace trees?.......9

Silverton’s $80,000 debris pile....5

A strange ‘fall’ season begins........12

Filing time for board positions....5 Silverton Road closure planned..6 Passages.............................8 On the Cover

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Hearing them out

By James Day Silverton community members got a chance to hear from the two finalists for city manager during a 90-minute Zoom forum on March 9.

The finalists are Ron Chandler, currently the city manager in Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast, and John Williams, whose 27 years of public sector experience includes time as city manager in Battle Ground, Washington.

The city is seeking to replace Christy Wurster, who left to take a position with the League of Oregon Cities. Bob Willoughby, who preceded Wurster, is serving again in an interim/pro tem role.

The City Council is charged with making the hire.

The candidates answered questions for nearly the 90 minutes, with some questioners appearing on the Zoom broadcast and other questions being read by the moderator, Mayor Kyle Palmer.

The questions ranged from difficult, thorny issues such as development,

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growth, downtown issues and homelessness to recreational opportunities, the candidates’ communications styles and priorities and why they are seeking the job.

“City manager is really a relationshipbuilding job,” said Chandler, noting the need to reach out to city staff, the City Council, business owners and residents.

“I’ll start by seeking out people to start talking and listening to find out what the issues are.”

Williams noted the importance of council priorities and added nonprofits and the school district to Chandler’s outreach list.

“What are the key issues the community wants to solve, and how should we go about addressing those issues? I’ll be looking for ways to reach out into the community.”

Resident Nick Coffey asked the candidates for their views on growth and the challenges downtown is facing.

Williams: “That’s a good question. It comes up in most cities. Two of the

cities I worked in developed a downtown plan. We worked with the Main Street Alliance and downtown business owners.

What can we do to help small business be successful? We’re the regulators, but we also need to keep that community feel.”

Chandler: “Anxieties over growth are normal. It means change. Oregon’s rules on urban grown boundaries help avoid urban sprawl. A sound downtown is critical. There are two key things: a comprehensive plan that identifies what you want the city to become; and making sure your zoning ordinances match that plan. You need to have good scrutiny.”

Norm English asked the candidates about traffic challenges that stem from downtown growth.

Chandler: “Traffic is always a challenge.

You’ve got to have a good relationship with the state. Roads are expensive to build. You have to be creative and work well with the state.”

Williams: “It’s a double-edged sword.

When you redevelop anything you bring in more traffic. You have to use your traffic plan and flow models. Sometimes that means adding traffic signals or a roundabout. You have to meet the infrastructure needs in your area.”

One resident noted the recent wildfires and ice storm and asked about emergency preparedness.

Williams said he has dealt with tornadoes, floods and a natural gas explosion in Washington.

“The best way to be prepared is to plan and train,” he said. “A critical piece is the table top exercise. Get your people in a room. Make sure they know what their roles are. Disasters are going to

happen. Preparation, training and a good emergency manual are vital.”

Chandler dealt with the Echo Mountain Complex Fire in the Lincoln City area around Labor Day, the same time Silverton was threatened by the Beachie Creek Fire. One of the key challenges the community faced was communication, he said.

“We had to evacuate one third of the town, but 90% of the town evacuated,” he said. “There are only three ways out of Lincoln City and north and east were blocked so people went south toward Newport and it was a mess. It taught us that you need to improve communications and that it has to come from official sources.”

The final question of the night was on homelessness.

Williams: “It’s a real problem and challenge and we have limited tools. The reality is that homeless people are going to be in the cities because that’s where the services are.”

Williams also recommended seeking out partners such as faith-based organizations “because cities often don’t have the expertise. Also, you have to compromise.

You need solutions in which there is at least something everyone can live with.”

Chandler: “This is really a challenge, and one of the challenges is defining it.

There are folks who are out for one night, there is transitional housing, it’s multiple things. You need to find the area where you can do the most good. The best thing a city can do is focus and not tackle too many things.”

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Piles of trouble

City to dispose of debris

By James Day

The primary reason people volunteer to sit on a board of directors is to serve their community and the cause itself. But veteran board members say sitting on a board can have other benefits as well.

Networking – meeting others with similar interests and gaining an understanding of what makes a place tick – can be especially helpful. And there are educational opportunities – practicing diplomacy, learning the art of persuasion and even acquiring meeting management and etiquette skills.

Last month’s ice storm left broad swaths of Silverton looking like war zones, with trees, limbs, branches and power poles and utility wires, strewn about like confetti.

The city set up two stations for debris, the first at the Oregon Garden and when that one filled to capacity one at the former Eugene Field School site.

Now, the city has two impressive mounds of yard waste to contend with. Left dangling also is who will pay for the disposal of the disposed.

“The debris piles were started by the city during the emergency immediately after the storm,” acting city manger Bob Willoughby told Our Town. “They were created to help end the emergency as soon as possible.

The streets needed to be cleared so they could be reopened, utility crews could restore power and other services could be restored as soon as possible. They were also created so that property owners could clear access to their private property as soon as possible. They seemed to work well for those purposes.

“They are the city’s debris piles sitting on city property so they are our responsibility to clear. Now that we are in the recovery phase from the ice storm we will soon begin dealing with those two debris piles.”

The city has hired K&E Excavating of Salem to grind up the two piles. On March 12 K&E was scheduled to begin, “bring in a large crew and heavy equipment needed to begin grinding the debris into something like hog fuel so that it can be hauled to another city property for longer-term storage and disposal.” Work is scheduled to continue Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. until completed.

The city plans to store the ground-up material near the dog park at the corner of Westfield and Main streets.

The good news is that the city is planning to distribute the material for free. Willoughby said that there are a wide range of potential users, including the Oregon Garden, the dog park, city trails, the school district, people with horses and other general public uses.

“If any is left over, we shouldn’t have any trouble

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Here is a look at part of the ice storm debris pile at Eugene Field.

Starting March 12 crews were scheduled begin grinding up the material for a wide range of uses. JAMES DAY

Below are board positions which will be on the ballot May 18. Applications are being accepted through 5 p.m. March 18 at www.co.marion.or.us.

disposing of it by opening access (to) the surplus storage piles to people wanting to come and pick it up and use it themselves,” Willoughby said.

Silver Falls School District (four-year terms): Three Director positions open: Zones 2, 4 and 5.

Current candidates are Matthew Gaitan (Zone 2), Melissa Briggs (Zone 5) and Aaron Koch (Zone 5).

More good news: The city also has asked K&E to separate out larger pieces of the pile that can be used as firewood, which also will be offered for free.

Mt. Angel School District (four-year terms): Three Director positions open in Zones 2, 3 and 5.

No current candidates.

“We ask the public to be patient and wait for permission to obtain firewood,” Willoughby said. “Pulling large pieces out of the debris pile now would be dangerous and is not permitted at this time. Firewood should be available in a couple of weeks.”

Drakes Crossing Rural Fire Protection District (four-year terms): Two Director positions open.

Current candidates are Roxanne Walstrom and Kandi Pavela.

Now, the bad news. K&E is charging $600 per hour for the grinding, and there is no obvious spot in the city budget to pay for what Willoughby said ultimately might be an $80,000 project.

“We hope to recover 75 percent of that cost from FEMA but it is unknown at this time whether this cost will be eligible for reimbursement,” Willoughby said.

In the meantime, although the Silverton debris stations are closed, residents still can dump ice storm debris for free at the Marion County Public Works transfer stations in Salem and Woodburn.

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Mt. Angel Fire District (four-year term): Two Director positions open.

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Silverton Fire District (four-year term): Three Director positions open.

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Commute hassles

By James Day Silverton-area residents who regularly use Silverton Road to get to and from Salem are going to have to use alternatives soon.

Marion County is replacing the “structurally deficient and functionally obsolete” bridge over the Little Pudding River between 60th and 64th streets. The $6.4 million project will force the closure of the road 24 hours per day, seven days a week for approximately seven months, said Steve Preszler, project manger for Marion County Public Works.

Preszler told Our Town the contractor will start work in mid-April, with the road closure and detours beginning around May 1. The work is set to conclude by Thanksgiving.

Once work begins Silverton Road will be closed to through traffic at Howell Prairie Road on the east side and Cordon Road on the west. Key detour routes that motorists will use are Sunnyview Road and Hazelgreen.

Silverton Road bridge work will force detours

The county also is adding temporary traffic lights at some locations and tweaking existing ones to help keep traffic flowing smoothly.

The new lights will be installed at Hazelgreen and Cordon Road and at Howell Prairie and Silverton Road.

The county also will adjust the timing at existing signals at the Cordon Road intersections with Sunnyview and Silverton Road. In addition, a right turn lane will be added to make it easier for motorists to turn from Hazelgreen onto Howell Prairie.

“These will only be temporary signals to keep traffic moving while the detour is in effect,” Preszler said. “Permanent signals and the necessary improvements to accommodate them would be much more expensive and not within the scope or budget of this project. The temporary signals will not be suitable for permanent installations.

“This is the first time we have put this much effort into a detour since I’ve been

The Silverton Road bridge over the Little Pudding River is being replaced, with the seven-month construction schedule forcing motorists to use detours to travel between Salem and Silverton. JAMES DAY

here (almost 10 years),” Preszler said, “but Silverton Road is a heavily used major arterial and we needed to make sure the detours would operate at an acceptable level of service while it is being closed.”

Preszler said that the current traffic volume on Silverton Road, which also

serves as state Highway 213, between Cordon and Silverton is about 11,000 vehicles per day. County traffic models estimate that more traffic will use the Hazelgreen detour than the Sunnyview detour, he said.

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an advance warning system at the intersection of Silverton and Brush Creek roads. This is a safety project separate from the bridge project that will remain at that location permanently, Preszler said.

The system will provide flashing red stop warnings for the Brush Creek Road legs and flashing yellow warnings for the Silverton legs that will notify the Silverton through-traffic that vehicles are at or approaching the stop.

The first half of the existing bridge was built in 1922. It was subsequently widened in 1947.

“It is at the end of its useful life and ODOT has load limited the bridge due to its condition,” Preszler said. “While we received the replacement funds based on the condition of the bridge, the new bridge has been designed to current seismic standards and will withstand a Cascadia Subduction Zone seismic event.”

During the planning process for the project county officials considered options

that would have allowed Silverton Road to remain open while the new bridge was constructed either north or south of the existing span.

But such an approach would “greatly impact” adjacent property owners and also would have cost $1.5 million more for construction and required two construction seasons, Preszler said.

Brian Nicholas, county Public Works director, met twice with the Silverton City Council, once on May 7, 2018 to discuss the general project scope and again on Jan. 7, 2019 to discuss the county choice of options.

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Arbor days

Tree experts weigh in on tree care following devastating storm

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trees with a proven record of resilience, trees that do not damage the sidewalk or endanger the power lines is our collective need.”

Within hours of the ice storm horticulturist Eric Hammond began walking, covering as many miles of Silverton’s streets as he could, cataloging the trees – the ones that were damaged, the ones that were toppled and the ones that made it through relatively unscathed.

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of research depicting which trees grow best in which environments. And most cities – Silverton included – provide lists of trees approved for urban planting.

“I’m up to 3,300 different survey points and 130 different species,” Hammond said. “Fully 50 percent of what I see has got moderate to severe damage. And I’m only surveying the planted trees. The wild trees are their own thing to talk about. They were here before us and it’s sort of on us if we built a house there.”

“The city specifically has a list of trees and the street codes,” Glenn Ahrens, an Extension Service Forester with Oregon State University for the past 20 years, confirmed. “They usually have a list of ‘do not plant these’ as well because they have experience of which cause problems with infrastructure.”

But planted trees, largely chosen by homeowners, landscape architects or developers, are an entirely different matter, one Hammond feels some responsibility around, having worked in the nursery industry for many years.

Another good rule of thumb, when deciding upon which variety of tree, or other plants, to plant is to first consider native varieties.

“I wouldn’t say don’t plant non-natives, but natives are a good way to go,” Ahrens said.

“Planting a tree is a really complex thing and it does a huge disservice to everyone to avoid the nuance there,” Hammond stated, likening the choosing of an urban tree to that of footwear – in that there is no one-size fits all option.

But even amongst natives all trees are not created equal and research may be necessary to determine what varieties grow best in a specific region.

“Say what you will, but that tree isn’t responsible for our choices,” Hammond wrote in a series of Facebook posts which chronicle his studies. “[W]e choose what trees to plant in our gardens and on our streets. Growing

“Even amongst our native trees it’s pretty easy to transplant a tree from southern Oregon to northern Oregon for example and those are not a good match,” he

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That climate is steadily changing, much faster than the trees themselves, making choosing a tree that can withstand a relatively rare event – like the recent ice storm – a difficult proposition.

“Trees evolve over many millennia,” Ahrens said of the current situation in which tree evolution is often being outrun by changes in temperature. “A lot of our trees are overwhelmed whether they’re native or exotic.”

It’s a tricky situation, one that could leave many home and business owners feeling like tree replacement is a bad idea. Which is a dangerous mindset, according to Ahrens.

“The recovery of the urban forest is really important.

You just really want to match the stature of a tree and be careful, especially with proximity to buildings, sidewalks, it’s a real trade-off. There’s always a trade-off of the benefit of that big beautiful tree and the potential for damage and mess.”

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“You want to take the time and do it right and get the right help and be careful not to try to do it yourself,” he said. “We’re all tempted to do those things. But the word to the wise is – don’t go there. Get the help you need.”

And for those with trees completely uprooted by the storm? Unfortunately, even a professional will not be able to save a completely downed tree – especially ones larger than three feet. “[W]hen your tree falls over, you absolutely cannot save it,” Hammond wrote in a recent post, acknowledging that, although it is tempting, even the most creative fixes will most likely be to little avail.

“The reason your tree fell over was a bad root system with too much top weight,” he pointed out. “A bad root system, on an established tree, cannot be fixed. You cannot right and re-stabilize the tree. That includes using ratchet straps (seen it), ropes (seen it), stakes (seen it), bricks (this too), or any other unique device (car, umm, yes, even this) to stabilize your tree.”

Why were so many of these uprooted trees oaks? For

that, Hammond has another theory, one that has little to do with nature and more to do with care.

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“Oregon oak requires summer drought, winter wet,” he wrote. “The toppled trees have root rot. We killed them with irrigation... Irrigation is deadly to these big old Oregon oaks. You cannot have an ancient oak and irrigated space. Not possible… Do not irrigate near an old oak. If you do, in time it will die.”

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And for those oaks still standing – Ahrens said that as long as the tree is healthy, with the majority of its crown still intact, it may live for many more years.

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“If they have a lush crown, they have a better ability to overcome damage and can mobilize defensive chemicals in their wood,” he explained. “So, the vigorous tree will overcome rot. But these trees that are broken, that don’t have much of a crown, if they don’t have as many leaves the rot can advance. It’s kind of a long-term process and it’s part of what people look at if they decide if the tree can recover. It differs by species.”

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Which brings up yet another issue, seen all over the north valley – debris. It’s piling up everywhere. Big branches, small branches, whole trees – there’s seemingly no end in sight to the problem which, if dealt with unsustainably can cause huge amounts of carbon to enter the atmosphere. Fortunately, there is an alternative, especially for those with a penchant for gardening. It’s called hügelkultur.

“Hügelkultur is an ancient wisdom, a method to compost whole logs and limbs, in long narrow piles, or beds, that can nourish plants in and near them for decades,” Kris Mitchell, owner of Eastview Garden in Silverton, explained. “It is what happens naturally in the forest, but works faster with human intervention.

“I actually started doing hügelkultur before I knew that’s what it was, over 15 years ago.”

As a farmer, Mitchell understands the value of

composting natural materials into her fields and beds.

“Composting is essential for so many reasons,” she said “Even in times when I didn’t have much of a garden, I have always had a kitchen compost, because it is one way to reduce waste in a way that is good for the planet, while returning valuable organic matter, nutrients, and beneficial microbes to the soil…because I build the soil using the organic material produced right here by the plants, animals, and our kitchen, I don’t have to buy additional fertilizers to grow healthy plants.”

Looking at the piles of trees and branches, instead of a problem, Mitchell sees opportunity, hope for the future and a way to build a nourishing foundation for the new trees to come.

“It takes a change of mindset, from thinking of the debris from the ice storm as an ugly mess that we need to be rid of, to seeing it as the valuable resource that it also is,” she acknowledged.

“Use them as a base for a raised bed, adding chips and soil, and grow beautiful flowers and delicious, nourishing vegetables and fruits. Over the course of our lifetimes, the twigs, sticks, limbs, and even whole trees that suddenly came down on our properties in such an alarming and destructive way, can be used by this method to heal and nourish the planet and ourselves.”

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Sports season opens, strangely

They said a return to high school sports was going to be strange amid the pandemic and its spillover effects. They were right.

• Silverton High’s first two football games will be played on Saturdays because of an officials shortage.

• The Foxes’ volleyball first match was canceled. Instead of West Albany the squad will take on West Salem.

• The Silver Falls Oktoberfest invitational cross country meet, a joint effort of Kennedy and Silverton, historically has drawn a sea of school buses to the parking lots at Silver Falls State Park and somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 runners. This year, with participation limited to 50 runners, only about six or seven small schools will be participating.

We’re talking mini-vans, not school buses. There’s lower participation at many schools because of mask requirements.

Oh, and the meet usually is in September.

• Last Friday I attended my first high school football game since Nov. 23, 2019,

when Silverton faced Thurston in the Class 5A semifinals at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. That’s 468 days ago.

Strange night. Dark, cold and rainy. Felt like it was the playoffs instead of the opener between Kennedy and Santiam Christian. No fans in the stands, although the open setup of the field in Adair Village allowed school officials to slot in about 20 parent vehicles with views of the field.

The Kennedy players dressed in the cafeteria, which has more room for social distancing than the locker room.

During the runup to kick off the public address announcer noted that the Santiam Christian JV game was being switched from Monday against Siuslaw to Tuesday against Dayton. Tuesday?

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Santiam Christian, which defeated Kennedy, 45-8, looked like it had been practicing daily since summer. Kennedy, which is known for starting against tough teams and continuing to improve as the season goes on, was “rusty,” said coach Joe Panuke. His team also missed practice time because of the ice storm.

In the fall of 2018 Panuke’s team was 4-2 in its first six games. They then won the next seven games and won the state title as the No. 9 seed.

This year after six games the season is over and many of his top athletes will be transitioning to baseball.

No OSAA playoffs this year, no district meets, no trophies, although the cross country folks are not going down without a fight. Kennedy cross country coach Steve Ritchie says he and his colleagues have tentatively scheduled a district meet for April 1. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are 23 teams in

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“We may have to split into sections to stay under the outdoor event limitations,” Ritchie said. “Then merge the results from the two sections.”

A “quasi-state meet,” as Ritchie put it, is on the calendar for April 10 at Cheadle Lake Park in Lebanon. A similar event also is being planned for Hermiston in Eastern Oregon.

“So there may be multiple state meets!”

Ritchie said.

Alumni watch: Former Silverton hoops star Cade Roth turned in a stellar junior season at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. The 6-5 swing man averaged 13.3 points per game and led the team in assists (57) and 3-pointers (25) while also averaging 5.1 rebounds per game. The Warriors played a truncated season of just 11 games and Roth started all 11, earning first-team all-Golden State Athletic Conference honors.

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By Brenna Wiegand Silver Falls School District Board approved a plan to shift district boundaries to balance school populations while reconfiguring Robert Frost and Mark Twain to K-5 schools.

Before now, Mark Twain Elementary has housed grades K-2 and Robert Frost grades 3-5.

At the heart of the March 8 decision was whether to shift students on South Abiqua Road from the in-town schools to Butte Creek Elementary, an outlying K-12 school a few miles up Highway 213 from South Abiqua Road.

Though the board decided in 2018 to reconfigure Robert Frost and Mark Twain to K-5 schools, the process began in earnest last November when the board instructed first-year SFSD Superintendent Scott Drue to implement the directive.

Drue convened a Superintendent’s Boundary Work Group composed of 21 community members – teachers, staff, parents, Silver Falls Education Association, Oregon School Employees Association and Silverton Mayor Kyle Palmer – and they have had several meetings incoming to the recommendation. The group also consulted with the City of Silverton on the impact of long-term growth projections around the Silverton area.

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start was creating a highly visible and transparent decision-making process.

“We followed all the public meeting laws; we had public announcements and public comment at each meeting,” Drue said.

“The entire SFSD community had access to the meetings via Zoom, with each one posted on YouTube with its supporting documentation on the district website.”

The driving reason for reconfiguring the in-town schools is to avoid having these grade school students go from one school to the another between second and third grade.

“That’s a critical age, especially for our underrepresented populations,” Drue said.

“It is also an age where children are learning how to read before they read to learn.

“Taking out that transition and leaving them at one continuous school vertically aligned to serve kids along a continuum is where we want to be as a school district,” Drue said. “There is so much research – and we know this from the K-8 model – that taking out one transition is directly proportional to the future success of kids and the higher performance of schools.

“Now more than ever kids need to start a continuous six-year path, if they’re in kindergarten, in one school,” Drue said.

“K-5 configurations are best practice, and we feel our students need this continuity now more than ever given what has transpired this past year.”

The work group looked at balancing class

size, student equity and diversity and the socio-economic status of school district families. They strove to keep neighborhoods together. For example, many district students live within walking distance of Mark Twain Elementary School.

About 20 South Abiqua students are affected by the change and those already attending in-town schools will have the option to stay where they are.

Assistant Superintendent Dan Busch is glad the district can now proceed with the staffing changes necessary to serve the new distribution of its students.

“We want to make sure we take care of our staff,” Busch said. “There has already been enough uncertainty with everything else going on that we want to make sure we do a thorough job with that.

“We hope to announce staffing decisions for the two schools before Spring Break,” Busch said.

Board members expressed their satisfaction with the process the group used in producing their final recommendation.

“I am very encouraged and feel confident about a couple of things,” school board member Janet Allanach said. “First, they stuck to the decision criteria which was really equity driven.

“I am also impressed by the great response from outside participants; that they felt the process was very good and that they were really included,” she said.

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“The process was robust and the final vote was so positive.

“Those are all demonstrations to me that the process had a lot of integrity and that we can put a lot of trust in it,” Allanach said.

“I am thrilled to be offering two neighborhood school experiences next school year to our families,” Leslie Roache, SFSD Director of Teaching and Learning, said. “Mark Twain and Robert Frost are already excellent schools, and with this shift to offer students six years of continuous learning with fewer transitions, we believe our students will grow academically and social-emotionally even more.

“I know that each of these schools will build inclusive school cultures and communities within the Silver Falls School District,” she added.

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Such a spring it is shaping up to be.

I was driving through Keizer last weekend with some clients, and saw McNary High playing a football game. It did my heart good. Odd to be playing in March, it is true. But a six-game season in the spring is a whole lot better than no games in the fall. As kids slowly make their way back to school, regardless of whether it is on-line, in-person, or hybrid, it is more than a light at the end of the tunnel. Kids have been stellar through this COVID-chaos, as have the school professionals, but that light at the end of the tunnel is slowly transitioning from penlight to floodlight. No one has gotten through this unscathed. Socialization is so important in development. We are all social creatures. We need this.

Spring carries with it an optimism unlike any other time of year. Hope springs eternal, so to speak. There is the religious component of Easter, Christianity’s holiest day. The sun is peeking out of the clouds. The ice storm is past, spring break is close, and there are a lot of shots going

restaurant. Sitting down. Out on the town. And it felt good. Thank you, Josh and Paige Echo-Hawk for getting us off our bottoms and into the Graystone experience.

into a lot of arms. COVID numbers are going down, as are the deaths of those who were vulnerable, although we are warned to not shed our “cloak of invincibility” just yet. This pandemic came on fast and will dissipate slowly. But there are signs. Signs of hope.

My wife and I did something socially we have not done in a long time – we had a terrific meal at Graystone Lounge Feb. 28 and with another couple. It was a delayed Valentine’s Day event that was postponed because of the ice storm and subsequent power outages. The filet of tenderloin and lobster were wonderful, the Old Fashioned incredible, and the company was divine. But we were in a

My son and I had a delicious breakfast at The Main Street Bistro. Again, inside, at a table, with awesome food and impeccable service. We loved it, and I have never seen a harder working person than the owner Cynthia Hickman. She is, literally, everywhere. Her head is in the flowers as she gets ready for a delivery to a funeral.

She shows a staff person how I like my hazelnut latte. It looked like she was going to lose a lot of food and ice cream (food is food, ice cream is at the top of the food pyramid, obviously). Josh and Paige helped get a generator to keep things cold.

Restaurateurs lost a lot this past year, as have so many businesses. We must help.

But there is that light at the end of the tunnel, starting to look like the runway lights at PDX. 60 degrees one day last week. Four sunny days this week.

Kids are playing soccer. Classrooms are getting cleaned and sanitized. School folks are getting ready to do what they do best – interact with kids, live in many cases.

Outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, there is an event called the Nenana Ice Classic, a fun event where people bet on when the ice breaks on the Tanana River. Lots of money exchanges hands, and a lot of people come out to play after a winter of near hibernation. Having been stationed there with the United States Air Force, I get that. My first week started at 29 below and went to 63 below.

I feel we are nearing the ice break, with COVID, loosening restrictions, and aggressive rollout of vaccinations, spring break, Easter, a bit of travel, perhaps, and hopefully hitting fall with near-herd immunity, full classrooms, and extracurriculars. I just hope the spring revelers do not cause super-spreader events. Like the Beatles said, “Little Darlin’, I feel the ice is slowly melting... Here comes the sun.” But you do not start skiing until the river flows freely and warm.

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