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CONTENTS Something to Think About

Helping Hands

Peaceful protest against racism.....4

Local small businesses grants.......11

Facing difficult discussions........5

Barn burning devastates farm......12

Something to Celebrate

Marketplace....................12

Marching Band picked for parade...6

Passages...........................13

Summer Reading Log

Sports & Recreation

Libraries team up for program........8

JBO gives funds to SACA.................14

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Silvertonians inspired to take action against racism

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pain. I want somebody to feel the change in their heart and their body and feel the passion that other activists feel when they talk about the subject of people being killed. It’s people’s lives on the line. I want people to feel.

I want people to ask questions – to feel it. I want to start that fire.”

“I come to report – the kids are not alright,” Keith Amano gravely stated at the George Floyd Memorial Protest in Silverton on Frida++, June 5.

As the Activities Director for the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Amano has spent years getting to know the youth in Silverton – all of them, every color, race, ethnicity and gender.

And she was by no means alone. Joined by fellow SHS students Sam Perez and Eveline Morales Sierra, the group stood together, asking for action within their community.

“I have had all kinds of kids,” he asserted. “And all of them have to find their place in this town and in this world. And it is on their behalf that I am angry. I come to report, the kids are not alright...They can’t think, they can’t rest – they can’t breathe because of what is happening.”

For this reason, Amano – who kicked off the protest by sharing his own story of life as a Japanese American – urged the community to listen.

“We want to listen to their stories,” he urged. “We want to let them breathe…If you say, ‘don’t talk,’ they can’t breathe. If they can’t breathe you are taking away their spirit, their breath, their life.”

With that request in mind, hundreds of Silvertonians – masked against the coronavirus pandemic and brandishing hand-made signs – listened, raptly as one after another, speakers took to the microphone to tell their stories.

“I am in no way seeking pity,” 16-year-old Orianna Farrell said by way of introduction. “I am seeking that you, in the community, stand with me to make a change.”

Farrell’s story – which she published in a recent Instagram post titled, “My life in Silverton as a black woman” – lists the countless ways in which the color of her skin has been used as a barrier to separate her from the rest of the predominantly white community into which she was born.

“In fourth grade, I remember, I was made fun of for my curly hair,” she wrote. “My hair was seen as a distraction to my classmates and teachers. I was not seen as beautiful because I didn’t have silky, straight hair.”

“I have been called racist slurs and constantly been told to go back to my country,” Morales Sierra said. Adding, “We must hold our neighbors accountable. These prejudiced systems have taken too many lives. Enough is enough. If people of color are strong enough to build a country, we are also powerful enough to change it.”

Above: Brianna Wolterman and Orianna Farrell speaking at the George Floyd Memorial Protest. MELISSA WAGONER

That post – which she bravely read aloud – cites incidences from fifth grade, ninth grade and tenth grade, each escalating in severity, all taking place within a school.

“First and foremost, our school needs to change,” Farrell stated in an interview prior to the protest. “We need to stop being afraid to teach our students that what they’re doing is wrong. The curriculum needs to change.

Mandatory English books that you read are all about colored people from a place of oppression, never a place of power. Knowledge is power. I would like to see people educating themselves for themselves and for people of color.”

The best way to begin, Farrell noted, is to start listening.

“I want you to listen with an open mind and I want you to get something from what I’m trying to say,” she urged. “I’m exposing and making myself vulnerable so that maybe one part of you can find yourself more experienced about what other people are feeling and experiencing around this nation. One step is all it takes.

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“Silverton, Oregon is a place of privilege with a lack of compassion for people of minorities,” Perez added.

“Kids shouldn’t be scared to go to their school because of the color of their skin. We need to speak out for these injustices.”

While this particular protest, organized by the Silverton Youth Movement – a group of students seeking to inspire activism and change within their community – was held in solidarity with the national Black Lives Matter movement, it really sought to encompass racism as a whole – and specifically in Silverton.

“Many of us, we live in a predominantly white town and we don’t realize that our neighbors are experiencing such a different experience than we are just living a mile away,” Silverton Youth Movement founder Orion White said. “Everyone should feel welcome in this town – as welcome as I do.”

These sentiments were echoed by Mayor Kyle Palmer who, in his closing address, urged the community to take action.

“Hiding from what is uncomfortable is part of the problem,” he acknowledged. “That blindness is part of the problem. There’s still work to be done…This is a fight that each of us has to take on individually but that we can only win together. Let the flame that was ignited today be just the spark for Silverton.”

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Difficult discussions Taking time to listen key step toward understanding

By Melissa Wagoner “There isn’t an area in American society where polarization isn’t present,” Silverton resident Jennifer Hofmann stated.

The founder of the website Americans of Conscience Checklist – where she joins 48 fellow writers in publishing a weekly list of actions regarding democracy, voting access, equality and respect for “aspiring Americans” – Hofmann is no stranger to navigating polarizing issues with people from both sides of what may seem like an ever-expanding gap.

“The things that people disagree about include abortion, race and taxes,” Hofmann listed. “There’s polarization around women’s rights, around education, around whether corporations are good or not, whether we should or shouldn’t have any support for people in need, immigration, voting safety, the list goes on and on.”

Although it may feel as though Americans disagree now more than ever before, Hofmann argues that this list of timeless arguments proves otherwise.

“There were already divisions in our nation before 2016,” she pointed out. “The divisions that are already there are there and will always be there but they’re being exacerbated partly by online strategies.”

One of these strategies is what Hofmann refers to as “siloed news” or the narrowing of one’s worldview by search engines employing an algorithm to feed users a continuous stream of homogenous information.

While that can seem helpful, the continued exposure to one-sided information can be incredibly damaging to communities on the local level and on a grander scale – to democracy as a whole.

“Everyone thinks they’re right and there’s not enough listening,” Hofmann stressed, adding, “We’ll never win an argument on social media.”

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But even person-to-person interactions are often fraught with similarly inflexible boundaries and expectations.

• Keep quiet and assume there’s something to learn.

“When we’re talking to people we care about, but that we disagree with, very often we avoid the subject altogether or we say, ‘That person’s dead to me!’” Hofmann said.

“We’re quick to dismiss the actual value of the human because we disagree.”

• Don’t interrupt.

And also because we don’t listen. Listening is Hofmann’s primary piece of advice for those engaging in any discussion.

• Don’t repeat yourself – say it once and move on.

“I use two strategies,” she began. “Listen and ask questions that are based in curiosity rather than waiting for your turn to talk and point out how they’re wrong. Bringing curiosity to the conversation and holding your tongue for a while – not to condone beliefs that might be harmful but because we’ve forgotten the value of being present for one another. Strive to find what value we have in common.”

• Listen – without intending to reply.

All of this takes a lot of work, Hofmann admitted. But she believes common ground is almost always possible.

“I think of every single person as a Venn Diagram,” she said, “those overlapping circles. It might be a tiny little overlap but it’s there. And it’s there if we are curious and we set out with the intention to find common ground.”

Hofmann also warned against starting a conversation with the aim of changing that person’s mind.

“I think a lot of my liberal friends go into conversations with their conservative family

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– and vice versa – expecting to change their minds,” she said. “Stop it! It’s not helpful.

Go into it wanting to change someone’s heart – and it might just be your own.”

That, Hofmann suggested, is where the power of the personal narrative really shines.

“Telling the story of one’s experience is how we change hearts,” she said. “Nobody likes to be preached at. So, if we don’t like it ourselves, it’s not effective with others.

“It is my job as a white person to listen and believe people when they talk about their experience,” she said. “So, when my friends of color talk about what the world looks like to them, my only job is to believe them. Because if we don’t listen to people when they talk about those biases, we

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Being white, living in a predominantly white town, or never experiencing racism on a personal level, does not excuse anyone from caring about or standing up for equity across party lines, gender lines and color lines, Hofmann said.

“Just because I’m not personally effected by that doesn’t mean I don’t have a responsibility,” she said. “I really think that we have to make ourselves uncomfortable to create change. We have to be willing to change and to listen. And we have to be willing to listen to authorities we’re not used to.”

Hofmann suggests each person start small.

“I think that people either are completely involved or they’re completely uninvolved in social change,” she said. “I think there needs to be more middle ground. Those of us who are doing too much need to learn how to rest. Others learn how to be braver.”

Pick three issues, Hofmann proposed.

“It’s good to be engaged on different levels – local, national and international, she said.

“Choose an issue that affects you personally and an issue that doesn’t affect you personally. Because we’re all still neighbors and we’re all still living on this continent.”

Lastly, Hofmann recommended that each person take the time to listen, be curious and facilitate healthy narratives.

“Because when we listen, we find out how very much we have in common,” she said.

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Silverton selected for 2021 National Memorial Day Parade in D.C. need to offer fundraising opportunities and will rely heavily on our community to help us make this trip a reality. Our band parent group will be working on a plan to raise the funds. Obviously, our fundraising efforts will be dictated by the current restrictions and the need to ensure student health and safety.”

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The marching bands of small schools are generally overlooked when it comes to the nominations for the National Memorial Day Parade held each year in Washington DC. An incredible honor, only one band is chosen from each of the 50 states. To the surprise of band leader Frank Petrik and his students, this year the Silverton High School Marching Band is that one.

Both Petrik and his students are enjoying the recognition that the nomination brings, a recognition that at least one band member feels has been a long-time in coming.

“I was shocked for such a small school to be even considered,” trombonist Michelle Stratton said. “I feel like the importance of our school being invited is that this experience is going to show us what we are capable of doing, and how the strenuous work does pay off.”

“I believe the band needs to be more recognized than it is,” Emma Nussbaum, who plays a variety of instruments, said. “I know my fellow band members will agree with this because our town is mainly about the sports. And I believe that the musical arts are just as important as sports.”

For Stratton, that work began three years ago when, as a freshman, she feared she would never be good enough to play in the prestigious SHS Marching Band.

“I remember thinking at the beginning of my freshman year that I wouldn’t be able to march and play at the same time; to even memorize the physical movements and the different songs,” she said. “I wouldn’t have been able to fathom back then that I would be where I am.”

Now, Stratton – along with every other member of the SHS Band – is headed for the nation’s capitol during the 2021 Memorial Day celebration, to spend four days sightseeing, visiting national monuments, and of course marching in the parade.

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By Melissa Wagoner The Silverton Small Business Relief Fund – which was first announced on April 21 by the Silverton Rotary – has, by the first week in June, raised more than $70,000 through donations by community members, businesses and organizations.

“This type of project is atypical for the Silverton Rotary Club as we more frequently do hands on projects in our parks and in the community in general,” Silverton Mayor and Rotary Foundation Chair Kyle Palmer said, “but Rotary was a business organization originally so there was a natural fit in many ways. That said, this is no longer a Rotary fund – this is a community initiative now and the response from organizations, individuals, and businesses less-impacted by COVID-19 has been astonishing and humbling. Over 250 acts of generosity have built this from an idea to something that will help many, many businesses survive and continue to be part of Silverton’s economy.”

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We’ll have to make a lot of changes in protocol though when we come back full time.”

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“I am trying to keep my staff paid,” Paula Magee – who has owned the Silverton Ballet and Performing Arts Company for the past 30 years – said when asked why she applied for the grant. “No one

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Up in smoke

By Melissa Wagoner Acrid smoke was still rising from the rubble nearly three days after fire engulfed the barn at Great Oak Farms in Silverton.

While teams of volunteers picked through the rubble, salvaging what they could and taking the rest to the dump, the farm’s owner, Morgan Yeates, tried to keep it all together.

“The horse and pigs were free,” she said gesturing toward the animals grazing safely on green pasture. “And the guard dog got some of the livestock out.”

Some – but unfortunately not all. An estimated 300 sheep, goats, chickens, ducks and quail succumbed to the flames.

“Eight of my does survived and one buck,” Yeates said sadly, indicating what is left of her once thriving dairy goat herd. “And I can’t find about two-thirds of the chickens.

But fortunately, I had my quail colonies split. And 800 eggs in the incubator survived and they’re hatching. They’re really precious little birds.”

Family business nearly eliminated when barn goes up in flames Great Oak Farms To help, search “Rebuild Our Barn” at www.gofundme.com The fire – which the responding firefighters suspect was caused by an electrical malfunction in a freezer compressor – ignited on the morning of March 27 as Yeates conducted the day’s chores.

“I was finishing cleaning up,” she said, “waiting for my niece and nephew to milk the goats. When I heard an explosion – well, not exactly an explosion, but a loud sound.”

By the time Yeates came within sight of the barn the entire front half was already engulfed in flames.

“I think the fire marshal was here in maybe 10 to 11 minutes,” Yeates, whose farm is in a remote area, with a difficult to navigate half-mile driveway said. “And the first fire truck was maybe 10 minutes after that. Then they had to figure out how to get the trucks in.”

Although firefighters were not able to save the barn, Yeates still marvels at what they were able to save and at the speed and efficiency of their work.

“My mom’s trailer and three trucks were parked up against the barn and we got those out,” she said. “And they were able to get here in time to prevent all of the trees from going up. There were so many firefighters here and they did such a good job.”

Unfortunately, the loss of her barn, strikes a huge blow to Great Oak Farms, which is the only income for Yeates and her elderly mother now that the pandemic has – for the time being – eliminated Yeates’ second job as the Technical Director for the Oregon Children’s Theatre.

“I pretty much lost my entire business,” she said.

But, while the loss has been tragic, the outpouring of support from the theater community and the Silverton community as well, has been nothing short of amazing.

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support,” Yeates confirmed. “Not just this community, but across the country.”

Because along with the many volunteers – a mixture of currently unemployed thespians and farmers whom Yeates has known most of her life – that have banded together to clean up the mess, there have also been over 100 friends and loved ones who have donated money to help her rebuild.

Yeates is already planning for the weeks ahead, which she still plans to spend at the Silverton Farmer’s Market where she sells a variety of free-range meats, eggs and goat cheese.

“I’m going to have to start over,” she said sadly, noting that, although she will still be able to make cheese and will have some eggs, her stock will be greatly reduced.

Freezers, customers and community support for a new barn – those are the three things Yeates said she needs most right now.

“I would really love it if the community would support me and my mom,” she said hopefully. “It’s really appreciated.”

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Wade C. Wiegand

Nov. 13, 1955 – May 20, 2020

Wade Cecil Wiegand of Silverton, Oregon, passed away May 20, 2020, due to complications after heart surgery.

He was 64.

He was born Nov. 13, 1955, in Gladstone, Oregon, to Robert and Sylvia (Lucht) Wiegand. He had two older brothers and a younger sister who all grew up in Canby, Oregon.

Wade graduated from Canby High School in 1974.

He went on to Oregon State University where he was a proud member of the Sigma Nu fraternity and a dedicated Beavers fan who held season football tickets through the years and loved taking family and friends to games.

In 1981 Wade married Brenna Conway of Canby. They had three children, living in Canby and then Silverton. Wade died a few days after their 39th wedding anniversary.

Wade spent his career in sales and marketing but of all his accomplishments, “Pip” took greatest pride in being a loving husband, father and then grandfather.

The family knew many happy times canoeing, camping and just spending time together in the backyard. He would do anything for his family and is greatly missed.

Not many men coached as many kids’ sports teams as Wade. He loved it and later became a high school soccer referee.

His heart went out to young people and he taught junior high Sunday School for many years at Emmanuel Bible Church

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Wade was preceded in death by his father Robert Wiegand in 1986 and son Geoffrey in 2008.

He is survived by his wife Brenna, son Nathan and daughter-in-law Haley of Silverton and their children Ethan, June and Otto; daughter Valerie Brown and son-in-law Justin of Silverton and their son Finnley; mother Sylvia Wiegand of Canby, Oregon, brothers Lee and Duane Wiegand and sister Tammy Grimes, who all live nearby.

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Silverton JBO program donates season’s funds to SACA

Players in the Silverton JBO program already had begun practicing when the coronavirus hit. Then began the waiting and brainstorming period in which program officials tried to figure out ways to run the program this season.

At one point officials hoped to run a shorter season than normal for the 190 or so players and end a little later than their usual mid-July conclusion.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago, board members decided to cancel the season.

“We want to keep everybody healthy and it seemed like the right decision,” said Blinn Carstensen, the board president.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Families already had paid to participate and further board brainstorming produced an idea to refund the money in an unusual way.

Parents were given the option of receiving the refunds or donating them to Silverton Area Community Aid. Enough families said yes to the idea that Silverton JBO

ask for help. We’re trying to make people feel welcome and loved in our community and make sure we have what they need.

“We’re very grateful for this really kind and thoughtful gift.”

was able to present a check for $1,227 to SACA on June 5.

“We’re committed to the community and everything that SACA does we believe in” Carstensen told Our Town. “Great teams pick up their teammates. SACA does that and it’s our core value.”

Sarah DeSantis, executive director of SACA, agreed with the team first concept.

“Baseball teams sometimes go through tough times,” she said, “and a team lifts each other up. And that’s what SACA is here for. People in all walks of life go through hard times.

“We’re serving more new families than ever, and it can be scary for some people to

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Also on hand for the ceremony were Silverton JBO board members Mitch Brady and Linda Riedman, as well as three players, James Brady, Jesse Keys and Noah Austin.

The cancellation was bittersweet for all three players because they are eighthgraders. Silverton JBO serves players in K-8 and this summer was their last one in the program.

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College signing: Riley Traeger, a threesport star at Silverton, has announced plans to attend University of Oregon where she aims to compete in track and field. Traeger, who also was a standout in volleyball and basketball, won the 2019 OSAA Class 5A state championship in the javelin. She followed that up with a victory in July in the USATF National Junior Olympics championships.

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DeSantis also said she appreciated that the donation came in cash because the virus situation prevents the group from accepting food donations right now. Cash also is valuable to the organization because it also offers rent and utility bill assistance to members of the Silverton community.

state playoffs two out of the four seasons was more than what I expected and it was exciting. During my first year of Junior American, we only lost one game and were the first team from Silverton to make it to the state playoffs in many years. My time in Silverton JBO and the coaches that have pushed me to my limits will always be a part of my fondest memories.

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