Our Town North: July 15, 2020

Civics 101

Business

Meet Kevin Cronin, Mount Angel’s new city manager – Page 8

New juice shop blends into Silverton community – Page 6

Vol. 17 No. 14

COMMUNITY NEWS

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Thank you, Silverton!

COVER Something Fun

Camps: A summer tradition...........4

Silverton Pool reopens..............6 Update

ASAP launches new campaign........6 Business

Raw Blend Juicery is a smash.........6

Silver Creek Fellowship helps businesses................................7 Civics 101

Mount Angel welcomes new city manager..............................8 The Forum.........................10

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Sports & Recreation

Something to Talk About

Traeger aims high at U of O..........12

Peace Dove still aloft..................11

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

Marketplace....................11

People Out Loud.............14

On the Cover Summer camps abound. COURTESY CRYSTAL CRAM & GABRIELLE SMITH Above Silverton People for Peace and their dove. GUS FREDERICK

Thank you for flocking to our fireworks booth in such a big way this year.

For the first time ever, you bought every last pop, sizzle and flash in the tent, despite two trips to the warehouse to restock. We are both astonished and enormously grateful.

A heart-felt thank you, too, to our long-term fireworks partners, the Silverton Lions Club, for making it happen again.

Loud and enthusiastic kudos go to Betty Conner for tirelessly organizing the legion of Senior Center volunteers for this project, including Donna Bates, Darlene Blackstone, Vicki and Bill Breitzmann, Dodie Brockamp, Kevin Cobb, Donna Dugan, Steven Dunbar, Tracy Duerst, Kathy Conner, Ron Eubanks, Dian and David Forster, Bob Foster, Dennis Hadley, Rose Hope, Irveta Johnson, Jane Jones, Dave Kenagy, Maggie Landau, Betty Layne, Jerry LeMon, Diane Litherland, Margaret McGregor, Dave Marinos, Keely Maurine, Beth Negrey, Eli Orias, Ike Orias, Madeline Osborne, Tootie Riggs, Sue Rivoli, Dixie Springer, Dawn Fitzpatrick, Jim Shuler, Patty Libner, Paul Scoville, Karen Witherspoon, and Alex. Thank you all.

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July 2020 • 3

Something Fun

Summer camp

Kids invited to explore new experiences with safety in mind

By Melissa Wagoner Crystal Cram has been a hard-core summer camp enthusiast since 2004, when she attended her first overnight YMCA camp.

“I went to our sister camp, Camp Greider in Salem,” Cram, who was appointed Director of the Silverton Y Camp and Camp Silver Creek last year, recalled. “Camp is my whole life.”

Normally immersed in the coordination of overnight camps throughout the entire summer, Cram was dismayed by the cancellation of this year’s overnight programs. But she has not let her disappointment get her down. Instead she is funneling her energy into a new area – day camp.

With the first four weeks’ recipes and video tutorials offered as a free trial to those who sign up, Smith is hoping to eventually build the summer camp into a year-around, subscription-based service.

“A lot of people are looking for alternative schooling,” she said, noting that cooking is the perfect combination of science, nutrition and life skills.

“You can’t expect kids to be good eaters if you don’t have them cook good things,” she noted. “It’s a foundation.”

Another type of foundational learning is music, which is known to aid in the brain health of both children and adults.

“It helps create brain synapses,” Corey Christensen, owner of SoundStream, explained. He is offering various types of music and theater camps this summer. “It’s one of the best activities you can do to keep your brain active.”

Cram began with the camps’ weekly themes, which range from the Crystal Cram (background) on an excursion with youths Olympics and Galaxy Quest to Jr. for a YMCA camp. SUBMITTED PHOTO Music can also be a helpful way of Park Rangers and one termed simply, handling stress, even for children.

“Messy Camp.” The one Cram is really excited about is Mission “Music brings people together,” Christensen offered, “especially Impossible. in seriously hard times. Also, if you don’t want to think about “I’m really big on scavenger hunts,” she explained. “During the your troubling times, music is kind of an escape – it’s sort of a week they’ll be in training to be either ninjas or spies, building up normal activity.” to the end of the week, incorporating some of the businesses and With camps ranging from beginning guitar to the physics of sound using clues.” and a theater camp where campers will write their own murder Activities such as these are a great way to encourage teamwork mystery, SoundStream is offering a little bit of everything from a and build friendships, according to Cram who added, “One of whole panel of expert instructors. my favorite things about camp is it brings people of all different “I don’t want to be super elite,” Christensen said, adding that with backgrounds together. It’s a great way for people to be all inclusive two children of his own he understands the importance of keeping together. Everyone gets to be accepted and it’s not uncool to let go his fees affordable. “I try to keep everything super cheap.” and be silly.”

And this year, maybe more than any other, that kind of socialemotional skill building is really needed.

And while the affordability of camps is important, safety – for all four of these camps – is absolutely paramount.

“Kids in particular nowadays need something happy,” Ruth Mattox, owner of Silver Creek Clogging pointed out. Her studio is holding clinic-type camps throughout the summer. “We need things right now that get us out of the mindset that everything’s canceled and get us out of the heaviness of life.”

“For the YMCA, our main concern is the safety of the kids and campers,” Cram assured. “All of our Y staff has to go through COVID training before they work with kids.”

That something, Mattox said, could be clogging.

“It’s joyful, it has lively music and it’s cardiovascular,” she enthused.

“That’s actually our mission – to spread happiness far and wide.”

In order to do that, Mattox has created two beginner clogging programs, a one-hour trial and a four-day beginners camp.

“It’s a really good time, if you want to see what clogging is about,” she urged. “It just wakes you up inside. It’s a very joyful activity.”

Also offering an introductory course is Spiced and Diced Kids’ Cooking Camp. Normally taught as an in-person summer camp for children aged five and up, this year the lessons will be virtual.

“Although I love teaching in-person classes,” owner Gabrielle Smith admitted. “I’m just kind of taking this pandemic as a sign.”

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Mattox, too, has altered her classes to provide additional safety for her students.

“Right now, we are limiting the class sizes so we can allow for social distancing,” she explained. “And we have a lot of safeguards in place so [patrons] are really comfortable.”

In this time of uncertainty, finding a place for children that is safe but also allows them to explore the world beyond the walls of their homes, is especially important. For Cram, that describes the camp experience exactly.

“Camp allows them to experience new things that they otherwise might not get to do,” she stated. “It provides them with core values of responsibility, respect and care for the environment. It’s a way for them to be themselves and find their character out in the world. And that’s important, especially right now, with everything in the world.”

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Pool reopens

By Melissa Wagoner The Silverton Pool is finally ready to open after a three-month long closure during which both a leak and the boiler were repaired. But even now, with the mechanics in working order, things are going to look different this summer.

“We’re going to be reservation only,” Administrative Manager Kait Barnes said.

“And everyone will be screened at the front door. The lobby is only one-way traffic and the locker rooms are closed. Our seating is also not available, so we’re going to ask that you bring your own.”

Although that list may seem daunting, it is absolutely necessary in order to ensure the safety of their patrons, according to Barnes.

“We will have protocols on our website if people want to look at them.”

New protective programs, protocols put into place fun,” Megan Colgan, the Swim Clinic and Lessons Coordinator, laughed. With so many kids in the pool coaches struggled to meet the needs of individual swimmers.

Pool programs Swim Clinics: weekdays 1 to 4 p.m. for qualifying swimmers, $25 for members and $30 for non-members

“We don’t get time to work on technique,” she confessed. But this summer, with only one swimmer per lane (unless they are in the same family) Colgan hopes to bring the focus back to skills.

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“I think it’ll help the kids improve,” she said.

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Swim lessons will be in smaller groups – only three per class – which should enable teachers to cover more. But those have yet to be approved for registration.

Protocols: https://theyonline.org/ locations/silver-falls-family-ymca Barnes said. “And we will be offering Aquasize with very limited spots and a senior hour.”

As for the programs – there will be changes there as well, including the cancellation of the popular summer open-swim.

Some of the changes are positive. A few, like those affecting the summer swim team program – now a weekly swim clinic – may be beneficial to those taking part.

“We are going to do family reservations,”

“Summer swim team was kind of just about

Be Safe. Be Kind.

“We’re waiting for the OK on that one,” Colgan said. “Hopefully after the first week.”

In the meantime, Barnes suggested parents prepare by registering their prospective students for a free swim level evaluation – as the levels, too, have seen an overhaul.

“We had to update them anyway so we

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Although the staff is excited to reopen, having worked for the past three months getting protocols in place and training lifeguards on COVID-related safety procedures, there is some nervousness about what opening will bring.

“A lot of pools in Oregon have only been seeing 20 to 30 percent of the usual patrons,” Barnes noted. “But we’ve had a lot of people, even from other pools, calling.”

For now, the chief message the staff would like to relay to the public is that they are doing everything in their power to make the pool a fun and safe place to return to.

The phone lines are open for questions or reservations at 503-873-6456.

“All of our staff, including us, have been trained in COVID, so we are very prepared,” head lifeguard Ed Grambusch said. “The lifeguards will be wearing masks, but we will still do what we need to do to save lives.”

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Update

Business

ASAP seeks Gold Star sponsors for program year ASAP (After School Activities Program) in Silverton is having to change the way it raises funds to operate in the upcoming school year because of the COVID-19 virus.

Last year ASAP fundraising included an evening of entertainment and dinner at Gallon House Farms, building and raffling off a child’s playhouse, and celebrating Community ASAP Day by choosing winners of 15 fantastic raffle baskets. These were all successful events because of the support of the Silverton business community, the organiation’s “gold star sponsors,” organizers say.

This year that same business community has been hit hard by the virus, and ASAP felt it important to respect the local businesses and rethink their fundraising efforts.

Therefore, ASAP will kick-off a Fundrazr campaign, “BE A STAR- HELP OUR KIDS SHINE” starting on July 15 and running until the beginning of the school year.

ASAP is hopeful that community members will visit the Fundrazr site (https://fundrazr.com/HelpASAP-Silverton), read the story that explains ASAP, and choose to donate, thus becoming new “gold star donors.”

ASAP is also encouraging the community to share the Fundrazr site with friends so they can also learn about the good things ASAP is doing for Silverton youth.

Donations can also be made through the ASAP webpage: www.asapsilvertonor.org or checks can be mailed to ASAP, 303 N. Church, Silverton, OR 97381.

Raw Blend

New juice and smoothie bar opens

By Melissa Wagoner

“I want my product to always be the best quality product,” she said of those early days when she struggled, both to train new employees as well as to keep up with demand.

Alejandra Escobedo originally planned the grand opening of her new business, Raw Blend Juicery, for March 1 – then came COVID-19.

Luckily, her staff has been a real help.

“My original plan was to open the first week of February,” she recalled. “But we had to do some remodeling and we needed to pass an inspection.”

“They’re great,” she said. “They’re learning so fast. They’re all really nice kids.”

Already an entire month behind schedule, when March arrived and the economy shut down, Escobedo became concerned.

“We were a little bit desperate,” she admitted, “because we were paying rent.”

Alejandra Escobedo, owner of Raw Blend

Now, with two staff members working in the kitchen and another solely dedicated to taking orders, Escobedo finally feels like the shop is on stable ground, churning out juices, smoothies and the smoothie bowls – for which they have earned a following.

That’s why – with the stress of costly Juicery in Silverton. MELISSA WAGONER remodel work on top of months of “Fruits and vegetables and seeds—you can do so many rental payments – when Raw Blend Juicery was finally things with them, it doesn’t stop,” Escobedo said. She ready to open its doors on May 29 at 201 Oak St., almost has always loved to cook. “Just yesterday I came up with a four months after Escobedo had planned, any fanfare had honeydew and lavender one and I think that’s going to be all but disappeared. very popular.”

“I thought – I’m just going to do a soft opening,” Escobedo said. “I had one person helping me from 2 to 7 p.m.”

The instant success she has experienced at Raw Blend Juicery has taken her completely by surprise and is why Which is why, with very few expectations for that fiveshe is so thankful to the Silverton community for its hour opening day, Escobedo was so surprised when, from support. the moment she unlocked the doors, Raw Blend Juicery was a success.

“We are very grateful for all the love and response,” “We did really good business,” she said of the initial community response. “Everybody just kept sharing it on social media.”

And things just kept ramping up.

“For the first week and a half I was working 14-hour days,” Escobedo reported. “I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.”

With minimal staffing and a four-year-old son to care for, Escobedo felt stretched, both as a business owner and as a mother.

Escobedo said. “In fact, the community has been giving so much that I feel like I can give a little bit back.”

And so, for several Sundays running, Raw Blend Juicery has gifted free smoothies – first to the dads in the community on Father’s Day and then to Silverton’s medical staff.

“I’m so in love with Silverton,” Escobedo said, “because of the culture of being so nice to each other. You walk around and everybody says hi. And the response from the community for the shop has been amazing.”

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Good Samaritans

By Melissa Wagoner It turns out, the best way to get a church congregation really fired up is to let them help their neighbors – at least according to Pastor Rob Barnes, who recently witnessed a monumental surge in energy around a new addition to the Silver Creek Fellowship’s Care Ministries.

“I don’t think we’ve ever done anything that energized people quite the same,” he said of this newest venture, coined The Small Business Fund. “It made people in the church feel like people who can really help.”

Because, while Silver Creek Fellowship has found many ways, since its inception in 1988, they have never provided gifts in quite this same way.

“We could see the need all over the place,” Rob’s daughter, Kirsten – who, along with her brother, Kurt, grew up attending services at SCF – said. “They were saying a lot of businesses are going to close because of this and we didn’t want it to be our businesses.”

With that in mind, Kurt, who headed the project, along with a committee of five other parishioners, Kirsten included, reached out to the congregation, asking for any and all donations.

“We told our members and people attending online services that we were kicking this off,” Kirsten said. “Some people got government stimulus checks and gave part of it because they had their jobs...

People were really generous and we were able to give out blessings.”

Those blessings, have amounted to over $50,000, and have been distributed to 30 of Silverton’s struggling small businesses.

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“It was a total surprise,” Wendy McQueen, owner of Silverton Inn and Suites and The Gilded Turnip, said of the funds she received. “And what a sweet gift.”

McQueen, who was forced to close both the restaurant and the inn when the pandemic took hold, will be utilizing the funds to replace a defunct dishwasher.

“It has been on top of our wish list,” she said. “I was so impressed, honestly, they show the heart of Silverton.”

But it’s not just the recipients who have benefited from the program, according to Kirsten who said, “People here feel like they’re able to help people. And we did it together. A little bit of money from one person can really help.”

Another SCF Cares recipient, who prefers to remain anonymous, agreed, saying, “Compared to the process of some other resources, I was blown away how receptive and willing to help they were.”

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Civics 101

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By Melissa Wagoner On June 16 the Mt. Angel City Council appointed Kevin Cronin as the new City Manager, replacing Gene Green who has been serving as Interim Manager since October 2019.

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“The recruitment was very challenging due to COVID-19,” City Councilor Pete Wall said. “This resulted in all of the major aspects of the recruitment being conducted by teleconference or video conference.”

But even with all of the challenges remote hiring presented, Wall said he is excited about the unique attributes Cronin will contribute to the position.

Attributes such as a real appreciation of life in a small town.

Kevin Cronin.

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“My career has been built on small towns and rural areas,” Cronin, who most recently served as assistant city manager in the City of Warrenton, explained. “I enjoy the aspects of small towns better than big cities.”

1, he is already well-versed in many of the City Council’s visions for the future of Mount Angel, and is contemplating ways they can best be realized.

While Cronin’s first official day was July

“There seems to be interest in this council

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Mount Angel welcomes new city manager to move forward on some big ideas,” he said. Noting that, although the current pandemic is first and foremost on the docket, there are other items under discussion including, the current City Hall and possible new economic developments.

strategic plan in August.”

“I think there’s just so many opportunities for Mount Angel to move forward; revitalizing their downtown, encouraging more tourism, and there’s always the challenge of building up staff and retaining staff,” he said.

“I’ve already met so many people,” Cronin enthused. “And I’m totally in awe of so many. I absolutely love the volunteerism.

I’m just really excited to be a part of the community. And I would love for folks to get to know me because hopefully you’ll be seeing a lot of me.”

That plan, about which Cronin is especially excited, will hopefully work to align common goals amongst the city’s many factions.

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Pastors unite on message In response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, in response to the on-going violence suffered by Black, Indigenous and People of Color in our nation and community, and in response to the present day reality of racism both systemic and individual, the pastors of the following churches: Oak Street, St. Edward’s Episcopal, Silverton First Baptist, Trinity Lutheran, Silverton United Methodist, Silverton First Christian, East Valley Vineyard and Immanuel Lutheran, feel led to make the following statements to our community. While we would each express our faith differently, we are united in our commitment to pursue these values in our churches and community.

We love and honor Black lives.

We emphasize the need for justice for our Black sisters and brothers. Following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, we seek justice for every member of our community, for every stranger, and we will especially pursue justice for people who have been denied it through ingrained cultural oppression and exploitation. God’s desire for our wellbeing is brought to life through justice.

The good news that we preach is for the presence and practice of justice, in the words of Harvard professor and political activist Dr. Cornel West, “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”

We commit to listen as a community to the grief, pain, and anger of the

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Black community. We know that our marginalized neighbors’ voices have been suppressed for too long, and we will listen and be prepared for the pain of hearing new, unfamiliar, or opposing truths.

We will have and encourage safe, sincere conversations as the mark of a healthy community. When Christ instructed his disciples to love their neighbors as themselves, he surely meant that they, and we, should listen with empathy, communicate with honesty, and love one another no matter our differences. True conversation also implies a willingness to change and grow together. 1 John teaches us that the perfect love of God leaves no room for fear and so we will not allow fear to keep us from having difficult

Black Lives Matter; listening, loving matter conversations regarding race or any other serious topic now and in the future.

We will acknowledge our own privilege and work to dismantle the systems that we have benefitted from unjustly. We will work to bring Jesus’ promise of the Kingdom of Heaven among us by seeing the instances where we have knowingly or unknowingly been purveyors of injustice. We understand the imperative for change. To stagnate is to die but we know that living things grow and, by the grace of God, improve. Just as individuals ought to experience growth in character and maturity, so too should our community. We will strive to make justice, relationship, and love the norms of our churches and Silverton at large.

Faith and the Gospel

Dear Editor:

I am a Catholic who goes to church regularly in my home town. My faith plays a very important part in my life.

It makes me very angry when I see our President distorting the Gospel for his hateful agenda. My faith leads me to oppose Donald Trump’s racial rhetoric, his attacks on LGBTQ rights, women, Muslims, and creation.

The Gospel is all about love. I believe in the teaching of Jesus Christ. Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. I would recommend reading the Gospel of Matthew 5,6,

and 7. Matthew 15:7-9 “Hypocrites!

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We acknowledge that the church as a whole has too often been slow to speak out in favor of justice for the oppressed when it necessitates uncomfortable change. We will use our voices to call for justice and loving relationship in and around Silverton. To do otherwise would be a betrayal both of the gospel of Jesus and our beloved community. We stand with the example of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection in committing to these values.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

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By Melissa Wagoner This year the Peace Dove was grounded

by COVID-19. Normally, flown through the annual Homer Davenport Community Parade by a handful of volunteers from Silverton People for Peace (SPFP) to the accompaniment of “One World One Love” and “Give Peace a Chance,” this year the dove will instead be showcased at the group’s monthly peace vigil on July 27, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on the bridge beside Silverton’s Town Square Park.

“Obviously, with the cancellation of the parade, people won’t get a chance to walk under The Dove this year,” SPFP member Rose Hope commented. “But, at such a time of turmoil and uncertainty in our country, they can at least still stand under the dove and by doing so, stand for peace, tolerance and understanding.”

The group, which was founded in October of 2002 to protest the invasion of Iraq, has met each Monday for the past 18 years. And as the world and its issues have changed, so too have the group’s causes.

“In addition to advocating for peace, signs highlight current ‘hot’ issues and promote various aspects of social justice,” fellow group member Robert Sisk wrote in a recent press release. “Those include racial diversity and harmony, immigrant justice and economic justice... SPFP’s work is never done. It also emphasizes that without social justice, there can be no peace.”

Which is why this year – almost more than any other – the symbolism of the peace dove has the greatest significance.

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people often search for a safe way to voice concerns and call for change,” Hope said. “Or, they are just relieved there is a continual ‘presence for peace and justice’ in the community either to be their voice or create awareness. SPFP fills these needs.”

And so, while the dove will not fly its customary route, it will still stand as a symbol of those things for which SPFP stands – peace and societal stability, responsible environmental stewardship and comprehensive health care as a human right – and all who are inspired to join the vigil are welcome to stand under its wings.

“In the last several years, as social problems, such as race inequities and income inequality have become more apparent, people are becoming more outwardly supportive of social justice,” Sisk pointed out. “They are seeing a need for common sense and humane solutions to other social justice issues at the forefront, be that racism, immigration, climate change or income inequality; solutions that unite us rather than divide us.”

Although the dove – merely a construction of sheets and poles – is not a solution to any of the problems Silverton’s citizens currently face, it lends a message of peace to the demonstrations over which it presides.

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Foxes athlete finishes glittering career

Some decisions just wind up easy. For Riley Traeger, the a-ha moment came when she stood on the turf at Hayward Field and looked up at the massive remodeling that will ready the historic facility to host the world championships of track and field.

Traeger, a champion javelin thrower at Silverton High, also was considering Arizona and Oregon State. But she wound up canceling the trip to Corvallis.

“After my visit to [University of] Oregon I was sold,” she told Our Town. “I’m so stoked about Oregon. It’s such a great opportunity. The facilities are amazing.

My teammates are great. I was on my tour of Hayward Field and I was saying ‘this is crazy. We’re going to train here and compete here?’ ” Compete is a word you hear often when you ask people about Riley Traeger, a three-sport athlete and an excellent student.

Principal Wade Lockett: “I’ve never seen her without a smile – except when she is competing. On the court she is all business. It’s fun to watch. I think the world of her. She has a great work ethic and a great work ethic on the court translates to work in the classroom and in life. That’s her. She knows what success looks like and how to get ready.”

Volleyball coach Kate Trimble recalls Traeger’s ability to work with her teammates.

“She was always inclusive of the younger athletes on varsity,” Trimble said, “striking up conversations, leading

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swings for Traeger. The girls hoops team rolled into Corvallis for the Class 5A tournament ranked No. 1 and crushed Ridgeview of Redmond 73-26 in the quarterfinals. But in the day off between the opener and a semifinal date with Crater of Central Point the coronavirus shut down the tournament.

program dance parties and she was our bus DJ!” Traeger switched from a middle role to an outside role for her senior year and wound up with the most hitting attempts in the MidWillamette Conference.

Girls basketball coach Tal Wold taught Riley in sixth grade and recalled the challenge of getting her to come out for basketball in high school.

She was talking about playing club volleyball or maybe trying swimming, he said. And she was Riley Traeger. resisting hoops “because you guys just shoot 3-pointers and I can’t shoot.”

Traeger wound up leading the Foxes to the state tournament three consecutive years and, Wold noted, she led the team in 3-pointer attempts and 3-point percentage the past two seasons.

“She is ultra-competitive. I love and admire that in her,” Wold said. “And it was fun to work with her in terms of channeling that competitiveness in a positive way.”

Senior year produced serious emotional

“It broke my heart,” she said. “the year before we were 0-2 and here we were ranked No. 1 and already guaranteed a trophy by making the semifinals.

“We were hugging and crying. We didn’t even know that it was going to be our last game. That was a tough day.”

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Things remained tough through the spring with no on-campus classes and the cancellation of the prom and other senior year activities, including her final track and field season.

“That’s the best three months of your K-12 life,”Traeger said.

“At least we got our graduation.” Like everybody else Traeger doesn’t know what fall will look like at the University of Oregon.

“I’m hoping for the best,” she said. “At least my sport happens in the spring.

Hopefully things will be better by then.”

FFA: Silverton finished second June 25 in a statewide parliamentary procedure and debate competition. The event originally was scheduled to run during the March state convention, but the virus put an end to those plans. Ultimately, participating schools did so via Zoom.

Participating for Silverton were Rayna Voltin, Gracie Lebhan, Jerome Kuenzi, Marissa Johnston, Johanna Otter and Petrina Buchheit.

Sutherlin won the competition, with Molalla taking third behind the Foxes and Ontario fourth.

Scott Towery, the Foxes’ FFA adviser, said teams had to make a series of adjustments during the past three months to adapt to the new format that the virtual session required. Silverton

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THE TRAEGER FILE Who: Riley Traeger Age: 18 High School: Silverton Residence: Mount Angel Next step: University of Oregon, where she plans to throw the javelin and study business or law.

Favorite ice cream flavor: espresso/ coffee.

Movie she has seen the most times: Frozen. practiced three times a week during the run-up to the competition.

“I’m very proud of all these schools and students with the ability to adapt to change and have such a positive attitude,” Towery told Our Town. “Our students represented our chapter very well in all aspects of this situation.”

Girls hoops camp: The Silverton girls basketball program is hosting a summer camp for girls entering fifth through eighth grades.

The camp, led by Foxes coach Tal Wold, runs from 9 to 11 a.m. July 28-30 and costs $40. Participants receive a free shirt and Lady Foxes basketball.

Players will be split into multiple groups, Wold said, to follow social distancing rules. No games will be played. Wold said that the camp will mainly focus on skills such as ball-handling and shooting.

For more information email wold at wold_tal@silverfalls.k12.or.us.

Obituary: Was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dan Miller, a longtime teacher in the Silver Falls district as well as a softball, basketball and tennis coach.

He taught 20 years in town, starting at the high school and winding up at Robert Frost. Twenty years in the schools plus coaching. Seems to me he had a positive influence on a lot of young people in our town.

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Kathleen Rose (Swartout) Matovich

Sherry Lynn Carlson

On the evening of June 7, 2020, Kathleen Rose Matovich slipped away peacefully in her assisted living home in Woodburn, Oregon at the age of 96 from congestive heart failure. She had been surrounded by family for her last seven days.

Sherry Carlson – mother, wife, grandma, and spaghetti soup connoisseur. Her laugh was infectious and her love was fierce. Sherry died May 30, 2020 in her Silverton home, snuggled on the couch with her canine companions Brandi, Baxter, and Bohdi.

July 2, 1923 – June 7, 2020

She was born July 2, 1923 in Marquam, Oregon to Charles and Pauline (Panter) Swartout who migrated to Mount Angel, Oregon by rail in 1910 from Mankato, Minnesota. Charles purchased property in Marquam in 1911 and moved his family out to the farm, which is still home to the Swartout family.

Katy grew up on the family’s Century Farm. She attended grade school in Marquam, and her first two years of high school in Silverton. When family was informed the school bus would not pick up students in that area, she transferred to Molalla High School where she graduated in 1941.

Shortly after graduation she went to live with a friend in Portland and began her studies at Behnke-Walker Business College. She attended school for a few months, learning accounting practices.

When Fred Meyer came looking for someone to work in their store on Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland, Katy was hired. She started out by delivering mail.

They liked her work habits so they sent her back to school to learn more about accounting and she started working in the Accounts Payable Department. After finishing her shift in the office she worked in the evening in the Candy and Tobacco Department as a cashier.

In 1941 when Katy was a senior in high school, her friend Bernice Matovich, introduced her to her brother, Peter Joseph Matovich, from Molalla. On Sept. 3, 1947 she and Peter married.

Aug. 28, 1968 – May 30, 2020

enchanting hilly wooded area, Wikiup Greens Golf Community. In her beautifully fenced and gated patio and garden area she grew roses, geraniums, begonias and anything else that would endure the California heat and that had a blossom on it.

She quickly made many new friends in the area, was treasurer for her Homeowners Association, organized many a pool party at their neighborhood pool, worked long hours at her job as an accountant and she played hard.

She was a member of the Marquam Methodist Church and the Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Oddfellows for over 70 years.

After several years she retired from Masonite and continued working for James Laier. She retired in 1998 after more than 50 years of working for him.

She loved cooking and had an eye for the best food and a knack for using an array of spices, fresh abalone being her favorite.

She traveled every state in the U.S. except two, plus Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, Italy and France.

Kathleen was the last of her generation and the baby girl of the family of 11 children.

Her brothers and sisters preceded her in death: Thelma Fread, Marcella McEwen, Elsie Wolfe, Medora Wright, Howard Swartout, Eunice McEwen, Hazel Wolfer, Jeanette Swartout, Charles Swartout, and Clifford Swartout. Her sister-in-law Betty Swartout survives her, as well as numerous nieces and nephews, their spouses and significant others.

In her final years of her life her two nieces, Sandi Bean of Silverton and Judi Aus of Canby unselfishly attended to Katy’s care.

Katy then went to work for CPA, Gib Wells, in Public Accounting in Molalla; she heard of an opening at Molalla Forest Products and applied for a job with them.

They told her “if you can balance our checking account, we’ll hire you.”

She wanted to come home to Oregon for her final days so they moved her March 2, 2020 to an assisted living facility in Woodburn and shortly thereafter, the facility was in lock-down due to COVID19 pandemic.

In 1954 Pete and Kathleen moved to Cloverdale, California. Katy worked for Molalla Forest Products (who was later bought out by Masonite), Cloverdale Timber Co. and Cloverdale Redwood as an accountant.

A private family burial will be held at Maplewood Pioneer Cemetery in Scotts Mills, Oregon near her parents, siblings, and numerous nieces and nephews.

In 1966, Peter and Kathleen divorced.

She moved to the north side of Santa Rosa, California into a townhouse in an

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Born in San Jose, California, in 1968, this forever-flower-child was a spiritual Christian, an avid deal-hunter, and a reliable giggle-fit instigator.

She was married to her grocery-store sweetheart Richard Carlson for 27 years and is survived by him; her son, Dylan Carlson; and three daughters, Lacey Carlson, Felisha Smith-Carlson, and Stephanie Ristow. She loved her kids fiercely; and adored her four grandkids, who she could spoil without consequence.

Sherry battled Cushings Disease for 21 years and was adamant that knowledge of the ailment be shared, so more people could be appropriately diagnosed and treated.

In her early career Sherry was a Certified Medical Assistant and helped found Silverton Hospital’s S.T.E.P.S. program. Later in life she became a master crafter and entrepreneur. But her lifelong talent was in quickly making deep connections with anyone she came in contact with. Even in her darkest moments, she did what she could to make sure her friends and family felt loved, supported, and heard.

A celebration of life will be held for Sherry in the late-summer, when the Stay Home Order has lifted.

Submissions welcomed: Our Town appreciates the opportunity to share life’s Passages with our readers: ourtown.life@mtangelpub.com or mail to Editor, Our Town, P.O. Box 927, Mount Angel, OR 97362.

In Memory Of …

Harold Wellman Orval Endicott James Squires

Nov. 7, 1924 — June 21, 2020

Dec. 10, 1935 — June 23, 2020 March 20, 1953 — June 23, 2020

William Verboort

Dec. 30, 1943 — June 24, 2020

Ed Bashaw

Oct. 19, 1938 — June 25, 2020

Christopher Beard

Feb. 13, 1943 — June 26, 2020

Patrick Fisher Theresa Wilton

March 17, 2020 — June 27, 2020 July 28, 1926 — July 2, 2020

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They will be missed Bob Kuenzi passed away recently, and, like every passing of people with whom I have become acquainted, it both saddened me and called up a lot of memories. All good. He is one of the good ones. A kind, gentle, and loving family man who, as patriarch, helped guide and serve as a role model to several generations of one of the area’s most respected families.

He was smart, funny, candid, and did not pull a punch. He and his wonderful wife Linda celebrated decades of marriage, serving as perfect role models to kids, grandkids, and great grandkids alike. I was privileged to meet Bob on several occasions over the years, and each opportunity was memorable. It was fun and rewarding talking with him about the area, history, the families, his faith, farming (I learned a lot), and business.

Bob had some truly kind and inspirational words for me when I was going through a tough time. He had a keen business mind and the respect of pretty much everyone who was lucky enough to meet and know him. To Linda and the wonderful Kuenzi

Three outstanding men remembered he worked tirelessly as a volunteer for years, were deep and wide.

family, you were blessed with this true gentleman for so long. Keep the good memories alive. They are good ones.

We also lost Vince Till, a truly iconic Silverton figure if ever there was one.

A sign that you have “arrived” in town and in life is when you get your face on a mural. Vince was pleased when Larry Kassell painted a beautiful mural complete with a great picture of Vince in his famous overalls, his beloved collie, and the America flag.

The retired United States Air Force Senior Master Sergeant was a patriot from the word go. All things veteran, he was their leading fan. His benevolent and civic contributions to this town, for which

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You could see him tending to the Main Street bridge or serving as a mural tour guide. He always had a kind word to say, was a fixture with his wife, “Babs” and various family members at The Home Place for dinners and was easily recognizable in his overalls and perfect straw hat. Without Vince, we may not have had very many or even any murals in town. Silverton would have been a little less charming without Vince Till.

rare combination of personality traits.

He was smart as a whip, hilarious with a wit and come-backs that came out of nowhere. I got to know him well over the years, and he was just a kick to be around.

Unfailingly polite, he was a great listener in a world where politicians talk, and talk, and talk.

He was a remarkable and memorable man. I got to know him very well over 50 years. The friendship created lifelong memories. He was the consummate American and veteran, a wonderful family man, and a good and decent soul. Rest easy, Vince, for a life of service, family, and love well-lived.

He took each advisement from people of every political persuasion under careful consideration in a world of uber partisanship. He looked for solutions where other politicians had just their own. He pitched his tent across the aisle regularly in case an opportunity for bi-partisan solutions surfaced. He did not want to miss it. His “base” knew that he had their backs, but his “other party” peers knew he would be reasonable and work with them on solutions that made sense for most Oregonians.

Likewise, former State Representative Vic Gilliam also left us after a courageous battle with ALS. This is a man who was both humble and a bit larger than life, a

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