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Silverton residents on frontlines in Portland protests – Page 6

Flags for Hope go aloft in Silverton – Page 4

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Flags of Hope

Silverton arts therapist embarks on a ‘Soul Project’

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Country Fair in Eugene. Culture Jam brings together teens with artisans, dancers, musicians and social activists.

Flags are in the news a lot these days, but here in Silverton, there is no controversy at all. Carole DeMar has taken on a project that is both big in scope, attractive in its draw, and huge in heart.

DeMar was a lead arts facilitator with Culture Jam for several years, which fits well because she has a Master’s in Youth Development from Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies – Art, Psychology, and Art Therapy at Marylhurst University.

Flags of Hope, the Silverton woman’s “Soul Project,” is made to “accentuate the positive,” as the old song goes, at least give us something to smile about and see that there is a light of good at the end of the 2020 tunnel.

Adding to her background in Expressive Arts Therapy, DeMar is currently enrolled in a nine-month project to become an “Intentional Creativity Teacher,” which requires her to complete a creative solo project. She came up with and started the Good Vibrations theme at her home in Silverton with her husband, Jeff Tinkham.

“Good Vibrations Station, as a theory, started during COVID-19 where we were all shut in,” DeMar said. “It was designed to thank workers who were at

The idea for flags is based on the Tibetan concept of prayer flags that encourage mindfulness.

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But on the busy street, I knew we could say thanks to postal workers, essential workers at the grocery stores, and other important people working so we could socially distance at home. Good Vibrations Station is a colorful display of flags, each with great art and/or a

message to these people as a way of saying thanks.”

Out of this arose the Flags of Hope Project, which emanated from a similar arts project she ran 10 years ago as part of her work with Culture Jam for Youth, a program sponsored by the Oregon

“They are a sweet and beautiful thing,” DeMar said. “Doing flags in small squares is binding, not dividing as we currently seem to be in Red or Blue camps right now, especially during the election year and the pandemic. They are uniting in hope. Each flag will have a piece of red yarn attached, symbolizing the many threads that weave our community together. As you create your flag, spend a moment thinking about ‘What is your piece in the community, how YOU can

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Phase 1 of “Flags of Hope” is getting the material for flags out to the public.

DeMar and her many friends/helpers have handed out hundreds of patches of flag material with instructions. The instructions are simple – do what you want, do what you feel. Use inspirational quotes and thoughts. Say nothing but send a message with and through art. The only requirement? Make them universal in nature and uplifting. The message is about positivity. No politics.

There are five downtown merchants who are acting as pickup/drop-off sites for the Flag Project, and when people come in for their flags, they will be encouraged to donate to benefit Silverton Area Community Aid. Phase 2 is a work party at the Pavilion in Coolidge McClaine Park. The planned date is Saturday, Aug. 29 and invitations are limited because of COVID-19 and restrictions for gathering in crowds. Information can be found on the Facebook Page: “Flags of Hope

Silverton.” It is estimated that only 50 people will be able to participate, by invitation, with all COVID protocols in place. The work party will string all the flags together and create a large banner to join the flags.

The final event, where it all comes together to successful fruition, will be held Friday, Sept. 4 during First Friday in Town Square Park. That evening, the community will be invited to take a stroll in the park to view the flags. DeMar and friends have some other surprises in store for the evening to round out the arts experience.

The flags will eventually fly in Town Square Park across all the lamp posts.

They will stay until the City – who DeMar says, “has been wonderful” – says take them down or when DeMar thinks it’s time. The Tibetan way is to have them slowly disintegrate. She adds, “When they leave, they will be commemorated by a marker of stone in the direct center of the park.”

DeMar has had lots of help, including her

husband, Jeff, also trained in Expressive Arts, who has helped in planning and has given immense support.

“Treda McCaw from Silverton has been a true rock star with printing instructions, a booth at Crafter’s Mall, and was the first to create a flag,” she added. “So many others, too!”

DeMar expects at least 300 flags will be strung together with beautiful art, beautiful and inspirational messages, and the positive energy of an entire community ready to find good in 2020.

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By Melissa Wagoner “You watch what’s going on for years and it leads to this underlying angst and agitation,”45-year-old Jay Shenai said in response to the question of why he chose to attend the Portland Black Lives Matter (BLM) Protest on Saturday, July 25.

“This one just felt like I needed to.”

Shenai, who admits to avoiding crowds as often as he can, doesn’t do a lot of protesting. Even attending the BLM protest in his hometown of Silverton brought on more than a little trepidation.

“When we had the gathering at the Eugene Fields site I honestly wondered if someone was going to give us that look – but they didn’t,” he said.

“That look,” Shenai, a person of color (POC) explained, is one of dismissal.

Dismissal for the “Black Lives Matter” sign he and his wife, Beth, raised at the protest.

But also, dismissal of a cause, which – to a predominantly white town located far from the scene of George Floyd’s murder – might seem unimportant. However, to Shenai’s surprise, that was decidedly not the case.

“This is a suburb, and people were screaming out the names of victims – here,” he said, “where it didn’t happen.

That gives me hope. And to see people break through that polite barrier, that got me thinking.”

Because, while Shenai has often contributed financially to the organizations that work to end racial injustice, that has generally been his sole means of support. Until now.

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Dads and it just felt like a call to action,” Shenai, who is also a father, related. “It felt like this was close to home.”

And he is by no means alone. Elizabeth Neves, 55, felt a similar call to action, attending the Portland protests on July 20.

“I felt called to participate because police brutality is a symptom of racial injustice and POC are disproportionately the victims of police violence,” she explained.

Adding, “I believe the protests are important to illustrate our solidarity and amplify POC’s demand for systemic change, specifically, but not limited to changes in policing practices.”

Those policing practices, originally brought into question by the murder of George Floyd, have become ever more fraught as the Portland protests have gone on – currently over 70 days – with both police and federal officers utilizing a variety of controversial methods – teargas, flashbangs and pepper balls – in an attempt to subdue the crowd.

“I am a Criminal Justice Major, a Veteran of the US Army, and an ex-Ranger,” 43-year-old Jared Kofron, who also attended the protests on July 25, said. “I have studied policing and spent hundreds of hours working with police officers in Oregon while attending college. I have friends that are police officers at the local, state and federal level. I take an interest in police culture and police corruption.”

This interest, as well as a curiosity about how “peaceful” the protests actually were, prompted Kofron to join the Wall of Vets, standing for BLM as well as offering protection to peaceful protesters.

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The protests felt like a fair. There was free food (Riot Ribs), free water, drum lines, drum circles, music, art, graffiti.”

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why we were all out there holding signs and yelling. It was inspiring to be around so many other passionate people. The sense of community on these two blocks is very strong. People are very supportive of each other and are trying to stay on message.”

And spreading that message, was well worth the hour drive into Portland, according to 33-year-old Brianna Wolterman. “I truly don’t believe any of us are free until we are all free – and there are so many people who aren’t free in this country. Until then, I’ll fight for that,” she said.

Neves, too. is in favor of Silvertonians and anyone else who feels called to do so exercising the freedom of speech in order to address the systemic issues that she views as both currently and historically dysfunctional.

“In joining larger events, you realize that the cause is bigger than a few isolated cases,” she stated, “and that collaborative goals can be worked on in smaller communities.”

While the majority of Portland’s protests have been peacefully conducted, Kofron admitted to witnessing some graffiti, property damage and taunting of federal officers.

“The graffiti, and property damage are minimal and a small price to pay to get policing that doesn’t brutalize us or our children,” he contended.

While similarly Hill maintains that the media coverage has been largely overblown.

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“As soon as the feds came out, they started shooting pepper balls into the crowd,” he said. “I was standing 20 feet from the fence and didn’t see a single object get thrown back at the feds until the less than lethal rounds were shot into the crowd… Seeing policing like that broke my heart. Actions like that would have gotten soldiers courtmartialed in Iraq. They were preemptive, indiscriminate, and brutal.”

While difficult for Kofron to witness, these events – along with a strong belief in the First Amendment, the certainty that police brutality and the mistreatment of minorities is wrong and the sense that federal troops have overstepped their boundaries – have inspired Kofron to continue attending protests.

“Last night they flash banged and shot up the same Vet group I was with Saturday for standing outside the courthouse on public property,” Kofron said. “So, yes, I am going back to stand with my brothers and sisters.”

Shenai too plans to attend more protests, though for a different reason.

“When [32-year-old, Heather Heyer] was killed [at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017], that resonated with me,” Shenai admitted. “The fact that she was out there, this white lady – someone who didn’t even have to do it – going to a protest, and then she died for it… That happened for me. That happened on my behalf. I’m going back.”

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sister, and without the necessity of a car for transportation, Cassidy said her life in France should be relatively simple – which is precisely what drew her to apply in the first place.

When Julie Ann Cassidy decided she wanted to teach abroad, she began to see signs everywhere pointing her way to doing just that.

“This past summer, being over there, I realized – they know how to live,” she said. “...I love the language. I love the culture. There’s all this history there that I’m excited to explore.”

“When I was in France last summer with my daughter, I was sitting in the Musée d’Orsay and this woman from Texas sits down next to me,” Cassidy said.

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“In mid-June the government said within 10 days I would have an answer,” Cassidy said. “Then at the end of June I got an email that said – they have said yes. And then that very day all visas were blocked because the U.S. COVID numbers were so high.”

“She said, ‘Oh my gosh! You should teach here,’” Cassidy said. Remembering that woman’s emphatic response.

The seed firmly planted, Cassidy began perusing a website listing foreign job opportunities in education.

Then, just after Christmas she found it – an advertisement for her dream job as an English-speaking guide in the upper elementary classroom of a tiny, 35-student school in Lougratte, France.

Thankfully, even with the closure, Cassidy’s trip is still in the works – only a meeting with the Travel Consulate in Seattle is pending.

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But even with all of the issues, Cassidy is excited to begin what, for her, is the adventure of a lifetime.

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‘Erase’ is not the answer I’m writing in response to Carl Sampson’s recent article “History Lesson” in Our Town [July 1 edition].

While I appreciate the spirit of the article and welcome more writing around the current wave of emotion and action following the death of George Floyd, I’d like to call attention to his closing call to action: “My hope... is that we can erase those lines of race and heritage that divide us. In doing that, America really can become great.”

Again, I get the spirit of this message and I acknowledge and welcome the tasteful anti-Trump jab there at the end. But, this notion of “erasing those lines of race and heritage” harkens back to the promotion of “colorblindness” that I was taught in the ‘90s in Alabama. This is a very dangerous concept when applied in conjunction with white privilege.

As long as you aren’t acknowledging the racial and cultural differences between you and your neighbor, you can’t fully recognize the discrimination and disenfranchisement of your neighbors based on their race and cultural heritage. When your neighbors of color are expressing concerns over racial discrimination, if you’ve “erased those lines of race” from your mind, it becomes much harder to believe them – you don’t “see” race anymore, so they can’t possibly be experiencing racism. It becomes much easier to believe that we’re “past that” as a society.

At this moment, white Americans need to be acknowledging the lines of race and heritage that have divided us for so long, and we need to be learning WHY they have divided us for over 400 years. We need to be educating ourselves about the fact that our socioeconomic structures were designed with those very lines of race and heritage in mind to intentionally keep people of color, women, and poor people out of our social and economic systems.

We need to fully understand the fact that structures like our banks, schools, police, and democratic systems were designed by rich, white, land- (and usually slave-) owning men that built these structures to protect and propagate themselves and people like themselves. Their intentional designs are still with us today making one’s experience of “America” or “being

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Sports & Recreation

No fall sports

In Loving Memory of...

Betty Jean Soper Wallace June 16, 1932 – June 11, 2020

The Oregon School Activities Association has updated its plans for the 2020-21 school year. The upshot?

The official calendar starts Dec. 28, with practices and features much shorter seasons. And football and other “fall” sports are moving to the spring.

In life we loved you dearly; in death we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you, the day God called you home. You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide; and though we cannot see you; you are always at our side. Our family chain is broken and nothing seems the same, but as God calls us one by one the chain will link again.

Living in the hearts of her parents, Gladys Virginia Pearman Soper and Ernest Clifford Soper Jr.; her husband, Lynn Henry Wallace; her four children, eight grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, four great great grandchildren and her many friends.

Betty became the bride of Lynn Henry Wallace on March 10, 1951 in San Diego, California. They were high school sweethearts and resided in southern California, raising their four children – Dan, Gregory, Loren and Gina – in a small three-bedroom home from 1956 to 1974. Betty was a devoted wife and mother. She ruled her house with a firm hand and loving kindness. When her children ventured off to school she went to work part time and tapped into her artistic side, redesigning their home several times over. After her children ventured off from home, she became a licensed interior decorator and created a successful licensed real estate sales team with her partner, Lynn.

In 1989, Betty and Lynn decided to retire and move to Silverton, Oregon.

They pooled their real estate talents and began purchasing income properties and their forever home; she loved so much, overlooking the Silverton countryside.

From 1989-2019 Betty became an active volunteer in the Silverton community. It all began with Silverton Hospital’s Network Care Van service.

She was later charged to maximize the sell-off of old hospital equipment in preparation for a substantial renovation to the old hospital. She especially enjoyed photographing the new-born and teaching others how to use the equipment and take photos. She was involved in the Auxiliary, Senior Plus Program, Gift Shop and many fund raising events to support the hospital.

She volunteered at the Oregon Garden and planned special events for the town’s yearly parade and celebrations.

The decision of the OSAA’s executive board, announced Aug. 5, supersedes a previous outline, released July 22, that called for a delayed fall opening with football still in the autumn mix.

Here is how the calendar looks at this point: Season 2 (I will get to Season 1 below) includes swimming, wrestling and basketball, with practices starting Dec. 28 and games Jan. 11. Possible state playoffs, currently labeled as “OSAA culminating week” could take place March 1-7. Swimming would be limited to eight meets, wrestling to nine events and basketball to 14 games. Virtually all competition is likely to come against league opponents.

Season 3 features the usual fall sports of football, cross country, volleyball and soccer. Practice would start Feb. 22, games March 8 (except football, which would open play March 15) and the OSAA culminating week would

begin May 3 for football and April 26 for the other sports. Contest reductions also would be in play, with nine meets for cross country, 14 playing dates for volleyball, 10 soccer matches and seven football games.

Season 4 includes the usual spring sports of baseball, softball, track and field, golf and tennis. Practices can begin April 19, with first contests set for May 3. The OSAA culminating week would be June 21 through June 26, almost a month later than most activities under the “normal” OSAA calendar. Golfers would be limited to 14 9-hole rounds, tennis teams could schedule 12 playing dates, track and field squads can have nine meets and baseball and softball squads can play 18 games.

Other OSAA sanctioned activities such as cheerleading, dance and drill, speech, solo music, choir, band and orchestra, all are approved to practice Aug. 31, with

Betty was known as a gracious hostess, owner/operator of the newly renovated Majestic Rose, a 1905 vintage labor of love, a special place to gather and celebrate all occasions.

Betty seemed tireless in giving to the community, caring for her loved ones and the love of her life, Lynn Henry, in his advanced stages of Parkinson’s.

Betty silently suffered from lymphoma and heart failure which eventually took her life, June 11, 2020.

Service will be held at final resting place – Valley View Cemetery at 5503-5477 Valley View Dr. N.E., Silverton on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.

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The celebration will be held outdoors, undercover. Food, drink and entertainment from the ‘40s will be provided. Please RSVP Gina Wallace at 951-609-4942 (text or leave message). FYI – Catered and provided within COVID-19 guidelines.

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New activities calendar starts Dec. 28 OSAA culminating weeks starting in March and running through mid-May. The OSAA also has tacked on kind of a free-form Season 1, starting Aug. 31, in which schools and teams could engage in practices and regional competition as long as all of the state orders related to the coronavirus are followed. Football and other “full-contact” activities are out of luck here. “(The) decisions by the executive board provide a framework to maximize the potential opportunity for students in Oregon to participate in three seasons during the 2020-21 school year,” wrote Peter Weber, OSAA executive director in a statement released by the association.

“The board recognized that a one-sizefits-all approach isn’t what’s best for students across the state. By waiving policy to allow regional participation this fall, local school districts will have the discretion for participation in those areas that are able to do so safely per state directives.”

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Left unresolved are those OSAA culminating weeks, although OSAA officials told Our Town that they would NOT include district championship competition. One could see fairly painless assembling of fields for state golf, tennis, cross country. wrestling and track and field championships, but the challenges of holding large gatherings and whether to allow spectators remain out there.

A four-team or eight-team basketball, baseball or softball state tournament could be accomplished in a week, but first you would have to figure out who those four or eight teams are.

A state football championship is inconceivable in a one-week scenario although one OSAA official noted the possibility of football “bowl games.”

Something tells me we haven’t heard the last word on this one. There will be tweaks. Stay tuned.

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Along with his second wife, Karen, he built a very successful local landscape and gardening business from scratch, starting with a lawnmower he received from his father. Don was an avid golfer during this time where his long drives were on display at the many courses he frequented in San Jose and on the Monterey Peninsula, including Pebble Beach. After a successful second career, Don sold his business and retired to Mount Angel, Oregon to be closer to his daughters and his grandchildren. It was there that he once again built a rich and full life for himself.

Don faced all that his very full life had to offer, both the joys and the challenges, with the same light-hearted warmth and marginally appropriate sense of humor that all who knew him came to cherish. His compassion and generosity will be greatly missed by all who had the privilege of having him in their life. There were few people he didn’t like, fewer still who didn’t like him, and none for whom he held no place in his heart. The bright light that was Don may have faded away but it will continue to be reflected in the many people who shine more brightly because they knew him.

Don is survived by his mother, Teiko; his sisters, Ellen Phillips and Elaine Snoeck; his daughters, Megan Kaplan and Meredith Eggert; his sons-in-law, Dan Kaplan and Matt Eggert; and his grandchildren, Sophia, Nathaniel and Ruby Kaplan, and Owen and Audrey Eggert. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert.

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After high school, Don enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, where he served honorably for two years. Don utilized his artistic talents as a professional florist in San Jose, California. It was during this time that Don married his first wife, Donna, who gave birth to his two beloved daughters, Megan and Meredith. After suffering catastrophic vision problems that nearly left him blind, he was forced to retire as a florist and begin a new career.

The greatest passion of his life was showering those he loved with his unmatched generosity. There were no greater objects of this generosity than his two daughters and five grandchildren. His love for them and pride in them had no limits, as anyone who knew him can attest.

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Upon his family’s release, they returned to the Bay Area where they started their life again in Mountain View, California. Don was an accomplished Little League pitcher as a boy in Mountain View where he relied on a screwball to carry him to several nohitters. It was at this age that Don became a devoted and life-long San Francisco 49ers and Giants fan. He continued to play baseball and basketball on his way to earning his diploma at Mountain View High School.

Don was a pillar of the Edelweiss Village community where his generosity was only exceeded by his friendliness. His passion for giving back to his Mount Angel community was on full display through his volunteer work with the St. Joseph Shelter Mission Benedict, the Providence Benedictine Nursing Center, and the Mt. Angel Senior Center, where his sense of humor and charm brightened the days of employees and patrons alike. In 2011, his extensive volunteer work was recognized when he was honored with the Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce Volunteer of the Year award.

In Memory Of …

Fay Hooper Lorine Kneeland Jerry Lemon Donald Wada Cecile Larson Raymond Creel

Donald Kazuo Wada passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 23, 2020 at his home in Mount Angel, OR. Don was born on Christmas Eve in 1943 at the Gila River Japanese Internment Camp in Arizona to Robert and Teiko Wada.

The family plans to hold a Celebration of Life gathering for all who wish to attend once that can be done safely. This will likely be held next summer. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Mt. Angel Senior Center and the St. Joseph Shelter Mission Benedict are greatly appreciated. Arrangements are by Unger Funeral Chapel.

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August 2020 • 11

Family Matters

At-home education

By Melissa Wagoner “[P]ublic crisis schooling is not the same as homeschooling,” Trisha Wiberg, the 34-year-old mother of three homeschooled children, said. Effectively she was dismissing the language that many parents have been using since the closure of schools on March 13.

“Just because children are at home doing some school work does not mean they are being schooled at home,” she pointed out.

Instead, Wiberg contends that “Homeschooling is a well thought out, pre-planned, mentorship of a child under the parents’ care and instruction… The fostering of a life-long love of learning, as opposed to memorizing and regurgitating information for a grade.”

For many, at-home education has thus far been a hodge-podge of Zoom classes, printed packets and online learning platforms. Unlike those families who have been homeschooling since the year began, with schedules and curriculum firmly in place, at-home educating parents and their teacher-partners had very little time to plan.

“Honestly, since COVID hit we have been schooling in what I call ‘survival mode,’” Ashley Christenson, the 43-yearold mother of eight, said.

Although Christenson is a veteran homeschool parent of almost 16 years, she, too, finds schooling during a pandemic a real challenge.

“Even though homeschooling was our norm, the extra stress of the rest of our lives changing and the uncertainty of the virus disrupted our groove. I don’t feel like we ever really got it back,” she admitted. “So, our ideal week that we were doing is different from what we are doing now.”

But that’s not to say that a new ideal cannot be attained. It will just require time, effort and the shared knowledge of a community.

“Homeschooling is hard,” Christenson said, “but it is also one of the most rewarding things I have ever done.”

So, for those who are willing to give it a try, or who are already trying but need a few tips, Christenson has some words of advice.

“Don’t panic,” she began. “Parental panic can translate into demanding too much from our kids and pushing them too hard.

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Tips for parents guiding at-home education • Don’t panic.

• Build in free time to be creative, musical or to just play.

• Realize you don’t have to teach your children everything.

• Keep to a schedule.

• Don’t lock into one idea of school.

• Stay focused.

• Tailor lessons to needs, capabilities and interests of the child.

• Research educational games, apps and programs.

• When a child is struggling, slow down.

• Have a loose plan for the year.

• Create a weekly plan.

• When a child is motivated, forge ahead.

• Third grade and up can create a weekly planner to check-off completed subjects.

• Spend one-on-one time with each child.

• Require some math, writing and reading each day.

• Find activities that can free you up to work (art, board games, documentaries).

• Have a grammar, history, science, geography and art day throughout the week.

• Develop a quiet alert method for when they need assistance.

• Utilize positive motivation.

I’ve made the mistake of over planning our days and then get frustrated that we can’t get through it all. Realize that you are never going to teach your kids everything they need to know. Public school isn’t going to teach your kids everything they need to know. What we are doing is developing the skills they need so they can find information and study and learn and communicate effectively. We have an entire lifetime to learn.”

Then, once the proper mindset has been achieved – or mainly achieved – Christenson advised working out a loose schedule based on what works best for your family.

“If I’ve learned one thing with homeschooling it is to not lock yourself into one idea of how school should be,” she counseled. “You have to be creative in finding ways to make it work. I let go of the idea of all my kids sitting at desks quietly writing and studying all at the same time years ago.”

And that flexibility might be the real key to making at-home education successful for the majority of families – even those who are also juggling work.

“I would say it’s important to find time that you can spend one-on-one with your kids,” Christenson said. “Then find things they can do while you are working.

That may be doing art projects, reading,

watching documentaries, playing board games together, etc. They should have a way that they can quietly alert you that they have a question or need help so that when you are on a break you can see what you can help with.”

Working as an educational team with a spouse is also helpful, according to Jessa Kytola-Yang, a 38-year-old homeschooling mother of two. She has split the daily schooling tasks with her husband, John Yang, an Ob/Gyn at Legacy Silverton, for the past four years.

“John’s the manager – he plans the schedule, assigns the tasks,” KytolaYang said. “[I’m] the assistant manager – generally making sure things get done, offering assistance during the day.”

In this way, the Yang family are able to utilize the skills and time allowances of each parent while simultaneously playing to the needs of both children.

“We usually only plan for the week ahead,” Kytola-Yang said. “John will sit down sometime Sunday and make the schedule for the following week or we do a week of you-know-what-needs-to-getdone in which the kids make a list and check things off daily.”

Similarly, Christenson also devises a weekly lesson plan, which fits inside her overall goals for the year.

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“I usually do a loose overview plan of the school year,” she said. “We study history on a four-year rotation so I choose novels and biographies to read based on what era we are studying. And I figure out which writing program we are going to use, what we are going to do for spelling and grammar, etc. Then I do a more detailed weekly plan on the weekend or Monday as we are starting school.

“I definitely have gone through seasons of great organization and other seasons of flying by the seat of my pants. But I know that having a plan is really important. I’m still aspiring to someday ‘have it all together.’”

Although educational programs – both in-person, through homeschool cooperatives and online – vary, all three mothers agree that the overarching goal of homeschooling is always the same, namely individualized learning.

“We can tailor the pace of our studies to our individual children and their needs, interests, and capabilities,” Christenson said. “When one child is having a hard time with a math concept we can slow down and work on it until they get it and then we can move on. If they are understanding their math and want to do two lessons a day we can skip over the busy work and forge ahead. I also love the fact that we can be done with our studies by noon and the kids have more free time to be creative, read, develop their talents or just play.”

But Kytola-Yang is also quick to acknowledge that homeschooling is not for everyone.

“Our answers can only speak to what we do in our family,” she said. “Families, people, dynamics vary by household so it’s important to point out we think families should do what’s best for them.”

But for those families who are feeling trepidation over the possibility of more at-home education – either on a full or part-time basis – Wiberg has these words of advice.

“Many parents fool themselves into thinking they aren’t capable, they aren’t smart enough, they don’t have a teaching degree etc.,” she said. “You are capable!

Home schooling is challenging, but the most rewarding thing you could ever do.”

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(MEd) and a Master’s in Fine Art (MFA) and has been living in the Beaver State ever since. In all, he figures he’s counseled others for 30 years.

As a fifth-grader, Sander (“Sandy”) Cakebread knew where his “happy place” was – in the art classroom.

His watercolor art captures rustic images in American history. “I love American history and most of my subjects have something to do with a human or historical touch: a rusty hinge, an old car in a field.”

“I was not the kid who was the best on the baseball diamond, but when I’d come back into the classroom the other kids would crowd around my desk and watch me draw,” he said. “After school, I’d run back down to the art classroom. I had a dear old teacher who would let me stay there to work on paintings and projects until 5 p.m.”

Shortly after moving to Silverton, he became a parishioner at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. He met Father William Hammelman, who had started the church’s community garden, and joined the project.

His junior high school years were emotionally challenging at home with his parents going through a divorce.

“I’ve always been spiritual since about the fourth grade.

From the soil’s microbes to the earthworms, all of nature speaks of His handiwork to me,” Cakebread said.

“Later, when my mom passed away, I moved to Seattle to live with my uncle. The art teacher up there at the high school was very encouraging, and I won some art shows there.”

It was on a particular nature walk, he found comfort as he dealt with a personal loss.

A Silverton resident for nearly 15 years, Sandy, 77, was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and recalls having snowball fights with neighborhood children – sometimes over the immature ribbing he received regarding his unusual English last name.

To console himself after the passing of his partner, Sandy took a long hike with his devoted Labrador Retriever near a lake and came upon a small scattering of bird feathers. He was instantly reminded of a verse in Scripture: “Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Matthew 10:31)

He has two sons and five grandchildren. With one son living in West Linn, and the other in Lyons, Sandy was thrilled to find Silverton right in between.

“I was living in Central Oregon and I loved that area.

I painted there for years. My youngest son, who lived in Stayton then, told me how much he loved Silverton.

They both told me to ‘get back here and be near your grandkids,’” he said smiling, sharing one way his grandkids show him affection: “They come by and scribble love notes on my truck.”

After his high school graduation, Sandy joined the military and found it brought out his nurturing side.

“What steered me into caring for people was the experience of being an ‘Air Cop’ in the Air Force and worked in the brigade and I saw a lot of guys in trouble that I wanted to help. So, when I decided to go to college, I started off by going into the ministry… but I dropped that because the pulpit wasn’t my thing,” Havehea

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said. “I went on to get my Bachelor’s in Education and was a chaplain of a state school for delinquent boys in Birmingham, Alabama. In that period of history, I was over there when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was also there during the ‘Selma March.’

“After I left the Air Force in 1965, I attended a Southern Baptist school in Birmingham and graduated in 1970.

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Working within a plot of 80 by 80 feet – and surrounded by cheery sunflowers – the community garden produces corn, potatoes, rhubarb, cucumbers, tomatoes, tomatillos, green beans, onions, peppers, squash (zucchini and crookneck), lettuce, kale, spinach and pumpkins.

The garden’s COVID-19 safeguards include the standard wearing of face masks and maintaining a minimum space of six feet apart. “We have fairly wide aisles between the various plots, so social distancing isn’t a worry.” Plus, most visitors stop by at staggered times.

Sandy credits Paul Dunbar, who plows the garden with his tractor every year, and David Rose, who mows the grass and supplies the clippings for use in the garden.

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People Out Loud

Granddad’s delight It is time to talk about good things.

Not to be a Pollyanna, but there are enough problems in the world right now to fill a War & Peace sized math book.

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Ellie Grace came into the world April 26 of this year and let me tell you – she is a keeper. A tiny tot at 5 pounds, 11 ounces, she now has rolls that would make the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters proud. A personality to boot, she has so many different expressions and they change constantly.

The little cooing googling noises are my favorite, and staring at her beautiful little face is my favorite past-time, along with chewing on her big sister, Lucy. Making sure Big Sis doesn’t plow into Lil’ Sis with the uncontrolled enthusiasm of an NFL Linebacker tackling a diminutive running back is a Herculean task fraught with danger.

It is an indescribable feeling having grandkids. “Grandma Honey” and “Papa,” as we have been dubbed by HRH Lucy of Silverton, live close so contact it is immediate when the Queen summons her servants. The best part of being a grandparent? You can ply the little darlings with treats galore or just feed them right out of the sugar bowl, wave good-bye to their parents remarking how wellbehaved they were, then sprint home before the sugar

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It is a joy to watch them grow, learn, laugh, cry (a compromised joy), and explore. It is bittersweet to think what time you will have with them given a huge age difference, and it is the wise person who does not dwell in that musing.

Enjoy the precious moments with these delightful little babes. Revel in making Playdough creations, nibbling on their tiny feet, and being shocked at how much they know and how funny they can be. This is the time.

When you have an entire village rooting and praying for you, good things are likely to happen. It just might be working. A local gent and business owner who has done remarkable things for youth in our town is a fighter, a true COVID warrior. At press time, the news is improving, the vent might be heading to another room or storage, the first test after treatment is negative, and when the scrapper gets to sit up in bed, eat ice cream, and watch a baseball game, the village is happy. Get well, Rick Schmidt. The village is ready for your laugh, your benevolent work is needed once again, and your incredibly supportive family wants you home again, healthy and full of vinegar!

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August 2020 • 15

Kirsten Barnes Broker 873-3545 ext. 326

Marcia Branstetter Broker, GRI 873-3545 ext. 318

Micha Christman Office Manager 873-1425

Becky Craig Principal Broker, GRI 873-3545 ext. 313

Sarah Graves Office Manager 873-3545 ext. 300

Michael Schmidt Principal Broker GRI 873-3545 ext. 314

WWW.SILVERTONREALTY.COM

#T2590 CUSTOM BUILT $650,000

#T2611 11.68 ACRES $625,000

Custom built, single-level, Spanish style home on 7+acres. First time on the market. Private setting, yet close to town. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, vaulted Tongue & Grove ceilings w/ exposed beams, wood-burning custom fireplace, atrium entrance, patios off bedrooms, natural light, paved driveway, landscaped. Wildlife abounds.

Ready for livestock, room for hobby farm and more, w/ future development potential. Pride of ownership shows in this amazing home. Call Kirsten at ext.

326 (WVMLS#760634)

11.68 acres with manufactured home, well, septic, and timber.

Property has become overgrown and needs a buyer willing to role up their sleeves and do some work. Key in lockbox for gate lock to enter. Park vehicles at gate entrance and walk down driveway to MH. MH is of no value and unsafe to enter. Call listing broker for more information. Call Chuck at ext . 325

SILVERTON

SILVERTON

(WVMLS766171)

#T2590 CUSTOM BUILT 3 BR, 2.5 BA 1820 sqft 7.12 Acres Call Kirsten at ext. 326 $650,000 (WVMLS#760634)

#T2607 WELL MANICURED 4 BR, 2.5 BA 3398 sqft Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext.

322 $528,500 (WVMLS#765524)

SOLD! – #T2597 CLASSIC CRAFTSMAN 5 BR, 4 BA 3249 sqft Call Kirsten at ext. 326 $570,000 (WVMLS#762916)

NEW! – #T2608 CUSTOM HOME 4 BR, 2.5 BA 2463 sqft Call Whitney at ext. 320, Mike at ext. 312 $548,000 (WVMLS#765622)

(WVMLS#760793)

Chuck White Broker 873-3545 ext. 325

Meredith Wertz Broker, GRI 873-3545 ext. 324

Ryan Wertz Broker, GRI 873-3545 ext. 322

Mason Branstetter Principal Broker, GRI 873-3545 ext. 303

#T2607 WELL MANICURED $528,500 Well built home off Breyonna Way, room for everyone, 4 bedroom, plus den, 2.5 bath, formal living and dining, family room, plus rec room. Many updates, open kitchen to the family room, large deck for entertaining with oversized yard.

Fully fenced, well manicured yard with privacy. 3 car garage...Come view this home today! Call Meredith at ext. 324 or Ryan at ext. 322.

COUNTRY

#T2602 SILVERTON MOBILE ESTATES 2 BR, 2 BA 1440 sqft Call Kirsten at ext. 326 $50,000

#T2604 CUSTOM SINGLE LEVEL 3 BR, 2 BA 1493 sqft Call Chuck at ext. 325 $369,000

Mike Ulven Broker 503-873-3545 ext. 312

#T2609 INCREDIBLE VIEW $389,500 Incredible view property with privacy and space! Updated manufactured home surrounded by fenced pasture land. Updated deck, front porch, gutter, and roof on shed.

Sale of home is contingent upon seller’s locating replacement property. Call Whitney at ext. 320 or Mike at ext. 312. (WVMLS#765777)

(WVMLS#765524)

#T2551 COMMERCIAL BUILDING 1952 sqft Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext. 322 $279,000 (WVMLS#751145)

#T2598 EAST HILL HOME 3 BR, 2 BA 1983 sqft Call Chuck at ext. 325 $349,900 (WVMLS#763308)

Whitney Ulven Broker 503-873-3545 ext. 320

(WVMLS#763942)

SOLD! – #T2601 GREAT GET AWAY 3 BR, 1.5 BA 1520 sqft 8.97 Acres Call Michael at ext. 314 $424,900 (WVMLS#763868) #T2605 WONDERFUL SETTING 4 BR, 2.5 BA 2512 sqft 4.85 Acres Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext. 322 $489,500 (WVMLS#765032) NEW! – #T2611 11.68 ACRES 11.68 Acres Call Chuck at ext. 325 $625,000 (WVMLS#766171)

BARELAND/LOTS

COUNTRY #T2590 CUSTOM BUILT 3 BR, 2.5 BA 1820 sqft 7.12 Acres Call Kirsten at ext. 326 $650,000 (WVMLS#760634)

SOLD! – #T2568 BRING YOUR BUILDER 2.01 Acres Well Drilled Call Michael at ext. 314 $170,000 (WVMLS#754849)

BARELAND/LOTS #T2594 WONDERFUL NEW SUBDIVISION .18 Acres Call Meredith at ext. 324, Ryan at ext. 322 $159,500 (WVMLS#762138) NEW! – #T2611 11.68 ACRES 11.68 Acres Call Chuck at ext. 325 $625,000 (WVMLS#766171)

SALEM/KEIZER NEW! – KEIZER-#T2612 QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD 3 BR, 2 BA 1536 sqft Call Whitney at ext. 320, Mike at ext. 312 $329,850 (WVMLS#766386)

For rental properties call Micha or Sarah at 503-873-1425

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