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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Covering Dallas, Monmouth, Independence, Falls City and surrounding areas since 1868
Ron and Barbara Smith among the herd of Angus, Hereford and Maine-Anjou cattle at Gold Creek Ranch near Willamina. The Polk County Livestock Association recently honored the Smith family as its 2013 "Livestock Family of the Year" for their many years of work and contributions to the industry.
BUENA VISTA -- Most days, you will find Mary Dean and Ian Cordner under sun hats working on the 2.5 acres full of flower beds that is Buena Vista Flowers.
FALLS CITY -- Bob Garrison picks up the left back foot of an Appaloosa named Prince, cleans it, removes the old shoe, files the hoof, and measures it for a new shoe in about two minutes.
DALLAS -- Kathleen Disney and her crew at the Dallas Goodwill were in for a pleasant surprise.
Underneath a mask of canvas and mesh, amidst the tinny clank of slender swords inside the converted warehouse Salem Classical Fencing calls home, Sam Ramirez is smiling.
DALLAS -- When Jeff and Robin Mexico took over the Fox Theatre in Dallas in 2007, they dedicated an enormous amount of their time, energy and money to restoring it.
MONMOUTH -- Chemistry was never an interest of Tammy Taggart's growing up. And she was never really high on craftmaking like her mother.
DALLAS -- Jim Davis has a kennel full of excellent hunting dogs, but no time to go hunting.
INDEPENDENCE -- There's a ladder on the second floor of the J.S. Cooper Building on Main Street that allows you to enter its highly visible octagonal tower, said Marian Fitts while walking through the dimly lit structure, flashlight in hand.
MONMOUTH -- Phyllis Harriman reads the newspaper from beginning to end on a daily basis. She's a puzzle and brain teaser fanatic who plays whatever she gets her hands on.
MONMOUTH -- What role did the pro-South Knights of the Golden Circle play in Oregon prior to the Civil War? Why did Monmouth fancy itself a candidate site for the Winter Olympics in 1974?
POLK COUNTY -- At the end of September, Lance Kirk could stroll beneath the canopy of his hazelnut orchard near the end of Wigrich Road and absorb the almost serene sound of filberts dropping naturally from the trees.
DALLAS -- Col. James W. Nesmith, the namesake of the new Oregon Army National Guard Readiness Center in Dallas, also has been called "The Father of Polk County."
Dennis Eberly had been a worm fisherman most of his life until 1972, when a friend finally coaxed him out onto the Santiam River to try fly casting.
DALLAS -- Joe Huff expertly glides a hand-held planeacross the solid wood top of a custom-built desk he is building in his shop.
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