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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
mlue & Gray battle it out in Camp Sherman City
considers
changing
annexation
agreement
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Pipes skirled; banners
snapped in a stiff breeze;
drums tapped out their
cadence; hooves thundered
and cannons and musketry
boomed, pouring clouds of
white smoke across the lush
green of a meadow along the
Metolius River last weekend.
The meadow at House
on Metolius was a time por-
tal, taking visitors back to
the height of the American
Civil War. Reenactors pitched
their canvas tents across the
meadow, where visitors got a
glimpse of camp life during
the conflict and insight into
daily life for men and women,
North and South.
And twice daily, the Blue
and the Gray clashed on the
meadow grass, depicting one
of thousands of nameless skir-
mishes that marked the most
violet upheaval in American
history.
On Saturday afternoon,
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
didn’t like the way things
were going,” he explained.
Schnetzky said he saw a
Civil War reenactment some
years ago and loved it — but
A property annexed into
the city limits in 2006 —
which has remained undevel-
oped for more than a decade
— may soon be governed by a
new set of rules.
A public hearing will be
held Wednesday, May 24, at
6:45 p.m. at City Hall regard-
ing a request to revise and
restate an annexation agree-
ment regarding McKenzie
Meadow Village, located at
1680 W. McKinney Butte Rd.
The property was annexed
See CIVIL WAR on page 25
See ANNEXATION on page 16
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Confederate artillery fired a smoky barrage in a battle reenactment last weekend.
Orrin Schnetzky of the 2nd
Maryland Line sat before
his tent loading cartridges
for his Enfield rifled mus-
ket — the standard arm of
the Confederate forces. It
was the Tigard man’s first
reenactment. He was portray-
ing a recruit from a border
state that stayed in the Union,
but remained full of Southern
sympathizers.
“Defectors come down
here (to Virginia) ’cause we
Sisters will salute the
fallen on Memorial Day
Sisters’ Pearl Harbor survivor
The Memorial Day week-
end is the traditional kick-off
for summer — an occasion
for outdoor activities, barbe-
cues and celebration.
Yet, the real purpose of
the national holiday is a sol-
emn observance of the lives
lost in armed conflict across
American history. Sisters’
veterans organizations have
for many years made certain
that that purpose remains
front and center, with a pow-
erful ceremony each year at
Village Green Park.
Sisters’ annual Memorial
Day Ceremony will take
place at Village Green Park
this year on Monday, May 29
at 11 a.m. The Redmond High
School Marine Junior ROTC
will post colors and Chelsea
Anttila will sing the National
Many Sisters residents
have seen Marvin Emmarson
around town. He’s easy to
recognize because he wears
a ball cap designating him
as a Pearl Harbor survivor.
Now 95, Emmarson recently
sat down with The Nugget to
discuss his extraordinary ser-
vice in World War II.
Emmarson was born in
Astoria, Oregon, in 1922,
and joined the U.S. Navy
out of a Portland recruiting
office along with his good
friend Owen Bauserman.
The war had not yet started.
After basic training they
were both assigned to the
USS Selfridge, a steam-pow-
ered Porter Class destroyer,
and flagship of the Navy’s
Destroyer Squadron 4. The
Selfridge was assigned to
Inside...
Anthem. Mayor Chuck
Ryan will make introductory
remarks and retired Brigadier
General Martha Meeker is the
keynote speaker.
Meeker graduated from
Eastern Illinois University
with a double degree in math
and computational science
with plans to be a high school
math teacher. A summer
internship at NASA Langley
changed the course of her
life. When she walked on the
base and saw the wind tunnel
and the parts being manufac-
tured for the space station,
this Star Trek fan was capti-
vated. Realizing it would take
her six more years to earn her
Ph.D. to work in the aero-
space field, she opted instead
See MEMORIAL DAY on page 29
By Craig Rullman
Correspondent
PHOTO BY CRAIG RULLMAN
Marvin Emmarson, 95, survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor.
Emmarson, Bauserman,
and their Selfridge ship-
mates had been at sea for
several weeks, engaged in
an escort run from Palmyra
See EMMARSON on page 29
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