WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016
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Victor Point Chili Feed & Raffle to honor alumni
Christena Brooks
Special to the Appeal Tribune
Victor Point School’s
48th annual Chili Feed &
Raffle highlights alumni
this year with a “Remem-
bering the Past, Investing
in the Future” theme. The
event runs 5-8 p.m. on
Thursday, April 7.
The Vikings’ Parent
Teacher Community Club
(PTCC) is offering the
meal and dessert, as well
as raffling off 100 items.
All proceeds support the
school, a K-8 in the Silver
Falls School District. A
cakewalk and historic
photo display will also be
featured.
Dinner tickets are $5
($3 for children and sen-
iors), and raffle tickets
are $1.
New this year is a jum-
bo raffle – featuring Dis-
neyland tickets, a hot air
balloon ride, wine tasting
event and beach vacation
– with $5 tickets.
Winners need not be
present to claim their
prizes.
The Chili Feed & Raffle
will be held at the school,
located at 1175 Victor
Point Road SE, just out-
side Silverton. For more
information, call 503-873-
4987.
Beverly Cleary to
be celebrated at
local libraries
Annette Utz
For the Stayton Mail
PHOTOS BY SHELDON TRAVER/SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL
Davenport Place resident Albert Kassel donated the uniform he wore during WWII to a new veterans tribute wall at the
retirement community.
Veterans
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form. It also has the uni-
form worn by Davenport
Place resident Albert
Kassel when he met then
general Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, as recorded in one
of the war’s most popular
photographs the day be-
fore D-Day.
“The response to this
has been great,” Marone
said. “Veterans that
haven’t shared their story
in 40 or 50 years, even to
their family, are doing
that now.”
Silverton
resident
Harry Douglas came to
the tribute’s unveiling to
support fellow veterans.
“I’m a veteran and
member of the American
Legion and wanted to see
what they were doing,” he
said. “I think it’s a good
thing they are doing.”
Businesses
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businesses.”
Megan
Bergstrom said she wants
more shopping options.
“We need a more af-
fordable place to pur-
chase toiletries and paper
products and diapers,”
she said. “I can’t afford to
shop Silverton first.”
During the past two
years, the city’s planning
office has seen a larger
than normal flow of appli-
cations from businesses
and for apartment con-
struction. Each has gone
through the planning of-
fice and Jason Gottge-
treu, the city’s communi-
ty development director.
“We look at each one
and see what the pro-
posed use is,” he said. “We
look at the business li-
cense plan, the intensity
of business and traffic
thresholds among other
SHELDON TRAVER / SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL
Rodney and Phebe Bennett pose for a photograph in front of the newly installed veterans
tribute wall at Davenport Place in Silverton.
Aaron
Cressey
has
served in three different
branches of the military
and also wanted to see see
the tribute wall.
“I think it’s great and
brought back some mem-
ories for me,” he said. “It
makes me feel good that
they are not only remem-
bered, but it’s also a way
to pay our respect.”
The public is invited to
visit the veterans tribute
wall weekdays between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. Davenport
Place is located at 930
Oak St. in Silverton.
things.” A businesses in-
tensity refers to the
amount of traffic a busi-
ness generates in a given
location. The former
Rite-Aid location had ap-
proximately 300 trips per
day to the location so it
was considered a “fairly
intense use” Gottgetreu
said.
Because the former
Rite-Aid location is con-
sidered a retail location,
any new retail businesses
wanting to use that space
as such wouldn’t be sub-
ject to the same level of
planning that a new build-
ing or new use would. In
2015 O’Reilly Auto Parts
submitted a plan to build a
retail parts location with
frontage on N. Water, C
and Front streets. Its pro-
posed plan was denied be-
cause the Planning Com-
mission declared it didn’t
meet designed standards
based on the city’s code.
“They received a sub-
jective review because
they wanted to deviate
from code standards,”
Gottgetreu said. “Our
code standards require
windows on all street
frontages and it didn’t
meet that standard.”
The decision was ap-
pealed, albeit with design
modifications that includ-
ed landscaping in lieu of
windows, and was again
denied. However, in late
2015 a new design was
submitted and approved
and construction will be-
gin this year.
There are objective
standards within the city
code and if a developer
meets those standards,
the city cannot deny
building permits, howev-
er it can send the applica-
tion to the Silverton Plan-
ning Commission. This
was done with both the 93-
unit Silver Place Apart-
ments and the 20-unit
farmworker housing pro-
jects last year.
“They both could have
been approved at a staff
level, but I decided to
send these to the planning
commission because of
the intensity of the use.”
Even if a business ap-
plication is approved, the
service
development
charges the city requires
can be substantial. The
SDCs are based on the
amount of traffic a busi-
ness generates and are
part of an engineering
formula, not subjective.
The former Rite-Aid loca-
tion was approved for 300
visits per day. If a new re-
tail business moves in and
has similar traffic, the
SDC charges will be low-
er than a business that
comes in and will gener-
ate 400 trips per day.
“If they decide not to
do it, a lot of it has to do
with the costs of the pro-
ject,” Gottgeteu said.
“They may have decided
it wasn’t worth the cost,
but it wasn’t a denial on
the city’s part.”
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Beverly Cleary
birthday party with
snacks, activities and sto-
ry reading. It will also
host an Adopt-a-Pet day
in conjunction with the
Willamette Valley Hu-
mane Society during
Tuesday’s celebration.
“We decided to do this
because the Henry Hug-
gins story about him find-
ing a stray dog seemed
such a good fit with the
Humane Society’s ef-
forts,” said Casle Portner,
of the library youth ser-
vices. “We’re looking for-
ward to this being a good
time for everybody.”
The event will run
from noon to 5:30 p.m.
and adoptable dogs will
be brought in to meet
their hopeful forever
families.
The Silver Falls Li-
brary in Silverton will
also commemorate the
day from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m..
Children ages five to 11
and parents or guardians
are invited in for food and
drinks, various craft ac-
tivities and a read-aloud.
“We’ll have a number
of stations where kids
can do some artwork,”
MacKenzie Ross, youth
services, said. “We’re
really excited about this.
This is going to be a lot of
fun.”
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Beloved Oregon chil-
dren’s author Beverly
Cleary will be turning 100
on Tuesday, April 12, and
in celebration both the
Stayton and Silver Falls
libraries will hold events
to honor the occasion.
Cleary was born on
this date in 1916 in
McMinnville and lived on
a farm outside of Yamhill
until the family moved to
Portland, where she at-
tended school. She grew
up to eventually intro-
duce the public to charac-
ters such as Ramona and
Beezus Quimby, Ralph S.
Mouse, and Henry Hug-
gins and his dog Ribsy.
Cleary’s books have
earned many awards, in-
cluding the 2003 National
Medal of Art from the Na-
tional Endowment of the
Arts and the 1984 John
Newbery Medal for
“Dear Mr. Henshaw.”
“Ramona and Her Fa-
ther”
and
“Ramona
Quimby, Age 8” were
named 1978 and 1982
Newbery Honor Books,
respectively.
Among Mrs. Cleary’s
other awards are the
American Library Asso-
ciation’s 1975 Laura In-
galls Wilder Award, the
Catholic Library Associ-
ation’s 1980 Regina Med-
al, and the University of
Southern Mississippi’s
1982 Silver Medallion, all
presented in recognition
of her lasting contribu-
tion to children’s litera-
ture. In addition, Cleary
was the 1984 United
States author nominee
for the international
Hans Christian Andersen
Award and was named a
“Living Legend” by the
Library of Congress.
To recognize Cleary’s
accomplishments
and
her centennial, the Stay-
ton Library will hold a
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