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Brewer’s Tasting Dinner kicks off beer event
VICTOR PANICHKUL
STATESMAN JOURNAL
The Oregon Garden
will kick off this year’s
Oregon Garden Brewfest
with the 5th annual Brew-
er’s Tasting Dinner.
The popular event will
take place on June 16, the
eve of the festival, at 7
p.m. at the Oregon Garden
Resort. There are a limit-
ed number of tickets
available for $50.
The Brewer’s Tasting
Dinner
features
six
courses, each with a small
plate paired with a unique
beer from one of six se-
lected breweries. This
year’s featured breweries
include Ordnance Brew-
ing from Boardman, Wor-
thy Brewing from Bend,
Nectar Creek Mead from
Corvallis, Silver Falls
Brewery from Silverton,
Fremont Brewing from
Seattle and Three Creeks
Brewing from Sisters.
Representatives from
each of the breweries will
give a presentation about
their beer during the din-
ner, which also will be at-
tended by brewers partic-
ipating in the festival, in-
dustry insiders and beer
aficionados.
A special overnight
package is available at the
Oregon Garden Resort,
located just steps away
from the festival, that in-
cludes tickets to the
Brewer’s Tasting Dinner
and a three-day ticket to
the Brewfest, starting at
$339. Packages can be
booked
at
oregongardenresort.com
or by calling 503-874-
2500.
Located in the historic
town of Silverton, the Ore-
gon Garden Brewfest will
take place Father’s Day
weekend, June 17-19 and
will feature 60 breweries
pouring 120 beers, ciders
and meads from through-
out Oregon and across the
country. This year, the
festival will be held in the
Rediscovery Forest, and
attendees are encouraged
to explore the 80-acre bo-
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PHOTOS BY MICHAEL DAVIS/STATESMAN JOURNAL
Silver Falls Coffee House owner-operator Elisha Nightingale
(right) and barista Emily Payley.
time for an hour or so be-
fore preparing and par-
taking in the session’s
meal.
As the parent of a par-
ticipant, Jennifer lauded
the program’s broad
reach and the fact that
kids who may not normal-
ly hang out at school often
interact at ASAP.
“It’s not for the trou-
bled kids; it’s not for the
needy kids – it’s for every
kid,” she said. “At some
point, it does help the kids
who need it.”
As Josh offered the “It
takes a village” adage,
Sue underscored it with
figures, citing 60 ASAP
volunteers, deeply appre-
ciated benefactors and
community fundraising,
such as last year’s GALA
that netted more than
$38,000. She said Silver-
ton native and country
music artist Ben Rue will
be a featured part of the
next GALA scheduled for
August.
Meanwhile, the com-
munity foundation grant
stands to expand the pro-
gram from two days to
three; next year ASAP is
shooting for Tuesday
through Thursday. Sue
stresses that an accompa-
nying uptick in volunteers
would help ensure that
target.
Silverton’s ASAP vol-
unteer composition builds
from a wide swath: a high-
school senior is among the
current mix; so is a re-
tired local physician who
delivered a number of the
program’s participants.
Want to volunteer,
learn more or help out
with ASAP? Contact (503)
580-1794 or joshburge-
son@gmail.com; visit on-
line at http://asapsilverto-
nor.org, or “After School
Activities Program” on
Facebook, or ask about it
Kathryn Cater materialized as
Glinda at Appeal Tribune's
Creekside Cafe in Silverton.
at Immanuel Lutheran
Church, 303 N. Church St.,
Silverton, 97381.
» One sure way to get
some ink in Creekside
Chat is to arrive in cos-
tume, as did friends Karyl
Carlson and Kathryn
Cater.
Karyl, an aficionado of
all things related to the
fantasy world created by
author L. Frank Baum,
came dressed as Dorothy
Gale, the Kansas child
who was whisked to the
Land of Oz.
In the doing so, Miss
Gale committed involun-
tary manslaughter, when
her farmhouse came to
rest atop the Wicked
Witch of the East.
Kathryn, resplendent
in pink, was costumed as
Glinda, a good witch who
shed no tears over the
passing of the aforemen-
tioned wicked one.
If you happen to be like
Karyl and Kathryn and
cations in Silverton.
The Oregon Garden
Brewfest is presented by
Venti’s Café and spon-
sored by Imperial Bottle
Shop, T-Mobile, Country
Financial, Crater Lake So-
da, Renewal by Andersen,
Goschie Farms, The Ore-
gon Lottery, Oregon Beer
Growler Magazine, Pepsi,
Screamin’ Sicilian Pizza
Co. and Ale Ways Brew-
ery Tours. For more infor-
mation about the event, go
to oregongarden.org/
events/brewfest.
you can’t watch “The Wiz-
ard of Oz” too many times,
there is news to share.
OzCon International
2016: The 52nd Winkie
Convention is coming to
the Sheraton Portland Air-
port Hotel in Portland the
weekend of July 15-17.
Thanks to persever-
ance by Karyl, convention
is coming to Oregon for
the first time. In all other
years the gathering has
been held in California.
An expected 100-120
collectors, scholars and
fans of Baum will attend
panels, presentations and
a marketplace of items.
Organizers have planned
a Royal Oz banquet for
Saturday night and a Sun-
day river cruise on the
Willamette.
Karyl, the convention
co-chairwoman and regis-
trar, has been attending
the celebration “for near-
ly 40 years.”
Her son, Sean, who
lives in Salem, has com-
posed original music in-
spired by the Oz books.
The compositions will de-
but during the convention
and be available as a CD.
Karyl is a semi-retired
costumer by profession
who still fills requests for
Dorothy’s duds.
Kathryn is a harpist
who composes music for
students of the instru-
ment.
For further informa-
tion on OzCon, call 503-
281-2500.
And if you are an Oz
fan, Karyl wants to con-
nect with you. Email her
at
karyl_carlson@hot-
mail.com.
» If you haven’t al-
Next chat
What: Creekside Chat
Where: Silver Creek Coffee
House, 111 Water St., Silver-
ton
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday, June 1 (First and
third Wednesdays)
Contact: Justin Much,
jmuch@StatesmanJour-
nal.com; 503-769-6338, cell
503-508-8157 or follow at
twitter.com/justinmuch
ready, check out the
freshly reimagined Silver
Creek Coffee House on
Water Street.
Owner-operator Elisha
Nightingale, along with
husband Joshua, have re-
freshed their welcoming
space with new seating ar-
rangements, a window-lit
back room and a tempting
menu for breakfast and
lunch.
Elisha, who moved to
Silverton last year, was
looking for the right loca-
tion to realize her coffee
house concept.
At the same time,
Creekside
Chat
was
searching for the perfect
environment to launch a
column within the historic
downtown.
The stars aligned.
Elisha has crepes on
the menu, stools along the
coffee bar, and a friendly
barista in Emily Payley, a
graduate of Salem’s Wil-
lamette Valley Christian
School.
The coffee will be ex-
tra delicious on alternate
Wednesdays at lunch-
time, when we’ll be avail-
able to meet with commu-
nity members and learn
what’s news.
DO YOU KNOW WHO IS
S
A hospitable Stacy
Palmer, executive direc-
tor of the Silverton Cham-
ber of Commerce, also sat
in as the coffee-house vi-
gnettes unfolded Wednes-
day, May 18, the inaugural
Creekside Chat featuring
twice-monthly visits to
town from Statesman
Journal Executive Editor
Michael Davis and East
Valley reporter Justin
Much.
Roessler and company
each took turns describ-
ing a favorite piece of the
after-school
program’s
presence. All brimmed
with enthusiasm, buoyed
in part by the recent
$15,000 Oregon Communi-
ty Foundation grant the
program received.
Sue described Josh as a
“kid magnet” and “the
biggest kid in the room,”
an élan he brought to the
ASAP directorship after
honing it with a stint as the
“biggest kid” at West Sa-
lem Boys Club.
Sue’s description was
illustrated by an enthused
gleam that seldom faded
far from Josh’s face as he
described ASAP student
interactions,
activities
and especially, in-school
achievements and im-
provements of each par-
ticipant, which program
operators have moni-
tored, term-to-term, since
the program’s January
2013 inception. The big-
kid director does insist
that participants put in
some activity or study
tanical garden with beer
in hand.
The Oregon Garden
Brewfest is for ages 21
and older on Friday and
Saturday evening; minors
are welcome until 5 p.m.
on Saturday and all hours
on Sunday. Admission
ranges from $15 to $50; all
admission packages in-
clude a souvenir tasting
glass and a number of
tasting tickets. Parking at
The Oregon Garden is $5
per car; free shuttles are
available from various lo-
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