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elected to refinish them
themselves. The secret?
Eight hours in a crockpot,
stewing in a solution of
water and TSP cleaner.
Upstairs, they remod-
eled the bathroom and
bedrooms with the help of
Northwoods
Construc-
tion.
The story of a
Silverton farmhouse
Not long after the
Goldens
found
their
house, its history found
them. One day, a car
pulled down their drive-
way. Inside were Charles
Lorence and Ruby (Lo-
rence) Snoey – by now in
their 90s – whose father
was the original builder.
They were in the Silver-
ton area for a family re-
union and just wanted to
see their old home from
the outside. Christine re-
called Charles asking for
a glass of the spring water
he remembered so well
from childhood.
The next year, she in-
vited the elderly brother
and sister back for lunch
with a few neighbors, and
she enjoyed hearing sto-
ries about life on the farm
in the 20s and 30s, includ-
ing the day in 1935 when
the Lorence family sat out
back and watched the
Oregon State Capitol
burn.
Thus the Goldens be-
gan to unravel their
home’s story, bit by bit. In
1926-27, Andrew Lorence
had built the house for his
wife Marjorie and three
Fest
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p.m. Friday, 9:45 p.m. Sat-
urday and 2 p.m. Sunday
in the Alpinegarten.
After several years hi-
atus, five-time Grammy
nominee LynnMarie with
her rockin’ polka band re-
turns. Catch her perfor-
mance 9:30 p.m. Thursday
and 7:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday in the Biergar-
ten.
“I love to watch the
Kleinstädtlers and Tirole-
an dancers,” Bochsler
said. “Tirolean are fun
and traditional. Klein-
städtlers are almost acro-
batic.”
Kleinstädtlers Bavar-
ian Dancers perform tra-
CHRISTENA BROOKS / SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
The office (original to the house) opens into a new master suite.
kids – Charles, Robert and
Ruby. They’d only lived
there for a decade,
though, because a football
injury permanently dam-
aged Charles’ leg, and, his
father developed an intes-
tinal condition, and later
died at age 52.
They’d made a living
growing grain and straw-
berries and raising ani-
mals, as well as running a
harvesting crew using
steam-driven equipment,
for other farmers. But
now the father’s and son’s
medical conditions made
the rigors of farming im-
possible. They moved
north, and went into sell-
ing produce and other
ventures.
By the early 1950s, an-
other local family pur-
chased the 40-acre farm.
Merle and Ruth Rasmus-
sen moved across Silver
Creek to raise their chil-
dren Donna, Carl, Jim and
John there. Both parents
ditional Bavarian dance
moves with high energy.
They will perform on
Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Alpinegarten and 9 p.m. in
the Biergarten.
Tirolean Dancers per-
form traditional, elegant
German dance. They will
perform 7:30 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and 4:30 and
7:30 p.m. Sunday at the
Bandstand.
“And I gotta say the
food booths,” Bochsler
said. “There are so many,
and I truly recommend
going with a good friend
and splitting and shar-
ing.”
About 50 food vendors
will be serving up a range
of culinary delights, in-
cluding sausage, brat-
wurst and sauerkraut, as
well as German-style
worked outside the home,
but they also raised tur-
keys, leased the land for
grain production and kept
horses, recalled Donna
(Rasmussen) McColly.
“My childhood is made
up of wonderful memo-
ries of riding horses on
the
property,”
said
McColly, who attended
Victor Point and Silverton
High schools before mar-
rying and settling down.
Her parents sold the
house to the Nielsen fam-
ily, who were the last to
live there before the Gold-
ens purchased it in 2010.
McColly already knew the
Goldens from her 32
years working at the hos-
pital and was delighted to
hear they were inviting
everyone back to view the
old home.
Bigger, better and yet
the same
Perhaps the Goldens’
biggest accomplishment
is the manner in which
they added 600 square
feet and a sweeping back
deck without interrupting
house’s original lines.
Their
remodeling
plans expanded and sped
up, thanks to one very un-
welcome development.
Christine broke her back
in a sledding accident and
spent a year recovering in
bed. The couple’s long-
term plan to develop a
main-floor master suite
became a priority. (Chris-
tine said she still think her
husband pushed the pro-
ject forward just to cheer
her up.)
They hired Jane Hon-
beck of Architects Atelier
to push out their home’s
western wall, reorient and
redesign the kitchen, add
the master suite, and in-
clude a sitting room. Ol-
son Homes put the de-
signs into action, and, af-
ter solving structural is-
sandwiches and spaetzle,
plus festival favorites in-
cluding corn dogs and on-
ion rings.
And what would Okto-
berfest be without beer?
“Zoiglhaus is creating
a new beer. Mt. Angel Ok-
toberfestbier will be un-
veiled in the Biergarten.
Warsteiner has arranged
for us to have a couple of
their limited release
beers, a red bock, their
Braumeister and their
new Winter Ale,” Boch-
sler said.
Check out the full line-
up of food and beer offer-
ings at the festival
website.
“There really is so
much,” Bochsler said,
“It’s going to be a full fes-
tival.”
Carlee Wright is the en-
tertainment reporter for
the Statesman Journal.
Contact
Carlee
at
cwright2@Statesman-
Journal.com,
503-399-
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time job.
“I’ve been on autopilot
maintenance conserva-
tion which has included
experimentation; letting
it do its own thing. Anoth-
er part of my hobby is wa-
tering the trees during 100
degree weather,” Dyk
said.
“I’ve been trying to es-
tablish a row of hybrid
poplars and natives natu-
rally,” he said.
According to Dyk’s
own count he’s planted
hundreds of trees since
2012.
His approach is to
plant, water, and wait. He
ponders the questions;
Did the tree take root? If
not, why? Then he moves
on to another tree or an-
other approach. In this
way his conservation
work is trial and error, but
he likes the scientific as-
pect of it, the success bred
from repeated trials and
observation.
He learns as he goes;
slowly replacing the for-
ested area around Mill
Creek.
“My property runs
along Mill Creek and the
(Aumsville) urban growth
boundary,” he said. “I’ve
always been a tree enthu-
siast, I learned a lot about
trees and natural re-
sources from him,” Dyk
said of retired NRCS con-
servationist Joe Evans.”
Dyk rattles off more
conservation heroes: Ken
Hale, Rob Tracy, Kris Ha-
ma, all people who taught
him and influence his land
management beliefs and
practices.
Mentors,
whose life lessons he trea-
sures and uses to help
build up the riparian area
and keep the Mill Creek
Watershed healthy.
Dee Moore is a commu-
nications specialist with
the Marion Soil & Water
Conservation
District.
She can be reached at
(503) 391-9927 ext. 306 or
dee.moore@marionswcd.
net, or visit www.marions
wcd.net .
sues;
the
Goldens
watched their home grow.
For the first time its histo-
ry, it truly captured the
valley view of evergreens
and rolling fields, from a
tall back deck and a trio of
second-floor windows.
“I wanted it to look like
we hardly added on; I
wanted it to look like it
was just like this,” Chris-
tine said.
Recovering from the
accident forced her to
rest, so she spent her
hours researching artistic
touches and green build-
ing technology. With a
rueful grin, she did admit
to refinishing doors and
“miles of trim,” some-
times with a dental pick,
as she healed from the ac-
cident.
The couple installed a
geothermal heat system
to replace the old oil fur-
nace. They also hired Ben-
ton Electric of Albany to
install solar panels on
their new shop. Now they
sell power back to the grid
and pay roughly $22 per
month for electricity.
“We wanted to mini-
mize utility costs for the
next 20 years,” Christine
said. “We want to be green
and think ahead. We in-
stalled an electric car
charger in the shed, even
though we don’t have an
electric car.”
Artistic touches in-
clude a shallow farm-
house sink in the kitchen,
a claw foot tub upstairs,
quartz countertops, and a
long, low decorative wall
near the front porch made
of old chimney bricks. Be-
cause it makes use of orig-
inal materials, it fits right
in.
The Goldens are both
master gardeners, so they
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installed a large fenced
garden and implemented
eye-catching designs cre-
ated by landscape archi-
tect Laura Antonson. It’s
an improvement over the
old days, McColly said,
when her family simply
maintained a lawn.
Spring 2016 was the
moment when the Gold-
ens felt their house was
“mostly” finished. So they
sent out invitations to the
Lorences,
Rasmussens
and Nielsens, as well as
many other friends and
family members. People
even came from out of
state to attend.
“As we came down the
driveway, my brother
said he just had this rush
of memories,” McColly
said.
The Goldens’ pastor,
Bob Henry of Silverton
Friends Church, led a 45-
minute ceremony pat-
terned after an Episcopa-
lian house blessing cere-
mony, going from room to
room to pray. Even
Frank’s “man cave” in the
basement got a special
blessing.
Sadly, the last two
members of the original
Lorence family – Charles
and Ruby – both died in
the last 18 months, so
weren’t in attendance.
But Charles’ son Bob, a re-
tired college administra-
tor
from
Umatilla,
brought his family to
meet the Goldens and con-
nect with their past.
“We took one of my
sons and his kids, so we
had three generations,”
he said. “We enjoyed very
much; it gave our grand-
kids a sense of where they
came from,” he said.
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proach to mindfulness,
his “hobby,” a way to stay
in touch with his land and
himself, something he
started doing as a coping
mechanism while caring
for his elderly mother.
If you ask him about
his restoration efforts, he
will give you the backsto-
ry as well as why he does
what he does. He will tell
you about his heroes and
how he came to be an avid
conservationist.
Like most of Dyk’s sto-
ries, his approach to con-
servation is similar to his
approach to meditation.
He stumbled upon it. Af-
ter graduating from OSU
with a degree in animal
science embryo physiolo-
gy he returned to the
dairy farm he was raised
on to work as its manager.
His parents all but re-
tired, he saw an opportu-
nity to implement some of
the farming practices he
learned in college on his
family’s farm.
“This all kind of started
when I was 24 years old
and met Mike and Monte,”
Dyk said.
He contacted Monte
Graham, who was then a
soil conservation special-
ist at Marion Soil & Water
Conservation
District,
and Mike Gangwer, OSU
Extension dairy special-
ist. Little did Dyk know
that he was stepping on to
a path leading to one of the
greatest passions of his
life.
It was the influence of
these
conservationists
and their willingness to
teach and share their in-
formation with a young
man that led to Dyk’s be-
coming passionate about
natural resource conser-
vation.
They helped him im-
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Robert Dyk tends to his land.
plement several best
management conserva-
tion practices at the dairy
and in the process he was
hooked.
With their help Dyk in-
stalled gutters and down-
spouts on the barn to di-
verted the rain water
from the waste water and
into an underground pipe-
line that took the clean
water to a nearby ditch
and on to Mill Creek.
They also helped him
establish a grassed water
way diversion ditch to
create a gradient fall and
they assisted him with
balancing the manure nu-
trient cycle with crop up-
take. All important as-
pects of dairy farming, es-
pecially when you have
400 head on 101 acres of
hydric soil; soil that is
formed under conditions
of saturation, flooding or
ponding long enough dur-
ing the growing season to
develop anaerobic condi-
tions in the upper part.
But, dairy farming is
now long in the past. He
quit the farm in 1999 and
leased the crop land out.
Now it has perennial rye
grass growing on it.
Dyk now works slowly
at restoration while hold-
ing down a demanding full
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