2A Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Appeal Tribune
THE WEEK AHEAD
THROUGH OCT. 3
FRIDAY
Lunaria Gallery: Exhibit of
Mesoamerican inspired artwork
by Silverton based painter Lori
Rodrigues and Salem based
ceramicist Bruce Fontaine,
through Oct. 3. Gallery hours:
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Recep-
tion, 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 2, 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Lunaria Gallery, 113 N
Water St, Silverton. Free. 503-
873-7734, Lunariagallery.com.
Silvertongues Toastmasters:
Develop speaking skills in a
friendly and supportive envi-
ronment. Guests invited, 7:30 to
8:30 a.m., Silverton Community
Seventh-Day Adventist Church,
1159 Oak St., Silverton. 503-873-
4198.
THROUGH SEPT. 30
White Oak Gallery: “Think
BIG!,” exhibition with William
Leach, Douglas Beall, Robing
Humelbaugh, Julia Jiang and
Claudia O Driscoll, through
Sept. 30. Gallery hours: 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays,
216 E Main St., Silverton. Free.
503-399-9193, Thewhiteoak.in
fo.
THROUGH SUNDAY
Borland Gallery: “SilverFox
Studios Dreamscape Alchemy”
a collective of nine local artists
who specialize in diverse media
(painting, pyrography, pa-
percutting, photography,
leatherwork, etc., through
Sept. 25. Gallery hours: 8 a.m.
to noon Mondays-Fridays; noon
to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sun-
days, 303 Coolidge St., Silver-
ton. Free. 503-363-9310, Silver
tonarts.org.
THURSDAY
Vision Quest 2016: Low vision
fair, door prizes, resources, new
technology and information, 1
to 4 p.m., Silverton Senior
Center, The Great Room, 115
Westfield St., Silverton. Free.
503-873-3093, Silvertonsenior
center.org.
SATURDAY
Silverton Farmers Market:
Vendor booths with fresh local
produce, crafts and more, 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays
through Oct. 15, Town Square
Park, Main and Fiske streets,
Silverton. Free. Silvertonfar-
mersmarket.org.
Community Bingo: $5 for two
cards, $1 for each additional
card. 5 to 8 p.m., Silverton
Senior Center, 115 Westfield St.,
Silverton $3 chili dogs. 503-873-
3093, Silvertonseniorcenter.org.
SUNDAY
Silverton Concert Series
presents Wyatt True and
Grace Ho: Works by J.S. Bach,
B. Bartok, and L. van Beetho-
ven, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Silverton
Concert House, 405 N Water St.,
Silverton. Suggested donation
$10 adults; $5 seniors and
students. 503-873-0272, Silver
tonconcerts.info.
SEPT. 29
Travel Fair: For those who plan
to travel, go on vacations or
want to go on a trip in the
future, 1 to 4 p.m., Silverton
Senior Center, The Great Room,
115 Westfield St., Silverton.
Free. 503-873-3093, Silverton
seniorcenter.org.
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Four large cisterns augment
rural-dweller’s water supply
DEE MOORE
MARION SOIL & WATER
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Aumsville/Macleay
area resident Ray Tem-
ple’s yard is full of bird-
song and the buzz of bees.
He and his wife, Stepha-
nie Hazen, have worked
hard to cultivate this na-
tive habitat. There are
bird houses and feeders,
bat boxes, small hives, na-
tive meadow grass, plants
and wildflowers as well
as a small orchard.
You can tell their com-
mitment to the environ-
ment by just looking
around their property.
Sitting to the left of their
garage is an array of solar
panels. Behind it is Tem-
ple’s newest addition to
the couple’s ever growing
conservation efforts: He
has installed four 2,500
gallon above-ground cis-
terns to catch and store
rainwater from the roof
of the detached garage.
“The roof should shed
approximately
30,000
gallons a year, the gutters
are screened with mesh
screen and the piping has
first flush diverters,” he
said. “There is a new steel
roof on the building to
make sure the water is
clean.”
They also plan on
building a rain garden as
a way to keep water and
soil runoff to a minimum.
Temple has experience
building rain gardens.
This will be his fourth
one.
“The excess water
(from the cisterns) will be
shunted to a rain garden
planted to native Willam-
ette Valley wetland grass-
es and forbs (herbaceous
flowering plants). The
rain garden will be con-
structed consistent with
The Oregon Rain Garden
Guide,” he said.
This effort, according
to Temple, is not about
saving money. Instead, it
was wholly for the pur-
pose of lessening the bur-
den of the residential and
local watershed’s re-
sources.
“We have a well that
produces 20 gpm (gallons
per minute) of good wa-
ter, but neighbors nearby
have water quantity/qual-
ity issues with their
wells,” Temple said.
He consulted with
Clair Klock, senior re-
source conservationist, at
Clackamas Soil and Wa-
ter Conservation District,
as well as with district na-
tive plant specialist and
planner, Jenny Meisel.
“Klock has worked
with several landowners
in Clackamas County to
install rainwater catch-
SPECIAL TO THE STAYTON MAIL
Aumsville/Macleay area resident Ray Temple has built above-ground rainwater collection
cisterns, which will catch up to 10,000 gallons of water.
ment systems and has
hosted workshops for the
American
Rainwater
Catchment Systems As-
sociation in our area,” he
said.
“Every gallon collect-
ed is a direct saving of an
equivalent volume of
groundwater from our
well. Conservation of
groundwater is the over-
riding benefit of this pro-
ject,” he said. “In prac-
tice, I expect to increase
our water use to better
sustain native plantings,
but still with no well wa-
ter being used for irriga-
tion.”
Temple has spent
more time removing Hi-
malaya blackberries and
other invasive plants and
replacing them with na-
tive trees and shrubs.
“I converted 6,000
square feet of grass and
weeds to native forbs and
grasses; and prepared an-
other 10,000 square feet
for planting to native
grasses and forbs begin-
ning this fall. No lawn
grass is watered or will be
watered. Native plant-
ings require much less
water than fruit trees,
berries, ornamentals or
lawn,” he said.
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It’s an enormous un-
dertaking for Temple,
who is an ardent environ-
mentalist, though he will
scoff if he is called that.
“Am I an environmen-
talist? Mostly I think of
Stephanie and me as try-
ing to do what’s right for
the environment around
us,” Temple said.
“I have been interest-
ed in aspects of the natu-
ral world since growing
up near Charleston (Ore-
gon) with many square
miles of woods behind the
house, a creek at the back
of the property, a lake a
few hundred yards away
and the bay an easy walk
to fishing and tidepool-
ing. My family fished
about 20 weekends a year
and we spent a lot of time
outside.”
Growing up surround-
ed by nature led to a de-
gree and a career in con-
servation.
“Going into fisheries
with a degree from OSU
seemed a natural transi-
tion. I had previously
wanted to be a plumber,”
he said.
Temple retired in 2002
from the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
after 28 years. He was the
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land is located northeast
of the intersection of Jef-
ferson and James streets.
Eventually, the council
voted 5-1 (Carter dissent-
ing) to annex, noting that
any other action else
would be outside its scope
of authority.
“I’m struggling to see
how we can deny this an-
nexation,” Councilor Jim
Sears said.
Now that’s exactly
what the city will do, how-
ever, for the next six
months as a related de-
bate plays out in the court
system. One last applica-
tion — the 24-acre parcel
— will be processed, said
Community Development
Director Jason Gottge-
treu. After that, anything
over 2 acres must go to
popular vote or wait, per a
unanimous council deci-
sion.
The city of Corvallis is
now suing the state, say-
ing Senate Bill 1573 vio-
lates the Oregon Constitu-
tion’s right to “home rule”
by outlawing its 40-year-
old voter-approval re-
quirement regarding an-
nexations. When the case
has worked its way
through the courts, Silver-
ton will know whether it
can return to its voter-ap-
proval system or must
move on to a council-vote
mechanism.
Silverton enacted its
own voter-approval re-
quirement in 2005. As it
did, the council retained
its power to annex proper-
natural production pro-
gram director in the fish
division.
He then went to work
for the U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service as a grants
manager in the Wildlife
and Sport Fish Restora-
tion Program.
“After retirement and
marrying Stephanie, I
had time and support to
volunteer with Audubon
and get involved with lo-
cal environmental issues,
but mainly to try to do the
right thing for the pieces
of the environment that
we touch,” Temple said.
“The rainwater har-
vest system that we con-
structed this spring will
save 10,000 gallons of
groundwater
annually
and will never generate
any economic return,” he
said. “It was, however, the
right thing to do with our
money.”
Dee Moore is a com-
munications specialist
with the Marion Soil &
Water Conservation Dis-
trict. She can be reached
at (503) 391-9927 ext. 306
or
dee.moore@marion
swcd.net, or visit www.
marionswcd.net.
ties smaller than 2 acres
— and larger ones in ex-
tenuating circumstances,
such as when there are
hazards to health.
So, if the council’s stop-
action this month tempo-
rarily closed the window
of opportunity on larger
annexations, its proposed
amendment to the city’s
development code will
make it smaller when it
reopens.
By a 5-1 vote (Hector
dissenting), the council
gave initial approval to
three new criteria that fu-
ture applications must
meet. A second reading of
the changes will occur at
the next council meeting
Oct. 3.
Among the proposed
changes: residential prop-
erties will only be consid-
ered for annexation if Sil-
verton’s supply of vacant
and redevelop-able prop-
erty has fallen below a
five-year supply, or an
eight-year-supply in spe-
cial
circumstances.
Based on Silverton’s 2 per-
cent annual growth rate,
Gottgetreu said the city’s
existing 608 potential lots
represent a nearly seven-
year supply. The city of
Ashland’s development
code served as a model for
this new concept and lan-
guage, he said.
As a developer, Oster
said he’s unsure about the
growth-calculation. He
told the council it likely to
restrict growth, which
will drive up housing
costs.
“I think the market
does a better job of decid-
ing these kinds of things
than a governmental
agency,” he said.