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OBITUARIES
Kathleen M. Smith
March 7, 1942 — Dec. 9, 2016
Kathleen M. Smith of Silverton
passed away on Friday, Dec. 9. She was
74.
Kathleen (also known
as Kathy) was born in Sil-
verton on March 7, 1942, to
Harold and Lois Toft. She
graduated from Silverton
Union High School in 1960.
Kathleen worked many
years as a school bus driv-
er (and then bus company manager) in
the Silverton area. She was also a writer,
reader, Girl Scout leader, cat lover, and
genealogist.
Kathleen is survived by her four chil-
dren — Kris Dahl (John) Mitchell, Eric
(Tamara) Dahl, Julie Smith (Alan Yoder)
and Keturah (Zach) Pliska. She is also
survived by 11 grandchildren: Jarrod
Kwok, Pedram Ahrar, Jasmine Ahrar,
Olivia Dahl, Benjamin Dahl, Laura Dahl,
Liza Dahl, Dane Yoder, Rhys Yoder, Gra-
ham Pliska, and Eli Pliska; by her sister,
Loretta (Raymond) Kaser; and by her
foster brother, Larry Rickard.
The family wishes to extend their
gratitude to Kathleen’s caregivers, Wen-
dy Franklin and Sheila Graisbery, for
their loving care of Kathleen.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests
that donations be made to Girl Scouts of
Oregon and SW Washington, GirlScout-
sOSW.org. Condolences may be left in
Kathleen’s online guestbook at Unger-
FuneralChapel.com.
A memorial service was held Dec. 18
at Trinity Lutheran Church in Silverton.
Leonard J. Kelley, Sr.
March 26, 1925 — Dec. 11, 2016
Leonard J. Kelley, Sr., passed away
Dec. 11, 2016. He lived in Silverton, near
many family and friends.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, to
Edward and Theresa (Potter) Kelley, he
moved to Oregon with his wife Eloise
Eva Tracey in 1977. He worked hard his
whole life. Over the years, Kelley owned
and managed a range of small business-
es, including grocery stores, gas sta-
tions, and real estate. He served proudly
in the Navy during World War II.
His life goal was to build a strong and
loving family — which he lived to see.
He is survived by his seven sons and
their families: Leonard “Pete” Jr. (An-
nie), Donald (Theresa), Philip (Helen),
Gary (Joann), Tim (April), Robert (Pat)
and Daniel (Eileen). Survivors also in-
clude 22 grandchildren and 24 great-
grandchildren, Sherry Kelley, John and
Jean Rago, Shirley and John Williams,
and others he included in his family. He
was preceded in death by his beloved
wife Eloise, his parents, his siblings, and
Auntie Ann Graham.
Leonard was a former mayor of
Woodburn, an avid fan of Salem-Keizer
Volcanoes and Chicago Cubs, and a mem-
ber of St. Paul Catholic Church of Silver-
ton. He enjoyed telling a good story and a
shot of Bushmills with his family and
friends.
Funeral mass was held Dec. 17 at St.
Paul Catholic Church of Silverton. In lieu
of flowers, please send any donations to
the Victory Academy (for children with
autism) at VictoryAcademy.org or Vic-
tory Academy, P.O. Box 428, Tualatin OR,
97062.
Arrangements with Unger Funeral
Chapel.
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Motor Voter tally celebrated with hazelnuts
WHITNEY M. WOODWORTH
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Accompanied by 270,000 hazelnuts,
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Secretary
of State Jeanne Atkins highlighted the
triumphs of the state’s first year of auto-
matic voter registration.
Bags holding about a thousand
pounds of hazelnuts represented the
270,000 voters registered since January
2016, when Oregon enacted the program.
“Each one of them represents a new
voter,” Atkins said. “Like hazelnuts, this
program is uniquely Oregon. Unlike ha-
zelnuts, automatic voter registration can
grow and expand anywhere in America.”
More than 97,000 ballots were cast by
people registered through the landmark
“Motor Voter” program — a turnout of
nearly 40 percent. Statewide, 80.3 per-
cent of registered voters cast ballots in
the November election, one of the high-
est rates in the country.
“I am so absolutely proud that Oregon
values expanding voter access,” Brown
said. “We know our government is made
stronger and better when we have more
perspective at the table. Democracy is
like a muscle. It gets stronger with use.”
Brown thanked the Secretary of Sta-
tes’s office and staff around the state for
helping Oregon embody the idea that all
voices matter.
“Certainly our hard work couldn’t
have come at a more important time in
both Oregon’s and our nation’s history,”
Brown said.
Following a hard-fought, difficult
election, the country is watching as a
new administration takes shape in Wash-
ington, D.C. Brown said Oregonians will
not backtrack on civil or human rights
for all of its residents.
The first step toward protecting those
ideals is making sure all eligible voters
have the chance to participate, she add-
ed.
An average of 13,000 people are added
to the voter rolls each month, Atkins
said. She expects that trend to continue
for the next several years, but added
there is more work to do with reaching
people who do not use the DMV, as well
as making the voting system easier to un-
derstand and ensuring ballots are less in-
timidating.
Oregon was the first state in the coun-
try to implement a system of automatic
voter registration.
“At a time when states across the
country having been rolling back access
to democracy, we will continue to in-
crease access to the ballot,” Atkins said.
“This is an unarguable good.”
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ANNA REED / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Gov. Kate Brown with 270,000 hazelnuts,
each representing a voter who has registered
since January, when Oregon enacted an
automatic registration program.
Some tiny water utilities have big problems
TRACY LOEW
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Thousands of people across Oregon
may be drinking water with high levels
of lead and not know it.
A USA TODAY NETWORK investiga-
tion found that tiny water utilities – those
that serve 3,300 customers or fewer –
aren’t subject to the same federal regu-
lations as larger ones.
Unlike large utilities, small utilities
don’t have to treat water to prevent lead
contamination until after lead is detect-
ed, the investigation found.
And, across the country, small utili-
ties that skip safety tests or fail to treat
water after lead is found often aren’t
forced to comply with the law, the inves-
tigation found.
In Oregon, 277 small water systems
serving a total of 66,765 people were
cited for failing to properly test for lead
at least once during the past six years,
data compiled by USA TODAY shows.
That’s 11 percent of the population
served by tiny utilities statewide.
In Marion County, the small water
systems include the cities of Turner and
Aurora; Mount Angel Abbey; the utility
serving Illahe Golf Club Estates; and
NORPAC Foods Inc. in Brooks.
During the same six-year period, 56
small water systems in Oregon had at
least one test showing excessive levels
of lead. Seventeen of those systems were
cited multiple times.
Those systems served 18,609 people
or 3 percent of tiny utility customers.
Locally, they include Mount Angel
Abbey; Chemeketa Community Col-
lege’s Viticulture Center; and Valley In-
quiry Charter School, which has been us-
ing only bottled water for months.
Kari Salis, technical manager in Ore-
gon’s Drinking Water Services Program,
said it’s true that small water system
managers may not have the expertise to
carefully follow every step of the regula-
tions. As a result, they may have more
monitoring and reporting violations.
“The larger systems understand the
rules more and follow the protocol more
specifically,” she said.
But Oregon doesn’t bend the rules for
small systems, Salis said.
“We certainly feel like we do apply the
rules consistently,” she said. “When we
do feel it’s a water quality issue, they
have to follow the same steps as anyone
else,”
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency estimates that 10 to 20 percent of
a person’s potential exposure to lead
CRIME LOG
SILVERTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Dec. 11
Received calls from Dec. 5 to 11.
Burglary, 10:43 a.m., 200 N Water St.
Dec. 7
Motor vehicle crash, 8:45 p.m., S Water St. and
Central St.
Motor vehicle crash, 3:54 a.m., 1000 N First St.
Motor vehicle crash, 5:27 a.m., 700 McClaine
St.
Happy Holidays From
Michael Kim
DDS
comes from drinking water.
Exposure to lead can cause health
problems ranging from stomach dis-
tress to brain damage. Children are espe-
cially susceptible because their bodies
absorb metals at higher rates than
adults.
There is no safe level of lead, and ex-
perts say health effects can occur at lev-
els as low as 5 parts per billion in drink-
ing water.
tloew@statesmanjournal.com, 503-
399-6779 or follow at Twitter.com/
Tracy_Loew
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