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Earthquake preparedness event set
JUSTIN MUCH
STAYTON MAIL
Natural disasters are a global fact.
Beyond that acknowledgement, a nat-
ural disaster can move from fact to in-
your-face phenomenon when one de-
scends locally, such as the magnitude 2.5
earthquake just north of Silver Falls
State Park along Highway 214 reported
by the U.S. Geological Survey on Dec. 21.
No damage or injuries were reported
in that quake, which was centered about
8.7 miles northeast of Sublimity at a
depth of just over 10 miles.
But a mild quake does trigger
thoughts, such as “What if it had been
stronger?”
Answers to such questions will be
coming to Silverton as a legion of public-
safety entities team with the American
Red Cross in “Prepare Out Loud,” an
earthquake and disaster-preparedness
presentation fair set for 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 27, at Silverton High
School, 1456 Pine St.
The event is free, and it will be teem-
ing with pros primed to provide prepara-
tion tips, including Silverton Fire Dis-
trict, Mt. Angel Police, Marion County
Emergency Management, Community
Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
from Mt. Angel and Silverton, Marion
County Search & Rescue, Silverton Sen-
ior Center, Map Your Neighborhood and
American Red Cross.
Featured presentations tucked within
the fair will take place at 6:30 to 7 p.m.
and 8:30 - 9:15 p.m.
Red Cross regional spokeswoman
Monique Dugaw noted that presenta-
tions directly address the seismic signif-
icance of the Cascadia Subduction Zone
and what to expect following an earth-
TIMM COLLINS / APPEAL TRIBUNE
The Mt. Angel Fire District will be among the entities involved when the Red Cross-hosted
Prepare Out Loud fair comes to Silverton on April 27.
See QUAKES, Page 2A
Silverton
site offers
eclipse
camping
The Oregon Garden
secures city permit
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
The Oregon Garden has secured a
permit from Silverton to transform an
11-acre parcel of municipal property
into a temporary campground on the
days surrounding the solar eclipse in
August.
For a permit fee of $5,000 – plus a
$5,000 refundable deposit – the non-
profit Oregon Garden Foundation will
be allowed to turn the Westfield Proper-
ty, behind the Senior Center, into a
campground featuring up to 150 camp-
sites, onsite security, and portable toi-
lets.
The temporary campground will
augment “Total Eclipse of the Garden”
events scheduled for Aug. 19-21. These
campsites will be in addition to others
already offered on its property, across
Cascade Highway.
City staff and councilors attached a
number of conditions to the special
event application they approved April
3. Among other things, the permit re-
quires two entrances, a $2 million in-
surance policy, crossing guards for pe-
destrians, and no alcohol or illegal drug
consumption onsite.
Councilors stipulated that campers
at the Westfield campground must also
pay transient occupancy tax, which is
levied on hotel, RV and other vacation
rental stays. Funds collected help pay
for projects that promote tourism.
Several councilors said they want to
be sure that city taxpayers feel they’re
sufficiently benefiting from the tem-
porary campground. Councilor Jim
Sears noted that the garden will gross
$45,000 if all campsites fill, but agreed
with others that it’s unlikely that netted
profits will be anything near that figure
after expenses are paid out.
“We’re blazing new ground. There is
no history here,” he said.
After much discussion about charg-
ing more, less, or two separate fees for
property rental and the permit, coun-
cilors returned to straight-up $5,000
special use fee, noting that, in the fu-
ture, they’ll consider different struc-
tures.
“If it’s too much, we can lower it, but
PHOTOS BY DANIELLE PETERSON / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Crowds fill the colorful fields during the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival on Saturday at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn. In
addition to tulip viewing, there are tram rides, a children’s play area, food booths, wine tastings and more.
A blooming festival
Hundreds flock to see Woodburn’s tulips
LAUREN E HERNANDEZ
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Hundreds of families flocked to
Woodburn’s 33rd annual Wooden
Shoe Tulip Festival to kick off Easter
weekend.
Despite the harsh winter, dozens
of vibrant varieties of tulips extend
for 40 acres on the Wooden Shoe Tulip
Farm.
Some visitors endured a two-hour
drive due to heavy traffic on the holi-
day weekend.
Crowds of families with dogs in
tow sloshed through the muddy soil to
stroll through rows of colorful tulips,
many stopping to take photos among
the blooms.
While visitors can’t pick tulips
from the ground, there is a green-
house tent where people can pur-
chase flowers and order tulip bulbs
for their own gardens.
In addition to viewing the bloom-
ing tulips, visitors hitched hay wagon
rides, children slid down a slide over-
looking the tulips and Albarino Vine-
yard.
Adults were able to sip locally
Festivalgoers walk among the vibrant pink blooms during the tulip fest Saturday at the
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn. The festival runs through April 30.
made wine while bouncing on a trac-
tor tram as it weaved through the
farmland.
For woodworking aficionados, vis-
itors can watch a wooden shoe mak-
ing demonstration and even try on a
pair on weekends.
The festival will run until April 30,
daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information, visit http://
www.woodenshoe.com/events/tulip-
fest/
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City Council OKs next year’s to-do list
Upcoming projects include finishing
Old Mill Park, updating street signs
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
Curious what your Sil-
verton city councilors
hope to work on over the
next year?
Their to-do list for the
fiscal year beginning in
July is just over 30 items
long. With general goals,
it includes a number of
specific projects.
Some of these include
installing water meters
that don’t require onsite
meter-readers,
asking
voters to pay for pool op-
erations via a bond mea-
sure, considering banning
plastic shopping bags and
establishing no-smoking
areas in town.
Upcoming projects in-
clude completing Old Mill
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Park, updating street
signs and completing a
physical assessment of
the pool. Items for dis-
cussion include ex-
panding utility bill as-
sistance, the feasibility
of a park and recrea-
tion district and gray
water irrigation sys-
tems.
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