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Silverton gains apartment complexes
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
SILVERTON - A new 20-unit apart-
ment complex for low-income agricul-
tural workers filled less than a month af-
ter opening, while half of the 93 units at a
luxury apartment complex now under
construction have already been leased.
The two apartment complexes are un-
related, even as they enter Silverton’s di-
verse rental market at the same time.
Approved by the city about 18 months
ago, they both generated community
buzz because they feature three-story
buildings and are expected to create
some additional street traffic.
Beyond those similarities, however,
Colonia Jardines and Silverplace Apart-
ment Homes are distinctly different.
Colonia Jardines, on South Water
Street, is a subsidized apartment com-
plex open only to low-income agricultur-
al workers. The 27-year-old Farmworker
Housing Development Corporation,
based in Woodburn, has been building
similar communities for low-income
farmworkers since 1992. There are five
other such complexes in Salem, Sublimi-
ty, Stayton, Woodburn and Keizer.
“A lot of our tenants … they were
working in Silverton and living in Salem
or living in Mt. Angel,” said resident
manager Circe Vielman. “Now they live
and work in the same community.”
Colonia Jardines apartments rent for
between $680 and $795 apiece, with rent-
ers paying only a portion of that monthly
cost. Typically, they’re asked to put 30
percent of their income toward rent,
Vielman said. Each year, they’re re-
quired to prove their low-income status
and their employment in agricultural or
related industrial jobs, she said.
FARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The ribbon is cut at the Colonia Jardines grand opening.
See HOUSING, Page 2A
SILVERTON HIGH SCHOOL
Recording
studio
promised
to students
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
PHOTOS BY LAUREN HERNANDEZ/STATESMAN JOURNAL
Madison Mooney, left, and Leila Walker embrace for a photo in front of the South Falls of the Silver Falls State Park on May 27.
PASSPORT OREGON
OFFERS NEW VISTAS
Program allows kids to explore Silver Falls
LAUREN E HERNANDEZ
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Kids from a Beaverton-area ele-
mentary school laced up their hiking
shoes, hoisted backpacks filled with
water bottles and snacks and ex-
plored new terrain May 27.
Passport Oregon, a nonprofit or-
ganization aimed at providing oppor-
tunities for children to explore the
Oregon outdoors, guided six stu-
dents from Beaver Acres Elemen-
tary School through the Silver Falls
State Park as part of its program.
“It was developed as a goal to
reach out to young students, commu-
nities, and schools that have no ave-
nues or opportunities to be out in na-
ture,” said volunteer coordinator Ar-
iel Kanable.
Stephanie Smith, volunteer cohort leader with Passport Oregon, teaches kids about
rock formations.
See PASSPORT, Page 4A
Silverton High School is still rever-
berating from the news accompanying
the splashy appearance of High School
Nation on its sports fields late last
month.
The Foxes’ music program has been
promised a $30,000 recording studio
from the California-based traveling
music and arts festival, which wrapped
up its 2017 nationwide tour in Silverton
on May 19. At a school-sanctioned
event, visiting rockers and artists en-
tertained roughly 1,000 high school stu-
dents, turning an empty baseball field
into a dual-stage interactive rock festi-
val for the afternoon.
“The kids loved it and were really
grateful,” said Principal Justin Lieual-
len. “We figured this would be a nice
way to lighten the mood after a tough
week.”
Not only did High School Nation’s
visiting artists and bands perform, but
they also let Silverton kids jam onstage,
listen to music and make T-shirts. Stu-
dents played, danced, sang along,
threw Frisbees and basked in the after-
noon sunshine during the two-hour par-
ty.
The tour’s lasting contribution to Sil-
verton’s music and arts program is the
recording studio its organizers plan to
install as a free gift. In fact, High
School Nation’s sponsors are funding
similar giveaways all 60 high schools
on its tour schedule, according to orga-
nizers. McNary High School in Keizer
got a visit and similar gift on May 18.
If Silverton High gets a full record-
ing studio, it will be a windfall for stu-
dents who want to try writing, record-
ing and producing music. A brand-new
class is already taking 28 students
through the process of making an al-
bum, using what equipment the high
school already had and could afford.
Band teacher Frank Petrik debuted
the class, Music Studio Recording
Technology, this winter as a unique out-
let for student musicians who aren’t in
band or choir or may want another cre-
ative opportunity. Now those students –
and others like them – have something
more to look forward to.
“It’s a class that allows kids to write
See STUDIO, Page 2A
Normal levels expected for Detroit Lake
ZACH URNESS
STATESMAN JOURNAL
After two consecutive
years of low water at De-
troit Lake, this summer is
expected to bring a return
to normal.
Water managers are
projecting normal to
above normal water lev-
els in the reservoir east of
Salem for the entire sum-
mer.
“We are expecting that
most of the boat ramps to
be usable until the end of
summer,” said Salina
Hart, chief of reservoir
regulation and water
quality for the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
That’s good news for
Detroit business owners
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and recreational boaters,
who all suffered during
two years of historically
low water levels.
Last summer, the res-
ervoir only reached a
height of 1,554 feet, be-
fore dropping sharply and
leaving docks on dry
ground earlier than nor-
mal.
The year before, 2015,
a historic drought
brought the reservoir
to its lowest summer-
time level in history,
1,511 feet in early sum-
mer and as low as 1,425
feet by autumn.
This year, the reser-
voir should remain
around 1563.5 feet for
much of the summer.
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Calendar ...............................3A
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Life..........................................4A
Obituaries .............................3B
Sports......................................1B
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