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Defining the downtown core will be part of the process as Silverton City Council mulls smoking bans on its Dec. 4 agenda.
JUSTIN MUCH/STAYTON MAIL
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uWhen: 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8
uWhat: Next scheduled Silverton City Council meeting
in recent meetings. City Manager Christy Wurster
said the smoking ban emerged from an Environmental
Management Committee formed in 2015 to consider
environmental issues that may directly impact the city
and its residents.
Last summer the council heard a recommendation
from that committee to ban smoking and vaping in city
parks, and another to ban it in the downtown core. The
council agreed to review the proposals and subse-
quently discussed it during its Sept. 18 and Oct. 16
meetings.
City Councilor Laurie Carter broached the smoking
ban topic during the Town Hall meeting.
Carter, who owns a downtown shop, said affected
businesses have been responsive to the issue.
“I would like to thank the bars downtown," she said.
"... I’ve noticed they’ve started sweeping their side-
walks after closing at night so on Sunday mornings the
area is not full of cigarette butts.”
“Smokers have started smoking in the private park-
ing lots,” she added. "I think it’s to show that it’s not that
big of a problem. And I really think that it’s great that
they have taken those efforts.” She encouraged every-
one with thoughts on the issue, one way or the other, to
attend the meeting and voice those thoughts.
Among the factors, the council will consider is the
zone or area in which a downtown smoking ban would
entail. There have been several proposed, and each
comes with a different price tag.
During its November work session the panel exam-
ined the three: Walk Your Wheels perimeters, which
include Water and 1st streets between Park and Lewis
streets along with Town Square Park; Figure 8, which
includes Water and 1st streets from High to Main
streets along with a block of main south of Silver
Creek; Park to Jersey, which includes Water and 1st be-
uWhere: Silverton City Council Chambers, 421 S. Water
St.
uPhone: 503-874-2216
uWeb: www.silverton.or.us
tween those streets along with Town Square Park.
One element that could determine which option the
council chooses is the price tag, which revolves around
posting the necessary signs alerting the public to the
ordinance.
A city report noted that material and labor costs for
the installation of a sign are $382. Given that, the small-
est defined core, Figure 8, would cost $13,752 to post
the necessary signs; Walk Your Wheels option would
cost $22,156; Park to Jersey $30,560.
During that work session, Councilor Matt Plummer
emphasized a couple of factors within the considered
prohibition for clarification purposes. One was that
the bans only apply to public properties. He also
stressed that the $2,500 fine issued for violations is a
cost that is likely to be reduced in court.
Wurster said another topic that will likely emerge in
January is the city’s system development charges —
fees collected from developers to offset the costs of ad-
ditional infrastructure necessary to accommodate
their development.
Council President Jason Freilinger has brought up
the topic during recent meetings, including the Town
Hall, and has been studying the feasibility of Silver-
ton’s fee structure, which he noted often covers only a
fraction of the additional infrastructure cost; the rest
is paid by city residents.
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months, and at the National Dog Show in Philadelphia this
year, she received 15 of the 25 points needed in one
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during the semifinal races. Mt. Angel came later,
which happened to be as the finals were in progress.
The event sparked a fair amount of attention that
day and an equal amount of follow-up curiosity in the
ensuing months.
“I’ve had so many people ask, ‘whatever happened
to those puppies?’” Keller-McCormick said.
Meatloaf is now the proud pet of Kutzler , who is an
associate professor of Companion Animal Industries
at Oregon State University, and a Greater Portland
Dachshund Club member.
"Jacque said that Meatloaf looked like a little meat-
loaf when he was a newborn puppy and the name
stuck. We have owned him since he was 3 months old,"
Kutzler said, adding that he's been "very successful in
show ring, earthdog test, and field trial competitions."
Mt. Angel found her way to Thornton, Pa., and is a
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“It is my hope that visitors to Silverton
App
can take a self-guided tour and learn
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about the history of the murals and the
series of programming tutorials on YouTube while he
was in high school. I used these tutorials to teach myself
how to code.
“Lucas is now a college student at Cornell. Despite
only being in high school, his tutorials were excellent.
He is really a very good teacher. It struck me as humor-
ous that the man in his 50s would be taught by a high
school student.”
Uricchio said he continues to follow Derraugh via
Twitter and is interested to see where his life’s path
takes him.
He’s equally interested and hopeful of seeing the app
help Silverton visitors and locals alike locate and learn
more about the town's uniquely prolific civic artwork.
“It is my hope that visitors to Silverton can take a
self-guided tour and learn about the history of the mu-
rals and the artists that painted them,” he said.
To that end, Uricchio furnished the app with a para-
graph on subject matter addressed by each mural,
when it was painted and the name of the artist. Addi-
artists that painted them.”
Spill
Transportation spokesman. The intense fire also dam-
aged the road.
ODOT has contracted with SMAF Construction of
Prineville to remove contaminated soil and repair the
road, Torres said.
The highway remained closed between milepost 55,
at the east end of Idanha, and Santiam Junction, where
Highway 22 and U.S. Highway 20 intersect until Friday.
Officials recommended small vehicles traveling be-
tween the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon use
U.S. 20, which passes through Sweet Home and follows
the South Santiam River.
ODOT recommended large trucks use Highway 126
McKenzie Highway through Springfield, Highway 58
Willamette Highway, or U.S. 26 through Portland.
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The spill happened after a semi-tanker carrying
11,600 gallons of unleaded gasoline slid on ice near Idan-
ha, overturned and caught fire, killing the driver, 58-
year-old Ronald Edward Scurlock of Bend. Some of the
fuel burned off in the fire, but an unknown amount
spilled onto the road and into the river.
The crash happened about 45 miles east of Salem's
water treatment plant. The city provides drinking wa-
ter for about 192,000 people.
About 300 feet of the highway is contaminated on
both sides, said Lou Torres, Oregon Department of
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mural which can provide directions from wherever the
user might be.
Snow is delighted, especially with the possibilities of
how that new tool can help kindle pride and ultimately
preserve this part of Silverton’s heritage. She recalled
how longtime mural advocate Vince Till would provide
tours for local school kids with that same aim.
That aim remains today, and this new tool created by
her brother in his spare time has become a warm addi-
tion to that quest.
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