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2A ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE Course Continued from Page 1A Gen qualifier, its first major tournament since reopening. The group of volunteers that includes Moore, property manager David Jack- son, Ira Burgess and Matthew Coll have spent thousands of hours over the past two years to restore the course. It took a year of work to get the course to the point where it was suitable to re- open to the public. The disc golf course still needs work, and the project’s scope has grown to im- proving the facility, but the impact is visible in the dozen players playing the course on a sunny Monday afternoon in March. “People stepped up, and one year lat- er, I am personally just amazed at what people have done,” said Janet Johan- son, board chairwoman of Camp Taloa- li. “The community is back. They’re here because they enjoy being here at Camp Taloali, that magic feeling that Grief Continued from Page 1A “There are a lot of hurting people who need someone to walk alongside them,” said Julie Young, one of Silverton’s new Stephen ministers and a former law en- forcement professional. “I don’t have all the answers, but I can listen and care.” Currently, Stephen Ministries is in 12,000 congregations from 170 different denominations in the U.S., Canada and 29 other countries. According to the or- ganization’s website, 1.5 million people have received service in a formal one- on-one “caring relationship.” “Christ caring for people through people,” is the organization’s slogan. Ministers like Yount are taught to see Cougars Continued from Page 1A animal. Hunting cougars is still allowed, but it’s more restricted and there’s a you feel when you come up here.” The camp for deaf and hard-of-hear- ing children east of Stayton opened in 1973 on a 110-acre parcel of heavily wooded land on the banks of the San- tiam River. The Oregon Deaf Disc Golf Associa- tion built the course on the western part of the land starting in 2008. The course opened to the public in 2010. A few years later, the Oregon Deaf Disc Golf Association left the course and the decline started. Fewer players came to the course, and the whole place turned into a haz- ard. The worst came when someone dumped a recliner on a fairway. “And this is a summer camp, so our first priority is the children’s program,” Johanson said. “The rest we depend on volunteers to help with.” The volunteers have essentially come up with a three-year plan to refur- bish and improve the existing course. The group received donations: bark chips from Freres Building Supply and stone from Knife River Corporation, among many. New tee boxes already have been added, and more are planned as funds allow. The goal is to make the course longer and more challenging so it will be suitable for bigger tournaments. “We put in a lot of work to make it the most well-groomed course in the val- ley,,” Jackson said. “Our plan in the next couple years is to have this the best course with the best features in the val- ley.” The restoration has helped the disc golf course become one of the few in the area that remains playable year-round. Players come to the course when it’s snowing or it’s 100 degrees. The grass is always green in the lush forest, and the greens remain surprisingly stable when wet. “Even when it is raining we have what I would call the best conditions out of any of the courses around,” Coll said. A portion of the $5 day fee to play the course goes to maintain it, and a portion raises money for the Camp Taloali. The course is open to the public from dawn to dusk seven days a week, except when Camp Taloali is in session from the middle of June through August. More tournaments along the line of the Next Gen qualifier are planned for the future to raise money but also to im- prove the visibility of the course among the disc-golf community. “This is a little hidden gem,” Moore said. bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com or Twitter.com/bpoehler themselves as “caregivers, not cure-giv- ers … Christ is the cure-giver,” she said. In fact, the bulk of the seven local caregivers’ training has focused on ef- fective listening – and learning what not to say, more than anything. They are not psychologists or pastors, but they can serve someone who’s hurting in a more informal capacity, they said. “When someone suffers grief, no- body knows what to say, but they all have to say something,” caregiver Don- na Merriman said. “We’ve been learning the listening skills to draw out some- one’s feelings. That’s hard for people like us — who are problem-solvers — but we’re learning how important it is to just let people talk and get their feelings expressed.” “Our job is to listen, to point to the real caregiver – which is Christ – and to try to bring a focus on spiritual healing,” added Jim Sinn. When asked at a recent training ses- sion if they’ve suffered grief them- selves, all seven caregivers in the room nodded, and a few shed tears. “Part of the reason we’re doing this is because of the things we’ve been through,” Mark Merriman said. Each Silverton caregiver signed up for two years of service and committed to meeting twice a month with leaders in the church to get support and guid- ance. They also promised to keep their care-receivers’ information confiden- tial. A cadre of volunteers trained in lis- tening and confidentiality is a resource Pastor Tom Smith is excited to have available. After 33 years of ministry, he and his wife, Sherie, have served people in crisis more times than they can count, so this kind of “after care” is valu- able, he said. “Many times ministry staff goes from crisis to crisis,” Smith said. “So often, the long-term care that could be six months or longer is simply not possible for a ministry staff to do.” First Baptist’s new Stephen Minis- tries caregivers are Chris Barrett, Donna Merriman, Mark Merriman, Spring Quick, Kathy Ross, Jim Sinn and Julie Yount. Their leaders, who received 200 hours of instruction in order to teach, are Pastor Tom Smith, Sherie Smith, Harold “H” Nelson, and Lyla Irvine. To learn more, contact the church at 503-873-6181 or read more about the or- ganization at www.stephenministrie- s.org. closely monitored bag limit. In 1994, Oregon voters outlawed hunting cougars with dogs. “Their numbers have continued to grow at a steady clip,” Dennehy said. Around one cougar has been euthanized in the Silverton area each year since 2015. Residents should call the Silverton Police Department Dispatch Center at (503) 982-2340 or Oregon State Police at (503) 731-3030 if they see a cougar in town. Zach Urness has been an outdoors writer, photographer and videographer in Oregon for 10 years. He is the author of the book “Hiking Southern Oregon” and can be reached at zurness@Statesman- Journal.com or (503) 399-6801. 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