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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 ܂ SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK Mt. Angel Brewing Company to close Bill Poehler Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK MT. ANGEL – There are a few bags of ingredients and empty bottles left in the Mt. Angel Brewing Com- pany's production facility, but most of the remaining product is in the barrels. Once owner Larry Oien, 72, fills his remaining or- ders this month, he will close the business he has owned since 2005 to focus on his recovery from cancer and spend more time with his grandchildren. “It was a very emotional decision to wind this down,” Oien said. He said he will attempt to sell the brewing business. Oien has been winding it down – he stopped bot- tling a year ago and has only been selling kegs – since being diagnosed with prostate cancer, but wanted to continue the operation even as his life grew more com- plicated. He said he could continue the business indefinitely while he courted a potential buyer, but he felt it was best to make a quick exit from the business. “It doesn’t feel sudden to me, but you’ve got to do it that way to get it done,” Oien said. “Move on. The long- er you stretch it out, the more doubt you may have. Nope, you’re done, finished.” In 2005, he was working as a manager at Red Lob- ster in Salem when his brother, Hal, bought Mt. Angel Brewing Company and the building it occupies on Main Street from the Traeger family. The Traeger family had closed the beer brewery and started a soda brewery in the same space. Oien has loved root beer since he was young – he has fond mem- ories of a cousin’s A&W Root Beer stand in Montana. The idea was to continue the restaurant – Oien has owned restaurants over the years – and get the soda brewing operation up and going. The restaurant lasted Mt. Angel Brewing Company owner Larry Oien is closing the business. BILL POEHLER | STATESMAN JOURNAL See BREWING, Page 3A District adopts new curriculum in social learning Christena Brooks Special to Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK Kim Betker and her 11-year-old son, Shawn, have shared a room his whole life. On May 16th, they will receive the keys to their new Habitat home during a dedication ceremony. NORTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Single mother and child to get first home Bill Poehler Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK MT. ANGEL – When Kimberly Betker moved to Oregon three years ago all she had was her young son, Shawn Quamme, four suitcases and the prom- ise of a job. She figured they might stay a year be- fore returning to California. Betker had been through rehab for addiction to methamphetamine and was struggling to find a job in Modesto and put together a life for herself and her son. The pair moved into one bedroom of a trailer a relative owned in Mt. Angel, a living situation simi- lar to what they occupied most of Shawn’s life. For the past three years Betker and Shawn have built lives for themselves in Oregon. Betker currently works as an assistant manager at the Dollar General in Hubbard and is running the new store in Silverton. And she works one day a week at Speedco in Aurora. Quamme is an energetic 11-year-old with grass stains on the knees of his blue jeans. But their living situation has been the same — sharing one room. Betker and Quamme will receive the keys to their new two-bedroom house in east Silverton at a dedi- cation ceremony with the North Willamette Valley Habitat for Humanity on May 16. Their lives have changed dramatically in the past few years and are about to change again. “When you’re in addiction ... on hard times and you can barely make ends meet or you’re living from day to day, you see the ugly,” Betker said. “You don’t see the hearts of people. You don’t see the good. With this process, I’ve seen a lot of good to overtake all the bad. If everybody had half the heart that the people at Habitat for Humanity had, the world would be an amazing place.” Betker, 47, said she was addicted to metham- phetamines for 25 years before she decided to change. She said she was never in trouble with the law or forced to go to rehab, but decided it was the best course for her family. After being a patient for a year, she spent anoth- er year volunteering at the facility before moving in with a brother. But she had a hard time finding a job in California and had a job offer through a relative of Shawn’s fa- ther – who Betker said has never been involved in the boy’s life – in Oregon at Speedco. Shawn is a fifth grader at St. Mary’s Public School in Mt. Angel. Betker had heard that the North Willamette Val- ley Habitat For Humanity was accepting applica- tions for families, but didn’t think much of it. She was jogging through Mt. Angel one day and “What is a fake friend?” The teacher’s question hangs in the air for a mo- ment. Then her fourth graders take turns answering. A girl with a long, curly ponytail says, “You’re act- ing like you’re their friend, but when they’re gone from you, when you’re with your real friends, you say something behind their back that they won’t like.” Haltingly, a boy adds, “A fake friend is when they pretend to be nice to you, but, to their real friends, they talk about you.” Seated at their desks in a u-shape, the fourth- graders spend the next eight minutes responding to their teacher’s questions: “Have you ever had some- one be a fake friend to you?” “Have you ever been a fake friend?” and “How is teasing or talking behind someone’s back being a fake friend?” Lessons in social-emotional learning – known as “SEL” in academic circles – are now coming to all K-8 classrooms in the Silver Falls School District. This month, the budget committee forwarded to the board a $64-million budget that includes $20,000 to pur- chase Caring School Community curriculum. The proposed budget also funds varying levels of counseling services at all schools. A final vote by the board is scheduled for June 11. Caring School Community will be the Silverton area’s first formal SEL curriculum for younger stu- dents. Roughly a decade ago, the district adopted a related program for Silverton High School, dividing up its student body into smaller advisory groups to develop social and emotional skills and competen- cies together. “We’ve known for a long time that a program like this works,” said administrator Jennifer Hannan. “Now, though, we are at a tipping point with student behavior where it’s time to move forward.” This decision comes a year after Dana Pedersen, special services director, reported that more local school kids are struggling with behavior problems ranging from poor self-management and self-regula- tion to bullying and anxiety. At the time, she re- marked that more students were carrying stress from traumatic situations at home. Then, as Silver Falls teachers worked on early re- lease days this year to standardize all curricula, many asked for behavior-support help from the district. Teachers in “every building” asked for tools to help their students, Hannan said. A committee of administrators and teachers then reviewed and recommended to the board the Caring School Community program, developed by Center for the Collaborative Classroom. It’s a K-6 program that’s expanding to reach K-8 this fall. Teacher Ronda Hurley piloted four lessons in her See HOME, Page 3A See SOCIAL, Page 3A Long-lost photos of the Mount St. Helens eruption Forward This Capi Lynn Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to Southwest- ern Washington, they hopped in a plane. From the cockpit of their Cessna 150, some 10,000 feet in the air, Short-Nottage documented the mountain’s trans- formation before and after its catastrophic May 18 eruption with an Olympus OM-2 camera and a tele- photo lens. 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