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Marion County kids win statewide contest
Calendar artwork winners showcase Oregon's agriculture
Christena Brooks Special to Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Two Marion County schoolchildren are among the
13 winners of a statewide art contest featuring Ore-
gon’s agricultural bounty.
More than 2,000 public, private, charter and ho-
meschool students entered this year’s calendar art
contest.
This is the 17th annual competition run by Oregon
Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation. The winning
students were honored on Sunday, Aug. 26 at the Ore-
gon State Fairgrounds.
For Marion County, Sara Serratos, of Silverton, and
Pauline Green-Coons, of Salem, each won $50 and a
place in the pages of the foundation’s annual calendar.
Ten thousand copies will go out to Oregon educators
and students.
Sara’s sketch of artisan cheeses and Pauline’s wa-
tercolor painting of tulips will grace the months of
June and April, respectively.
To be considered for a prize, the young artists had to
be kindergarteners through sixth graders last spring,
and had to submit artwork featuring Oregon-grown
commodities, such as seafood, hazelnuts, eggs, fruit,
livestock, vegetables or field crops.
“I just love cheeses,” said Sara, a fifth-grader at Vic-
tor Point School last year.
“There are endless interesting flavors, colors and
shapes of cheese. As I researched different types of
cheeses, I was surprised to learn that so many are
made right here in Oregon. They seemed perfect for a
picnic.”
Pauline was a second-grader at Myers Elementary
School last year.
Encouraging students to think hard about what
See ART, Page 2A
Detroit park project
a decade in making
This watercolor painting of tulips by Pauline
Green-Coons, of Salem, is the April image in the
calendar. PHOTO COURTESY OF PAULINE GREEN-COONS
Oregon
program honors
oldest farms
in operation
Associated Press
Suzanne Cable, left, of the U.S. Forest Service, Detroit city councilor Debby Ruyle and Detroit Mayor Jim
Trett stand on the Detroit Flats site where a $2.8 million park project has been started.
BILL POEHLER/STATESMAN JOURNAL
$2.8M effort seeks to transform, interconnect sites
Bill Poehler Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
DETROIT – A huge block of in the middle of a desti-
nation resort town looked abandoned.
Compared to the beautiful homes in the heavily
forested area surrounding it, the fenced-in remnants
of the former elementary and high schools in Detroit
sat undeveloped for years with vegetation overgrow-
ing around the rubble left over from when the build-
ings were demolished.
Not far away, the city’s only free access point to De-
troit Lake – Detroit Flats day use area – was over-
grown and the riverbank eroded.
A collaborative $2.8-million project between the
U.S. Forest Service and Detroit 10 years in the making
is transforming the sites into a park system joined by
a walking trail.
In the past few years, Detroit has been through a
lot: droughts, wildfires and water quality advisories.
“It’s a big plus for Detroit, and we need a big plus
right now,” Detroit Mayor Jim Trett said. “I think it’s
party time.”
The schools in Detroit closed in the late 1990s and
the students joined the Santiam school district in its
schools in Mill City. The buildings remained mostly
untouched for years.
In 2004, 2.69 acres of the school's site – essentially
the elementary school location – was given to the city
by the Santiam Canyon School District. The rest of the
property was sold for home development.
It took years to tear down the elementary school
buildings, and years more to figure out what to do with
them.
“I think after the school closed, it was, 'What do we
want to do with that?'” Trett said. “For us, a real prob-
See PARK, Page 2A
Mayor: In-N-Out set for Keizer Station
Whitney Woodworth Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Soon, Mid-Willamette Valley residents won’t have
to drive hours to get their fix of animal fries or a Dou-
ble-Double.
In-N-Out Burger is set to open at Keizer Station,
Keizer Mayor Cathy Clark told the Statesman Journal
August 21.
The Irvine, California-based company hasn’t set a
date for the opening.
Clark said an In-N-Out representative met with
City Council Monday to discuss the city’s sign code,
which clashed with the restaurant’s signature aw-
SALEM — An Oregon program honored the state's
oldest farms in continuous operation at a ceremony
August 25, including two farms that have been tilled
for 150 years.
The awards reported on by the Capital Press also
include a dozen farming operations that are a centu-
ry old from all over the state, from populous Mult-
nomah County to rural areas in Umatilla and Wasco
counties.
Mullen Farms is one of two sesquicentennial
farms designated this year by the Oregon Century
Farm and Ranch Program.
Founded in 1852, seven years before Oregon be-
came a state, a farm in Saint Paul, Ore., is continuing
to build on its legacy as a family operation.
"We are definitely a family farm," said Jerry Mul-
len, great-great-grandson of one of the farm's foun-
ders, Patrick Mullen.
Through the years, it has been important to every
generation to keep the farm going and in the family,
Mullen said. He never knew his dad, who died when
Mullen was two years old, but Mullen spent a lot of
time with his grandfather, Charles S. Mullen Sr., who
taught him about the farm.
On the property is a house where Mullen's grand-
father was born and lived for 101 years.
"It was important to my granddad especially that
we kept the farm together," Mullen said.
Mullen recalled growing up on the farm mention-
ing how they had their own pigs, dairy and granary.
"I grew up with all that to self-sustain and then
grow enough to make some cash," Mullen said.
Over time the farm has grown from 150 to 1,300
acres as the Mullen family has added other farms and
land to the business. They now grow mainly seed
crops and hazelnuts.
"We are doing everything we can do at this point to
make sure it is a viable farm going forward," he said.
The other sesquicentennial farm honored this
year is the Robinson Stillwell Taggart Farm in Day-
ton. It was founded in 1844 when Benjamin and Eliza-
beth Robinson came to the Oregon territory on a wag-
on train.
The farm is still in the family, though pieces of it
were sold off during the Depression.
"(The farm) has been a source of pride for our fam-
ily for generations," said John Taggart, the current
owner of the farm.
The farm is leased to a couple who Taggart says he
is close to and trusts. Taggart lives in Eastern Oregon
and wants to keep the farm because of its history.
Also on the list are 12 newly designated century
farms:
܂ J.G. Kuenzi Farm, H.M.K., began in 1917 after the
founder traded a smaller farm in Mt. Pleasant for the
217-acre farm near Silverton. The farm has grown dif-
ferent types of berries over the years, as well as grass
seed, hogs and clover.
See FARMS, Page 3A
nings and signage.
The representative Kori Seki thanked the city for
its welcoming, friendly staff.
“Oregon is considered a new market for In-N-Out,”
Seki said during council meeting. “Only two restau-
rants — Grants Pass and Medford — have been open
to date. The city of Keizer will be the third.”
He told the council the building will have a classic
In-N-Out look, with the arrow sign ubiquitous to Cali-
fornia freeways and palm tree awnings.
After reviewing the code, city councilors agreed to
change it for In-N-Out and all other Keizer businesses
See IN-N-OUT, Page 3A
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An Oregon program will honor the state's oldest
farms in continuous operation, including two farms
that have been tilled for 150 years. Mullen Farms is
one of two sesquicentennial farms designated this
year by the Oregon Century Farm and Ranch
Program. Founded in 1852, seven years before
Oregon became a state, a farm in Saint Paul, Ore., is
continuing to build on its legacy as a family
operation. KELLY JORDAN/STATESMAN JOURNAL