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Fire
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At the time of arrival, the
Camp Fire was reported at 25
percent containment, accord
ing Oregon forestry officials.
The teams will join their
Oregon State Fire Marshal
counterparts who sent 15 strike
teams to the Camp Fire last
week, including personnel and
equipment from Marion and
Polk counties.
A 22personnel strike team
from Marion County was de
ployed Friday and began bat
tling the Camp Fire on Satur
day, said Silverton Fire Chief
Bill Miles. The team included
firefighters from Jefferson, Sil
verton, Woodburn, Mt. Angel
and Marion County fire dis
tricts, as well as Salem Fire De
partment.
Salem Fire Department sent
eight personnel, one engine
and one brush truck, Deputy
Chief Gabriel Benmoussa said
Monday.
Keizer Fire District sent two
personnel and one brush truck.
The two Oregon strike teams
deployed Sunday consist of 28
personnel — including two
strike team leaders and an
agency representative — and
five Type 6 engines for each
team. The deployment will last
14 days.
An estimated 29 people have
died in the Camp Fire. An addi
tional 230 are missing, accord
ing to California fire officials.
About 6,453 residences have
been destroyed and an addi
tional 15,000 structures threat
ened.
The deployment was coordi
nated with the Oregon Office of
Emergency
Management
through the Emergency Man
agement Assistance Compact.
Krystin Harvey, left, comforts her daughter Araya Cipollini at the remains of their home burned in
the Camp Fire in California. JOHN LOCHER/AP
Church
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Shipping container controversy
When Tucker lived in Las Vegas, he
and his wife purchased a fifth wheel RV
so they could travel. And he purchased a
shipping container to store their pos
sessions.
When they moved to Gates a few
years ago, they brought the storage con
tainer with them and had it placed at
their new house.
Archer said the city received com
plaints about shipping containers and
temporary garages on properties in
town, and the city council addressed the
issue with a public hearing Oct. 18.
A typical city council meeting in
Gates is attended by a couple citizens;
some meetings are only the city council
and staff.
But after word spread about the pos
sibility of banning shipping containers,
a large group – estimates range from a
few dozen to 100 – of citizens of Gates
came to the meeting.
“So the council ended up not voting
on it yet,” Archer said. “They resched
uled the hearing for December.”
Tucker said he briefly considered
running for mayor prior to the August
filing deadline, but opted not to.
A candidate in the heat of the
moment
After learning the city council was
addressing shipping containers like his,
Tucker came to the city council meeting
with the intention of listening and not
speaking.
But he and others felt upset about
and a toddler. Their new church on Wa
ter Street had been led by six different
pastors in 25 years since its founding in
1973.
Coming west to lead an unknown
church in a new town felt like one more
divine calling in a string of events that
were “meant to be,” they said.
The couple had met eight years earli
er in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb of
Boston, where Heather was attending
Eastern Nazarene College and Dominic
was working as a banker. Her childhood
home in Connecticut had been filled
with Christian teaching and traditions;
his tumultuous upbringing in Boston
culminated in disorientation and a di
vorce in his early 20s.
“I had come to an awareness of my
own failures, my own sin … I was just a
mess,” he said. “I believed there was no
hope.”
He started talking to God; he didn’t
even call it “praying” back then. Soon he
met Heather, and her invitation to her
college’s chapel service introduced him
to the idea that “there’s always hope in
Jesus.”
The couple married and moved to live
with Heather’s parents in Nova Scotia,
where they helped run a family bakery.
how citizens’ complaints were handled,
and Tucker felt compelled to testify.
“I felt that the city council was trying
to overreach what really needed to be
done,” Tucker said of the night he dra
matically declared himself a writein
mayoral candidate.
With less than three weeks until the
Nov. 6 election, he had a difficult task.
Tucker had fliers printed and passed
them out, but then learned three citi
zens – Boniface, Smith and Hensell –
were similarly displeased and were run
ning as writein candidates for city
council.
“We had about 15 people at our one
meeting, we only had two meetings ac
tually just two weeks before the elec
tions for this writein thing,” said Ron
Carmichael, a Gates resident and one of
the organizers of the writein move
ment.
“We actually got some oldtime resi
dents that got involved and previous
council members and just got on the
phone.”
Tucker made up more fliers that in
cluded Boniface, Smith and Hensell – he
estimates he spent about $80 out of
pocket – and canvassed homes in Gates
as the Nov. 6 election approached.
“I’m surprised that I got as many
votes as I did,” Tucker said.
“The only reason I think it ended up
this way is people appeared to be un
happy with the status quo. People felt
the city council was doing things to their
benefit or their friend’s benefit.”
The mayor and city councilors will be
sworn at the Jan. 17 city council meet
ing.
When will Tucker and the other three
be sworn in?
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Pastor Dominic Carlow and his wife,
Heather. SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
den across the street, and the Potter’s
House youth building next door, have
taken many years to bloom.
Others, such as concerts and youth
alternatives to haunted houses at Hal
loween and egg hunts at Easter hap
pened quickly and are cherished memo
ries among church members. The
church’s Most Amazing Race scavenger
hunts in 2010 and 2011 brought together
250 community members.
Over 20 years, church members have
gone on five mission/service trips to the
Philippines, Suriname and South Amer
ica, and Pastor Dominic has “never
preached a sermon twice,” Heather said.
Recently he did a Sunday series relating
Christian evangelism to the Discovery
show “Deadliest Catch.”
“He’s such a deep thinker. There are a
lot of ‘aha’ moments when he’s preach
ing,” Fairbairn said. “In everything, he
has the goal that people would learn
something about Jesus.”
The value of staying power got real
for her two years ago, when she had to
leave Silverton to move to Prineville for
work. She missed her old church – its
music, its decorations, its people – but,
instead of quitting, she joined her new
church’s board, taking to heart what
she’d heard from her pastor so many
times: “It’s not about you. It’s about a
commitment to family.”
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In fact, pastors aren’t just staying in
one place longer; they’re staying in min
istry longer too. The average total tenure
of a pastor jumped from 14 to 24 years
during that same time, according to Bar
na Group.
“Over the course of the last two dec
ades, things have changed,” said poll
ster and creator of National Clergy Ap
preciation Month, Jerry Frear. “Two
decades ago, I talked to guys who had
never had a vacation. They had been in
their churches five, six, seven years, and
had never seen a vacation day … now the
leadership I’m around has a much more
balanced life and are encouraged to be a
good parent and spouse along with be
ing good pastoral leaders.
In Silverton, Carlow simply felt God
wanted him to stay, to put down roots, to
be committed to his 80person congre
gation and the larger community, as he
observed a cultural shift – toward quit
ting, giving up and leaving – among
21stcentury Americans.
“Our culture now, it’s not for staying,”
he said. “At church, staying is important
to me. A handful of people demonstrate
that kind of constancy, to be able to look
back and say they rode out the highs
and lows.”
A church should be like a family, he
said, committed to loving each other, for
their star qualities and despite their
flaws. He and his wife, Heather, said
they strive to live that kind of loyalty in
their marriage as well. In a congregation
as small as theirs, friendships can go
deep.
“Pastor Dominic focuses on heart
and spirituality,” said church member
Summer Fairbairn. “Instead of focusing
on growing and preaching to a church of
300, he’s like a dad ... his longterm
commitment makes people feel safe and
comfortable.”
Fairbairn was a member of Silverton
Church of the Nazarene in 1998 when
the Carlows arrived, coming straight
from Bible school in Colorado in their
twodoor Chevy Cavalier with a baby
For Dominic, those three years were a
time of “mentoring by Heather’s par
ents, long walks in the woods,” and
eventually, a calling to be a pastor.
“I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a pas
tor,’” he recalled. “Why would any hu
man being want to be a pastor?”
His childhood and young adulthood
had been difficult, his Bible teaching
was new, and his personality is more in
troverted than extroverted – but he
couldn’t deny the souldeep pull to
share with other people the supernatu
ral hope he’d discovered.
Five years after enrolling at Nazarene
Bible College, he was trained and ready.
Any thoughts the Carlows had of taking
a breather and operating their success
ful officecleaning business before tak
ing a church disappeared when they lost
their largest client a mere 20 minutes
before their college dean asked them to
consider pastoring in Silverton.
“Some people call that coincidence,”
Heather said. “We don’t call that coinci
dence.”
Thus, the Carlows came to town, and
Pastor Dominic has been doing his best
to “tell the old, old story … but not in the
old, old way,” ever since.
The couple’s predecessors are entre
preneurs, so – no surprise – they’ve
been full of new ideas over the years.
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