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The Berry's house after the Beachie Creek Fire. MANDY SCHOEBEL / SPECIAL TO THE
The Berry’s house before the Beachie Creek Fire. RICHARD BERRY/SPECIAL TO THE
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Poetry
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ber” (Traprock Books, 2007). “As an ar-
chaeologist knows / an ancient civiliza-
tion, I know you / mostly by pottery,” the
poem begins. It lingers affectionately on
one piece in particular, a “curious dish,
maybe meant / as sauceboat,” which
this great-aunt, a painter, had used for
rinsing her brushes:
… its celadon glaze streaked with long
drips of burnt sienna, its inner surface
Election
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passed the long-debated second coro-
navirus aid package, the $2.2 trillion
HEROES ACT, though previous at-
tempts to pass it into law have been
stalled by infighting in the legislature.
“I would hope there would be an op-
portunity in the lame duck,” Schrader
said. “Once the election’s over, there’s
no reason to make the other side look
bad like (Mitch) McConnell and (Nancy)
Pelosi are doing.”
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stripped to traces of aquamarine, glim-
mering through encrusted rings of dark
pigment.
In the fire debris of our home, I spot-
ted the quirky form of that dish. When I
lifted it out, I saw that its celadon glaze
had been replaced by something like ra-
ku. I suspect that my artist great-aunt
would have marveled, as I did, at the
strange artistry of wildfire.
In the aftermath of the fire, poems
that I wrote before it, read differently, at
least for me. And the many books of oth-
ers’ poems that lined shelves in my
study and in our living room and bed-
room, have turned to ash — strikingly
white ash, the whiteness likely due to a
clay coating on the paper used for their
pages. Still, passages and themes that
come to mind, seemingly as I need
them.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve
thought often of the books of Salem po-
et Virginia Corrie-Cozart, who died sev-
eral years ago. Even their titles — A Mu-
table Place and Wavering Reflection —
convey the keen sense of mutability and
ephemerality that intensifies her po-
ems’ attention to particular objects and
moments. Growing up on a farm near
Bandon, Corrie-Cozart was very much
aware of the 1936 fire that had destroyed
much of that town. Perhaps that aware-
ness of the power of fire honed her sense
of the mutability of everything we hold
dear.
This article is one of a monthly series
on Oregon poets and poetry, past and
present, written by members of the Mid-
Valley Poetry Society. Eleanor Berry
eberry
@wvi.com chairs the MVPS.
employment during the pandemic.
“It’s going to take years. This is not a
quick fix,” Ryan Courser said. “This is
going to take people who can fight for us
on a federal level.”
Ryan Courser said the main issues
she wants to tackle include finding so-
lutions for homelessness, mental health
and protecting veterans.
“There’s a lack of affordable housing
on the coast,” Ryan Courser said.
“They’re driving from an hour, and hour
and a half, to be able to work. The land’s
there. We have to change some of the
codes.”
these social situations is that the mar-
ket, while it doesn’t get it perfect the
first time, it has a much faster rebound
rate when getting its feedback from us-
ers. The government is simply too late.”
Rix said he and his family were evac-
uated from their Oregon City home dur-
ing the wildfires.
He said changes are needed in the
way the forests are managed, including
privatizing forests.
“We need to fund this, it’s clearly im-
portant and it’s clearly going to need
more work done,” he said.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for
the Statesman Journal. Contact him at
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Work: Owns Ecostar Carpet Care.
Public offices held: Keizer city coun-
cil from 2015 to 2018.
Libertarian Matthew Rix
Republican Amy Ryan Courser
Ryan Courser, who formerly was
known as Amy Ryan, held her first pub-
lic office as a city council member in
Keizer from 2015 to 2018.
In the Republican primary, Ryan
Courser beat out more well-funded can-
didates Angela Roman and Joey Na-
tions, as well as G. Shane Dinkel, to win
by a large margin and face Schrader in
the general election.
She said she decided to run for the of-
fices after attempting to contact
Schrader’s office dozens of times con-
cerning bi-partisan issues while a city
councilor and not receiving a response.
“I think our leadership, including
Kurt Schrader, has been the status quo,”
she said.
“I feel like Oregon has lost its voice
and been abandoned for a very long
time. I’ve been waiting to run for this
seat for five years.”
Ryan Courser, 51, said her back-
ground as a businesswoman gives her a
unique perspective.
She owns a Keizer-based carpet
cleaning company, and said she worked
three jobs for years as a single mother to
raise her two sons.
Hers was one of many businesses
impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,
and she said she supports tax credits for
essential workers who continued their
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Rix, 29, said he’s never run for or held
a public office.
He says he’s working 50 hours per
week in his job as a field service engi-
neer for a vacuum pump company while
completing an engineering degree from
Southern New Hampshire University.
“Ultimately I’m just trying to make
my son proud about his dad and do all
the things a good dad should do,” Rix
said.
Rix said that as the Libertarian can-
didate, he provides a different voice for
those who don’t want to vote for Repub-
lican or Democrat candidates.
“If there’s that much of a population
out there that is disenfranchised to
what we have then maybe I can be a bet-
ter option,” Rix said.
Rix said government shouldn’t have
as much control as it has in dealing with
the COVID-19 pandemic. He points to
the example of grocery stores setting
their own regulations regarding mask
use and distancing before government
mandates were handed down.
“When the government said we have
to reduce all public gatherings to groups
of less than 10, that number, that 10
number kind of came from nowhere,”
Rix said. “We have a few virologists or
epidemiologists that that was their best
guess.
“The beauty of the market, even
Amy Ryan Courser
Party: Republican.
Age: 51.
Home: Keizer.
Family: Husband Jon, two sons.
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Matthew Rix
Party: Libertarian.
Age: 29.
Home: Oregon City.
Family: Wife, one son.
Work: Field service engineer for a
vacuum pump company.
Public offices held: None.
Kurt Schrader
Party: Democrat.
Age: 68.
Home: Canby.
Family: Wife, Susan, and eight chil-
dren.
Work: Veterinarian, small business-
man, farmer.
Public offices held: 5th District seat
since 2009; Oregon Senate, 2003-09;
Oregon House, 1997-2003; Canby Plan-
ning Commission, 1981-96.
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Tracey said FEMA currently has
about 2,000 evacuees in Oregon in
about 1,000 hotel rooms across the
state.
“We also have rental assistance,
which is available to people when
there’s rental property available,” she
said.
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Tracey said the next step is the direct
housing mission, commonly referred to
as FEMA trailers.
“The need is based on what is avail-
able in terms of rental units in the coun-
ty,” she said. “A big problem is more than
50% of the homes that are destroyed are
mobile homes. Typically, people in mo-
bile homes are what’s considered af-
fordable housing.”
Tracey said FEMA has identified 576
applicants that may be eligible for a
housing unit, including 52 in Marion
County and 14 in Linn County.
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the FEMA trailers will arrive or where
they will be placed.
FEMA tries to place the housing units
as close as possible to where the dis-
placed residents live, but Tracey said
that may be difficult in many cases as
the properties where the debris needs to
be cleared and the property inspected
for trailers to be placed there.
In some cases, though, removing that
material could take a year or more.
Quinones said one of the questions
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state, FEMA and impacted counties will
be at no cost to impacted homeowners.
Homeowners must sign a right of en-
try form by Oct. 16.
The forms require the homeowner's
name, address and insurance informa-
tion, if the homeowner has insurance.
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material first and then ash and other de-
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The form for those in Marion County
is located at https://www.co.mar-
ion.or.us/fire and for those in Linn
County at http://www.co.linn.or.us/in-
dex.php?content=wildlandfire.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for
the Statesman Journal. Contact him at
bpoehler@statesmanjournal.com
or
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