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“It’s family reunion time,”
Catherine said. “I’ve always
loved living history. It’s his-
tory and camping and lots of
friends to play with on a big
holiday weekend. Wouldn’t be
anywhere else. This is where all
our friends are. It’s a nice es-
cape. You get out here. You put
away the modern devices and
just get away from all of that
for a while. In the evenings, it’s
candlelight and camp fi res. It’s
a good way to get your head in
a different time and place and
play with the clothes.”
Getting into character is
easy for Gerald Hilchey who’s
plays a blacksmith both as a re-
enactor and in real life. Hilchey
and his wife Cindy travel 7-8
months a year for reenactments
in Oregon, Washington and
California.
“It was a hobby so might as
well share it,” Hilchey said. “Not
a lot of people understand it or
know about it much so we try
to share what we can. I’m just
trying to show the techniques
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of what was required and try to
get them to understand in the
1860s you didn’t have Lowe’s,
Home Depot, Ace Hardware,
if you wanted nails to go fi x
your house, you had to go see
the blacksmith. He made your
nails, knives, forks, spoons, any-
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A: Gerald Hilchey
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blacksmith techniques.
B: Mounted soldiers
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D: Troops prepare to
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Of the Keizertimes
There’s fi nally going to be a
fl ushing toilet in a Keizer park
thanks to an Oregon Parks and
Recreation Local Government
Grant.
At the city council meeting
Tuesday, July 5, Keizer
Community
Development
Director
Nate
Brown
announced that the city had
received a grant to install an
all-year restroom at Keizer
Rapids Park. Also included in
the grant are a fall protection
surface for the The Big Toy
and paved trails leading from
the The Big Toy into local
neighborhoods.
The grant will total about
$430,000.
“It’s a signifi cant award for
us and it demonstrates the level
of commitment to this park
not only within Keizer, but
from outside of it,” Brown said.
The next phase of the grant
process is working out a grant
agreement contract sometime
in August. Construction of any
of the new facilities or trails is
unlikely to begin before next
summer.
The total cost of the
project will be worth about $1
million, but the city’s portion
has already been mostly paid
for through previous land
acquisitions that were included
in the grant application. About
$50,000 will come from
system development charges
paid by developers when new
homes and apartments are
constructed.
Initial estimates submitted
with the grant called for
$223,000 for the restrooms
– including the buildings,
septic system and power.
The new poured-in-place
fall protection surface would
cost about $200,000. The
pathway part of the project
will be approximately $83,000.
Another $1,200 was allotted
for grab bars to assist disabled
visitors to The Big Toy.
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