Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 5, 2015 5A
Polk County News
POLICE
REPORT
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Polk Pride attendees gathered at The Boondocks in Falls City after spending the early part of Saturday in the city’s
Lower Park. About 50 people attended the event, the first LGBT pride celebration to be held in Polk County.
Polk’s first pride day a success
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
FALLS CITY — Lori Jean
Sickles and Laura Britton
thought it was about time
Polk County had its own
LGBT pride festival.
Portland does it, Salem
does it, Eugene does, too —
so why not Polk County?
Sickles and Britton, own-
ers of The Boondocks in
Falls City, paired up with The
Bread Board owners John
Volkmann and Keith Zinn to
put on Saturday’s event, the
first pride event in Falls City.
“We talked about it last
year, but we were still over-
whelmed with The Boon-
docks,” Sickles said. “This
year, we made it a priority.”
Planning for the event se-
riously began in June — co-
incidently, LGBT pride
month — and resulted in
Saturday’s event. About 50
people turned out.
Not too bad for a scorch-
ing August Saturday, Sickles
said.
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Saturday’s Polk Pride event included a picnic in the park.
“I think we would have
had more participation if it
hadn’t been so hot,” Sickles
said, noting that the Valsetz
reunion also met in Falls
City on the same day. “I
think it was successful.
Everybody was enjoying
themselves.”
The day began at noon in
Falls City Lower Park with a
family-friendly picnic-like
atmosphere. The Boon-
docks provided hamburgers
and people were able to
relax by the Little Luckia-
mute River. In the evening,
the party moved to The
Bread Board for a pizza
fundraiser for next year’s
event.
The night closed at The
Boondocks, with open mic
and karaoke.
Mary Jo Edwards, of Cor-
vallis, attended the event
with her partner, Gina Gon-
zales. She said when she
first heard about a pride cel-
ebration in Falls City, she
was skeptical about how it
would be received in such a
small town.
That opinion changed the
more she visited the town
after hearing about The
Boondocks at Salem’s pride
celebration last year. Satur-
day she was happy with the
turnout — and even more
impressed with the amount
of support the celebration
received from people who
are not gay.
“That’s what I loved about
this, it was truly a commu-
nity event,” she said. “It real-
ly changed my mind about
small towns. Falls City is
great.”
Sickles and Britton said
they will plan another pride
day for 2016 with proceeds
from the pizza fundraiser
and sale of pride T-shirts.
“We will figure out what
worked and what didn’t,”
Sickles said. “We’ll get feed-
back from people and have
a better one next year.”
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report comes from law en-
forcement agencies. Not all
calls for service are included.
The status of incidents report-
ed may change after further
investigation. Individuals ar-
rested or suspected of crimes
are considered innocent until
proven guilty.
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DALLAS
Arrests/Citations
• Jeff A. Deaton, 52, of Dal-
las in the 1200 block of South-
east Monmouth Cutoff on
July 28 on a charge of failure
to carry or present an opera-
tors license
• Chelan E. Kaufman, 23, of
Monmouth on Southeast
Uglow Avenue on Thursday
on a Monmouth Municipal
Court warrant for failure to
appear.
• Adam J. Ballard, 25, of Dal-
las in the 1600 block of South-
east Jonathan Avenue on Fri-
day on a Polk County proba-
tion violation warrant.
• Lucy M. Slater, 81, of Dallas
in the 1100 block of Southwest
Maple Street on Friday on a
charge of reckless driving.
INDEPENDENCE
Arrests/Citations
• Serlynn S. Albert, 39, of
Independence in the block of
1000 block of South Sixth
Street on July 22 for physical
harassment.
• Earl Edward Jones, 54, of
Independence in the 500
block of South Main Street on
July 27 on a bench warrant
for failure to appear.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Tranmission line break causes outage
POLK COUNTY — If you were in the dark for about 45 min-
utes Monday afternoon, you weren’t alone.
Pacific Power had a wide-spread power outage originally af-
fecting more than 15,200 customers in Dallas, Independence,
Falls City, Rickreall and West Salem.
The outage began shortly before 4 p.m. and was cause by a
insulator break taking out a major transmission line, according
to a Pacific Power spokesman. The break wasn’t caused by a car
accident, he added.
Crews were able to repair the break quickly, restoring power
to nearly 10,000 customers within 30 minutes. The remaining
customers were back on line before 5 p.m.
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• Matthew David Wood-
ward, 29, of Independence in
the 300 block of North Log
Cabin Street on July 27 for
driving while suspended or
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MONMOUTH
Arrests/Citations
• Amanda Shay Choate, 26,
of Independence at the cor-
ner of Jackson Street East and
Atwater Street North on July
24 for probation violation.
• Carlos Leos Jr., 34, of
Monmouth in the 600 block
of Clay Street East on July 24
for unlawful possession of
methamphetamine and un-
lawful controlled substance –
prohibited acts.
• Jeremy Dean Dover, 39, of
Independence in the 600
block of Main Street East on
July 25 for failure to carry or
present an operator’s license.
• Ivan Carmona, 28, of
Monmouth in the 700 block
of Clay Street East on July 29
for two counts of physical ha-
rassment and one count each
of resisting arrest, second-de-
gree criminal mischief and
coercion.
• Cody Lee Moschetti, 19,
of Monmouth in the 500
block of Warren Street South
on July 29 for unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle –
motor vehicle theft.
• Joseph Andrew Orgovan,
63, of Monmouth at the cor-
ner of Main Street East and
Pacific Highway North on July
29 for failure to perform the
duties of a driver when prop-
erty is damaged.
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