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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 3, 2016 3A
‘Marketplace’ to go
to sheriff’s auction
By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
JOLENE GUZMAN/Itemizer-Observer
People gather to play ukulele and watch a documentary about the instrument at the Dallas Civic Center on Friday.
Friends of the Mighty Uke gather
Ukulele fans start monthly meetings at library to strum, sing on Wednesdays
By Jolene Guzman
The magical Uke
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — Doneille Cho-
miak calls it “the magic of
the ukulele.”
She says the instrument
has a positive influence on
people when they start play-
ing. Shy people begin lead-
ing songs. Those overhear-
ing the music are drawn to
find the source, she said.
“When you get a group of
people playing and singing,
all differences fall away,”
said Chomiak, one of the
leaders of Ukulele Fans of
Oregon. “It truly is magical.”
The group, UFO for short,
wants to bring that magic to
Dallas by launching a lend-
ing program to check out
ukuleles and monthly jam
session through Dallas Pub-
lic Library.
UFO made its official in-
troduction at Summerfest’s
“Hawaiian Luau” celebra-
tion on Friday.
Chomiak and Laurie Linn,
the group’s musical director,
said UFO often encounters
What: Ukulele Fans of Dallas “strum and sing.”
When: First Wednesday of the month, starting Wednes-
day (today) at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Dallas Public Library, 950 Main St., Dallas.
Of note: other instruments are welcome.
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such timing coincidences
that they attribute that to
the instrument’s mysterious
allure.
Something else might be
at play, too.
“It’s the easiest to play, but
the hardest to master,” Cho-
miak said.
Linn said that means peo-
ple can pick it up without
getting frustrated, but they
won’t get bored either be-
cause there always remains
room for improvement.
Whatever the draw, ukule-
les and groups meeting to
play them are growing in
popularity. Chomiak said
UFO, which started in
Salem, quickly outgrew its
first meeting place at Life-
source Natural Foods in
South Salem. The Salem Li-
brary’s lending program
can’t keep ukulele’s in stock.
Thirty-two other libraries
in Oregon have contacted
the group to help start simi-
lar programs.
Fr i d a y n i g h t’s e v e n t
brought in more than 20
people to play and watch a
documentary about the in-
strument. UFO announced
that it would meet at the
Dallas Library for the first
time Wednesday (today).
Chomiak said the group —
Ukulele Fan of Dallas — will
begin with monthly meet-
ings and grow from there if
necessary.
The library has three
ukulele kits available for
checkout for those wanting
to explore the instrument
before joining the group.
“Anytime you can get peo-
ple smiling and singing, it
makes the world a little bet-
ter place,” Chomiak said.
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INDEPENDENCE — The
Family Treasure’s Market-
place, 240 Monmouth St.,
Independence, is sched-
uled to be sold in a Polk
County Sheriff’s Office sale
at 10 a.m. on Sept. 2.
The sale comes after the
city of Independence won a
case against proper ty
owner Jewels Cresser.
Cresser maintains that
the city overcharged her for
what used to serve as the
Independence City Hall,
and is working to strike a
deal with the city for a
mortgage of $255,000,
rather than the original
agreed upon pr ice of
$385,000 in December
2013.
Based on the selling
prices of other commercial
buildings in downtown In-
dependence, Cresser said
$255,000 is a reasonable
offer.
City Manager David
Clyne said Cresser has not
made any serious offer to
get current with payments
on the building.
“The bill now is 400 and
some odd thousand at this
point,” he said. “If she still
wants to buy the building,
she still can, the foreclosure
is not complete until the
sale’s complete.”
Cresser started a petition
on change.org in hopes to
gather public support for
what she sees as a future
community center at the
Family Treasure’s Market-
place.
“I want to have a true
community center where
anyone who wants to learn
art, or participate in a per-
formance art or share what
they know would have a
place to go,” Cresser said.
She said she is prepared
to sue the city for “fraud in
the inducement” if a deal
cannot be reached.
Clyne said the public
and it’s money deserves to
be treated better.
“I think she’s tried every-
thing that she could have
done,” Clyne said. “She’s
tried bankruptcy; she’s
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court, and has not succeed-
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in over a year.”
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