January 3, 2014

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The Canyon WeeklyJanuary 3, 2014 Volume 5, Issue 1

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Homemade

Break in at Mill City Post Office New Years day

Thieves pry open drawers, take parcels from locked drawers

How to celebrate A New Year

There is more than one way to celebrate the coming of a New Year. Many readers re-ported snugging into bed early for a good night’s sleep, while others partied till the wee hours of the morning. Many shared the time with family and friends either gathered around a feast or sharing a ceremonial moment. Neighbors from the Elkhorn area, Mick Evans and Mike Sheets (pictured at top), took to their dual sport bikes for a New Years Day ride in the woods. They landed at Tom Rock, a 3,400 ft elevation peak in the moun-tains immediately south of Mill City. From here you are looking north over Gates to Mt. Horeb and beyond. You can also see Evans Mountain, part of Henline Moun-tain and Rocky Top. (Photo cour-tesy of Mick Evans) Dozen of midnight revelers (right) congregated at the Mill City Eagles to laugh and dance till the clock struck twelve. (Photo courte-sy of Bob Yates.) More on page 5.

Sometime between late evening on Decem-ber 31 and early afternoon January 1st sever-al large locked parcel boxes where pried open in the Mill City Post office and their contents removed. Inside those boxes where 3 packages, pre-sumably intended for someone other than the culprit(s) who damaged federal property to remove them. The Mill City Post Office has ten large locked boxes that can hold large packages for patrons who cannot make it to the Post Of-fice during normal business hours to retrieve from the postal workers. If anyone noticed anything suspicious dur-ing these hours or anyone leaving the premis-es with large packages they are encouraged to contact the Linn County Sheriff Department at (503) 967-3911. Photo by Charla Raven

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Contributing Photographers: Michelle Gates Charla Raven Bob Yates Mick Evans Jim Brotherton.

Members of the Community Roundtable group met in December at Mill City City Hall to discuss their efforts at bettering the entire Santiam Canyon community. Here are a few highlights:

“Parents Nights” start Jan. 14The Santiam Canyon School District Par-ent Teacher Organization has been working to bring informational “Parent’s Nights” to our community. The first, brought to you by “Family Building Blocks”, a local pro-gram that serves families and young chil-dren will be held on Tuesday, January 14 at 5:30p.m. at the SJSHS cafeteria. Dinner will be provided! Please RSVP for the event so that an accurate food order can be made. To RSVP email [email protected] or call Santiam Elementary School at (503) 897-2368 and leave a message for Angela Moreno. The event will provide information on the Family Building Blocks program, which includes services such as: • Home Visits • Therapeutic Classroom • Respite Care • Family Nights • Parent-Child Interaction Groups • Referrals to Community Re-sources In addition, representatives will be speaking on childhood brain development. “Parent’s Night” is open to everyone. If you or someone you know could use the assistance of Family Building Blocks, please plan to attend. For more information about the Fam-ily Building Blocks program visit their website;www.familybuildingblocks.org. Canyon Life Museum expandingFrancis Thomas spoke of the efforts of the Historical Society to transform the original railroad depot on NE Wall St. into an extension of the existing museum. “It’s the oldest commercial building in Mill City that still stands,” said Thomas. The project has been ongoing for sev-eral years and right now they’re decid-ing what color to dye the interior

wood (they decided to use dye rather than stain because it’s a more historically ac-curate technique). They’ve also been ap-proved to use the old “wavy glass” in two of the windows that they are replacing -”If we can find it,” said Thomas.

Neighborhood Watch updateMill City now has six areas involved in the local Neighborhood Watch programs. They are looking for residents in the few remaining areas that don’t have the pro-gram established yet to volunteer to par-ticipate. City Recorder Stacie Cook said that there have been increased patrols by the local police and several arrests have been made lately.

Sweethearts Dinner plannedSandy Lyness mentioned that the Lions Club will be having their annual Sweet-heart’s Dinner on the Saturday after Val-entine’s Day. She is also President of the Chamber of Commerce and said that the business group has changed the name of their monthly networking group from Greeters to Business Showcase. The events are open to everyone and they are looking for local businesses who would like to host an upcoming event.

Canyon Calender success Michelle Gates spoke about the first an-nual Beautiful North Santiam Canyon Calendar, indicating that the first printing had sold out in a week and that the sec-ond printing was now available in stores: Lyons Timbertown, Mehama True Value, Rosie’s Coffee, Mill City Pharmacy, San-tiam Treasures (Mill City), Mt High Gro-cery & Detroit Market, Idanha Store and Marion Forks Restaurant. “It was really well received,” said Gates. New Deli/Pub Opened in Mill CityThe new J&S Deli, Pub and Lottery re-ported a very successful first day open on Thursday, December 19, (cont pg 3)

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Have a Happy New Year!

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(cont from page 2)with sales higher than ex-pected. They have been approved for a full liquor license, but will only have beer & wine for the first three months, in order to find out what the community wants.

Time to clean up the townCity beautification was also a topic at the Community Roundtable meeting. Letters have been sent to the owners of the vacant buildings on Hwy 22 in Mill City, request-ing their participation in helping increase the attractiveness of the city. It was asked who owns these buildings, and what can be done to convince them to invest some maintenance to attract more tourism visitors and middle class families to the area.

Electric car charging station Stacie Cook reported that there will be a new electric car charger station going in at Mt. Edge Cafe in Mill City. It has been ap-proved by the city planning commission, and ODOT intends to go through with their plans.

Master Parks Plan Open HouseThe Master Parks Committee has finished review of the final draft and for-warded the document to the Planning Commission. An open house has tentatively been set for Janu-ary 30, 2014 to allow the public an opportu-nity to view the document prior to holding a public hearing. “It’s a conceptual plan,” said Stacie Cook. “It basically says here’s what we have, what we need and where we think it should go.” The community Roundtable group meets monthly on the 3rd Friday at 8am; contact City Hall for more information. All are in-vited from any community of the Canyon.

Bonsai Featured at Garden Club

The Lyons Garden Club will have their Janu-ary 8th meeting at 1 pm in the Lyons Fire Department conference room. Diane Stock-mar, Betty Garrison and Jean Evett will be hostesses. The guest speaker will be Richard Johnson of Old Tree Bonsai with a presenta-tion on how to grow and maintain a bonsai plant. It is time for renewal of the group member-ship dues which will be $12.00 for the year, upon paying you will receive your new year-ly activity club book. New members and guests are always wel-come. For more information contact Diane Stockmar at 503-394-2197, or Jean Evett at 503-859-2563.

Invitation to singers from the Canyon Chorus

Looking for folks who like to SING! Sopranos especially needed. No auditions, no formal training or music reading skills needed. No cost to participate, either. San-tiam Canyon Community Chorus rehearses Monday evenings from 7-8:30 at the Chris-tian Church in Mill City (on the corner of SW Broadway and SW 3rd, next to the Presbyte-rian Church). Come join us...we would love to sing with you! Rehearsals start January 13th...there is lots of fun ahead, so come join us!

Girl scoutsCookies sales start Local Girl Scout troop #10102 will be head-ing out this week taking pre-sales for their fa-mous cookies. You can order now until Janu-ary 20. Sales at the local stores will start on February 14.

Free Networking event for Business

and non-profitsGet the new year off to an energetic start with Small Steps, Big Results on Monday, Janu-ary 6 from 8-10am at Trexler Farm. Offered by GROW EDC, it’s a great way for entre-preneurs, non-profits and others working on special projects to celebrate their successes, make plans and set a strategy for starting the new year. All are welcome. And it’s free!

Ken’s bad but clean,

Joke of the WeekAn 85-year-old widow went on a blind date with a 90-year-old man.When she returned to her daughter’s house later that night, she seemed upset.“What happened, Mother?” the daughter asked.“I had to slap his face three times!”“You mean he got fresh?”“No,” she answered. “I thought he was dead!”

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“That’s my favorite place to hike.” “This is a really beautiful calendar.”

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Celebrate 2014!

Several of our readers sent in photos of their New Years celbrations. Clock-wise from left: Gates area kids: Julia Miller, Avery LeBard, Tanner Peters,

Amelia LeBard, Noelle Miller.--A few folks in the upper Santiam Canyon celebrated the eve of 2014 at the Idanha Grill with gourmet hors d’oeuvres and prime rib, thanks to restaurant owners and hosts Ben and Jeff. New faces were welcomed, including the new owners of the River Mountain RV Park, Jim and Laurie Preston (and son Vince), as well as some familiar faces like Rick Ladbury and Jeanette Hartwell of Detroit. It was a “New York” theme event - meaning the revelers celebrated the ball drop at 9pm on the east coast, which gave many of them time to join other late night events around Idanha and Detroit.--Friends and family gathered at Josh Weather’s home in gates for a New York theme party as well.--Revelers at the Mill City Eagles Lodge (pictured below) partied the night away to the rambunctious tunes of the Rock-hounds. All Eagles Photos thanks to Bob Yates, the winner of Beautiful North Santiam Canyon 2014 Calender!!

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Marilyn was a loving, caring, and compas-sionate person with a tremendous sense of humor. She enjoyed setting on her deck and watching all the wildlife that came into her backyard. In addition, Marilyn assured that they all have food to eat. Marilyn loved Harley Davidson motorcy-cles and music. In 1998, her and close friend Sue Birge traveled to Sturgis for the big rally held there. While rock and roll music was her love, the Rolling Stones was her passion. As a teenager she attended one of their con-certs and her love for them grew from there.

One could argue that she was their number one fan. Marilyn was preceded in death by her par-ents Charles and Bertha Geesman. She is survived by a very large family of friends and will greatly missed. At Marilyn’s request no service will be held. A celebration of life will be held later with good food, good friends and Rolling Stones music. Arrangements entrusted to Weddle Funeral Services, online condolences at Weddle-Fu-neral.com.

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Welcome to 2014! We wanted to find out what you had going on so we spent a few days out and about. As it turns out, last year some of you went to exciting places like Barcelona and others found big-ger places to live. For the coming year, some are looking to travel more and keep on living better. Read on for more of your neighbors reflections: What is your 2014 New Years resolution?Ann Vaughn at Cedar’s Restaurant in Detroit would like to find her Jack Russell terrier named Badger that has been missing. Justin Hartwell from Detroit just wants to keep living. Miranda Patterson at Mountain High Grocery didn’t really have a resolution since she breaks them anyway. Vince Benson of Idanha wants to eat more Jelly Beans. Jea-

nette Hartwell of Detroit would like to travel more this year. Best of luck to those who had their resolutions. What was the best thing that happened to you last year?Juan Morales from the Mehama NAPA got to move into a nice three bedroom house with his wife and kids. Bob Lay-man and his wife from Detroit took a cruise to Barcelona with two other couples - Jim and Melva Davidson’ as well as Denny and Phillis Mills. They got to visit Rio, in Brazil and the Canary islands along the way to Bar-

celona Spain. And lastly, Linda Stirling (a visiting writer from Camas, Washington) got

number one best seller “Confession of a Sunday School Psychic” on Kindle. Congratulations to her! Is there one thing that you’re looking forward to in 2014?Walter Budd, owner of Mehama True Value, is hoping to sell the store and retire. Don Wiltse, owner of Don’s Gas in Mehama, is just hoping to make it through another year. Jeanette Weikum from Idanha is trying to move into a bigger house with more room.Editors note: We don’t know what Amy

Flores of Mill City (pictured here) resolves to do, but we do know that she likes to celebrate traditionally. with a bottle of bubbly!

Local Speak: 2014 Resolutions and ReflectionsBy Daryl Atwood

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CLASSESHandgun Safety Class with local experts Bob and Shane Pedroli. Range classes are ongoing. Oregon and Utah/Arizona multi-state certifications available. Info 503-580-

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CPR/AED/First Aid Classes: American Heart Association certified classes for Public and Healthcare Providers. Contact instructor Kurt Hueller at 503-859-3575 or [email protected].

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The City of Mill City has two (2) vacancies on the city’s budget committee. Budget Com-mittee members serve a three (3) year term. The Budget Committee will meet three or four times during the month of April, 2014 to prepare the city’s budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015. Citizens interested in serving on the City of Mill City Budget Committee are

encouraged to contact City

Recorder Stacie Cook at City Hall (503)897-2302. A letter of interest must be submit-ted no later than Friday, February 28, 2014 at 4:00p.m. to City Recorder, PO Box 256, Mill City, OR 97360 or via email to: [email protected].

Budget Committee Openings for City of Mill City

A view from the CW office last week

Coming Soon!“Parent’s Nights” brought to you by “Family Building Blocks,” a local pro-gramthat serves families and young chil-dren will be held on Tuesday, January 14 at 5:30p.m. at the SJSHS cafeteria. Dinner will be provided! Please RSVP for the event. email [email protected] or call Santiam Elementary School at (503) 897-2368 and leave a message for Angela Mo-reno.

Texas Hold-em style Poker at the Eagles Lodge in Mill City.. Proceeds to benefit the Youth Benefit Golf Tourna-ment. January 18. Contact Eagles Lodge for more info.

On January 25, All Dressed up will be holding their first ever Dinner and Auction Benefit at the Stayton Com-munity Center where there will be both a silent and a live auction, a fashion show and a lot of fun! Of special note is the auc-tioning off of 10 beautiful brand new designer wed-ding gowns, and each can be seen at the facebook site “All Dressed Up 2014 Din-ner/Auction Fundraiser” Dinner and drinks will be catered by the Wooden Nickel. Tickets are $25 a person and must be pur-chased in advance. Pro-ceeds will go towards the purchases of additional dresses, in sizes that are not commonly donated. For more information or to purchase tickets call Anna

Benefiel at 503 881-0711.Events this WeekFriday, January 3

High School Basketball at Santiam vs. Kennedy - Girls JV/V - 5/6:30, Boys JV/V - 3:30/8pm.

Saturday, January 4 9am High School Wrestling - Willamina

Tournament9:30 am Santiam Hearts to Arts meets at Mill City City Hall, from New board mem-bers and volunteers are always welcome!! Info: http://www.heartstoarts.org/

High School Basketball at N. Douglas (Endowment game) - Time to be deter-

mined. (girls varsity only)Monday, January 6

School resumes8-10am Free Networking event for Busi-ness and non-profits. Get the new year off to an energetic start with Small Steps, Big Results at Trexler Farm. Offered by GROW EDC, it’s a great way for entre-preneurs, non-profits and others working on special projects to celebrate their suc-cesses, make plans and set a strategy for starting the new year. All are welcome. And it’s free!

6:30pm-7:30pm SCSD PTO meets atSantiam Elementary Multi-Purpose Room.

Wednesday, January 81 pm Lyons Garden Club meets in the Lyons Fire Department conference room. Diane Stockmar, Betty Garrison and Jean Evett will be hostesses. The guest speaker will be Richard Johnson of Old Tree Bon-sai with a presentation on how to grow and maintain a bonsai plant. It is time for renewal of the group mem-bership dues which will be $12.00 for the year, upon paying you will receive your new yearly activity club book. New members and guests are always welcome. For more information contact Diane Stockmar at 503-394-2197, or Jean Evett at 503-859-2563.

6:30pm – 7:30pm Lions Club MeetingMountain Edge Cafe Meeting of the Lions Club. Come learn about what we do and how you can assist.

6:30pm – 7:30pm Santiam Canyon School District School Board Meeting150 SW Evergreen St. Mill City

Thursday, January 97pm – 8pm 4th of July Committee Mill City City Hall - 444 S 1st AvenueSkate Park Committee MeetingMill City City Hall - 444 S 1st Avenue

Monthly meeting of the Skate Park Committee to plan for and discuss size, location and funding to construct a local skate park.

Ongoing Weekly Events

Lyons Library is located at 279 8th St., Lyons. Hours:Tue-Thu: 1pm-6:30pm Sat: 10am-3:30pm 503-859-2366Sun-Mon-Fri: Closed Mill City Li-brary is located at 250 SW 2nd Avehours are 10-12 and 1:30-3:30 on Tues-

Event submissions are printed FREE! The Canyon Weekly cannot guarantee placement; however, priority is given to emailed submissions, and events occurring in the North Santiam Canyon (Lyons/Mehama to Marion Forks).

Please submit your event to: [email protected].

Gates Community Church of Christ

“..reaching the canyon for Christ.”

Mike Stair, MinisterSunday School 9:45am

& Worship Service will be at 11 AM40070 Gates School Rd

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North Santiam Watershed Council meetings are held at the Stayton Community Cen-ter at 400 West Virginia Street, Stayton, OR on the second Thursday of every month except July and August. Meetings begin at 7:00pm and everyone is welcome. For more information call (503) 930-8202 or go to www.north-santiam.org

Santiam Hearts to Arts meets quarterly at Mill City City Hall, from 9:30-10:30am. New board members and vol-unteers are always welcome!! Info: http://www.heartstoarts.org/

Mondays7pm Santiam Canyon Com-munity Chorus rehearsals at the Mill City Christian Church. For more informa-tion contact Joanne Hebing at 503-859-3426.

Tuesdays9am Downward Dog Yoga at Gates Fire Hall, Sorbin St. in Gates10am-2pm Quilting Club Canyon Bible Fellowship, Lyons 910-4918

12pm Meals on Wheels, Senior Meals Fellow-ship Hall, MC Presbyterian. Meals on Wheels. Ruth:503-897-2204. $3.50 donation recom-mended.7:30pm San-tiam Al-Anon, Mt. View Church,

Aumsville. Newcomers welcome.

Wednes-days

6:30 pm Downward Dog Yoga at Gates Fire Hall, Sorbin St. in Gates7 pm AA meeting at Gates Community Church of Christ7:30pm AA Meeting Idanha City Hall.

Thursdays9am Downward Dog Yoga at Gates Fire Hall, Sorbin St. in Gates10am-3pm North Santiam Quilters, Gates Church, all lev-els! 897-210212pm Meals on Wheels, Senior Meals. Fellowship Hall, MC Presbyterian Church. Ruth:503 897-220412-4:30pm Food Distribution Day at the Canyon Gleaners in Mill City.3:30-5pm Good News Club at Mill City Baptist Church. Kids K-4 grade. Bible stories, singing, games, snack. Free. 815 Santiam Blvd. 5:30-8pm Youth Night Ages 10-18 Mill City Chris-tian Church. Kids MUST be picked up by 8:15. Free. Not held on weeks with Friday school.6pm Bible Study at Living Water Church of God, Sorbin St. Gates.6pm Canyon Readers Book Club meets on the second Thursday

evening of the

month at Trexler Farm Restau-rant. if interested in dinner and 7pm if interested in book discus-sion. Jan.9-Life in a Jar by Jack Meyer, Feb.13-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Mar.13-Red Heart by James Thom, Apr.10-Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. New members always welcome. Contact Herb Bas-tuscheck, 503-859-2668. 7-9pm Bingo with the Idanha Detroit Fire Dept, every other Thursday at the Detroit City Hall meeting room.

Fridays6:30pm Youth Group at Mill City Baptist Church 7th grade to 24 years. 815 NW Santiam Blvd. Sunday.1pm Canyon Senior Center Pi-nochle 844 South First St. Mill City 503 897-4176

Linn County Sheriff Report ~ 12-22-13 to 12-26-13

The Mill City Volunteer Firemen want to recycle your Christmas tree again this year. On January 11th firemen will be go-ing around to pick up your tree in the Mill City Fire District. They will be asking for 4 cans of canned goods that they will be donating to our local food bank. The fire men ask that you call by January the 10th to get on the list. Call the fire hall at 503 897 2390, if there is no answer, leave a message with your name, address and

phone number so we can make sure to get you scheduled. Until then make sure that you are taking care of your Christmas tree by watering it everyday. If your tree starts to dry out remove it from your house immediately. Dry trees can catch on fire very easily, and make the fire spread to other areas of your home. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and here’s to a safe and a Hap-py New Year.

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Season is officially over on December 15. If you plan on burning before

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12/22/13 2:14 SUSP-VEHICLESANTIAM BV Mill City CIRCLE K MILL CITY Has been parked at the location since 0015. Caller doesn’t know if someone is sleeping in it12/23/13 9:22 UNAUTHOR-IZED ENTRY TO MOTOR VEHICLE DOGWOOD ST Ly-ons Pr reporting theft of some clothes and other items12/23/13 9:30 UNAUTHOR-IZED ENTRY TO MOTOR VEHICLE 6TH ST Lyons Reporting theft of a wallet and a GPS unit12/23/13 10:01 THEFT-RPT CEDAR ST Lyons Pr reporting vehicle broken into and items taken Pr will not be home until after 1730.12/23/13 11:25 THEFT-RPT 10TH AV Mill City mail theft12/23/13 13:15 THEFT-RPT GOLDEN LEAF CT LyonsPR says sometime during the night someone went through hisvehs and stole a bike from his shop.12/23/13 18:54 SUICIDAL-SUBJECT CAD Report5TH ST Lyons Caller states that his uncle is threating to com-

mit suicide and has attempted to swing at callers dad. Caller states the the susp is upstairs, dad is downstairs12/23/13 19:46 HARASS-MENT RPT KINGWOOD AV Mill City KINGWOOD COURT APTS Caller states that the neighbor gal came over and yelled at her and her family. Made the daughter who is 3 feel uncomfortable and scared.12/24/13 7:40 DOG COM-PLAINT HWY 226 Linn County WEASEL FLATSPr said in this area, there is a german shepard runningin and out of traffic. It does have a collar on it.12/24/13 7:43 SUSP-VEHI-CLE MAIN ST Lyons LYONS MARKET caller says truck has been sitting in the parking lot “cool industries” truck.truck is running and has been sitting there for hours.12/24/13 13:32 TRESPASS ALDER ST Mill CityLady was allowed to stay overnight. She was supposed to leave and now is taking things that don’tbelong to her.12/24/13 20:38 DISTB-NOISE

KINGWOOD AV Mill City KINGWOOD COURT APTS a lady called and would like to speak with the deputy thatdealt with the situation last night (773) about her rudeand loud neighbors. Ongoing issue.12/24/13 22:37 TRESPASS *IN PROGRESS* LYONS MILL CITY DR Linn CountyCaller reporting subjects were trespassing on his property.He is now out with the suspects on Fishermans Rd at thegated community.12/25/13 4:34 VEH-STOLENDOGWOOD ST Lyons Just happened. unk direction.Caller states that the susp got in a fight with her boyfriend and then took the callers purse and car and left12/25/13 6:17 UNAUTHOR-IZED ENTRY TO MOTOR VEHICLE BROADWAY ST Mill City caller reporting theft of gas by siphoning at locationcontact caller at res no desc of susps -12/25/13 9:07 CRIM MIS-CHIEF 4TH AV Linn Countycaller reporting his kitchen win-

dow was broken from theoutside - occ’d sometime during the night - caller did not hear the event -12/25/13 15:19 PHONE-HA-RASSMENT 3RD ST LyonsCaller works for STR. Male keeps calling the STR number and is threatening the caller and the caller’s family. He states that she stole the crack from his car and won’t stop12/26/13 13:32 JUV-COM-PLAINT ALDER ST Mill Cityverbal only - destroying prop-erty and disobeying hisparents juvenile is on probation through marion co mother was unable to reach her son’s P.O.12/26/13 21:06 DISTB-DOMESTIC MAIN ST Lyons Across the street to the east, at the dark blue house, there are 3-4 males physically fighting.opened at the cole school ad-dress. he has it on video.

May we see less and less of this column in 2014.

May each week bring a reduction of crime and strife

and an increase in respect and honor.

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Autobody & PaintCanyon Auto Rebody 21916 Ferry Rd. SE, Mehama www.can-yonautorebody.com (503) 859-3247Auto RepairClassic Auto and Tire Center 48347 Lyons-Mill City Drive, Mill City(503)897-2256Mike’s Auto Repair and Deiselsmall engines& motorcycles at 27860 N. Hwy 22, Mill City 503 897-6061Antiques/ResaleOdds and Ends Antiques and Collect-ables 11227 Grove St., S.E.Mehama503-859-2688Lyons Timbertown Resale Home acces-sories, gifts, more. 1313 Main St. Lyons. 503-859-4054; 503-507-1326. Facebook. Business DevelopmentGROW EDC: Free & confidential busi-ness & non-profit [email protected] 503-871-5188Coffee StandsCanyon Espresso at the corner of Hwy 22 and Gates Hill Rd., (503) 897-6031Computer ServicesWidmerWeb Design (503) 569-1229 www.widmerweb.comConstructionHueller Construction Inc. CCB #114169 www.huellerconstruction.com 503-859-3575.Firearm InstructionOld West Enforcement Professionals NRA#1787-91947 BCI# 1102466 503-580-9397 www.oldwestprosconcealand-carry.comHealth and WellnessChiropractic Physicians Clinic and Wellness Center 11247 Grove St., Me-hama (503)859-2181Santiam Healing Arts Reconnective, energetic healing for all. Special Canyon pricing. Colleen Samuel (503) 897-3357Mill City Dental (503)897-2353Mill City Pharmacy 218 S.W. Broad-way, Mill City (503) 897-2331Santiam Medical Clinic 280 S. 1st Ave. Mill City (503) 897-4100Heating and CoolingLyons Heating & Cooling Inc. CCB#96400 (503)859-2325www.lyonsheating.netGroceriesMountain High Grocery and Gifts 220 D St. Detroit, (503)854-3696Detroit Market and Supplies 100 De-troit Ave. N. (503) 854-3767 FacebookMill City Market 829 1st Ave. Mill City 503-897-2006www.smhselectmarket.comLandscaping

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Pie sales lead to fire truck ride for first grader

Six year old Zach Long of Mill City got a chauffeured fire truck ride from his home to his classroom, all because he sold pies. He sold enough of them to family, friends and neighbors that he won 5th place in a Santiam Elementary contest to help raise funds for field trips and special events.

When asked what his favorite part of the ride was Zach said, “when I got to honk the horn.” Zach’s big plans for 2014 are to play baseball and hang out with his friends. No word on any future ambition to become a fireman yet.

Mud slide brings pizza slingers, diners

into actionThe week before Christmas a mass of mud and rock, clinging to the cliff near Giovanni’s Mt. Pizza finally let loose, eventually covering both lanes of Hwy 22 on a blind curve. “Traffic was skidding to stops, and veering into our parking lot, it was pretty scary” said Starr Lutz, a Giovanni’s employee. Bob Netter of Gates and Greg Lewelyn of Scio were just finishing their lunch when they saw the melee. “They just jumped right up and went out to direct traffic,” said Lutz who noted they were well prepared with orange vest and a manor of authority. “ I can’t say enough good about them, they were life savers, they really knew what they were doing.” Meanwhile Gio’s employees Chase Howard and John Sorrick jumped into action as well, taking a broom and shovel and clearing one lane of traffic to allow travellers to pass. After several phone calls by Lutz to various agencies, ODOT eventually showed up to take over and clear the road completely.

The slide, now cleared, reached into both lanes forcing traffic to cross into the parking area of Giovannis , just west of Poppa Al’s. Photo by Jim Brotherton.

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