Starla Pointer
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Quitter. Winner.
Health educator Janice Primozich has a great deal of empathy for the students in her smoking cessation classes, as she knows how much suffering can accompany trying to quit. But she also knows how wonderful ...
Stopping By: Making time
Dan Hilbert deals in hands and faces, bevelled edges and beading, pendulums and precision movements. He makes time. Or, at least, designs devices that help us keep track of it. “I want to ...
Stopping By: New at Newby once more
By STARLA POINTER<br/>Of the News-Register When Stefanie Van Dyke was touring Newby Elementary School in August, preparing for her job as a kindergarten teacher there, she spotted a giant tiger ...
Stopping By: Helping others become independent
Teddi Beard retiring from rewarding 38-year career teaching vocational skills The first time Teddi Beard visited Mid-Valley Workshop’s wood products plant near Amity, she saw the executive director ...
Stopping By: Lights! Camera! Hair! Makeup!
Who’s the most challenging client for a hair stylist? Rapunzel, perhaps? Doreen VanTyne of Lafayette has met her. She styled the fairytale princess’s lengthy braid for an episode of “Grimm,” ...
Stopping By: Big quilts, small quilts, doll quilts, wall quilts
DAYTON — Priscilla Heinzman works for months or years on some projects, sewing together tiny pieces to make one-of-a-kind quilts. Other times, she rapidly turns out five smaller quilts — designed ...
Stopping By: Volunteers work together to finish history book
Dedicated volunteers are keeping track of the history of Yamhill County and help teach others about it. Some Yamhill County Historical Society volunteers spend time running events like Harvest Fest, which ...
Stopping By: Being neighborly
Long before he became a firefighter himself, Steve Warden saw neighbors and family friends volunteering their time and effort to put out fires, administer first aid and assist people in myriad other ways. It ...
Stopping By: Hometown strings
YAMHILL — Olivia Cheser can’t remember a time when she didn’t live in Yamhill. She was 2 months old when her parents, who met as students at Yamhill-Carlton High School, moved back to ...
Stopping By: Forward, march
If everything goes the way Jason Kiff hopes, he will be on the field in Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium this fall. But not in a Beaver football jersey. Instead, the freshman will be ...
Stopping By: Building homeowners
Most people think McMinnville’s Habitat for Humanity chapter only builds houses. Actually, the nonprofit does something even more important: It builds homeowners. “Our partners learn so much ...
Stopping By: Faces and vases
Faces — happy, worried, perplexed and curious by turn — peer out from many of Mya Clover-Owens’ works of art. A head inclines, curious or thoughtful, forming “Crazy Man.” ...
Stopping By: A new kind of mission
During his stint in the Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class James Cameron sailed the equivalent of seven trips around the world. He came home to Oregon to build things, including elevators that carry ...
Stopping By: Bound for Brazil
McMinnville High School sophomores Emma Gardner and Anna Johnson are heading to Brazil this summer — not to watch the Olympics, but to learn about the world and about themselves. They have been ...
