By Elaine Rohse • Columnist • 

Rohse: The past slowly fading away

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Comments

Lee

Elaine, thank your for the wonderful stories that you continue to give us. My friend Roger Heller was a great admirer of your Monument stories. May you give us many more.

Sally G

Thanks, Elaine, for the vivid images you create. I have a hankering to try kicking up some wapatos myself!

Don Dix

Hello Elaine, long time.

You knew my father well, and he attended White Cloud Elementary (little white building as you descend down from the 1st hill just west of Carlton on the way to Moore's Valley and the Nestucca River). He also graduated from Carlton High, which is now, I believe, apartments. Back in the 70's, the remaining high school gym was open to youth activities during the weekends.

McMinnville was once named 'The Walnut City'. Since most of the processing plants have vanished, so has most of the walnut industry in the area. My family employed the Mac High juniors to pick and sack the nuts for a couple of years (they were raising money for their approaching senior class year). That activity seems to have been replaced by car washes and doughnut sales.

Thank you for jogging my memory of how things and places used to be. Sometimes change is not all that!





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