Stopping By: Ministers on prayer: It’s a conversation, a ‘critical connection’
Speaking directly to God — praying — is a key component of the Christian faith. Local pastors say the practice builds and strengthens the relationship. No wonder they are encouraging ...
Stopping by: Feeding the need
Food service director makes sure Dayton kids have nutritious meals Pam Johnson has eaten lunch at school every day for the past 25 years. The meals are good, she said, and she's not just ...
Stopping By: ‘Spinning yarns and telling stories’
Mike Paull is a storyteller through and through, whether his tales originated in the form of bedtime fables for his granddaughter, Carlie, anecdotes he tells his friends and fellow American Legion ...
Stopping By: At 100, still writing, still ‘happy as can be’
Even in hard times, newspaper columnist looks through ‘Rohse Colored Glasses’ News-Register columnist Elaine Dahl Rohse celebrated her April 12 birthday in an odd way. Instead of ...
Stopping by: Teacher, writer sets example for students
Language arts teacher Matt Brisbin doesn’t simply require his students to write. He sets an example for them, composing everything from essays to poems. “It’s important ...
Stopping by: After a century, she’s learned to roll with it
But McMinnville’s Dee Nolf is still irked that current events disrupted her birthday plans Delores “Dee” Nolf planned to travel from her home in McMinnville to Southern California ...
Stopping by: Growing and changing
Avid gardeners Tom and Rita Canales miss a few things they used to grow in California — citrus, for instance. But they are thrilled by what they can now grow in their garden in McMinnville, ...
Stopping by: Beaux Frères: ‘Farming is what we do’
The rich soil of a former pig farm near Newberg combined with biodynamic farming practices has created some award-wining pinot noirs at Beaux Frères Winery. “It’s the vineyard ...
Stopping by: Food, and respect, for everyone
Arriving on foot, on bikes or by bus, people start gathering around the Soup Kitchen at St. Barnabas in mid-afternoon, awaiting the start of the 4 to 6 p.m. dinner service. Sometimes they come ...
Stopping By: Decorating with (re)purpose
Ann Austin is a woman with a purpose — or maybe we should say a “repurpose.” She repurposes clothing and household items by finding new ways they can be used instead of tossing ...
Stopping by: Everything airplanes
When a pilot scooped up young Richard “Dick” Wood and set him in the cockpit of a World War I plane in 1925, the 5-year-old was smitten. From that day onward, “everything was ...
Stopping By: A sailor’s life for him
When, on his first day of Navy boot camp, Bill Hall’s commanding officer told the men to write letters home to their mothers, Hall applied himself. It was about 2:30 a.m. when he took pen ...
Stopping by: Faith and family
Tom and Nancy Paul celebrated their first Valentine’s Day as husband and wife 50 years ago. They’d been married for two months. They were wed on Dec. 6, 1969, by a justice of the peace ...
Stopping by: Speaking of Toastmasters ...
Carolyn Smithrud made it through her first speech at the Toastmasters club. It wasn’t easy, and she didn’t think she did very well, but she made it through. Her second speech ...
Stopping By: For auld lang syne
Robert Burns was the guest of honor Saturday, Jan. 18, at the McMinnville Celtic Alliance’s annual celebration of Scotland’s favorite poet. Burns, who lived from Jan. 25, 1759, to ...
