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 ...
Stopping By: The barber of Yamhill
YAMHILL — Veterans get a bonus when they come in for a haircut with Walt Fulcher, the barber of Yamhill. With each cut or trim or shave, they also receive a message about the benefits of joining ...
Stopping By: Celebrating sisterhood
PEO sisters work hard to provide scholarships and grants so that other women can learn and achieve their dreams. And that’s been the raison d’etre for McMinnville’s PEO Chapter Y for ...
Stopping By: Peace of her heart
As a preschooler, Charlotte (Henley) Clemmer waved goodbye to her eldest brother, handsome Carlton Lee Henley, as he went off to fight World War II. She never saw him again, but 70 years after he died ...
Stopping By: Blessings in store
CARLTON — In 2009, visitors to the then-new Blessing Room squeezed into a couple of small rooms in the back of an old house next to Carlton Assembly of God Church. They dropped off donations, then ...
Stopping By: The power of music
Conductor Betty Busch and the 40 or so members of the McMinnville Women’s Choir love making music together. But singing is not the main purpose of the group, according to Busch, who founded ...
Stopping By: Couple share lifetime of love
"Oklahoma" opened on Broadway March 1943, and soon everyone was singing Rodgers and Hammerstein's popular melodies. No surprise, then, that Yvonne Preisser chose a tune from the musical for her ...
Stopping By: Adding college to her life
Mother of two embracing her return to higher education Jamie Corff tried college once, immediately after graduating from high school in her home state of Wyoming. Stopping By Starla Pointer, ...
Stopping By: Acting out loud
Josiah “J.P.” Phillips took a deep breath, expanding his diaphragm to fill his lungs to their fullest extent. He opened his mouth, relaxed his throat and let the air flow across his vocal chords ...
Stopping By: A lifetime of teamwork
LAFAYETTE — What Melva Proctor will miss most, now that she’s retired from a half-century career in nursing, is the teamwork. She loved helping patients deal with their fears, as well ...
