Stopping By: Stitches in Time
SHERIDAN — Donna Hulett uses different fabrics, different patterns and different colors in each of her quilts. But they all have one thing in common — an informative label on the back. “They ...
Stopping By: Treated like family
Food lured Larry Snider and his wife, Cheryl Nangeroni, to Greece. The people drew them back. "They treated us like family," said the McMinnville couple, who are encouraging other adventurous travelers ...
Stopping By: As the earth turns
When Glen Watts was a little boy, horses pulled the plows and cultivators on his family’s farm and most of the farms around them. But about 1935, when he was still in elementary school, an exciting ...
Stopping By: Scripting a life
Norm Tognazzini has been writing and acting, both for pleasure and for pay, almost all of his life. He’s often intertwined the two, writing scripts that draw on his knowledge of how actors bring ...
Stopping By: An Unbreakable Bond
From clay and glass and fire, Dan and Susan Wheeler have forged a relationship that makes them partners in business and life. Dan is a potter who makes functional, beautiful items from porcelain clay. ...
Stopping By: Unleashed enthusiasm
Luna’s ears pricked up when she heard the most magical word. “Park!” said her mom, Fe Reynaga. What joy! What excitement! Luna jumped into the car. It was time — oh yes! — ...
Stopping By: Where love lives
When Corvallis native Debbie Anvick first met fellow Oregon State University student Calvin Kearns, she saw a man who was kind and good, peaceful and stable. Perfect, in fact, except for one thing: He ...
Stopping By: Good pointe
At age 12, Mia Audova left everything familiar — her home in Lafayette, her classroom at Patton Middle School, her family — in order to pursue her dream of becoming a prima ballerina. Only ...
Stopping By: School resource officer enjoys teaching kids about law enforcement
While he’s there to enforce security, prevent and investigate crime, and make arrests when necessary, the role School Resource Officer Doug Cummins really relishes is that of educating students. He’s ...
Stopping By: Parks offer peace, picnics and play
Only a few miles west of McMinnville, Ed Grenfell County Park offers a kind of quiet you won’t find in town — a musical quiet, lush with the rushing of Baker Creek, the singing and calling ...
Stopping By: Wedding of a lifetime
Fourth proposal is the charm for McMinnville couple who prefer to do things their way.
Stopping By: Step right up
One day, Jan Jones wasn’t a clogger. The next day, she was. She attended a clogging demonstration in Medford about 15 years ago. A group of people wearing shoes with metal taps bounced in rhythm ...
Stopping By: Alien artistry
On a wall of Adam Diesburg’s dental office stands a cowboy, stern and stoic. Beside him, a creature from outer space reads him the riot act. The compact green creature — which Diesburg added ...
Stopping By: Aboard the wide Missouri
Virgil Wray celebrated his 89th birthday at almost the same spot where he celebrated his 20th and 21st birthdays. But this time, there was a lot more fanfare. On March 10, Wray marked his birthday by ...
Tim Roberts at Linfield
Tim Roberts first came to McMinnville as a Linfield College student in the mid-1960s. He lived in Hewitt Hall. He first studied education, then shifted to the sciences, figuring that would help him get ...
