Stopping By / Yard of the Month: In Mac, a new start
A rectangular raised bed filled with flowers and foliage, a katsura tree and a newly added porch roof make Cheryl and Joel Wilkinson’s place catch the eyes of passersby — including members ...
Stopping by: Stories in stone
Johnny Edwards’ workplace features the most magnificent views in McMinnville. It’s one of the quietest places to work, too. Although the wind often rustles the trees, few human voices interrupt ...
‘A good, clean start’: Nonprofit launches furniture bank
A new charitable organization, Share Inc. of Yamhill County, is starting a program to help people who are leaving behind distressed situations and moving into a house or apartment. A furniture bank supplying ...
A lasting impression
Don New and his wife, Martha Lee “Leah” New, landed in McMinnville in 1962 and quickly made their mark on the business community, the arts and health care. They were involved in the ...
Stopping by: The straw solution
Before she could plant broccoli and Brussels sprouts, Walla Walla sweets and summer squash, leeks and lettuce, Mary Kathleen Drew needed to prepare the soil. And before she could prepare the soil, she ...
Stopping by: Riveting story
Just before Rita Turner Milton graduated from McMinnville’s Lincoln High School, industrial arts teacher Jack Greiner invited her and other girls to take a shop class. The shop was usually boys’ ...
Stopping by: Brewer, Baker go against the grain
Amelia Bierly, who owns Bierly Brewery with her husband, brewmaster J.P. Bierly, was in her 30s before she ever tasted a malted milk ball or a soft pretzel — and then she had to bake them herself. Amelia ...
Stopping By: The right volunteer for the job
Retired teacher Larry Kurtz was working as a medical transcriptionist in Salem when he noticed a News-Register posting for a very specific type of volunteer. Juliette’s House, the Yamhill County ...
Stopping by: 'Endless paintings'
Driving from her new home in Amity to her studio in McMinnville, landscape artist Erin Hanson notices daffodils and oaks, green fields and hills, moody sky and rainbows. “I see 10 or 12 ...
Stopping by: Recovering the past
When he was a teenager, Gary Musselman often stopped by his grandfather’s upholstery shop on his way home from classes at McMinnville Junior High School or McMinnville High. “He let ...
Stopping By: Carving out a 30 year hobby
Donna Lunt disagrees with her husband on one point. Bob Lunt claims he has no artistic talent or creativity. Donna says he does, and most people would agree she’s right. Bob, a 1952 Linfield ...
Stopping by: Reading for life
As a child, Elide Sanchez Rivera stocked her own library with books she received as birthday and Christmas gifts. She treasured volumes such as “Dragon’s Keeper” and “The Homework ...
Stopping By: A long romance
When Roz Turner attended a “get acquainted” night at Ottawa University in September 1948, she noticed a good-looking lad who was a fellow member of the freshman class. And Roz, in turn, caught ...
Stopping by: Creatures great and small
Now retired, longtime Carlton vet fulfilled his 'James Herriot' dream
Stopping by: Pecking order
Edges are the best places to view birds — where the edge of a city meets the edge of a forest or where the water meets the land, according to master birdwatcher Harry Fuller. Edges contain a buffet ...
