Holiday Giving 2025

Amity Tree of Giving : Amity Volunteer Firefighters will install a Tree of Giving at First Federal, 110 Maddox Ave., Amity. To participate, select a tag from the tree and return the unwrapped gift to the ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Lisa Sharp, who volunteers at the Soup Kitchen at St. Barnabas about twice a week, prepares to serve dressing at the Thanksgiving buffet.

Thankful for food, friends and a way to serve others

Whether they were volunteers or diners, everyone at the Soup Kitchen at St. Barnabas Wednesday night was thankful. Thankful for the feast of turkey, ham and all the trimmings, including Blue Raeven pies. Thankful ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Donna Parkinson is among community members who will open their decorated houses for the Soroptimist Holiday Home Tour on Dec. 7.

Stopping By: A house of whimsy, memories

A Santa face — button nose, crinkly eyes, fluffy beard — smiles at visitors from a mirror in Donna Parkinson’s entranceway.  The simple but cheery paper face was created by one ...

Henderson House: Crown of Yamhill County 2025

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our second annual Crown of Yamhill County event on October 4, 2025. We are bursting with gratitude for our incredible contestants that generously ...

Churches collect shoebox gifts for kids

Two Yamhill County churches are serving as drop-off locations for donations to Operation Christmas Child, a project of the nationwide Samaritan’s Purse organization. Individuals, families and groups ...

Toy drives held in Lafayette, McMinnville

The Lafayette Fire Department Toy Drive is accepting applications until Dec. 1 for residents up to age 12 to receive items. Locals can pick up and drop off applications at the Station 10 entry any time ...

Thanksgiving meals, events around the county

-- The Sheridan/Buell Grange will host a Friendsgiving community potluck on Sunday, Nov. 23, at Buell Grange Hall, 5970 Mill Creek Road, Sheridan. Vendors can reserve a space at the accompanying market, ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Watched closely by Lev Martin, 7, Ham Fam run founder Michael Hampton looks over a checklist of supplies for the Thanksgiving event while neighbors Jennifer Dederich, next to Hampton, and Courtney Martin, right, blow up balloons for the arch that starts and ends the event, Also pictured are Liz Wilkins, center, one of the neighbors who are continuing the Thanksgiving morning tradition, and Laura Hampton, who cofounded the event and ran it with her family for 13 years.

Stopping By: A neighborhood tradition continues

For years, residents of the neighborhood west of Adams Street and south of Memorial Elementary School — called Saylor’s Addition — have been running the streets on Thanksgiving ...

Submitted photo##Everett Morris, 5, balances as he walks along a line of boulders in the new playground at A Family Place, located in the McMinnville First Baptist Church. He attended the Thursday dedication of the playground, which is designed with natural features and plenty of places for young children to climb, slide and hide.

A Family Place dedicates new playground

Adults of various ages climbed onto the boulders, walked across a series of tree-trunk stepping stones and even slipped down the slide at A Family Place’s new playground at the relief nursery’s ...

Soup sale will benefit food bank

Four local restaurants will sell soup to-go to raise funds for the YCAP regional food bank. Soup and bread will be available at The Diner from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21. Cost is $10 per quart. The ...

Submitted photo##Yamhill Police Chief Greg Graven accepts the Changing Hearts Impact Award from Juliette’s House for his dedication to protecting children and supporting families in Yamhill County. He was one of several winners of the nonprofit child abuse intervention center’s new Heart of the Community awards, given at an event Thursday. All the awards were handmade by woodworker Rolf Wuellner.

Juliette’s House recognizes supporters with new awards

Juliette’s House Child Abuse Intervention Center honored several of its resolute supporters Thursday with its first Heart of the Community awards for people and organizations that “go above ...

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