Salem seniors craft toy trucks for kids 

Tucked away in the basement of Salem’s Capital Manor is an approximately 300-square-foot woodshop filled with lathes, saws, and plenty of wood chips. Most days, resident Gene Derfler is hard at work in the shop. 

Derfler turns out startlingly lifelike wood carvings of trout, steelhead, and koi. He painstakingly adds details like scales and fins, and he displays them atop rocks—which are also carved out of wood. Some of Derfler’s favorite carvings are on display…