From left, Donna Barcus, Hailyn Ayers, Mariah Butts and Aaliyah Tucker at the Fairgrounds Pavilion making Valentine’s Day bags with flowers for unsheltered women. (Courtesy/ Lisa Letney) When high water flooded Wallace Marine Park and Cascades Gateway Park this winter, Lisa Letney laid awake hearing the sounds of a storm[Read More…]
Tag: SALEM COMMUNITY
Calls to community resource line show how the pandemic has fallen unevenly on women in Marion County
Volunteer Yoni Giron takes a load of food boxes to his car at the Marion County food pantry on Friday, April 10. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Women, who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, are the main driver behind calls to a social services hotline locally that connects people to[Read More…]
“You can do more damage than the storm.” Foresters urge caution when assessing tree damage
Downed trees at Wallace Marine Park on Feb. 15, 2021. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) As Salem residents look to repair damaged trees on their property, Oregon State University’s extension office and the Oregon Department of Forestry have some advice. The extension office said doing things properly after trees have been damaged[Read More…]
As the lights went out, Salem adapted with camp stoves and candles
Krysta Holman and her boyfriend Jayson Alderman pose for a portrait. The couple were inside their three-person tent at Wallace Marine Park on Feb. 12 when a branch fell onto the tent from a severe storm. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Krysta Holman and her boyfriend Jayson Alderman were inside their three-person[Read More…]
After stolen yurts upended its expansion plans, a Salem school gets some unexpected good news
Kaleidoscope Community School Director Molly Brown (left) and Ashley Acers, the school’s owner, stand outside of a yurt assembled at the school. The school had ordered four yurts to help it expand. But thieves had other plans. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Kaleidoscope Community School is still missing the coverings for the[Read More…]
“She just had a big heart, a heart of gold.” Colleagues and family remember bus driver killed in crash
Rachel Bunting died in a car crash on Feb. 4. She is remembered for her kind heart. (Courtesy/ Carl Bunting) Shortly after 8 p.m., Rachel Bunting was just eight minutes away from being done with her shift on Feb. 4 when Jordan Chandler drove into the opposite lane of Highway[Read More…]
A trailer stolen in the middle of the night upends school’s expansion plan
Kaleidoscope Community School Director Molly Brown (left) and Ashley Acers, the school’s owner, stand outside of a yurt assembled at the school. The school had ordered four yurts to help it expand. But thieves had other plans. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Somewhere, there is someone with thousands of square feet of[Read More…]
After more than a decade telling people how to throw away less, county coordinator retires
Alan Pennington, left, and Bailey Payne, right, at an Earth Day event. (Courtesy/ Bailey Payne) Years before Alan Pennington became a waste reduction coordinator, he wondered why anyone would want to become a master recycler. “I just laughed, and I thought… ‘What is with these people?’” Pennington recounted Friday, the[Read More…]
A Salem nonprofit that trains service dogs is asking for help — naming puppies
Golden Retriever puppies will soon begin training with Salem-based Joys of Living Assistance Dogs to become a service or therapy dog. But first, it needs a name. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Joys of Living Assistance Dogs, a Salem nonprofit that trains service dogs, is asking for the public’s help picking names[Read More…]
PHOTOS: Salem celebrates MLK Day with community meal, signs and speeches
Jonathan Jones, co-owner of Epilogue Kitchen and Cocktails passes out coffee and free meals to community members during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday, Jan. 18. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Maura Ryan, co-owner of Epilogue Kitchen and Cocktails passes out a meal to Xia Wang as part of[Read More…]
