Tag SALEM PEOPLE
Tokyo dreams become reality for South Salem athlete
Annie Flood at the 2021 Tokyo Paralympic Games (Instagram photo) After training for most of her senior year of high school, Annie Flood learned in July she’d been named an alternate for the U.S. women’s sitting volleyball team, and wouldn’t be going to Tokyo to…
South Salem grad wants to protect Oregon coastal communities through better engineering
Inessa Garrey in the large wave flume at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University in 2019 (Courtesy photo) Inessa Garrey wants to make sure coastal communities will survive imminent natural disasters brought on by climate change. As the 19-year-old South Salem High…
Rubber chicken and concertina in tow, Salem’s hospital clown lifts spirits
Mike Bednarek performs a card trick as Dr. Fun E. Bone for an 18-year-old pediatric patient at Salem Hospital on Aug. 25, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Mike Bednarek slides a rubber chicken through a crack in a hospital room door before asking if he can…
Salem mom plans to buy Nintendo Switch, save for a house with vaccine lottery winnings
Ana Jimenez with her children on a trip to Mexico (Courtesy/Ana Jimenez) Ana Jimenez had no idea Oregon was running a vaccine lottery. The 40-year-old Salem resident was on a trip visiting family in Mexico in early July when she got a call from the…
Salem student gets a boost toward dream of improving reservation housing
Kayla Monte (Courtesy photo) Kayla Monte wants to change the way cities look. The 16-year-old, who splits her time between Arizona and Salem as a student of the Chemawa Indian School, has plans to diversify architecture and create affordable housing for reservation communities across the…
Construction workers put out Salem apartment fire
John Towne (Courtesy/Todd Construction) Josh Towne didn’t grow up wanting to be a firefighter but on Monday, July 26, he got the chance anyway. Towne, 47, a Blodgett resident and construction foreman was at work on a Todd Construction site at South Salem High School…
Salem teacher designs shirt commemorating an educational “glitch” year
Isis Thornton-Saunders, director of annual giving for the Boys & Girls Club of Salem, models Causewagon’s “glitch” t-shirt (Courtesy/Boys & Girls Club of Salem) When Dave Pluister thinks back on a year of teaching high school students graphic design over Zoom, one word describes the…
After meandering path marked by ‘oddball invocations,’ Willamette University’s “heart and soul” plans her retirement
Karen Wood, Willamette University chaplain, will retire in July 2021 (Courtesy/Willamette University) For over a decade, Karen Wood, the chaplain at Willamette University, has had a challenging task: addressing hundreds of faculty, students and their family from different faith traditions (or none at all) in…
After helping write landmark laws and keeping Salem’s nonprofits humming, Ken Sherman retires
Ken Sherman Jr. holds out a treat for Max the cat in the library of his condo in downtown Salem on Wednesday, March 24. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Ken Sherman Jr. is the first to admit that the minutiae of Oregon’s wage garnishment laws don’t make…