Jan. 4, 1973
A local business has been using a recycled material for several years and it might already be mailed to your house.
Cladwood Co. recycles newspapers by using them in the process of producing the company’s product, exterior siding panel. Wood chips are used for the bulk of the material in the board, but newsprint is the prime part of the overlay on the outside of the completed board.
Cladwood bought the Western Panel plant in 1963 and buys most of its used newsprint from Eugene Mission, which collects the paper and sells it to fund its work of helping people in need. Local church groups also sell used paper to the plant for fundraising projects.
Oakhurst Nursing Home at 950 Nandina St., Sweet Home’s first nursing home, opened and admitted its first two patients, Mrs. Emma Rock and Mrs. Nellie Obert. Derek Salway is manager and Miss Barbara Koenig, R. N., is director of patient care. Other staff include Miss Debbie Palkki, Mrs. Masine Cox, Mrs. Marge Cope, Mrs. Dortha Tedford, Mrs. Marjory Henpeck and Mrs. Cora Watson.
Demolition of the old Wiley Creek dam and redirection of the stream through a new channel is under way.
A drilling machine, bulldozer and dragline are in operation preparing for removal of the 37- foot-high concrete dam which has been blamed for pileups of logs and debris during past years in seasons of heavy rains.
The curved structure extends 300 feet across the area. The contractor will dredge a channel 80 feeet wide from the dam site back to the existing natural creek bed to divert the flow from nearby homes to the east. The changes are exected to improve the fish migration upstream.
Sweet Home won the area beautification contest for cities with population of 2,500 for the second consecutive year.
Sam Cairnes headed the beautification committee, which tackled the major project of clearing log jams and removing the unused dam on Wiley Creek at Foster. Other improvements include development of mini parks, completion of Northside Park and recording improvements of buildings downtown.
Jan. 7, 1998
Healthcare officials, area dignitaries and residents of the new $6 million Wiley Creek Community were on hand to cut the red ribbon and open the independent and assisted living facility’s doors.
Mary Ellen Lind is manager of the facility, and the first to call Wiley Creek “home” are Faye Albert, Elsie Brown, Sam Cairnes, Maude Collins, Charles Crane, Thelma Davis, Mary DeLong, Donna Ego, Bernice Ellis, Mary Emmert, Betty Griner, Viva Groves, Malonie Lockwood, Mary Long, Dorothy McClure, Lillion and Vernon Miller, Maxine Nightingale, Melba North, Phillip and Helen Pallki, Helen Revelle, Eva Reynolds, Isabelle Ripley, Evelyn Robertson, Agnes Schroeder, B.J. Swhwegman, Doris Sisco, Bette Talbot, Ruth Ulve, Claude Wells, Charlene Wilson and Lucille Winkler.
Sallie Sicotti gave her granddaughter, Rachel Ahola, a very personalized Christmas gift: a quilt made from 24 T-shirts.
Ahola, former SHHS swimming star, accumulated the shirts during her years of swimming competition, and it took Sicotti seven weeks to make the quilt.
One of the shirts was from Ahola’s first state championship when she was a kid. Now she swims for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and finds the workouts much harder, but she’s still managed to beat her high school times.
A Sweet Home sailor is part of the only Navy helicopter squadron that is trained to make a particular rescue behind enemy lines.
Navy Petty officer 1st Class Stephen B. Green is a member of Helicopter Combat Support Special Squadron 5 (HCS-5) based at Naval Air Weapons Station, Point Mugu, Calif. He specializes in combat search and rescue, and dropping off or picking up special forces teams.
People came together to provide a better home for Baliss Foster, who was living in a 20-foot camp trailer when they decided to clean up a vacant mobile home at Trailer Villa and give it to him.
The person who owned the home asked to be let out of their contract, and property manager Kathy Ecker realized it would be a good opportunity to put Foster there.
Several people chipped in to donate a bed, TV, Christmas tree, curtains and ceiling fan, and to replace wiring, plumbing, carpet and paint.