Nov. 23, 1972
Sweet Home Junior High opened a new elective class for boys only: home economics.
It’s a class the high school has offered for several years now.
The boys mainly learn cooking and sewing, which include a subset of skills: comparison shopping,
meal planning, food costs, various utensils, types of material, yardage, patterns and operation of sewing machines.
The boys mostly enjoy getting to eat what they cooked, and most think in the future they will use the cooking skills more than the sewing skills.
“At least, I hope that is the way it turns out,” one boy said.
The high school play, “State Fair,” had to be postponed following a traffic accident that injured several cast members.
John Marble, Gary Bennett, Jim Tomlinson and Jack Henthorne were en route home from play rehearsal when their car collided with another car, also operated by high school students.
Nov. 19, 1997
The number of calls for service to the high school by police is greater this year than any of the last 10 years.
Police received the equivalent of one call per day from the high school this academic year, totalling 58 times so far.
The calls for service include any incident where police are called, including public assists and information.
Sweet Home Planning Commissioner Tom Albert resigned following increasing friction with the chairman over the last few months regarding approaches to land use planning.
Albert said Chairman Dick Meyers does a great job and knows the city code inside and out, but Albert had joined the commission to address issues he ultimately realized could not be solved through that channel.
Albert wanted rules created to enhance the appearance of public yards, and to address off-street parking.
Classes at Hawthorne, Foster and Crawfordsville are participating in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Salmon Trout Enhancement Program.
The classes received a portion of some 20,000 spring Chinook eggs that were distributed to 80 classrooms across the Mid-Willamette Valley, and will care for the eggs until they hatch.
The fry will then be released into the Santiam River system