July 28, 1955
Tex Ritter, nationally known folk ballad singer, will be the special feature of Sweet Home’s ’55 Frontier Days and Buckaroo Breakfast, Saturday, Aug. 13.
City Council members have given the go-ahead to a plan submitted at their Tuesday meeting to enter into a contract to locate a forest products industry on land the city owns. The Sweet Home council instructed City Manager Roy Eames to enter into a contract with Vernon Geil concerning his interest in the Portland Manufacturing company property which has been donated to the city. The land, north of ‘E’ Street, between the SP&S railroad and 22nd Ave., will be used for the construction of a $125,000 forest products site within the next six months, Geil said in a letter to the council.
Harvest worker demand in the Lebanon area is unusual and a “tremendous shortage” is anticipated by the end of this week, according to M.K. Blair, representative of the Oregon State Employment service.
Sweet Home’s champion boy or girl pie eater will be crowned during Frontier Days, Wes Shimanek, pie eating contest chairman, reports.
Sweet Home’s swimming team was defeated by Lebanon, 127 to 61, in a two-way meet here last Saturday, but local divers outpointed their opponents, 27 1/2 to 25 1/2.
July 24, 1980
Sunny days and clear skies provided the ideal setting last weekend for Sweet Home’s 1980 Sportsman’s Holiday, and sportsmen from the Northwest and even other countries flocked to Sweet Home to make the most of it. An estimated 10,000 to 13,000 freshwater enthusiasts crowded the shores of Foster Reservoir Sunday to watch the hydroplane races, returned to Sweet home after a one-year absence and marred this year by a severe accident to one of the hydroplane drivers, still in critical condition.
The railroad right-of-way reared its persistent head again at Sweet Home City Council meeting Tuesday night. Patricia Tack, 1435 Elm, petitioned the council to initiate proceedings to sell to her and her neighbors that portion of the right-of-way that directly adjoins their property, roughly the section of right-of-way between 10th Avenue and Elm.
Norm Vandiver, general manager of White’s Electronics, claims that safety factors, not the loss of right-of-way, are that firm’s reasons for favoring the Pleasant Valley Bridge proposal number 1. The bridge, scheduled for replacement, has been an item of controversy in Sweet Home for several months. Two alternatives and a no-build option have been suggested by the state for the bridge.