June 14, 1951
The city park will soon offer a variety of play equipment to youngsters. Park Commissioner W. S. Sankey said a 24-foot wave slide, four teeter totters and a merry-go-round have arrived and will be erected this week, concluding the city’s effort to “dress up” the park, which included revamped restrooms, re-shingled shelters, and new picnic tables and fireplaces.
Rules to guide local organizations in what Frontier Days planners hope will soon be an “awakened interest” in the annual affair were drawn up this week. Only three men’s clubs attended the meeting – Jaycees, Rotary and Kiwanis. The covered wagon, which drew plaudits from the Lebanon Strawberry Festival crowd, will be at the Brownsville and Calapooya Roundup events. Queen candidates will make the trip to the two celebrations clad in old-time costumes and plaid shirts and jeans to publicize Sweet Home’s August event.
Sweet Home’s entrants into the State Junior League will raise funds by presenting a donkey softball game featuring budding big league stars vs. their uncooperative four-legged mounts. Boys under 15 will play at the high school field and proceeds from gate receipts will go into the equipment fund of the Junior League entrants.
June 10, 1976
A recreational vehicle show and Moonlight Sale is expected to attract a large number of people in Sweet Home this week. Boats, antique cars, vans and four-wheelers will be on display in store parking lots throughout town. Prize money will be given out in books of $2 bills. Judging will be by TOOTS (The Order of the Sportsmen). The Moonlight Sale will be from 6-9 p.m.
The Foster-Midway fight continues as the City of Sweet Home approved a contract with CH2M/Hill for facilities planning for the sewer interceptor line and trunk system. The council was also told a decision by residents of Foster-Midway to ask the Oregon Supreme Court for a review of the forced annexation of that area to Sweet Home would cause further delay of the annexation. If the Supreme Court decides to review the Oregon Court of Appeals decision upholding the constitutionality of the state’s forced-annexation law, there is no time limit on when it will be reviewed. The court battle has been going on since April 1974.
Because of dangerous trees and limbs undercut by the river, House Rock Campground has been closed until Forest Service crews finish removing trees and limbs. House Rock’s attraction and its problems are the same – it’s located in a stand of old growth timber. “The problem of camps in all old growth stands is it gets to where we can no longer take the risk,” a Sweet Home Ranger District representative said.
Students in Ruth Wodtli’s third grade class at Oak Heights School will present the East Linn Museum a time capsule to be safe-kept there until it can be opened in 2076. The children traced their family histories as far back as 200 years as the basis for their time capsule, and added an assortment of 1975-76 items, including the school menu, buttons, a bag of marbles, and school supplies.
The question of whether to remodel the existing fire hall or build a new one was a point of discussion at an informal meeting between Sweet Home city councilors and the public service advisory board. Lack of storage space, improper training facilities and no living quarters for full-time personnel were cited as major concerns. City Councilor John Mahler argued the city should be looking at a solution that will extend up to 30 years from now, not just 10 years.
June 13, 2001
Sweet Home’s school district decided it will not pursue another bond to fund construction of a new pool, reconstruction of the track, and work on other athletic and community facilities. The school district passed a $19 million bond last week to repair and construct facilities, but a $4 million bond for athletic, pool and community facilities failed by eight votes.
Sweet Home police arrested an Idaho man for disorderly conduct after following a report of a possible robbery at Wells Fargo. Police responded to the call about a man possibly attempting to commit a robbery and approached him as he left the building. The suspect, David Roberts, 63, asked tellers how much money he had, then left the teller, but returned and said his partner was going to rob the bank, and made other concerning statements.