Scott Swanson
Bobbing along on a pontoon boat on Foster Lake Thursday afternoon, Sept. 1, local business people weren’t really watching the water.
Instead, their heads were turned toward Glenda Hopkins, a longtime volunteer with the East Linn Museum, who was telling stories about the lake and people who used to live under its waters – before the South Santiam River was dammed in the late 1960s.
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