Jan. 10, 1974
The City Council approved a proposal that would have the East Linn Hospital District pay much of the cost for operating the city’s ambulance service. If the hospital accepts the proposal, it would enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the city and pay for the cost of a full-time ambulance department, plus 64% of the overhead expense. The city would provide the emergency medical service, vehicle maintenance, purchasing, billing, hiring, firing, training and supervision of the program.
The school district is seeking opinions from parents on whether schools should continue on daylight savings time or should revert to standard time for Jan. 14 to Feb. 18. Daylight savings time was instituted this week but the district is receiving complaints from parents about children going to school before daylight. Other parents favor the time change so they can get their kids to school before they head to work.
A bed fire claimed the life of Raymond J. Wright at his home at 1113 Long St. The suspected cause is “smoker’s carelessness.” Another fire this week occurred at 1010 5th Ave., apparently starting in an area where kids had been playing and pushed something up against a heater. Two flue fires were extinguished with no reported damage; one at 956 15th Ave. and 1069 Fern Ridge Road.
It has been a long chase, but the Huskies finally caught the elusive Silver Foxes in wrestling. Sweet Home scored an impressive 35-11 mat victory, their first win over Silverton in wrestling since the Coast-Valley League was formed four years ago.
Jan. 13, 1999
Jessica Louise Rozell was Sweet Home’s first baby of the year. She was born at 8:52 a.m. on Jan. 5 to parents Darold and Brenda Rozell.
It took Sherry and Don Podrabsky three years to restore a 1920s house and turn it into The Bell House restaurant and tea room. The Sweet Home couple moved to the city from Eugene 20 years ago to raise their children in a small town, then took to restoring the building. Jackie Sevier helps run the restaurant and oversees the tea room.
An estimated 2,500 people descended at Foster Reservoir for the Foster Mud Flats to race and “cruise.” It was a much better number for Debbie Withrow, who could remember when the Flats saw as many as 7,500, back in the day when there was no fee to attend. With more room to roam, there’s more opportunity to get stuck in the mud, and that’s just what many drivers did.
Artist-in-residence William Walther is spending two weeks at Hawthorne school introducing the basics of puppetry to children. He teaches them how to construct their own puppet, paint it, then give it “a soul.” Afterwards, the children are instructed to use their puppet as the basis for writing a story.
The school district approved a new policy that would prevent students from participating in sports or events if they receive an F or fail to maintain a 2.0 gpa.