Nov. 17, 1949
Linn County’s showplace forest products plant and one of the nation’s most outstanding manufacturing enterprises is Cascades Plywood Corporation’s closely integrated operation. The firm’s twin factories, located on the Sweet Home-Lebanon highway, make plywood and process battery separator stock. It is the world’s largest factory under one roof manufacturing Douglas fir plywood.
Nov. 14, 1974
The city’s proposal to locate a sludge disposal site for the new sewage treatment plant in the Pleasant Valley area was rejected by the county’s Planning Commission. Two dozen residents with a petition of 48 signatures opposed the city’s application to allow the organic solids disposal site on 20 acres about 1.5 miles northwest of Sweet Home.
The Chamber of Commerce tentatively accepted a proposal to move with Linn-Benton Community College to a new building located in the rear of the old Chevrolet garage on Long Street, east of 13th Avenue. Rental costs and budget arrangements still need to be worked out before anything is set in stone.
Jan Hufford, a 1974 SH graduate, will appear in the Linn-Benton Community College production of “Tom Thumb,” in the supporting role of Doodle. She will be the only Sweet Home student appearing in the play. The director describes the play as an “adult comedy not intended for children.” The author of “Tom Thumb” wrote the play to indicate what extremes drama of the 18th century had reached.
Nov. 17, 1999
A parent was revolted by the dried alligator feet her children found in their Halloween bags. Sonja Reagan’s children went trick-or-treating at Wagon Wheel Trailer Court and returned to find dried alligator feet in their bags. At first Reagan thought it was a joke, but it was later learned the feet came from a family who originated out of Louisiana and brought thousands of them to Sweet Home. There, alligator feet are very common and used as back scratchers or placed on keychains.
The Sweet Home Genealogical Society held its grand opening of its library with a ribbon cutting by Mayor Tim McQueary. The library is the first of its kind in the state, with its construction beginning last April. The reality of building the Genealogical Society’s library was made possible by the generous donation of Jerry Mealy’s estate.
The school board voted this week to withdraw from Fairview Alternative School. District 55 has operated the school with Lebanon for the past four years, but both districts decided to end the program after facing funding shortages.