The Canyon Weekly April 4, 2012
Volume 3, Issue 14
News and Life - For Our Side of the Mountain! Serving the communities of Lyons, Mehama, Elkhorn, Mill City, Gates, Niagra, Detroit, Breitenbush, Idanha and Marion Forks
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Nationally renowned musical comedy coming to Mill City Santiam Hearts to Arts fundraiser to bring full-time music teacher to Santiam Canyon schools next year
If laughter is the best medicine, then Santiam Hearts to Arts has the perfect spring tonic for you! The 3rd annual Spring Awakening Celebration is taking on a new twist - bringing the phenomenally funny and amazingly talented musical stage duo Stoddard and Cole to Santiam Auditorium. These top notch entertainers have shared the stage with the likes of Keith Urban, the Beach Boys and the Oakridge boys, and have been perfecting their craft working together since the 70’s. “I saw these guys in concert, and I can easily say it was hands down the funniest show I’ve ever seen,” said Caroline Gillaspy.
“We are very fortunate to have them,” said Renate Medley, president and co-founder of Santiam Hearts to Arts. Professional guitar player and instructor Tom Cole moved to Mill City last year to be closer to his family in the northwest. He credits the mountains, the people and the fair weather that drew him to the North Santiam Canyon. “It’s amazing how the weather will be awful down in the valley, then I come home to the sun shining,” said Cole. “I’m looking forward to being part of all this.” This show is brought to us, in part, thanks to a generous gift from Pacific Power - and
Girl Scouts awarded for bravery, teamwork during purse theft
Two young ladies were selling Girl Scout cookies with their mothers in front of Stayton Safeway Feb 17 when one of the mothers had her purse snatched from the booth. Less than a month later, Abby Beattie and Cassie Klagge were awarded a Bronze Pin and plaque from the Stayton Police Department for bravery and working as a team. A young man had grabbed Scout mom Aimee Beattie’s purse and took off running across the parking lot. As Beattie gave chase, the two girls ran inside the store alerting the staff to call 911. The thief was chased about the parking lot by bystanders and finally threw the
largely from the tireless volunteers with Santiam Hearts to Arts (H2A). The brainchild of Renate Medley, H2A in now in its 5th year and has grown exponentially from its humble beginnings of an after school art club. Dedicated to serving the Santiam community through promotion of a wide variety of creative arts, H2A has been instrumental in bringing us the district wide Poetry and Art contest, the Big Band Dance Night with the Keizer Big Band, Black History Month event and the Theater Outreach productions featuring Anne of Green Gables and The Thirty Nine Steps. This year they are stepping into larger roles with the Mill City (cont’d on page 2)
purse back, but managed to escape. Surveillance tapes from Safeway showed a clear photo of him, and it was posted online and in the local papers. A few days later, the Stayton Police received a call by a mother who recognized the photo as her 16 year old son who had since left the area. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was taken into custody last Wednesday. Mill City Troop 10102 Girl Scouts Abby Beattie “We are all so proud of those girls (l) and Cassie Klagge (r) were awarded the Bronze for keeping their cool and doing ex- Pin, a girl scout award for bravery and courage and actly what they were supposed to working as a team, from Stayton Police Department Officers Paul Eves and Corbin Lantz on March 11. do,” said Kathy Klagge.
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