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STATE CHAMPS! Y-C boys claim 3A title / Mac’s Barnes tops all heavyweights Sports A8 Yamhill County’s Tuesday June 29, 2021 $2 KEEPING YOU CONNECTED SINCE 1866 McMinnville, Oregon 156th year, No. 49 Chillin’ at the local cooling centers Swimmers missing, Quick response by community presumed drowned groups fills a heat-wave need The News-Register staff HEAT WAVE Two swimmers went miss- By PAUL DAQUILANTE by the river. ing Saturday night in the Area residents, businesses, Of the News-Register Upstairs, Gary Haupt also Willamette River and are events deal with 100+ The temperature soared was seeking a reprieve from presumed drowned, accord- temperatures / A4 well above 100 degrees by the heat. He’s also homeless, ing to the Yamhill County mid-afternoon Sunday. and said he lives in a tent in Sheriff’s Office. City Park. There are areas They were identified as protocol rather than a rescue Robert, who is homeless protocol,” Capt. Chris Ray and was enjoying the com- in Wortman Park, shaded by Nasiruddin Shaik, 37, of trees, that are quite comfort- Salem, and Thomas Paul told the News-Register Mon- fort of a cooling center in day morning. the basement of McMinn- able when the temperature Stavrum, 51, of Lafayette. ville’s First Baptist Church, spikes, he said. “Deputies will continue About 7 p.m., sheriff’s said being outside was like First Baptist offered one Robert, who didn’t wish to give his last name, relaxes in the looking at the surrounding office Marine Patrol deputies “stepping into my living basement of First Baptist Church, taking shelter from the areas by boat and shore, but room.” Home is a campsite See COOLING, A3 109 degree weather. Rusty Rae /News-Register have moved to a recovery See SWIMMERS, A3 Pride Week sees growing, colorful support State to lift COVID restrictions By NICOLE MONTESANO Of the News-Register Despite worries by some experts, Governor Kate Brown announced Fri- day that Oregon will end its COVID-19 health and safety restrictions June 30, whether or not the state has reached a 70% adult vacci- nation rate. “I’m proud of our collec- tive efforts to vaccinate more than 2.3 million Oregonians. It is because of this success that we can move Oregon forward, and into the next chapter of this pandemic. We are ready,” Brown said. She has been under increasing pressure to lift the restric- Courtney Weber, left, and Shannon tions, although the highly Griswold, right, discuss an engaging transmissible Delta variant question posed by hosts Tiquette is spreading nationwide and Bramlett and Diana Riggs, on the stage some experts have warned in the background, during a Pride Month that lifting restrictions may making new friends event held last Friday also reduce the incentive for at Mac Market. Marcus Larson/News-Register vaccine-hesitant people to obtain vaccinations. Some statewide mask requirements may stay in place in specialized settings following federal guidance, including airports, pub- lic transit, and health care settings. The governor’s recovery order will remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2021, Proud to be friends unless terminated earlier. Also on Friday, the World By STARLA POINTER to a different X, where the friend- Addressing a few people who Event” later that day in Dayton Health Organization urged Of the News-Register ship process began anew. seemed shy about trying Fast featured drag queens, another people who are fully vacci- An X marked the spot for the “Your new best friend may be in Friending, Riggs added, “Oh, do parade of Pride supporters, schol- nated to continue wearing masks and social distancing beginning of new friendships Friday this room,” said Tiquette Bramlett, you have too many friends? Does arship announcements and other one of the emcees, as she urged anyone have too many friends?” activities. to help prevent the spread as the Wine Country Pride weekend of the Delta variant, which kicked off with “Fast Friending.” people to join in the event. Celebrants gathered again Sunday Fast Friending was one of sever- morning for mimosas and yoga — is causing surges in several Pairs and trios of strangers gath- No pressure, she and fellow emcee countries with high vaccina- ered on the Xs on the floor of Mac Diana Riggs promised. But no al events during the second Pride “hot yoga,” people joked, since the weekend. event took place in the record-break- tion rates, and is spreading in Marketplace. As they talked, they excuses either, they said; everyone the United States. became acquaintances and, then, in deserves a chance to be included, On Saturday, Newberg Parents ing heat of the hottest day of an many cases, friends. And every cou- befriended and loved, just as the and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ple of minutes, each person moved Pride motto says. hosted a car parade. The “Main See FRIENDS, A2 See COVID, A6 STOPPING BY Designing with light and stone By STARLA POINTER Powell also explained their history, telling Of the News-Register Goodwin “pools of light” had been popular McMinnville jewelry designer Susan in Victorian England; the miniature crystal Goodwin became fascinated with Victori- balls appealed to the era’s craze for meta- an and 1950s-era jewelry as a teenager in physics. Portland during the 1970s and has been “That was a magic moment for me,” she designing and making jewelry ever since. recalled. “It’s the reason I wanted to make At age 18, she opened her first store on jewelry.” Second Street in downtown Portland, selling custom embroidery and vintage clothing, Goodwin still uses pools of light in some rather than jewelry. pieces she wears and those she makes and “Portland was so sleepy then,” she recalled. shows in her jewelry gallery at 424 N.E. “Artists, actors, poets, musicians ... we all Fourth St., McMinnville, midway between knew each other.” Davis and Evans streets. During breaks, she walked over to First She also works with gemstones, pearls and Street to visit the Powell family’s antique and 14-karat gold fill, and reimagines vintage book shop, a forerunner of Powell’s Books. lockets and other items. She enjoyed looking at the old jewelry For example, she turned a flapper’s former in the shop. She said she refrained from rouge container into a unique, rectangular Marcus Larson/News-Register disturbing Mr. Powell, who “always had his locket; open it to find two butterfly wings Artist Susan Goodwin poses in her recently opened jewelry gallery in front of paintings she nose in a book, his reading glasses on his and the words, “only from the heart can you has collected showing “ladies she would like to have tea with.” She’s been making jewelry nose, and a pipe.” touch the sky.” more than 40 years. One day, though, Powell noticed her To another old locket, this one round, she examining the brooches and bracelets, and added a Victorian sketch of a swallow and asked if she’d like to see the pieces up close. Oregon’s state motto, “She flies with her He showed her items made with “pools of own wings,” in Latin. light,” tiny clear quartz orbs with grooves Another necklace spotlights a sterling around their equators, so they could be pendant cast from a vintage wax seal. The strung together. focal point of another is a 1930s rose gold Community event: Carlton Day fun run Used in a necklace, the 10- to 20-centi- watch, delicate, but in working order; sev- meter orbs also seem to light up the skin, goes on, because of Shanny A4 creating a beautiful effect, Goodwin said. See DESIGN, A2 U|xaIICGHy02366qzZ A2 Tuesday, June 29, 2021 News-Register/McMinnville, Oregon PRIDE AND POMP MacPAC reviews recreation facility locations July 1 News Register Staff report three sites based on crite- A municipal committee ria including development charged with recommend- capacity; economic via- ing a future recreation bility; supports diversity, facility site meets this week equity and inclusion; and to review an analysis of regulatory approval factors. three potential locations. Another criteria, steward- ship of funding, examines The McMinnville Pro- site costs including costs gramming Advisory of acquisition and proj- Committee (MacPAC) ect development, and meets via Zoom Thursday, value-added design. Scores July 1, 6:30 p.m. were assigned ranking from The meeting is open to 0 — “poor” — to 3 — the public; to obtain the “great.” Zoom meeting link, visit The Linfield site, topic mcminnville.gov/macpac of extensive discussion in For considerations are the MacPAC since December, city-owned Wortman Park, received scores of 2 and a parcel owned by McMin- 3, while Wortman received nville Water & Light near scores of 1 on several cat- Riverside Drive adjacent egories and ranks of 0 for to Joe Dancer Park, and “optimal and effective use property owned by Linfield of the site” and “avoidance University. Water & Light is of environmental impacts” Marcus Larson/News-Register owned by the city but is gov- such as trees and wetlands. The crowd in front of Edwards Above: erned independently by its (Linfield and Water & Light Elementary School cheers as colorfully own commission. Accord- decorated cars drive by in Saturday's received scores of 3 in that ing to a report by City category.) Pride Month car parade in Newberg. Planning Director Heath- Right: Driver Krista Lawless and In one diversity criteria, passenger Holly Kopsa wave to the er Richards, two Water & proximity to lower-income crowd as they drive by in their heavily Light sites were analyzed residents, Linfield received decorated car during the parade. and only the larger, 10.2- a 3, Wortman Park 2 and acre parcel, meets the Water & Light 1.