Garden Faire 97128 on 6/26/2016

Bike rack 97128 library plaza on 6/26/2016

April-May 2016: Friends of McMinnville Public Library

Buy science fiction books during Friends of the McMinnville Public Library used book sale.

 April 27, 2016

 

News from Friends of McMinnville Public Library

 

Buy science fiction books during Friends of the McMinnville Public Library used book sale on UFO Festival Saturday, May 14, 2016

 

In recognition of the 2016 McMinnville’s UFO Festival, May 12-15, a large number of science fiction books will be offered during the Friends of the McMinnville Public Library

 

used book sale Saturday, May 14. Sale site is the library’s Carnegie Room, 225 NW Adams St. For the open to the public event, sale hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., said Ken Carter, Friends book sale coordinator. Friends paid up members may start sale shopping at 9 a.m. Sale proceeds go to buy library materials and support a variety of programs for children and adults. Donations of books for the sale are accepted year-round and are tax deductible. Book sales are held the second Saturday of January, March, May, July, September, and November. 

 

 

 

‘Old Oak’ name no longer used in downtown McMinnville

Linfied's iconic Old Oak is gone -- the 80-foot tree fell/died on Jan. 8, 2008.

But the “Old Oak” name was used starting in the fall of 2011 by what had been known the “Oak & Ivy “sports bar in downtown McMinnville. (At 326 NE Davis St., it's in the Union Block coffee restaurant building which, long ago, was home of Hamblin-Wheeler clothing.)

But, alas, the “Old Oak” name on the bar is gone, too.

According to the 6/17/2016 N-R, the bar changed ownership (in 2016 apparently) and the new owners changed the name to “The Oak.”

“The Oak” Facebook page said its grand opening was from 3 p.m., May 27-1 a.m., May 28.

(Photo with this posting is from “The Oak” Facebook page. The oak tree art work above the bar’s bar does not look like Linfield’s Old Oak.)

Here’s the N-R story:

Along the Street: Oak not old anymore

McMinnville N-R/News-Register 6/17/2016 

The Old Oak in downtown McMinnville has a new owner, and it’s no longer the Old Oak — it’s just The Oak.

Dennis and Lucetta Elmer, who own several properties and businesses downtown, teamed up with Tyler and Rebecca Stoller to buy the bar from John Meyers and added a new name, a complete renovation inside and new management and menu items.

The bar, with an expanded menu, will have co-managers: Katy Armes, who previously managed the tasting room at Saffron Fields, and Caleb Polivka, who relocated to Oregon after working in the beer and food industry in Chicago.

RJ Photography presided over the renovation, which included painting and room for more tables.

The Oak is located at 326 NE Davis Street in the Union Block building across from US Bank. at 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday. The building itself was purchased earlier this year by Corey Rich of C&G Real Estate.

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Story from 2011 about the Old Oak bar:

http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2012/03/theres-still-old-oak-in-mcminnville.html

Farmer's -- or it is Farmers'? -- market 6/16/2016

FLYING SAUCER REPORT from 1957

FLYING SAUCER REPORTS

While the McMinnville, Ore., Telephone-Register (now the News-Register) newspaper has claim to blockbuster UFO photos in its June 8, 1950, edition, the Parkland (Tacoma metro area), Wash., Times-Journal is among newspapers which ran a “Flying Saucer Reports” column. Here’s the column, “Presented weekly as a public service by the Bargain Basket” from the Parkland newspaper’s Dec. 5, 1957, edition. 

At the end of the column is this, “Information contained in this series courtesy of Aerial Phenomena Research Group, Seattle, Washington.” 

And, also, “PLANNING A SPACE TRIP? BEFORE YOU LEAVE, STOCK UP AT THE Bargain Basket.”  

Thanks to Archives & Special Collections at Pacific Lutheran University for scan of the Times-Journal.

McMinnville library 'Caution Concrete May Be Slick' signs 6/15/2016

McMinnville's/Linfield's Floyd McKay at Oregon Historical Society 6/7/2016

Linfielder Floyd McKay spoke at the Oregon Historical Society, Portland, 6/7/2016. 

McKay read from his book Reporting the Oregon Story (OSU Press). 

He's a McMinnville High (1954), Linfield (1957), Maryland (master's) and UW (Ph.D.) grad. 

McKay, whose parents were Linfield employees, is a former Linfield adjunct faculty member (communications). He is a professor emeritus (journalism) of Western Washington U. 

McKay's career includes reporting and writing a columnist for the (Salem) Oregon Statesman daily newspaper and news analyst/commentator for Portland's KGW-TV. 

He read from the book in Linfield's Nichols Library in McMinnville on 5/18/2016. 

McKay and his wife, Dixie (Johnson) McKay (Linfield 1957), live in Bellingham, Wash. 

Mac News production in cooperation with Wildcatville.

McKay's career includes reporting and writing a columnist for the (Salem) Oregon Statesman daily newspaper and news analyst/commentator for Portland's KGW-TV. He read from the book in Linfield's Nichols Library in McMinnville on 5/18/2016. McKay and his wife, Dixie (Johnson) McKay (Linfield 1957), live in Bellingham, Wash. Mac News production in cooperation with Wildcatville.

Presidential transition, Friends of McMinnville Public Library

Neil Kunze (left) and Duane Bond shake hands following 6/9/2016 Friends of McMinnville Public Library board meeting in the library's Carnegie Room. It was the last meeting at which Kunze was president. Bond assumes the board presidency 7/1/2016.