July 12, 1951
Sweet Home’s water situation got worse when an overworked water pump gave up under the strain of constant high-speed operation. The main 500 horsepower river pump quit and was offline for 10 hours during repairs. Sound trucks cautioned residents not to water their lawns or gardens and reduce water usage in general until the reservoir could refill.
Banke’s Super Market and The New Era will sponsor a Frontier Days “Kids’ Auto Race” fashioned along the lines of the famous soap box derby. The race will be at the 14th Avenue hill beside the city park.
July 8, 1976
About 400 people attended the dedication of the new East Linn Museum. Amos Horner spoke about old things being important, but no less so than the challenge of new things, adding it’s important to look forward while also remembering the past. Horner’s earliest recollection of Sweet Home was when there was a general store and not much else. He introduced the subject of communism and said few people really understand it for what it is, and he’s concerned that dialectic materialism is included in kindergarten classes.
Tomco Inc. plans to pay its employees in new $2 bills this week, planned to coincide with the bicentennial activities in the country. As a demonstration of the impact Tomco has on the city’s economy, owner Amos Horner asks his employees to use the money to pay for local bills, groceries, gas and other local purchases.
Bob Waibel, Sweet Home’s ace competitive logger, will be a bicentennial performer in Washington, D.C. He was hired by the Smithsonian Institute to put on logging exhibitions with other Oregon loggers on the lawn between Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.
Donna Thompson Price became Sweet Home’s first female officer when she exchanged jobs with Joe Mengore, now an emergency medical technician.
July 11, 2001
Sweet Home’s Planning Commission will consider the revocation of Country Star RV Park’s conditional use permit, and recommended City Council direct a citation for the business failing to meet a deadline for a condition on the permit, which was failing to complete required restroom facilities on time. In another action, Detta Duncan accused the commission chair of bias concerning Linn County Affordable Housing’s Brookside Development for low- to moderate-income seniors, disabled and other homebuyers when he said it is difficult to find housing for his disabled son.
Sweet Home area parks were packed during the Fourth of July weekend, with Lewis Park drawing more people than usual. Cars were parked a quarter mile up the road on both sides from Lewis Park. The Thistle Creek boat ramp had cars parked all over the bank.
Thomas Lewison, 14, placed 13th at a statewide hunting competition in Marcola, earning himself a place to represent Oregon at Nationals in New Mexico this month. Lewison qualified as the fifth junior, ages 14 and under, in the NRA’s Youth Hunter Education Challenge.