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| Contact: Sherry Kaseberg News release. September 27, 2002
Sherman County residents
produced over 50 hand-made Christmas ornaments for Oregon's Gift to the
Nation, a 70' Christmas tree that will be shipped by the U.S. Forest Service
to Washington, D.C. in November. The tree will pass through Sherman County
on I-84 on November 16th after an overnight stop in The Dalles.
Brenda Massie of Wasco supervised
the Arts & Crafts Barn at the Sherman County fair where wooden
ornaments cut out by David Fritts and sanded by Shafer and Coles children
in Moro were painted and decorated by youngsters attending the
fair. Larry Kaseberg applied primer and Wayne Melzer fabricated
hangers for these colorful, glittering ornaments.
Sherman County's ornaments were
packed for shipment to the U.S. Forest Service office in Roseburg by
volunteers, Myrna Melzer, Dorothy Benson, Pat von Borstel and Sherry
Kaseberg, at the Sherman County Historical Museum. Ornaments were
crafted by Joni Anderson, Dorothy Benson, Pat Benson, Marla Brehm, Barbara
Cantrall, Patty Coles, Julie Dabulskis, Shavonne Gosson, Jessica Kaseberg,
Karolyn Kaseberg, Katy Kimes, Laura Kimes, Brenda Massie, Chelsea Massie, Myrna
Melzer, Austin Olson, Krista Olsen, Taylor Olsen, Krista Perisho, Chloe Van
Gilder and others whose names were not attached to the ornament. Materials
used to meet U.S.F.S. requirements include wood, paint, tin, wheat, fabric
and barbed wire, illustrating Sherman County's rural economy... Christmas
and rural scenes, wreath, coyotes, trucks, tractors, elevators, wheat,
a Meadowlark and salmon.
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