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Sherm, Fay Sallee honored for 4-H efforts

Long-time Linn County Small Woodlands Association members Sherm and Fay Sallee are featured in the July 16 Albany Democrat Herald focusing on their 4-H activities. The feature was written by Alex Paul. It had top billing in the daily paper Tuesday during Linn County Fair week. Fay Sallee heads up the LCSWA education committee. Sherm Sallee is a past editor of the Bark and has handled publicity for the LCSWA for years. The Clever Clovers 4-H group are well known to LCSWA members who attend the annual dinner in January. The Sallees have hosted events and board meetings at their home and the Udell family tree farm on Bellinger Scale Road. The couple also kindled the LCSWA annual seedling sale. The sale is how our group raises money for university and 4-H scholarships. The 2020 seedling sale will be the 25th annual sale. The article details how the couple first met and their love for 4-H. It is a good read throughout.

Otis tree tour touts history, family efforts

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Three generations of Tim and Kathy Otis’ family helped tell the story of a historic family tree farm — as the Linn County Small Woodlands Association honored its annual tree farmers of the year. The Otis family hosted the July 6 afternoon tour and potluck picnic on property off Ingram Road near Waterloo. The tree farm property has been in family ownership for more than 150 years. Historic photos, maps of the property and the property’s forest management plan were on display for visitors. Otis family children Steve and Erin spoke about the trials and tribulations of ancestor Capt. William Ingram traveling from the East Coast through treacherous Nicaragua and then up the Columbia River to Oregon City in the early 1850s. Tim and Kathy Otis, with much help from family, manage more than 370 acres of forest land in the Middle Ridge area between Brownsville and Lebanon. Their family holdings include 135 acres of farmland and 25 acres of restored riparian woodlands along the Calap

Tree farmer of the year celebration starts

People are gathering on Ingram Road at the Otis family tree farm. Weather is ideal for the celebration of the Tree Farmer of the Year picnic and tree farm tour with Tim and Kathy Otis. There are photos of the family farm going back to the 1850s. Activities today include hiking the property looking at a recent clear cut and also replanting. There are signs off Highway 20 directing members to the potluck picnic. Food and drinks served about 5 p.m.

OSWA goods sale pays dividends

Here is note of thanks from chapter President Lee Peterman. The OSWA goods booth operation at state convention in late June will help our chapter with annual expenses.  I would like to take a moment and give a shout-out to those who stepped up to assist with the OSWA Goods sales booth this Friday past at the OSWA/Benton Chapter Tree Farmer of the Year program. First, to Bill and Debbie Bowling (Linn Chapter Volunteers of the year !) for all the hard work of ordering, stocking and organizing the OSWA goods. Without their efforts, the booth would be chaos in setting up and keeping an accurate inventory; they did all the heavy lifting -- all credit to Bill and Debbie ! The Linn members I would like to note for taking time from their busy schedules to help out are from morning shift: Fay Sallee with Christy Tye and Conner. Afternoon shift: Uwe and Wanda Fink, Ken Crouse and Jim Merzenich. An extra gold star to Bonnie Marshall, who not only helped with the sales, but who also