BOB SPIWAK Last Saturday, bright and sunny, produced what may well be a record crowd in downtown Mazama. Even on the southern outskirts of downtown, cars were parked almost to the bridge over the river. As early as 8 a.m. the parking lot behind the Community Hall was mostly full and the Mazama Store parking […]
VALLEY LIFE
May 8, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK Last Saturday produced the annual clean-up convocation at the Mazama Community Building, in and out. Gale Bair, a regular cleaner-upper, was impressed with the number of volunteers who showed up for the task, estimating the group at two to three times more than those that usually partake. Midge Cross offered the following […]
April 10, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK It’s Monday morning, there is broken sunshine but still on the cool side, a radical departure from last week’s 60-plus heated days. The changeable weather was even more apparent Sunday with the snow falling most of the morning. We got over an inch down here and in the upper reaches of Mazama […]
April 3, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK Welcome to spring and warm weather that has begun to verge on hot. Easter Sunday got into the mid-70s, and planting stuff in the direct sunshine it was probably even hotter than the thermometer recorded. The river has begun to come up and our ponds are slowly rising. The frogs are now […]
March 27, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK Two bald eagles flew over the Winthrop cemetery last Saturday. Their flight could be taken as a farewell to Red McComb, as a pair of U.S. Marines in full dress uniform rehearsed the folding of the American flag that covered the cedar coffin. It was a sunny day that brought well over […]
Feb. 20, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK The weather was quite benign over the past week – a spate of tiny snow flurries interspersed with enough sunshine to warrant the arrival of mud season during the day, and ice capades where the sun had not yet exposed bare ground. We had guests from the coast over the holiday, went […]
