A memory from Helaine Hepworth…
As Timber Valley was just getting started, some of the citizens of Sutherlin were not so sure that we were important or an asset to the town. So the directors of the Park worked with a local bank and the park members converted their spending cash to $2 bills and then spent them in town. Local merchants, seeing piles of $2 bills in their tills, quickly learned that our members were indeed a valuable asset. That was 30 years ago. Sutherlin doesn’t need to see $2 bills anymore. They know we are a big part of Sutherlin.
Helaine
A big Timber Valley Welcome to new members Karen and Garrett Billington. They’re on lot 186.
The flags were flown at half staff on July 31, 2018 to mark the passing of Anne Arnette. Anne and her husband James were long time members of Timber Valley. They left the park a few years ago and made their home in California.
Gardens discovered is more like it! Fifteen people walked among over 20 different gardens getting a behind the scenes tour of work being done there by the many Master Gardeners. At an adjacent Victory Garden some gardeners were harvesting vegetables for donation to UCAN that are then distributed to local food pantries and community kitchens. Master Gardeners Jude Stenslund and Kish Doyle provided a very interesting and informative tour in an environment that beckoned us to linger and come back.
Chapter 9 member Jerry Christensen (# 158) fishing in the Umpqua River that runs along side the Elkton RV Park, site of the first Chapter 9 Rally of the summer season.
Viewed from the road above the Elkton RV Park, one can see the Umpqua River flowing in the background. Most of the RVs visible in the picture are Chapter 9 rigs.
Rallies usually build in free time when members can gather to play games or simply talk and exchange stories of their RV travels.
Scores of longtime friends and fellow Timber Valley Escapees turned out for Jerry and Darleen Hatch’s 60th Anniversary and Farewell Party on 6/20/18. The Hatches leave the end of June for their next adventure in California.
Longtime friends Art Hampton (#94) (left) and Gene Schrader (#70) share a laugh at the Timber Valley Board Agenda meeting earlier this week.