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| OR Heritage Excellence Award |
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 Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards recognize individuals, businesses and organizations for outstanding efforts on behalf of Oregon heritage and raise the quality of heritage-oriented activities. Nominations are encouraged for exceptional and meritorious work. Special consideration is given to the development of new ideas, approaches and innovations.
Application Deadline: January 13, 2012
Visit the Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards page
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| OR Heritage Tradition |
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 The Oregon Heritage Commission began recognizing those traditions that have helped define our state in 2009 through the Oregon Heritage Tradition award. The award recognizes those events that have been in continuous operation for more than 50 years, have demonstrated a public profile that distinguish them from more routine events, and add to the livability and identity of the state.
Application Deadline: TBA
-> Oregon Heritage Tradition Application
-> Previous Oregon Heritage Tradition Award Recipients
Contact:
Kyle Jansson
OHC Coordinator
Phone: (503) 986-0673
Email: kyle.jansson@state.or.us
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| OR Heritage Stewardship Award |
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People all over the state are doing good things to preserve Oregon's historic and cultural resources. The Heritage Stewardship Award is designed to recognize these "Heritage Heroes" and publicize their conscientious efforts.
Featured Heritage Hero
Winemakers Investment Properties, LLC
When vineyard manager Ken Johnston was looking into some Waldo Hills property off Howell Prairie Road, he heard that there had been a cemetery on the land someplace. The property, ripe with significant Oregon history, was owned by Daniel Waldo.
As the vineyard owned by Winemakers Investment Properties, LLC, was being planted a cluster of three headstone bases were discovered. Work stopped and the company chose to plant around the area, giving it a wide boundary.
Kuri Gill, Oregon Historic Cemeteries program coordinator, was thrilled to hear about the discovery and decision to preserve the cemetery site.
“This is just the kind of action we hope property owners will take when they make such a discovery,” she said. “The ideal situation is for historic cemeteries to be documented and preserved in their original locations.”
Based on their actions, Heritage Programs of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, which houses the Historic Cemeteries Program, has presented Ken Johnston and Winemakers Investment Properties, LLC with an Oregon Heritage Stewardship Certificate.
Johnston is taking the preservation effort a step further by working with the Aumsville Historical Society, Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers, the Willamette Heritage Center, descendants of the Waldo family, and the Historic Cemeteries program to conduct further research and enhance the spot with a fence and historically related plantings.
While there are plans to enhance the cemetery, the property is not open to the public. As a working farm, safety is a concern. The cemetery may be accessed by making an appointment with the property manager.
Previous Heritage Heroes
-> Erica French
-> Michael Dryden
-> Stacy Schneyder, Meris Mullaley, and ICF Jones & Stokes
-> Chad Beam, Dave Couch, Corey Level, Zach Smith, and Beam & Couch Excavation Company
-> Cascade Recycling
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