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Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild held a successful Quilt Show with 899 guests on Aug. 3, 4 and 5 at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Newport. The winning ticket for this years raffle quilt went to Sue Finlayson...
Scholarship Winners (Newport News-Times)
The two recipients of the Ada Baldwin Memorial Scholarship are Austin Marshall of Newport (right) and Kelton Johnson from Lincoln City. This scholarship is provided by the Lincoln County Bowlers, Harmony...
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Winemaker makes artistic statements inside J.K. Carriere barn
My
experience began, before even a sip of wine passed our lips, with a tour of this
grand old barn. As we began to ascend the stairs, Jim told me with great pride
and a hint of reverence that the barn would turn 100 this coming year. The
staircase deposited us in the old hay loft where a sculpture once featured on a
Smithsonian Museum tour has found its final resting place.
It is a
kinetic sculpture of a Norse soul boat, a ship that, legend has it, took expired
Vikings on their journey to the afterlife. The artist, Larry Kirkland, enjoyed
the idea of it here in this ancient barn, collecting dust, evoking the image of
the baggage we all collect during our stay on this earth, the light through the
barn windows playing off its swaying oars.
The barn in Newberg is not
really a high traffic area, and now the Soul Boat receives only a twice yearly
visit of JK Carriere fans on the Memorial Day and Thanksgiving weekends, the
only open houses held by the winery. Tours and tastings can be scheduled at
other times of the year through the winemaker, but I highly recommend making
this a stop on your wine country jaunt during the holiday weekends.
As
the J.K. Carriere label pays homage to Jim's grandfathers (J.K. Prosser and Paul
Carriere), the wines are imbued with the strength of character, fortitude and
honor that these men possessed. Jim would never put their good names on the
line, so you can trust that the wine will be the best juice he can possibly put
in the bottle.
There is something for everyone at JK Carriere: a rose of
pinot noir that is delightfully crisp with spikes of mineral and fruit
throughout, a value priced pinot called Provocateur that Jim claims is as if you
were "to bite full-mouth into a perfectly ripened cherry … if it were the size
of a peach," and several top-notch yet still reasonably priced luxury wines with
extraordinary fruit, spice, and earth qualities that leave your mouth yearning
for more.
For those more invested in art and architecture, you have a
barn about to turn 100 that had to be rescued from its own weight and pulled
back up to stand tall by miracles of modern engineering, or the stunning wood
sculpture that inhabits the space. And if wine, art, and history don't get you,
well there is always Jim to look at…or maybe that's just me.
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Newport Trooper, Volunteers Among Those Honored During Oregon State Police 'Superintendent's Salute' (Newport News-Times)
Approximately 1,200 Oregon State Police employees, retirees, family members and friends gathered Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport for the third Superintendents Salute.
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Oregon Author Fair Series Continues In Lincoln City (Newport News-Times)
More than 40 Northwest authors will be featured for the third event in the 2007 Oregon Author Fair Series, taking place from noon to 3 p.m. in the public plaza next to Bobs Beach Books in Lincoln Cit...
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