Gallery: A look back - February 2001 - Gazette-Times 20 years ago
Brian Jones, an actor and activist from Los Angeles, talks to a group of participants in OSU's Diversity Summit Thursday afternoon in LaSells Stewart Center. Jones lead a workshop on class and had his group act out scenes from newspaper articles to illustrate class differences.
Franklin School fourth graders Ariel Wai, right, counts columns on the Memorial Union Building on the Oregon State University Campus with the help of Ali Wood.
Angel Flight pilot Derrick Teal helps 10-year-old Moemedi Thomas Maphanyane in to his plane for the first leg of his flight to Palo Alto, California. Maphanyane suffered from renal failure and was flying to Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital so doctors could determine how serious his illness was.
Clair Sims, 6, looks at books during the annual Friends of the Library book sale at the Benton County Fairgrounds in mid-February 2001.
Fairplay Elementary students Hyeon Ah Min, left, and David Lee play violins during a Green Day celebration at their Corvallis school in late February 2001.
Dee Wendel stands on the floor above Footwise, about a third of which has been renovated to accommodate the businesses' growing need for office space. Wendel said she hopes to have a long-term tenant in the remaining upstairs section of the business soon. Gordy Roseboro of Eugene Sign and Awning attaches one of the awnings to its frame on the Harding Building at the corner of Third Street and Madison Avenue. The building, which primarily houses Footwise — The Birkinstock Store, is owned by Dee and Peter Wendel who are just finishing a major facelift for the two-story downtown structure.
Candice Virgen pumps gas at Kings and Circle Chevron Feb. 9, 2001. Gas prices are down in Corvallis from average of $1.695 in third quarter 2000.
Road to the top of Marys Peak with fresh snow Feb. 8, 2001
Linus Pauling, Jr. will speak about his parents Linus and Ava Pauling at the LaSells Stewart Center on what would have been his father's 100th birthday, Feb. 28, 2001.
Marcus Borg
Walking a pig
Now 8-year-old Lindsay Spencer
Deena Ditto takes a walk in South Corvallis' Butterfield Wetlands.
Helicopter Transport Services Inc. plans to have three Sikorsky Sky Crane like this one operating out of April. Company vice president Mike Aslaksen says the company will have four helicopters based in Corvallis which will be used for primarily used for fighting forest fires.
Highland View Middle School teacher Amanda Hoffman works with eighth-grader Alex Wheeler in Hoffman's Learning Resource Center Study Skills class Thursday morning. The district announced in its plans for the 2001-02 budget that schools with special needs -- such as Highland's special education classes -- will receive more money in next year's budget.
Eric Nelson, a fifth grader and president of Fairplay's Council of Student Foresters looks at a hall display with Justin Windom, left.
Raising American flag at Fairplay school
Protesters Ed Epley, left, and Jim Draper picket at the Stand for Children rally and protest for higher child care wages at the Benton County Courthouse.
Community sports story on Philomath resident and track coach of pole vaulters Dennis Phillips who just set the world record for his age.
Oregon State student Chala Barrington protests higher tuition costs Feb. 17, 2001 outside the LaSells Stewart Center.
OSU student Melanie Spraggins joins fellow students in a protest over higher education funding.
Oregon State University students talk with University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer during a higher education picket.
Ellen Beier and Sam 6-year-old illustrator
Charlene Addy-McGee helps Scot Mavin put cornrows in the hair of his daughter, Keely Marvin, 3, during Hair Care Day at OSU's Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center.
Fire in mobile home
Kids play post office in a tree during a dry cool day in February 2001. The girls used buckets attached by bungee cords for their deliveries. Amanda Prentiss, 10, in pink, Avery Kadas, 9, in orange, Laurel Kadas, 7, in purple, and Merissa Prentiss, 5, in green.
Eye Sk8 owner Josef Heffner helps Paul Elias, 7, ride down one of the ramps Heffner built in a south Corvallis warehouse.
Cory Cook bought a armored scout vehicle (aka a tank) that attracts a lot of attention around town.
Junior Girl Scouts from troop 83 yell at passing motorist to buy cookies Wednesday near the corner of 29th and Harrison in Corvallis. The girls sold a few boxes Wednesday, and will be back out Thursday looking for more sales.
Alice Rampton, left, and Sabra Killen have photos of 116 children in a Ukrainian orphanage near Corvallis' sister city, Uzhgorod. They are trying to collect sponsorships for each of the children to buy clothes and personal items for them.
Haley Thompson, 11, nuzzles with her llama Icicle before her llama walk with her 4-H club, the Llamateers, at Bald Hill Park in Corvallis. The club would get together once a month to walk the llamas to let them get used to being around humans, bikes, and dogs.
Amy Richards, left, and Jennifer Baumgardner feminist writers
Corvallis firefighters Ross Furman, Chris Harrison, right, pour absorbent material on a diesel spill down the middle lane of Third Street.
Oregon State University distinguished professor of art Henry Sayre says that the innovative interdisciplinary plan at the OSU branch campus in Bend is so exciting he is considering a move to Bend to be a part of it.
Damaris Reynolds cruises through her neighborhood in her 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Reynolds has had a life long love of Oldsmobiles and traveling, and has owned five of the cars since the 1940s.
