JENNIFER MOODY
For Mid-Valley Live
TURNERÂ â The father had lost his little boy at age 5. Thirteen years later, he was still searching for a place to preserve his sonâs memory forever.
He found it, he told Susan Vaslev, in the bricks Enchanted Forest is offering for purchase to help the amusement park survive the COVID-19 shutdown and repair the damage from Februaryâs ice storm.
âIâve been looking for the right place to put his name ever since, and this is it,â he wrote.
For him, and for the thousands of others who have told Vaslev how much her familyâs business has meant to them for five decades, Vaslev, the co-manager of the park, is committed to getting Enchanted Forest up and running again.
Iâm excited to tell you about some changes weâre making for the Albany Democrat-Herald and Corvallis Gazette-Times.
Starting this week, weâre launching a new section in our Thursday editions called Mid-Valley Live. It will incorporate the local arts and entertainment coverage weâve been providing for years in The E, but weâre expanding the section from two pages to four. Weâre also expanding the scope of the section to embrace things like food and drink (including some of the food-related content that used to run in our Wednesday papers), travel, outdoor recreation, leisure activities and other pursuits that help make up our vibrant mid-valley lifestyle.