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The U.S. Forest Service calls the monument âthe pivotal attraction of the Mitchell Recreation Area.â
The stone memorial is surrounded by picnic tables and fire grills. Thereâs also the âShrapnel Tree,â a Ponderosa pine that bears scars from the long-ago bomb explosion and in 2005 was designated an Oregon Heritage Tree.
Elsie Mitchellâs parents attended the monumentâs 1950 dedication, but their son-in-law wasnât able to do so. He was in Vietnam spreading the gospel. In 1962, he and two other Christian missionaries were kidnapped by the Viet Cong and disappeared.
Itâs not known what became of them.
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The Oregon Heritage Commission, the State Library of Oregon, and Washington State Library teamed up on the project. It allows libraries, museums, and cultural heritage groups to digitize and share their collections for a wider audience than they’d receive individually.
“So it’s very easy and accessible by the everyday public or researcher or historian, that wants to look for information, explained Katie Henry is coordinator for the Oregon Heritage Commission. Being a service hub for the Digital Public Libraries of America, it’s a national platform. So Oregon’s great history can be accessed by people across the entire nation.”
Oregon, Washington partner on tool to access, share cultural heritage digital archives
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) The Oregon Heritage Commission, State Library of Oregon and Washington State Library have partnered to launch Northwest Digital Heritage, an online platform for Oregon- and Washington-based libraries, museums and cultural heritage organizations to digitize and make accessible cultural heritage materials.
Northwest Digital Heritage also operates as a service hub of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which helps bring these unique and local Northwest collections to a wider audience. This gives local galleries, libraries, museums, research institutions, historical societies, and others in both states the opportunity to upload their digitized collections onto DPLA’s extensive library of online archives.
âOur goal is to plant 100 shade trees every year in the city,â Gustafson said.
The numerous trees, she also explained, make La Grande a vibrant place to live, with cooler streets and homes, habitat for wildlife, cleaner air and water and other benefits.
The city celebrated its 31st year as a Tree City USA member on Arbor Day, Friday, April 30. Last year, La Grande won a Growth Award for the 29th consecutive year, one of only a handful of cities to do so nationwide. The city hopes to win the award once again this year.
Among the colorful flowering peach and plum trees that bloom in spring, the city is host to two Oregon Heritage Trees. Those are trees the Heritage Tree Committee, under the Oregon Travel Information Council, deem as worthy of state recognition.