The first sit-down vegetarian restaurant in McMinnville will open this Friday.

Veggie Kitchen will open March 22 at 603 NE Third St. with a full menu.

Entrees range from $9 to $13, with vegan and gluten-free options. Local wines

and beer are available. Veggie Kitchen is a family-friendly establishment.

“I have difficulty finding good-tasting vegetarian food in McMinnville,” said

owner Sarah McCoffey. “I hope there are lots of people in McMinnville who might enjoy

this food.”

Veggie Kitchen’s hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday for brunch. They are

closed Mondays.

A bomb threat forced the University of Portland to evacuate Friday.

An unknown caller said a bomb would detonate on campus at noon. The Portland

Police searched the campus for any suspicious devices.

Campus security took the call at 6:45 a.m. and shortly after that, classes were

canceled for the day. The university sent out emails, text messages and phone calls to

warn staff and students of the threat.

University spokesman Roscoe Nolden said, “The call didn’t threaten anyone or

anywhere specific on campus.”

Many other universities, such as the University of Texas at Austin, North Dakota

State, and Louisiana State, have recently received similar bomb threats.

“It was scary to have to evacuate campus, but I know it was for our safety,” said

student Ray Wickforth.

Emmylu Elliot, a senior at Linfield College, had always wanted to go abroad.

Like her sisters before her, she wanted to learn to speak a foreign language and immerse

herself in another culture. Last spring she did just that.

She shared her experiences abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, in a presentation at

Linfield College on Thursday, March 21. She focused on her adventures with the culture,

her studies, traveling within Mexico and her host family.

This presentation showed why studying abroad is so important, and how a

different culture evokes critical thinking.

Oaxaca welcomed her

For Elliot, adjusting to the Mexican culture wasn’t as hard as she had anticipated.

Her first week in Oaxaca was relatively relaxed as she got to know the city she was

staying in, tried many authentic dishes and settled into her classes. She recalled having to

speak only Spanish as her biggest obstacle, but recounted it as a lesson that only

advanced her language skills.

Elliot described her experiences as enlightening. “I’ve never traveled outside of

the U.S until now, and I feel like it was worth it to experience another culture. I would

recommend anyone else studying the Spanish language as intensively as I did, to attempt

to speak it fluently in a Spanish-speaking country,” she said.

She honed her Spanish at school while abroad

Even while studying at the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, http://

www.icomexico.com/ . At the Instituto Elliot took advanced grammar classes to further

hone her speaking and writing skills, which was optional in Linfield’s Program at the

Instituto. http://www.linfield.edu/ipo/study-abroad-info/semester/mexico.html

J.J. Keyes, a former Linfield athlete, said, “It’s really impressive that Emmylu

worked so hard to speak Spanish fluently. That is a lot of work, but it definitely proved to

be worth it.”

Elliot said it was hard for her to make friends the first few weeks, but found it

easier once she joined clubs and group activities on campus. She said her fellow Linfield

classmates and the International Programs Office were very supportive.

Her weekend travels were rewarding

Elliot used her free weekends to travel to other parts of Oaxaca and Mexico. She

shared pictures of her time in Teotitlan del Valle, a Zapotec village, where she and other

Linfield students studying abroad in Oaxaca spent three days helping teach English at a

local school.

“That really is amazing,” said freshman Sean Heaney. “Teotitlan del Valle has

some awesome history. She’s very fortunate. What an experience.”

One weekend, her host family took her on a tour where they visited the

indigenous markets and craft villages, as well as Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude, a

nearly 300-year-old cathedral. Emmylu recorded her journey abroad through writing on a

travel blog. www.fakeurlexample.com

Elliott’s host family became family

When reflecting on her time spent living with a local family, Elliot said, “I don’t

think my time in Mexico would have been so amazing if it hadn’t been for these people.

They really showed me what their culture is about and taught me more than my school

did!” For Elliott, her time abroad learning another language and living in another culture

was just as rewarding as she thought it would be.

May 20th 2013Kevin Max1859 Oregon's Magazine Deschutes Media, LLC70 SW Century Drive Suite 100-335Bend, Oregon 97702

Dear Mr. Max;

He has been within Oregon's broadcasting system for years, learning and listening, and for the past decade, he has put his knowledge to work. Jerry Eichten is a media enthusiast currently serving as the Executive Director of McMinnville Community Media. He is the winner of the First Annual McMinnville Short film festival in the eighteen-and-up category and a graduate of Portland State University. He spent two years at WMT TV and 19 at KOIN TV, filling many different roles such as producer, writer, reporter and photographers, and has used that in-depth knowledge of the industry to lead MCM. Coming up on 11 years at MCM, Mr. Eichten is a seasoned journalist with many stories to tell.

I propose a 2,000 word article based on Jerry Eichten's achievements as a journalist and photographer, highlighting his involvement in community media. His familiarity and experience with Oregon's mass media outlets, such as KOIN TV and WMT TV, and his status as a lifelong Oregon native make him an idea candidate for a profile in your magazine.

I would love to write up a profile on Jerry according to 1859's specifications. I am a Mass Communications major at Linfield College who has interned with Tacoma's Showcase Magazine. I have written and worked for TSOTANEWS.COM and currently hold the position of Online Editor at The Linfield Review, our campus newspaper

Please let me know if you would like my resume or any clips.

Sincerely,

Nikki Johnson

#2717 190 SW Brumback St.McMinnville, Oregon 97128253.355.9334njohnson@linfield.edu

A Man Of The Community

He’s too polite to tell me until the end of our conversation, but Jerry Eichten

doesn’t like to be interviewed.

“I don’t feel like I’m somebody that is comfortable talking about myself. I’m not

a self-promoter. Almost all of the work that I’ve done in TV has almost always been, in

my opinion, has been aimed at helping other people look good,” said Jerry.

When he refers to that work; he means his entire life. Jerry’s in-depth experience

with broadcast journalism didn’t start during a job hunt or happen spontaneously later in

life. His move throughout the industry was intentional and deliberate.

It all began with community media

In high school Jerry wrote for the school newspaper and worked as the anchor on

the local cable channel. This experience had him looking for a university where he could

continue to study mass communications. He chose St. Cloud State University, not far

from the small community in southern Minnesota where he went to high school.

As he worked through college, he took classes for a business minor. This turned

out to be a good move for his work in broadcast management.

It wasn’t a mourning commute

His first job in broadcasting came at WMT, a smaller CBS station in Cedar

Rapids, Iowa. Jerry completed his B.A. through an internship that hired him before the

end of the term.

He spent two years at WMT, working in different aspects of the station, before he

was hired by KOIN TV in Portland, ORE.

He worked as a photographer, and later became a writer, and show. He went on to

write and edit his own stories to air. Jerry was nothing but positive about his time at

KOIN.

“I think that I felt really lucky that I was able to work there, and I really enjoyed

going to work every day,” Jerry recalled.

He described his work at KOIN in simple, fond terms.

“Every day that I came to work, I was never really sure what I was going to be

doing that day: who I was going to be talking to, where I was going to be traveling. I just

absolutely loved it. It was terrific,” he said.

He loved it enough that the nearly 20 years he spent at KOIN seemed to melt into

one. He felt he had done an especially good job on or a favorite story he’d covered, he

humbly acknowledged stories like the Rajneesh Movement and Mount St. Helens.

His most enjoyable experience was when he worked with traveling reporter Ray

Summers, on the “Ray Summers at Large” segment for KOIN.

“We would take off on a Monday morning and not come back until Friday, and go

over all different parts of the state and in the Northwest. We would just find interesting

people in places, and learn what people do and what they value. It was a very interesting

slice of life,” said Jerry.

Jerry recalls this time as a positive change from the rapid pace he usually

experienced at work. The chance to learn about the Pacific Northwest and its people

fascinated him.

He is a people person

Even with an MBA in human resource management from Portland State

University Jerry still thinks he can improve at being a people person.

“I could always do better at that,” Jerry said. “But that is something that I always

enjoyed...My years in TV and gathering news, you meet people every day, and that was

always one of the fun parts.”

He supposes he is a people person, but won’t label himself as a reporter or a

writer. He just produces content. He’s a man who puts things on TV and a man who likes

a challenge.

“He’s a very good leader and director. He takes care of everything and gets

everything organized. Jerry’s very good at calling out what needs to be happening.” said

David Johnson, an employee at MCM.

He really does love challenges

Starting McMinnville Community Media would be a hefty task, so when he was

hired by a nonprofit to develop a local media channel, he accepted. Regardless of the six-

hour workweeks he put in at the beginning of MCM, and the nearly 12 years he’s

dedicated to this organization, Jerry won’t say it’s all his doing.

“I’ve just kind of been here and helped out around the edges. The main

development of the channel comes from the local volunteers, the local producers...they’re

the ones that really built the channel and not me,” he said.

Just as in high school and college, Jerry is a hard worker and a jack of all trades.

Whatever needs to be done, he’ll do it.

“I’ll try almost anything. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be good but I’ll try nearly

anything as far as trying to keep the station going,” he said

With only three full-time employees, MCM is a small, but successful non-profit

that has been producing quality content for over a decade. Jerry claims it’s all due to the

people who have contributed over the years, his amazing staff and the enthusiastic board

of directors who started him on the path to building MCM.

Jerry has spent his career learning about broadcasting, all of which is put to work

at MCM. He continues to make community media relevant, useful and valuable. He may

not like the spotlight, but his hard work and dedication to broadcast journalism shouldn’t

go unnoticed. He was chosen to run McMinnville Community Media because he is a

prime example of what community really is.

David Johnson

(503)434-1234 ext.1

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News Report: Bilford College Going to the Dogs

ANCHOR: The students at Bilford College are howling. After receiving

hundreds of complaints, the school’s board of trustees is considering a new

regulation. One that would make the campus off-limits for dogs.

300 people have signed a petition for this proposed regulation. Ferris

Wheeler, president of Students Against Dogs, collected these signatures.

Ferris: “Irresponsible pet owners are letting their dogs chase cyclists,

bark and crap all over campus.”

ANCHOR: Pets are rarely leashed, though the campus requires them to

be. The landscaping crew has tried putting up signs disallowing pets, but

they were torn down.

Dog lovers like Juliet Sims defend their pets.

Sims: “This proposal is ugly and unfair to responsible dog owners like

me.”

ANCHOR: Her dog Romeo is not just a pet and she doesn’t want to lock

him up all day. The board is holding a public hearing on Thursday at seven

p.m. in Bilford Union, room eleven.

Lassie MacLeish KWEP, Bilford