The Applegater

Applegater Extra Edition November 2023 1 EXTRA EDITION November 2023 Serving Jackson and Josephine Counties — Circulation: 13,000 Applegate Valley Community Newsmagazine Celebrating Years Photo by Linda Kappen ~29~ Nonprofit Org US Postage PAID Permit #125 Medford OR ECRWSSEDDM Local Postal Customer ISSUE EXTRA EDITION Donate before the end of the year and your contribution will be doubled. Extra edition for an extra special cause: Keep the Applegater coming! E X T R A ! E X T R A ! We're sending out this extra edition of the Applegater to give you more time to take advantage of a special opportunity: From November 1 through the end of the year, your donation to the Applegater will be doubled! We rely on your donations to cover the lion's share of the costs of publishing the Gater. Now, thanks to the Applegater's membership in the Institute for Nonprofit News, we qualify for its annual NewsMatch program. National funders interested in supporting community publications will match local individual donations (up to $1,000 each) made in November and December. E s p e c i a l l y h e l p f u l a r e o n g o i n g donations to the Applegater. Pledges of even $5 a month go a long way toward ensuring stability in Gater operations. Plus, during the NewsMatch period, if you make a recurring pledge, NewsMatch will match the full annual value of your pledge—a 12-to-one bonus! (Just hit the donate button on the applegater. org home page, then click on "Make this a monthly donation.") Four times a year, 24 pages of articles appear in more than 12,400 mailboxes throughout the 700 square miles of the Applegate Valley, bringing you n e w s a n d i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t t h e neighborhoods you live in. More copies are distributed to dozens of local businesses. All for free. What makes that possible? You do. The Applegater is published by a nonprofit organization—Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc.— established by Applegaters, for Applegaters, and supported by our generous donors and advertisers. Whether you donate online with a credit card or write a check and use the envelope included in this issue to mail it to the Applegater, we appreciate your support for the only news source covering the many communities of the Applegate River watershed—providing information about your neighbors and your neighborhoods you won't find anywhere else. To keep the Applegater coming, please send your check—made out to the Applegater—to PO Box 14, Jacksonville, OR 97530, and mail it in the reply envelope inserted in this extra edition. Be sure to date your check between November 1 - December 31. (If your check is dated prior to November 1 or after December 31, it cannot be doubled.) Credit cards are accepted at applegater.org. Look for the yellow "Donate" button on our home page (or click on the "Support the Gater" link at the bottom of the list in the far left column). Thank you! You are the Gater. With much appreciation, Applegater Board of Directors gater@applegater.org applegater.org See THE STATION, page 2. In 2011, Max Bennett presented Sandy Shaffer with the Community Service Award in honor of her "outstanding contributions to community wildfire planning and protection in southern Oregon and beyond." Photo: Applegater archives. See SANDY SHAFFER, page 2. S a n d y S h a f f e r h a s b e e n p a r t of the Applegater team almost since the beginning—not only as a regular Sandy Shaffer retires from the Applegater contributor of fire-related articles but also as an editorial committee member. She Part 2: e Station is coming BY JAMES "BUCK" REINDERS More details about plans for the old Applegate Store and Café New owners of "The Station," formerly the Applegate Store, from left to right: Will Siemon, Amelia Sorensen, and Elise and Jeff Higley. When I first reached out to Elise and Jeff Higley about the contract they hadn't yet signed, Elise seemed surprised at how quickly word travels the grapevine (welcome to wine country). I was perhaps overeager to find out what was to become of the one and only storefront property * *

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