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| OR Heritage Excellence Award |
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 Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards recognize individuals, businesses and organizations for outstanding efforts on behalf of Oregon heritage and raise the quality of heritage-oriented activities. Nominations are encouraged for exceptional and meritorious work. Special consideration is given to the development of new ideas, approaches and innovations.
Application Deadline: January 13, 2012
Visit the Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards page
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| OR Heritage Tradition |
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 The Oregon Heritage Commission began recognizing those traditions that have helped define our state in 2009 through the Oregon Heritage Tradition award. The award recognizes those events that have been in continuous operation for more than 50 years, have demonstrated a public profile that distinguish them from more routine events, and add to the livability and identity of the state.
Application Deadline: TBA
-> Oregon Heritage Tradition Application
-> Previous Oregon Heritage Tradition Award Recipients
Contact:
Kyle Jansson
OHC Coordinator
Phone: (503) 986-0673
Email: kyle.jansson@state.or.us
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| OR Heritage Stewardship Award |
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People all over the state are doing good things to preserve Oregon's historic and cultural resources. The Heritage Stewardship Award is designed to recognize these "Heritage Heroes" and publicize their conscientious efforts.
Featured Heritage Hero
A Talbot couple has been recognized with an Oregon Heritage Stewardship Certificate for their efforts to preserve an important archaeological site.
In 2009, the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) received a phone call from private property owners Diana and John Van Driesche of Talbot. While constructing an emergency entrance into the basement of their home, the couple had found Native American artifacts and a burned feature beneath the surface.
The Van Driesches promptly halted construction and contacted the State Archaeologist at the SHPO. Later, volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society; students from Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and various community colleges; and professional archaeologists from the Association of Oregon Archaeologists, private archaeological firms, federal agencies, state agencies, and Tribes, conducted archaeological testing.
The investigations found basalt, obsidian and chert tools and debitage, and remnants of a hearth. (Debitage is waste material leftover from making tools.) Recent radiocarbon dates indicate the site was occupied 5,500 to 9,100 years ago.
"Thanks to Diana and John’s watchful eye and thoughtful decision to contact the State Historic Preservation Office an important Native American site was preserved for future generations," says Nancy Nelson, a Heritage Programs archaeologist with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. "We thank them for their contribution to protecting Oregon’s cultural heritage."
The Heritage Stewardship Recognition program was initiated by Heritage Programs of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to raise the profile of Oregonians who go the extra mile in protecting the state’s heritage.
Heritage Programs of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department includes the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries, the Oregon Heritage Commission, the Oregon Historic Trails Advisory Council and the State Historic Preservation Office.
Previous Heritage Heroes
-> Erica French
-> Michael Dryden
-> Stacy Schneyder, Meris Mullaley, and ICF Jones & Stokes
-> Chad Beam, Dave Couch, Corey Level, Zach Smith, and Beam & Couch Excavation Company
-> Cascade Recycling
-> Winemakers Investment Properties, LLC
-> Western Oregon University and Willamette University Students
Heritage Hero Homepage
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