News Photos June 8-14
Date: 6/14/2009 Album ID: 772697
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

Faced with foreclosure after losing their jobs, Morrie and Collen Slay have been trying to arrange a short sale of their Albany house. Last week, after months of delays by their mortgage lender, the buyer pulled out, leaving the Slays back at square one.
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Avamere Heart of the Valley Rehabilitation is closing. The shutdown will be phased in as new accommodations are found for the nursing home's 38 elderly residents.
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

Amanda Gillett pushes her 2-month-old son, Jack, as she leads her family through the Oregon State University campus on Friday. Friday was Gillett's first time at OSU so she and her family walked around the campus to take in the sights and to see where she has to line up before the commencement ceremony today. Gillett, who is receiving her general agriculture degree, is one of 153 'Ecampus' students to complete their dgrees this year.
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

Jana Mort lives a few miles outside of Burns, Ore. and arrived in Corvallis for the first time on Friday afternoon as she prepares to receive her general agriculture degree at the Oregon State University commencement on Saturday.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

OSU graduate Sam Brady of Corvallis shows his grandson, Jacoby Jones, 1, the eagle feather on his cap.  Daughter Christy Jones will also wear one as she graduates,  representing their Cherokee heritage.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Nikhil Prem of Corvallis, OSU graduate, is spearheading efforts to develop renewable energy.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times

Lupe Diaz said she spent a fair amount of time at the  EOP study lounge while at student at Oregon State University.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Caitlin Fitch, 19, and Logan Gardner, 18, prepare an entre after assembling a dessert.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Holly Darnell, Samantha Kirby, and Noelia Mendoza prepare a salad from the cookbook created by class members titled Quick, Cheap, and Easy.
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Parker Dunning, Chase Cochran, and Cole Reynolds check on their tractors as a school bus rumbles by in the Crescent Valley parking lot on their last day as freshmen.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Pilot Wayne Patenaude shows Dan Phelps of Lebanon to his seat as the crew prepares for flight in the P-51 at the Corvallis Airport.  This was on his 'bucket list,' said wife Marilyn Phelps, and life is short.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Asher Humphreys, 11, tries to better his time going down the water slide at the Osborn Aquatic Center during the Hoover fifth-grade end of the school year party.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Nicole LaReaux of Corvallis walks with the fifth grade class down hallways lined with younger students on her last day as a student at Mountain View Elementary School.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

After circling Corvallis and rattling the china cabinets, the B-24 landed with the P-51 flying low behind it.  That ought to wake them up, said former bomber nose gunner Carl Gustafson.
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

This circular window can be found above the entrance to Schmidt's Garden Center on NW 29th Street.
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

This circular window can be found above the entrance to Schmidt's Garden Center on NW 29th Street.
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Casey Campbell | Gazette-Times

Using a chicken skeleton, Devon Quick, an instructor in the biology department at Oregon State University, explains the skeletal traits of birds that differ from terrestrial animals, including dinosaurs.
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