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Valentines Benefit Dance and Silent Auction set to raise funds for Willamette Grange #52 restoration efforts

Valentines Benefit Dance and Silent Auction set to raise funds for Willamette Grange #52 restoration efforts

Haley Stark, Reporter
February 6, 2023

Willamette Grange #52 is holding a Valentines Benefit Dance and Silent Auction on Feb. 10, including snacks, drinks, professional photography, and live music from the band Shatterproof. Held in the...

The Valentine’s Day aisle is filled with chocolate hearts in the Safeway in Corvallis, Ore. The Corvallis and Oregon State University community are getting ready to celebrate the season of love.

Orange is the New Pink: Valentine’s Day not a purely materialistic holiday

Kimberly Clairmont, Columnist
February 7, 2022

Editor’s Note: This column does not represent the opinion of The Daily Barometer. This column reflects the personal opinions of the writer. Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be remembered as just another...

Joel Fowlks and Carole Chase in The Daily Barometer from 1999. The couple reconnected after 17 years apart and are now engaged.

Two former Barometer staff members engaged after 17 years apart

Kelsy Valentine, News Contributor
February 14, 2021

Two past Barometer staff members who met because they both worked for the student newspaper in the early 2000s reconnected three years ago and are now engaged to be married.Carole Chase, a former humor...

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OSU student-athlete Valentine’s Day survey

Editor's Note: One couple was removed from the category of "Should Stop Talking and Start Dating" due to discomfort on behalf of the individuals.The Daily Barometer did a survey for student athletes to...

Brian Engdahl proposes to Katelyn Ohlrich. The couple has been together since Valentine’s Day in 2013 when the two were student-athletes together at OSU. The pair hiked to the summit of South Sister Mountain in Bend, Ore. with a group of friends before Engdahl surprised Ohlrich with the engagement.

Oregon State sweethearts’ road to engagement

Brady Akins, Sports Contributor
February 10, 2020

Katelyn Ohlrich has not accomplished what she has by taking the easy route. Whether in the classroom, balance beam or now in her professional career, Olrich’s journey has been defined by her determination...

Valentine's Day in Corvallis

Couples balancing school, relationships make time for Valentine’s Day

Morgan Mawn, News Contributor
February 14, 2019

As Oregon State University students begin to shift into study-intensive mode in preparation for midterms, some couples, who met on campus, also have Valentine’s Day to get ready for. For many of these...

Brett McFarland and Jill Sherman at their wedding. Brett and Jill met at Oregon State University.

Dam Good Love

Jacquie Gamelgaard, OMN Photographer
February 13, 2017

An education was not all that these OSU alumni couples left with after graduation Brett McFarland and Jill ShermanBrett McFarland and Jill Sherman met in a ceramics class and didn’t get together until...

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