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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">J.B. “Bret” Bane is the </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Archivist at Sumpter Valley
Railroad</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Restoration Inc. Please download and read his latest article, </span><span style="color:black">“</span><span>The Sumpter Valley
Railroad Restoration Archives Connecting To Community," here:<br>
</span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_5" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_5</span></a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span></span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Bret
graduated from Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, Oregon with an
Associate of Arts degree in 1981. Bret met his wife-to-be Jane while attending
college. They married in 1982 and returned to his hometown of Enterprise,
Oregon, where they worked in his family’s electrical contracting business. Bret
joined Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration in 1998, which is a nonprofit group
most noted for running the steam railroad, near Baker City, Oregon. Throughout
the years he has researched and contributed historical materials to the
organization. This led to his appointment as SVRR’s archivist in 2013. Now in
semi retirement, he looks forward to having more time to devote to the archives.</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>





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