Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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WALTERVILLE: Started over 20 years ago, the student garden at the Walterville Elementary School has been traditionally tended by the 5th-grade class. This year, when classes resumed after the pandemic restrictions, all six classes were involved in tending the plot behind the building. Besides the greenery, the garden featured a functional pond with fish and frogs. "We have six garden beds set up with veggies growing in four of the six and flowers in the other two," notes 5th-grade teacher...
On July2, 1971, Governor Tom McCall signed into law the nation's first bottle and can redemption system, which has helped keep Oregon clean and pretty litter free for 50 years. Not only was it the first, but it remains among the best, with Oregon regularly seeing some of the top redemption and recycling rates in the nation. To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Bottle Bill, the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), parent company to BottleDrop, is hosting a treasure hunt by hiding six...
Human-caused wildfire ignitions in Oregon are expected to remain steady over the next four decades and lightning-caused ignitions are expected to decline, but the average size of a blaze from either cause is expected to rise, Oregon State University modeling suggests. Scientists including Meg Krawchuk of the OSU College of Forestry and former OSU research associate Ana Barros, now of the Washington Department of Natural Resources, said the findings can help local decision-makers understand how a changing climate might affect natural and...
Over the holiday weekend, Eugene Water & Electric Board reports it has received multiple reports of scam attempts targeting customers. The scammers threaten people by telling them that that their electric and/or water services would be shut off if the customer did not submit payment within 30 minutes. EWEB is reaching out to remind customers to be suspicious of any emails and/or phone calls that claim to be urgent and require immediate action to prevent shut-off of any of their utility services. Officials say that if your account is past due,...
est that arrived in the United States in the 1920s as fishing bait and as hitchhikers on imported plants and soils, have vaulted into gardens and nurseries up and down the Willamette Valley corridor. Unlike beneficial earthworms and nightcrawlers that burrow deep tunnels in the soil, aerating and releasing nutrients as they go, jumping worms stay in the debris on top and eat two to three times the amount of leaf litter as the other worms, according to Sam Chan, Oregon State University Sea Grant...
As many of you know the Upper McKenzie Community Center hosted the relief center, our version of a free community store, just after the Holiday Farm fire last September until March, helping our neighbors who had suffered so much get through the winter. Now that the winter weather threat is over, the library is currently setting up operations and will be opening in July – we are so excited to have them! The annual members meeting was held earlier in June and resulted in a vote to change the non-profit status type from a 501(c)7 to a 501(c)3 whic...
At midnight on Labor Day, I joined a caravan evacuating the Holiday Farm wildfire which destroyed more than 500 homes and devastated 174,000 acres. Our lives were forever changed that night, never to be the same. Yet, the incredible support from others has made a huge difference. We are on Recovery Road and wouldn’t be this far along without the help of too many to list here. Nonetheless, one person stands out, Lane County Commissioner Heather Buch. As the ash smoldered, and the highway choked with fallen and falling trees, she has been with u...
June 28: 2:13 pm: Suspicious Conditions - 35200 block, Camp Creek Rd. The occupants of a tan Chevrolet Malibu parked in the parking lot of an area business. They exited the vehicle with open alcohol containers and walked possibly down to the river. June 29: 12:27 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - 45800 blk, McK. Hwy. Caller reported that an ex-boyfriend uses drugs and texted threats of physical harm. 2:13 p.m: Fraud - 44900 blk, McK. Hwy. Caller reported an incident involving a moving company. Deputies made contact and determined the issue to be...
June 28: 13:49: Warrant Arrest – Camp Creek Rd. & Marcola Rd. Watched a subject throw his garbage on the ground and prepare to leave in his vehicle. Contacted the subject and discovered he had a warrant for his arrest. The Failure To Appear warrant was confirmed, and the subject was arrested and transported to the Lane County Jail and lodged without incident. July 3: 20:30: Warrant Arrest – McK. View Dr, Milepost 2. Contacted the subject on an angler contact. Did a routine check for wants and learned he had a warrant out of Douglas County. Conf...
June 28: 14:46: 7000 block, Thurston Rd. Medical, Trauma. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 16:59: 44000 blk, McK. Hwy. Brush Fire. Fire Extinguished. June 29: 15:31: 44000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, Refusal. 16:45: Deschutes County Brush Fire Mutual Aid., Lane County Task Force to assist Redmond Fire. June 30: 9:21: 87000 blk, Lupe Lane Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 14:34: 44000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 16:57: 38000 blk, MJ Chase Rd. Medical, General. Patient...
June 29: 11:49: Medical – 91000 block, McCauley St. Female, Conscious, Breathing. July 1: 20:36: 54000 blk, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. July 3: 08:55: 57000 blk, North Bank Rd. Exposure - Male was in water for approx. 1 hour. 11:20: Water Rescue - 57000 blk, Drury Ln. Raft hung up on snag in water - unknown number of people on raft. 19:25: Brush Fire - 54000 blk, McK. River Dr. Fire starting at end of driveway. 21:16: Medical - 88000 blk, Aufderheide Dr. Patient was lying on the ground in pain. July 4: 15:07: Medical – Old McK. Hwy...
ACROSS 1. 1965 march site 6. Bottle top 9. Dried up 13. Can't see the forest for this? 14. *____ You Need is Love 15. ____-upper 16. End of a poem 17. Filmmaker Spike 18. Like a good athlete? 19. *"Tastes So Good, Cats Ask for It by Name" 21. *"The Quicker Picker Upper" 23. Duke of Cambridge to Prince of Wales 24. Blood vessel 25. The Jackson 5 1970 hit 28. Plural of velum 30. Havanese or Pekingese 35. High school formal 37. What the phone did 39. Abrupt increase 40. *____ John's: "Better...
On the morning of April 23, 1936, the city of Portland was proudly preparing to launch its new harbor patrol boat, the Jack Luihn. It was going to be a big deal. Mayor LaGuardia of New York City was in town, and had been invited to come to the event. And the boat itself was truly revolutionary. Oregon's own wizardly inventor The Jack Luihn was the brain-child of one Victor Wiegand Strode, an inventor with a remarkable flair. Looking back on the historical record, the picture one gets is reminisc...
