Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Conifer By Kym Pokorny We buy live Christmas trees with the best of intentions, promising ourselves to plant them in the garden as soon as the holidays are over. But resolve has a way of fading like resolutions after January. Moved outside without the care they need, the beautiful, and not inexpensive, trees meant to go in the ground in winter, languish, fade to brown and eventually die. One alternative is to buy plants meant to stay in pots, said Al Shay, a horticulture instructor at Oregon State University. “It’s a trade-off,” he said. “You g...
Skookum label By Finn J.D. John From time to time, bills come up in the Oregon State Legislature that seek to designate an official language for the state. Of course, the language they specify is always English, since that’s the dominant language in Oregon today. But if an official state language is thought of like the official state bird, or state wildflower, or state animal - as a special example of a type that is vital to the very nature of Oregon and that helps provide it with its particular character - there’s really only one leg...
RAINBOW: The Christmas lights and wreath will not be placed on the Belknap Bridge this year due to additional electrical/construction requirements. With Belknap Bridge remodel construction scheduled for the summer of 2015, future opportunities for lighting the bridge may be possible. However, the annual Upper McKenzie Christmas Potluck is still scheduled for Saturday, December 6th, at the Upper McKenzie Community Center on McKenzie River Drive at 5 p.m. There is no charge for the dinner, it is appreciated if people could bring a potluck dish...
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