Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Streambank work EUGENE: Karl Morgenstern had some good news when he reported to the Eugene Water & Electric Board on February 2nd. “The impacts were not as great as we originally thought, given the conditions we were facing,” the utility’s watershed restoration manager said. EWEB has been monitoring water quality because of concerns that storm runoff from the Holiday Farm Fire would contain increased quantities of metals, nutrients, solids bacteria and carbon, Morgenstern said. “Even though we w...
“We have restored the Blue River central office and fiber that enables all service in the area,” according to Tre Hendricks, Director of Government Affairs for CenturyLink/Lumen. “We are beginning reconnection customers who remain out of service in the Blue River area – there were approximately 50 and almost half of those were restored last week.” Hendriks said several cable cuts were, “Due to other utility and road clearing activities in the last two weeks, which has slightly delayed our efforts. Once the Blue River customers are done,...
Asparagus Growing asparagus requires patience – from planting to harvest takes two to three years, but the wait is well worth the reward. Homegrown asparagus is one of the earliest vegetables of spring. Its quality is much better than store-bought spears, and it’s less expensive. Once established, this vegetable easy to grow. And asparagus is beautiful. A member of the lily family, its fern-like foliage turns from green to gold in fall, and can be a backdrop to chrysanthemums or other late-season flowers. Oregon State University E...
Eagles Are Great, We’re Going To State! To many of us in the McKenzie River Valley, this exclamation had become a frequent and somewhat anticipated rally cry following several of our high school sports seasons. Although our McKenzie High School Eagle teams have fallen on tougher times recently, even prior to the Co-Vid 19 outbreak and the Holiday Farm Fire, many are the memories of hard fought athletic battles and road trips all around the Great State of Oregon. What became the norm, however, was not at all the case in the earlier years of o...
Santa Clara shipwreck By Finn J.D. John ON THE MORNING OF NOV. 5, 1915, at the back of the entrance to Coos Bay, a big steamship could be seen towering improbably over the beach, stuck fast in the sand close to shore. This was the Santa Clara, a 233-foot steamer on the Portland-San Francisco run. The Santa Clara didn’t much look like the scene of a humanitarian disaster, jutting out of the sand nearly plumb and level and nearly high and dry; but appearances were deceiving. Sixteen people died trying to get ashore when she first struck, three d...
