Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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A chase that stemmed from an incident near the intersection with Mill Creek Road and the McKenzie Highway ended 36 miles later last Tuesday. According to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect’s vehicle, a white U-Haul box van, left the area westbound after striking a parked vehicle around 5 p.m. McKenzie District Sheriff’s Deputy Russ Olson observed the U-Haul still headed westbound in the Vida area about 10 minutes after receiving the report and initiated a traffic stop. At first, the d...
McKenzie Fire & Rescue volunteers and staff came together in February in a COVID mindful manner for a night of recognition and reflection for their 2021 Awards Ceremony. Awards for the 2021 year included Service Awards for 5-years, 10-years, 15-years, 20-years, 25-years, 30-years, 35-years, and even 45-years of service. Volunteer of the Year, a Chief's Award, and two special recognition awards were also given. Fire Chief Darren Bucich summed it up by saying, "We have amazing volunteers who keep...
Thanks to the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s McKenzie River Source Protection Program, the utility is working with the Pure Water Partners and local residents to plant 500,000 trees in areas that burned in the Holiday Farm Fire. The work is designed to safeguard drinking water for metro residents by addressing erosion from high burn areas, as well as longer-term resiliency to restore floodplain areas that are critical to water quality and habitat. “This is everyone’s water source. This is th...
Interesting things are happening in Oregon’s Willamette River basin when it comes to salmon and steelhead recovery. Maybe even a little overlooked for their significance. An Oregon federal judge is running the river, issuing significant directions for how federal dams and reservoirs should be operated to benefit fish. And that’s what happens when populations of naturally producing salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act start approaching extinction. Entities worried about the decline of the fish sue. And they win. Then wha...
Alan Dowd chronicles the Russian threat to world peace in the February 2022 edition of The American Legion Magazine. I quote and paraphrase from the article. From its beginning in 1918 the Russian Communists led by Lenin and then Stalin sought to achieve power and control populations by intimidation, brutality, and death. “Lenin murdered 6 million people and Stalin three times as many. During Stalin’s reign from 1925 to 1953 Communism spread to Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. President Reagan referred to the USSR as the...
Feb. 22: 7:47 a.m: Hit & Run - 38600 block, E. Cedar Flat Rd. Caller reported that they found damage to the front passenger door on their work vehicle. 7:08 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - 8700 blk, Thurston Rd. A caller reported that two unknown vehicles parked in the caller’s driveway. The vehicles drove away towards Springfield. They were described as a white Chevy 2500 truck and a sedan. Feb. 23: 9:31 a.m: Fraud - 43200 blk, McK. Hwy. 12:38 p.m: Assist, Follow Up - Waterville area. 12:50 p.m: Assist, Follow Up - Waterville area. 1:18 p.m: R...
Feb. 22: 12:36: 40000 block, Booth Kelly Rd. Medical, Trauma. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 20:52: 8 000 blk, Whitewater Rd. Medical General. Lifting Assistance. Feb. 24: 0:00: 87000 blk, Cedar Flat Rd. Medical General. Patient Assessed, Refusal. Feb. 25: 10:46: 41000 blk, Madrone St. Lift Assist Only. 12:40: 47000 blk, Goodpasture Rd. Medical General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Feb. 27: 0:00: 37000 blk, Upper Camp Creek Rd. False Alarm. Feb. 28: 1:49: 8000 blk, McKenzie Hwy. Medical General. Patient Assessed, Transported. McK. Fire &...
Feb. 24: 12:20: Medical – 54000 block, McK. River Dr. Female, Conscious, Breathing. 12:48: Medical – 54000 blk, McK. Hwy.. Male, Conscious, Breathing. The Upper McK. Fire District board of directors will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 16th, at the McK. Fire station, 56578 McK. Hwy. in McKenzie Bridge, at 7 p.m....
It was a little after 6 a.m. on September 9, 1942. A tiny seaplane with red balls painted on its wings was making its way through the skies over Brookings, Oregon. At the controls was a young man named Nobuo Fujita; behind him, in the observer's seat, looking intensely at the ground, was another, named Shoji Okuda. The two of them were looking for a good place to initiate the first airstrike ever to be made on the continental United States. Fujita's plan This whole gambit had been Fujita's...
You've got clippers in hand, a shrub in mind and a gleam in your eye. It's pruning time. But do you have a plan? Before you clip a stem, know your shrub, said Neil Bell, horticulturist for Oregon State University's Extension Service. "What you want to focus on is flowering time and growth habit," he said. "Certain shrubs you can prune right about now; others you should wait until after they flower." Spring-blooming shrubs like forsythia, mock orange, flowering quince, deutzia and lilac, should...
I am a 26-year-old married woman, and we are expecting our first child. My husband and I used to go out every weekend and play cards with friends or have a few drinks. I am unable to do this now. Since I became pregnant, I have lost my energy level and been sick a lot. I trusted my husband and told him he should still go out and have fun, just don’t forget about me. Everything was fine, or so I thought. One night after I went to bed I heard my husband on the computer, so I came out to see w...
When BTS cancels Barbara Evans' show, Ticketmaster offers her a refund. There's just one problem: She canceled the credit card she used to pay for the tickets. Will she ever see the money again? In early 2020, I bought tickets to the BTS Map of the Soul Tour for June. I used my Chase Visa to make the purchase. After the pandemic started, I canceled this Chase travel card. This August, Ticketmaster emailed to say the concert scheduled for 14 months ago had officially been canceled and to expect...
Now more than ever, you need a COVID Plan B when you travel abroad. Otherwise, you could find yourself stuck in quarantine, which may feel like prison. Susan Bilhorn had a COVID-19 Plan B, which included buying travel insurance, packing extra medications -- and booking her trip with the right tour company. Good thing she did. While visiting Croatia recently, her tour guide discreetly notified her she'd tested positive for COVID. Minutes later, an ambulance picked her up and delivered her to a...
August 15, 1934-February 7, 2022 Shari Parker passed away on February 7, 2022, at the age of 87 of age-related illness. Shari was born in Vida, Oregon to Richard Eugene and Dorothy Josephine Dare on August 15, 1934. Shari attended schools in Deerhorn, Klamath Falls, and graduated from Springfield high school in 1952. Shari married Robert (Bob) Parker on August 26th, 1956, in Deerhorn. Bob died in 2016. Shari was a homemaker who enjoyed bowling, golfing, camping, gardening, rock hunting, and...
