Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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"This is going to be directly infused into the community on the fire department's behalf," said Upper McKenzie Fire Chief Rainbow Plews. She was commenting after accepting a $150,000 check to help rebuild after the Holiday Farm Fire. "We are going to be looking at a long-term recovery effort starting with land acquisition in Blue River to start a new station," Plews added. "We lost everything there and this is going to go directly to that effort." The money was part of what Lane County agencies...
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The Vida McKenzie Community Center is putting its fundraising efforts in high gear by inviting locals and “not so locals” to support the VMCC’s efforts to rebuild after the Holiday Farm Fire. From now until May 1st, people can order Butter Braids for $14. What does the money buy? According to organizers Gerry Aster, Walt Wilson, Tammy Pelton, Sherry Jones, Kim Esser or Kelly Gustafson you’ll receive a frozen pastry to rise at home, then bake and feed up to twenty people. The patries come in various flavors and can last in a freezer for up to s...
With juvenile chinook and sockeye salmon, as well as juvenile steelhead, beginning their migration from the Northwest tributaries and hatcheries, but with very low water in the river due to a late spring runoff, salmon managers have asked for augmentation flows. The managers asked hydro operators at the April 21st, interagency Technical Management Team meeting to raise flows from Chief Joseph Dam, just downstream of Grand Coulee, to 90,000 cubic feet per second beginning Monday, April 26th, through Saturday, May 2nd, to ensure the speedy outmig...
in Blue River was a huge success and the Blue River Bottle Boys would like to thank all those who joined the brigade to help our cause. In conjunction with the OBRC (Bottle Drop, ) we collected Blue Bags to deposit during Earth Week in order to receive an extra 20% on the redemption value. In addition to those extra funds, we will get a cash award for the prize winning video we submitted. The McKenzie Community Development Corporation made it possible for the husband and wife team of Alice Bonasio and Tom Atkinson to create the prize winning...
It has been far too long! The Virus and the Holiday Farm Fire 2020 coupled to box up and shelve McKenzie student/athletes and their opportunities to compete since last Spring (2020). Restrictions enacted in response to the Virus pandemic by Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and mandated by Oregon Governor Kate Brown canceled, then reorganized high school athletics into shortened, displaced seasons this Spring. The student/athletes of McKen-zie...
April 19: 3:17 p.m: Traffic Complaint - 40000 block, Mohawk River Rd. April 20: 10:10 a.m: Suspicious Conditions - 8900 blk, Thurston Rd. 11:18 a.m: Traffic Complaint - 40500 blk, McK. Hwy. 11:28 a.m: Suspicious Conditions – McK. View Milepost 2. 6:41 p.m: Speeding Vehicle - Millican Rd. & McK. Hwy. 12:01 p.m: Criminal Trespass - 54500 blk, McK. Hwy. 12:41 p.m: Threat, Harassment - 91800 blk, Taylor Rd. 3:37 p.m: Unlawful Entry Motor Vehicle - Aufderheide Dr. & McK. Hwy. 8:45 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - 87000 blk, Cedar Flat Rd. 9:42 p.m: T...
April 25: 09:33: Lost Property – Hwy. 125E, Milepost 22. Received a call from an individual, who lives up the McKenzie near Leaburg. She was calling to report that she had left her small utility trailer on the side of the highway after it was damaged on her way back from the dump. She said that she left a note stating it wasn’t abandoned and was making arrangements to come back and get it. When she returned it was gone. The trailer is a small black, single axle utility trailer (approx. 4x6). It is not registered and does not have a VIN. Inf...
April 19: 0:27: 45000 block, Goodpasture Rd. Medical, Trauma. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. April 20: 13:25: 88000 blk, Keola Ln. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 16:21: 42000 blk, Leaburg Dr. Bark dust fire. Fire extinguished. April 22: 15:49: Quartz Creek Rd/Huckleberry Ln. Medical, Trauma. Patient Refusal. 16:35: 40000 blk, McK. Hwy. Lift Assist. Lifting Assistance Provided. 23:01: 88000 blk, Keola Ln. Medical, General. Patient Refusal. April 23: 7:20: 39000 blk, McK. Hwy. Illegal Burning. Fire extinguished. 22:25:...
April 19: 13:27: Brush Fire - McK. Hwy./McK River Dr. Slash pile has re-ignited. April 21: 09:19: Medical – 54000 block, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. April 22: 15:45: Medical - Huckleberry Ln./Quartz Creek Rd. Female fell in the woods & was bleeding. 20:08: Medical - Aufderheide Dr./Cougar Dam Rd. Male appears to have a head injury, told some passersby he had fallen down a mountain....
It was around 1878 that newly-single Mary Leonard moved to Portland and set herself up as the proprietress of a boardinghouse in the North End waterfront district - the seediest, roughest neighborhood in Portland. Mary was in her early 30s, striking in appearance and more than a little notorious. She'd moved there from The Dalles, where she had just been acquitted of charges of sneaking into her estranged husband's bedroom one night and shooting him in the head while he slept. She'd spent a full...
As the heat ratchets up so does water use, costing homeowners money and doing no favors for the environment. Homeowners can learn to save water and money, however, with help from Oregon WaterWise Gardening, a statewide program of the Oregon State University Extension Service. Its website includes profiles of water-efficient plants. Amy Jo Detweiler, a horti-culturist with OSU Extension, compiled the following tips to help you conserve water and save on summer water bills: * When you’re s...
Guy E. Lewis, a resident of Yreka and a retired U.S. Forest Service firefighter, died suddenly April 14. He was 70. Born in Philadelphia ,PA, Lewis attended public schools in that city. He graduated from Solebury School in New Hope, Pa., and attended Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Early in the second semester of his sophomore year at Haverford, Lewis and several of his friends decided on the spur of the moment to drop out and drive to California. (It was 1970-people did things like that then....
