Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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SOUTH SISTER: Deschutes County rescue personnel were busy mid-month after a 911 call from a hiker who had taken a fall and injured himself. At 6:54 p.m. on June 16th, a male from Ithaca, New York, advised he was stranded on the north side of the South Sister. According to Assistant Search and Rescue Coordinator Deputy Donny Patterson the climber had reportedly triggered a small avalanche, which caused him to tumble down the mountain. He was injured in the fall, which made him unable to continue...
MCKENZIE BRIDGE: On Monday, workers put a hardhats, strapped into safety equipment and ascended 190 feet up a metal-framed communications tower that juts up from one of the highest ridges in the McKenzie River Valley. At the top, they installed a basketball-sized camera with a lens that has a 360-degree view of the surrounding mountains and can see 40 miles during the day and up to 120 miles at night. The new digital fire lookout, with a live feed viewable on the internet, will be used to spot...
Lane County Commissioners, McKenzie River Chamber of Commerce board members, business leaders and area residents all joined in at Hendricks Park last Thursday to celebrate start of construction for two "McKenzie Gateway" signs. The signs - at each end of the Valley - were designed to help the McKenzie area as a tourism and business hub and help in the revitalization of the area after the Holiday Farm Fire in September 2020. For the past several years, the McKenzie River Chamber of Commerce Touri...
The Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife has announced leftover tags will go on sale on July 1st at 10 a.m. Tags can be purchased via the online licensing system at https://odfw.huntfishoregon.com/login. However, hunters who drew a controlled hunt must wait until July 2nd at 10 a.m. to try to exchange it for a leftover tag. Also on July 2nd., leftover tags can be purchased through a license agent in addition to the online sale. Officials say an existing tag already purchased or a controlled hunt win for which people haven’t yet purchased the tag c...
From 2004 until the start of the pandemic in 2020, the United States lost a quarter (around 2,100) of its newspapers, according to a report from the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. By the end of last year, another hundred were gone, the Poynter Institute reported. The result was the creation of “news deserts” -mostly located in financially-impacted rural areas of the country. Over on the Oregon coast, the News Media Corporation and Central Coast Publi...
June 18: 10:30 a.m: Burglary - 92100 block, Marcola Rd. A shop on a property was burglarized over the night. Undisclosed tools were stolen from the location. June 21: 11:00 a.m: Motor Vehicle Accident, Injury - Marcola Rd. & Parsons Creek Rd. 12:52 p.m: Assist Police Dept. - 90200 blk, Hill Rd. 1:27 p.m: Disturbance, Dispute - 37300 blk, Parsons Creek Rd. A caller reported a verbal argument between the caller and the caller’s father. No injuries reported. 6:35 p.m: Theft - 43100 blk, McK. Hwy. Approximately 75 gallons of gasoline were stolen f...
June 25: 15:19: Crash, Non-Injury – Quartz Creek Rd. & Hwy. 1216E. Troopers assisted the Lane County Sheriff’s Office with a rollover crash. Information indicated female involved in the crash told the 911 caller she didn’t want to go back to the psych ward, also stating she had a gun in her purse. Ultimately, troopers & LCSO responded concluding with a DUII arrest by the Sheriff’s Office. Involved: white Honda Accord, 31-year-old female from Vida. June 26: 16:57: Crash, Non-Injury – Hwy. 126E, Milepost 39. Vehicle was traveling westbound...
June 21: 10:24: 38000 block, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 11:03: McK. Hwy./Quartz Creek Rd. Motor Vehicle Accident. Old Accident, No Patient. June 22: 12:42: 49000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 14:28: McK. Hwy./Page Ln. MVA. Non-Injury, Non-blocking. 17:43: 88000 blk, Whitsell Ln. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. June 23: 12:23: 49000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, Trauma. Patient Refusal.. 12:50: 87000 blk, Cedar Flat Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed by Medic,...
June 22: 11:00: Motor Vehicle Accident - HJ Morton Park. Vehicle is down an embankment, no doors open, unknown if anyone is inside. 12:40: Medical – 49000 block, McK. Hwy. Male, conscious, breathing. 14:21: MVA - McK. Hwy./S. Belknap Springs Rd. Car went off the road, driver is standing nearby. June 23: 12:41: Bicycle Accident - Foley Ridge Rd./McK. Hwy. Cyclist crashed on bike, approx 1/4 mile down Foley Ridge Rd. June 24: 02:35: Medical – 91000 blk, Blue River Reservoir Rd. Female, conscious, breathing. June 25: 03:47: Vehicle Fire - Mil...
In November 1892 in downtown Portland, a "fast" young man named J.P. Cochran stepped off a passenger train from St. Louis, Missouri. J.P. was the dashing 22-year-old son of a railroad executive. In St. Louis, he'd been running amok in the saloons and "faro banks," getting into lots of high-spirited trouble with fast women and irresponsible friends. His father, wanting to get him away from the company he was keeping, had come up with a scheme to send him off to what he no doubt considered the...
As the warmer weather returns, it's a good idea to evaluate your garden for the upcoming summer. Take a lesson from the 2021 historic heat dome and be prepared to help plants through hot and dry weather as the season progresses. Here are some tips from Oregon State University Extension Service experts for preparing for heat and drought. For more, read Heat wave in the garden: how to identify and prevent heat stress in plants by Nicole Sanchez, OSU Extension horticulturist. Water your landscape...
I need help. The woman I am seeing is the most incredible person I have ever known. We get along wonderfully, love the same things, and the sex is indescribable. The problem is after orgasm I get very sick to my stomach. This has never happened to me before...ever! What's the deal? Ken Ken, a friend once told me about a dream he had. He was standing on a beach surf casting when he felt an enormous tug on his line. He jerked his rod back hard, and his catch flew over his head and landed behind...
When Benjamin Eckstein shows up at the airport for his flight from Boston to San Jose, his airline says he doesn't have a ticket. Whose fault is this mess, and how does he clean it up? Last August, I was supposed to fly roundtrip with my two children from Boston to San Jose on JetBlue Airways. I had booked the flights through Orbitz. I was using a ticket credit from a JetBlue flight canceled at the start of the pandemic. When I got to the airport with my family, Jetblue had no record for these...
It’s a problem as old as the Tower of Babel: How do you communicate with others when you don’t speak their language? Anna-Marie Cartagena found herself in this situation on a recent visit to a spice market in Israel. The employee spoke no English, and Cartagena didn’t speak Hebrew. She didn’t have ready access to a phone with an internet connection. Cartagena’s solution isn’t new, but it’s often overlooked. A sign language interpreter by profession, she decided to try communicating...
ACROSS 1. Kitchen boss 5. Churchill's "so few" 8. Epochs 12. "Watch out!" on a golf course 13. East of Java 14. *Pinocchio's state of being 15. Hard currency 16. Emanation 17. TV and radio 18. *Mr. Popper's birds 20. Newspaper piece 21. *Like "Goosebumps Classic" 22. "What?" 23. *Richard Scarry's Things That Go 26. Oxygenate, as in lawn 29. Skin cyst 30. Middle Eastern meat dish, pl. 33. Antonym of "yup" 35. Dispatch boat 37. Female sheep 38. Throat infection 39. Searching for E.T. org. 40. *"I...
