Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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MCKENZIE BRIDGE: The 544-acre lightning-caused Knoll Fire, located seven miles northeast of McKenzie Bridge was reported as 60% contained this week. Officials say the fire is staying within containment lines, as fire crews continue mopping up and monitoring the fire. Due to fire impacts and safety hazards, four miles of the McKenzie River Trail will be closed until summer of 2022, and possibly longer. The area extends from the Blue Pool/Tamolitch Falls Trailhead south to Deer Creek. The trail...
ACROSS 1. The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical 5. Hallucinogenic drug 8. Some special effects, acr. 11. Chip in Vegas 12. Cordelia's father in Shakespeare play 13. One in squirrel's stash 15. Dissenting clique 16. Tangerine/grapefruit hybrid 17. Type of lemur 18. *Popular messenger 20. Mosque prayer leader 21. Down Under marsupial 22. Thanksgiving serving 23. *100 days of snapping, e.g. 26. Military's inactive force 30. Repeated Cuban dance step 31. The Kinks' lead singer, a.k.a. godfather of...
Work is nearly complete in the first phase of restoration work at the McKenzie River Trust's Finn Rock Reach. The area includes dozens of acres where gravels and large wood sections were added to mimic the effect a big flood could have had on wetlands and stream-side channels before upstream dams were built. The project was designed to benefit threatened and endangered salmon, who use this area for spawning and rearing. To follow progress online, go to: alturl.com/34amm....
Greater buffer zones around bodies of water and more consistent enforcement of water protection regulations are needed to reduce agriculture-based pollution in the Western U.S., a recent review from Oregon State University found. The OSU paper, "Agricultural Effects on Streams and Rivers: A Western USA Focus," reviewed more than 40 case studies on the impacts of agriculture on water quality. Specifically, researchers looked at studies that related agricultural management practices to aquatic...
hat today we must share with you the loss of our beloved father, and your beloved small town cartoonist, Barry McWilliams. Barry passed away a few days ago from a sudden heart attack at his home in Pipestone, Montana. One might say his decades of relentless deadlines may finally have caught up to him. But as many of you know and appreciate, he wouldn’t have had it any other way. To have lived to be “almost 80,” and still be so passionate about his work, at the very top of his game after 43 years in the cartoon biz … it was exactly how he dreame...
Barry Wayne McWilliams pass-ed away on August 14, 2021, at his home outside Whitehall, Montana. He was 79 years old. Barry was born on February 17, 1942, in North Hollywood, California, to Leigh and Irene (Hewitt) McWilliams in a hospital with blackout curtains due to the fear of Japanese invasion of the west coast following Pearl Harbor. He spent his younger years in what he referred to as an "immigrant home" where three distinct families shared a small three-bedroom house with wall-to-wall...
ad an opportunity to chat with several fellow Veterans, Service Members, Military family members, and Gold Star families. It is beyond the obvious in saying that the past few days have been extraordinarily difficult for those with a personal connection to our mission in Afghanistan. My wife Tiffany and I are no different. Earlier this week, a CNN reporter broadcast from a base in Andar, Afghanistan – this was a base that my soldiers and I built, it’s the base where I was wounded in 2006. Seeing it on the screen brought back a lot of mem...
Aug. 17: 16:21: Fish & Wildlife, Angling - Arrived along the banks of the McKenzie River below Leaburg dam after receiving information of possible angling violations. During foot patrol located a wild Chinook salmon that had been illegally harvested. The angler who caught the wild Chinook was cited and released. The wild Chinook was seized as evidence. During the investigation information lead to a nearby residence. During the interview with the angler he confessed to snagging a salmon and keeping it. The salmon was seized as evidence and the...
Aug. 15: 3:06: 38000 block, Natures Garden. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 18:45: 38000 blk, E. Cedar Flat Rd. Unauthorized burning. Extinguished. 9:34: 44000 blk, Leaburg Dam Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Aug. 16: 12:39: 90000 blk, Angel’s Flight Rd. Public Assist. Use of Chainsaw During Industrial Fire Protection Level 3, Waiver Present. 14:20: 50000 blk, McK. Hwy. Smoke Scare. Visible Smoke Column from Middle Fork Complex. 15:03: Deerhorn Rd./Milepost 1. Smoke Scare. Visible Smoke Column from Midd...
Aug. 17: 21:38: Medical – McK. Hwy./Milepost 48. Female, Conscious, Breathing. 21:50: Medical - Horse Creek Rd./E. King Rd. Involved collapsed, is dizzy and nauseous, not injured. Aug. 18: 22:45: Medical – 50000 block, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. Aug. 21: 20:22: Unknown Fire - Mp. 13, Clear Lake Cutoff. Large flames in trees, app. 100 yards off the roadway. The Upper McK. Fire District board of directors will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 15th, at the McK. Fire Station, 56578 McK. Hwy. in McKenzie Bridge, at 7 p...
Things looked grim for the Prineville Nine that summer day in 1910. The little high-desert town's baseball team was getting its clock cleaned by the Silver Lake ball club. The score was nine-zip, and the game was only half played. It was shaping up to be a bloodbath. The game was the third in a best-of-three tournament, a sort of good-natured grudge match between the two central Oregon towns. Prineville was playing host, and had invited Silver Lake to bring its best and its brightest, its...
No one wants to think of harvest's end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now's the time to plan for cover crops to be planted in fall. Cover crops, also called green manure, include grains like winter oats and cereal rye. Legumes, such as commonly used crimson clover, Austrian field pea and common vetch, are nitrogen "fixers." Beneficial bacteria in legume root nodules take nitrogen from the air and supply it to the plant. When the cover crop decomposes, some of the nitrogen becomes...
I have a distant cousin who is a year older. We used to play together as children. Five or six years back, I visited her family during the holidays. I was happy to see her. We talked for a while, then she had to go out to meet a friend. One day, she called and said she was breaking up with her boyfriend. This was the second boyfriend I knew about, and I tried to console her. He is a married man she lived with for four years. When she told me that, I was so disappointed in my cousin, but I still...
My husband and I have tickets to see a Ron White show in Minneapolis. We bought the tickets through Ticketmaster. The event has been rescheduled twice because of COVID-19. When we bought the tickets in early 2020, the event was in April 2020, then due to COVID, it was postponed to fall 2020 and again to this spring. All along, we were planning to keep our tickets and go to the rescheduled event. However, in the meantime, I have been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. We were still planning...
