Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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CAMP CREEK: Just before 10 p.m. on September 6th, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office responded to a physical dispute in the 37000 block of Camp Creek Road. Family members had called police after 59-year-old Robert Gutierrez struck another family member. They also said Gutierrez had a gun and other residents of the property said they felt they were unable to leave safely. During a phone call, a deputy made contact with at least one of the family members and developed probable cause that Gutierrez had committed crimes including Menacing, U...
Monday night, September 6, the McKenzie Community came together, impressively, to commemorate the Holiday Farm Fire which burned and overturned our beautiful River Valley and lives. The procession of around 50 emergency and personal vehicles and over one hundred residents, staged at the old Rustic Skillet and Harbick's Country Inn parking lots, just East of where the Fire allegedly first ignited. At 8:30 p.m., around the time last year's Fire started down our Valley, the procession headed west,...
CLEAR LAKE: Volunteers from the Colorado-based HistoriCorps and the Northwest Youth Corps have been busy as summer winds down, restoring a historic picnic shelter at the headwaters of the McKenzie River. Details on the structure date back to the 1910’s, when two companies were competing to build a hydropower site in the area. Although the Forest Service revoked that permit some cabins and outbuildings near the lake were constructed in preparation for the project. During the Great Depression, t...
When is a joke not a joke? When it's a video hoax showing farmers lawn-mowing under crops; young people in Maine are making bank through apprenticeship programs; curbing brain drain in Indiana; and movies that move the environmental justice conversation....
The Walterville Grange would like you to join us at the 70th annual Walterville Community Fair on September 11 from 7 AM to 4 PM. The Walterville Waddle will begin at 8 AM (signup is online or morning of the race starting at 6:45 on location). Fair entries (your canning, baking, garden produce, arts/crafts, photography, antiques, flowers, sewing, and handcrafts) should be brought to the hall from 7:30 to 9:30 AM and judging will start at 9:30 AM. The flag-raising will be held at 10 AM by the Boy Scouts. The parade will begin at 11 AM (contact...
Note: Zybach wrote this a year ago, following the Labor Day fires in Oregon. The most deadly, destructive, and widespread catastrophic wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted on Labor Day this year, driven by strong east winds. But unless we change how our national and state forests are managed, these events will be just another chapter in this age of predictable, increasing, and ever-greater firestorms. I spent my career studying forest fires and forest health. For example, my doctoral dissertation from the OSU College of Forestry was titled, Th...
October of 1913 was a triumphant time for Professor James Dryden, the poultry specialist at Oregon State University (or Oregon Agricultural College, as it was then called). His name was in newspapers nationwide, in glowing tribute after glowing tribute to his success. One of his experiment-station hens, the prosaically named C-521 (later renamed Lady MacDuff), had just shattered the world record for egg production with a stunning 303 eggs in a year, breaking the 300-egg barrier for the first...
ant to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. "The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay," said James Cassidy, a soils instructor at Oregon State University. "Texture determines all kinds of things like drainage, aeration, the amount of water the soil can hold, erosion potential and even the amount of nutrients that can be stored." To become better acquainted with your soil texture, he recommends using the "hand method." Dig beneath the top layer of...
Five years ago, I started dating a guy, and after a month he revealed he was married with two children. He said he was unhappy and planned on leaving. Being young and foolish, I stayed with him for a year before realizing it would not happen. But I formed strong attachments with him and particularly his kids, and so we remained friends. I got over him and tried to support him in his efforts to make a go of his marriage. Still, I had to push back his advances every so often. I got to know his wif...
Ticketmaster still owes Matthew Gerstman a $2,031 refund for a canceled Taylor Swift concert. A year later, he is seeing red. I had three tickets to a Taylor Swift concert in Inglewood, Calif., in the summer of 2020. In February, Ticketmaster notified me that the show had been canceled because of COVID-19. Ticketmaster had shut down phone and email support. The only mechanism I had to contact them was Twitter and they were inconsistent in responding. Eventually, a representative informed me...
The problem Once or twice a month I leave the stove on after fixing breakfast. Most of the time I realize that I have left the stove on but it may be an hour or two after breakfast. I worry about what might happen as a result of this forgetfulness. I would suspect that this problem is not limited to Baby Boomers and other seniors. However, I would think that the older you get the more likely it is to be a problem. It didn't become a problem for me until the last couple of years. Background...
Cornelia Spiegel asks for and receives a refund for a coat from Saks.com. Then the company charges her for it again. Can she get her money back? Q: I bought a coat from Saks.com last fall. I returned the item, Saks.com confirmed the return and issued a refund to my credit card in late December. But Saks.com then recharged me $959 about a week later for the same item. I have not ordered from Saks.com since the October return and don't know what the new charge is for. I have tried to resolve this...
When Anita Alexander's tour operator cancels her trip to Spain and Morocco, she wants a refund. But the company wants her to accept a credit. Who's right? A group of friends and I booked a tour to Spain and Morocco through Tripmasters, a tour operator, in 2019. Our flights were on Delta Air Lines In March 2020, Delta rescheduled our return flights to Minneapolis because of COVID-19. This revised itinerary stopped in Boston with no return flight to Minneapolis. Delta issued a travel waiver...
ACROSS 1. Sweeney Todd's weapon 6. It's in the hole? 9. Plural of #6 Across 13. Soft palate dangler 14. Each one for himself? 15. Red Cross supply 16. Short skirts 17. Flightless bird 18. Wavelike patterned silk 19. *Philip Banks' wife 21. *Dre Johnson's wife on "Black-ish" and occasional site around rain storm 23. 31st of the month, e.g. 24. E-mailed 25. Digital audio workstation 28. Essence of idea 30. Mouth infection 35. Fusses 37. Burden or load 39. Official language of Lesotho 40. Choose po...
Oct. 27: 8:55 p.m: Suspicious Subject - 88400 block, Gemstone Rd. A male associated with a black Nissan Sentra was seen parked at the bottom of a nearby access road. Caller believed he was possibly casing the area. Oct. 29: 1:19 a.m: Vehicle in Water - 41100 blk, Deerhorn Rd. A Ford 250 was accidentally partially submerged in the river near the boat ramp. The owner was able to obtain a tow. Oct. 30: 5:26 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - Millican Rd. & Camp Creek Rd. Caller advised that a resident in the area has been standing in front of vehicles...
Aug. 30: 19:42: 37000 block, Camp Creek Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, Refusal. 13:35: 800 blk, S. C St. Medical, General. Disregarded. 14:51: McK. Hwy. Milepost 42. Medical, General. Disregarded. 18:11: 429000 blk, McK. Hwy. Lift Assist. Lifting assistance provided. 18:39: 45000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Aug. 31: 11:53: 41000 blk, Madrone Street Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 12:47: 44000 blk, McK. Hwy. Spc. 5 Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 16:44: 37000...
Sept. 2: 18:57: Motor Vehicle Accident – 56000 block, McK. Hwy. No injuries, not blocking. Sept. 3: 10:33: Medical – 52000 blk, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. Sept. 4: 06:54: Deceased Subject – 51000 blk, McK. Hwy. Female, Not Conscious, Not Breathing. 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.m....
