Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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LEABURG: Two candidates - Michelle Emmons and Darin Harbick - are vying to represent the 68,000 residents of Oregon’s House District 12. Each had an opportunity to outline their background and plans for governing during a McKenzie River Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event last Thursday at Ike’s Pizza. An Oakridge resident, Emmons said she’s been involved in outdoor recreation and environmental stewardship for the last 40 years. Part of her resume includes working on a national level for the outd...
An incoming storm system means crews will close the west side of the Old McKenzie Pass, OR 242, this coming Friday, Oct. 25. Crews will close the gates on the west side of the pass near the junction with OR 126 and also the gates near the summit at Dee Wright Observatory on Friday morning. Gates on the east side are expected to stay open a bit longer, with the latest possible closing date scheduled for Nov. 7. Weather on each side of the pass varies, and it's not uncommon to close or open each...
On the morning of October 25th, the Springfield Police Department received information from a Mental Health assistance hotline regarding a reportedly active threat to Thurston High School. SPD responded, began immediately investigating the threat, and shared this information with the Springfield School District. As SPD could not immediately verify the credibility of the threat, the decision was made to place Thurston High School in a lockdown status, while officers remained on site. A short time later, out of of caution and after discussion...
FINN ROCK: “The spill drill is helpful to keep our partnerships working well so that we’ll be ready in the case of a real incident,” according to Eugene Water & Electric Board Water Resources Supervisor Susan Fricke. The annual exercise brought together close to 50 members of the McKenzie Watershed Emergency Response System (MWERS) last Wednesday. They came from more than a dozen local, state, and federal agencies participated, including McKenzie and Upper McKenzie fire departments, Eugen...
BLUE RIVER: There was good news this week for revitalization efforts, thanks to a $750,000 grant awarded by the Oregon State Parks Department. This funding was earmarked for the recreation site’s much-anticipated reconstruction, which has been a long-standing community goal. Josh Cloke and Tony Casad, who developed the grant proposal, said Lori Roach of Studio 6 Consulting and the National Park Service provided invaluable assistance. In addition to the major grant from Oregon State Parks, B...
The Cascade Homeschool Club is hosting a 4-week science unit at the Vida McKenzie Community Center and a small science fair with a raffle for the VMCC community social at 3 pm. on November 3rd. Prizes include family passes to the Eugene Science Center, the Raptor Center, and more. The raffle will be held just before 5 p.m., although you don’t have to be present to win. To purchase tickets ($1/each) you can pay at the fair or email [email protected]. Entries from outside the club a...
BLUE RIVER: The public is invited to the ribbon-cutting of the new McKenzie River Clinic at noon on October 25th. The new building replaces the original one that was lost in the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire. Established as Oregon’s first rural health clinic around 1977, the McKenzie River Clinic is the only medical clinic in the McKenzie River Valley. It was spearheaded by local residents who wanted to address the lack of primary healthcare services in their isolated area. Following the Holiday F...
Oregonians have become increasingly dissatisfied with our systems of representation at the state and local level and are interested in ways to restructure our elections to better reflect their interests, according to surveys by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center. These sentiments would appear to set the stage for their approval of Measure 117, which would establish systems of ranked choice voting for federal, state and local elections that promise more choices for voters and fewer obstacles fo...
No man-made machine on Earth can better capture planet-warming carbon dioxide from our atmosphere than a healthy forest. And the most effective carbon-storing forests in the world are the wet, dense, giant conifer forests of the Northwest. The forests in Oregon’s Coast Range absorb and store more carbon per acre than almost any other forests in the world – including the Amazon Rainforest. For more than a century, these forests have been heavily logged, supporting a vast timber industry wor...
The Lazy Days Mobile Home and RV Park, rebuilt by Homes for Good after the Holiday Farm Fire, has twenty, two-bedroom modular homes available as replacement housing for fire survivors. Priority is given to people living at Lazy Days at the time of the fire, followed by other people who lost their homes. Applicants should be at no more than 80% of the Area Median Income (or 120% for former Lazy Days residents). For example, 80% AMI means: Two people = $57,050 annual income. Four people = $71,300...
Oregon was the first state in the U.S. to pass a law capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and the first to create the prototype of a state-mandated carbon exchange. In 1997, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 3283, requiring all newly built energy facilities to keep their carbon dioxide emissions 17% below the cleanest power plant in the country. If unable to reach that target, the companies could pay to offset their emissions by investing in activities that would absorb...
Our community deserves a representative who truly embodies the values of hard work, responsibility, and patriotism—someone who puts the needs of families and taxpayers first. That’s why Michelle Emmons is the clear choice for McKenzie voters. Michelle doesn’t just talk about values; she lives them. As a proven leader with a record of bringing people together, she knows how to get things done without compromising on what matters most—our families, our schools, and our future. On the other hand, Darin Harbick’s time on the McKenzie School Bo...
Almost everyone understands why friends and relatives of the parties facing a jury trial are not allowed to be jurors for that case. The full list of rules that prohibit tainting a jury verdict with conflicts of interests is comprehensive and designed to promote public confidence in the justice system. The rules are strict; an interest in just one of the questions to be decided by a jury requires a Judge to disqualify the ‘interested” person from serving on a jury. By parity of purpose and parity of reasoning we should expect a local government...
The League of Women Voters of Lane County (LWVLC) wants to help you prepare for the general election on November 5, 2024. We are a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights. The League empowers voters and defends democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels. The League of Women Voters produces a digital voting guide called VOTE411 found at http://Vote411.org. “Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund”. By...
If there is an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest active land dispute, it has to belong to the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indians in central Oregon. It was no simple neighborhood kerfuffle, either. The amount of land in dispute was roughly 80,000 acres — close to 10 percent of the whole Warm Springs Indian Reservation. And the dispute burned hot for 101 years. But maybe it wouldn’t count for the record, as the land was only in dispute for the first 16 of tho...
Yes, you are correct that the fig leaves will eventually rot and the nutrients from them will make their way into the soil. You should monitor the health of your fig tree throughout the year and look for any disease and/or insect issues. If you see fungal spotting on leaves then you should rake up the leaves and dispose of them such as in your yard waste container. Fungal spores from infected leaves can remain over winter, and when new leaves come out in the spring, infect the leaves once more....
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Volleyball team hosts Triangle Lake on Tuesday, October 22, with match time set for 6:00 pm. The Eagle team hosts Siletz Valley on Thursday, October 24, and the first set is scheduled for 5:30 pm. The McKenzie Athletic Department will be honoring senior volleyball players on Thursday. The McKenzie Varsity Cross Country teams travel to Stewart Park at Roseburg on Wednesday, October 23, to compete in the Umpqua Invite. The Varsity Girls 5,000 meters race starts at 12:00 pm and the...
Oct. 10: 9:49 a.m: Suspicious Vehicle - McGowan Creek Rd. Mp. 7. A deputy responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area, and determined it was a contractor working for an area timber company. 8:40 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - 38000 blk, Camp Creek Rd. Deputies responded to a report of police vehicles and a shooting. No area police agencies had matching calls. Investigation found evidence of a deer being poached at the location where shots were heard. 9:59 p.m: Suspicious Conditions – Hwy. 242 & Mp. 59 to 60. Suspicious object on t...
Oct. 17: 16:03: Crash, Non-Injury – Hwy. 242, Milepost 69. A Tesla was westbound when it lost traction due to slushy conditions. The vehicle left the paved portion of the roadway before striking an ODOT post. Damage to the vehicle exceeded $2,500. Damage to the state property was limited to the singular post, which was only displaced slightly. There were no injuries. The Tesla was pulled out of the ditch and driven from the scene. Involved: 86-year-old male from Eugene....
Oct. 14: 7:59: 36000 block, Camp Creek Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 12:20: 44600 blk, McK. Hwy. Motor Vehicle Accident. Patient Assessed, 2 Transported, Transferred Scene to OSP. Oct. 15: 16:43: Marcola Rd./Old Mohawk Rd. MVA. Cancelled En Route by MVRFD. 20:35: 43000 blk, Deerhorn Rd. Medical, Heart. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 22:09: 38000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Oct. 16: 13:37: 37000 blk, Upper Camp Creek Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 17:11:...
Oct. 17: Motor Vehicle Accident, Unknown Injury - Terwilliger Hot Springs. Single vehicle flipped with air bags deployed. 3 individuals outside of vehicle said they were okay. Oct. 18: 15:00: Fire Alarm – 51000 block, Blue River Dr. Smoke alarm. Oct. 19: 05:58: Medical – 50000 blk, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. Oct. 20: 22:29: Medical – 55000 blk, McK. River Dr. iPhone crash detection, no answer on callback....
My boyfriend and I have been living together for 13 years. My mother-in-law--well, she's like my mother-in-law--is manipulative, needy, mean, stingy, selfish, overbearing, and jealous. Let's see, how many more adjectives can I think of? You name it, she's it. She thinks her only son, my boyfriend, is supposed to be with her 24/7. She calls him constantly, needing something fixed. He's over there two or three times a day trying to please her, but if you give her an inch, she wants a mile. She...
When Ticketmaster sells Nathaniel Meyer his Grateful Dead tickets, he believes he can resell them. But he can't. Is he stuck with them? Ticketmaster sold me tickets to Dead & Company: Dead Forever - Live at Sphere that did not indicate transfer or resale restrictions before sale while advertising another category of tickets for the same event that clearly stated that those tickets were nontransferable. The comparison of the two ticket categories side by side implied that the tickets I purchased...
When Frontier Airlines fails to send Marcus Mann a confirmation for his airline ticket, he tries to find out what went wrong. After losing $583, he's not getting any closer to the truth. Q: I recently booked a roundtrip flight from Dallas to Denver on Frontier Airlines. On the same day, Frontier charged my wife's credit card $583. I never received a confirmation email. Frontier does not have a way to call anyone—there's no customer service phone number—so I emailed the airline. The next day, I r...
