Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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The McKenzie Community Partners are sponsoring the McKenzie Holiday Lights event. Organizers say they’d love to see even more lights up this year than last, especially on homes and properties that can be seen from the road. People are asked to install their lighted decorations by December 1st and take them down on New Year’s Day. Last year featured the first large-lit display - Santa Riding a Salmon at the McKenzie River Discovery Center at Leaburg Lake. Two more have been added this year - a S...
Christmas tree permits are available for the Willamette National Forest and can be purchased through December 31st. They're available at several local vendors. Rather than going to a ranger station, people are also encouraged to purchase Christmas tree permits online at Recreation.gov. The Forest Service decided to move Christmas tree permit sales to Recreation.gov as an added convenience for visitors, as well as provide an alternative to in-person transactions at forest offices. Visit...
EUGENE: Imagine if heavy snowfall and freezing rain hit the area this winter. Imagine damaged trees, road closures, and widespread power outages. What would you do? The Eugene Water & Electric Board's electric division and emergency management staff imagined that exact scenario last week during a mock winter storm power outage drill that is conducted every year. More than 60 staff members participated in the drill that simulated a five-day storm scenario where power was lost to over 18,000...
Faster and more widespread testing for chronic wasting disease in deer is now possible due to a new partnership between the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University's Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Chronic wasting disease is spread through animals' waste and saliva, and infected animals can be contagious for months or years before showing symptoms. It is incurable and affects members of the Cervidae family: deer,...
The U.S. Forest Service will recognize the service of America’s veterans by waiving standard amenity fees for all visitors to national forest and grassland day-use areas on Veterans Day, November 11th. “Many veterans spend time with their families and connect with nature while hiking, hunting, boating, and exploring the range of outdoor recreation opportunities national forests and grasslands have to offer,” said Tracy Calizon, regional assistant director of recreation for the U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest. Officials say making V...
Oct. 30 3:13 p.m: Theft - 51700 blk, Blue River Dr. Honda generator stolen from property. No suspect info. 5:39 p.m: Theft - 39400 blk, Mohawk Loop Rd. Theft of firewood. Oct. 31: 7:39 p.m: Disturbance, Dispute - 39400 block, Mohawk Loop Rd. Landlord tenant dispute. 8:20 p.m: Assist Fire Dept. - 38900 blk, Wendling Rd. Nov. 1: 12:46 p.m: Repossessed Vehicle - 88700 blk, Easy Ln. 2:39 p.m: Menacing - Aufderheide Dr. & McK. Hwy. Caller heard shots fired while walking. Several campers in the area believe they are shooting at trees. 6:36 p.m:...
Oct. 31: 4:40: 43000 block, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 14:17: 45000 blk, N. Gate Creek Rd. Medical, General. Lift Assist. Nov. 1: 4:42: 8900 blk, Thurston Rd. Medical, General. Disregarded. 10:24: McK. Hwy./Milepost 38. Motor Vehicle Accident – Non-Injury/Non-Blocking. 1:58: 7000 blk, Thurston Rd. Medical, General. Disregarded. Nov. 3: 16:12: 89000 blk, Sky High Rd. Smoke investigation. Investigated Backyard Burn. Nov. 4: 22:49: 35000 blk, Camp Creek Rd. Motor Vehicle Accident. Non-Injury, Non-blocking. Nov. 5...
Nov. 1: 10:23: Motor Vehicle Accident – McK. Hwy./Milepost 38. 2 vehicles, not blocking - one person out of vehicle. Nov. 2: 10:38: Medical – 51000 block, Blue River Dr. Male, Conscious, Breathing. 10:38: Medical – 54000 blk, McK. River Dr. Female, Conscious, Breathing. Nov. 4: 11:33: Medical – 51000 blk, Blue River Dr. Male, Conscious, Breathing. The Upper McK. Fire District board of directors will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m on Wednesday, November 16th, at the McK. Fire Station, 56578 McK. Hwy. in McKenzie Bridge....
Part 1 - The opium smuggler's foster son It may be true that the movement of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world can seed a tornado on the other. But whether that's literally true or not, it certainly is figuratively true, and nowhere is it better demonstrated than in the case of 1890s businessman and opium smuggler William Dunbar of Portland, Oregon. If we could take Dunbar out of the stream of history before about 1890, we would derail events that led directly to Imperial Japan's...
Snipping some cuttings from the garden will produce your own private nursery of plants by spring. Whether you plant the results of your "snip and stick" project or give them away, propagating by cuttings can be a rewarding process. Although some sources of information can be intimidating, Neil Bell, a horticulturist for Oregon State University Extension Service, has good news. "I do lots of them at home," he said. "I don't use a greenhouse or even bottom heat. What that means is that the...
My mother-in-law is a hysterical, manipulative, two-faced woman who thinks she is the center of the universe. Her three children adore her and won't confront her even when she is wrong. My mother-in-law tops any story people relate with one of her own. She makes vague promises, then doesn't follow up. Not getting her way, she throws a crying fit so everyone feels sorry for her. My problem is she wants to displace me as the mother of my child. At my baby's first birthday party she had him in her...
When Budget charges Russ DeVries $450 for a pet cleaning fee on his rental, he has a problem paying: He doesn't have a dog. Can he get this charge removed? Budget charged me a $450 cleaning fee for a vehicle that had dog hair in the back seat. I only had the rental car for one day. I traveled from the airport to my meeting, to the hotel, and then back to the airport the following day. I never had an animal in the vehicle at any time. Can you help? Russ DeVries, Midlothian, Va. If you didn't...
Manuel Harris's microwave oven stops working. Fortunately, it's still under warranty. Unfortunately, Frigidaire won't honor the warranty. What can he do? bought a two-year warranty contract for my Frigidaire microwave oven from Electrolux Warranty Corporation in 2019 (Electrolux owns Frigidaire). Less than two years later, the oven ceased to function. I called Electrolux on the day it stopped working and obtained a claim number for the repair. A local authorized dealer came to my house a few...
ACROSS 1. Poet Angelou 5. "Eureka!" 8. *Thanksgiving season 12. Bug-eyed 13. "Tiger Beat" centerfold 14. New York's ____ Island 15. Simmering feeling 16. Combustible rock 17. Short for Charlotte 18. *Thanksgiving sauce source 20. Singer Redding 21. Old hat 22. Bar in Ireland 23. *Macy's tradition 26. Gets ready for publication 30. Dr. Cornelius of film, e.g. 31. What's good for the goose is good for the ____ 34. Paul Bunyan stories and such 35. Parallelogram or heptagon 37. Charged particle 38....
