Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Honoring the important traditions of “our grandmas, grandpaws, aunties, and uncles” was all called to mind as people gathered in Blue River last Sunday. “The things of the traditional world when we recall those days,” added Dietz Peters, “are especially important so when our kids get older, they can pass it on to their kids and grandkids.” Deitz, himself an elder of the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde, was speaking to a group of about three dozen people interested in restoring s...
Only 38% of homes have been rebuilt four years after a destructive wildfire, while property values and the cost of rebuilding have risen 40%. In addition to the 517 lost homes, the number of people living along a 60-mile stretch of Hwy. 126 from McKenzie Bridge to Springfield has also dropped off. “Since the Holiday Farm Fire, the McKenzie River Ranger District has had difficulty filling vacant positions. The reason most often heard from prospective applicants when they decline a position is t...
In a significant election for Oregon House District 12 and Lane County governance, voters turned out to resolve races and measures that highlight the area’s evolving political landscape. From redistricting reform to charter amendments and recall efforts, Lane County residents faced choices reflecting regional and state concerns around transparency, governance, and community values. The state representative race and various ballot measures brought two distinct visions for the area’s future to...
Some of the ideas floated at a joint Lane County Parks and Oregon State Marine Board community meeting are starting to take shape at the Forest Glen Boat Landing in Blue River. Last week, the Parks Department announced that people dropping by to answer nature's call or get ready to launch their drift boat no longer had to hold it, thanks to $45,000 in improvements, including installing new modular vault toilets funded by Parks funds and a FEMA grant. Officials say the next phase of improvements...
When the Astoria City Council got the results of a forest inventory in the Bear Creek Watershed about a decade ago, councilors learned the city was in possession of far more valuable trees, and timber, than they had realized. In light of the news, some members of the council in northwest Oregon wanted to boost timber harvests and revenue for city services and infrastructure. The 3,700-acres of forests that protect the city’s main drinking water source have been logged semi-regularly for decades,...
Months ago, Chani Demello, an energetic and optimistic McKenzie River resident, proposed an idea for a way to make the “dark days of the cooler months” a bit brighter: Invite everyone to Vida McKenzie Community Center to view a full-length independent film or a number of “independent shorts” and then discuss the film(s) afterward. I was skeptical until I started previewing the films. The production quality of the works was fabulous, and the content was both creative and accessible. The first of the “Films with Friends” series took place on Su...
Oregon had few surprises in the general election results that changed the political landscape very little. Tracking closely with similar kinds of results in Washington state, the light blue Beaver state stuck with its usual voting patterns, careful to rarely edge over into landslides. In most cases, Portland remained deep blue and most of the eastern counties stayed deep red. Taken as a whole, Oregon remained generally blue, even as much of the country was awash in red-tinged results. The state...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity 2024 Fall Sports season has concluded. There are no contests scheduled this week. The McKenzie School District will hold its annual Fall Sports/Academics Awards Banquet on Tuesday, November 12, at 5:30 pm in the High School cafeteria. Both High School and Middle School academic and athletic achievements will be honored. Will Meister Finishes 52nd At State Will Meister was McKenzie’s lone qualifier to the OSAA 2A/1A State Cross Country Championships held at Lane Community College l...
There were times, during Hollywood’s golden age, when Clark Gable simply couldn’t be found anywhere. Studio executives would search frantically for the top-shelf star, needing to talk to him about a project and facing a tight deadline. He’d be gone. In fact, he’d be fly-fishing on the Rogue River in Oregon, while staying in a small inn that today is the oldest continually operating hotel in the entire Pacific Northwest: The Wolf Creek Tavern. Clark wasn’t the only Hollywood bigshot in on the se...
Snipping some cuttings from the garden this time of year 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...
Nov. 2: 8:57 a.m: Disturbance, Dispute - 47300 blk, McK. Hwy. A deputy and OSP trooper responded to a dispute between a male and female in the area. They contacted the involved, which advised they were doing a livestream on YouTube together and got carried away. 11:33 a.m: Disturbance, Dispute - 92200 blk, Murdoch St. Deputies responded to a dispute at a residence in the area. no crime was committed and the involved separated for the night. 2:08 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - La Lone Rd. & Tree Farm Rd. Trespassers observed in the area much earli...
Nov. 6: 08:31: Driving Under the Influence, Controlled Substance – Hwy. 126 E, Milepost 1. Troopers were dispatched to multiple driving complaints involving a gold Ford Expedition, Troopers located the Ford and conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle for observed violations. The operator displayed indications of impairment and consented to Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. Troopers arrested the operator for DUII-CS and transported the operator to the Springfield Municipal Jail. The operator provided two breath samples, which yielded a BAC o...
Nov. 1: 10:33: Camp Creek Rd./Millican Rd. Brush Fire. Authorized Burn. 17:58: 47900 block, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Nov. 2: 10:57: 87000 blk, Cedar Flat Rd. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Nov. 3: 8:31: Cedar Flat Rd./McK. Hwy. Motor Vehicle Accident. Non-Injury. Provide Traffic Control, Transferred scene to ODOT. 12:59: 88000 blk, Periwinkle Dr. Medical, Trauma. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 14:10: 7900 blk, Thurston Rd. Medical, General. Disregarded On Scene. 14:40: McK....
Nov. 5: 17:16: Medical – 49000 block, McK. Hwy. Female, Conscious, Breathing. Nov. 7: 18:09: Forest Fire – 90000 blk, Huckleberry Ln. Fire appears to be 1.5 to 2 acres, spreading downhill. Caller thinks this was started with woodcutting, saw fresh sawdust nearby. The Upper McK. Fire District’s board of directors will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 18th, at the Blue River Fire Station 2, 51730 Echo St. in Blue River....
I am wondering if this is fair? I work and my employment benefits include life insurance. My husband came to watch me sign him as beneficiary. He then took out family insurance through his bank and showed me a page of the insurance form stating if he dies I am his beneficiary. Later I heard him on the phone with his daughter telling her she and her brother were his beneficiaries. They are grown and married, with well-paying jobs. Is this fair? When I asked him about this, he said it was not...
Kathleen Sullivan has $4,000 in fraudulent charges on her Citi Costco Visa. Why won't Citibank help her? I've had 20 fraudulent charges on my Citibank account, and I need your help getting them removed. All of the charges happened six months ago and they were all for an online travel agency called Agoda. I immediately notified Citi as well as Agoda. Citi issued me a new card, but the fraudulent charges continued. It took four new cards before the charges stopped. The charges were all for hotels...
When Joel Revill's ticket purchase on Iberia doesn't go through, a representative advises him to dispute the purchase on his credit card. But now he doesn't have a valid ticket. What should he do? I purchased a ticket from Boston to Madrid on Iberia Airlines through its website but didn't receive confirmation. When I called Iberia, an agent told me he couldn't see the purchase and advised me to dispute the charge with my credit card company, which I did a week later. On the same day, I received...
ACROSS 1. QA's focus, pl. 5. "Swan Lake" steps 8. Evite request, acr. 12. Long stories 14. Final, abbr. 15. Opposite of neo- 16. Synagogue scroll 17. Poseidon's domain 18. One-eighty 19. *Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp 21. *Vivian Ward and Erin Brockovich 23. Kum Ba follower 24. Cry out loud 25. Stolen, slangily 28. Greek salad cheese 30. Popular clubs of the 1970s 35. Chimpanzees, e.g. 37. Porcine fat 39. Great divide 40. Cat o'how many tails? 41. Podium, pl. 43. Dead against 44. Work the...
