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Family tree LEABURG: “Buy a tree and support your school” has been the phrase at Spring Creek Holly Farm since 2010. It continues in 2014 during the fifth year of the Give Back To Schools program. The idea is simple, when buying a Christmas tree mention your school’s name. Spring Creek Holly Farm will then donate 50% of the retail price of that tree to the school. Over the last four years the program has raised over $18,000 for area schools. Of that amount, over $2,000 was generated for both Walterville School and McKenzie Schools. Farm manag...
RAINBOW: The Christmas lights and wreath will not be placed on the Belknap Bridge this year due to additional electrical/construction requirements. With Belknap Bridge remodel construction scheduled for the summer of 2015, future opportunities for lighting the bridge may be possible. However, the annual Upper McKenzie Christmas Potluck is still scheduled for Saturday, December 6th, at the Upper McKenzie Community Center on McKenzie River Drive at 5 p.m. There is no charge for the dinner, it is appreciated if people could bring a potluck dish...
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Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective December 3 - 9, 2014 Select insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflectionsnews...
Leaburg Dam LEABURG: Crews from Knight Construction and Wildish Construction are nearing completion of a project that will allow workers to inspect roll gates on the Leaburg Dam without having to drain the lake. Passers-by may have noticed concrete panels Wildish has been assembling in the parking lot. When the Knight crew lowers them into slotted beams along the face of the dam they will create sort of a “dam within a dam,” according to Eugene Water & Electric Board senior civil engineer Steve Celeste. “That will allow us to test the gate...
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Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective October 29 - November 4, 2014 Insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflectionsne...
Forest stream BLUE RIVER: A long term research program at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest will continue for another six years, thanks to a $6.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LETR) is focused on understanding ecological phenomena that occur over a long time span. More than two dozen sites around the country are part of the program. The Andrews LETR project is designed to understand how climate and land use changes interact to affect forest and stream ecosystems. It will...
Inside chopper MIDDLE SISTER: Benjamin Newkirk, a 39-year-old climber from Bend, was found deceased late Sunday morning after a multi-day search that was complicated by extreme weather. Newkirk was climbing the 10,047 foot Middle Sister with another climber when he fell off the west side of the south-east ridge of the mountain on Wednesday, November 12th, at approximately 10 p.m. On Thursday, searchers were able to hike in seven miles from the Obsidian Trailhead but had to turn back around 2 p.m. when they were at the 6,200 foot level due to he...
Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective October 29 - November 4, 2014 Select insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflec...
Bridge reconstruction map RAINBOW: Local drivers will need to change their normal routes next year due to restoration work scheduled for the Belknap Covered Bridåçge. Theå Lane County Board of Commissioners was scheduled to approve a work schedule this week calling for preservation work to occur from April through September of 2015. According to Lane County Public Works, the proposed closure is in the public interest so that the bridge rehabilitation work can be done safely and more efficiently. Detoured traffic will need to...
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Search & Rescue team MIDDLE SISTER: Benjamin Newkirk, the 39-year-old climber from Bend, Oregon, was found deceased late this morning (11/16) after a multi-day search that was complicated by extreme weather. Newkirk was climbing the Middle Sister with another climber when he fell off the west side of the south-east ridge of the mountain on Wednesday, November 12th, at approximately 10:00 pm. The search team today included 15 volunteers total from Eugene Mountain Rescue and Corvallis Mountain Rescue, two Incident Command staff in Bend assisting...
THE HISTORIC MCKENZIE PASS HIGHWAY CLOSES FOR THE SEASON McKENZIE BRIDGE - With 6 inches of snow already accumulated on McKenzie Pass Highway and another 8-10 inches expected through Friday, the Oregon Department of Transportation will close Oregon 242 for the season as of 9 a.m. today. Built in the mid-1930s, the highway became a seasonal scenic highway in the 1960s with the completion of the Clear Lake-Belknap Springs section of OR 126. Even during its tenure as the main route between the southern Willamette Valley and central Oregon, the...
Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective October 29 - November 4, 2014 Select insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflec...
EWEB logo Utilities warn customers about latest scam The Eugene Water & Electric Board is warning customers to be wary of a new type of phone scam that is targeting utility customers throughout the Northwest. In this latest scam, thieves are using sophisticated deceptive tactics that make it appear to Caller ID systems that the scam call is coming from the utility, when it is not. If customers receive such a call during normal business hours, hang up and instead call EWEB at 541-685-7000 and follow the prompts to Customer Service. EWEB does...
McKenzie River Golf Course LANE COUNTY HEARINGS OFFICIAL Thursday, November 13, 9:30 a.m., Customer Service Center (CSC), 3050 N. Delta Hwy., Eugene OR Agenda: 1. 509-PA13-05697: An appeal of a Planning Director denial of a Preliminary Subdivision. The applicant proposes to divide a 50+ acre parcel into 27 lots of a minimum 2.0 acres each in size, per LC 13.050 & LC 16.290(6). Subject Property: Map 17-15-17-30, tax lot 600\Applicant: Rod & Sara Omlid Owner: McKenzie River Golf Cource Inc. Agent: Bill Kloos Staff: Rafael Sebba Hearings...
Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective October 29 - November 4, 2014 Select insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflec...
Culvert SALEM: Officials are saying taxpayers and native fish will both benefit under a new culvert repair pilot program agreed upon by the Oregon departments of Transportation and Fish and Wildlife, and recently approved by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The three-year pilot program will make it easier for ODOT to make short-term repairs to culverts within its highway system. In return for including site-specific improvements in fish passage at each site, ODOT will receive a temporary reprieve from the state’s fish passage r...
Green Island GREEN ISLAND: A million dollar project to recreate the way water used to flow has been underway this summer on the lower McKenzie River. The site formerly was home to gravel pits. Crews from Wildish Construction Company moved over 110,000 cubic yards of gravel as they worked to recreate habitat for fish as part of the Coburg Aggregate Reclamation Project. Until the McKenzie River Trust purchased this 56-acre parcel in 2010, the site was mined for sand and gravel. The mining left behind steep gravel pits with few places for native...
Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective October 29 - November 4, 2014 Select insert Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflec...
Walterville Market, 39317 McKenzie Hwy., Walterville Shopping Center 541-726-6355/541-746-1875 Featured Items - Ad Prices Effective August 27 - September 2, 2014 Coupon Book Member United Grocers, Inc. Items & prices subject to stock on hand. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available in all stores. The full, 8-page advertising tabloid is inserted in the McKenzie River Reflections newspaper every week - available on news stands or by subscription at: http://mckenzieriverreflecti...
FINN ROCK: “I’ve been trying to emphasize the idea of public relations and relationship building,” was the way Jim Thomas explained his work as the new McKenzie Schools superintendent. Speaking at last week’s meeting of the school board, he encouraged the district to again work on developing a strategic plan. Referring to past experiences with similar exercises, Thomas said, “By the time you’re done with it the local community is involved and it becomes like a living document. I’d like to throw it out just to get your input.” Board member Al...
Meeting RAINBOW: People had a chance to place some priorities on places that matter to them last Wednesday night. They did it by marking up maps to show which U.S. Forest Service roads they use and what sort of special places they feel are along those routes. “You should mark the areas that you appreciate - maybe because you work up there,” explained Matt Peterson, assistant recreation officer for the Willamette Forest. Using comment sheets linked to the marked up maps, people were also encouraged to list some of their thoughts on why tho...
Crews respond to outages caused by wind storm Eugene Water & Electric Board crews are responding to multiple outages in Eugene and the McKenzie River Valley caused by high wind gusts on Saturday. Most of the outages are reported in the Thurston, Hayden Bridge and Walterville areas, although smaller outages are being reported throughout the utility’s service area. There is no current estimate of how many customers are out of power. High winds began after 11 a.m. Saturday morning and have continued through early afternoon. Customers are urged t...
