Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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The Holiday Farm Fire 2020 drastically changed the environment throughout the McKenzie corridor, clear to all who live and travel through the watershed. The blackened and burnt landscape, still in early phases of cleanup and restoration, is remarkable to say the least and too many, heartbreaking. But restoration is being accomplished, both naturally and with community efforts. The McKenzie is greening up!! Pioneer understory plants have emerged to the surprise and joy of all, native flowers are blooming and many canopy species are proving...
in Blue River was a huge success and the Blue River Bottle Boys would like to thank all those who joined the brigade to help our cause. In conjunction with the OBRC (Bottle Drop, ) we collected Blue Bags to deposit during Earth Week in order to receive an extra 20% on the redemption value. In addition to those extra funds, we will get a cash award for the prize winning video we submitted. The McKenzie Community Development Corporation made it possible for the husband and wife team of Alice Bonasio and Tom Atkinson to create the prize winning...
Look at our beautiful school and the heart of our community. We are all so grateful it survived the fire. But now as we rebuild our community let’s not forget the needs of our school. For the past 2 years a committee of staff, community members and administration has worked hard to assess the needs of our facilities, and come up with a plan. Those needs and plan were presented to the board. Our school bond for $15,215,000 is coming up for a vote in the May election and I am voting yes because I believe it’s what our community, students and upc...
We write to inform you of our community celebration on Earth Day, this Thursday, April 22, at 11 am in Blue River. The celebration will focus on the benefits of the Oregon Bottle Bill adopted some years ago by a very forward-thinking legislature and governor. Ours is one of only a handful of states requiring a deposit be paid on most beverage containers, the intent being it would be an incentive to keep containers from littering our landscape, polluting our waterways or ending up in the landfill. Truly a wonderful gift to Mother Earth and a...
cover and rebuild. The Coronavirus made for a challenging river season for not only our rafting business but for all of the businesses along the McKenzie River. Making it worse, the Holiday Farm Fire started on Labor Day and ravaged much of our beautiful river valley. Our season came to an immediate and dramatic close. Far worse than what we lost as a business is what the residents lost … everything. They had very little time to evacuate their homes, some leaving with only the clothes on their backs. The high winds fueled the flames that r...
NOAA will soon release a much-anticipated update of U.S. climate data for placing recent weather conditions—such as heat waves and flooding rain—into historical context. Climatologists from NOAA NCEI are currently compiling and reviewing 30 years of weather and climate data from across the U.S. to serve as the nation’s updated climate “normals” for the next 10 years. This new 30-year dataset will span from 1991 to 2020 and is scheduled for release in May 2021. Traditionally, scientists define climate normals as three-decade averages of climat...
“Congratulations! We do hope that many of us older folk won’t lose the comfort of the printed page, held in the usual manner between a late morning cup of coffee and a cozy fire. The internet provides many things to many people, but is as cold as a heartless mistress (that was Glenn Campbell’s prose - not mine) .“ “Your NewsArk project sounds like a great one. I’m old fashioned and still write letters and still like to read newspapers. But I know there will be many who will appreciate the updated versions of all those issues. Good luck.” Note...
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How do you get your news? By reading this we know you’re among the 1,800 people who keep up with what’s happening in the McKenzie River area by picking up a copy of River Reflections. For many years that’s been the best way to gain access to information about local events, crime, accomplishments, or the controversies that are all part of small town living. But times are changing. You could also be among the 150 plus people who don’t handle newsprint, but get a digital copy of the paper emailed to them every week. We’ve offered that option fo...
August 29, 2013...
With Post purchase, Bezos has chance to remake newspaper model By Gene Policinski Jeff Bezos made it clear in founding Amazon.com that he can compete in the marketplace. We’ll just have to wait and see if he can, and will, do the same thing in the marketplace of ideas — that equally combative zone protected and preserved by the First Amendment’s provision for a free press. The historic sale of The Washington Post to Bezos, announced Aug. 5, is most noteworthy in that First Amendment sense, even beyond the already-rising sea of spe...
If a visitor asked you to name the 10 top "must see" attractions in the McKenzie River area, how would you respond? Some that come to mind include the Dee Wright Observatory, Clear Lake, Proxy Falls, the Goodpasture Covered Bridge, the lava fields, Sahalie Falls, Belknap's Hidden Garden, the Delta Old Growth Grove, Terwilliger Hot Springs, the McKenzie River Trail, Koosah Falls, Marten Rapids, or the U.S Cavalry and American Indian Museum. What would you add to the list and what would be your "Top Ten?"...
