Malin Awarded $48,000 Grant for Veterans Memorial
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Malin has been awarded a grant totaling $48,000 to develop a veterans memorial park from the Heritage and Community Programs of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
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U-Haul No. 32 Growth State for 2017: OREGON
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Oregon was the No. 32 Growth State for 2017, according to U-Haul data analyzing the past year’s U.S. migration trends. Year-over-year arrivals of one-way U-Haul truck rentals dropped by 1 percent while departures dropped by 1 percent from Oregon‘s 2016 numbers. Arriving trucks accounted for 49.9 percent of all one-way U-Haul traffic in Oregon, which was ranked No. 24 in growth for 2016 and No. 49 for 2015.
Read MoreUpdate: OR Agencies Assisting California Wildfires
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As firefighters slowly get the upper hand and weather improves somewhat in northern
California, two Oregon Strike Teams (Marion County and Jackson Josephine counties) are being demobilized today and will head back to their home stations over the next 24 hours.
More Oregon Strike Team demobilizations are in the planning stages if conditions continue to stabilize.
January 2018 Special Election Announcement
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SALEM, OR — The Elections Division of the Secretary of State’s office has reviewed the signatures for Referendum Petition #301 and today determined that there are enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. Of the 84,367 signatures submitted, 70,320 or 85.43% were deemed valid which exceeds the required number of 58,789.
Pursuant to Senate Bill 229 that was passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor this year, a Special Election will be held on January 23, 2018 to consider this referendum. This will be the only question that will appear on the ballot and will be numbered Measure 101.
Read MoreA referendum will be held in January on new health care tax
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A special election will be held to determine the fate of a multimillion-dollar health care tax that was approved by the Legislature this year.
The Oregon Secretary of State’s office said Monday there were enough valid signatures to qualify Referendum 301 for a special election to be held Jan. 23, 2018. Election officials say of the 84,367 signatures submitted 70,320 were deemed valid. The required number of signatures to qualify for a ballot measure is just under 59,000.
Read MoreODOT Warns of Deer Migration
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BEND – At the center of the state, Bend is more or less ground zero for collisions with deer during fall migration. So, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is advising motorists to be on the lookout for migrating mule deer on US97 and other Oregon highways
“Deer are embarking on their fall migration from the eastern slopes of the Cascades to their winter grounds near Fort Rock and Christmas Valley”, said Cidney Bowman, wildlife biologist for ODOT. “Highway 97 lies directly in their path so motorists need to be alert for deer on or near the highway”.
Read More'Night at the Cemetery' Program Slated
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The 11th annual “Night at the Cemetery” will be presented by the Klamath County Museum Oct. 20 at Bonanza Memorial Park.
“We’re taking this popular program on the road this year to Bonanza, where there is a lot of interesting history to explore,” said museum manager Todd Kepple. “The town of Bonanza dates back almost as far back as Linkville, so there are a number of pioneer stories to be told.”
Tickets for the event are $10, and must be purchased in advance at the museum, 1451 Main St. No tickets will be available at the event.
Read MoreGovernor Brown Renews Call for Gun Violence Prevention
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(Portland, OR) – Governor Kate Brown today announced that she is reaffirming her commitment to pursue gun violence prevention measures. In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, the largest mass shooting in United States history, and the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, Governor Brown will be working with Oregon lawmakers to develop legislation for the 2018 legislative session that will keep guns out of the wrong hands and help protect Oregonians from gun violence.
Read MoreLIVE: Visiting the Klamath Falls Farmers' Market
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Harvest season is here at the Klamath Falls Farmers' Market, located on 9th Street in Downtown Klamath Falls. We are taking a lap around the market. Observing the bountiful goods from local growers, artisans and vendors.
Read MoreOregon and Washington to Jointly Call for Proposals to Operate Public Safety Broadband Network
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(Salem, OR/Olympia, WA) — The states of Oregon and Washington will jointly issue a request for proposals (RFP) to operate a high-speed, wireless broadband data network dedicated to public safety. The network will not replace existing public safety radio networks, but will be another tool to ensure that first responders can communicate in times of disasters that tend to overwhelm existing networks.
The states expect to release their RFP within two weeks and close it approximately five weeks later. There will then be a period of evaluation and possible selection of one or more vendors to advance to the next phase of the process.
LIVE: Arts on the Flyway (Vets Park)
/Today we tour Arts on the Flyway, Veterans Park Event location. Today’s event happens now through 5pm and includes activities in Vets Park, Favell Museum and the Klamath Art Gallery.
LIVE: Parties R Me
/LIVE - Visiting with Donna Lindsey at Parties R Me. You may remember Donna was a winner of This Week in Photos with the dandelion image. Today we are touring her shop and celebrating her 2 year anniversary which will be on October 10th.
Waterspout and Tornado Hit Oregon
/Oregon - The storm currently hitting Oregon formed in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. It is bringing much needed rain to area fires as well as snow to higher elevations and mountain passes.
However, it has also brought unwanted extreme weather phenomenon to the state - a waterspout in Oceanside and a tornado in Lebanon.
NWS Portland reminds everyone "its that time of year. If the thunder roars, head indoors"
Art Festival Happening this Weekend
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Set in the heart of the Pacific Flyway in Veteran’s Park and downtown Klamath Falls, the Arts on the Flyway Festival is Where Arts and Music Take Flight!
The festival is a ½ mile loop including juried artisan and crafter vendors; nonprofits hosting interactive arts stations; delicious culinary arts in the form of food carts and live performances of music, dance, theatrical and circus performers.
Plein air artists, art demonstrations and civic art projects will also be sprinkled throughout the festival that encompasses three local art centers (The Favell and The Baldwin museums and the Klamath Art Association Gallery).
When the sun goes down, two historic performing arts venues (The Ross Ragland Theater and the Linkville Playhouse) round out a weekend of creating connection and creative expression with your loved ones and our community!
SATURDAY, September 23, 2017: 10 AM – 5 PM
ADMISSION: is FREE
AOTF Festival Events to Enjoy:
Mon 9.18 - Thurs 9.21 • Arts Workshops + Lectures for all ages
• Public Art Scavenger Hunt (clues released 9.17)
Friday 9.22 • Catch a Wave, a Beach Boys Tribute at the Ross Ragland Theater
• Distracted at the Linkville Playhouse
Saturday 9.23 • Downtown Festival 10 am - 5 pm
• The Favell Museum Annual Art Show and Sale
• Photographer Maud Baldwin Exhibit at the Baldwin Museum
• Paperback Writer, a Beatles Tribute at the Ross Ragland Theater
• Distracted at the Linkville Playhouse
Arts on the Flyway Festival: Where Arts and Music Take Flight!
For more info visit - http://www.artsontheflyway.com/
Starting the School Year Off with Timber
/Gilchrist School class begins class by felling a tree
GILCHRIST – For students in Brian Wachs’ class, the start of the school year is an adventure. On the second day, students in his woods and metals shop class hike out behind the school.
Their mission? Fell a tree using only hand tools, geometry and math.
“It’s a lot of fun because we get to go out on all these adventures,” said Katie McDaniel, 15, who has been taking Wachs’ classes since seventh grade. “It’s not step one, step two.
You have to figure it out.”
“We get to go out and say, ‘Use your math, use your understanding of what you learned in these classes to make
predictions in real life,” Wachs said. “We know our brains don’t remember all these disjointed facts. We work with context. Being able to look at it causes that lightbulb to come on.”
LIFE LESSONS
On Wednesday, Sept. 6, the Gilchrist students took a two-handed bucksaw to a tree Wachs’ had picked out. They decided which direction they wanted the tree to fall, then began sawing angled cuts into the tree’s trunk to cause it to fall in that specific direction.
Katie said getting out and sawing into a tree was very different from reading about the logging industry in a book.
“Reading about these types of things, especially since logging is a labor job, it doesn’t make sense not to experience it,” she said. “I think it’s better to start it like this because it’s working from the
bottom and making you appreciate the actual process.”
“Having kids ask, ‘Why are we learning this stuff?’ That shouldn’t ever happen,” Wachs said. “By building that umbrella context of felling a tree, and applying geometry and applying those aspects, then it makes sense. They go, ‘Oh! That’s why we’re doing this. That’s why we’re making things happen.”
CONNECTIONS
The town of Gilchrist has a strong history with the timber industry, logging and forestry. Gilchrist was one of the last company towns in Oregon, according to the Oregon Encyclopedia. In 1937 the Gilchrist Timber Company built and founded the town to house a mill, workers’ housing and amenities.
At its height, the company town included a restaurant, cocktail lounge, barbershop, beauty parlor, bowling alley, grocery store,
meat market, post office, library and had a population of about 600 people. With the decline of the logging industry toward the
end of the 20th century, the company sold in 1991 and houses and businesses were sold to individual owners. Though Interfor
Pacific still runs a mill in town, it employs far fewer people than the Gilchrist mill did in its heyday.
Today Gilchrist School, grades K-12, serves a little more than 200 students. The portion of the school housing high school
grades was built in 1938. “There’s such a huge history and important history of Gilchrist being a logging town,” Wachs said. “By us going up and felling trees, being in the woods, that ties them to the history of their town and grounds them in some way.”
It even connects the students to history in the tools they use. Wachs’ doesn’t know how old the two-person bucksaw the class uses is, but admits it bears a strong resemblance to antiques on the walls of some homes.
“That two-man bucksaw, it cuts fast. It does the job well,” he said, and it teaches life lessons to his students. “They’re understanding that the world is not a throw-away society. We can continue to use all these things. Even though they’re old, we can touch them up, we can work with them. We can build things that are made to last.”
BUILDING
When asked if most students start the school year felling a tree, Katie said, “Probably not. Mr. Wachs’ teaching style is not conventional.”
Wachs’ and his students didn’t just fell a tree for the fun of doing it. They will use the wood to make projects. On Wednesday, the students made the exact cuts to send the tree falling precisely where they planned. Next, they brought out the hand saws and continued cutting the trunk into shorter lengths. Later in the week they brought those lengths into the school shop. Through the semester they will plank them and build picture frames.
“They come into my class and they know they are going to get sweaty, they’re going to get dirty,” Wachs said.
His goal?
“Getting them out here and having them actually, real-life apply the math, the science, the geometry, all those different things in real life,” he said. “And be able to produce a real-life product based upon the information they’ve learned in the past.”
Press release and images by:
Samantha Tipler, Public Relations
Klamath County School District
La Nina Watch Issued for Fall / Winter 2017-18
/La Nina Graphic - AccuWeather
**** Cooler than average Pacific Ocean surface temperatures have been recorded in 2017. This may produce higher than average precipitation for the Pacific Northwest. ****
Synopsis: There is an increasing chance (~55-60%) of La Niña during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter 2017-18.
Over the last month, equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were near-to-below average across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean (Fig. 1). ENSO-neutral conditions were apparent in the weekly fluctuation of Niño-3.4 SST index values between -0.1°C and -0.6°C (Fig. 2). While temperature anomalies were variable at the surface, they became increasingly negative in the sub-surface ocean (Fig. 3), due to the shoaling of the thermocline across the east-central and eastern Pacific (Fig. 4). Though remaining mostly north of the equator, convection was suppressed over the western and central Pacific Ocean and slightly enhanced near Indonesia (Fig. 5). The low-level trade winds were stronger than average over a small region of the far western tropical Pacific Ocean, and upper-level winds were anomalously easterly over a small area of the east-central Pacific. Overall, the ocean and atmosphere system remains consistent with ENSO-neutral.
A majority of the models in the IRI/CPC suite of Niño-3.4 predictions favor ENSO-neutral through the Northern Hemisphere 2017-18 winter (Fig. 6). However, the most recent predictions from the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFSv2) and the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) indicate the formation of La Niña as soon as the Northern Hemisphere fall 2017 (Fig. 7). Forecasters favor these predictions in part because of the recent cooling of surface and sub-surface temperature anomalies, and also because of the higher degree of forecast skill at this time of year. In summary, there is an increasing chance (~55-60%) of La Niña during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter 2017-18 (click CPC/IRI consensus forecast for the chance of each outcome for each 3-month period).
This discussion is a consolidated effort of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA’s National Weather Service, and their funded institutions. Oceanic and atmospheric conditions are updated weekly on the Climate Prediction Center web site (El Niño/La Niña Current Conditions and Expert Discussions). Forecasts are also updated monthly in the Forecast Forum of CPC's Climate Diagnostics Bulletin. Additional perspectives and analysis are also available in an ENSO blog. The next ENSO Diagnostics Discussion is scheduled for 12 October 2017. To receive an e-mail notification when the monthly ENSO Diagnostic Discussions are released, please send an e-mail message to: ncep.list.enso-update@noaa.gov.
![Figure 2. Time series of area-averaged sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (°C) in the Niño regions [Niño-1+2 (0°-10°S, 90°W-80°W), Niño-3 (5°N-5°S, 150°W-90°W), Niño-3.4 (5°N-5°S, 170°W-120°W), Niño-4 (5ºN-5ºS , 150ºW-160ºE]. SST anomalies are](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9f24c64b05fd6531db026/1505720523516-N8WHQ35QA02GCTJDB0ZO/21728019_1718755381499150_3215569707519032997_n.jpg)
Weekend Planner September 15-18
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It is the last full weekend of summer 2017. Before you know it the leaves will be turning color and a thick frost will greet us in the mornings. Get our and enjoy the last rays of summer before the calendar says autumn. Here are some of the things happening in the Klamath Basin this weekend.
The Weekend Planner is sponsored by, Rachael Spoon - State Farm Agent. Helping life go right.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Bunco 🎲
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Triad School / BBC Ministries
http://klamath.org/events/event/bunco-1
5th Annual Klamath Independent Film Festival 📽️
7:00 PM | The Ross Ragland Theater
http://www.klamathfilm.org/festival.php
Distracted – A comedy by Lisa Loomer
7:30 PM | Linkville Playhouse
http://linkvilleplayers.org/
Juried Artist Show Opening Reception
8:00 PM | Favell Museum
http://favellmuseum.org/art-show/
Vintage Movie Night
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Lake of the Woods Resort
https://lakeofthewoodsresort.com/
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Ride the Rim 🚵♀️
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Crater Lake National Park
http://ridetherim2017.com/
Youth Pheasant Hunt
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Klamath Wildlife Area
https://www.facebook.com/events/143294152935410/
7th Annual Lake of the Woods Classic Car Show 🚘
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Lake of the Woods Resort
https://lakeofthewoodsresort.com/
Klamath Falls Farmers Market 🍅
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM | 9th Street Downtown Klamath Falls
Juried Artist Show – General Admission
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Favell Museum
http://favellmuseum.org/art-show/
5th Annual Klamath Independent Film Festival
1:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Ross Ragland Theater & Pelican Cinema
http://www.klamathfilm.org/festival.php
Colonel Mustard Band
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Lake of the Woods Resort
https://lakeofthewoodsresort.com/
Distracted – A comedy by Lisa Loomer
7:30 PM | Linkville Playhouse
http://linkvilleplayers.org/
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Youth Pheasant Hunt
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Klamath Wildlife Area
https://www.facebook.com/events/142859469645555/
KFCX Moore Cowbell Cyclocross Race
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Moore Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/1424277877688801/
Juried Artist Show – Champaign Brunch
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Favell Museum
http://favellmuseum.org/art-show/
5th Annual Klamath Independent Film Festival
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Ross Ragland Theater & Pelican Cinemas
http://www.klamathfilm.org/festival.php
B. Wishes on the Lodge Patio
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Lake of the Woods Resort
https://lakeofthewoodsresort.com/
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LIVE - Vince Adams, Rural Trends in Oregon
/LIVE - We talk with Vince Adams from Oregon State University Extension Service. Adams just wrapped a talk on Rural trends in Oregon. Now he speaks with us about some of those trends.
Visit www.oregonexplorer.info/rural for more details on rural trends.
LIVE - Heather Tramp, Rural Business Innovation Summit
/LIVE - We're speaking with Heather Tramp regarding the Rural Business Innovation Summit happening today and tomorrow at Klamath Community College (KCC). The event is organized by the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce.
More info and the full schedule can be found at www.RuralBizSummit.com