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Someone stole the yurts that would have allowed this Oregon school to expand in-person classes Updated Feb 05, 2021; Posted Feb 02, 2021 Yurts are familiar sights at some Oregon state parks. One school in Salem hoped to use Mongolian yurts for expanded classroom space. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Facebook Share By Jake Thomas, Salem Reporter SALEM -- Somewhere, there is someone with thousands of square feet of yurt coverings. In Salem, there is a school that badly wants them back. The yurts, ro...

Thieves steal trailer with yurt covers for school’s expansion project elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Kaleidoscope Community School is now out thousands of dollars in materials. The school is building an outdoor micro school for children. They had purchased three large yurts to house the program, and completed one of those yurts. The covers for the other two were in a contractor’s truck, which was stolen overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. Those yurt covers cost more than $20,000. ...