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The commission also talked itself into participating in one more meeting.
In the lone commission amendments to the $181 million budget that City Manager Mark Shepard introduced May 3, commissioners recommended Wednesday that the city target facilities with the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds it receives and that a further Budget Commission meeting be scheduled to discuss the issue.
More than 100 members of the Republican party say there needs to be change.The group plans to release a statement Thursday that calls for reforms and threatens to create a new party if changes do not happen.The statement is expected to outline 13 core values the group wants the party to support.Reuters reports some of the people behind this effort include former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and Evan McMullin a former CIA agent who ran as an Independent in the 2016 presidential election.
Corvallis Fall Festival Needs Your Help
April 7, 2021
When the Corvallis Fall Festival debuted on September 22, 1973, it was the city’s only festival. It began when local businesswoman Rose Ostby approached the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce with her idea of a new community event. The Chamber’s Executive Director, Karl Cayford, assigned her the opportunity to create an arts festival with the understanding that none of the artisans could bring commercially made items. All items had to be crafted and sold directly by the artisans, a policy that remains in effect today.
A festival organizing committee was formed from the membership of the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce and Corvallis Jaycees. The first weekend of the inaugural festival, September 22 and 23, 1973 was chosen to coincide with the start of fall term at Oregon State University to welcome back to the students and faculty. Central Park was chosen as the event site because of its proximity to both the OSU campus and Dow
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