February 26, 2021
Challenges, career programs encourage students to continue
Submitted photos##Logan Shurts, Dane Foster and Cyrus Scarboro-Ford work on the robot their teacher designed for a recent competition. Robotics teams have been meeting in small groups at Mac High since fall.
Cancellation of activities and in-person classes at McMinnville High School last year led to a decrease in students continuing to college after their socially-distanced graduation.
Educators don’t want that to happen again.
“It’s really a challenge to keep interest high” without seeing students face-to-face in the building, said Veronica Chase, an assistant principal at MHS.
McMinnville’s elementary children are expected to start hybrid classes in March, but district officials have yet to decide when, or if, Grizzlies will return to the building this spring.
Three freezing days since they lost power, Oregonians want back to the future of hot showers and fully-charged cell phones
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
Ice coats trees and power lines across Portland on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
Facebook Share
Jen Weaver lay awake in fear much of Friday night and Saturday morning listening to trees and limbs crashing to the ground, overcome by the weight of their icy silver shroud. With no warning, their bedroom lights flashed on and then went black.
She clicked on the light switch. Nothing. Her entire Lake Oswego neighborhood was black.
Weaver and tens of thousands of other Oregonians are now entering their third night without electricity. When the ice storm knocked out the power, it was like they were transported back in time. For some, no electricity means no heat other than fire, no way to cook, no lights other than flashlights and camp lanterns, No television, no computer, no cell phone. For others
Audrey D. Keeland 1930 - 2021
Audrey D. Keeland passed away to our Heavenly Father February 5, 2021, at Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon. Audrey was born May 21, 1930, in Sparta, Missouri. Raised in a household with nine brothers and sisters, she was known for standing up for herself and conversing with everyone. Audrey married Leonard Keeland in 1947, and they were happily married until his passing in 2003.
She was a cook at the Russel logging camp in Yamhill, where her husband logged and helped with the Tillamook Burn forest fire. They bought a fixer house near Carlton Lake for $10 in 1957. Although the house was washed out by the Christmas Flood of 1964, buying and rehabilitating the house was one of her favorite stories to tell.
Yamhill County reported another death from COVID-19 on Wednesday, along with 26 new cases. On Thursday, the county reported another death, and another 26 new cases, bringing .
Coronavirus updates Friday: Lane County reports 85 cases, no new deaths
The Register-Guard
Lane County reported 85 confirmed or presumptive cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the countywide case total to 8,663, according to Lane County Public Health.
The county s death toll remains at 113.
There are 388 people considered infectious, up 5% from Thursday s 368. There are 18 people hospitalized, six in intensive care unit beds and two on ventilators.
As of Friday, 14,814 first dose vaccinations have been administered in Lane County.
National Guard to assist vaccination efforts Saturday in Lane County
Members of the Oregon National Guard will arrive in Lane County at 7:30 a.m. Saturday to help the county s Phase 1a vaccination efforts.