North Douglas Herald
City Desk
Preparing for Summer
– Water Conservation
Checklist
This reminder was released by the
city of sutherlin and it’s good advice for all
communities. Warmer temperatures are finally
here, and time spent outside will soon increase.
Use some of that time to prep your yard and
landscape for warmer and drier conditions.
1. Inspect your irrigation system:
▪ Adjust the position of your sprinklers so they
are aimed at your lawn and garden, not the
pavement.
▪ Look for leaks, broken lines, or blockages in
the lines and repair any issues you find.
▪ Consider using water-saving technology
like weather-based irrigation controllers, soil
moisture sensors, drip irrigation, and rotating
sprinkler nozzles.
▪ Use shut-off nozzles on your hoses.
2. Prep your lawn and garden:
▪ Adjust your mower to a higher setting as a
taller lawn provides shade to the roots and helps
retain soil moisture.
▪ Aerate your soil so that water can better
infiltrate into the ground.
▪ Minimize or eliminate fertilizer since
application causes your landscape to require
additional water.
▪ Design your garden based on watering zones
of plants. This method allows you to group
plants together with similar water needs.
3. Know when and how much to water:
▪ Water established lawns about 1 inch per
week.
▪ Schedule your sprinklers to
run at night or in the early morning when
temperatures are cooler.
4th of July 2024 Celebration!
Oakland Community Parade
All Entries Encouraged - everyone qualifies!
Parade Set Up - 10:30 a.m. at Washington School.
Parade Begins at 11:00 a.m. City Park at NOON!
Enjoy the water slide - bouncy house and fun
games for children! Nachos & Frito Pie, drinks
& pickles for sale Sponsored by OCRT Oakland
Community Resource Team volunteers
July 2024
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Shadows Along the Creek
The Highest Hill
Judson Ringo has not
been dealt an easy hand
in life. After loosing his
father, and nine months
later his mother, he is left
on his own at seventeen
in rural 1890s Kentucky.
He goes to Tennessee to live with his uncle, but instead
of being treated like family, he is a slave. Judson faces
each challenge as it comes, thinking only to survive. Af-
ter four years in bondage, John Harrington dies and Jud-
son is set free. He returns to his father’s farm on a cold
winter night, finds it in ruins, is suspected of murder,
and begins life all over, finding strength in the midst of
struggle and love in remnants of buried dreams. Martha
Jane gets her buggy stuck in the mud on a cold winter
night. She tries everything, but cannot get the buggy
back on the road. She is all but
ready to leave the buggy, when
a horse and rider approaches.
The hopes and dreams Martha
Jane believed long dead come
to life once more.
This is the story of two
young brothers, Bobby
and Jackie Ringo, who
struggle to overcome the
hardships of an unpropi-
tious home environment
in rural western Ken-
tucky in the 1940s and
1950s. Their lives and fu-
tures are fraught with pitfalls and roadblocks, both de-
bilitating and deadly. The reader will feel the dreams,
aspirations and wonder of the youngest whilst living
and growing up in very different time than our own.
The boys, left on their own much of the time cope with
a drinking and abusive father, barely escape being sent
to reform school, struggle to stay in school, graduate
and overcome their circumstance and to reach higher
and higher to achieve a better life as kids and for their
futures. Follow Bobby and Jackie through the early
1950s, starting at ages’ nine and twelve, through their
high school years to a dramatic climax of personal and
physical struggle with the “Ringo
Streak” and its repercussions. If
they survive, it’ll be to eventually
realize the true lessons of the High-
est Hill which continues to reveal its
real measure and meaning.
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Johnny Ringo’s
brother was dead.
“I’ll get ‘em
Frank, I swear
to you I’ll get
them”. What a
place to die, there
on the frozen banks of the Rough Creek.
The Law wasn’t doing anything about
it and Johnny had decided he would.
It was 1938 and the county was full of
Bootleggers. One of them ‘Shiners” did
it. Johnny was gonna find out who and he
knew how to do it. Trouble is there are a
lot of prime suspects and a good deal of
danger from any one of them. Johnny has
a plan, if he can keep out
of sight of the Sheriff long
enough and keep from
getting killed himself.
He knows the woods and
hills and he will find out
what he needs to know.
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