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Page 2 January 2025 Free Papers can be found, upon availability, in all of the following town’s and these fine establishments January, 2025 Vol 3, Issue #1 The Oregon News Herald News- paper, published once a month in Drain Oregon, is owned, operated, published and printed in the State of Oregon. It is our mission to bring the news and information that our readers find per- tinent, useful and with some insight to our common values and sensibilities. The Oregon News Herald is formerly the North Douglas Herald. 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Drain Mayor: Erin Sparhawk Council Position #1: Melanie Lymath Council Position #2: Kevin VanPelt Council Position #3: Katie Decker Council Position #5: Aaron Lymath City Administrator: Jeni Stevens City Council Meeting:1/13/25 - 6pm Yoncalla Mayor: Kathleen Wertz Councilors: Amy Grabinski Open Seat Harold Gilpin Bryce Wertz City Administrator: Jennifer Bragg Council Meeting: 1/14/25 - 6pm Elkton Mayor: Daniel Burke Council President: Joan Smith Council Members: Kim Moore Dan Shepherd Sandra Galli Public Works Supervisor: Gary Trout Council Meeting:1/19/25 - 8:30am Oakland Mayor: Bette Keehley Counselor: Jan Wier Counselor: Kent Rochester Counselor: Sky Ironplow Counselor: Betty Tamm Council Meeting: 1/13/25 - 7pm Sutherlin Mayor : Michelle Sumner Council President Debbie Hamilton Councilor Lisa Woods Councilor Larry Whitaker Councilor Adam Sarnoski Councilor Shawn Smalley Councilor Gary Dagel City Manager Jerry Gillham Council Meeting: 1/13/25 - 7:15pm Reedsport Mayor : Linda McCollum Council Position #1: Rob Wright Council Position #2: Clifton Jackson Jr Council Position #3: Sandra Rose Donnelly Council Position #5: Allen Teitzel Council Position #5: Rich Patten Council Position #7: Debby Turner Council Meeting: 1/6/25 - 7pm Cottage Grove Mayor: Candace Solesbee Councilor Ward 1: Christine Hyink Councilor Ward 2: Randell Lammerman Councilor Ward 3: Dana Merryday Councilor Ward 4: Greg Ervin Councilor: Jim Settelmeyer Councilor: Darrel Wilson Council Meeting;: 1/13/25 - 7pm County State & Federal Douglas County Commisioners: Tom Kress(Chair) Tim Freeman Chris Boice Jennifer Miller Lane County Commissioners: Dist 1: Ray Ceniga Dist 2: David Lovall Dist 3: Laurie Trieger Dist 4: Pat Farr Dist 5: Heather Buch Oregon House Representative: District 02: Virgle Osborne Oregon State Senator: District 1: David Brock Smith U.S. Senate Oregon: Jeff Merkley Ron Wyden U.S House of Representatives: District 4: Val Hoyle Secretary of State: Tobias Read Attorney General: Dan Rayfield Governor: Tina Kotek Vice-President elect: JD Vance President elect: Donald Trump It is important to know your representation in your State, Districts and Municipalities. RE- MEMBER it is vital to your freedoms to vote.If you would like to have your own towns municipal officers listed please send title & names only to citydesk@ndherald.com Oregon News Herald Editorial By Rusty Savage Welcome 2025. Ring in the new and keep the old in the rear view mirror. I’m not one for burning bridges but I do like exploring new vista’s. With the new year, comes new laws, new politicians, new promises and new problems. That’s the way with renewal it seems, ya gotta make a little room for improvement and it doesn’t quite fit without cleaning out the closet, so to speak. I’m ready though. Last year left a little something to be desired for this year. Hope. Hope for a little better year this time around. One thing I do realize and that is that I do hope for better, for more. For that I think I should be prepared to do my best to do what I can to make it a better year. It’s not a stretch to imagine that part of expecting better things to happen, is that I need a better frame of mind than I had last year. OK, I can do that, I’m an optimist, a glass half full kind of guy. I hope all of you are optimists, it will serve us well. It is winter weather out there. Not much for freezing cold yet but the rain. Oh the rain. I’m never sure when those “10 year” or “100 year” or “500 year” events are due, it seems like they are always a surprise. At least to me. These late December and early January rains are skirting one of those nom de plume designations. Flooding seemed eminent for a while there but has resided for now. It brings to mind the community needs for emergency events planning and implementation. There are a lot of low lying lands and downhill lands that are susceptible to flood and water damage. Loss of power is a major storm concern along with fallen trees and debris. Notification of the public and communication is of first concern. These procedures should be in place to combat and prevent confusion as well as implementing plans of action when needed. Inventory of resources and man power should be also the first part of the game plan to provide help where needed. I was encouraged to find some communities were preparing sand bags and making resources available. Including Cottage Grove, who announced the availability of sand bags, come and get what you need. In others there was confusion and questions, but no results, like in Drain where the threads on social media showed a lack of cohesive plan or action. There is never a guarantee of good results when it comes to the fickleness of “Mother Nature”. But the good results can be maximized for us all with good emergency event planning. Well our big news for the year is our evolution and name change to the Oregon News Herald, you can still call us The Herald. In fact we will continue under the moniker the North Douglas Herald along with our new name. The Masthead is little changed and so is our dedication to bring pertinent news and information to all of our readers across the state of Oregon. It has been quite an adventure on this journalistic journey and I am encouraged by the support we continue to receive. It has been a journey, a pilgrimage if you will, like the song says, “is rough and steep”. As we struggle to spread our brand of local and community news and information, I find more and more encouragement to fulfill the dream of providing a printed newspaper, FREE to anyone who’s looking for news. Our current distribution seems to be the best way to make the Herald available to the public at large. We are providing FREE newspapers to our, over, 80 locations across the region. The next shortcoming we have is to have a dedicated newsrack to help the public find us and to improve our delivery vehicles reliability. We have started a GoFundMe campaign to help us in this endeavor. We are soliciting donations large and small to get over this hump and help insure a prominent display for the Herald and so that we can give them away for FREE!
