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Rainbow Mountain Into our lives last week, a little rain finally stopped falling. Grand Ronde had avoided flooding from the South Yamhill at press time, though
the river had crested its banks already and the forecast was for more rain. Between rains, the sun came with this display of light and color.
Culvert Replaced On Agency Creek
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Replaced Pictured here is Tom Brown with Grand Ronde 's Round
Valley Construction as they replace a weather damaged culvert up on
Agency Creek on Tuesday, January 17.
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Doernbecher Children's
Safety Center Opens
Community Fund gift helps launch the Center.
By Ron Karten
Doernbecher Pediatrician Doug
Leonard, M.D. presumably some
body who knows something about
preventing accidents around the
house told a story about his 5-year-old
son at his home, who
found his way to the window and
well, it was about 25 feet to the
PTonnri. The tine, and the rest
of the household ran out to I
see what was left of the kid
who then said he landed on
his feet and was fine. They
took him to Doernbecher
for observation and the
outcome: now the kid's
a gymnast.
It was a two-
punchline illustra
tion, however. The
Community Fund
Director & Tribal
Member Shelley Hanson
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first lesson was that accidents can
happen in any house, no matter how
much the parents know about pre
vention, and the second was that pre
ventable accidents are by far the
major cause of death and serious in
jury among children.
"The number one thing that chil
dren die from is accidents," Stacy
Nicholson, Chair of the De
partment of Pediatrics.
"They're almost entirely pre-
X only treat those who have
accidents but to pre
vent them."
"I can't overem
phasize the impor
tance of this," said
Nicholson. "In pe
diatrics, we have
been involved for a
See CENTER
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