Public input sought for
Indian Creek restoration
MAPLETON
—
The
Siuslaw National Forest is
soliciting input on a proposed
restoration project within the
30,800-acre Indian Creek
Watershed, about 14 miles
northeast of Florence.
The public is invited to learn
about the project and provide
comments at a meeting from 6
to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21,
at the Mapleton Grange, 10880
E. Mapleton Road.
The Indian Creek Landscape
Management Project would
address the need to diversify
habitat within younger stands
of trees, accelerate old-growth
forest habitat characteristics
across the project area, and
improve aquatic habitat for
salmon and other riparian
species.
For more information, visit
www.fs.usda.gov/siulsaw.
Wyden
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“I tell them I get their frus-
tration, but I also want to be
clear. The next step from that
understandable frustration with
economics and politics should
not be being misled off a cliff
by some outsiders who are
willing to take the law into
their own hands,” he said.
The economy was a com-
mon topic for the questions.
Wyden spent a portion of the
presentation talking about the
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market trend for Oregon-made
goods.
He addressed the students at
several points.
“Whether it’s the actual
materials, or agricultural prod-
ucts, beer, wine, bicycles or
drones, I want you guys to be
able to be partners in produc-
ing those things that people all
over the world want to buy,
whether you live in Florence
or anywhere else in Oregon,”
he said.
He also said that Oregon’s
graduation rate — the fourth
lowest in the nation — was
unacceptable. He urged the
assembled students to work
with him in a project to
increase graduation rates in the
coming years.
The students asked Wyden
questions about President
Obama’s executive order on
gun control, the legalization of
marijuana, free tuition for
community colleges, logging
issues and religion in schools.
Wyden took time to provide
background information on
each of the topics, including
laws and recent legislative
motions, before giving his
answers.
One of his statements on the
issue of gun control received
applause.
“I’m very much in favor of
closing the loopholes in back-
ground checks,” Wyden said.
“After the horrible tragedy in
Roseburg, a big group of sena-
tors went out on the Capitol
steps and discussed gun vio-
lence. Are we just going to
wait for the next tragedy, and
the next and the next, and just
shrug our shoulders and say,
‘that’s the way it is’? I want
you to know that that is not
good enough for me. It’s not
good enough for Oregon, and
it’s not good enough for
America.”
He said that as a parent of
three small children, it con-
cerns him that parents worry
when they send a child to
school.
“We can do better than
that,” he said.
Community member Becky
Goehring, who is with the
Ford Family Foundation
Pathways Vision Action Team,
said, “Looking to the future
and resiliency of our commu-
nity, people are concerned
with healthcare, rural trans-
portation, affordable housing
and economic development.
We work really well as a com-
munity in trying to develop
those things. I wonder how
you perceive helping our small
rural communities?”
Wyden responded by saying
economic development and the
rural economy has to come
from both the “top down” and
the “bottom up.”
Goehring also asked if there
was a way for Wyden to bring
the area’s bipartisan practices
in working together back to
Washington with him.
Wyden agreed that he
spends most of his time in the
senate trying to get people to
work together. He said some
of his most successful bills
have been bipartisan.
One man brought up the
Siuslaw National Forest and
its success rate.
“It’s extraordinary,” Wyden
said in agreement. “The
Siuslaw is a wonderful model
that lays out multiple uses. It
really makes it possible for a
community to come together.
Most of the lessons of the
Siuslaw could apply to other
national parks. It relates to
how a rural area has to have
trust.”
Also in attendance was
Dunes City Mayor Rebecca
Ruede, who invited Wyden to
enter a team in the Dunes City
Triathlon. Wyden did not
definitively respond, though
his staff expressed interest.
Other topics discussed
included the state of the jetties
and access to high speed inter-
net, transportation and housing
for rural communities.
For more information about
Wyden’s Town Hall program,
go to www.wyden.senate.gov.
Crash
PUD employees went to
Grocery Outlet, McDonald’s,
Pizza Hut, City Lights
Cinemas and other businesses
to inform them of the outage.
“The power was eventually
shut down in our entire com-
plex by 8:20 p.m. or so, neces-
sitating the cancellation of
‘Labyrinth’,” said City Lights
owner Michael Falter in a letter
to subscribers. “Labyrinth”
was set to air as a memorial to
actor/musician David Bowie,
who passed away last week.
The theater provided movie
passes to those currently
watching films and to those
who had purchased tickets
ahead of time. It also held
another showing of Bowie’s
film.
“I have to say, Florence, you
were all amazing and gracious
when accepting passes for a
future showing,” Falter said.
A PUD employee also spoke
to
Regency
Florence
Rehabilitation Center, a senior
care facility, to make sure they
were prepared for loss of
power.
According to Chandler,
Coast Radio aired a message to
listeners about the outage five
times an hour until midnight.
“Everyone was supportive,
and we really appreciate it.
Things were beyond our con-
trol,” she said.
The repair had to be done in
the dark.
“It was pretty dramatic and
extremely unsafe,” Chandler
said.
PUD crews completed the
repairs and restored power for
most customers at 11:44 p.m.
The outage completely ended
at 1:22 a.m.
According to Larisa Denney
of Mary Ann’s Natural Pet, the
business was closed for the
weekend and no people were
inside when the power pole
crashed through the wall.
“Mary Ann was there feed-
ing our office foster cat, but
she had left 30 minutes before
it happened,” Denney said.
“The cat was shaken, but we
had her purring before we left
that night,” she added.
The pet store’s staff was able
to get a start cleaning up debris
before Central Lincoln shut
down the power. Cleanup was
completed Sunday, with a tem-
porary repair placed on the
damaged wall, and the store
opened as usual Monday.
Chandler said that PUD
crews were already active in
the Florence and Mapleton
areas the previous week.
Saturday’s brief storm
brought tree limbs down along
the coast.
“Mother Nature has gotten
our attention — and yours,”
Chandler tweeted. “Multiple
outages at this hour.”
A large maple tree fell on
power lines in Mapleton on
Jan. 11. The damage was so
excessive that Lane County
Road Maintenance crews had
to assist.
Full power was restored
early morning Jan. 12.
Chandler said she was
impressed with the PUD’s
crews’ speed and efficiency in
restoring power.
“I think things went well, or
as best they could in these cir-
cumstances,” she said. “The
best circumstances are when
no one gets hurt.”
Central Lincoln PUD pro-
vides updates on power out-
ages
at
their
website,
www.clpud.org,
and
on
Twitter.
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The 16 firefighters remained
at the site until 7:15 p.m.
Central Lincoln PUD Public
Information Officer Chris
Chandler began immediately
informing people of the crash
on Twitter.
“Bad news,” Chandler
tweeted. “Car hit pole tonight.
Must be replaced as soon as
possible.”
The PUD shut off power
along Highway 101 from 13th
to 23rd streets at 8:30 p.m.
“Not only was that the resi-
dential districts west of 101, it
was also the commercial dis-
trict east of 101,” Chandler
said in an interview.
She estimated that 100 peo-
ple were without power for
most of the night.
Please join us as we celebrate the
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