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SIUSLAW NEWS | SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020 | 7A Oregon Health Authority announces new online testing locator The Oregon Health Au- thority announced it has published a COVID-19 test site locator to help Oregonians across the state find testing sites in their community. The interactive map is available on pages in both English and Spanish and can be toggled into multiple other languages: • English: healthore gon.org/covid19testing, or • Spanish: healthore- gon.org/pruebasde covid19 People who experience COVID-19 symptoms, including fever, cough or shortness of breath, should contact a health care provider to discuss whether to be tested. Health care providers determine whether test- ing is appropriate based on symptoms and test availability in their area. “Removing barriers to testing is important to help Oregonians stay healthy and to slow the spread of COVID-19,” said Dean Sidelinger, MD, state epidemiologist and state health officer. “This new resource can help people find ongoing testing locations in their community, which is es- pecially important for people who don’t have a primary care provider.” The COVID-19 test- ing site locator was de- veloped by Castlight, a health navigation plat- form that connects the information of hundreds of health vendors, ben- efits resources and plan designs into an online tool. Oregonians can lo- cate nearby testing sites by entering their address or selecting state, county and zip. Oregonians should call the COVID-19 test- ing site before they go to learn about testing criteria, availability and hours. Oregon’s testing guid- ance encourages testing for anyone with symp- toms in consultation with a health care provider. If testing resources are lim- ited, the following groups should be prioritized: • Healthcare work- ers and first respond- ers (EMS, public safety workers) • Residents, staff, children, and others in non-hospital congregate settings (e.g., residen- tial care facilities, group homes, schools, agricul- tural workplaces, food processing plants, jails or prisons, shelters) • Workers who provide direct care or services in multiple group facilities or who provide in-home services (e.g., hospice care workers, physical or occupational therapists, in-home personal care workers) • Essential front-line service workers who have regular contact with large numbers of people (e.g., those working in grocery, pharmacy, tran- sit, delivery, and other critical infrastructure services) • People 65 years of age or older • People with underly- ing medical conditions, including, but not lim- ited to, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, obesity, and immuno- compromising condi- tions • People who identify as Black, African Amer- ican, Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Asian American or Pacific Islander • People who identify Lane County residents urged to enroll in COVID study families and communi- ties. OHSU will share study findings with state and local leaders, who can use the data to make de- cisions to meet the state’s economic and social needs — including reopening or closing local businesses and schools — while also protecting human health and lives. “We are deeply grateful to those willing to vol- unteer their time to this important work,” says the study’s lead research- er, Jackie Shannon, Ph.D. “Each person who spends less than 10 minutes a day on this study will help us better understand how the virus is affecting Orego- nians. If you were randomly se- lected, please consider tak- ing part to help your com- munity stay open and safe.” More than 13,5000 Lane County households were invited to participate in the study and should have re- ceived mail notices in May. Those mailings included instructions about how to enroll online. If you lost your invite but are interest- ed in enrolling, please send an email to KeyStudy@ ohsu.edu. DENTURE SERVICES INC. 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COM RS 2020 A look back at 130 years E EA CEL SN BR nians have enrolled state- wide. The study aims to enroll up to 100,000 randomly selected Oregonians, who will spend less than 10 minutes a day to report their temperature and oth- er symptoms on a secure website. Up to 10,000 of those en- rolled will also be selected for asymptomatic testing, or testing those who do not have symptoms, to bet- ter measure an often-invis- ible source of COVID-19’s spread. Those who take part are helping protect their The data on the testing locator was submitted to Castlight by both the OHA and local public health authorities. OHA cannot guarantee that people will be able to get tested at one of the sites.’ It is always best to contact a health care provider about getting a COVID-19 test. T HE W EST ❖ T HE S IUSLAW N EWS ❖ F LORENCE T IMES ❖ T HE S IUSLAW O AR ❖ T HE S IUSLAW N EWS ❖ S IUSLAW N EWS AW NE S 1890 SL W SIU About 660 Lane County residents have signed up to report their tempera- ture and other COVID-19 symptoms for up to one year. To provide state and lo- cal officials information that will help them make decisions about how to keep Oregon open and safe. Since it was announced in May, the Oregon Health & Science Univer- sity-led Key to Oregon study has been measuring COVID-19 prevalence throughout the state. So far, nearly 9,000 Orego- as having a disability • People whose first language is not English • Pregnant women • People whose condi- tion requires hospitaliza- tion • People who, within 14 days of their symp- tom onset, had close con- tact with a confirmed or presumptive COVID-19 case AT I N G 1 30 Y 1922 Glenada to have Good Hospital Dr. and Mrs. Cleveland arrived last Friday from Iowa and have already leased the Glenada Hotel and will open up offices and utilize the hotel building for a hospital. This will be a valuable addition to this section of the country as the nearest hospital is at North Bend and Eugene. With all the mills and camps in oper- ation here and the steady influx of peo- ple it goes without saying that a hospital here will be welcomed by all. Here’s wishing them all success and welcome them to the Siuslaw. 1924 1923 — 1925 Shining Bright on the Oregon Coast T HE W EST ❖ T HE S IUSLAW N EWS ❖ F LORENCE T IMES Construction on the Heceta Head Lightstation began in 1892 and was completed in 1893, but it wasn’t lit until decades later. The U.S. Lighthouse Service lit the wick of the original coal oil lamp on March 30, 1894. That light, produced by concentric wicks and then magnified by a 392-prism British-made Fresnel lens, equaled 80,000 candle power. Its visibility — 21 miles from shore — is limited only by the curvature of the earth. The lighthouse operated with human keepers until automation took over in 1963 and the location was turned over to Oregon Parks and Recreation in 2001. A new nonprofit, Keepers of the Heceta Head Lightstation, has been formed to share its story and to support the preservation and enhancement of the structures and grounds so they are accessible to all. Glenada, a bustling waterfront town, flourished across the Siuslaw River from Florence from 1912 to 1922. A modern hospital was planned for Glenada, but after the burning of the town’s sawmills, the town disincorporated. A t one point, Flor- ence had five newspapers, all pub- lished out of the same building with different staff. The West, The Siu- slaw Region, The Siuslaw Pilot, The Siuslaw News and the Florence Times all competed for adver- tising and readers. Some were published on Thursdays, others on Wednesdays and Saturdays, another on Fridays. The surviving paper was called The Siuslaw News. Ralph Moore pub- lished The Siuslaw News from 1923 until 1925 then sold the paper to the Port Umpqua Couri- er in February 1925. The company consolidated The Siuslaw News with the Reedsport paper in May 1925. Later, Moore returned and bought out the Courier and began the Florence Times in September 1925. 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