COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
| OCTOBER 1, 2020 | 9A
PeaceHealth to host two drive-thru flu shot clinics in The Grove
In the COVID-19 pan-
demic, important that
community
members
have access to influenza
vaccinations.
To make receiving in-
fuenza vaccinations easi-
er and convenient, Peace-
Health Medical Group at
Cottage Grove Commu-
nity Medical Center will
hold two drive-through
flu shot clinics at 1515
Village Drive.
The first will be held
Wednesday, Oct. 7, from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The second drive-
through vaccination will
be held Wednesday, Oct.
28, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The flu shot clinics are
open to anyone age 12
or older. (A pediatric flu
clinic will be scheduled at
a later date.) The flu shot
drive-through clinic will
be held just south of the
hospital’s main entrance.
Look for directional
signs on Village Drive.
A PeaceHealth care-
giver will greet cars and
fill out the appropriate
paperwork. PeaceHealth
will bill patients’ insur-
ance for the vaccination.
Those who are not
PeaceHealth
patients
may register as a patient
to have their insurance
billed for the vaccination.
Patients without insur-
ance, or who choose not
to have their insurance
billed, can receive the
vaccination for $25.
Schools from A1
maintain a case rate of 10
cases or less per 100,000
of the population and
a test positivity rate of
5 percent or less in the
preceding seven days.
Statewide, the metrics
must hold at a test posi-
tivity rate of 5 percent or
less in the preceding sev-
en days, also for three
weeks.
So far, Oregon has not
yet met the standard. For
the week of Sept. 20–26,
Oregon Health Authori-
ty (OHA) reported Ore-
gon’s cases per 100,000 at
48.1 and test positivity at
6.3 percent.
Furthermore,
Lane
County has seen a steep
rise in the number of
cases.
For the week starting
Sept. 20, OHA report-
“They did a successful pivot to CDL,”
she said. “They had kids online today.
A lot of theirs will be packets probably
in the first two to three weeks.”
SLSD board meeting.
South Lane Educa-
tion Association Repre-
sentative Dawn Stetina
reported to the board
that she had the chance
to observe some Google
Classroom sessions in
person.
“It looks pretty solid,”
she said. “It was pretty
fun to watch and I have
to admit I was pleasantly
amazed and surprised.”
South Lane and other
districts have been put-
ting staff through hours
of professional develop-
ment courses to ensure
a seamless return to
school under the CDL
model.
Around 1,360
Chromebooks and 220
internet hot spots have
been made available to
ensure students have ac-
cess to remote learning.
SLSD Superintendent
Yvonne Curtis told the
board that the readjust-
ment for the younger
students seemed to be
working.
“They did a successful
pivot to CDL,” she said.
“They had kids online
today. A lot of theirs
will be packets probably
in the first two to three
weeks.
“We’re hoping to get
more online going.”
to a hybrid model for
all grades by Nov. 2 may
also not be met.
To return to in-person
instruction, school dis-
tricts must be in a coun-
ty that meets certain cri-
teria.
For three weeks in
a row, a county must
First Steps to Reducing
Household Waste
David Gardiepy
EcoGeneration Founder and Executive Director
Did you know, the average American
tosses out 4.5 pounds of waste a day.
Our per capita average in Oregon is much
higher, sitting at around 7.6 pounds of
waste a day. It is important to note that
waste is defi ned by the United States
EPA to include all materials thrown in
the trash bin and the recycle bin. It may
be helpful to consider waste as, anything
that you or your household no longer has
use for, no longer needs and thus will
eventually be discarded. When you think
of waste per individual over a year, you
are able to understand the magnitude of
the problem. The average Oregonian gen-
erates 2,774 pounds of waste in a year,
and plastic only comprises an average
of 185 pounds of that waste, less than
1% of an individual’s total waste (based
on weight). Plastic comprises a larger
portion of an individual’s waste when
you think of it in terms of volume instead
of weight.
Knowing that waste is defi ned to include
both recycling and landfi lled items it may
seem like there is little options in the way
of waste reduction at the bin. However,
this is not true as it is imperative that
you know what you are throwing away
to better understand how to reduce your
waste. You can assess your waste through
a waste audit, where you examine a full
bag of garbage prior to sending it on its
way to the landfi ll. The intent of a waste
audit is for you to see the waste, catego-
rize it, and consider how to reduce it.
For the fi rst step in your waste audit, de-
termine how long you want to track your
waste and how many receptacles you are
going to track it in. Are you going to
track all your waste, including recycling
or just your trash. Generally, we suggest
that you start with just your trash bin.
The next thing to decide, as mentioned,
how many bins are you going to track?
Note, if your house has multiple trash
cans it may be helpful to consider reduc-
ing the number you have. Lastly, deter-
mine the length of your audit. Do you
want to track a day, a week, or an entire
month? If tracking more than a week,
we suggest breaking the audit down to
weekly audits, so that you do not store a
month’s worth of trash.
The next step in your waste
audit will occur after you
have collected your ma-
terials for the determined
time period. It is important
to prep your space, noting
that you will likely need
a tarp or clear concrete
surface (for easy clean up)
ideally indoors. You may
also want a pair of gloves.
We recommend using a pair
of gardening gloves so that
they can be washed when
you are fi nished.
Now it is time to organize
all your waste. Assum-
ing that you choose your
trash bin, we recommend
categorizing into the
following categories: Food
Waste, other organic waste
(including pet waste), po-
tential recyclables (paper/
metal/glass), plastics, and
everything else. Once
you have completed this,
the next step is to chart or
record the items. You can
be as detailed as you would
like (count each specifi c
item) or you can generalize
by weighing each category and making
notes on the most common items.
For those who choose to audit all their
waste, you can break your recyclables
down into the following suggested cate-
gories: OR deposit containers, paper/pa-
per board, cardboard, plastics, glass, and
metals. You would then proceed to sort
and record as you did with your trash.
*We hope that your plastics are separated
from curbside recycling, and set aside to
bring to a Recycling Take-Back.*
Now that the mess is cleaned up, you
are able to fully assess your household’s
waste. The fi rst step in reduction is
knowing. Now you are able to decide
what actions you can take to reduce
what your house’s discarded items. In
some instances it is a simple switch to
a different brand with less packaging.
Such as going from Chobani yogurt to a
brand without the outside shrink wrap on
the container. Another option would be
to change to a brand whose packaging is
recyclable. For instance switching from
Franz bread packaged in #5 or #7 fi lm,
to bread bagged in #2 or #4 fi lm. Or you
can opt to ditch the plastic packaging and
go to a local bakery for your bread, and
compost the paper bag if it gets to dirty
to recycle.
A benefi t of a waste audit is that you
are also able to look at all the waste at
once. You may fi nd that there are things
that have been discarded that could be
reused or upcycled. We encourage you
to look for ways to reuse items. Those
butter containers and lids provide a cost
effective opportunity to organize your
shop, garage, craft room, or kids rooms.
There are many creative ways to reuse
items. If you are struggling on coming
up with ideas, a google search of the item
and “upcycle” should provide you with
some great examples.
You can fi nd resources in the News and
How to section of our website, that will
help you conduct a waste audit (www.
ecogeneration.org).
—SLSD Superintendent Yvonne Curtis
ed the county as having
64.9 cases per 100,000
and a 7.1 percent posi-
tivity in testing.
The trend seems to be
reflected locally as well.
Lane County Public
Health data on Wednes-
day listed COVID-19
cases as having risen to
45 in ZIP code 97424.
The setback means
SLSD and other districts’
timelines for learning
models in this school
year may change, though
SLSD officials could not
speculate yet on what a
new timeline might look
like.
Despite the sudden
readjustment,
reports
surrounding the imple-
mentation of distance
learning were largely
positive at a Sept. 28
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