The Columbia Press
September 30, 2022
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State news
Avian flu found
in Tillamook
Two cases of the highly
pathogenic avian influenza
have been found in neighbor-
ing noncommercial flocks in
Tillamook County, the U.S
Department of Agriculture
announced Wednesday.
So far none have been found
in Clatsop County and these
are the first confirmed cases
of HPAI in Tillamook Coun-
ty.
Other Oregon counties
with cases include Coos,
Deschutes, Lane, Linn, and
Polk. The two Tillamook
County flocks consist of ap-
proximately 60 chickens and
ducks. The flock owners did
not sell eggs or other poultry
products. Therefore, federal
guidelines do not require a
quarantine.
The flocks were humane-
ly euthanized to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Umatilla Depot
gets a new name
The Umatilla Chemical De-
pot in northeastern Oregon
was renamed the Raymond
F. Rees Training Center, in
honor of retired Maj. Gen.
Raymond F. Rees, during a
ceremony that was planned
for Thursday, Sept. 29.
Rees is a retired guardsman
who also served as Oregon’s
adjutant general for more
than 16 years, responsible
Grant: Real-world experience
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CTE are all about career-con-
nected learning.
The school will partner with
community members skilled
in the trades needed to build
the project and students will
learn directly from them.
“We can’t throw them on
a mower, but they can learn
how the machine works,”
Jannusch said. “I want them
to see that these careers are
possible in Clatsop County.
… The idea is to provide stu-
dents with a chance to see
how what they’re learning
in school directly ties to jobs
they could be doing in the fu-
ture. It’s pretty unique to do
that within a middle school
setting.”
Pacific Power Founda-
tion is donating more than
$300,000 this grant cycle in
its service areas -- Oregon,
Washington and a portion of
Northern California.
The WMS grant was one of
two in Clatsop County. The
other goes to the Seaside
branch of the American Asso-
ciation of University Women
for its college scholarship pro-
gram.
Research shows that learn-
ing happens best when so-
cial, emotional and cognitive
growth are connected, the
foundation wrote in announc-
ing the grant awards.
The primary grant targets
are organizations that provide
education and STEM learning
opportunities.
“These organizations are
seeing the needs and doing
the important work of sup-
porting families and commu-
nity members,” Pacific Power
President Stefan Bird said. “It
is an honor to augment their
work.”
For school district adminis-
trators, it’s all about prepar-
ing children for the real world
where they’ll need to find liv-
ing-wage jobs that they’ll en-
joy.
“This will give our students a
leg up as they’re going off into
trade school, the job market, a
two-year school or four-year
school,” Jannusch said.
Ret. Maj. Gen. Raymond Rees
with providing the state and
country with a ready force of
citizen soldiers and airmen.
The depot opened in 1941 as
the Umatilla Army Ordnance
Depot.
In 2017, the Oregon Mil-
itary Department secured
7,500 acres at the depot as a
training site for the Oregon
National Guard.
Fire team heads to
Florida for Ian aid
The Oregon state fire mar-
shal sent a team of 13 inci-
dent managers to Florida on
Wednesday to assist with the
response to Hurricane Ian.
They will be there for up to
two weeks.
The Florida Division of
Emergency Management re-
quested aid through a mutual
agreement with the Oregon
Department of Emergency
Management.
Specific work sites will be
determined as they travel
and as Hurricane Ian contin-
ues to push across Florida.
State will pilot
Medicaid changes
Oregon received federal
approval Wednesday to pilot
first-in-the-nation changes
to the state’s Medicaid pro-
gram.
Under the agreement, Ore-
gon would receive $1.1 billion
in new federal funds over the
next five years to address in-
adequate food, housing and
other issues that lead to poor
health for people and fami-
lies struggling to make ends
meet.
As part of the agreement,
the federal government also
approved expanded Oregon
Health Plan coverage for
young children, and extend-
ed eligibility for youth and
adults.
The Oregon Health Plan,
which is Oregon’s Medicaid
program, provides health
coverage to 1.4 million Or-
egonians, more than one in
three state residents.
EV stations to go
in on I-5, 205, 97
New
electric
vehicle
charging stations are coming
to Oregon as part of a federal
plan to build a standardized
charging network.
Most will go along major
roads as early as next year.
Oregon Department of
Transportation will receive
$9.6 million this fiscal year,
and a total of $65 million
over the next five years.
The fast charging networks
will first go in along Inter-
states 5 and 205, and High-
way 97.
Elevens stations, each with
four DC Fast Chargers, are
expected in 2023. The sta-
tions will be within a mile of
an exit, and spaced 50 miles
apart.