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Kitzhaber talks housing, poplars and biomass
Gov. John Kitzhaber, on the first day of a three-day swing through Eastern Oregon, talked Monday about bringing affordable housing to the working people of Morrow County during a stop at Boardman City Hall.
The Oregon Solutions team in Boardman met with Kitzhaber for an hour to discuss building more market-rate rental housing. Kitzhaber said the state can help create housing for workers in family-wage jobs, paticularly at the bustling Port of Morrow.
“There is a very solid and diverse economic foundation here, but the second thing is a serious housing issue getting in the way,” Kitzhaber said.
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Kitzhaber talks housing, poplars and biomass. East Oregonian. April 3, 2012.Build It and They Will Come: Juvenile Chinook Salmon Found at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough!
For the first time in over 60 years, juvenile spring Chinook salmon can swim freely through newly created side channels of the Willamette River at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough.
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Build It and They Will Come: Juvenile Chinook Salmon Found at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough!. City of Eugene. Feb. 8, 2012.Oregon effort will green portable classrooms
A pair of architects at Portland State University is turning their eco-friendly designs to a multi-billion national industry: portable classrooms. The state of Oregon is supporting their work, recognizing a green solution to the burgeoning portable school expansion may have implications for both public schools and the economy.
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Oregon effort will green portable classrooms. Sustainable Business Oregon. 10-06-2011.New collaborative gears up on Umatilla Forest
The newly formed Umatilla National Forest Collaborative Group will meet Monday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Umatilla National Forest Supervisor’s Office in Pendleton. “I’m anxious to hear everyone’s thoughts on potential projects, so we can begin developing a plan for how everyone can work together and get on-the-ground results,” said Elaine Eisenbraun, collaborative group coordinator and executive director for the North Fork John Day Watershed Council.
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New collaborative gears up on Umatilla Forest. Blue Mountain Eagle. 09-23-2011.Vernonia stakes future on new school
In the winter of 2007, a series of Pacific storms unleashed their fury on Vernonia, a small town in rural northwest Oregon that sits on the Nehalem River. The river crested seven feet above flood stage, and the ensuing flood swamped nearly half of Vernonia’s homes, one third of its downtown buildings, the town’s sewer and electric systems, community health clinic, senior center and food bank. The entire school district — elementary, middle and high schools along with the Head Start building — was left in ruins.
The damage to Vernonia’s property was estimated at $113 million. The damage to Vernonia’s soul was incalculable.
How could this tiny community survive such loss? There were some who believed it could not. But there were many more who believed this was exactly the moment — when Vernonia was on its knees — to re-invent this struggling town surrounded by lush forests, streams and parkland, and in those places plant a future.
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Vernonia stakes future on new school. Oregon Business magazine. October 2011.Portable dangers: PSU architect wants to build a better classroom, state industry
When local schools bulge with too many students, one of the first options for school districts is slapping a new “portable classroom” on the playground.
They’re cheap. They go up quickly. And they don’t require voter approval of a bond measure.
Portland Public Schools – which has built only two new schools in the past 40 years – uses 129 portables, many of them with two classrooms each, says district spokesman Matt Shelby.
Those portables could easily provide classroom space for 5,000 or more students, or one out of every nine students in the district.
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Portable dangers: PSU architect wants to build a better classroom, state industry. Portland Tribune. 09-29-2011.Monthly Archive
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