Mail Food Drive to go on as planned…
When Karen Lyn found out that mail carriers would not be picking up food in the annual “cans for carriers” food drive this year, she didn’t panic. But, was concerned.
204 – “We, um, feel like this is too important of a food drive in too important of a year to let it go.”
Mail carriers said it was just too difficult to handle the increased mail delivery this time of year along with the added chore of collecting as much as 12-thousand pounds of food. So, Lyn, the manager of Florence Food Share came up with a solution.
205 – “This year the Florence post office is sponsoring the drive, but Food Share volunteers are actually picking up the food. This is our absolutely biggest food drive of the year and we really need the food.”
But, Lyn says, they need volunteers to shadow mail carriers both this Saturday and next Saturday, following them on their route and picking up donations that have been left by mailboxes. She says the collections during the postal drive can help stock shelves at Food Share well into the new year.
206 – “And that helps us really go for a while. It helps us a lot. So, we have to. We have to get the food.”
The largest food drive of the year also coincides with the largest fund drive for Food Share… the annual Empty Bowls fund raiser is set for Friday evening and Saturday at the Florence Events Center.
Lane Community College has had a dynamic presence in Florence over the years. Beginning with a ‘skills center’ in borrowed space at Siuslaw High School it eventually moved into a free-standing facility. Recent expansion and improvements to the center include a state of the art science lab and a new ‘smart’ classroom. Once focused on vocational and adult education classes, it now offers opportunities for a variety of accomplishments, including an Associate of Arts Transfer Degree and medical services training… even nursing. This afternoon’s Our Town on KCST will focus on what’s in store next for the center. Also during the program, there’ll be a look at the Lane Memorial Blood Bank; the Oregon Coast Military Heritage Museum and the annual Community Christmas Basket project… the show airs on KCST from four to six pm.
Prices at the pump haven’t shown much movement this week. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded, as measured by Triple-A, dropped a cent-and-a-half this week and is at $2.85. The local average fell by a similar amount and is at $2.83 a gallon. Oregon’s Average price, according to Triple-A, held steady at $3.01. In Eugene, the average price is $3.06.
One local service organization had been gearing up to begin their annual Christmas Candy Sale today… But you’ll have to wait until Saturday for some See’s Candy. Once again, the Florence Kiwanis Club will be selling See’s inside the Sears Store across from Safeway. Candy will be available from ten to six Monday through Saturday… 11 to four Sundays… through Christmas Eve… or until they run out.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - The Lane County district attorney's office
says no criminal charges are planned against a barista who fatally
shot a man during a coffee stand robbery in Eugene. The coffee shop
employee hasn't been identified except as a man in his 20s. The
Register-Guard reports the man who was killed was 27-year-old Sirus
Combs of Eugene.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Steady rain did little to keep residents
in the Oregon town of Corvallis from showing their support for an
Islamic center where a teenager accused of plotting mass killings
in Portland occasionally worshipped. More than 300 people attended
a vigil yesterday at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center, where an
apparent arson fire was set two days after 19-year-old Mohamed
Osman Mohamud was arrested in Portland in an FBI terrorism sting
operation.
INDEPENDENCE, Calif. (AP) - Rescue crews are searching by ground
and by air for a hiker from Oregon who's missing in the wilderness
near California's Mt. Whitney. Inyo County sheriff's spokeswoman
Carma Roper says 37-year-old Christian Meining of Portland has not
been seen since Friday morning.
NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) - The Yamhill County sheriff's office says it
has suspended the search for a Newberg man believed to have
disappeared last Friday while fishing on the Willamette River.
Sheriff's Capt. Ken Summers cited poor weather, rising water levels
and the risk to divers as the search ended yesterday for
49-year-old Kevin Troy Williams.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland man has been sentenced to more
than 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to seven counts of
unarmed bank robbery. James Michael Wallace had just been released
from a 12-year federal prison stay for bank robbery when
investigators say he began to rob again.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Oregon may face summer water shortages,
an increased wildfire risk and more extreme weather events if
temperatures keep warming up. That from a new report examining
potential responses to an Oregon climate that may increase in
average temperature by up to one degree Fahrenheit per decade
through this century.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A new study shows the recession hit the
Portland metro area harder than many other big cities around the
world. The Oregonian reports Portland fell from a pre-recession
rank of 45th to 139th during the worst of the recession, one of the
steepest declines among the 150 metros in the survey.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Prep Basketball gets underway this evening for the Mapleton Sailors as they host the Oregon School for the Deaf… the girls get under way at 5:30… the boys at seven.
College Basketball tonight in Corvallis… Oregon State hosting Utah Valley at seven. That game will air on KCFM with the pregame show getting under way at 6:30.
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