The Ashland Family YMCA has always had an internal safety plan, says Heidi Hill, chief executive of the organization. But not until last fall did the nonprofit have a specific plan for a wildfire evacuation on the books. It is the first local organization to ask Ashland Emergency Management Coordinator Kelly Burns how to make such a plan.
An Ashland artist was given a chance to paint a special mural, one that might help those who are in need. With a mandate to “engage and possibly lighten the load of the people passing beside it,” muralist Sarah Bernard began what would become a four-month project painting a mural on a dining room wall at the OHRA homeless shelter in Ashland.
“My daughter suffered for 21 days in the hospital. I can suffer for 30 hours in the wilderness, running in her memory.” That’s what Tim Smith, a pharmacist at Asante Ashland Community Hospital, says about his plan to run 100 miles through the Siskiyous six years after the passing of 11-year-old Kharma Smith in 2019 and days before what would have been her 18th birthday, Sept. 28.
Loss of access to a pair of popular Ashland watershed trails for a half-year ended up lasting less than three weeks after public outcry and the realization a temporary pedestrian bridge could be installed in a former creek-crossing site without undergoing a time-consuming permitting process resulted in opening of a temporary bridge on Aug. 8, just 19 days after the July 21 trail closure.
Southern Oregon residents interested in learning more about composting have multiple upcoming chances to get acquainted with the details of scraps-to-soil and its importance and role in a changing climate.
Despite an expected loss of $750,000 over the next two years, the Siskiyou Mountain Club is devising ways to continue its mission of maintaining and improving public lands in Southern Oregon and far Northern California.
Following her visit to Japan earlier this month for the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Hiroshima survivor Dr. Hideko Tamura shared her experiences of the memorial and of the bombing with those at a Southern Oregon Japanese Association gathering at the Medford Public Library’s Community Room Sunday, Aug. 17.
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now will host a free educational talk on how climate change impacts wildfires and ways Southern Oregon residents can take action from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Medford Public Library.
A 16-person crew has taken on trail improvement work in the Fremont-Winema National Forest’s Mountain Lakes Wilderness.
The Amigo Club of Ashland hosts a community fundraiser in support of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Ashland–Guanajuato, Mexico, sister city relationship on Saturday, Aug. 16, at The Historic Ashland Armory. The evening will feature live music by Salsa Brava, free dance lessons, and a selection of tapas and beverages, with proceeds supporting people-to-people cultural exchange between the two cities.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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