GOVERNOR KOTEK SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDER 26-07 DECLARING A DROUGHT IN JACKSON COUNTY ALONG WITH FIVE OTHER COUNTIES CROOK, GRANT, JEFFERSON, MORROW, AND WALLOWA. THE ORDER DIRECTS STATE AGENCIES TO COORDINATE AND PRIORITIZE ASSISTANCE TO OUR REGION. IN MARCH THE GOVERNOR DECLARED DROUGHT EMERGENCIES FOR BAKER, DESCHUTES AND UMATILLA COUNTIES WITH A TOTAL OF NINE COUNTIES UNDER THE EMERGENCY ORDER.
AND ALONG THE SAME LINE OF THINKING THE ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL IS URGING RESIDENTS TO VOLUNTARILY CUT BACK ON WATER USE. ACCORDING TO ASHLAND DOT NEWS, PUBLIC DIRECTOR SCOTT FLEURY SAYS THE CITY WILL ISSUE EVEN GREATER APPEALS FOR WATER CURTAILMENT WHEN IT BEGINS TO DRAW DOWN REEDER RESERVOIR, THE CITY’S MAIN WATER SOURCE.
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE CITY OF MEDFORD HAS A LOT OF NEW CAR WASHES WHICH HAVE OPENED IN RECENT MONTHS. DAILY COURIER REPORTING THE MEDFORD CITY COUNCIL IS LOOKING TO CREATE RULES TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF THEM IN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
CUTS COMING TO OREGON’S NIKE CORPORATION, AS THEY ANNOUNCE 1400 JOBS GOING AWAY, MOST OF THEM TECHNOLOGY WORKERS. THE COMPANY HINTED THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN MARCH WHEN A SECURITIES FILING INDICATED THEY WERE GOING TO SPEND 300 MILLION DOLLARS TO CUT COSTS, MOSTLY THROUGH SEVERANCE PAY PACKAGES.
AND FINALLY TODAY IS ARBOR DAY, SO PLANT A TREE. GRANGE CO-OP LOCATIONS IN SOUTHERN OREGON ARE GIVING AWAY MORE THAN 1,400 FREE SAPLINGS, WHICH INCLUDES SHADE TREES SUITABLE FOR OUR CLIMATE. ONE SAPLING PER HOUSEHOULD WHIL SUPPLIES LAST AND STARTS AT 11 THIS MORNING.