Making the community a better place May 11 2021
Third grade students at Steins Pillar join partnership with Delta Waterfowl to create mallard nests for the Crooked River Wetlands
As the weather becomes more moderate and the sunshine invites young scholars outside, many classes are participating in school projects, while basking in the lambent radiance of a spring day.
Last week, a classroom of third graders were immersed in a project that resulted in the culmination of creating a number of mallard houses. The project was a partnership between Steins Pillar Elementary students, the City of Prineville and Delta Waterfowl.
Delta Waterfowl, which was founded as a research organization, is The Duck Hunters Organization, which is a leading conservation group founded at the famed Delta Marsh in Manitoba, Canada, with its United States headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota.
City and county help a small town in need March 09 2021
Crook County Judge Seth Crawford, City of Prineville Public Works team up to provide Aurora leaders a generator during a power outage caused by an ice storm
Aurora, a small Marion County community of about 1,000 people about 20 miles south of Portland, was facing a serious problem.
An ice storm that blasted much of the Willamette Valley on Friday, Feb. 12 had caused power outages throughout much of the area, shutting down vital infrastructure in the small town. By Saturday, we were watching our consumption of water in our tower, Aurora Mayor Brian Asher recalls. We ended up figuring out that we only had about 20-something hours of water left for the city.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife rejects fish passage waiver, putting project on hold
A fish passage waiver was all that stood in the way of the city of Prineville and Ochoco Irrigation District moving forward on a hydroelectric power project on Bowman Dam.
That waiver was denied by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife last fall, so the two local entities officially pulled the plug earlier this month, terminating its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission preliminary permit. It s unfortunate, said City Engineer Eric Klann.
Since passage of the Crooked River Collaborative Water Security and Jobs Act paved the way for hydropower generation on Bowman Dam, city and OID officials had been trying to get approval to build a 3-megawatt plant on the dam. The project cleared most hurdles but still needed to account for the affect the dam will have on fish passage along the river.
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Alzheimer s Disease
Alzheimer s was discovered more than 100 years ago, but a cure has still not been found.
About 50 million people worldwide have dementia, according to the WHO, and Alzheimer s contributes to up to 70% of cases. The WHO estimates that the total number of people with dementia will reach 82 million in 2030 and 152 million in 2050. It s now among the top 10 causes of death, according to the WHO s 2019 Global Health Estimates.
Before the study, the scientists established that in the brains of Alzheimer s patients, key elements of the machinery that allows protein production were depleted in the hippocampus. This led them to think that protein synthesis may also be impaired.