Sentinel Correspondent
CEYLON Tonight or early Sunday morning we turn our clocks ahead one hour to go on Daylight Savings Time. Don’t forget or you will be late for church or whatever you have planned for Sunday events.
Area churches are planning their midweek Lenten services. Circle of Faith parishes will meet 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Welcome. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Ceylon will host their dual congregation, Wilbert, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Due to COVID restrictions, there will be no lunch or meal at these church’s Wednesday services.
Ceylon Fire Department Relief Association has scheduled an all- you- can-eat pancake breakfast/brunch from 9 a.m. to noon on March 21 at the Legends II building. The menu will include pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, ham, sausage, coffee and juice. This will be a dine-in or drive-up fundraiser. The dive-up will be handled at the back door by the alley. If you cannot attend and would like to
Sentinel Correspondent
CEYLON Ceylon City Council will meet 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Ceylon City Hall. All members are urged to attend. There is time for public comments/questions at the beginning of each meeting. If the comment will take more than five minutes or you want to be on the regular agenda, please contact the city clerk at (507) 632-4653 prior to the meeting.
Tuesday is also the date scheduled for the March meeting of the Ceylon Legion and Sons of the Legion. All members are urged to attend the 7 p.m. meeting at the Legends II building. Some of the agenda includes Memorial Day preparations. Everyone is needed.
and is local . i live in roseburg. is local radio reporting anything that we should know? we re going with this insane figure of seven to ten feared dead and 20 injured. well, from what we understand locally, there s ten people that died, two more died en route and there s several injured people that they re getting eugene hospital s ready for them as well. roseburg area hospital is not a trauma one center, mercy, the hospital in this town is not equipped for that kind of stuff. it really isn t. and have you talked to anyone who was there at the time? no, i haven t. okay. larry howell, thank you. kate snow here with us. on that point, there is on that point, brian, there is another hospital roseburg v.a.
gentleman s voice what a shock this is. to piece this together a bit, it looks like the first call to 911 was at 10:38 a.m. local time in oregon that shots had been fired on the campus of the umpqua community college. you ve been looking at the aerial map, east of i-5. it s located was built next to a bend in the river. opened in 1961. served thousands of students. most of them older adults. most of them part time and not full time. larry howell, one of them, has been on the phone with us and has been kind enough to wait for us. larry, you just heard that gentleman from kgw. i m quite sure you can hear him locally if you chose to. anything that he said that should be added to, any description of this building where it apparently happened? well, the way the campus
of the seattle office saying there are ten atf agents there to roseburg to assist. you have folks coming in from the eugene and seattle office. k-9 officers are heading there also. eugene an hour outside of roseburg. and this spokesperson brian bennett was telling me it is a challenge when you talk about a distance like this. you ve been showing the map of where roseburg is in relation to the rest of the state, the cities in the state and he said it s really hard to assess from the distance. their party is getting there and getting on the ground to help out as needed. the atf no new information at the moment on the firearm, the shooter, the things that they might be typically investigating, all of that, brian, to come with time. thank you, hallie jackson. we re joined on the telephone by larry howell who is an active student at the community college, was not on campus at