PGE service restore estimates Not available; 270,000 customers without power Monday morning
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Roadside weeds frozen by the ice storm Friday night and Saturday morning frame filbert trees along Peavine Road.
Portland General Electric, facing an escalation in power outages, has eliminated estimates for restoring power throughout its service area. Those estimates, previously going to midnight Tuesday, now are replaced with, “Not available at this time.”
The utility, serving 7 northwest Oregon counties, reported Monday morning having 1,175 outages affecting 270,105 customers. As of 6:20 a.m. there were 15 transmission lines, 7 substations and 106 feeders out of service, with 4,408 wires down and 206 miles of transmission lines to be repaired. PGE said it has 2,500 people working to restore power.
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FFA food collection effort overcomes COVID-19 challenges, totals 190 tons
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PERRYDALE, Ore. â Food For All, the Perrydale FFA-led effort to collect, package and deliver this year nearly 190 tons of farm-grown fresh fruits and vegetables to 8,000 needy families statewide, had a new challenge this year â COVID-19.
Coronavirus concerns have kept students away from the seven Lower Willamette FFA District schools involved in the Food For All packaging efforts.
At Central High School in mid-December, two of the schoolâs custodians, two ag teachers and two English teachers were among a group of 10 or so who were sorting large donations of onions and apples into family-sized net bags for delivery to families throughout the state.