MALHEUR COUNTY
Tuesdayâs Risk Level Metrics: Schools and Counties report, posted weekly on the Oregon Health Authority website, shows a continuing decline in both new cases of COVID-19 and test positivity rate in Malheur County. During the two-week period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 13, the county recorded 41 new cases and a test positivity rate of 3.9%. The rate of cases was 128 per 100,000 people.
Todayâs report was issued during a âwarning week,â an opportunity for Oregon counties to prepare for the possibility that they might move to a different level of the stateâs risk level system, based on data collected over a two-week period. Changes in risk level occur during âmovement weeks.â
JUNE 1, 1935 â JAN. 31, 2021
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If you could bottle sunshine, it would be our momâs beautiful smile.
Joyce Marilyn McLean, Ontario, passed away to be with her Heavenly Father on January 31, 2021, at the age of 85.
Joyce was born June 1, 1935 to Richard and Helen Belford, Lakewood, Ohio. She was the only child, and adored by her parents and four grandparents. Growing up she spent long summer vacationâs at her grandpa and grandma Kyddâs island at Crane Lake, Canada, fishing, boating, and swimming. She loved those idyllic summers with her beloved Kydd family.
She developed a passion for music at a young age, taking piano lessons in grade school and then playing the French horn in her marching band at Lakewood High School. She graduated from there in 1953. As a freshman at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, she met the love of her life, Fran an upperclass men. She loved her music courses, marching in her college band, belonging to a sororit
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A first-come, first-serve vaccine clinic will be offered by the Malheur County Health Department from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, and individuals 80 and older will be eligible to get in line. According to the health department, there will be about 400 first doses of the Moderna vaccine distributed to those who show up and are part of phases 1a through 1b group 2.
âWe are currently prioritizing the older adults in our community and will be scheduling a weekly opportunity for them to be vaccinated, as long as vaccine allocations continue,â MCHD Director Sarah Poe said in a news release.
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Oregon Folklife Network partners with Four Rivers Cultural Center and the High Desert Museum out of Bend to support staff folklorists who sustain folklife programming across this large and diverse state.
The next folklorist to come to assist the Cultural Center with coordinating the annual Tradition Keepers Folklife Festivals this year and in 2022 will be Latham Wood.
âWe are excited to announce that Latham T. Wood, a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon and former OFN graduate employee, has accepted a folklorist position at the Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario,â reads a news release from Oregon Folklife Network. âDuring his time with OFN, Latham coordinated our 2018-19 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, working with many former TAAP masters to pilot the first of what we hope will be many artist mentorship gatherings.â