More than 100-year-old black walnut to be removed from Oregon City High School campus
Oregon City School District officials expressed much dismay in announcing this month that one of the two iconic walnut trees in front of the high school will have to be removed.
District officials said that the more than 100-year-old tree has a disease causing decay on the south side of its trunk, requiring it to be chopped down before students return to the campus this fall. Since the unbalanced crown decline is progressive, according to the announcement, this irreversible disease is causing a safety and health risk to the building, grounds and potential pedestrians.
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Embattled leader moves to Clackamas Education Service District May 27 2021
Oregon City Superintendent Larry Didway, under investigation by state officials, lands top job in countywide group
Oregon City Superintendent Larry Didway will become the new leader of the Clackamas Education Service District on July 1, the CESD Board announced at its May 26 meeting.
According to the new three-year contract, Didway will make $205,750 annually in the position replacing retiring CESD Superintendent Jada Rupley to lead the district providing various administrative services like printing and background checks for 10 school districts throughout Clackamas County. Didway is making $169,582 annually in his current position, having received a 3% raise in July 2020, and a 5% raise in July 2019.
In many Asian American families, racism is rarely discussed Vox.com 3 hrs ago Rachel Ramirez © Lizzie Chen for Vox Sandi Chai (center) with her daughters, Shalom (left) and Zoe, in College Station, Texas.
Sandi Chai immigrated to the United States from Taichung, Taiwan, at 22 to attend college. She settled in a small, rural town in Texas called Brownwood, where she met and later married her then-husband and raised two daughters.
Chai says she never encountered any form of discrimination before moving to Texas, where she not only dealt with everything from being ignored to being followed around in stores as a suspected shoplifter but also experienced racism from her white ex-husband’s family. But Chai never really talked about these issues with her daughters until recently.
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Sandi Chai immigrated to the United States from Taichung, Taiwan, at 22 to attend college. She settled in a small, rural town in Texas called Brownwood, where she met and later married her then-husband and raised two daughters.
Chai says she never encountered any form of discrimination before moving to Texas, where she not only dealt with everything from being ignored to being followed around in stores as a suspected shoplifter but also experienced racism from her white ex-husband’s family. But Chai never really talked about these issues with her daughters until recently.
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