GOLD HILL, Ore. A Gold Hill man is watching the Tokyo Olympics in a special light.
Steve Kiesling successfully qualified for the U.S. Olympic Rowing team back in 1980, but the Cold War prevented him from getting his shot to compete and live out his dream.
“Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and President Carter decided we shouldn’t go, I mostly like Carter, but that was just the stupidest thing in the world – it’s still painful,” said Kiesling.
His Olympic dream died hard.
“It was pretty awful… it was that moment… that I put all this effort, and wait a minute, we’re not going anywhere,” he said.
MEDFORD, Ore. With high temperatures in the forecast, the City of Medford is opening a cooling shelter this weekend at the Medford Senior Center.
The shelter will be open today and tomorrow from 12 to 8 p.m. located at 510 East Main Street.
The shelter is providing lots of snacks and lunches for people, as well.
“We have ice water, we have popsicles, we have mats they can lay down if they want because it’s really hard to sleep when it’s hot outside and they can just hang out until 8 p.m.,” said volunteer, Shannon Holland.
The shelter also has a cooling area and water for pets.
MEDFORD, Ore. Parents looking for a night out without their children have the option of letting Rogue Cheer Athletics babysit this evening.
The athletics program is hosting ‘Parents gone Rogue’ night in order to fundraise for transportation to nationals next year.
For $30, parents can drop their children off at 2 E. Main Street at 5:30 and pick them up at 8:30.
“The idea since we’re so centrally located on Main and Front, parents can drop their kids off with us coaches, we have a coaching staff of 4 that is usually here and we’re all moms,” said co-owner and Head Coach, Becky Abbott.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Have you heard of a ‘Burned Area Emergency Response’ team?
A group of about 20 U.S. Forest Service workers are currently assessing recently burned areas of the Tennant Fire in northern California.
The BAER Team Leader, Jeff Tenpas, says the team comes up with treatments to minimize damage to scorched natural resources.
He says with the ground cover burnt, the team seeks out areas where flooding or falling rocks could occur more easily.
This comes after the fire burned over 10,000 acres.
“There’s going to be more run off, mudflows, resources damaged by the fire one of way or another,” said Tenpas.
NBC5 News reporter Mariah Mills is a Medford native. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism. She also minored in sociology.
In school, she covered Oregon athletics for the student-run television station, Duck TV. When she’s not reporting, she’s reading, hiking and rooting for her favorite teams, the Seattle Seahawks and the Oregon Ducks.
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