Our Town North: Aug. 1, 2020

Civics 101

Family Matters

Paycheck Protection Program helps local businesses – Page 4

Vol. 17 No. 15

Parents discuss concerns over school plans for fall– Page 12

COMMUNITY NEWS Serving Mt. Angel, Silverton, and Scotts Mills

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Co-workers co-quarantine – Page 9

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Contents

SILVERTON SENIOR CENTER What’s going on at the Senior Center?

5 Civics 101 PPP recipients announced................... 4

Passages............................... 10

Business Whole Circle invests in CBG.................. 5

Datebook.............................. 11 Something To Think About

Something Fun Silverton aims to re-connect................ 6

Parents weigh-in on pros and cons of re-opening schools in fall...................12

Update Lions cancel Harvest Breakfast............ 7

Sports & Recreation

Helping Hands Co-workers co-quarantine................... 9

Marketplace......................15 A Grin At The End.........16 On the Cover

The Forum............................ 10

OSAA aims to delay specific sports...... 14

The Silverton Senior Center remains closed to all in-person activities other than Silver Angels Foot Care and Meals on Wheels. We have no plans to reopen further as long as virus numbers are on the rise. Our relocated front desk is staffed from 9am to 1pm weekdays, with extended hours on foot clinic days. Anyone entering the Center is subject to strict safety protocols, including temperature check. Our beloved executive director, Dodie Brockamp is perched at her new desk in the front room from 10am daily.

Since you can’t come to the Center, we are coming to you We’ve been busy dreaming up new ways to stay connected with our 50+ community. Earlier we created a huge selection of “things to do when there’s no place to go” at silvertonseniorcenter.org/at-home.

We’re currently developing a “Virtual Senior Center,” a catalog of selfproduced classes, webinars, activities and events, available online in real time, with recordings posted on our website for later viewing. We are well underway with “Lunch with Dodie,” a Zoom online program every Friday at noon. Dodie’s featured guests in August include: August 7: Paula Peterson, Manager, ReVamp Thrift August 14: Carol DeMar, Artist and Community Project August 21: Cynthia Shafer, Peer Court August 28: Phil Kelley, Attorney, introducing a Legal Series for Seniors: advance directives, power of attorney, living wills, trusts

Wendy McQueen (owner of Silverton Inn & Suites) and Alicia Perkins (manager of The Gilded Turnip)have co-quarantined with their staff at the hotel. MELISSA WAGONER

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Federal aid

SBA releases list of firms getting payroll loans

By James Day

Top Recipients

The Small Business Administration has released a list of the Paycheck Protection Program loans that were paid for by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law in March by President Donald Trump.

Through July 23 nearly 5,500 lenders approved almost 5 million loans worth more than $500 billion, according to the SBA. Banks did not charge fees for the loan processing.

The loans are broken down in six tiers: $5 million to $10 million; $2 to 5 million; $1 million to $2 million; $350,000 to $1 million; $150,000 to $350,000; and below $150,000. The data dump is so massive that addresses were not released for the loans below $150,000.

But with the average loan value of $104,000 announced by the SBA... that makes it clear that the overwhelming bulk of the lending went to small businesses.

The top recipient in Silverton was John’s

Here is a list of companies in the Silverton area that received more than $350,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program: $2 - $5 million: Interior, Exterior Specialists, Scotts Mills $1 - $2 million: John’s Waterproofing, Silverton $350,000-$1 million: Acorn Dentistry, Silverton Gabriel Farms, Silverton Oregon Garden Resort, Silverton Golden Valley Farms, Silverton Ioka Farms, Silverton J.B. Instant Lawn, Silverton Kuenzi II, Silverton Mount Angel Abbey, Mt. Angel Obersinner Farms, Silverton Family Medical Group, Silverton Schurter Trucking, Silverton Turney Excavating, Silverton West Pacific Drilling, Silverton

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John’s, which has been in business since 1974, shut down for two weeks in March because of cancellations, said Tamara Collins, marketing director.

The company was forced to furlough some of its 40 employees and once back in business they were running just three crews, below their usual six or seven crews.

During the downtime John’s employees got involved in the community. The company used PPP funds to pay them for weed pulling on Main Street in Silverton, tree beds work downtown and for sprucing up Scotts Mills Park.

“We’re still a little slow,” Collins said.

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We’re still only at five crews. It’s picked back up, but we’re not quite at full luster yet.”

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“In the eighteenth century they had a hemp goddess,” Rochelle Koch, owner of Whole Circle Farms, said, pointing to an artist’s rendition of the deity hanging on the wall of her barn.

Koch, along with her husband Peter, began growing hemp five years ago, not long after cultivation of the plants and the sale of its products became legal in Oregon.

“It’s been actually legal six years,” Koch clarified. “But people didn’t get their seeds in time.”

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“Oregon’s laws are really stringent,” Koch said of the current regulations governing how much THC is allowed in hemp both while it is growing in the field and once it has been harvested.

CBD, which stands for cannabidiol, is a chemical component of the hemp plant that is purported to relieve a whole host of ailments from arthritis and acne to diabetes and cancer.

Now the Kochs – whose products can be found in alternative medical clinics, marijuana dispensaries and even massage spas throughout Silverton – are experimenting with something new, CBG. “I want people to know that there’s something new out there,” Koch stated.

“Doctors are already requesting it.”

Although CBG itself is not actually new – it is a chemical within the hemp plant

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“We are planting five varieties of CBG,” Koch said, listing Bend, Spain and Switzerland as the origins for these still

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“It doesn’t extract as much oil, so you have to use more plant,” Koch said. But even noting this, she still holds out hope, saying, “It’ll be fun to see where we’ll go with the CBG.”

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By Melissa Wagoner “In March, we saw powerful solidarity as people supported essential workers and local businesses,” Sarah White director of Silverton Sheltering recalled. “People were shopping for the elderly and immunocompromised. We were looking out for each other.”

Also during that time Silverton Mayor Kyle Palmer reached out to a cross-section of Silverton’s service providers from city administration, the police department and Legacy Silverton Medical Center, to name a few, in an effort to create a network of support when it was most needed.

Now those services have become largely stabilized, virtually eliminating the need for the committee to function in its original capacity. In its place a new need has arisen, one which prompted the committee to reorganize, creating a wholly new mission statement.

“Several weeks ago, the mayor asked if we could expand the conversation to include strategies for healing community division, intolerance, and rancor,” White said. “We were happy to focus on this growing concern.”

With a new focus came a new name: Strong Silverton.

“Our hope is to continue to work alongside community members to restore respect and civility to our commons,” White said. “Over the past several months, we have all

Strategic committee invites Silvertonians to dine Silverton Neighborhood Night Out Friday, Aug. 14

Spend the evening in the front yard eating dinner, viewing sidewalk art, talking and getting to know neighbors while practicing physical distancing. noticed how divided we are. This plays out heavily in our social media discourse around mask wearing, schools reopening, racism, police brutality, national politics, and protests. I don’t think we’re alone in our concern about the way our community appears to be tearing itself apart. We are all hopeful that with intention, we can come together around the things that connect us and approach hard conversations in good faith.”

One method the group developed was an event they are referring to as Neighborhood Night Out. “An overwhelming consensus was that one way to help begin healing in our community is to get back to the neighborhood concept,” Palmer said. “Unfortunately, we’re also still operating under COVID-19 guidelines. With that in mind, the Strong Silverton group is launching an event that will work during the pandemic and will still work once it’s over.”

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on Aug. 14 – is designed to promote community connection at the neighborhood level by inviting Silvertonians to dine in their front yard each second Friday of the month.

“Families can talk with their neighbors from a safe distance while sharing a meal,” Palmer explained. “Make whatever you like for dinner, set up a table, or just lawn chairs, and prepare to spend a unique night in front of your house instead of in the back or inside. Once you’re done, take a stroll through your neighborhood. Talk to your neighbors who are still eating. Get to know each other.”

And for children, Strong Silverton is suggesting a city-wide sidewalk chalk project. “[A]sk your kids to draw or write what they love about your neighborhood,” Palmer suggested. “As you walk around the neighborhood, take the time to read them. Take the time to learn about each other.”

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By Brenna Wiegand It is with heavy hearts that Silverton Lions Club is cancelling this year’s Harvest Breakfast due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This decision was made after significant deliberation,” Ward Frederick, Harvest Breakfast organizer, said. “It’s important to maintain safe practices to protect the health and welfare of our community, but we also struggled with the fact that the breakfast is a major fund raiser for the club. We struggled with the choice to provide fewer services or to protect the safety of others by cancelling the annual Harvest Breakfast and the decision became clear to always protect and serve others,” Frederick said.

“The Lions Club motto is ‘We Serve.’”

The breakfast had humble beginnings, set up in Coolidge McClaine Park on a hot summer weekend in August 1947.

“Probably no one mixing pancake batter for the first time on homemade tables, could ever imagine that it would become an anticipated annual community event,”

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“When it became larger than the Lions could accomplish by themselves, we enlisted Silverton Boy Scout Troop 7485.”

Since the breakfast was already such a big draw, when Homer Davenport Days started out that committee chose the same weekend for the festival.

As the years passed and more pancakes were flipped, the Silverton Lions built the park’s pavilion and park kitchen. These were gifted to the city so that they could be reserved and enjoyed for family reunions, high school class reunions and other events.

The 73-year-old Harvest Breakfast, consisting of a big plateful of ham, eggs and pancakes, not only draws visitors

to Homer Days but, over the past 73 years, has generated the funds to help the Lions provide vision and hearing exams; eyeglasses for underinsured people in the community; hearing aids for low income people; diabetes education and prevention efforts; a mobile health screening van; local, state, national and international disaster relief; financial support for various local charities and other service organizations; Free Fish Day for those with special needs; international measles preventionl American flags for Silver Falls School District third graders; college scholarships for Silverton seniors; SACA and ASAP after school program support; summer camp programs for disabled youth; annual school district vision screening; delivery of donated eye tissue from the Salem area to Community

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being thrown on a weekly basis.

As news of the coronavirus began to take over the media in March, and quarantine looked imminent, Wendy McQueen – owner of the Silverton Inn and Suites and the Gilded Turnip – made what turned out to be a fateful joke.

“You talk about a silver lining,” McQueen said of the joy all 11 members of the co-quarantine group found in their new living situation.

“We all made sure there was something fun once a week and that was just so needed.”

“We joked that if everything shuts down, we’ll just go live at the hotel,” she laughed, recalling her conversation with the restaurant’s manager, Alicia Perkins, who had just moved to Silverton with her two daughters in January.

But what started as a joke, soon became serious when McQueen was forced to close down both businesses, leaving herself and her entire staff without any income.

“Everybody knew that I couldn’t pay them and they didn’t care,” McQueen said of her staff of managers, servers and innkeepers who decided to co-quarantine with her in the inn, while continuing to work for free.

“Joshua continued to come over every day to do janitorial stuff,” McQueen said of Joshua Gorrell, the innkeeper who, though he technically lives off-site, still lives on the same block. “And Alicia continued to do whatever needed to be done to get the kitchen going.”

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“I was thinking, I’m going to come out of this with a “And all of us are still here,” Perkins said. huge amount of debt,” Perkins recalled. “I didn’t get unemployment and I was out of work for 11 weeks. We “We’re all still here,” McQueen agreed.

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November 29, 1927 – July 1, 2020

Gertrude Christine Borschowa, 92, passed away on July 1, 2020 in Tualatin, Oregon. She was born at home on Nov. 29, 1927, near Pittsville, Wood County, Wisconsin. Gertrude lived there with her parents and six siblings until the family moved to Silverton, Oregon in 1946. Gertrude was the third child of Joseph and Veronica Gubbels.

Gertrude married Joseph (Joe) Borschowa from Mount Angel on Jan. 22, 1949 and resided in Mount Angel until December of 2019 when she moved to Emerald Gardens in Woodburn, Oregon with her cat, O’Malley.

Gertrude enjoyed square dancing, working in the woods, reading, and travel. She traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, South America, and many of the US states.

In 1964, Joe and Gert opened Main Street Garage in Mount Angel were she worked as the bookkeeper for her husband and her son, Joe Jr., managed apartments, and worked in the woods until she was in her mideighties and she retired.

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Gertrude is survived by her brother, Frank Gubbels; sister, Alice McHugh; and her children and their spouses: Joe (Wendy) Borschowa, Ray (Diane) Borschowa, Rita (Stan) Armstrong, and Larry (Aleta) Borschowa.

Gertrude is also survived by nine grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

One great grandchild is due in August. Gertrude was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Borschowa, and grandson Joseph Armstrong.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Simon Cornwall Colonial Chapel in Woodburn, Oregon. St. Mary’s Church in Mount Angel held a Rosary and Funeral Mass on July 10 followed by the burial at Calvary Cemetery.

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I would like to thank you for printing Mayor Palmer’s thoughtful letter and Kyle for writing it (City of Silverton Newsletter – Summer 2020 in the July 15 Our Town Life). He expressed his concern about the resistance to mask wearing. As a survivor of the hippie generation, I can well remember signs prominently displayed on many businesses saying “no shirt, no shoes, no service.” We may have grumbled about it, but I don’t remember there ever being any resistance to the order.

I was never tempted to see if an irate manager would escort me off the premises, but if I had been, the worst result would have been getting a piece of broken glass in my foot. People now are putting the lives of their friends and neighbors at risk, as well as their own.

I would ask them to reconsider their resistance. The longer the resistance lasts, the longer everything we enjoy will be shut down.

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Something To Think

Crucial moment

Parents discuss pros, cons to reopening schools in fall

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be distant and disconnected from other humans.”

“This matters to me more than anything,” Celeste Richardson – the mother of six children, three of which attend school within the Silver Falls School District – said of her reaction to the school reopening guidelines released by the Oregon Department of Education at the end of June.

But not everyone feels schools need to reopen for the social-emotional education of their children to be realized.

Brenda Sparks, who has four children, the oldest two slated to attend preschool and first grade this fall, will be educating her children full-time in the fall and has no fears for their social-emotional health.

“My kids matter to me. And your kids matter to me, because they are my kids’ society.”

Richardson’s chief concern centers around the adoption of a kind of “what is essential for some is good for all” mentality, offering a blanket solution with little room for choice.

“I understand and respect that we’re in a pandemic and that people’s lives are at stake,” she began, “but I’m really concerned about quality of life for our kids. And that there will be the few that will be really, really concerned and everyone else will need to go along with that.”

Because, as health concerns increase, so too do regulations – mask and physical distancing requirements, restricted movements and even the closure of in-person schooling – all of which can have an impact on social-emotional learning.

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a clear face shield, if you try to explain, ‘This is to protect you,’ I don’t think they’re going to understand that. And how will my children learn compassion if they can’t see people’s faces?”

Richardson is by no means alone in these worries. Katie Sperle, the mother of two high school-aged children, is similarly worried about the effect that innumerable precautions will have on students – effects that she finds largely unnecessary.

“I have no more concerns for my children’s health than I did before COVID,” Sperle, who would like to see schools reopen in the same capacity as they were previously run, stated.

“My children have robust immune systems. I have spent years researching health and wellness, and I am fully aware that this virus is just like many other

viruses, it is not dangerous to a healthy population. Therefore, our family will treat it no differently than any other illness. We eat healthy, take vitamins, drink water and get plenty of rest.”

Nevertheless, while Sperle is unconcerned about any health risks the reopening of schools poses, she is apprehensive about the toll social isolation could have on this younger segment of the population.

“My biggest concern for them is social,” she said. “At this point, deciding to keep [my children] home from school would be directly related to the measures [the schools] decide to implement. Social distancing, contact tracing, cohort groups will all have a detrimental effect on my children and many other children. I would keep them from this and create a different social interaction for them that doesn’t include programming them to

“I think that we have acclimated to the smaller circle of people that we see faceto-face and that they are meeting our needs socially,” Sparks said. “We have four children and this is a unique time for them to be around each other 100 percent of the time and to learn to enjoy each other’s company without the transitions of to and from school/activities.”

Sparks’ decision to homeschool in the fall is largely due to a concern with rising numbers of COVID-19 infected Oregonians and the potential she sees for schools to close once again after reopening in the fall.

“We plan on purchasing curriculum for next school year and to help foster the love of learning in our home,” Sparks said.

[T]he uncertainty that we feel about school being closed at a moment’s notice is very unsettling and is not good for our children.”

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“Unless remote learning is implemented, we might be forced to homeschool,” he said. “I do not want to send my kids to school as numbers continue to rise.”

Sperle, although less concerned about the effect the rising number of infections could have on school-aged children, has likewise begun researching a valid homeschool option for the fall – an option she hopes she will not have to use.

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“My kids have waited their whole lives to get to the ‘rites of passage’ in high school,” she said. “Homecoming, prom, football games, driving, going off campus for lunch, etc. I feel, and they feel, like they are being robbed of these things for nothing… I would propose the schools open as they were. If there are children or families that are worried about the health and wellness of their children, that a distance learning option be offered to them. Teachers could easily record their lectures with the in-person interaction of the students that are there, and upload them to make access for the distance

learners. The reason many of us did not choose distance learning for our children before is because we knew it wasn’t beneficial to them.”

The lack of a robust distance-learning option has become a real issue for many parents who are concerned about the possibility that, even if schools do reopen in the fall, an outbreak could shut them down and once again leave teachers, students and parents scrambling.

“There are a lot of people thinking about this and working on it – it seems to be allhands on deck,” Sarah Reif, the mother of two elementary-aged students, noted. “But I do still worry that we’re not planning ahead to the level that we possibly could be, insofar as distance learning content.

If it’s the end of June and we know we’re distance learning in the fall, shouldn’t we be working on it now?”

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week. It leaves parents like the Reifs, who both work full-time, responsible for their students’ education during the other three days and did not address how that would happen.

“The reason I was able to do it this spring was I took Emergency Family and Medical Leave,” Reif said. She is concerned about the quality of her children’s at-home education once that leave runs out. “So, what do I do if I don’t have that time to fill in the gaps for my kids? There will be weeks when I will not be able to do that.”

Reif recognizes that her children’s teachers were doing their best under difficult circumstances last spring, but she is wholly invested in procuring a more stable education for them come fall.

“I want to make sure that our teachers have enough time to build their curriculum through the summer,” she stressed.

“I think we need to infuse funds into the state budget to completely fund the building of the distance learning framework. And I would like to know what planning is being done at the

legislative level. It’s my understanding that there is a session at the end of the summer, but by then it’s the end of the summer.”

from any public school because quite frankly, we aren’t paying for academic excellence,” Dumitrescu admitted.

Also, of paramount concern is that any at-home education requirements – either hybrid or distance learning based – could deepen the inequities already seen within the educational system.

“We are paying for babysitting on a mass scale, within the confines a great experiment in social democracy. We are hoping our kids learn how to be functional members of society while learning some facts and skills that will make them employable. I send my kids to school not expecting that they will become more book smart there, but because I believe that participating in the public school process will expose them to children from different backgrounds, and thus that they will learn to problem solve, seek fairness and justice for their peers, and hopefully learn from well-intentioned adults how to be caretakers and stewards. No homeschool experience is going to replace that exposure.”

“I hope that the district finds ways to care for the most vulnerable kids,” Hilary Dumitrescu, whose two children attend school in the Silver Falls district, said. “My kids will be fine. They have two collegeeducated, healthy, loving parents who work from home to guide them. But what about the kids for whom school is a refuge from their guardians? For whom school is the one patch of order and safety in an otherwise chaotic life? Those are the kids I worry about.”

Which brings the discussion back to funding – or the lack thereof – a problem which has plagued the public-school system for years, and which has become more apparent during the pandemic.

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“I think as difficult as this is, kids will adapt and they will be resilient and they will be fine,” she speculated. “Even if he goes all year doing school from home, I don’t think he’s going to be damaged by that. I think he’s going to be fine. In that sense I am hopeful. This is going to be something that they will look back on and maybe there will be some growth or lessons. I think that there’s opportunities for learning in this situation just like there are in every situation.”

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And so, while Dumitrescu, a former educator herself, readily admits to the public school system’s inequities and shortcomings, she also remains staunchly loyal to, and even complimentary of, that very same system.

“I am so impressed with the principal and teachers at the middle school and how kind and creative they all were during the shutdown,” she said. “I’m sure with the summer preparation, things will be even better there. We haven’t been at the high school yet, but I am confident the teachers and admin there will do a similarly amazing job meeting this unprecedented obstacle.”

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Sports & Recreation

OSAA delay

High school sports planning for later start

High school cross country, volleyball and soccer will be delayed this fall but allowed to go forward. Football, meanwhile, remains in limbo.

That was the word July 23 from the Oregon School Activities Association, whose executive board met for three days in closed work sessions before releasing an update.

Here are the key takeaways from the statement issued by Peter Weber, the OSAA’s executive director. Please note that nothing is etched in stone here given the volatility we have come to expect with the COVID-19 issue. The OSAA plans to meet again the week of Aug. 3 and changes are possible if not likely.

• Cross country, volleyball and soccer will have a first contest date of Sept. 23.

Previously, Aug. 27 was the date the OSAA had established for the start of games.

• Football is prohibited because state guidelines do not allow “full contact” activities. Football teams still can lift

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weights and conduct drills without helmets and pads. The OSAA statement notes that if the football restrictions are not lifted by Sept. 28 it will be difficult to have even a modified regular season or a restructured playoff system.

• The football ban also affects competitive cheerleading as well as dance and drill.

Those activities also are classified as “full contact.”

Silverton players stretch during a July 16 workout at the high school.

with one hour of weight training allowed before or after the practice.

• The first practice date of Aug. 17 for all fall sports remains in place. Athletes must participate in a minimum of nine practices to compete in games.

• Issues such as schools competing in multi-team events and invitationals as well as spectator policies and regional scheduling remain to be determined.

• Two-a-day practices are prohibited for the 2020-21 school year. Practice sessions are limited to a maximum of three hours,

• If fall sports cannot be safely held the OSAA will look at changing the seasonal structure or perhaps stacking or

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combining the sports seasons. The OSAA said it recognizes that such a change might force schools to choose which activities it can sponsor and that students might have to choose between sports.

“But the board believes that a potentially difficult choice is better than no choice,” the OSAA statement says.

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Washington has football, soccer and volleyball in the contact group and they would be shifted to the spring. California has announced a two-season calendar, with no practices or activities until at least December.

The Reaction “I’m glad they are looking at different possibilities for the upcoming year. I think it is going to take a lot of creativity to make things happen. I Also think a lot could change in the next two weeks so I’m kind of just in a wait-and-see mode. I think a lot of things will depend on what school looks like.”

Track and field: There was no season this spring, but that didn’t stop Foxes senior Jadon Mansur from establishing a school record in the 800 meters. Mansur was promised a walk-on spot at Boise State if he could break 1:56, so he and former teammate Haile Stutzman trained together to get Mansur ready. On July 18 Stutzman, coming off a standout cross country and track season for Huntington (Indiana) University, paced Mansur through the first lap. Then, Mansur was on his own. He stayed strong to the finish, turning in a 1:54.54. The time would have been good enough to win the Class 5A 800 at the 2019 state meet, a race in which Mansur took fourth in 1:58.55.

– Kevin Moffatt, Kennedy athletic director happens if an athlete tests positive for the virus. Does the entire team go into some sort of quarantine? What about possible exposure by that athlete to individuals on other teams?

Stay tuned. More questions will come up.

For some perspective, here is what the states to the north and south are doing.

Washington has announced a four-season sports calendar, with non-contact sports the only ones starting in September.

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Oy, it’s going to be a long year. Oh, wait, it’s already been a long year.

Opinion page in a newspaper. Take it for what it is.

We have viruses to the right of us, economic heart murmurs to the left of us and presidential politics all around us. Yikes!

You can find solid reporting and good writing, but you have to recognize it. I have some red flags that I look for when I’m editing a news story – I’ve been at it for 45 years. A red flag means that I will send a note to the reporter and ask him, or her, to fix it. Here they are:

Those of us who were around in the 1960s and 1970s remember the years of turmoil. The Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, civil rights demonstrations, police riots, national guardsmen shooting kids for being against the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

Then there was Watergate and the resignation of President Nixon.

For a while, it seemed as though the only persons we could trust were Walter Cronkite and the reporters and editors at newspapers across the nation. We trusted them because they didn’t choose sides. They worked their rear ends off to tell the public — us — what was going on, and why.

Cronkite, as the anchor for the CBS Evening News, was our go-to guy for

fair and balanced news. He and guys like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were household names because they earned our trust.

Fast forward to 2020, and I’m not sure anyone has that level of trust in the talking heads, pundits, bloggers and big-mouths on TV or the internet.

So how can someone who wants the straight news separate well-reported and unbiased stories from the all that other stuff?

First, it’s critical to separate news stories from opinions. Almost everything you see on social media is opinion. If you’re tempted to believe it is unbiased news, don’t. It’s just the electronic version of the

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Red Flag No. 1: Sourcing. Who did the reporter talk to, and do those voices reflect the major aspects of the topic? For example, no sources are referenced in some news stories. That leads me to believe the reporters didn’t interview anyone to get the facts. If they did, who was it? If they didn’t, why not?

Red Flag No. 2: Single-source stories. In a news story, more than one aspect always needs to be reported. By definition, a story with only one source is missing something.

Red Flag No. 3: Word choice. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard and read stories that announce that the economy has “collapsed,” yet it hasn’t. I also hear the word “unprecedented” a lot. It’s not.

Anyone who took high school history knows there is nothing new in the world.

The Chicken Littles who insist that the sky is falling are, simply put, wrong – and revealing their ignorance. Maybe if they interviewed knowledgeable sources they would learn that.

Red Flag No. 4: Reporters interviewing reporters. Some radio and TV shows like to do this and I don’t know why.

Red Flag No. 6: The social media “wild West.” Facebook and other social media platforms were specifically exempted from being held liable for the content they allow to be posted. Practically anyone can post anything – true or not – on social media.

That exemption was one of the biggest mistakes Congress has ever made. The owners of Facebook, Twitter and all the other platforms must be held responsible for that stuff.

There is some darnn fine reporting being done out there, but you have to look for it. By looking for these red flags, the good stuff will stand out and the junk will fall by the wayside.

Good journalism makes for a strong democracy. If you insist on only reading the best of the best, our democracy will be in safe hands.

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