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In this Issue of C.O. Local BUZZ…

🤔Local Trivia

🌄Bend, OR Weather

📅 Lots and LOTS of Events

🎡2024 Deschutes County Fair and Rodeo

🎉New Event Calendar! Central Oregon Local Live!

📰Local News - What’s a Happening?

⚠️Reminder! Wildfire hazard map Public Hearing Aug. 1st Video Added

🏫New Crook County Schools Superintendent Hopes To Be "Unifying Force" KBND

🧒Fall 2024 Playlist is now online! Bend Parks & Rec

📰 Panel that blew off a Boeing jet over Oregon will get star billing at D.C. hearing

🌲UPDATE: Construction on the two bridges along the Green Lakes Trail has finished.

🌲Willamette National Forest increases fire restrictions, prohibits all fires

🔥Central Oregon Fire Info

🚧 Road Closures & Construction

🔥⛑️Fire & Rescue News

🚨 Crime News

 📰 Community News

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😁 MEME of the Day

🌆 On going Events

📲Sponsors & Partners

When was Redmond designated as the official site for the Deschutes County Fair?

A) 1916
B) 1921
C) 1929
D) 1935

👉Find out in Tomorrow’s Newsletter👉

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2024 Deschutes County Fair and Rodeo

July 31st - August 4th

Join us at the 2024 Deschutes County Fair and Rodeo from July 31st - August 4! We've got five days of action-packed fun FREE with admission. Enjoy the Kendall Toyota FREE Summer Concert Series featuring artists like Billy Currington, Yung Gravy, Lil Kim with Bow Wow, and The Fray. Get western at the rodeo and enjoy the high-octane excitement of the demolition derby. Be sure to grab your carnival wristbands and enjoy delicious bites, shopping and more at this year's Fair & Rodeo. We will see you here!

Reminder! Wildfire hazard map Public Hearing Aug. 1st

The Board of Forestry approved the public hearing process for the proposed rule package, Oregon Administrative Rules 629-001-0001 to 0057 and 629-044-1000 to 1041, during their June 5 meeting. The department consulted a Rulemaking Advisory Committee representing a wide variety of stakeholder interests while drafting the proposed rules.

The rules will be used by Oregon State University to address irrigated agriculture as a mitigating factor to assessing wildfire hazard in the statewide wildfire hazard map, which includes assigning one of three hazard zones to individual properties. The rules also establish the process to appeal assignment of a hazard zone or classification.

• Notice of proposed rulemaking

Comment can be made at any of the virtual public meetings below:

• July 31, 10 a.m., Zoom meeting

• July 31, 2 p.m., Zoom meeting

• Aug. 1, 6 p.m., Zoom meeting

Comments can also be sent to [email protected] until 5 p.m. on Aug. 15. Please clarify which rule your comments pertain to in your email.

Fall 2024 Playlist is now online!

Fall recreation registration opens August 5 - 7, 6 am daily. We're talking September through December programs - after school activities, sports, ice skating, swim lessons, art, school break activities & more. Learn more at http://bendparksandrec.org/playbook/

Panel that blew off a Boeing jet over Oregon will get star billing at D.C. hearing

A panel that blew off a Boeing 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight will be a key part of a two-day investigative hearing set for next week. A panel that blew off a Boeing 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight was displayed for the media Tuesday at the National Transportation Safety Board’s laboratory in Washington, D.C., and will be a key part of a two-day investigative hearing set for next week.

Federal investigators have been examining the mid exit door plug since not long after it blew off during a Jan. 5 flight, when the plane was at 16,000 feet and climbing toward cruise altitude. It was discovered in the backyard of a home near Portland, Oregon.

A preliminary report from the NTSB said that four bolts used to help secure the part to the jetliner were missing when the plane rolled out of a Boeing factory near Seattle, before it was delivered to Alaska Airlines.

Door plugs are panels that seal holes left for extra doors when the number of seats is not enough to trigger a requirement for more emergency-evacuation exits. From inside the plane, they look like a regular window.

They are only intended to be opened for maintenance and inspections. The one on the Alaska Airlines plane was installed at a Spirit AeroSystems plant in Wichita, Kansas, but was removed at the Boeing plant so workers could fix damaged rivets.

The NTSB says it will use information from the hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday to complete its investigation of the blowout and make safety recommendations.

Willamette National Forest increases fire restrictions, prohibits all fires

With hot, dry temperatures and the possibility of lightning in the forecast, the Willamette National Forest will increase public-use restrictions to Stage 2, prohibiting all open fires.

The new restrictions are in effect through Nov. 30, unless modified or rescinded sooner. The Fire Danger Level across the Forest remains “HIGH” and the Industrial Fire Protection Level (IFPL) is at II.

All campfires, charcoal or briquette fires, pellet fires, or any other open fires are prohibited across the Forest under the new restrictions. Portable cooking stoves and lanterns using liquefied or bottled fuel are still allowed as they can be instantly switched off.

E-bikes are now allowed on roads and trails designated for motorized vehicles. Generators are permitted only in areas devoid of vegetation, such as campground pavement. Restrictions are also in effect for smoking, off-highway vehicles, and chainsaws in campgrounds. Smoking is not allowed except within an enclosed vehicle, building, or a developed recreation site. Welding or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame is also not allowed.

The IFPL II limits the following operations to the hours between 8 p.m. and 1 p.m.: power saws except at loading sites; feller-bunchers with rotary head saws; cable yarding; blasting; and welding, cutting, or grinding of metal.

Lone Rock Fire Update

Crazy Creek Fire & Kitty Creek Fire Update

Red Fire Update

Falls Fire Update

Microwave Tower Fire Update

Court Rock Fire

Battle Mountain Complex

Link to: Air Quality Index map

Another AQI Map

Link to: Northwest Large Fire Interactive Web Map

Full OR 126 road closures near Belknap Springs starts in August

You may have seen our crews while we work on repaving a section of OR 126 that is in poor condition. This work will help preserve the road and give you a smoother ride.

Our next phase of work requires several full road closures – plan ahead and use an alternate route if you're traveling these days in August.

Upcoming full OR 126 road closures:

• Nighttime half day closures August 1 through August 8.

  • Sunday through Thursday, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

  • No closure Friday and Saturday night, August 2 and August 3.

• Full 48-hour road closure planned for August 20 through August 22.

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