The Eugene Wildfire Preparedness Coalition will present the Zoom webinar “Community Engagement for Urban Wildfire Resilience” on Weds. Feb. 24 at 6:00 p.m.
Hear latest strategies for neighborhood and community resilience from two Oregon advocates:
Katie Gibble, Fire Adapted Communities Coordinator, Ashland Fire & Rescue
Amanda Rau, Assistant Professor of Practice – Willamette Valley/Cascades Regional Fire Specialist, OSU Extension
How do you travel to work, school, and to run errands? How would you like to travel? What is challenging about our current transportation system — our sidewalks, streets and roads, public transit, bike and walking trails?
Read more about the Central Lane Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) open house, now through Feb. 28.
Vaccine preregistration is now available for all Lane County Residents! Lane County Public Health has opened up preregistration for vaccination to all members of the public. This preregistration information effort will help populate a centralized database to help vaccinating health partners countywide contact those who wish to be vaccinated and schedule an appointment when they are eligible. For more information, see this link.
Get vaccine information from 211: Older Oregonians can text ORCOVID to 898211 to get text/SMS updates about vaccination clinics (available in English and Spanish). Seniors can also email ORCOVID@211info.org.
If you can’t get your COVID-19 vaccine question answered on the website, by text, or by email, you can call 211 or 1-866-698-6155, which is open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, including holidays.
Please be aware that wait times may be long due to high call volumes.
Oregon.gov has the following informative website listing the Covid-19 Vaccine who, where, and when as well as other helpful general information and state guidelines. https://covidvaccine.oregon.gov/
The Eugene Wildfire Preparedness Coalition is presenting the “Lessons of the Wildfire Season” PowerPoint presentation. Wildfire is the new normal and one of the greatest threats to our rural and urban communities. We need to take the lessons from the Holiday Farm Fire and the 2020 Wildfire Season and prepare our community for the future.
Come watch and participate in the presentation to understand how wind-driven wildfires operate, how we can prepare our neighborhoods and prevent wildfire from entering our communities.
ONE: We’re at the midway point to the Bloodworks Rev It Up Sweepstakes – no time to take a pit stop! In partnership with Haselwood Auto Group, you may have heard Bloodworks Northwest is giving away a car…again! There’s still time to donate (by March 17) for the chance to be automatically entered to win one of nine pre-selected automobiles! Now is the time to find a Pop-Up Donor Center to make sure you’re in the driver’s seat for this high-octane promotion! Check out the terms and conditions at bloodworksnw.org/winacar.
TWO: When you donate with Bloodworks Northwest between February 1 and February 28, your blood will be tested for the COVID-19 antibodies, which are a key component of the immune system that appear in blood after fighting an infection. The testing will help identify people who may be able to donate to our convalescent plasma program and help COVID-19 patients directly. Be a COVID-19 hero and schedule your one hour appointment. Donating blood is a safe and essential activity.
Upcoming Blood Drives in the Eugene/Springfield area:
Emergency planning experts advise Oregon residents to prepare to be on their own for a minimum of two weeks following a disaster. That means storing 14 days of water, food, medicine and other supplies.
Starting your kit from scratch can feel like a daunting task. If you are overwhelmed by the thought of preparing your home and family for a natural disaster, EWEB can help!
EWEB is once again offering their Pledge to Prepare, a 12-month blueprint for emergency preparedness. Each month through the year, EWEB shares a new set of tasks aimed at incrementally building your emergency supply kit.
More than 2,300 people have taken the Pledge so far.
Think of emergency preparedness like saving for a big purchase such as a house or a car. If you break it down into small steps you can take each month, at the end of the year, you will have reached your goal. That’s the idea behind the Pledge to Prepare.
When you join the program, you’ll receive a monthly email with step-by-step recommendations. To help you stay motivated and engaged in building your supplies through the year, EWEB will raffle off useful emergency preparedness supplies such as water storage containers, solar chargers, and first aid kits. There will be a new drawing every month.
To join the Pledge to Prepare and get started on your two-week emergency kit, visit eweb.org/pledge. Anyone can join, but you must be an EWEB customer to participate in the monthly prize drawings.
Supplies assembled by 2020 Pledge to Prepare participants Julie and Will, who said, “I am so happy we decided to join EWEB’s crusade to prepare for the unexpected! We have learned so much from this program and are appreciative for all of the information and encouragement. We feel very confident that we will be ready if any disaster may happen.”
Just as your household invests in emergency supplies, EWEB is making investments to make sure safe, reliable water continues to flow, especially in the days and weeks following a natural disaster or other emergency. This includes renovating the Hayden Bridge Water Filtration Plant, planning for a second filtration plant on the Willamette River, replacing water mains, improving storage tanks, and working with upriver partners to support fire recovery efforts and protect water quality in the McKenzie River.
EWEB is also developing neighborhood emergency water stations. Working with community partners, EWEB now has five, fully operational emergency wells:
Prairie Mountain School – 5305 Royal Ave.
Howard Elementary School – 700 Howard Ave.
Eugene Science Center – 2300 Leo Harris Parkway
Lane Events Center/Fairgrounds – 796 W 13th Ave.
Sheldon Fire Station – 2435 Willakenzie Rd.
Two additional sites are planned—near Churchill High School and near Roosevelt Middle School.
Using the map below, take a moment to locate the emergency water station nearest to your home. If disaster strikes our community’s water system and you need to obtain water from one of these distribution sites, you will need to bring your own storage containers. Learn how to clean and prepare water containers and find more emergency preparedness tips at eweb.org/emergencyprep.
…Coming together to clean is an example of an attitude of choosing to love the neighborhood. Whether tending your garden or clearing litter on Amazon Creek, neighbors are nurturing community, growing bonds with one another, and a loving attitude makes the work easier to do. Cultivating that attitude of love for the neighborhood is a good basis for relating with one another and with our environment.
Awareness of the neighborhood is a learning process. Being aware of what makes a livable community is a first step. Important features are needed, like safe streets, healthy trees, natural drainage of storm-water, plus nearby services and businesses to provide for our daily needs. Good relationships with one another and feeling safe are important—especially for children walking to school, for the elderly and people with impairments, and for the unhoused and people who feel marginalized.
