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Southern Oregon profiles in courage

Heather Yandell: “We deserve better than spending the rest of our lives in a tent. The thought of dying on the street terrifies me, and so I am doing everything in my power to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

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Sparking Action! fire education event returns to ScienceWorks

Best practices for defensible space was just one of many points of education attendees could glean at Sparking Action!, an event dedicated to preparing for wildfires by teaching attendees how to take steps such as clearing fuels around their property, having an escape plan and packing an emergency go bag.

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Seeking truth and reconciliation regarding a racist history

Stewart enrolled in law school as he had planned, but then left after the first day upon hearing from fellow students that discussions of race, gender and sexuality were typically discouraged in the classroom. It was at that time that he heard back from the Equal Justice Initiative with details on a lynching victim here in Oregon: Alonzo Tucker of Coos Bay.

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Jefferson Center to present their next Salon Program

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were friends, then enemies, then friends again. Their thoughts about political partisanship and its pitfalls are illuminated in the letters they exchanged from the time of their reconciliation in 1812 until they both died in extreme old age, on the same day, July 4, 1826.

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