Every year since 2000, the Sherm’s family of stores has donated a truckload of food to ACCESS for the holidays. This year, though the COVID-19 pandemic has changed so much, will be no different. ACCESS says that the Olsrud family will deliver roughly 23,000 pounds of food to the food bank’s warehouse on Friday, now a 20-year tradition. The food bank calls the Olsruds long-time supporters who were instrumental in building the ACCESS Community Kitchen. “We are so grateful for the support the Olsrud family has given to the community and ACCESS over the years. This year’s semi-truck donation of…
Author: Tony Cooper
Oregon lawmakers have no idea when Gov. Kate Brown could call them back to the capitol, and the state’s emergency board is running short of time and money. On Friday, the Oregon Emergency Board authorized $2.9 million for the Oregon Food Bank—just half of the $5.8 million the nonprofit asked for this month. OFB officials estimate that it will likely see a shortfall of up to 7.6 million pounds of food by June 2021. One in six Oregonians, they reported, may be at risk of going hungry this year. Legislative analysts said the $5.8 million would have supplied the OFB…
The Medford Police Department says that it has identified a man suspected of breaking into a woman’s house while she was home last January. “In January of 2019, a female in East Medford awoke to someone standing in her bedroom, just about everyone’s worst nightmare,” MPD posted on Tuesday. “The male fled, but was able to steal her cell phone.” The case went unsolved for months, the agency said, but now investigators have identified the suspect as 23-year-old Elijah Zachery Bendell — a transient known to camp around town, and known to use heroin. “Please keep an eye out,” MPD…