Month June 2024

The End of a Chapter

Creswell’s champion of children’s reading retires CRESWELL – Laurie Swanson-Gribskov started Creslane Elementary School’s Intergenerational Reading Collaboration (IRC) about a decade ago, and she is retiring from the program with her legacy well established. IRC is a reading program that works with Creslane students from…

Morgan family raises the roof

■ Nonprofit First Story will give the Morgan family a zero-down, zero-interest mortgage on a brand-new Hayden Home in Springfield’s Woodland Ridge community this October. SPRINGFIELD – Marie, 25, and Kees, 26, Morgan, along with their now-6-week-old baby boy Everett, got their first taste of…

Over $400K granted to Lane County nonprofits

Lane County has recently received a helping of grants for some of its nonprofits from Three Rivers Foundation. Awarded by Three Rivers Foundation, across the state over $720,000 was allocated to 95 nonprofits, and over half of that allocated money – $407,464 – went to…

Springfield’s SMART Court has its first cohort

SPRINGFIELD – Springfield’s only treatment court to be solely focused on those who commit crimes within city limits, the Springfield Municipal Adult Rehabilitation and Treatment (SMART) Court, now has just over a dozen people enrolled. There are eight women and six men, aged 22-51, who…

Michael Funderburk II wins LTD’s Bus Rodeo

Lane Transit District (LTD) employees competed in the annual Bus Roadeo this past Sunday, June 9 in LTD’s Glenwood bus yard. Everyone from veteran bus operators and administrative staff to senior leadership had the chance to drive one of the 40-foot LTD buses through the…

AED is A-OK for science center

From left: Oregon CPR owner and instructor Katrina Purdy, Eugene Science Center (ESC) community engagement director Peter Kukla, and University of Oregon Police director of community engagement John D. Johnson showcase where the donated AED will be placed at ESC. The organization’s leaders were motivated…