Apr 27 2020 thru May 3 2020

CSD's Joel Higdon posted the revised 2020-21 school calendar on Tuesday, April 28

Even seniors who were living and driving independently before COVID-19 may rely on others for food and travel support. County and community agencies and organizations are finding ways to provide modified services.

People with older family members in long-term care centers such as Creswell Health and Rehabilitation Center (CHRC) may be concerned about their loved one’s risk of illness from COVID-19.

If she’s not quite on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, she’s only one row back.

For a little break from the monotony of self-isolation some of our neighbors hatched a plot. “Hey, we are having dinner out in the yard on Friday evening, feel free to join us in your own yard. We are encouraging the whole neighborhood to get out into the open” thus I was accosted by my kitty-corner neighbor up the street.

Continuing our series of love connections, a reader of The Chronicle who was born under the sun sign Gemini and the lunar sign Ox asked me what lunar sign her ideal match would be.

Week 6 of the COVID-19 “social distancing” is here and I, for one, am not having a huge problem with it. I am, for the most part, an introvert, anyway. My comfort zone is at home.

I am a biologist by education. I believe in data and intelligence more than I do in prejudice or magical thinking. Despite its shortcomings, I trust people who spend their lives studying things more than those who shoot their mouths off with unfounded opinions. Opinions are easy, but knowledge is hard, and there are many scientists, doctors, epidemiologists, and public health experts who plan and model and study the spread of infectious diseases.

The closing of schools and implementation of distance learning is like “thousands of moving pieces,” Creswell School District superintendent Mike Johnsons said during the virtual April 22 school board meeting.

Creswell Middle and High schools will each have a new principal starting in July.

Catholic Community Services continues providing support

Editorial: This past year I’ve logged a considerable amount of hours actively listening to Noel as he sits to the right of me – be it from across the newsroom or on the move to meetings, interviews and news coverage in the Willamette Valley. And does he have a lot to say. I mean a lot.

As I spend more time at home practicing social distancing, I’m grateful for the many comforts I enjoy: sitting in a favorite chair, listening to music, reading … of course, almost always with a kitty on my lap.

Editor’s note: Dr. Margaret Pattison, medical director of the PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Emergency Department, wrote this for The Chronicle. It begins an ongoing series of healthcare insight

A list of businesses in Springfield that are open.

A list of businesses in Creswell that are open.

With the stay-at-home measures proving effective in recent weeks in the Willamette Valley, a Creswell doctor and South Lane emergency personnel are deployed to help combat COVID-19 across the state.

Funeral homes adjust services, stress empathy and emotional support.

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