Weekly Clips for March 21

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This week’s top highlights…

SVdP back in CG

Cottage Grove re-welcomes thrift storeSt. Vincent de Paul to the neighborhood COTTAGE GROVE – “You can usually find treasure somewhere,” Cottage Grove resident Vicki Whisler said as she combed through…

21 Mar 2024

SVdP back in CG

21 Mar 2024

Sustainable landscaper’s business is blooming

Morganic Roots owner, a former point guard,finds true outside game COTTAGE GROVE — A couple of decades ago, the Morgan family was known as a basketball family. Morgan After graduating…

21 Mar 2024

Sustainable landscaper’s business is blooming

Morganic Roots owner, a former point guard,finds true outside game COTTAGE GROVE — A couple of decades ago, the Morgan family was known as a basketball family. Morgan After graduating…

21 Mar 2024

Plagiarism found in former Chronicle reporter’s work

Dear readers, The Chronicle last week uncovered several instances of plagiarism by Ryleigh Norgrove, a news reporter for this publication from March 2022 through May 2023. After an initial audit…

21 Mar 2024

Plagiarism found in former Chronicle reporter’s work

Dear readers, The Chronicle last week uncovered several instances of plagiarism by Ryleigh Norgrove, a news reporter for this publication from March 2022 through May 2023. After an initial audit…

21 Mar 2024

Rocky start for defending champs

Colts’ opening-day ace Molony leaves after five pitches EUGENE – It was an unexpectedly bumpy return to the University of Oregon’s PK Park for the Thurston Colts baseball team. Nine…

21 Mar 2024

Rocky start for defending champs

Colts’ opening-day ace Molony leaves after five pitches EUGENE – It was an unexpectedly bumpy return to the University of Oregon’s PK Park for the Thurston Colts baseball team. Nine…

21 Mar 2024

Springfield celebrates local transit

SPRINGFIELD – The first bus line in the world was started by Blaise Pascal on March 18, 1662, according to Rob Zako, executive director of Better Eugene-Springfield Transportation (BEST). Thus,…

21 Mar 2024

Springfield celebrates local transit

SPRINGFIELD – The first bus line in the world was started by Blaise Pascal on March 18, 1662, according to Rob Zako, executive director of Better Eugene-Springfield Transportation (BEST). Thus,…

21 Mar 2024

A LIFE-SAVING ACT: Cottage Theatre receives AED device

AMANDA LUREY / CHRONICLE PHOTO Members from South Lane Fire & Rescue, Eugene Springfield Fire, Cottage Theater, PeaceHealth, HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, and HEARTsafe South Lane County came together March 11 to celebrate HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield’s donation of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to Cottage Theatre.

COTTAGE GROVE – A person loses 10% of their brain every minute they suffer from cardiac arrest if there is no CPR administered.

This staggering statistic is why a PeaceHealth nurse said she was passionate about ensuring there is adequate community preparedness and awareness about what to do when someone is suffering from cardiac arrest.

“Firefighters, we know what to do, but we are not always there,” Eugene Springfield Fire (ESF) chief JoAnna Kamppi said.

HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, a nonprofit which is a partner organization of ESF and PeaceHealth, won a $5,000 grant from the PulsePoint Foundation to purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for the community after winning PulsePoint’s AED contest last October.

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