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Northwest Passage, Aug 22-26, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Workers recenltly completed clean-up work on 140 acres of the Hanford Nuclear reservation.
2. A lawyer says the Vatican has failed to turn over all the documents ordered by a federal judge in the OR sexual abuse case.
3. Glenn Mosley reports Washington State University is finalizing its plans to cut $40 million in the current biennium budget.
4. Beaverton police say a helmet likely save the life of a bicycle rider who was struck by a van.
5. Jonathan Siegle reports on local charitable food deliveries.
6. The Corps of Engineers is beginning annual maintenance dredging at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Center:
1. Interview with Ronan Feely and Jeff Wheeler about a documentary about Valsetz, OR.
2. Ashley Ahearn reports on Elwha River salmon.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. The death of a WA army private in Afghanistan was due to a self-inflicted gunshot.
2. Friends of a Silverton HS student are commemorating a classmate who was killed in an ATV accident.
3. Austin Jenkins reports WA is looking to a gay marriage vote in 2012.
4. Chris Lehman reports on a new solar project on I-5.
5. Glenn Mosley reports a former UI professor suspected of killing a grad student has been found dead.
6. Jes Burns reports on the recovery of a Bend State Trooper severly injured during a traffic stop.
7. Six workers at a Hanford radioactive waste disposal site decided to quit rather than submit to drug testing.
8. OR distilleries will soon be able to offer mixers with thier alcohol tastings.
Center:
1. Kids in WA are not using thier free and reduced lunch privedges.
2. Tiffany Eckert reports on changes to 4J's school lunch program.
3. Ashley Ahearn: Part 2 Elwha dam removal
4. Dorothy Velasco review of the OSF production of "Love's Labors Lost"
Second Newscast:
1. Update on the Elk Fire in Madras.
2. Details of an auto crash near Detroit Lake.
3. A Yamhill County man will face charges for lighting a fire with fireworks.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Mark Castigan
First Newscast:
1. A Eugene man was killed around midnight Tuesday in a hit and run on Royal Ave.
2. Glenn Mosley reports on the fall out of a apparent murder-suicide near the University of Idaho.
3. One of the three sworn officers in the Rockaway Beach PD has been arrested in connection with a child sexual abuse case.
4. The Oregon Bach Festival has a new artistic director, Matthew Halls.
5. Emily Schwing reports on reduced priced wolf tags in Idaho.
6. Scott Wannberg obituary.
Center:
1. Ashley Ahearn: Part 3, Elwha Dam series.
2. Amelia Templeton reports on a new hydro-power scheme in central Oregon.
3. Tom Banse reports on efforts to document an undersea Volcano off the OR coast.
Second Newscast:
1. Jes Burns reports certain qualified students in Eugene's 4J District will be able to access a free bus pass this year.
2. An Idaho tribal sweat lodge has been leveled and reconfigured.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on hate crime charges against Cody Seth Crawford for allegedly setting fire to a Corvallis mosque. [civil rights/discrimination]
2. Jessica Robinson reports on a new settlement to help clean up government-operated tribal schools.
3. The U.S. Army says its contractors have quickened the pace of weapons incineration at the Umatilla Chemical Depot.
4. A lightning storm raked Central Oregon and started about 150 range fires, one of which has grown to 10,000 acres.
5. One of 3 sworn officers in the Rockaway Beach Police Dept. has been arrested in connection with a child sex abuse case.
6. A Salem family is hoping whoever stole a small wooden box containing a family member's ashes will return it.
Center:
1. Rachael McDonald speaks with Don Griffin, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity in Eugene Springfield about their partnership with the Eugene Celebration.
2. Natural World.
Second Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on members of Oregon's largest public worker's union have approved a new 2-year contract in which they will have to help pay for their health insurance premium.
2. Rachael McDonald reports on animal rights activists planning to protest the circus coming to Eugene Friday.
3. Glenn Mosley reports on Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo saying he's hopeful the gov't can control its spending and reduce the national debt.
4. Investigators don't know what touched off an explosion in a motel room in Newberg.
5. A WA boy who survived after being pulled from the ocean has been released from a Portland hospital.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on Oregon's economic forecast showing an expected $200-million drop in revenue.
2. Brandon Smith reports on wildfires burning in Oregon.
3. Angela Kellner reports on the state approving rules to begin allowing Oregonians to use graywater.
4. Planners say they've shaved $100-million off the cost of a new bridge across the Columbia River by using a simpler design and other factors, but it will still cost more than $3-billion to build.
5. Courtney Flatt reports on researchers getting a grant to develop a better process to capture carbon dioxide.
Music in: Karl Denson "Shake It Out"
Center:
1. Interview with musician Karl Denson.
Music out: Karl Denson "Brother's Keeper (Part 2)"
2. Anna King reports on scientists at the Pacific NW Lab hoping to use the model of how ants work together to develop better internet protection.
Second Newscast:
1. Firefighters expect to find new fires the next few days, resulting from a second night of lightning strikes in Oregon.
2. Unstable economic conditions on Wall Street and in Europe have led Oregon economists to scale back their predictions of Oregon tax revenue.
3. Idaho politicians are questioning the federal government's decision to press charges against a man for killing a grizzly bear near his house.
4. Travel master Rick Steeves says he's trying to make a political statement by giving $1-million to an arts center in his hometown of Edmonds, WA.
5. A former Redmond police officer will serve 3 months in jail for stealing guns and gear from the departmental armory he managed for a decade.
6. Portland Police are trying something to crack cold cases: a publicity campaign on Trimet buses.
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