CHEERS for Lincoln Elementary School! Why? You can find out for yourself on Monday, Dec. 6 when the school is opening up for tours so Corvallis voters can see where their piece of the bond money went. You’ll need to sign up – and spaces are limited – so call 541-757-5877 or sign up online. Check out the rest of the rules – including COVID protocols – here.
SHRUGS as the Corvallis Gazette-Times parent conglomerate staves off a hostile takeover bid [for the moment] with good ole fashioned boardroom gamesmanship. The bold move is what the corporate-y kids call a poison pill. Anyhoo, if your jam is a hollowed Albany paper with Corvallis’s name on it, the good folks at Lee Enterprises had your back this week….yay???
CHEERS for boosters! All boosters, great and small, should get raucous-happy cheers, because they continue to keep us safe. Tetanus boosters save you when you’re 45 and just stepped on a rusty nail. Flu boosters keep you out of the hospital over Christmas. And COVID boosters will protect you from the new and improved variants that keep coming around. So now that every adult is allowed to get their COVID booster, how’s about y’all go on out there and do it! [Woo-Hoo!]
JEERS for infighting between various lawyers who are trying to get the most from Oregon’s piece of the opioid settlement funds. These funds are meant to provide support and counseling for people with a serious addiction – they are not meant to line the pockets of people with law degrees. Pull your collective heads out and work together for the betterment of everyone else… please.
FURROWED BROWS over the ‘test-to-stay’ plan for Oregon schools. The idea is to allow students to take two COVID tests in seven days after being exposed to COVID. If they test negative both times, they don’t have to be quarantined. The problem up to now has been the inability to get enough tests to make this work, but that problem seems to have solved itself. And yet… We wonder, is this a good idea? Wouldn’t the populous-as-a-whole be better served to have these kids get vaccinated rather than scratching away at their nasal passages over and over? Also, the plan doesn’t really play out if the kid is exposed at home or in intramural events.
BIG SCREAMY CHEERS for Linn Benton Community College’s volleyball team winning the Northwest Athletic Conference championship. The Roadrunners ended their season on a 25 game winning streak! Coach Jayme Frazier was understandably named coach of the year, and four players [Taya Manibusan, Jade Hayes, Sydnie Johnson, & Alexis Chapman] named to the Championship All-Tournament Team! Way to go LBCC Roadrunners!
TIME SENSITIVE CHEERS for leftovers. If you partook in the traditional turkey bake of many Americans, then you probably have stuff left over. If that stuff is stuffing, then have we got some recipes for you. [The one where you make stuffing dumplings in soup is my particular favorite.]
PERPLEXED over turkey and whether or not it makes you sleepy. The tryptophan we’ve been told will send us all off to nappy-time-land does indeed do good stuff for our bodies, but it’s only sleep-inducement is that it promotes melatonin and serotonin which regulate sleep. If you’re feeling nappy after turkey, then your body is just taking a minute to digest. [Great. Another holiday myth destroyed by science. At least reindeer really can fly, am I right?]
SOMEWHAT FROWNY FACE CHEERISH THINGS for Oregon lifting the outdoor mask mandate. We don’t want to be Debbie Downers, but they played this trick on us once before, and we all ended up back in masks all the time. So we’re sorta sayin’ ‘Yay!’ but we’re also not holding our collective Advocate breath yet.
CHEERS for sustainability and for people in Corvallis trying to sustain our local sustainability through sustained efforts and reporting. The latest sustainability report calls for sustainment of strategic actions to meet our sustainability goals. [You can read it HERE.]
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