BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Search to resume today for 17-year-old in river The Lane County sheriff's office will resume its search today for a teenager who was floating down the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. with a friend Wednesday evening and fell off his innertube and slipped underwater. The boys had been drinking alcohol and neither was wearing a life preserver life preserver, a personal flotation device (PFD) intended to keep the wearer afloat, particularly in case of shipwreck. A Type I PFD will keep even unconscious people afloat in a face–up position; it is the most common type used at sea. , sheriff's deputy Paul Vitus said. The 17-year-old boys set in at Delta Highway The Delta Highway is a short limited-access freeway in Eugene, Oregon, United States, linking downtown Eugene with the Beltline Highway, northern Eugene and the Riverridge golf course to the north. in a pair of innertubes they tied together, Vitus said. Farther downstream, one of the boys fell off the tube and the other left the innertubes, grabbing him to help him stay above water. However, that boy soon tired, with alcohol perhaps playing a role, Vitus said, and let the struggling teen go so he could return to the innertubes. When he looked back for his friend, he was gone. The boy floated downstream to Lanes Turn Road, which is north of Coburg on the river's east bank, and had a homeowner call 911 at 6:30 p.m. The sheriff's office, with help from water rescue teams from Eugene and Springfield, searched until dark without success. Vitus said the search would resume at first light today, with a helicopter and divers Several; any number more than two; different. Divers is a collective term used to group a number of unspecified people, objects, or acts. It is used frequently to describe property, as in divers parcels of land. aiding in the effort. School board asks voters to renew operating levy Voters in the Eugene School District Eugene School District (4J) is a public school district in the U.S. state of Oregon. It serves the city of Eugene Elementary schools
the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time school board agreed Wednesday. The so-called "local option" levy has generated an average of $5.2 million a year since voters approved it in May 2000, helping Eugene schools stave off stave n. 1. A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure. 2. A rung of a ladder or chair. 3. A staff or cudgel. 4. Music See staff1. many of the deep cuts sustained by other school districts. It would again be capped at $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed property value, although the rate applies only to the difference between a property's real market value and its assessed value. For the average homeowner, the rate has hovered around 71 cents per $1,000. Authorized by the 1999 Legislature, the local option levy gave school districts a means to ask voters for limited additional operating funds. They had been barred from doing so since 1990, when voters and the Legislature shifted primary responsibility for school funding from local government to the state. |
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