Tag: Medford Oregon
Kicking Off the Holiday Season
Since I moved to Southern Oregon 13 years ago, I've marked the beginning of the holiday season by attending a delightful fundraising event for Medford's Craterian Theater, a performing arts venue which hosts everything from Broadway touring companies to symphonic concerts, local dramatic performances to a range of music acts. The Gingerbread Jubilee is scheduled for the weekend preceding Thanksgiving, with all-edible (mostly gingerbread) 3-D creations vying for cash prizes and awards in student, adult and group categories (children and adults). It included a gala evening, live auction and a weekend of viewing open to the public. Pre-COVID, one would wander through lobby and mezzanine spaces of the performing arts center, admiring from all sides the skill and imagination of the amateur bakers.
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Improving Connectivity at MFR
I was pleased to learn recently that my local airport, Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport (MFR), is pursuing a grant to help it secure a direct flight to a major Midwest hub, improving connectivity to destinations in the Midwest and East Coast from here in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Even with the pandemic dropping passenger numbers last year by 53 percent, about 500,000 flew out of the airport in 2020, and officials expect that number to bounce back up to over a million once travel resumes to normal volumes. Prior to the slow-down, flight capacity averaged around 85 percent.
Too Close to Home
I had intended to write my blog this week about our recent trip to the Oregon coast, but events over the past week have pushed that topic to the back burner. On Tuesday an intense wildfire broke out about 15 miles south of my home in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon. Beginning at the northern end of the town of Ashland, home to Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (about which I've written several times), it tore through the small towns of Talent and Phoenix and to the edge of Medford, a city of more than 80,000. We'd had more than a week of 100-plus-degree days, humidity in the low teens and no measurable rain since late June, and that day winds of 20 mph and gusts up to 40 mph pushed the flames up the valley to the northwest.
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