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Good evening, and greetings to you veterans out there.
My colleague Mike McInally has a profile today of Lane Community College instructor Michael Sámano. As a young man in the 1980s, Sámano spent six years in the Navy, before finding his way to college and eventually becoming a teacher.
He later helped found the Maxwell Student Veteran Center at LCC, which aids students who go to college after military service.
“I used to feel kind of uncomfortable with people thanking me for my service,” Sámano told Mike. But he later came to understand the sincerity in it. Now, “I’ll just say, ‘Hey, I appreciate it.’”
Also today:
- Continuing her coverage of the mess out at the shuttered J.H. Baxter Superfund site in west Eugene, correspondent Ashli Blow reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has notified 11 nearby residential properties and four businesses that the agency wants to test their land for toxins related to the facility, where wood products were chemically treated.
- Ashli also reports today that Planned Parenthood, under financial pressure, was planning to lay off 75 workers in Oregon as it consolidates oversight organizations. But leaders said clinics in the Eugene-Springfield area would continue to offer the same services.
- Jaime Adame reports that felony charges were filed against University of Oregon football player Messiah Hampton, 18, related to a car chase in Springfield in which speeds reached about 100 mph, according to court documents.
- And traffic safety will be on the agenda at this week’s Eugene City Club forum.
Who’s in our Community Voices section today?
- Kel Williams of Springfield weighs in on the ongoing debate over e-bikes on multiuse paths, saying electric vehicles are potentially dangerous and our laws have not kept up “with evolving technology.”
- Eugene resident Jeremy AAsum responds to our Editorial Board’s ongoing series on Lane County’s housing crunch. Yes, he writes, change is hard, but “We’re a city. Let’s start acting like one.”
If you haven’t seen the series yet, you can catch up on it here. Additional installments will be published tomorrow and Friday.
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LCC instructor looks out for student veterans. He was one himself.
By Mike McInally
Michael Sámano takes time to encourage student veterans attending Lane Community College — just the way he was encouraged when he started his college career after six years in the Navy.
EPA notifies homeowners near J.H. Baxter it will test properties for contamination
By Ashli Blow
Testing at 15 additional properties is expected in late November. Cleanup based on the results is likely two years out.
Enjoy your evening,
Bob
