Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday declared a state of emergency over hunger and directed $5 million to food banks across the state, seeking to avert the impending November loss of food stamp benefits for hundreds of thousands of Oregonians under the federal government’s ongoing shutdown.
The city of Banks and Washington County said the stoplight at the north end of town would be lighted Wednesday evening, doubling the amount of active traffic signals in Banks.
Federal funding for SNAP will run out Nov. 1 if the federal government remains shut down, leaving more than 757,000 Oregonians without the support they rely on to buy groceries.
The Banks Fire District will tighten their checks and balances around which cars they demolish for training after inadvertently damaging a car parked at their station in Buxton that hadn't been donated for destruction.
The one in six Oregonians who rely on federal SNAP food and nutrition assistance to pay for groceries each month will be left with nothing in November due to the ongoing government shutdown, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Human Services.
A report on the Banks City Council meeting, this months police and fire logs, an update on a man missing possibly in Gales Creek or Hillside and more in this week's Banks news!
