"Flooding is a normal part of our waterways," writes TSWCD Education & Outreach Specialist Adriana Lovell. "When houses and things that are meant to stay dry are built too close to these seasonally wet places, trouble abounds."
The Banks Hog and Dairy Show is prepared, the Gales Creek Road gets a fresh coat of paint, and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales Creek, Buxton, and beyond from September 6, 1923.
This is the last weekend before the Tillamook Forest Center reduces hours for the fall and then closes in November. Should the center finish the season out this year—and, barring unforeseen catastrophe, there's no indication that it won't—it will mark the first full season the center has pulled off
Fire danger in this corner of the state has lowered enough that the Oregon Department of Forestry plans to reduce the fire danger level for public use restrictions to moderate (blue) Tuesday morning in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region.
The cornhole tournament to benefit the Banks Youth Football is from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. It'll be the third year that the fundraiser has been held during the Banks BBQ, a necessity borne from the COVID-19 pandemic that turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
