June 29, 2025 • 29 mins
The Salvation Army's Camp Kuralti at Trestle Glen is giving children an opportunity to experience summer camp. The ODFW is working to keep invasive mussels out of Oregon waters. OHSU has selected a new CEO and President.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome the Local Voices. I'm brad Ford this week how
the Salvation Army is helping kids get access to summer camp.
You see those boat inspection stations along freeways. We'll tell
you what they're doing at OHSU has a new president
and CEO. The Salvation Army operates a summer camp that
gives underserved kids an opportunity to experience the fun and
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creativity of summer camp. Major Jonathan Harvey, the Divisional Commander
for the Salvation Army Cascade Division, joins us on Local Voices.
Jonathan tell us about Camp Kuralti at Trestle Glen. Where's
it located and what's it like.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The camp is actually in a rural area out by Boring, Oregon,
and it's just a wonderful location. We have about one
hundred acres that just set in woodland and meadow area.
Just a beautiful spot for kids to retreat to during
the summer, to have a place to just really to
get away from the realities of their lives and have
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an opportunity to grow and learn in this beautiful environment.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So what is the primary use for the camp.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The camp is primarily set up so we can provide
summer camp programming for children from homes all over the
state of Oregon. Kids that are maybe a part of
our shelter programs with parents, individuals that are in foster care,
and children who just have would never normally have an
opportunity to go to a summer camp like that, an
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overnight camp, but we make it affordable too and make
it possible for individuals and families to be able to
send their children.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Tell us about the amenities of the camp. I'm guessing
there's at least one pool, right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There is actually two pools. It's actually an incredibly beautiful spot.
When you drive onto the camp. There's a long driveway
that takes you up to the entrance and as soon
as you drive onto the camp, across the creek and
get into the property, there's really a sense of peace.
It's a beautiful spot. We have a rock climbing wall.
We have a brand new in fact, would be ribbon
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cutting their brand new challenge course in just a few
weeks that has a new zip line and some and
some areas where kids can really I mean it, it's
scary stuff, but it really is about building character and
getting them out of their selves and an opportunity to grow.
The kids do crafts, they do activities like swimming, as
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we mentioned the pool, just all kinds of things for
them to do on a day to day basis, all
very structured and and and again it sounds funny, but
providing them with three meals a day, for many of
the kids that come to our camp, getting three meals
a day is a complete luxury to them.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That was outdoors School held there.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, Yeah, we have a number of rentals that actually
utilize the property from time to time as well. Outdoor
School would be one of them. Every now and again
we host a barbecue for for our law enforcement on
a weekend. There was a group there just this weekend
that was from another organization that does things with children
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that are involved with families and hospice care, church groups,
just our wide array of different groups will utilize the
property from time to time. Our primary use there would
be a summer camp.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, so maybe a business looking for a retreat site
they might consider using Camp Cauralting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely, particularly with the new Challenge course because it is
really a professional course and so it really does provide
a great team building opportunity.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Anything else you'd like us to know about camp cauralting.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, as I mentioned, as you come across that bridge
and you step on a camp, it is a place
of peace. And again for some of the children that
come to camp, they need a step away from home.
They very often, some of our kids, they go through
some challenging environments home with maybe parents that are not
getting along, could be that they're in financial hardship, and
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so food is hard to come by. And so for
the kids, they get to retreat away from that home life.
They get a place where they love for a week.
They get a place where they get fed three times
a day and snacks as well, and they just get
to be a kid for a week.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That is great. Summer camp is a terrific opportunity for that.
The Salvation Army also operates the Washington County Hope Center.
How long has the Salvation Army been involved there and
what does it offer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, we've been over in a Beaverton, Twilets and Valley
area for many, many decades. The facility that we currently have,
in fact, we've got some work being done on it
right now. We've had for about three or four years
it with facility that was actually a form of thrift
store serviach family thrift store and repurposed and so in
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many ways has been sort of this big open space,
this big palette that we've been able to dream a
little bit with. And we currently have a brand new
self select client choice food pantry that's being built in
that space as part of that space, and it really
is going to be tremendous. It really is about providing
an individual with the dignity of being able to go shopping,
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but there isn't a check stand at the end. They
get to pick out foods that work for them. And again,
we have so many people that have food allergies in
today's world. We also want to be sensitive to different
cultures and so having culturally appropriate foods. So it really
does give individuals an opportunity to go and shop for
the foods that they need. It eliminates waste and really
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again restores dignity for an individual.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now there's services offered for families there as well.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There's a wide variety. One of our one of my
favorite programs actually is Pathway of Hope and this is
to say a new program for the Salvation I we
knew would be in the last ten twelve years, but
because we have such longevity in this region. But the
Pathway of Hope is this beautiful program that comes alongside.
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It's a sort of a very intensive case management program
that comes alongside individuals that are ready to make some
change in their life and really identify as what is
the root cause of why you are in economic hardship,
why are you struggling the way you are, And then
that case manager walks alongside that person sometimes one half
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to two years, walks alongside that person and helps them
get the support that they need, to get the services
that they need, and walks them through a process that
gets them to self sufficiency. We're seeing some tremendous results
as a result of that program individuals. In fact, I
think one individual who went through that program went and
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walked alongside with their case manager for the full two years,
was living in a vehicle with his children when he
first started with that program. Today he has his own business,
stable in his own home and just thriving with his boy.
So it really does, again help somebody come from poverty
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and into a better future for themselves. And so that's
one of the elements that we're offering. The food program
is a big part of that too. And we're actually
even going out from that property with a new mobile
approach to food services, again recognizing that not everyone can
get to one of our buildings, and so we're going
to places like schools, setting up a food pantry at
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the school for a day and providing opportunity for families
to come there because their children are already going to
the school, so it's much easier for them to stop
by the school and pick up food for their family.
That's just a few of the different elements we have
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So what terrific outreach that's for Washington County, but the
Salvation Army has reached really throughout the Portland area. What
are you doing concerning the homeless crisis outside of Washington County?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Homelessness is obviously a huge challenge for our community, for
our region, and in fact, I mean our services spread
across the entire state of Oregon, and homelessness has been
a focus of ours for for quite some time. Obviously,
it's it's one of the core elements of who we are.
Most recently, we have opened up just around two hundred
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beds in downtown Portland area between two facilities and are
working on further expansion of sheltering to make sure that
we have an entry point for individuals. We'll also have
a recovery facility in the North Portland that is providing
space for individuals that have been through recovery programming and
they're looking to transition into a new life, and so
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they can stay with us in our transitional center for
about two years if they choose to, if they need to.
And again, they're they're gaining the skills that they're getting jobs,
they're they're they're having people that are walking alongside them
and helping them adjust this new life without the drug
or alcohol that they were used to and that program
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is again having tremendous results in helping people get back
on their feet and become self sufficient. We have big
dreams for that facility too. We're hoping to ultimately develop
workforce development programs there where we would actually be able
to do workforce training for folks that were going through
that program initial recovery programming. Lots of big dreams for there. Again.
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We have a lot of projects in the works right now,
many that are in the process of happening currently, construction,
projects that are working, programs that are being developed, and
many new that we just continue to roll out, like
I say, two hundred additional beds just in this first
few months of the year, and we'll have more by
the end of this year. We also have services of
domestic violence program actually one of the largest, actually the
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largest provider of domestic violence programming in the state. And
we have a shelter where in individuals who have gone
through domestic violence or human trafficking can stay with their
children if they have children, and again a counselor case
manager coming alongside them, advocacy for them in court if
they need to do that, and then helping them get
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back on their feet, and we have remote housing that
then they are able to go into and get set
up and form a whole new life for themselves. Very
often for those individuals, that's that's helping them get a
driving license or a license of some kind of idea
of some kind, helping them get papers. Very often that's
a control mechanism of an individual of keeping someone in
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a place by taking away all their documentation so they
can't get a job, so they can't travel, and so
against working through those barriers. And that's a lot of
what we do is identify what of the barriers that
are holding you back from success and then helping individuals
break down those barriers. And again it's just beautiful when
you when you hear the stories of transformation. Again, even
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out and in Beaverton, we have the Veterans Family Center
and that is an apartment building that provides sheltering for
veteran families and so veterans. You we want to take
care of our veterans. We love the service and appreciate
deeply the service that provided to ourt community through the decades,
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and so we want to be able to take care
of them and again help them on a new path.
So huge amount of work happening and getting people off
the streets and into a battle life.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Those are terrific support programs. Now, the Salvation Army also
helps supply kids during certain times of the year before
school begins or during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Tell us about that absolutely, you know, there's nothing worse
than going back to school and not having the resources
that you need to be successful. Obviously, it's a beautiful
blessing to have a brand new backpack, to have new clothing,
and we want to make sure that kids have that
opportunity to thrive. And we find that when they feel
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good about themselves, when they can go to school with
a new backpack, they have all the supplies that they
need for the school, they're able to dress well. Then
they tend to succeed much more in their school year.
And so at severach time is again a partner with
many different groups in making sure that we get backpacks,
school supplies and other resources into the hands of children
and families that need it. In most it happens at
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Christmas time too, we're making sure that kids get a
gift under the tree, and so all year round there
are different special events that we're able to provide that
really helps support a family but help set them up
for success well.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The Salvation Army also provides assistance during wildfires. I think
most recently you did work with the Rowena fire victims.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I actually have a crew that went out to
the Dallas this morning. So the SAVIISNAMI has a really
vast emergency disaster services network. We have multiple resources that
we base here in Portland and we also have them
spread out across the region. Prospect across the entire country.
You would find resources at Salvation Army resources to respond
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to disasters, and so it's possible when it's able, when
we're able, and rowing a fire was a perfect example
of that. As folks are going back to their homes,
as they're going to look at what sort of left
of the very often it's just rubble that's left, they'll
take time to sift through that those remains and see
if they can find family photos or maybe it was
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a piece of jewelry that was moms or something like that.
So families will spend some time and they have a
grieving period that they go through as they realize that
they have lost everything that was material in their lives.
And so our teams will be going in so that
we are available there. We don't push our way into
anybody's world or into their life, but our teams will
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be available with a cup of coffee, potentially a sandwich,
some snacks, those types of things in one of our
response vehicles. And we have within those teams individuals who
have trained in emotional spiritual care, and so they'll be
able to come alongside people and just encourage them, love
on them as they go through this incredibly difficult time.
We also have been at the Long Term Recovery Center
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and making sure that the immediate needs of individuals are
provided so we can kind of help them through this
immediate period. And then one of the beautiful things about
the Savitionian Army is that the while we're obviously there
in the immediate, we're also there for the long haul,
and so our Salvation Army Center there in the in
the Dells will be a hub a long term for
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individuals that have not just gone through the fire, but
obviously any individual in the community, but particularly those that
have gone through that that they're going to need to
get some continued support. They're going to need to get
some food, they may even need to you know, help
with getting into an apartment or into a new home,
or a utility assistance. At some point they're gonna take
it's gonna take time for them to get back on
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their feet. We've been there for decades and we're going
to continue to be there for decades. And it's, like
I said, one of the kind of the beauties of
our organization. I recognize I'm probably very biased in that,
but one of the beautiful things about our organization is
we were there before, so an incident happens, we're able
to be right on the ground to help in the
immediate and then we're there for the long pull. We're
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not going anywhere, and so we will be around to
take care of folks and help them as they get
back on their feet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Now, the Salvation Army has so many programs. Do you
need volunteers to help?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
We always need volunteers, yes, yeah, and volunteers can be
I mean one of the simplest ways is like our
food pantries, we often need help stacking the shelves and
helping to client choice food pantries. We often like to
go with the client, kind of walk around the area
with them and so helping people in that manner. We
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will take on volunteer groups that want to take on
a project, maybe it's painting a room or something like that.
So there are always opportunities for people to get involved.
And again, no matter what someone's ability is, there is
as a role for them to play within our organization,
and so we certainly encourage people to utilize our website
predominately that's really the easiest way of connecting with us,
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letting us know that they'd like to volunteer, and then
we can help plug them into the right location and
the right environment for.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Them, and do you need donations to help support your programs.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, that's that's unfortunate reality of life. The utility bill
still has to get paid. We still need to make
sure that we can provide a salary for our employees
that work for us. And obviously, very often the services
that we provide they cost money. We do as much
as we can to generate donations of food and such,
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but very often we are purchasing that food in bulk
so we can keep our pantries full and so an
individual can go Probably the easiest way would be to
go to Cascade dot Salvation Army dot or that's Cascade
dot Salvation Army dot org, make a contribution there, and
that contribution helps us today and throughout the entire year.
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And obviously in just a few months, those those kettles
will be outside stores. Nobody likes to talk about that
in June, but those bells will be ringing come November.
That again, is another great way for people to get
involved as a volunteer, to drop some money in the
red Kettle or to help in any way during the
holiday season.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It is such a great part of the holiday season.
Major Harvey, anything else you'd like to add that I
didn't ask you about.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think the biggest thing I'd like to say is
thank you. Thank you obviously to you for giving us
an opportunity to have a voice and to share what
it is we do. But there are literally thousands of
people in the state of Oregon and again across the country,
who give very generously, who support very graciously, who drop
a dollar in a Red kettle, or write a check
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at the end of each month, whatever it might be.
And so the last thing I think I would like
to say is thank you. Thank you for helping us
do all the things that we've just talked about in
this time. They are only possible with the volunteer help
and the financial support of our donors, and so thank
you for everybody that helps make that possible. And maybe
if somebody is listening today that has never given, has
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never supported, participate it be a part of what we
are doing to help families and individuals get back on
their feet. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's Major Jonathan Harvey, the Divisional commander for the Salvation
Army Cascade Division, with information about Camp Kuralti at Trestle Glenn,
the Salvation Army's homeless support, wildfire support, and assistance for kids.
You can learn more at Salvation Army dot org. The
Oregon Department of Fishing Wildlife has a boat testing program.
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You've probably seen the testing stations along freeways. They're trying
to keep invasive muscles out of Oregon's rivers and lakes.
Keith de Hart with ODFNW joins US on local Voices. Keith,
what are the muscles and why are they a problem?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, Brad, the invasive species were primarily concerned with our
invasive freshwater muscles, which are They include the zebra quagga
and the golden muscle that's been found in California this
last year. And why we're concerned about them is that
they're an aquatic biofowler, meaning they can attach to any
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underwater infrastructure or our recreational equipment and plug intake pipes,
damage engines, damage our irrigation and waterways. They also can
damage the environment and cause significant ecological harm by filtering
out phytoplankton and nutrients from the water that are critical
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to our food webs, and they destroy our food web
from the bottom up.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Now have these invasive muscles been found near Oregon? I
think you mentioned one of them was found in California,
but I think Lake Mead has some.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
To date, they have not been found in Oregon in
any of our waterways, but they are near Oregon. The
quagga and the zebra muscles have been in the United
States since the mid eighties and have been slowly moving westward,
primarily due to recreational and commercial watercraft moving them overground.
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And most recently they've been discovered in the Snake River
in Idaho near Twin Falls in the last during the
last two summers. And then like you said, the quagga
muscle is in Lake Mead in the Colorado system and
has been there for a number of years. And then
most recently the new detection in the United States of
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golden muscles that was found in the Sacramento River Delta
in southern California last year.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So why are boat inspections necessary and what happens during
these inspections?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, So the reason why we do the boat inspections is,
as I mentioned, the primary method for these being transported
by humans is through recreational or commercial waterft that have
been in infested waters and unintentionally bring and spread these
to new waterways. The juvenile life stage of all of
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these muscles are microscopic and can be can be easily
carried in any standing water in a in a vessel,
and so we do boat inspections and require watercraft being
trailered or moved around to submit to these inspections, where
we do a quick visual inspection, a quick interview about
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where the boat has been and where they're going, and
then if the vessel has unidentifiable water like water that
is suspect and could be carrying these or adults on
the whole, we do a decontamination of the watercraft using
a hot water pressure wash.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So what types of boats are these? Power boats and
sailboats or all boats?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It is it is all boats.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We have found adult muscles in as small a watercraft
as a whitewater kayak. We do inspect paddle boards and
any any watercraft.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
That down to that size.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The highest risk watercraft though, are those that have things
like ballast tanks in them, or like your wakeboard boats
that can have ballast bags to create a larger wake
for the recreation that they do where they can where
they carry additional water in those ballast tanks, so, but
anything from as small as a kayak or canoe to
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your standard wakeboard or fishing vessel, to even commercial vessels
like barges and the like that are larger that you
might even see on the Columbia.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I've seen some of these boat inspection stations as I've
driven along freeways in Oregon. Our boat owners required to
stop at these.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes, by Oregon law, if a boat owner is trailering
or carrying a water craft, they are required to stop
if the inspection station is open. They are not compelled
to find an inspection station and go out of their way,
but if they are passing an open inspection station with
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a water craft, they are required to stop.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Now they are also spot inspections besides the checkpoints, maybe
at boat launches, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, in Oregon, we're slowly ramping up our efforts to
inspect more vessels and get the word out more and more,
and so we do have what I call the roving
team where we will send out personnel to certain water
bodies or boat ramps and do pop up inspection stations
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where people are required as they come to the water
body and there's an inspection station that's being staffed. They're
required to submit to an inspection and we try to
do that as quick and pot as possible for the
for people to get on the water and enjoy their day,
but also for the purpose of protecting our wonderful natural
resources and water bodies in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How's the program funded.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
The program is funded through the waterway access pass or
boat registration fees. There is a small amount of every
boat registration that comes to this program, and it's matched
also by the federal water Water Resources and Development Act funding.
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So every dollar that we collect in the state through
the waterway access pass or boat registration is matched now
to two dollars from the federal government that helps fund
our prevention program.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And at these checkpoints, are are they finding boats that
have these muscles in them?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
We we do, and I appreciate you asking that.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Last year, we've found six vessels coming into Oregon that
had quagga or zebra muscles on them and we performed
a decontamination. In the last two months, we've found three
vessels coming into Oregon, and so we're constantly finding them
a year in and year out. But as the word
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gets out there, we're finding less and less, which is
a great thing because people are doing the necessary steps
of clean, drain, and dry their watercraft as they transported
around the states. So we do find them, but over
the last ten years, the number or the percentage that
we have found is decreasing, which is a positive sign
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that education and our outreach efforts are taking hold and
voters and recreationalists are doing what's necessary to prevent the
spread of these invasive species.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, talk to us little bit about what boat orders
should do when they take their boat out of the water.
I mean, is it good enough to just pull the
plug and let it drain it?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You know that that is the first step is make
sure it drains, But then also do a quick inspection
of your own vessel, making sure it's clean of all debris,
organic material, mud, drain all interior compartments. And you know,
the the best thing is, once you know you've pulled
the plug, is to go around with a sponge or
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a rag and dry all of the interior compartments you can,
letting them air out and just become completely dry. And
that that is the best method of preventing spread. And
then that also really helps if you go buy an
inspection station. It makes our inspection so much faster and
easier to do.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Keep that anything you'd like, Anything else you'd like to add.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well, the only thing I'd like to add is that
you know, it takes everybody to prevent the spread of
invasive species like qua auga zebra and golden muscles, and
in Oregon we have a beautiful, wonderful state that is
free of them. Right now. We're one of the few
states in the United States that's still free of these
destructive invaders, and we want to keep it that way.
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And so I really appreciate folks that take the time
to clean, drain, dry their water craft and be vigilant
to keep Oregon's beautiful waterways free of these invasions.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Thanks for joining us. That's Keith de Hart with the
Oregon de Property, Fish and Wildlife and details about the
boat inspection stations around the state that are in operation
to keep invasive muscles out of Oregon rivers and lakes.
The board of Oregon's only teaching hospital has chosen its
new leader. Doctor Sharif Alnahol met with the reporters shortly
after the board's unanimous vote Friday morning, saying he wants
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to be radically transparent.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I know that we have a team that well exceeds
over twenty thousand people at OHSU, and so as we
are transparent with the public, I think it's equally important
to be transparent with our own team members.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He says increasing staff will help address a major concern
at OHSU and with health systems nationwide.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Access to care will be a major priority for me.
That means building capacity because on the other side of
that equation is the actual capacity and ability for our
employees to be able to see patients as rapidly and
effectively as possible. The other side of that coin is
the risk for burnout. So it doesn't mean just loading
schedules to an unsustainable degree.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Doctor allenah Hall says that he wants the teaching hospital
to be focused on patient care and access, research and innovation.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
During my interim period between serving and the government as
Under Secretary for Health for the VA and now coming
onto this position, I had a chance to learn about
the healthcare innovation ecosystem across the country.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
He says.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Patient access is a top priority.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I know that it takes far too long for many
people to get access to critical appointments in this organization.
I'm no stranger to that, and VA face that issue
as well, and health care systems, by the way, across
the country continue to face that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Doctor Alnaholl believes artificial intelligence has a place at OHSU
with a thoughtful strategy.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
In anyways, AI is just an incredibly transformative revolution in technology.
It's going to change.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
All of our lives. Doctor Alnaholl served as Undersecretary for
Health of the Department of Veterans Administration under President Biden.
He'll officially take over as OHSU's sixth president on August eleventh.
Thanks for listening to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord. You
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the Salvation Army is helping kids get access to summer camp.
You see those boat inspection stations along freeways. We'll tell
you what they're doing at OHSU has a new president
and CEO. The Salvation Army operates a summer camp that
gives underserved kids an opportunity to experience the fun and
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creativity of summer camp. Major Jonathan Harvey, the Divisional Commander
for the Salvation Army Cascade Division, joins us on Local Voices.
Jonathan tell us about Camp Kuralti at Trestle Glen. Where's
it located and what's it like.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The camp is actually in a rural area out by Boring, Oregon,
and it's just a wonderful location. We have about one
hundred acres that just set in woodland and meadow area.
Just a beautiful spot for kids to retreat to during
the summer, to have a place to just really to
get away from the realities of their lives and have
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an opportunity to grow and learn in this beautiful environment.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So what is the primary use for the camp.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The camp is primarily set up so we can provide
summer camp programming for children from homes all over the
state of Oregon. Kids that are maybe a part of
our shelter programs with parents, individuals that are in foster care,
and children who just have would never normally have an
opportunity to go to a summer camp like that, an
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overnight camp, but we make it affordable too and make
it possible for individuals and families to be able to
send their children.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Tell us about the amenities of the camp. I'm guessing
there's at least one pool, right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There is actually two pools. It's actually an incredibly beautiful spot.
When you drive onto the camp. There's a long driveway
that takes you up to the entrance and as soon
as you drive onto the camp, across the creek and
get into the property, there's really a sense of peace.
It's a beautiful spot. We have a rock climbing wall.
We have a brand new in fact, would be ribbon
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cutting their brand new challenge course in just a few
weeks that has a new zip line and some and
some areas where kids can really I mean it, it's
scary stuff, but it really is about building character and
getting them out of their selves and an opportunity to grow.
The kids do crafts, they do activities like swimming, as
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we mentioned the pool, just all kinds of things for
them to do on a day to day basis, all
very structured and and and again it sounds funny, but
providing them with three meals a day, for many of
the kids that come to our camp, getting three meals
a day is a complete luxury to them.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That was outdoors School held there.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, Yeah, we have a number of rentals that actually
utilize the property from time to time as well. Outdoor
School would be one of them. Every now and again
we host a barbecue for for our law enforcement on
a weekend. There was a group there just this weekend
that was from another organization that does things with children
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that are involved with families and hospice care, church groups,
just our wide array of different groups will utilize the
property from time to time. Our primary use there would
be a summer camp.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, so maybe a business looking for a retreat site
they might consider using Camp Cauralting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely, particularly with the new Challenge course because it is
really a professional course and so it really does provide
a great team building opportunity.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Anything else you'd like us to know about camp cauralting.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, as I mentioned, as you come across that bridge
and you step on a camp, it is a place
of peace. And again for some of the children that
come to camp, they need a step away from home.
They very often, some of our kids, they go through
some challenging environments home with maybe parents that are not
getting along, could be that they're in financial hardship, and
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so food is hard to come by. And so for
the kids, they get to retreat away from that home life.
They get a place where they love for a week.
They get a place where they get fed three times
a day and snacks as well, and they just get
to be a kid for a week.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That is great. Summer camp is a terrific opportunity for that.
The Salvation Army also operates the Washington County Hope Center.
How long has the Salvation Army been involved there and
what does it offer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, we've been over in a Beaverton, Twilets and Valley
area for many, many decades. The facility that we currently have,
in fact, we've got some work being done on it
right now. We've had for about three or four years
it with facility that was actually a form of thrift
store serviach family thrift store and repurposed and so in
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many ways has been sort of this big open space,
this big palette that we've been able to dream a
little bit with. And we currently have a brand new
self select client choice food pantry that's being built in
that space as part of that space, and it really
is going to be tremendous. It really is about providing
an individual with the dignity of being able to go shopping,
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but there isn't a check stand at the end. They
get to pick out foods that work for them. And again,
we have so many people that have food allergies in
today's world. We also want to be sensitive to different
cultures and so having culturally appropriate foods. So it really
does give individuals an opportunity to go and shop for
the foods that they need. It eliminates waste and really
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again restores dignity for an individual.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now there's services offered for families there as well.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There's a wide variety. One of our one of my
favorite programs actually is Pathway of Hope and this is
to say a new program for the Salvation I we
knew would be in the last ten twelve years, but
because we have such longevity in this region. But the
Pathway of Hope is this beautiful program that comes alongside.
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It's a sort of a very intensive case management program
that comes alongside individuals that are ready to make some
change in their life and really identify as what is
the root cause of why you are in economic hardship,
why are you struggling the way you are, And then
that case manager walks alongside that person sometimes one half
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to two years, walks alongside that person and helps them
get the support that they need, to get the services
that they need, and walks them through a process that
gets them to self sufficiency. We're seeing some tremendous results
as a result of that program individuals. In fact, I
think one individual who went through that program went and
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walked alongside with their case manager for the full two years,
was living in a vehicle with his children when he
first started with that program. Today he has his own business,
stable in his own home and just thriving with his boy.
So it really does, again help somebody come from poverty
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and into a better future for themselves. And so that's
one of the elements that we're offering. The food program
is a big part of that too. And we're actually
even going out from that property with a new mobile
approach to food services, again recognizing that not everyone can
get to one of our buildings, and so we're going
to places like schools, setting up a food pantry at
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the school for a day and providing opportunity for families
to come there because their children are already going to
the school, so it's much easier for them to stop
by the school and pick up food for their family.
That's just a few of the different elements we have
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So what terrific outreach that's for Washington County, but the
Salvation Army has reached really throughout the Portland area. What
are you doing concerning the homeless crisis outside of Washington County?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Homelessness is obviously a huge challenge for our community, for
our region, and in fact, I mean our services spread
across the entire state of Oregon, and homelessness has been
a focus of ours for for quite some time. Obviously,
it's it's one of the core elements of who we are.
Most recently, we have opened up just around two hundred
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beds in downtown Portland area between two facilities and are
working on further expansion of sheltering to make sure that
we have an entry point for individuals. We'll also have
a recovery facility in the North Portland that is providing
space for individuals that have been through recovery programming and
they're looking to transition into a new life, and so
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they can stay with us in our transitional center for
about two years if they choose to, if they need to.
And again, they're they're gaining the skills that they're getting jobs,
they're they're they're having people that are walking alongside them
and helping them adjust this new life without the drug
or alcohol that they were used to and that program
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is again having tremendous results in helping people get back
on their feet and become self sufficient. We have big
dreams for that facility too. We're hoping to ultimately develop
workforce development programs there where we would actually be able
to do workforce training for folks that were going through
that program initial recovery programming. Lots of big dreams for there. Again.
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We have a lot of projects in the works right now,
many that are in the process of happening currently, construction,
projects that are working, programs that are being developed, and
many new that we just continue to roll out, like
I say, two hundred additional beds just in this first
few months of the year, and we'll have more by
the end of this year. We also have services of
domestic violence program actually one of the largest, actually the
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largest provider of domestic violence programming in the state. And
we have a shelter where in individuals who have gone
through domestic violence or human trafficking can stay with their
children if they have children, and again a counselor case
manager coming alongside them, advocacy for them in court if
they need to do that, and then helping them get
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back on their feet, and we have remote housing that
then they are able to go into and get set
up and form a whole new life for themselves. Very
often for those individuals, that's that's helping them get a
driving license or a license of some kind of idea
of some kind, helping them get papers. Very often that's
a control mechanism of an individual of keeping someone in
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a place by taking away all their documentation so they
can't get a job, so they can't travel, and so
against working through those barriers. And that's a lot of
what we do is identify what of the barriers that
are holding you back from success and then helping individuals
break down those barriers. And again it's just beautiful when
you when you hear the stories of transformation. Again, even
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out and in Beaverton, we have the Veterans Family Center
and that is an apartment building that provides sheltering for
veteran families and so veterans. You we want to take
care of our veterans. We love the service and appreciate
deeply the service that provided to ourt community through the decades,
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and so we want to be able to take care
of them and again help them on a new path.
So huge amount of work happening and getting people off
the streets and into a battle life.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Those are terrific support programs. Now, the Salvation Army also
helps supply kids during certain times of the year before
school begins or during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Tell us about that absolutely, you know, there's nothing worse
than going back to school and not having the resources
that you need to be successful. Obviously, it's a beautiful
blessing to have a brand new backpack, to have new clothing,
and we want to make sure that kids have that
opportunity to thrive. And we find that when they feel
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good about themselves, when they can go to school with
a new backpack, they have all the supplies that they
need for the school, they're able to dress well. Then
they tend to succeed much more in their school year.
And so at severach time is again a partner with
many different groups in making sure that we get backpacks,
school supplies and other resources into the hands of children
and families that need it. In most it happens at
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Christmas time too, we're making sure that kids get a
gift under the tree, and so all year round there
are different special events that we're able to provide that
really helps support a family but help set them up
for success well.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The Salvation Army also provides assistance during wildfires. I think
most recently you did work with the Rowena fire victims.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I actually have a crew that went out to
the Dallas this morning. So the SAVIISNAMI has a really
vast emergency disaster services network. We have multiple resources that
we base here in Portland and we also have them
spread out across the region. Prospect across the entire country.
You would find resources at Salvation Army resources to respond
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to disasters, and so it's possible when it's able, when
we're able, and rowing a fire was a perfect example
of that. As folks are going back to their homes,
as they're going to look at what sort of left
of the very often it's just rubble that's left, they'll
take time to sift through that those remains and see
if they can find family photos or maybe it was
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a piece of jewelry that was moms or something like that.
So families will spend some time and they have a
grieving period that they go through as they realize that
they have lost everything that was material in their lives.
And so our teams will be going in so that
we are available there. We don't push our way into
anybody's world or into their life, but our teams will
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be available with a cup of coffee, potentially a sandwich,
some snacks, those types of things in one of our
response vehicles. And we have within those teams individuals who
have trained in emotional spiritual care, and so they'll be
able to come alongside people and just encourage them, love
on them as they go through this incredibly difficult time.
We also have been at the Long Term Recovery Center
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and making sure that the immediate needs of individuals are
provided so we can kind of help them through this
immediate period. And then one of the beautiful things about
the Savitionian Army is that the while we're obviously there
in the immediate, we're also there for the long haul,
and so our Salvation Army Center there in the in
the Dells will be a hub a long term for
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individuals that have not just gone through the fire, but
obviously any individual in the community, but particularly those that
have gone through that that they're going to need to
get some continued support. They're going to need to get
some food, they may even need to you know, help
with getting into an apartment or into a new home,
or a utility assistance. At some point they're gonna take
it's gonna take time for them to get back on
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their feet. We've been there for decades and we're going
to continue to be there for decades. And it's, like
I said, one of the kind of the beauties of
our organization. I recognize I'm probably very biased in that,
but one of the beautiful things about our organization is
we were there before, so an incident happens, we're able
to be right on the ground to help in the
immediate and then we're there for the long pull. We're
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not going anywhere, and so we will be around to
take care of folks and help them as they get
back on their feet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Now, the Salvation Army has so many programs. Do you
need volunteers to help?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
We always need volunteers, yes, yeah, and volunteers can be
I mean one of the simplest ways is like our
food pantries, we often need help stacking the shelves and
helping to client choice food pantries. We often like to
go with the client, kind of walk around the area
with them and so helping people in that manner. We
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will take on volunteer groups that want to take on
a project, maybe it's painting a room or something like that.
So there are always opportunities for people to get involved.
And again, no matter what someone's ability is, there is
as a role for them to play within our organization,
and so we certainly encourage people to utilize our website
predominately that's really the easiest way of connecting with us,
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letting us know that they'd like to volunteer, and then
we can help plug them into the right location and
the right environment for.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Them, and do you need donations to help support your programs.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, that's that's unfortunate reality of life. The utility bill
still has to get paid. We still need to make
sure that we can provide a salary for our employees
that work for us. And obviously, very often the services
that we provide they cost money. We do as much
as we can to generate donations of food and such,
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but very often we are purchasing that food in bulk
so we can keep our pantries full and so an
individual can go Probably the easiest way would be to
go to Cascade dot Salvation Army dot or that's Cascade
dot Salvation Army dot org, make a contribution there, and
that contribution helps us today and throughout the entire year.
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And obviously in just a few months, those those kettles
will be outside stores. Nobody likes to talk about that
in June, but those bells will be ringing come November.
That again, is another great way for people to get
involved as a volunteer, to drop some money in the
red Kettle or to help in any way during the
holiday season.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It is such a great part of the holiday season.
Major Harvey, anything else you'd like to add that I
didn't ask you about.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think the biggest thing I'd like to say is
thank you. Thank you obviously to you for giving us
an opportunity to have a voice and to share what
it is we do. But there are literally thousands of
people in the state of Oregon and again across the country,
who give very generously, who support very graciously, who drop
a dollar in a Red kettle, or write a check
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at the end of each month, whatever it might be.
And so the last thing I think I would like
to say is thank you. Thank you for helping us
do all the things that we've just talked about in
this time. They are only possible with the volunteer help
and the financial support of our donors, and so thank
you for everybody that helps make that possible. And maybe
if somebody is listening today that has never given, has
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never supported, participate it be a part of what we
are doing to help families and individuals get back on
their feet. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's Major Jonathan Harvey, the Divisional commander for the Salvation
Army Cascade Division, with information about Camp Kuralti at Trestle Glenn,
the Salvation Army's homeless support, wildfire support, and assistance for kids.
You can learn more at Salvation Army dot org. The
Oregon Department of Fishing Wildlife has a boat testing program.
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You've probably seen the testing stations along freeways. They're trying
to keep invasive muscles out of Oregon's rivers and lakes.
Keith de Hart with ODFNW joins US on local Voices. Keith,
what are the muscles and why are they a problem?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, Brad, the invasive species were primarily concerned with our
invasive freshwater muscles, which are They include the zebra quagga
and the golden muscle that's been found in California this
last year. And why we're concerned about them is that
they're an aquatic biofowler, meaning they can attach to any
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underwater infrastructure or our recreational equipment and plug intake pipes,
damage engines, damage our irrigation and waterways. They also can
damage the environment and cause significant ecological harm by filtering
out phytoplankton and nutrients from the water that are critical
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to our food webs, and they destroy our food web
from the bottom up.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Now have these invasive muscles been found near Oregon? I
think you mentioned one of them was found in California,
but I think Lake Mead has some.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
To date, they have not been found in Oregon in
any of our waterways, but they are near Oregon. The
quagga and the zebra muscles have been in the United
States since the mid eighties and have been slowly moving westward,
primarily due to recreational and commercial watercraft moving them overground.
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And most recently they've been discovered in the Snake River
in Idaho near Twin Falls in the last during the
last two summers. And then like you said, the quagga
muscle is in Lake Mead in the Colorado system and
has been there for a number of years. And then
most recently the new detection in the United States of
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golden muscles that was found in the Sacramento River Delta
in southern California last year.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So why are boat inspections necessary and what happens during
these inspections?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, So the reason why we do the boat inspections is,
as I mentioned, the primary method for these being transported
by humans is through recreational or commercial waterft that have
been in infested waters and unintentionally bring and spread these
to new waterways. The juvenile life stage of all of
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these muscles are microscopic and can be can be easily
carried in any standing water in a in a vessel,
and so we do boat inspections and require watercraft being
trailered or moved around to submit to these inspections, where
we do a quick visual inspection, a quick interview about
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where the boat has been and where they're going, and
then if the vessel has unidentifiable water like water that
is suspect and could be carrying these or adults on
the whole, we do a decontamination of the watercraft using
a hot water pressure wash.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So what types of boats are these? Power boats and
sailboats or all boats?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It is it is all boats.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We have found adult muscles in as small a watercraft
as a whitewater kayak. We do inspect paddle boards and
any any watercraft.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
That down to that size.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The highest risk watercraft though, are those that have things
like ballast tanks in them, or like your wakeboard boats
that can have ballast bags to create a larger wake
for the recreation that they do where they can where
they carry additional water in those ballast tanks, so, but
anything from as small as a kayak or canoe to
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your standard wakeboard or fishing vessel, to even commercial vessels
like barges and the like that are larger that you
might even see on the Columbia.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I've seen some of these boat inspection stations as I've
driven along freeways in Oregon. Our boat owners required to
stop at these.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes, by Oregon law, if a boat owner is trailering
or carrying a water craft, they are required to stop
if the inspection station is open. They are not compelled
to find an inspection station and go out of their way,
but if they are passing an open inspection station with
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a water craft, they are required to stop.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Now they are also spot inspections besides the checkpoints, maybe
at boat launches, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, in Oregon, we're slowly ramping up our efforts to
inspect more vessels and get the word out more and more,
and so we do have what I call the roving
team where we will send out personnel to certain water
bodies or boat ramps and do pop up inspection stations
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where people are required as they come to the water
body and there's an inspection station that's being staffed. They're
required to submit to an inspection and we try to
do that as quick and pot as possible for the
for people to get on the water and enjoy their day,
but also for the purpose of protecting our wonderful natural
resources and water bodies in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How's the program funded.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
The program is funded through the waterway access pass or
boat registration fees. There is a small amount of every
boat registration that comes to this program, and it's matched
also by the federal water Water Resources and Development Act funding.
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So every dollar that we collect in the state through
the waterway access pass or boat registration is matched now
to two dollars from the federal government that helps fund
our prevention program.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And at these checkpoints, are are they finding boats that
have these muscles in them?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
We we do, and I appreciate you asking that.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Last year, we've found six vessels coming into Oregon that
had quagga or zebra muscles on them and we performed
a decontamination. In the last two months, we've found three
vessels coming into Oregon, and so we're constantly finding them
a year in and year out. But as the word
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gets out there, we're finding less and less, which is
a great thing because people are doing the necessary steps
of clean, drain, and dry their watercraft as they transported
around the states. So we do find them, but over
the last ten years, the number or the percentage that
we have found is decreasing, which is a positive sign
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that education and our outreach efforts are taking hold and
voters and recreationalists are doing what's necessary to prevent the
spread of these invasive species.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, talk to us little bit about what boat orders
should do when they take their boat out of the water.
I mean, is it good enough to just pull the
plug and let it drain it?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You know that that is the first step is make
sure it drains, But then also do a quick inspection
of your own vessel, making sure it's clean of all debris,
organic material, mud, drain all interior compartments. And you know,
the the best thing is, once you know you've pulled
the plug, is to go around with a sponge or
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a rag and dry all of the interior compartments you can,
letting them air out and just become completely dry. And
that that is the best method of preventing spread. And
then that also really helps if you go buy an
inspection station. It makes our inspection so much faster and
easier to do.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Keep that anything you'd like, Anything else you'd like to add.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well, the only thing I'd like to add is that
you know, it takes everybody to prevent the spread of
invasive species like qua auga zebra and golden muscles, and
in Oregon we have a beautiful, wonderful state that is
free of them. Right now. We're one of the few
states in the United States that's still free of these
destructive invaders, and we want to keep it that way.
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And so I really appreciate folks that take the time
to clean, drain, dry their water craft and be vigilant
to keep Oregon's beautiful waterways free of these invasions.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Thanks for joining us. That's Keith de Hart with the
Oregon de Property, Fish and Wildlife and details about the
boat inspection stations around the state that are in operation
to keep invasive muscles out of Oregon rivers and lakes.
The board of Oregon's only teaching hospital has chosen its
new leader. Doctor Sharif Alnahol met with the reporters shortly
after the board's unanimous vote Friday morning, saying he wants
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to be radically transparent.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I know that we have a team that well exceeds
over twenty thousand people at OHSU, and so as we
are transparent with the public, I think it's equally important
to be transparent with our own team members.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He says increasing staff will help address a major concern
at OHSU and with health systems nationwide.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Access to care will be a major priority for me.
That means building capacity because on the other side of
that equation is the actual capacity and ability for our
employees to be able to see patients as rapidly and
effectively as possible. The other side of that coin is
the risk for burnout. So it doesn't mean just loading
schedules to an unsustainable degree.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Doctor allenah Hall says that he wants the teaching hospital
to be focused on patient care and access, research and innovation.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
During my interim period between serving and the government as
Under Secretary for Health for the VA and now coming
onto this position, I had a chance to learn about
the healthcare innovation ecosystem across the country.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
He says.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Patient access is a top priority.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I know that it takes far too long for many
people to get access to critical appointments in this organization.
I'm no stranger to that, and VA face that issue
as well, and health care systems, by the way, across
the country continue to face that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Doctor Alnaholl believes artificial intelligence has a place at OHSU
with a thoughtful strategy.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
In anyways, AI is just an incredibly transformative revolution in technology.
It's going to change.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
All of our lives. Doctor Alnaholl served as Undersecretary for
Health of the Department of Veterans Administration under President Biden.
He'll officially take over as OHSU's sixth president on August eleventh.
Thanks for listening to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord. You
can hear past episodes on the iHeartRadio app under the
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