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06/15/2026

Champion Car Wash Field in Roseburg hosted the Class 3A/2A/1A All-Star baseball series over the weekend. The top performing seniors from high schools around Oregon were invited to participate in the series of three nine-inning games.

The Blue Team took the series 2-1 over the Gold Team with two wins on Saturday, 7-6 and 15-1. The Gold team won 9-8 on Sunday.

Champion Car Wash Field in Roseburg hosted the Class 3A/2A/1A All-Star baseball series over the weekend. The top performing seniors from high schools around Oregon were invited to participate in

06/15/2026

Walking across the stage at the Swanson Amphitheater on Friday was extra special for M'Liss Shrum of Tenmile as she followed in the footsteps of her family.

"I've always wanted to be a nurse," Shrum said. "I was born into this school, my mom graduated and my grandmother also graduated from UCC Nursing as well. So I'm third generation."

Shrum capped her four years at Umpqua Community College by participating in the graduation ceremony on Friday on campus. She said she spent two years at the school to obtain credits and prerequisites, then spent the past two years obtaining the Associate Degree in Nursing. She plans to work at CHI Mercy Health for her residency and will start her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the fall online through Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, which should last three terms. She hopes to be become a nurse practitioner in psychology, because she wants to help with the severe mental health crisis in the area.

The affordability is one reason why Shrum pursued the degree at UCC and why she will encourage her daughter to do the same. Shrum said she graduated with minimal student loan accumulation comparative to others in her family who attended four-year schools. Additionally, the small campus size allows for teachers and students to know each other better, with Shrum commenting that it is not common in other places for the college president to know students by name.

"I would encourage people to come here, because classes are nice and small," Shrum said. "Well, I can't attest how many students might have been in an online program, but in person it was really small. You could get to know the professors, and then the affordability is totally what helps a lot, and also all the other community programs."

Umpqua Community College celebrated nearly 1,400 students graduating with various associate diplomas, certificates, general education development (GED) degrees and more. Keynote speaker and Chief Financial Officer at the Ford Family Foundation Aden Bliss encouraged the students with formulas for life, including that success equals luck plus skill times effort, and that happiness equals reality minus expectations.

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Walking across the stage at the Swanson Amphitheater on Friday was extra special for M'Liss Shrum of Tenmile as she followed in the footsteps of her family.

06/15/2026

Summer camps are underway at the Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley.

STEAM camps and sports camps take place through the week of August 17th from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

The STEAM camps are for 6th through 12th graders while the sports camps are for kids from 3rd through 6th grades.

The camp fee varies from $85 to $165 per week and is based on a sliding scale.

Registration is available only in-person at the club at 1144 Northeast Cedar Street in Roseburg. Call 440-9505 for more information.

Summer camps are underway at the Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley.

06/15/2026

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06/11/2026

Logan Anderson and Paxton Burke are standouts on the baseball diamond, but they stick out on this year’s Dr. Stewart’s American Legion Baseball roster for a different reason.

They’re the wily old veterans amongst a group of first-year Docs players and high school underclassmen.

“It’s definitely a wide group of guys, as far as, you have a few of the returners and some older guys on top and then it drops to a pretty young group, pretty quick. So, we’ll lean on those guys,” first year coach Cody Walton said ahead of Wednesday’s season-opening 10-2 loss against Medford at Champion Car Wash Field.

Anderson is back from his freshman season at Southwestern Oregon Community College and will play his fourth and final season with the Docs.

“It’s a great opportunity to come back,” Anderson said. “I had a lot of fun my first year. The older guys made it a lot of fun, so that’s kind of my goal this year is to make it fun for the younger guys and as well as compete and win some ballgames.”

Logan Anderson and Paxton Burke are standouts on the baseball diamond, but they stick out on this year’s Dr. Stewart’s American Legion Baseball roster for a different reason.

06/11/2026

On Tuesday, the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation awarded eighty-seven charities a total of $606,815 for its spring round of giving.

The CCUIF awards presentation took place at Seven Feathers Convention Center in Canyonville. The non-profits receiving awards are located in Douglas, Coos, Deschutes, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lane counties.

The foundation awarded $92,610 to thirteen non-profits in Douglas County.

*$10,000 was given to Glide Revitalization, the United Community Action Network and the YMCA of Douglas County.

*$7,500 went to St. Francis Community Kitchen, St. Vincent De Paul Society of Myrtle Creek, the Sutherlin Oakland Emergency Food Pantry, the FISH of Roseburg, and the Umpqua Valley Arts Association

*$7,110 to the Elkton Community Education Center

*$5,000 to Thundering Water and the Umpqua Community Center

*$4,000 to the Glide School District and Altrusa International Foundation of Roseburg

Since its philanthropic activity began in 1998, CCUIF has awarded over $27.8 million to nonprofit organizations. Grants are awarded semi-annually in June and January.

On Tuesday, the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation awarded eighty-seven charities a total of $606,815 for its spring round of giving.

06/11/2026

The South Umpqua School District will begin their summer meal distribution program soon.

It is available to all children and teens aged 18 and younger. Adults may not eat any part of a child’s meal. Each child will receive a meal that meets or exceeds USDA Meal pattern requirements. Look for the yellow Lunchbox Express summer food van.

Meals will be available Mondays through Thursday from June 22nd through August 13th at these times and locations:

*Stagecoach Apartments in Canyonville from 10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

*Millsite Park in Myrtle Creek from 12:00 p.m. to 12:15 p.m.

*Myrtle Terrace Apartments from 12:20 p.m. to 12:40 p.m.

*Meadow Lark Apartments from 12:45 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

*South Umpqua High School from 1:05 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

In the Riddle School District meals will be available at Riddle Park from 11:10 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.

The summer food program is part of USDA Food and Nutrition Service and is administered by the Oregon Department of Education Child Nutrition Programs. For more information on the South Umpqua School District summer meal distribution program, call 863-3115.

The South Umpqua School District will begin their summer meal distribution program soon.