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‘Stop Requested’: To Lakeview, Oregon‘s ’Mile High City'

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October 27, 2024

‘Stop Requested’: To Lakeview, Oregon‘s ’Mile High City'

Editor’s note: This is the third installment of “Stop Requested,” OPB’s multi-part series about a journey to the corners of Oregon by public transit.

Fourteen days, and more than 30 buses — OPB‘s ’Weekend Edition’ Host Lillian Karabaic and Prakruti Bhatt experience the joys and difficulties of rural transit and talk to many people along the way.

Tuesday Sept. 17

Lakeview is proud of it’s wild west heritage, and many signs have cowboys, including the one grocery store in town, Safeway.

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Our destination today is Lakeview, and the only way there by public transit is from Klamath Falls. Known as Oregon’s “mile-high city,” this town of about 2,500 people may be small, but Lakeview boasts a community spirit and picturesque landscapes.

Bus 10: S 5th Ave & Plum Ave > Washburn Way & Hilyard Ave

Basin Transit Service Route 5 & 6, $1.50, 3.2 miles

We grab a quick ride on Klamath Fall’s hourly local transit service, which comes quickly and drops us off at a strip mall. We walk through a large parking lot to find our transit into Lakeview.

Bus 11: Klamath-Lake Counties Food Bank > Lakeview Senior Center

Lake County Cloud, $0, 101.3 miles

To reach Lakeview, we turn to the Lake County Cloud, a transit service run by the Lakeview Senior Center. Lake County Cloud doesn‘t have any fixed route services. Their crew of eight part-time drivers mostly do by-reservation trips to medical appointments and a few shopping trips. This became even more important after Lakeview’s only specialty clinic and hospice closed in 2023.

Because the nearest city is Klamath Falls, more than 90 miles away, Lake County Transit puts in a lot of miles. They also go up to Medford, down to California, and even all the way to Portland for chemotherapy.

“We do about 30,000 [or] 40,000 miles a month… it’s a lot for a little town and little crew,” said Linda Mickle, Transportation Coordinator for Lake County Transit.

She’s coordinated for us to ride from Klamath Falls to Lakeview with the twice-monthly food pickup at Klamath-Lake Counties Food Bank. Tucked behind a furniture store and a Taco Bell is the 1,200-square-foot distribution warehouse filled with pallets of food. Executive Director Lori Garrard said they distribute 2.5 million pounds of food a year.

Lori Garrard and Courtney Nichols — The Klamath-Lake Counties Food Bank distributes 2.5 million pounds of food a year. About 5,000 pounds a month goes from their distribution center in Klamath Falls to Lakeview.
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“We‘re really seeing a huge jump in the need for our communities, especially Lake County,” said Operations Manager Courtney Nichols. She adds that this is especially true as it gets harder to make paychecks stretch at limited grocery store options in highly rural areas like Lake County. The food bank supplies about 5,000 pounds of food to Lake County each month. Today’s bus will take a pallet of food to Lakeview Senior Center for their hot meal service … and we get to hitch a ride.

We travel on a bright blue 14-passenger bus, decorated with pictures of clouds and parasailers, driven by Larry Brooks.

Loading boxes — The Klamath-Lake Counties Food Bank distributes 2.5 million pounds of food a year. Twice a month, Lake County Public Transit picks up an order for Lakeview Senior Center’s hot meal program.
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Brooks has been driving for Lake County for about 7 years, after retiring from the railroad. “I took a guy to Medford yesterday, to the dentist,” said Larry. “I get over to Baker [City], Pendleton, Ontario. But most of our runs are Klamath falls, Medford and Bend.”

His longest day driving the bus? Twenty-three hours on a trip to Portland. The person he was driving had five medical appointments back-to-back. “We left at 2:30 in the morning and got back at 2 a.m.”

Larry Brooks unloads from a bus — Lake County bus driver Larry Brooks , left, helps upload at Lakeview Senior Center. He has been driving for Lake County for about 7 years, after retiring from the railroad. “I get over to Baker [City], Pendleton, Ontario. But most of our runs are Klamath falls, Medford and Bend.”
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Why put in those long days when he’s mostly retired? “Helping the people. And people really need it. It’s a good service,” he says.

Brooks used to drive the bus for shopping trips to and from Lakeview to Klamath Falls but said he stopped doing that because “taking eight ladies shopping is like trying to herd cats.”

Larry Brooks has been driving for Lake County Transit for 7 years. Why does he do it even though he's mostly retired? "Helping the people." — Larry Brooks has been driving for Lake County Transit for 7 years. Why does he do it even though he’s mostly retired? “Helping the people.”
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The bus is loaded up with a pallet of food quickly and then we get on board. Brooks warns us that he hit a turkey vulture on the way in, but the bus doesn’t seem any worse for wear.

After two hours of driving over a mountain pass, past many cows, we pull up to Lakeview Senior Center. It‘s housed in a more-than-100-year-old hospital. “Many people in Lakeview were born here,” said transportation coordinator Linda Mickle. Now, it houses a thrift store, a dining room for hot meals, veteran services, and art and theatre workshops. From the old morgue, Mickle coordinates all of Lake County Transit’s rides.

OPB's 'Weekend Edition' host Lillian Karabaic stands in front of the sign that says Welcome to Lakeview. — OPB’s ‘Weekend Edition’ host Lillian Karabaic stands in front of the sign that says Welcome to Lakeview.
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We walk down Lakeview’s main street – which is surrounded by mountains and has a charming, Wild West vibe. A pudgy kitty walks up to us from from a house with barking dogs in the yard and a sign on it that says “Animal House”. The cat’s name? Judge Judy.

Judge Judy “works” for Animal House, which is Rhonda Dial’s fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants animal rescue run out of her home.

cat — Judge Judy is named so because she judges everyone who walks past Animal House on Lakeview’s main street. “She checks everybody and everything in and out of the rescue,” said Rhonda Dial.
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“She checks everybody and everything in and out of the rescue,” said Dial. “It can be the meanest dog or the sweetest old lady out front. She‘s going to go up and get in their business.”

A dog sticks its face over a fence — “Animal House” is the only animal rescue for 100 miles. Rhonda Dial said it was divine intervention that led her to opening a rescue.
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Like everything else in this very rural area, ‘Animal House’ is a creative solution to the lack of resources. It’s the only animal rescue for 100 miles, in a town with no animal control. Dial said it was divine intervention that led her to start Animal House.

“I lost a 29-year-old daughter to addiction. And when I was losing my daughter, when we were disconnecting her, I‘m in the hospital, you know, saying farewell to my daughter and God says, ’Well, you‘re gonna have an animal rescue,’” said Dial. “And I started to argue and then I remembered who I was arguing with.”

Rhonda dial in Lakeview — Rhonda Dial runs Lakeview’s fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants rescue, Animal House, out of her house. It’s the only rescue for 100 miles. Dial said it was divine intervention that led her to start Animal House.
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In addition to the animal shelter, Dial also helps organize a free meal program on the holidays. “I used to use drugs and be an idiot for 30 full years,” said Dial. “I went to prison behind it and then I got connected with Jesus Christ and changed my life and this is what came of it.”

“I just feel like if you’re getting really involved in your community in a bad way, doing bad things, when you turn it around, you need to be just as involved with your community for good,” she said.

And Dial thinks Lakeview is the community to be in. “Lakeview is a really nice place,” she said. “I just think it’s a wonderful place on the planet. They couldn’t run me off.”

Unfortunately, we do have to get run off because early the next morning we’re headed to north Lake County.

Next week on “Stop Requested”: We find out that Christmas Valley is more wild west and less tinsel town than the name would suggest. We ride along on their weekly so-called “senior party bus” to La Pine.

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Bill Oram: Beavers fans can let Oregon go. Washington State is the rival Oregon State needs

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November 24, 2024

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Bill Oram: Beavers fans can let Oregon go. Washington State is the rival Oregon State needs

CORVALLIS — It was a No One Watches Bowl for the ages.

And, yeah, I think that’s probably what they ought to call this thing. Forget the Pac-2 championship or the Left Behind Bowl. The schools need to lean into that bitter mondegreen of Lee Corso’s actual quote, the one that left folks so intensely riled a year ago. Because the display from Oregon State and Washington State on Saturday, well, that was certainly worth watching.

And for Beavers fans, worth celebrating.

A week after hitting the low point of Trent Bray’s tenure, the Beavers responded with a brilliant new high: A thrilling 41-38 win over the Cougars.

It was secured when Everett Hayes’ sent a 55-yard field goal just inside the right upright with 20 seconds remaining.

If you’re the type to quibble with whether a win over a Washington State team on the periphery of the top 25 truly merited an orange crush of fans storming the field, well, you’re just going to have to let them have this one.

That’s what you do when you beat your rival. Yes, I said rival.

Maybe it’s premature, but with Oregon continuing to distance itself from Oregon State, Beavers fans should let go of the Ducks — at least in football — and embrace this new, developing rivalry that on Saturday delivered a classic.

Will it be the same? Of course not. Nothing is. But unlike with the Ducks of the Big Ten, Washington State gives the Beavers a foil that is part of a shared experience. That has fought similar battles only to end up on the same field at the end of the season.

That’s what made Saturday’s win so sweet for Beavers fans. It was catharsis.

For a long season.

For a long year.

Saturday marked 364 days since Jonathan Smith announced his decision to leave for Michigan State. (How do you plan to observe the anniversary on Monday?) And while not every issue this program has faced can be hung on that moment, it was the beginning of the unraveling.

Assistant coaches followed Smith to Michigan State. Players jumped into the transfer portal. The Beavers were left with a roster, and frankly also a coaching staff, with too many questions and not enough answers.

I’m not alone in buying that the game with Washington State has achieved genuine rivalry status.

“I do and I have, to be honest with you,” said Bray, who grew up in Pullman and played for the Beavers. “It always has been.”

Maybe to some degree. But not a full-fledged rivalry with emotion and pride on the line.

Suddenly, it has all of that.

Especially after everything the Beavers and their fans have been through, off the field and on.

By Saturday, Oregon State was 4-6, riding a five-game losing streak. If this season even had a rock bottom, you hoped it was that inexcusable 28-zilch Coach Bray seat-warmer at Air Force. But you really couldn’t be sure, especially not against a WSU team that had harbored aspirations of crashing the College Football Playoff before crashing out against New Mexico last week.

So what happened?

Starting quarterback Ben Gulbranson got healthy after missing the trip to Air Force with a concussion, offensive coordinator Ryan Gunderson simplified the playbook, and the Beavers did something they had been unable to do in close games against Nevada and San Jose State.

They found a way.

Gulbranson overcame two second-half interceptions to complete a gotta-have-it fourth-down pass over the middle to Trent Walker to set up the go-ahead field goal. Before that, Jaden Robinson got a paw on a fumble to give the Beavers the ball at midfield when it seemed like it would, in fact, be Washington State that would milk the clock and kick a game-winner.

So when the game ended, and fans streamed onto the field, it was more than just a celebration of a single game.

“They’re the best fanbase out there,” Gulbranson said, “and I’m really happy that we could finish this one off for them and finish the season off right, here at Reser (Stadium).”

Does that make up for a season of frustration? Does it render moot the questions of a week ago? Of course not. Bray has serious questions to answer about the state of his team and the roster. He has a long way to go before he has a team that can contend for the CFP. He needs to find a quarterback.

This season has been a whiff at the most important position on the field. But Gulbranson is a tough customer. After he was passed over the job for a third consecutive year, he stayed ready for a third consecutive year, and stepped into the role when called upon for the third consecutive year.

On Saturday, he completed 22 of 34 passes for 294 yards. Just enough to tough out the most meaningful victory of the year.

You have to wonder if the Beavers might not have been able to pick off a few more wins if they had just trusted their Steady Eddie, Reliable Ben from the beginning.

Now, the Beavers are likely a week away from the end of their season. At 5-6, a bowl game is almost certainly out of reach.

They would have to beat No. 12 Boise State on the blue turf next week and that’s a tough ask of any team. Especially with the way Ashton Jeanty slices through defenses and the trouble OSU has had stopping the run.

So Saturday against the Cougars felt like the Beavers’ bowl game.

And maybe that’s the way it should be for two programs caught in this awkward purgatory. They are joined at the hip, not by choice but by necessity. Whether that makes them “buddies” or not, that’s for others to Dickert — I mean, dicker over.

But since when should rivals pretend to be friends? Beavers and Ducks never did.

There’s no replacing what the annual matchup with Oregon has meant to the state, but with that game now a nonconference matchup and not even a sure bet to be played beyond next season, it is, quite sadly, hard to put too much stock into anymore.

But Washington State? The Beavers will play the Cougars twice next season to highlight a schedule held together with duct tape and bubble gum.

And if this new iteration of the Pac-12 that the schools fought so hard for is going to make it and have an identity of its own, OSU and WSU have to be at the center of it.

A good rivalry needs a name.

The Beavers and Cougars can thank Corso for theirs, even if he was misheard, misunderstood and misquoted.

Maybe nobody in the Power Four conferences wanted these two schools.

But if Saturday is an indicator of how this rivalry is going to go, everyone will be watching.

— Bill Oram is the sports columnist at The Oregonian/OregonLive.

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Oregon State vs Washington State live score updates, highlights, how to watch Week 13 game

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November 23, 2024

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Oregon State vs Washington State live score updates, highlights, how to watch Week 13 game

Oregon State will look to salvage its disappointing season this weekend in the final home game of the year.

The Beavers (4-6) will return to Reser Stadium as they host Washington State (8-2) at 4 p.m. Saturday in a clash of Pac-12 rivals.

After a promising start to the year, Oregon State has cratered during the final month of the season and is in the midst of a five-game losing streak. Last week, the Beavers suffered one of the worst losses in recent program history during a 28-0 loss at Air Force.

“Last week was obviously very disappointing; we did not play well in any phase of the game,” Oregon State head coach Trent Bray said Monday. “We’ve gotta look at what we’re doing, what we’re asking them to do and what they do well and get that fixed immediately. That was really the first game that was disappointing to watch us play. I think every other game this year we’re in close games, we’re competing, we’re at it. That wasn’t it on Saturday, and that’s disappointing.”

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Oregon State vs Washington State score updates

This section will be updated when the game begins.

Oregon State vs Washington State time today

Date: Saturday, Nov. 23
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Oregon

What channel is Oregon State vs Washington State game on today?

TV channel: The CW
Radio: KEJO (1240 AM, 93.7 FM, Corvallis), KKNX (840 AM, 105.1 FM, Eugene), KBZY (1490 AM, Salem), KEX (1190 AM, Portland).
Streaming: Fubo (free trial), Watch ESPN

Oregon State vs. Washington State will be broadcast nationally on The CW in Week 13 of the 2024 college football season. Ted Robinson and Ryan Lead will call the game from the booth from Reser Stadium, with Nigel Burton reporting from the sidelines. Streaming options for the game include FUBO, which offers a free trial to new subscribers.

Oregon State vs Washington State history

Series record: Washington State leads, 57-47-3
Oregon State’s last win: 2022 (24-10, in Corvallis)
Washington State’s last win: 2023 (38-35, in Pullman, Wash.)

Oregon State vs Washington State betting odds

Game lines and odds from BetMGM as of Friday:

Spread: Washington State by 11.5
Over/under: 56.5
Moneyline: Washington State -450, Oregon State +340

Oregon State vs Washington State weather update

Saturday’s forecast for Corvallis calls for a high of 51 with a temperature of about 48 degrees and a 24% chance of rain at kickoff.

Oregon State football 2024 schedule

Aug. 31 — Idaho State (W, 38-15)
Sept. 7 — at San Diego State (W, 21-0)
Sept. 14 — Oregon (L, 49-14)
Sept. 21 — Purdue (W, 38-21)
Oct. 5 — Colorado State (W, 39-21)
Oct. 12 — at Nevada (L, 42, 37)
Oct. 19 — UNLV (L, 33-25)
Oct 26 — at California (L, 44-7)
Nov. 9 — San Jose State (L, 24-13)
Nov. 16 — at Air Force (L, 28-0)
Nov. 23 — Washington State
Nov. 29 — at Boise State
Record: 4-6

Washington State football 2024 schedule

Aug. 31 — Portland State (W, 70-30)
Sept. 7 — Texas Tech (W, 37-16)
Sept. 14 — at Washington (W, 24-19)
Sept. 20 — San Jose State (W, 52-52 2 OT)
Sept. 28 — at Boise State (L, 45-24)
Oct. 12 — at Fresno State (W, 25-17)
Oct. 19 — Hawai’i (W, 42-10)
Oct. 26 — at San Diego State (W, 29-26)
Nov. 9 — Utah State (W, 49-28)
Nov. 16 — at New Mexico (L, 38-35)
Nov. 23 — at Oregon State
Nov. 30 — Wyoming
Record: 8-2

Oregon State football news

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GAME DAY CENTRAL – Washington State vs Oregon State

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November 23, 2024

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GAME DAY CENTRAL – Washington State vs Oregon State

Who: Washington State (8-2) vs Oregon State (4-6)

When: 4 p.m.

Where: Reser Stadium – Corvallis, Ore.

Coaches: Trent Bray (1st season, 4-6) vs Jake Dickert (23-18, 4th year, 3rd full)

Spread: Washington State -11.5

How to watch: The CW

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Oregon State By The Numbers

3 – Kicks and punts blocked by OSU’s special teams this year, tied for eighth nationally.

5 – Current Beavers who recorded a statistic in last season’s game against Washington State, four of which came on defense. The fifth was punter Josh Green.

14 – Rushing scores for Anthony Hankerson this season, tying him with Jacquizz Rodgers for seventh at OSU.

19 – Players the Beavers will be honoring pre-game as part of Senior Day.33:23 – Oregon State’s time of possession, which ranks fifth nationally. The Beavers dropped almost two minutes after holding the ball just 18:04 at Air Force.

54 – Career starts for Joshua Gray, who was recently invited to the East-West Shrine Game. The 54 starts are an OSU career record.

65 – Catches for Trent Walker this season. He needs five for the 15th 70-yard reception season ever by a Beaver.

111 – Rush yards needed by Anthony Hankerson for the 19th 1,000-yard season effort in Oregon State history.

Against Washington State

– Oregon State and Washington State have played every year dating back to 2003.

– Oregon State snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Cougars with a 24-10 victory in 2022 in Corvallis. Prior to the eight-game losing streak, however, the Beavers had won three straight, six-of-seven and eight-of-10 from 2004 to 2013.

– Deshaun Fenwick had 101 rush yards and three touchdowns in last season’s 38-35 loss. The Cougars took a 35-14 lead into the fourth quarter but OSU scored 21 in the final 15.

– Head Coach Trent Bray attended Pullman High School. His father, Craig, coached in two different stints at Washington State, in 1987, and then again from 1994-99. Bray’s mother, Kaprice, was also the Head Coach for volleyball at Washington State in 1985.

– Sean Mannion’s 493 passing yards in the 2013 game marks the Oregon State single-game record. He followed that up with 419 yards a year later.

– Jake Luton had one of 17 400-yard efforts in OSU history when he passed for 408 in 2019.

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