Denise Holley
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The Pandemic Emergency Ends in May. Then What?

Extra benefits and streamlined application processes are coming to an end, due to the official end of the pandemic emergency
by Denise Holley

After three difficult years that shifted our lives, the Biden administration will declare an end to the pandemic emergency on May 11. What will this mean for Americans? The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is not dead, but mutating to new strains. It killed more than 1 million Americans between 2020 and 2022, although masks […]

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Memories of the Volcano

A local woman’s experience during the Mount St. Helens eruption, which sees its 40th anniversary May 18
Denise Holley

While Yakima residents sat in church on May 18, 1980, the world outside went black. Lightning slashed the sky and the air shuddered and filled with fine volcanic particles. Mount St. Helens, 85 miles to the west, had erupted with a violent explosion at 8:32 a.m. I was riding my bicycle in the countryside southwest […]

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A Growing Population

In Redmond, Latino population numbers are rising faster than in other parts of Central Oregon
Denise Holley

Latinos make up a small slice of the population in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, but their numbers in Redmond have grown faster than the rest of Central Oregon. While the region’s Latino population more than doubled since 2000 to an estimated 19,820 people, in Redmond, a count of 739 people in 2000 rose to […]

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Seeking Asylum

One family’s story of surrendering at the Texas border and making their way to Oregon
Denise Holley

Violence touched Carlos’s life at age 5 when unknown assailants murdered his father. In 2008, when he was 17, he came home on his bicycle and encountered armed men leaving his home, he said. Inside were the bodies of his sister and the husband of another sister, slain in front of the whole family. Later, […]

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