Madras White Buffalo's VS Mt. View Cougars

Gee what great games even if Madras lost. Mt. View Cougars are an amazing team, they hit the basket with an accuracy I have not seen this year. They run hard and are in good shape and don't seem to get tired. If we have to lose I am glad it was to a team that played this good.

I don't claim to be an expert on basketball but I enjoyed all three of these games last night. I was proud of the sportsmanship shown and how hard they tried even when way behind.

The freshman played first:

The JV teams were next and we had some JV players that I was surprised were not on the varsity squad and they played really hard.

Now comes the varsity team.  I must admit even though we were behind I never got bored. These guys kept fighting right until the end. It was a very quick and exciting game for being behind. I felt like I usually do when a game is super close.  Mt. View was very accurate with their shots and they never seemed to get tired. I am still very proud of our White Buffalo's.

If anyone wants to see more photos of the game they may go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Photos-by-Linda/289741514452155?ref=hl

Stolen Vehicle recovered due to citizen

Good news in Madras, Oregon last night as someone decided to take some action. A citizen heard a car alarm go off and be silenced right away. They looked anyway which many people don't and saw a car being pushed out of the driveway and called 911.

The Madras Police took immediate action and a pursuit was initiated and along with Crook County the suspects were caught and the car recovered.

So nice to wake up to good news. I am so proud of that citizen and due to them deciding they were going to become involved a family still has a car to go to work. What a Christmas present to give someone. Not many of us can afford to give someone a car.

Car alarms go off all the time and people ignore then but thanks to one citizen that was not afraid of becoming involved the news is good this morning.

Jefferson County Prevention Task Force

Make a difference in your community. Join the prevention task force. Don't stay at home and be upset over the way things are done, come change how things are done. Got to commission meetings, board meetings of different groups in your neighbor.

This is the web page on Facebook for the Jefferson County Prevention Task Forces page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jefferson-County-Prevention-Task-Force/183547171664356?fref=ts

Remember that all changes start with one small step and idea from one person. Make a difference, make that first ripple in the water.

Earthquake map

This site is really cool and shows all the earthquakes in the world for the last week. By color it shows if it occurred in a week, a day or an hour.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

The Pacific plate has really been active lately.

Madras Oregon sports schedule web site

Here is a web site for anyone that wants to keep track of when, who Madras is playing in any sport.

http://www.madrasathletics.org/

Bullying Prevention Meeting

If you stop and think about it all people have to worry about bullying.

The politician bully everyone by always cutting things that will hurt you if you don't give them the budget they want. They never cut things that you don't care about. It is always police, fire, ambulance or school transportation etc.  That is a form of bullying too.

Kids get bullied.  They have learned so much about how to handle this kind of stuff in the recent years when people started really working at fixing the problem.

Remember the old saying "you have two choices, you can be part of the problem or part of the solution". Doing nothing is part of the problems. We have got so if they aren't going to pay us to do something then we don't do it and become part of the problem.

This is our community and it is time for the good guys to stand up and help protect the ones that are getting shoved around. We need to get tough.

This reminds me of the guy that called in the bike being thrown in the creek. If it was not for him standing up someone child would not longer have a bike.  Now why did this person steal the bike just to throw it away? This doesn't make sense to me.

Brain research is the fastest changing thing in our world. It is changing faster then technology and this really helps in working with how to handle bullies.

We were lucky today to watch a short tape with a lady that teaches nationally about bullying and it was the most interesting video. One of the things that really hit me was "What is listening?"  Real listening is being prepared to be changed by what you hear.

The other one was "the children are our future but we are there here and now".

Please think about it and if you are interested in coming to learn, to listen, to teach and share or to learn ways to handle things please come. Even if it is just that you want to know what the committee is saying and doing.

It is so time to get involved in your community. It is your community, it does not belong to the politicians or the drug dealers. It belongs to you. Many of you have lived her a lot longer then the ones that are making the decisions in our community, longer then the drug dealers, longer then the bullies so come, lets take back our community and refuse to be bullied or allow our kids to be bullied. Lets take back control of our community by becoming involved.

Use the new TEXT line to report drugs, alcohol, bullying or anything else you are don't feel free to call and give your name. TEXT 541-508-TEEN.  Give this number to your teens to use.

Bullying hurts, it hurts for years, please help stop it. Everyone who has lived has something to offer, they have seen it, they have lived it, they have did it, they have heard horror stories on it. If you have lived you have some ideas to help.

Please come:  Send me your address: linda194619@gmail.com and I will send you a reminder. It is at 242 SW 4th street at the Best Care Office, across from "The Bear" on January 14 th at 10:30..SEE YOU THERE!

Recovered Bicycle by Madras Police Dept.

Due to a concerned citizen the Madras Police Department recovered a bicycle today. A few minutes after 1 pm a concerned citizen contacted dispatch to advise he saw someone throw over what looked like a new child's bicycle into Willow Creek Canyon.  Dispatch was a little confused as to the exact location but between McDonalds and the hospital.

The police located a white child's bike in Willow Creek at the bridge on 9th street and recovered the bicycle.
If anyone is missing a boys white bike call the Madras Police during the day at 541-475-2424.

 This is the type of citizens we need in our community. Ones that care. Because of their actions some child will still be happy. I don't know who called but a great big thank you for doing so.