Around Oregon
Friday, October 16, 2009 11:42 AM PDT
More Idaho schools close because of flu
POST FALLS (AP) — Some schools in Post Falls and Horseshoe Bend have canceled classes because of a flu outbreak. Principal Kim Young with the CornerStone Christian Academy in Post Falls says her school closed after half of its staff and nearly a third of students stayed home sick Thursday. Young says the school will be sterilized and will reopen Monday. More than half the teachers in the Horseshoe Bend School District were also out sick, prompting Superintendent John Cook to shut down the district’s three schools until Monday.
OSU says more than 200 with swine flu
CORVALLIS (AP) — A health official at Oregon State University says the swine flu has sickened more than 200 students in the past two weeks.
Health Services director Phill Histand says none of the students required hospitalization.
Ore. woman sentenced to 90 days in jail for theft
KLAMATH FALLS, (AP) — A Klamath Falls woman who stole from her employer has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years probation after she pleaded guilty to aggravated theft and identity theft.
Klamath County Judge Cameron Wogan ordered Norma L. Orndoff to write an apology letter to the employer and pay it $500 a month restitution.
Ore. man sues
fertilizer company
PENDLETON — An Eastern Oregon man is suing one of North America’s largest fertilizer producers because of an anhydrous ammonia leak in 2007. The East Oregonian newspaper reports Stacey Hetterley of Athena wants Agrium U.S., two subsidiaries and a lone employee to collectively pay no more than $48,000 for his medical expenses. The leak, which prompted two schools to evacuate, occurred when a worker for one of the subsidiaries filled a truck with ammonia from a tank, but drove off before disconnecting the hose.
Agrium spokeswoman Cindy Andrews says the company anticipated the lawsuit because the two-year statute of limitations was running out.
She says Agrium has replanted grass and trees damaged by the ammonia, and the company is committed to working with everyone affected by the leak.
Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.info
