From a press release

Radio station KRKT 99.9 FM and its listeners helped raise $115,650 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during its annual Country Cares for St. Jude Kids radiothon, Feb. 9-10. This marked KRKT’s 10th year supporting the families of St. Jude, one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of cancer and other deadly childhood diseases.

Within the last 10 years, KRKT has raised almost $980,000 for the kids of St. Jude.

Mid-Valley Made is March 2 and March 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Two Rivers Market in downtown Albany, Ore.

This year’s event will feature 27 vendors who sell products ranging from wooden clocks whose moving parts are exposed, to up-cycled metal art, pickled foods, hand-crafted jewelry and artisan bath soaps. Everything under our roof is made right here in the mid-Willamette Valley: from Portland to Shedd we have a little bit of everything! We’re bringing people together in a community that supports local production.

Not only will this event help small businesses, but it will also help our local non-profits. All of the money earned from vendor fees will be donated right back into the Albany Downtown community! These non-profits include the Albany Carousel, the Monteith Society, the Albany Regional Museum, and the Carnegie Library. Each will have a booth at the show to tell guests about their accomplishments, goals, and what they provide to the community.

The City of Albany, the Oregon Department of Transportation and Walmart have posted a website with current information about highway construction projects related to the development of the new Albany Walmart store.
  
The site includes maps of each of the areas where construction is taking place; detour routes; schedules for each of the projects; contact information for the agency or organization in charge of each project and for Walmart. Information will be updated as work progresses and as needed.