🌱 Patch AM: How will Oregon City’s new youth treatment center weather looming budget cuts?

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• How will Oregon City’s new youth treatment center weather looming budget cuts?

Today's riddle: I got fired from the M&M factory. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Occasional morning rain, with a high of 53 and low of 46 degrees.
• Sunday: A passing shower or two, temps: high: 51, low: 41.
• Monday: A brief shower or two, with a high of 49 and low of 36 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Oregon's slow but steady progress adding substance-use treatment beds is at risk (oregonlive.com) — A new 40-bed youth treatment center in Oregon City is part of Oregon’s broader push to add hundreds of residential addiction treatment beds statewide. The piece explains how recent facilities in Oregon City, Portland, and Beaverton fit into Gov. Tina Kotek’s long-term behavioral health goals, while warning that looming Medicaid funding cuts and workforce shortages could slow or undermine this progress.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday January 3

• Teen Winter Reading
  Tigard Public Library , 13500 SW Hall Boulevard , Tigard
  8:00 am
• Willow Harvest 2026 — Columbia Basin Basketry Guild
  Our Table Cooperative , 13390 SW Morgan Rd , Sherwood
  10:00 am
• Forest Storytime
  World Forestry Center
  11:30 am
• Crafternoon Tea
  Garden Home Community Library , 7475 SW Oleson Road , Portland
  12:00 pm
• Teen Winter Reading Fantasy Draft
  Tigard Public Library , 13500 SW Hall Boulevard , Tigard
  3:00 pm

Sunday January 4

• Dogs & Tales
  Tigard Public Library , 13500 SW Hall Boulevard , Tigard
  2:30 pm
• Fiber Arts Meet-Up
  Tigard Public Library , 13500 SW Hall Boulevard , Tigard
  3:30 pm

Monday January 5

• Parent & Child Aquatics - Lake Oswego, OR 2026
  Lake Oswego Recreation & Aquatics Center (LORAC) , 17525 Stafford Rd , Lake Oswego
  9:00 am
• District Four Coalition BoD
  Hillside Neighborhood Association , 2257 NW Raleigh St , Portland
  6:00 pm
• Women's Basketball- HOME
  Canby High Canby, OR 97013
  7:00 pm

Tuesday January 6

• Family Storytime
  West Slope Community Library , 3678 SW 78th Street , Portland
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Good morning, Taylor Street Neighbors,
  Last night around 4 am, I woke to the sound of incessant barking. I went out to see what was going on and found two small dogs in the front yard of… (Nextdoor McLoughlin)
• Neighbors, does anyone know if someone is still selling living christmas trees?
  Mine is so dead its a fire hazard nd my daughter is flying in for a belated Christmas on January 15 so I want to get another tree -- either a living… (Nextdoor McLoughlin)

• Clackamas Community College posted a job opening for Horticulture Instructor [Faculty Part Time Application Pool] in Oregon City. Apply here.
• Regal posted a job opening for Team Member in Oregon City. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Oregon City here.

🗞 Nearby News

Canby

• Who's running for Oregon governor in 2026? What to know (registerguard.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I kept throwing out all the W’s.
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