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While drunk-driving arrests were up in Oregon over the New Year's holiday weekend, they were down - way down - in Union County.

With police stepping up drunk driving enforcement efforts during New Year's weekend, it's an especially good idea for revelers to take Kevin Loveland and friends up on their offer of a Safe Ride Home.

I've been bringing bags of soil into the house to thaw - they are normally in the shop - and then I am spreading another inch or two of the dirt around the base of these plants that were placed in the ground this past growing season.