Dear Bethel Community, Lane County has recently experienced a sharp increase in youth and adolescent deaths as a result of suicide. Over the past five months, 11 people between the ages of 10 and 24 have died by suicide in lane County. While no Bethel students have died by suicide related to this alert, we...Read More
The Food for Lane County mobile that is typically available to the Bethel community on Thursdays has been canceled the last two weeks and will also be canceled on Thursday, March 17th. Food for Lane County has been experiencing staff shortages, COVID-19 exposures and many other emergencies that have impacted the mobile pantry. FFLC is...Read More
Officer Naivasha Tester is all about building community through relationships. Her main strategy? Face-to-face connection and conversation. Tester is the Bethel School District’s new Youth Services Officer. Hired in January, Tester is approaching her new role with a youth-centered focus. She wants to collaborate with students to provide them with the resources they need when...Read More
Updated guidance from the state 03-02-2022 On Wednesday, March 2, the Oregon Department of Education released an updated Ready Schools, Safe Learners Resiliency Framework (RSSL) which outlines details of how school district can approach the next phase of this pandemic. This update follows Bethel’s announcement on Tuesday that masks will become optional for all students...Read More
01/21/2022 It was an exciting day Thursday as Food for Lane County opened a new mobile pop-up food pantry in the Shasta Middle School Parking lot. The pantry is open to all Bethel community members from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. every Thursday in the back Shasta parking lot near the baseball fields. Items that...Read More
Food for Lane County will be opening a new mobile pop-up food pantry in the Bethel area beginning on Thursday, January 20. The pantry will be open to all Bethel community members from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. every Thursday in the back Shasta parking lot near the baseball fields. Items that will be available...Read More