Every other day or so, my bike and I cross the Calapooia River on the Third Avenue Bridge. So it was of more than passing interest when I read that the bridge’s substructure was in “critical” shape.
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A night-time rescue — where it happened
Today’s report by the Albany Fire Department of an unusual night-time rescue made me go take a look at the place where it happened, under the Third Avenue bridge across the Calapooia River and the waterfall on the Albany-Santiam Canal.
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