On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address—or
“fireside chat”—broadcast directly from the White House.

Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a
few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.”

The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and
he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper”
during the “banking holiday.”

LEBANON, Ore. (KATU) — On Feb. 6, 2025, a group of Safeway employees in Lebanon demonstrated heroism when a co-worker
suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the store’s break room.

Mary Stratton, John Escalera, Brandy Davis, and Tammy Vanepps-
Fox acted in time, performing CPR and using an Automated
External Defibrillator to administer two shocks before emergency responders arrived.

Their prompt actions were crucial in giving the patient a fighting
chance at survival.

Upon arrival, Lebanon Fire District crews continued treatment,
applying two additional shocks and achieving Return of
Spontaneous Circulation before stabilizing the patient was
transported to the hospital and discharged several days later.

The lifesaving efforts of Stratton, Escalera, Davis, and Vanepps-
Fox were recognized at the Lebanon Fire District’s Board Meeting
on March 11, 2025.

LFD also expressed gratitude to its crew members for their
professional response. The Fire District encourages the
community to stay prepared by learning CPR and AED
skills, which can be life-saving.

lebanonfireoregon.gov/321/PulsePoint.

Though today there is almost nothing as ubiquitous as a bottle
of Coca-Cola, this was not always the case. For the first several
years of its existence, Coke was only available as a fountain
drink, and its producer saw no reason for that to change.

Originally developed as a non-addictive substitute for morphine,
then marketed as a non-alcoholic "temperance drink," Coca-Cola
was invented by John Pemberton, a druggist in Columbus,
Georgia, in 1886.

In 1915, the bottlers put out a call for a new design, one so
distinctive that one could recognize it if it were in pieces on
the ground or by feeling it in the dark. The winning design,
produced by the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana,
gave the world the iconic contoured bottle we know today.