Portal:Oregon/DYK/62

... that Salem Hospital (pictured) has the busiest emergency room in the state of Oregon?
... that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mount Mazama?
...that the Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly, convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature?
... that Bill Bowerman, a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron?

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