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Salem residents shoveled wood chips into bins, buckets and truck beds Sunday at Bush's Pasture Park.
What once was much of the fallen tree debris from the ice storms over President's Day weekend are now piles of free wood chips along the park's Mission Street parking lot.
The self-service site was announced later Friday, but plenty of chips remained Sunday afternoon. Residents must bring their own containers and shovels and then secure, cover or tarp their loads to prevent chips from blowing away and scattering.
Rochelle Corbo and Jen Woody loaded wood chips into several paint buckets and stacked them in the trunk of their car.
Corbo said the woodchips will serve as a walking path from the driveway to the entrance of their home "so it's not so muddy."
Corbo added she and Woody didn't have any damage from the ice storms but were without power for almost eight days and didn't have any Internet for four or five days after that.
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Steven Hoffert shoveled chips into his truck bed to use at his 1.5-acre farm in South Salem.
"I have pigs and sheep and so I'm just putting in some paths I need to walk down to the barn to get out of the mud a little bit," Hoffert said.
Northeast Salem resident Lynn Takata loaded two painter's buckets into her car, but said it would take her multiple trips to have enough chips to cover a pathway through her garden.
"It's my first stop," Takata said laughing. "It'll cover about four feet of pathway."
Takata grows mostly native plants and vegetables in her backyard. She said the wood chips are good for keeping down weeds, and when it breaks down, healthy for the soil.
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Virginia Barreda is the breaking news and public safety reporter for the Statesman Journal. She can be reached at 503-399-6657 or at vbarreda@statesmanjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter at @vbarreda2.
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