Roseburg keeps parks open, urges social distancing

City officials said the playgrounds and play structures will remain closed to the public.

Units of blood were collected on the first day alone.

Ab: "with schools closing and that sort of things their locations and their ability to host blood drives have actually dwindled.

They're looking for locations.

The university was great in trying to secure a location where we can do this indoors."

(julian) the ems are scheduled to have another blood drive at the moshofsky center may 6th and 7th.

Coming up on kezi 9 news at 5 o'clock - how the ems are getting masks to frontline workers.

Reporting in eugene, julian mininsohn, kezi 9 news.

The city of roseburg is keeping their parks open right now& but with a few execptions.

Kezi 9 news reporter evita garza shows us exactly what those execptions are and how they align with social distancing.

Evita:?this is the sign people will see as they enter all roseburg parks.

The main message?

The parks are open, as long as you maintain social distancing?

Right now... only the playground equipment is off limits.

This follows governor kate brown's executive order to close all playgrounds and sports courts.

But communications specialist eric johnson says the city hopes people will take advantage of the rest of the parks.

Eric johnson, communications specialist, city of roseburg:?that why we put signs up to let people know that our parks are still open?

If someone is caught on a playground& johnson says law enforcement won be handing out tickets.

He says people will get a warning for now.

If a situation like that came about, they would just educate folks and say, hey youe not suppose to be here per executive order?

Johnson says the city did close