The Oregon Jamboree repaid Linn County $30,000, the last of lottery funds that were loaned by the Linn County Board of Commissioners in 1995, last week.
After serious losses in 1995, members of the Sweet Home Economic Development Group Board of Directors made personal loans of a little more than $61,000 to the Jamboree to keep the event going. With those loans the Board of Commissioners agreed to loan the Jamboree an additional $50,000. That…