Friends Lou Black, facing, Jerry McCubbins, left, and Lon Lembert, all of Salem, talk for their weekly breakfast meet-up at the Court Street Dairy Lunch in downtown Salem on April 10, 2019. The old-fashioned diner opened in 1929 and is the city’s oldest restaurant.

Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Jeff Freitag patrols on I-5 south of Salem on April 18, 2019.

Sean Halverson, 46, of Salem, an Army veteran who lost his career and became homeless because of depression has been accepted into the rigorous Harvard Business Analytics Program. Photographed at the Statesman Journal in Salem on April 25, 2019.