Enjoy videos, interviews, photos and time-lapse photography next week, as Chris Gannon, of Madras, presents the Jefferson County Historical Society’s first History Pub of 2026 – “Opal Springs: The Gem of Jefferson County” – Wednesday, Feb. 11, beginning at 6 p.m. at Initiative Brewing. As director of the nonprofit Crooked River Watershed Council, a conservation organization, Gannon has been involved with efforts to restore fish passage on the Crooked River. In 2010, the council decided to help fund the Deschutes Valley Water District’s Opal Springs fish passage project, and ultimately raised about $3 million for the project, which cost more than $12 million. That changed on Nov. 19, 2019, when the fish passage project at Opal Springs was completed. “If you build it, they will come.”In addition to the history of the fish passage, Gannon will also hit the high points of Opal Springs’ history in his presentation for the pub, which is a fundraiser for the historical society.