Published 10:41 am Thursday, April 23, 2026 REDMOND — Chuck Jones is all in on making the Oregon Lightning become a lasting team in Central Oregon. The owner, general manager and head coach of the arena football team starting its second season in the Arena Football One league quit his teaching job of 13 years in Portland to fully focus on the Redmond-based Lightning. At 6 p.m. Saturday at the First Interstate Bank Center in Redmond, the Lightning host the Albany Firebirds of New York, the defending champions of the league, in their 2026 home opener. “I got good anxiety if that makes sense,” Jones said. “This is serious. We have national eyes looking at us and we worked really hard to build this during the offseason to turn this into a real product. We want to represent it well. I got the good anxiety because New York is the number-one team, and beating that team makes a statement across the arena nation.…