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By Cherise Kaechele The Observer

Union County has received

$2 million to help fund a new courthouse. Construction recently began on the new facility and is due to be completed in October.

But not everyone in the Joseph Building is expecting to pack up and leave.

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moving out of the Joseph Building once the new Union County Courthouse is built.

"First off we need to be sure The Joseph Building was called who'smoving out and who'snot," the worst courthouse in the state Davidson said. in a 2008 study, but several offices The Emergency Services are staying where they are in the Department will remain in the building, and the county will be Joseph Building, according to Dalooking to find businesses and vidson, as will the juvenile, parole organizations to move into the and probation departments, the vacated courthouse space. district attorney's office and the Union County Commissioner archives.

Mark Davidson said the court Davidson said there are no and court staff are the only ones specific plans for who will move

into the space vacated from the courthouse.

"We will assess that space and makesome determination whether there are county uses we would locate in there or whether we would move in some other agencies or nonprofits that are looking for space,"he said.

Benjamin Morgan, director of the Union County Juvenile Department, declined to comment on his thoughts about the Joseph Building. ESD Director J.B. Brock and Travis Miller, Union County Community Corrections director, did not return phone calls before deadline.

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state," Union County Presiding Judge Russ West said,"but we've never said the Joseph Building is the worst office building in the state. It's not a terrible building.

It's adequate for office space. It's not fancy, but then again it's not unsafe either."

Davidson agrees with West.

'There's a lot of discussion about the building being unsuitable to be used," Davidson said.

'The building doesn't lend itself well to a large, open space such as courtrooms. That is the reason the courts have wanted a new facility for quite a long time. But the building can very adequately housegeneral offi cesand averagesized meeting spaces to use for general administrative purposes."

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A drive by the City of La Grande to rev up its economicenginereceived a boost Monday night.

The Island City and Union city councils passed resolutions supporting an amendment that would expand the City of La Grande's portion of the Grande Ronde Enterprise Zone by a net of 433 acres. This means that all six of the enterprise zone's co-sponsors have now passed resolutions supporting the expansionamendment, one

proposed by the City of La Grande.

'Tm pleased that all our sponsors have come together See Zone / Page 5A

as the Joseph Building is concerned.

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Background checks bill passed

By Sheila V Kumar The Associated Press

SALEM — Legislative efforts to tighten gun control in Oregon cleared an important hurdle Tuesday aker senators approved a measure designed to expand background checks for most private gun sales.

Under the bill, gun buyers and sellers who aren't closely relatedwould have toappear in person before a licensed gun dealer who can run a background check, for a fee, through the Oregon State Police. Sellers who don't do the background check face a misdemeanor charge for a See Bill / Page 5A

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Emilsdottir of Iceland and Ermano Laici of Italy, and Rotary-sponsored students Katharina Rudzio of Germany and Chawit"Gotro" Thanadkit of Thailand.

The students will perform musical selections and skits and ofFer their services to the highest bidders in an auction.

There also will be a more traditional silent auction of valuable items and servrces.

Volunteers &om Rotary and American Field Service will explain their programs and provide opportunities for families to host incoming students.

Doors open at 5 p.m. with the international dinner starling at 5:30 p.m. at the Joseph Community Center, Lake and First streets.

JOSEPH — Wallowa County's six current foreign exchange students will be in the spotlight at International Culture Night Sunday.

The annual public dinner is co-sponsored by the Rotary Club of Wallowa County and the local afFIliate of American Field Service Intercultural Programs USA. Both organizations sponsor youth exchanges, bringing foreign students to Wallowa County and sending local students to other countries.

Proceeds will benefit the groups' exchange progranls.

The evening's entertainment stars Field Serviceexchange students Sarah Abdelayem ofJordan,Sofi a PutrueleofArgentina, Emma

Suggested donation is $5.

Exhibit focuses on region's wild landscapes • Juried photography exhibit coming to the Josephy Center Observer staff

JOSEPH — The natural splendor of the Wallowa and Blue mountains of Northeast Oregon capture the imaginations of photographers with its river canyons, bunch grass prairies and mountain lakes. This summer, the Josephy Center invites photographers to enter a juried prize exhibit of their wild landscapes.

The Josephy Center

will professionally display original photographs that capture the diversity and beauty of the wild Northeast Oregon landscape of Wallowa, Baker and Union

counties. Approximately 50 to 60 images will be exhibited at the Josephy Center.

All images must be taken in NortheastOregon and must represent wilderness — landscapes without man-made influence, such as barns, houses, signs or fences. Photos that include

people visiting a wild landscape are acceptable only if individuals cannot be recognized.

The entry fee is $35 for three images, $8 per each additional entry with a limit of eight total images. All entries must be the entrant's original work.

The center's selection committee has the right to refuse any artwork that is inconsistent with the theme or general quality of the exhibit.

Notice of acceptance will

be by July 1, and the opening is Aug. l.

The exhibit will run throughthe end ofAugust.

Cash awards totaling

more than $1,600 will be awarded at the judge's discretion. Winners may be included in a special tour to galleries in the Northwest.

Entries must be made via the Josephy Center website, wwwjosephyorg, by June l.

Sprinter is confusing everyone he insects must be conCANYON by a lone, lazy bomber who fused over this on-again, would eventually end up in NOTES ofF-again spring/winter, or the lamp.

KATY NESBITT sprinter, we've had since The wasps built a nest February, let alone the bears thesizeofa human head and ground squirrels who rely on Mother that hung above the &ont door. ARer it was Nature's cues. removed, I found mini nests under the handA month or two before they normally rails of the front porch and in my mailbox.

Dozens of them buzzed around the house in appear, ticks were out in force on trails that should have been covered in snow. The stray the summer.

Black ceiling bugs slowly invade, some mosquito would catch my eye and well flies, shoot. Flies are resilient. clever enough to get inside the seams of curtains before they perish.

The grape hyacinth along the driveway is The bathroom floor bugs like to die under attracting bumblebees, a welcome sight in the window, to be swept into a dust bin and the creepingand fl yingw orld ofbugs.In the summer, the cornflowers by my outdoor office tossed back outside.

I found several cans of wasp spray in the are abuzz with a bumblebee or two, delicately pollinating like it's their job. I've been lucky cupboards of my new home; I anticipate an enough to use the deck office on warmer days outbreak soon.

During this spring immersion of creeping and bring inside the blankets, pillows and things that creepeth, I honor the pollinator glasses each afternoon before the next blizzard. and curse the scavengers and blood-thirsty aerial insurgents.

Ants crawlofFthe aspen and hawthorn M onday night Ireached my parents'house trees over my desk, prompting an assault with systemic poisons and sprays. just as they were about to negotiate the deck chairs out of the garage. For five minutes I My country home came complete with a collection of dead flies in the entrance. The was down to a T-shirt, snacking on pickled herring, long enough to see a mosquito comwindows leaked in the ancient structure ing in for a meal. The next morning there was built before plumbing and electricity. Bombs, a 40-degree drop in temperature and snow on sprays and brooms were put into action to the ground. It's not just the insects who are combat their onslaught.

At night in the winter I would be assaulted confused.

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Sarah Abdelayem, AFS exchange student from Jordan, addresses the Rotary Club of Wallowa County Feb. 4.

'We Love Our Kids' auction and dinner yields $23,000

By Katy Nesbitt The Observer

ENTERPRISE — Abevy of fabulous items brought

in $23,000 on Friday at the annual"WeLove Our Kids" auction and dinner hosted by the En~ Edu c ation Foundation.

Friday night at the Wallowa Fairgrounds' Cloverleaf

Hall, $1,100 wasquickly raised during a new addition to the event — the Dessert Dash.

GndiAschenbrenner of the foundation said each table put money in an envelope. Then one representative &om each table raced to aselection of28 donated desserts.

"It was total fun chaos for a few minutes,"Aschenbrenner said.

Some ofthebidding wars were over items students

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$1,000,"Aschenbrenner said. need in their classrooms Steve Hunter, manager of the local Safeway store, thanked the foundation supporters for their eScrip partnership dating back to

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parlicipating merchants and restaurants. Since the foundation started signing up parlicipants, it has received

$113,000 &omeScrip.

"Anew program ofFered through the eScrip program is trying to help teachers get difFerent things they

'The bench sold for $1,000, so Mr. KefFerofFered to make another one if the next bidder in line would pay

but can't get because of budgets,"Aschenbrenner sald.

She said Lisa Farwell, Enterprise's health teacher, createdan interactiveclassroom with eScrip funding.

She purchased 12 stand-up desks, balance boards and 12 exercise/fit balls the students can sit on instead of chairs.

'Keeping kids healthy and fit iswhy shewas awarded that — the interadive classroomincreasesmetabolism and keeps students engaged,"Aschenbrenner sald.

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Course oft e WallowaRiver jay Van Tassell, Pho • ProfessorofGeology,EOU The Wallowa Riyeronceflowed to the north toward Hells Canyon.Whydidit change around 2 million years ago?

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Peter Wordelman, associate dean of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Oregon University, will direct the choir. Wordelman chooses new music &om the seasons of the church calendar that can be sung by church choirs The weekend also includes

individual voice lessons, bell choir, workshops and a time to enjoy the beauty of Wallowa Lake.

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JOSEPH — Walking down the hall of the Joseph Charter School, one sees posters of encouragement lining the walls. One says,aLet the choices you make today be ones you can live with tomorrow."That statement echoed at the end of the hall as high school students got acrash coursein the efFectsofdrugs and alcohol.

As part of the DUII Impairment Prevention Program at Joseph SchoolApril 9, high school students from Joseph and the Wallowa County alternative school were faced with staggering statistics, run through a roadside sobriety test and a tricycle ride with goggles that simulate impairment.

Rebecca Frolander, Wallowa County deputy district attorney, spoke to students in her "Crash statistics and local incidents" station.

"In 2010, 38 people were cited in Wallowa County for driving under the influence of alcohol, and 15 had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit," Frolander said.

If driving drunk is a concern for the community, it is particularly so for teenagers. To bringthe dangers ofdrunk driving home, the program was scheduled the week of the prom.

As Frolander described local drunk drivingcarcrashes,Kevin McQuead, Wallowa County SherifF's deputy, assigned everyone in the room a triage tag. McQuead explained triagetags areassigned to casualties ata car crash. The tags indicate to emergency medical workers the general status of the victim and a quick list of the apparent injuries and their vital statistics.

In the upstairs gymnasium, the wrestling mats were rolled out of the way to allow for obstacle courses. Each student donned a pair of impairment goggles and rode a tricycle around orange cones. The exercise replicates some of the difriculties of navigating a vehicle when impaired.

Stephanie Stone, Wallowa County's victims' advocate, said the six 15-minute stations were based on the Victims Impact Panel the court mandates ofFenders attend.

"We've been playing around with it and are getting to the point that it is more interactive," Stone said.

Stone told the kids at her station that the goggles may make them feel dizzy, nauseous or as if they are seeing double.

"Motor skills are afFected by impairment," Stone said.

She asked the kids if they ever feel peer pressure.

"It's all part of the choices you make," Stone sald.

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Students lined up for the horizontal gaze nystagmus test. Trooper Brian Miller explained that the test looks for jerkiness from their eyes as they follow a flashlight. He saidthe testofFers one ofsix cluestodetermine if a driver is intoxicated.

'The eyes are like a windshield wiper when the windshield is dry — they skip and bounce," Miller said.

A station run byAmy Stangel of the Wallowa County SherifFs Ofrice and Jason Wilcox showed the efFects of alcohol on the brain, not only behind the wheel of a car, but in a dating situation.

The kids were shown the sexual assault aspect of impairment. If someone is impaired, they cannot consent to have sex, Stone said.

She said the prevention seminar was about making smart, good choices with the information.

'That's the big message — ensuring everyone has the most information they can to make the best choices for them," Stone said.

Stone said she hopes to take the program to other schools in the county in the coming years.

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ON DECK THURSDAY C Prep boys golf: La Grande at Pendleton, 10 a.m.

FRIDAY C Prep boys and girls golf: Enterprise, Wallowa at John Day Invite, 10 a.m.

• Prep track and field:Cove, Elgin, Union, Powder Valley at River's Edge, Umatilla, 11 a.m.

C Prep baseball: Wallowa at Grant Union, John Day, (2), noon and 2 p.m.

C Prep softball: Ontario at La Grande, (2), Pioneer Park, noon and 2 p.m.

C Prep baseball: Ontario at La Grande, (2), Pioneer Park, noon and 2 p.m.

C Prep boys golf: La Grande at La Grande Invite, La Grande Country Club, 1 p.m.

• Prep baseball: Burns at Union/ Cove, (2), Union, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

• Prep baseball: Vale at Elgin/Imbler, (2), Elgin, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

C Prep softball:Vale at Elgin/Imbler, (2), Elgin, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

C Prep softball: Umatilla at Enterprise/Joseph/ Wallowa, (2), Enterprise, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

• College softball: Southern Oregon University at Eastern Oregon University, (2), PeggyAnderson Field, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

C Prep track and field:Imbler at Vale Invitational, 3 p.m.

C Prep track and field:La Grande atApple Blossom Invitational, Hood River, 4 p.m.

AT A GLANCE

Sefolosha says police to blame Atlanta Hawks forwardThabo Sefolosha saidTuesday for the first time that injuries sustained during his arrest last week in New York were inflicted by police.

Sefolosha suffered a broken right fibula and ligament damage at the scene of the stabbing of Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland early last Wednesday morning outside of 10ak Club in New York City.

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Trinity McCarthy, Kayli Miles and Anna Seymour finished second, third and fourth respectively to pace the La Grande girls golf team to a win Tuesday at the La Grande Invitational.

The Tigers totaled 385 strokes to win the team competition, besting second-place Enterprise by more than 100 strokes. The Outlaws shot a team total of 503. Baker took third, shooting 513, while Pendleton's team

scoreof565was good forfourth.

"I thought they played great," La Grande head coach Cally Goss said."Anna careered.

The goal was for Trinity and Kayli to both be in the 80s. They played I think as well as they could have."

Goss was impressed with the scores considering the weather conditions. The elements around the golfers were constantly See Golf/Page10A

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La Grande's Kayli Miles chips onto the green on her final holeTuesday during the La Grande Invitational. Miles shot 87 on the day, which was good for third place.

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Jared Rogers connects for a double during a game with Mac-Hi Saturday. Rogers will travel to the Dominican Republic for a baseball camp this summer and plans to take gear to give to players.

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Jared Rogers is getting the opportunity to add a little international flair to his baseball repertoire, while giving back at the same time.

Rogers, a La Grande senior and catcher on the Tigers baseball team, will take part in a baseball camp in the Dominican Republic this summer aker

Ashten Wright, Kindra Moore and Kortnee Marriott each hit home runs as the Union/Cove soRball team battled back from a 5-4 deficit to thump Grant Union/ Dayville/Prairie City 15-5 in six innings in a nonleague matchup Tuesdayafternoon in Union.

Wright's home run, the first ofher career, was a key three-run blast during the Lady Catsfour-run fi kh inning that saw them open up what was a close game to take a 13-5 lead.

"At the plate we did a good beinginvited by a member oftheWashington State University coaching stafF. "It's an instructional camp. I know we play games while also getting instruction from other coaches," Rogers saidofthecamp's design."It'sa little bit ofboth."

Rogers was invited to the camp, which is in late July and stretches into earlyAugust, by Michael Naughtona volunteer coach with the Cougarsaker the two met at a baseball camp in Boise, Idaho, earlier this year.

"I think it's exciting. I'm excited for him,"Tigers head coach Parker McKinley said."Just to be able to go to a difFerent place and play with difFer-

ent guys and have that experience in a game that he loves and is pretty darn good at is exciting all the way around."

Rogers' mother,Annette Whittington, encouraged him to accept the ofFer, seeing it as an opportunity that shouldn't

be passed up. Shesaid it's a payofFof years ofhard work.

"We have tried to teach him really hard workethic.H ewould have toplay

bigger and better," she said.'The opportunities that have been presented are because of the work ethic he has and the way he conducts himself."

Funding the trip was an initial concernatfirst,asthe totalcostis See Rogers/Page10A

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coach Paul Phillips said.

Marriott's home run, which was also the first of her career, came during the second inning as Union/Cove took a 4-0 lead and threatened to run away with the game.

The Prospectors responded with two in the third on a home run to get on the scoreboard. They added three more in the fourth, taking advantage of an error and See Rout/Page 9A

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aawii ran roughshod over the Huskies for a 15-1victory Tuesday in a nonconference game in Elgin.

The Rockets pounded out 15 hits and pounced on the Huskies for five runs in the first inning.

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Nixyaawiihead coach Dan Ward said.'Your pitchers can relax a little bit. They can throw it over the plate a little more and keep throwing strikes."

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Elgin/Imbler found itself in a steep early deficit it could never recover from as Pilot Rock/Nixy-

The Rockets' Levi Thieme was plenty relaxed, as he held the Huskies to just four hits over five innings of work. Mike Hiatt worked the sixth and seventh innings to close out the win.

"Our pitching was excellent today,"Ward said."We have three

really good pitchers, and I decided to pitch our freshman (Thieme) the first five innings. He threw See Huskies/Page9A

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Bobtat exo.ls at plate and on mound Paaers aim for final playoff spat Union/Cove combined to throw a no-hitter Monday during a 6-0 victory over Heppner/lone in a 2A nonconference baseball game in Union.

SophomoreWade Rynearson was one ofthree pitchers that held down the Mustangs' bats.

Rynearson closed out the final two innings, allowing just one baserunner, and also hit a solo home run at the plate in the third inning.

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NELSON CRUZ: The Seattle Mariners' outfielder hit a solo home run during a 6-5 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday. It was the fourth straight game Cruz has homered, matching the longest streak of his career.

ALEX RIOS: The Kansas City Royals right fielder, who is batting .321 this year, was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a non-displaced fracture of the fifth metacarpal after being hit by a pitch in his left hand Monday.

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Monday's Games Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 4 Boston9,W ashington 4 Kansas City 12, Minnesota 3 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 5

Tampa Bay2, Toronto1 L.A. Angels 6, Texas 3 Oakland 8, Houston 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 innings Tuesday's Games Boston8,W ashington 7 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3

Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox4, Cleveland 1 Texas 8, L.A. Angels 2 Oakland 4, Houston 0 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5 Wednesday's Games Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 1-0), 9:10 a.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 10:35 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 0-1) at Texas (Ranaudo 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 0-0) at Baltimore (B.Norris 0-1), 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 0-0) at Toronto (Buehrle 1-0), 4:07 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 1-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Pomeranz 1-0) at Houston (McHugh 1 0), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (TWalker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Thursday's Games Kansas City at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m.

Tampa BayatToronto,4:07 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Monday's Games

N.Y. Mets 2, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 4 Boston9,W ashington 4 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4

Colorado 2, San Francisco 0 Atlanta 3, Miami 2 Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 6, 10 innings Arizona 8, San Diego 4 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 innings

Tuesday's Games Boston8,W ashington 7 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0 Miami 8, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2 San Diego 5, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5

Colorado 4, San Francisco 1 Wednesday's Games Miami (Haren 0-0) atAtlanta (Stults 0-0), 9:10 a.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 10:35 a.m.

Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Williams 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (TWood 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-0) at St. Louis (Lynn 0-1), 5:15 p.m.

Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0) at San Diego (Morrow 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (TWalker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Matzek 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0), 7:15 p.m.

Thursday's Games Milwaukee at St. Louis, 10:45 a.m.

Orlando at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Detroit at New York, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Memphis, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A.Lakers,7:30 p.m .

END OF REGULAR SEASON

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Miami at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m..

BASKETBALL

HOCKEY NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOT Pts GFGA y-Montreal 8 2 50 22 10 110 221 189 x-Tampa Bay 82 50 24 8 108 262 211 x-Detroit 82 4 3 25 14 100 235 221 x-Ottawa 8 2 4 3 26 13 99 238 215 Boston 82 41 27 14 96 213 211 Florida 82 38 2 9 15 91 206223 Toronto 82 3 0 4 4 8 6 8 211 262 Bufl'alo 82 23 51 8 54 161 274 Metropolitan Division GP W LOT Pts GFGA z-N.Y. Rangers 82 53 22 7 113 252 192 x-Washington 82 45 26 11 101 242203 x-N.Y. Islanders 82 47 28 7 101 252 230 x-Pittsburgh 82 43 27 12 98 221 210 Columbus 8 2 42 35 5 8 9 236 250 Philadelphia 82 33 31 18 84 215 234 New Jersey 82 32 36 14 78 181 216 Carolina 82 3 0 41 11 71 188226 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOT Pts GFGA ySt. Louis 8 2 51 24 7 109 248 201 x-Nashville 8 2 47 25 10 104 232 208 x-Chicago 8 2 48 28 6 102 229 189 x-Minnesota 82 46 28 8 100 231 201 x-Winnipeg 82 43 26 13 99 230 210 Dallas 82 41 3 1 10 92261 260 Colorado 8 2 3 9 31 12 90 219 227 Pacific Division GP W LOT Pts GFGA z-Anaheim 82 51 24 7 109 236 226 x-Vancouver 82 48 29 5 101 242 222 x-Calgary 8 2 4 5 30 7 9 7 241 216 LosAngeles 82 40 27 15 95 220 205 San Jose 8 2 40 33 9 8 9 228232 Edmonton 8 2 24 44 14 62 198 283 Arizona 82 2 4 5 0 8 5 6 170 272

x-dinched playolf spot y-dinched division z-dinched conference

NHL Playoffs All Times PDT FIRST ROUND

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct G B y-Toronto 4 8 33 . 5 93 x-Boston 39 42 . 481 9 Brooklyn 3 7 44 . 4 5 7 1 1 Philadelphia 1 8 63 . 2 2 2 3 0 New York 1 7 64 . 2 1 0 3 1 Southeast Division W L Pct G B z-Atlanta 60 21 . 7 41 x -Washington 46 35 .5 6 8 1 4 Miami 3 6 45 . 4 4 4 2 4 Charlotte 3 3 48 . 4 0 7 2 7 Orlando 2 5 56 . 3 0 9 3 5 Central Division W L Pct G B y-Cleveland 5 2 29 . 6 42 x-Chicago 49 32 . 605 3 x-Milwaukee 4 1 40 . 5 0 6 1 1 Indiana 3 8 43 . 4 6 9 1 4 Detroit 3 1 50 . 3 8 3 2 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct G B x San Antonio 55 26 .67 9 x-Houston 5 5 26 . 6 79 x-Memphis 54 27 . 667 1 x-Dallas 49 32 . 605 6 New Orleans 44 37 .5 4 3 1 1 Northwest Division W L Pct G B y-Portland 5 1 30 . 6 30 Oklahoma City 44 37 .543 7 Utah 3 8 43 . 4 6 9 1 3 Denver 3 0 51 . 3 7 0 2 1 Minnesota 1 6 65 . 1 9 8 3 5 Pacific Division W L Pct G B z -Golden State 66 15 .81 5 x-LA. Clippers 56 26 .6 8 3 10'/i Phoenix 39 4 3 . 4 76 27'/i Sacramento 2 8 53 . 3 4 6 3 8 L.A. Lakers 2 1 60 . 2 5 9 4 5

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All Times PDT

Monday's Games Milwaukee 107, Philadelphia 97 Houston 100, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 109, Detroit 97 New York 112, Atlanta 108 Miami 100, Orlando 93 Chicago 113, Brooklyn 86 Oklahoma City 101, Portland 90 New Orleans 100, Minnesota 88 Utah 109, Dallas 92 Sacramento 102, L.A. Lakers 92 Golden State 111, Memphis 107 L.A. Clippers 110, Denver 103

Tuesday's Games Boston 95, Toronto 93 Indiana99,W ashington 95,20T L.A. Clippers 112, Phoenix 101 Wednesday's Games Charlotte at Toronto, 4 p.m.

San Antonio at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Utah at Houston, 5 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Boston at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal vs. Ottawa Wednesday, April 15: Ottawa at Montreal,

4 p.m.

Friday, April 17: Ottawa at Montreal, 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 19: Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m. x-Friday, April 24: Ottawa at Montreal, TBA xSunday, April 26: Montreal at Ottawa, TBA

x-Tuesday, April 28:Otlawa atMontreal, TBA Tampa Bay vs. Detroit Thursday, April 16: Detroit at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 18: Detroit at Tampa Bay, noon.

Tuesday, April 21: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 23: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m. x-Saturday, April 25: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Monday, April27:Tampa Bay at Detroit, TBA x-Wednesday, April 29: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA N.Y. Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Thursday, April 16: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 18: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 20: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. x-Friday, April 24: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA x-Sunday, April 26: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBA x-Tuesday, April 28: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders Wednesday, April 15: N.Y. Islanders at W ashington, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 17: N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 19: Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 9 a.m.

Tuesday, April 21: Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m. x-Thursday, April 23: N.Y. Islanders at Washington, TBA x-Saturday, April 25: Washington at N.Y. Islanders, TBA x-Monday, April 27: N.Y. Islanders at Washington, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis vs. Minnesota Thursday, April 16: Minnesota at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 18: Minnesota at St. Louis, noon.

Monday, April 20: St. Louis at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: St. Louis at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 24: Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA x-Sunday, April 26: St. Louis at Minnesota, TBA x-Wednesday, April 29: Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA

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hits as a team.

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COmPlete the no-hitter.

"I think we only had SeVen Strikeouts tOtal, So the SCorebook SPOtleSS Dn the defenSe made a lot Df PlayS visitors side, while maintain- behind them," Union/Cove ing the Bobcats perfect home head coach Chuy Elguezarecord. bal said.'The pitchers were J.D. GraVeS, ChaSe Houek aggressive in the strike zone. and Wade Rynearson PitChed It was really encouraging SeVen inningS Df no-hit ball, Seeing all three Df thOSe guyS and the Bobcats'bats added throwing strikes."

Plenty Df run SuPPOrt in the The Bobcats opened up firSt tWD inningS to lead the with four runs in the first team to a 6-0 VietOry OVer inning, ineluding a tWD-run hOme run &Dm GraVeS. They HePPner/lone MOnday in a 2A nonConferenCe game in added runs in the second and third inningS to giVe the Union.

Graves pitched the first PiteherS a CuShiOn to WOrk with. three innings and only allowed one baserunner.

Jordan Alexander went a HouCk Set SiX batterS dOWn Perfeet3-for-3 atthe Plate With tWD RBI, RynearSon in order during the fourth hit a solo home run in the and fiRh innings, and third inning and Kordale RynearSon kePt HePPner/ Ione hitless OVer the final NDWak Went 1-for-3 With a Walk and SCOredtWD runS tWD inningS, With a hitbatSman hiS Only blemiSh, to as Union/Cove totaled nine Three Union/Cove pitcherS COmbined to keeP the

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RODEO PRCA Leaders Through April 12 All-around 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $48,977; 2. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $21,420; 3. Clayton Hass, Terrell, Texas $20,171; 4. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $20,032; 5. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $17,574; 6. JoJo LeMond, Andrews, Texas $16,930; 7. Caleb Smidt, Bellville, Texas $16,663; 8. Rhen Richard, Roosevelt, Utah $15,724; 9. Morgan Grant, Granton, Ontario $13,593; 10. Eli Lord, Sturgis, S.D. $12,757; 11. Wesley Brunson, Terry, Miss. $11,485; 12. Trenten Montero, Winnemucca, Nev. $8,051.

Bareback Riding 1. Bobby Mote, Stephenville, Texas $35,735; 2. Kaycee Feild, Spanish Fork, Utah $34,432; 3. Tim O'Connell, Zwingle, lowa $33,783; 4. Evan Jayne, Marseille, France $33,455; 5. Austin Foss, Terrebonne, Ore. $32,303; 6.

Seth Hardwick, Laramie, Wyo. $29,317; 7. Caleb Bennett, Tremonton, Utah $26,095; 8. David Peebles, Redmond, Ore. $24,430; 9. Ryan Gray, Cheney, Wash. $23,788; 10. Luke Creasy, Lovington, N.M. $23,361; 11. Tanner Aus, Granite Falls, Minn. $20,670; 12.

Clint Laye, Cadogan, Alberta $19,146; 13. Tyler Nelson, Victor, Idaho $18,563; 14. Clint Cannon, Waller, Texas $16,833; 15. Winn Ratliff, Leesville, La. $15,809; 16. Will Lowe, Canyon, Texas $15,721; 17. George Gillespie IV, Hamilton, Mont. $14,393; 18. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $13,319; 19. Kash Wilson, Gooding, Idaho $12,706; 20. Orin Larsen, Inglis, Manitoba $12,442.

Steer Wrestling 1. Seth Brockman, Wheatland, Wyo. $31,039; 2. Olin Hannum, Malad, Idaho $28,446;3.Ty Erickson,Helena,Mont. $28,388; 4. Hunter Cure, Holliday, Texas $26,304; 5. Casey Martin, Sulphur, La. $23,917; 6. Kyle Irwin, Robertsdale, Ala. $23,673; 7. Luke Branquinho, Los Alamos, Calif. $22,554; 8. K.C. Jones, Decatur, Texas $20,077; 9. Beau Clark, Belgrade, Mont. $18,972; 10. Nick Guy, Sparta, Wis. $18,710; 11. Adam Strahan, McKinney, Texas $18,658; 12. Dirk Tavenner, Rigby, Idaho $18,460; 13. Tyler Pearson, Louisville, Miss. $17,945; 14. Cody Cabral, Hilo, Hawaii $17,468; 15. Baylor Roche, Tremonton, Utah $16,978; 16. Dakota Eldridge, Elko, Nev.$14,979; 17.Matthew Mousseau, Hensall, Ontario $14,484; 18. Clayton Hass, Terrell, Texas $14,322; 19. Blake Knowles, Heppner, Ore. $12,589; 20.

Darrell Petry, Cheek, Texas $12,008.

Team Roping (header)

1. Clay Tryan, Billings, Mont. $44,481; 2. Derrick Begay, Seba Dalkai, Ariz. $41,599; 3. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $24,914; 4. Erich Rogers, Round Rock, Ariz. $24,401; 5. Nick Sartain, Dover, Okla. $22,317; 6. Tyler Wade, Terrell, Texas $21,718; 7. Kaleb Driggers, Albany, Ga. $21,034; 8. Charly Crawford, Prineville, Ore. $20,388; 9. Jake Barnes, Scottsdale, Ariz. $18,971; 10. Riley Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $18,661; 11. Jesse Stipes, Salina, Okla. $18,489; 12. Aaron Tsinigine, Tuba City, Ariz. $16,138; 13. Bubba Buckaloo, Caddo, Okla. $15,925; 14. Coleman Proctor, Pryor, Okla. $15,609; 15. Jake Cooper, Monument, N.M. $14,506; 16. Doyle

ROUT

PREP BASEBALL

• J.D. Graves, Chase Houck, Wade Rynearson shut down Mustangs

Nashville vs. Chicago Wednesday, April 15: Chicago at Nashville, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, April 17: Chicago at Nashville, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 19: Nashville at Chicago, noon.

Tuesday, April 21: Nashville at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. x-Thursday, April 23: Chicago at Nashville, TBA x-Saturday, April 25: Nashville at Chicago, TBA x-Monday, April 27: Chicago at Nashville, TBA Anaheim vs. Winnipeg Thursday, April 16: Winnipeg atAnaheim, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 18: Winnipeg at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 20: Anaheim at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: Anaheim at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 24: Winnipeg at Anaheim, TBA x-Sunday, April 26: Anaheim at Winnipeg, TBA x-Tuesday, April 28: Winnipeg at Anaheim, TBA Vancouver vs. Calgary Wednesday, April 15: Calgary at Vancouver,7 p.m.

Friday, April 17: Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 19: Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21: Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m. x-Thursday, April 23: Calgary at Vancouver, TBA x-Saturday, April 25: Vancouver at Calgary, TBA x-Monday, April 27: Calgary at Vancouver, TBA

at-bats through the first few innings," Elguezabal said.

"An early Start iS alWayS going to be niCe fOr any Piteher, and everybodywillbe m ore COmfOrtable. We kind Dflet DfFthe gaS Pedal aker the third inning. We just didn't haVe aSgOOdDfat-batS there, but the hot Start Won uS the game."

The victory improved Union/CDVe'S hOme reCOrd

to 3-0, and Came aker the Bobcats 10-run ruled Class 3A Elgin/Imbler, 17-7, last Tuesday.

'There WBS definitely a lot Df energy in the dugOut to Start Dut With," ElgueZabal Said."SOme Df that WBS Car-

rying OVer &Dm that (Elgin/ Imbler) win."

The Bobcats (3-6 overall) start Special District 7 play Friday when they host Burns for a doubleheader.

"We juSt need to COmeDut with energy and confidence and aVOid Dur little hiCCuPS," ElgueZabal Said."If We do,

good things will happen."

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Hoskins, Chualar, Calif. $13,637; 17. Chad Masters, Cedar Hill, Tenn. $13,341; 18. Levi Simpson, Ponoka, Alberta $12,754; 19. Jake Orman, Prairie, Miss. $12,615; 20. Matt Sherwood, Pima, Ariz. $12,510.

Team Roping (heeler)

1. Clay O'Brien Cooper, Gardnerville, Nev. $44,959; 2. Jade Corkill, Fallon, Nev. $44,773; 3. Travis Woodard, Stockton, Calif. $30,909; 4. Cory Petska, Marana, Ariz. $26,295; 5. Patrick Smith, Lipan, Texas $24,914; 6. Kinney Harrell, Marshall, Texas $22,838; 7.

Rich Skelton, Llano, Texas $22,317; 8.

Shay Carroll, La Junta, Colo. $20,388; 9. Junior Nogueira, Scottsdale, Ariz. $18,971; 10. Brady Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $18,661; 11. Billie Jack Saebens, Nowata, Okla. $16,963; 12.

Russell Cardoza, Terrebonne, Ore. $16,737; 13. Buddy Hawkins II, Columbus, Kan. $15,838; 14. Jake Long, Coffeyville, Kan. $15,609; 15. Matt Kasner, Cody, Neb. $14,313; 16. Jeremy Buhler, Abbotsford, British Columbia $12,754; 17. Quinn Kesler, Holden, Utah $12,510; 18. Tyler Domingue, De Kalb, Texas $11,383; 19. J.W. Borrego, Weston, Colo. $11,259; 20. Martin Lucero, Stephenville, Texas $10,421.

Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Cody DeMoss, Heflin, La. $57,494; 2. Spencer Wright, Milford, Utah $50,332; 3. Rusty Wright, Milford, Utah $36,340; 4. Taos Muncy, Corona, N.M. $30,229; 5. Joe Lufkin, Sallisaw, Okla. $23,948; 6. Clay Elliott, Nanton, Alberta $20,860; 7. Chuck Schmidt, Keldron, S.D. $20,794; 8. Wade Sundell, Colman, Okla.$20,786;9.

Jake Wright, Milford, Utah $20,660; 10.

Bradley Harter, Loranger, La. $17,031; 11. Chad Ferley, Oelrichs, S.D. $15,955; 12. Jesse Wright, Milford, Utah $15,551; 13. Allen Boore, Axtell, Utah $14,354; 14. Zeke Thurston, Big Valley, Alberta $13,913; 15. Sterling Crawley, Stephenville, Texas $13,502; 16. Cort Scheer, Elsmere, Neb. $13,484; 17. Jacobs Crawley, Stephenville, Texas $13,331; 18. Layton Green, Meeting Creek, Alberta $11,902; 19.

Tyler Corrington, Hastings, Minn. $11,632; 20. Tyrel Larsen, Inglis, Manitoba $11,437.

Tie-down Roping 1. Cory Solomon, Prairie View, Texas $39,482; 2. Monty Lewis, Hereford, Texas $34,585; 3. Timber Moore, Aubrey, Texas $33,148; 4. Marty Yates, Stephenville, Texas $29,079; 5. Hunter Herrin, Apache, Okla. $23,363; 6.

Adam Gray, Seymour, Texas $22,838; 7. Chase Williams, Stephenville, Texas $22,498; 8. Tuf Cooper, Decatur, Texas $21,074; 9. Sterling Smith, Stephenville, Texas $20,174; 10. Randall Carlisle, Athens, La. $19,818; 11. Blair Burk, Durant, Okla. $19,054; 12. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $17,858; 13. Bart Brunson, Terry, Miss. $16,469; 14. Marcos Costa, Childress, Texas $16,393; 15. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $16,112; 16. Cade Swor, Winnie, Texas $15,270; 17. Ace Slone, Cuero, Texas $14,428; 18. Ryle Smith, Oakdale, Calif. $13,627; 19. Jordan Ketscher, Squaw Valley, Calif. $13,522; 20. Dane Kissack, Spearfish, S.D. $12,444.

Steer Roping 1. Neal Wood, Needville, Texas $34,785;2. M ike Chase, McAlester, Okla. $28,473; 3. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, Texas $26,027; 4. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $21,423; 5. Cody Lee, Gatesville, Texas $19,357; 6. Jess Tierney, Hermosa, S.D. $17,044; 7.

Shay Good,Midland, Texas $16,567; 8. Jarrett Blessing, Paradise, Texas $14,742; 9. Scott Snedecor, Fredericksburg, Texas $14,305; 10. Troy Tillard, Douglas, Wyo. $12,222; 11.

Rocky Patterson, Pratt, Kan. $12,072; 12. Ralph Williams, Skiatook, Okla. $9,889; 13. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, Texas $9,713; 14. Lawson Plemons, Axtell, Texas $8,835; 15. Brady Garten, Claremore, Okla. $7,735; 16.

Jason Evans,Huntsville,Texas $7,301; 17. Chet Herren, Pawhuska, Okla. $7,177; 18. JoJo LeMond, Andrews, Texas $6,983; 19. J.P. Wickett, Sallisaw, Okla. $6,858; 20. Chance Kelton, Mayer, Ariz. $6,846.

Bull Riding 1. Sage Kimzey, Strong City, Okla. $50,977; 2. Chandler Bownds, Lubbock, Texas $37,645; 3. Tanner Learmont, Cleburne, Texas $33,403; 4. Brennon Eldred, Sulphur, Okla. $32,083; 5. Wesley Silcox, Santaquin, Utah $30,547; 6. Parker Breding, Edgar, Mont. $29,332; 7. Reid Barker, Comfort, Texas $28,734; 8. Joe Frost, Randlett, Utah $27,339; 9. Cody Teel, Kountze, Texas $24,172; 10. Trevor Kastner, Ardmore, Okla. $23,829; 11. Brett Stall, Detroit Lakes, Minn. $20,773; 12. Caleb Sanderson, Kissimmee, Fla. $20,410; 13. Zack Oakes, Tonasket, Wash. $20,000; 14. Zeb Lanham, Sweet, Idaho $16,975; 15. Ardie Maier, Timber Lake, S.D. $16,609; 16. Steve Woolsey, Payson, Utah $16,225; 17. Dallee Mason, Weiser, Idaho $15,525; 18. Nile Lebaron, Weatherford, Texas $14,872; 19. Dylan Vick Hice, Escalon, Calif. $14,676; 20. Clayton Savage, Yoder, Wyo. $14,640.

Barrel Ramng 1. Nancy Hunter, Neola, Utah

$55,900; 2. Sarah Rose McDonald, Brunswick, Ga. $53,374; 3. Lisa Lockhart, Oelrichs, S.D. $44,211; 4. Fallon Taylor, Collinsville, Texas $41,121; 5. Alexa Lake, Richmond, Texas $40,518; 6. Sherry Cervi, Marana, Ariz. $40,404; 7. Callie Duperier, Boerne, Texas $40,354; 8.

Victoria Williams, Kiln, Miss. $26,484; 9. Meghan Johnson Deming N.M. $27,617; 10. Cassidy Kruse, Gillette, Texas $25,162; 11. Layna Kight, Ocala, Fla. $24,529; 12.Jana Bean, Fort Hancock, Texas $23,748; 13. Kelly Tovar, Rockdale, Texas $23,331; 14.

KaleyBass, Kissimmee, Fla.$23,055; 15. Shelly Anzick, Livingston, Texas $21,013; 16. Kenna Squires, Fredonia, Texas $19,612; 17. Michele McLeod, Whitesboro, Texas $18,811; 18. Britany Diaz, Solen, N.D. $18,199; 19. Carley Richardson, Pampa, Texas $17,532; 20. Shelby Janssen, Coleman, Okla. $17,341.

RACING Leaderboards NASCAR Sprint Cup Through April 11 Points 1, Kevin Harvick, 306. 2, Joey Logano, 280. 3, Martin Truex Jr., 266. 4, Brad Keselowski, 246. 5, Kasey Kahne, 230. 6, Jimmie Johnson,216. 7, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 213. 8, Denny Hamlin, 205. 9, Aric Almirola, 195. 10, David Ragan, 194.

Money 1, Kevin Harvick, $2,991,675. 2, JoeyLogano $2702331.3 Jimmie Johnson, $2,028,023. 4, Dale Eamhardt Jr., $1,808,545. 5, Brad Keselowski, $1,547,567. 6, Jeff Gordon, $1,524,522.

7, Denny Hamlin, $1,492,043. 8, Martin Truex Jr., $1,447,503. 9, Matt Kenseth, $1,428,532. 10, Ryan Newman, $1,333,118.

Schedule and winners (through April) Feb. 14 — x-Sprint Unlimited (Matt Kenseth) Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 1 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 2 (Jimmie

Johnson) Feb. 22 — Daytona 500 (Joey Logano)

March 1 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Jimmie Johnson) March 8 — Kobalt 400 (Kevin Harvick) March 15 — CampingWorld.com 500 (Kevin Harvick) March 22 — Auto Club 400 (Brad Keselowski) March 29 — STP 500 (Denny Hamlin) April 11 — Duck Commander 500 (Jimmie Johnson) April 19 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn.

April 25 — Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. NASCAR XFINITY Through April 10 Points 1. Ty Dillon, 219. 2. Chris Buescher, 217. 3. Chase Elliott, 208. 4. Darrell Wallace Jr., 204. 5. Ryan Reed, 197. 6.

Regan Smith, 197. 7. Elliott Sadler, 181.

8. Brendan Gaughan, 176. 9. Brian Scott, 169. 10. Daniel Suarez, 160.

Schedule and winners (through April) Feb. 21 — Alert Today Florida 300

(Ryan Reed) Feb. 28 — Hisense 250 (Kevin Harvick)

March 7 — Boyd Gaming 300 (Austin Dillon) March 14 — Axalta Faster. Tougher.

Brighter. 200 (Joey Logano) March 21 — Drive4Clots.com 300 (Kevm Harvick) April 10 — O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 (Erlk Jones) April 18 — Drive to Stop Diabetes 300, Bristol, Tenn.

Apnl24 — ToyotaCare 250,Richmond, Va. Formula One Through April 12 Points 1, Lewis Hamilton, 68. 2, Sebastian Vettel, 55. 3, Nico Rosberg, 51. 4, Felipe Massa, 30.5,Kim iRaikkonen,24.6, Valtteri Bottas, 18. 7, Felipe Nasr, 14. 8, Daniel Ricciardo, 11. 9, Romain Grosjean, 6. 10, Max Verstappen, 6.

Schedule and winners (through April) March 15 — Australian Grand Prix (Lewis Hamilton) March 29 — Malaysia Grand Prix (Sebastian Vettel) April 12 — Chinese Grand Prix (Lewis Hamilton) April 19 — Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir IndyCar Through April 12 Points 1, Juan Pablo Montoya, 84. 2, Helio Castroneves, 74. 3, Will Power, 70. 4, James Hinchcli ff e,65.5,Tony Kanaan, 63. 6, Simona de Silvestro, 44. 7, James Jakes, 43. 8, Graham Rahal, 43. 9, Luca Filippi, 42. 10, Simon Pagenaud, 41.

Schedule and winners (through April) March 29 — Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Juan Pablo Montoya) April 12 — Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana (James Hinchcliffe) April 19 — Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.)

April 26 — Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, Birmingham

Sarman each drove in a pair Df runS BS the Lady CatS "It WBS niCe to Bee uS COme POunded Dut 11hitS. Continued from Ebge 8A back whenwe fellbehind Union/Cove (8-1 overall) 5-4 and rally," Phillips said. traVelS to faCe PilOtROCk/ tWD hit-batsmen in the &ame to edge ahead by One. "We battled hail storms and Nixyaawii Saturday in a The Lady Cats responded cold weather. The girls did a key 2A/1A Special District in a big Way to take the lead gOOd job Staying fOCuSed." 6 doubleheader. The Lady forgood.Sarah Good hitan MCCabe Went 3-for4, CatS Will 1OOkto aVenge an HBI grDundout to tie the while Moore and Wright earlier 1OSStotheROCketS, game. Viki MCCabe later eaeh Went 2-for4 With Who are13-0 and Cumntly SCOred Dn a Wild PitCh to re- Moore driving in four runs ranked No. 1in the State. ''HDPefully We'll bring Dur take the lead before Keesha and Wright three. Jaiden ' A' game Saturday.IfWedo, Sarman extended it with Wright reached base four a tWD-run Single. MOOre times and scored three runs, I like Dur ChanCeS,"PhilliPS S81fI. riPPed an RBI dOuble toCBP While ChelSie Houek and thebig&ame and make the score 9-5.

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fielder. Vermillion was up next and ripped a ShOt thrOugh the infield to Cut the defieit to Well and kePt them DfF-balanCed. He'S got a 5-1. lot Df PitCheS, and it WBS fun to Wateh. Then But PilOt RDCk/NiXyaaWii quiekly tOOk Mike came in and did the same. He did a any Wind Dut Df Elgin/Imbler'S SailS With gOOd job Df keePing their hitterS unCOmfOrtfOur runS in the toP Df the fiRh. With tWD able. It'S a great COmbinatiOn When you OutS, Braydon PDStma SlaPPed an RBI have really good pitching and good ofFense." single, and Wesley Purcell followed with a tWD-run dOuble intO the right-field gaP that The Huskies combined for five hits.

Jordan Vermillion had an RBI single in the juSt glanCed DfFthe glOVe Df a diVing TrOy fOurth inning, Joe Gri5n Went 2-for-3 With a Jones. dOubleandAnu KanOho added a dOuble.

Following a sacrifice fly by the Rockets '%e Were haVing a hard time hOlding Dn in the SiXth inning, they POured it Dn With to the ball beCauSe the kidS COuldn't feel five more runs in the seventh, highlighted their fingerS, but no eXCuSeS. PilOt ROCk

by PierCe'S tWD-run Single With the baSeS

played well," Elgin/Imbler head coachGregg

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Luse said.'They hit the ball really well, and five runs in the first inning really takes it Dut Df you."

JaCObPierCeStarted thefeStiVitieSDfFfOr the ROCketSWith a tWD-run hOmer in the five-run first inning. Neither team scored again until the bOttOm Df the fOurth. Gri5n

Elgin/Imbler (5-5 overall, 0-2 Eastern OregOn League) 1OOk to SnaP a fOur-game losing streak when it hosts league opponent Valefora doubleheader Friday.

'That'S Why We haVe theSenonleague gameS, Bo WeCan get all thiS WOrked Dut," Luse Said."We'll be ready fOr Friday."

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SPORTS

PREP SOFTBALL

Rockets blast through Elgin Imbler • Pilot Rock/ Nixyaawii scores 18 straight runs to overwhelm Ravens

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Class 3A Elgin/Imbler drew fi rstbloodTuesday against Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii. The problem was, however, that the visitors controlled the game from that point on.

The Rockets turned a two-run Ravens lead into a 12-run lead of their own following a gigantic third inning, and shell-shocked Elgin/Imbler had no response as Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii scored the final 18 runs to w in going away, 18-2,in four innings in a nonconference game in Elgin.

Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii, the No. 1 team in Class 2A/1A, improved its record to 13-0 and proved to all those in attendance why it's the top team in its class at this point in the season.

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La Grande's Trinity McCarthy watches a putt on the final green Tuesday at the La Grande Invitational. McCarthy shot an 85 to take second in the event.

GOLF Continued from Page 8A alternating between sunshine, wind, hail and snow — and all that in a handnumbing cold."Pulling in those scores in those kind of weather conditions was outstanding," Goss said.

McCarthy shot an 85 on the afternoon, just behind Heppner's Sophie Grant, who posted an 84 for the individual title. The two were actually tied through nine holes, but Grant bested McCarthy on the back nine with a 43 to eke out the one-shot victory.

Still, McCarthy was pleased with her round.

"My swing was on and my putting was really good today," she said.'The only thing that was holding me

back was my chipping."

Miles, who finished third with a round of87,fi nished strong with a 42 on the back nine. She said she was at her best from the tee box and on the green.

"I had three birdies, which was good, but I also double-

in (2A/1A), and it was a good chance for us to play them," Elgin/Imbler head coach Dick Gri5n said.eWe saw it as an opportumty to improve. We did, for a couple mnmgs.

The Rockets had 12 hits and committed no errors in the field, while the Ravens totaled eight hits but committed six errors.

Elgin/Imbler's Miah Slater was 1-for-3 with a triple and a run scored. Karigan Wilhelm went 2-for-3 with a pair of singles, Jordyn Anderson was 2-for-2 with a run scored, Darcie Kanoho notched an RBI double and Morgan Howes added an

(bogeyed) four holes and tripled two," she said.eMy

chipping was pretty bad, but my putting made up for it."

Seymour shot a career-best with her 91, which she said was a goal. She has been looking to shoot in the 90s regularly and was pleased with her round.

"It feels amazing honestly, especially with the snow and everything. I just kept bat-

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ROGERS

Early on, it appeared the Ravens were more than ready for the challenge.

Following a scoreless first

people have given both Rog-

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ers and Whittington funding in person.

But the biggest draw has been from the website gofundme.com, where people can donate to a cause online.

Whittington set up an account for the trip, and hundreds of dollars were donated within the first couple of days. As of Tuesday evening, more than$1,600 of the needed funds have been raised through the site alone, with nearly 30 people

used bats, baseballs, gloves and cleats.

"I just kind of think that this will be something that they will really appreciate,"

for our community," he said.

"Jared always is one of those kids that's a leader for that.

He's always very social with people. He's always very respectful forpeople ofall ages. I know he's going to do a fantasticjob with all the people he comes across down there."

It's the trip of a lifetime, with not only the chance to improve his game, but also to share needed gear with a country rich in baseball talent but lacking in the necessitie softhegame.

"I am thankful that I'm getting all the support to be able to fulfill my dream and

he said.

keep playing baseball," he

H e hassofarcollected some ofhis old gear, as well as old gear from the La Grande baseball team. He's in the process oflining up even more.

"I just want to get as much

said,"and especially with something as rare as this."

has been amazing.

"It's been very humbling for me at just how fast, and Continued from Page 8A how much, people have concern, as the total cost is given," she said."Just the about $2,300. fact that they would give 'The day that J.C. sent me it all for my son to go play the text message telling me baseball ... for him to have about the invitation, the first this chance right now, they thought I had was,'How can want to be a partofit.It's we make this work?n'Whitjust humbling." tington said.

Rogersis also going touse Co-workers put up a dona- the trip as an opportunity to tion box at work, and several give back to the Dominican

chipping in.

Rogers said that he is cur-

rently within $300 ofhaving the trip fully paid for.

"It's a blessing to have all this support," he said."Being able to give them short notice like this and have people trust me and believe in me so much that I'll put their money into really good use is

a blessing."

Whittington agreed that the outpouring of support

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Elgin/Imbler infielder Jordyn Anderson awaits a throw ahead of a Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii baserunner during a nonconference game, which the Ravens lost, 18-2. inning, Slater led off with a triple into right field. The next batter, Kanoho, brought Slater in to score with her double. Later in the frame, Howes broughtAnderson home with a bloop single to give the Ravens a two-run lead after four hits in the .V

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"In the first couple innings we made some good defensive plays, and (starting

pitcher Slater) had her dropball working," Gri5n said.

It was in the third inning when it all came apart for Elgin/Imbler. Slater hit a batter and walked two more.

Two errors by the Elgin/ Imbler defense allowed a trio of runs to score, and Shayla Walker belted a tworun home run to start the onslaught. In all, the Rockets Josh Benhnm/The Observer put 14 runs on the board to Elgin/Imbler's Savanna Mullarkey drops down a bunt seize a 12-run advantage. during Tuesday's nonconference matchup with Pilot "We had opportumties to Rock/Nixyaawii in Elgin. get out of the third inning, 'That will be real big for but we just couldn't do it," game early.

Gri5n said.

Elgin/Imbler (3-8 overall, us," Gri5n said.eWe obviousThe Rockets would go on 2-2 Eastern Oregon League) ly want a sweep, but we're hopingforatleasta splitto to add four more runs in welcomes Vale to town for a the fourth inning to end the league doubleheader Friday. stay in the hunt."

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UNION

BRAIN FOOD

HAPPENINGS

KEN KELLER

Trindle honored with Governor's Tourism Award

Steps to a strong second quarter

BAKER CITY — Alice Trindle of Haines, the executive director of the Eastern Oregon Visitors Association, received the annual Governor's Tourism Award Sunday.

Trindle accepted the award at the Travel and Tourism Industry AchievementAwards in Eugene.

"It's an honor torecognize Trindle Alice for her passion and decades of service to Oregon's travel and tourism industry,"Todd Davidson, CEO of Travel Oregon, said in a press release.

"She has an incredible ability to accomplish great unde~ g s w ith a limited

budget. She is also a champion ofbuilding local partnerships to help Eastern Oregon achievemuch more than any one person or entity could do on their own, all while ensuring that the region maintains its unique character and charm."

Trindle's award wasn't the only one with Baker County ties.

The Sumpter Valley Railroad received the Oregon Heritage Tourism Award.

The Oregon Heritage Tourism Award recognizes outstanding incorporation of Oregon's authentic cultural or natural history as a way to draw visitors to the state.

The Sumpter Valley Railroad, which hauls passengers during the summer, fall and Christmas season in the Sumpter Valley, about 20 miles southwest of Baker City, is one of just two mobile historic districts listed on the National Register of Kstoric Places.

Volunteers from several states run the railroad, known as the Stump Dodger after its historic role hauling logs from the Blue Mountains.

The original Stump Dodger ran from 1890-1947. At one point the narrow-gauge tracks ran between Baker City and Prairie City.

Baker D L B adds sporting goods to inventory BAKER CITY — D & B Supply has added a sporting goods department to its Baker City store.

Saturday at 10 a.m. there will be a ribbon cuttingand grand re-opening ofthe store at 3515 Pocahontas Road.

"We're excited to start selling sporting goods at the Baker City location," manager Jim Bjork said. eWe're one of two D & B stores that are doing this."

The company has 12 stores in Eastern Oregon and Idaho.

Customers don't have to wait until Saturday to check out the 800 square feet of new inventory. There will be sales and hourly drawings for sporting goods items Thursday through Saturday.

Regional mobile computer repair service launched BAKER CITY — Dale Bogardus has started a mobile computer repair service, Outstanding Computer Services.

Although Bogardus lives in Baker City, his home since 2011, his coverage area also includes La Grande and rural parts of Baker County.

His services include PC tune-ups, virus removal, email and wifi issues, printer installation and training. He will make house calls.

Bogardus, who retired from a 14-year career with the U.S. Navy in 2011, also served for 11years with the U.S. Coast Guard.

His son, Alex, is working with him this spring and summer. Alex has enlisted in the Navy and will be leaving in October.

Bogardus'phone number is 541-2975831 and his email is dalebogardus@live. com.

— WesComNews Service staff

About this column Small Business Happenings covers Northeast Oregon's small-business community.

The column carries news about business events, startups and owners and employees who earn awards and recognition or make significant gains in their careers.

There is no charge for inclusion in the column, which is editorial in nature and is not ad space or a marketing tool. Products and services will be discussed only in general terms.

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Union Drug Co. and Soda Fountain ownerWalt Brookshire acts as soda jerk as he pours soda water from the fountain's taps. Brookshire says adding the soda fountain to the pharmacy has helped business.

y this time in April, everyone should be back at work from Spring Break and the related holidays.

Now is the time to take action to have a great second quarter.

The first step is to take the time to identify and celebrate successes earned in the first three months of the year.

Americans are funny people; we set goals, strive hard to meet them and when we achieve them, we rarely take the time to truly appreciate the effort and energy expended for these hardfought wins.

In fact, most people in

business (and life) downplay

• Businessman runs pharmacy, old-fashion soda fountain in Union

By Cherise Kaechele The Observer

The Union Drug Co. and Soda Fountain has its own uniqueness.

The combination of an old soda fountaineatery and a pharmacy presents owner Walt Brookshire the challenge of keeping both entities alive despite the competition he faces from businesses in La Grande.

Brookshire always knew he'd one day open his own independent pharmacy. He graduated from Union High School and went to Oregon State University where he received his pharmacy degree, he said. But he always wanted to come back home.

He worked at corporate-owned and independentpharmacies fora number ofyears,butwhen the opportunity presented itself to purchase the pharmacy on Union's Main Street, he jumped on it.

He said he wanted to own his own pharmacy because he had his own way of running a pharmacy.

"I don't want to diss on chain

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Union's soda fountain was originally a parking lot for the Union Drug Co. pharmacy

"(Owningyour own pharmacy) givesyou an opportunity to do things more thewayyou'd like to seethings done."

— Walt Brookshire, owner of the Union Drug Co. and Soda Fountain

He added onto his building

and took out the parking lot to make way for the building's (pharmacies), but they have a addition.

With the addition of the soda way they like to do things and fountain, where he offers espresso I have a way I would like to do things, and they don't necessarily drinks, homemade soups and go together.

(Owning your own sandwiches and has an old ice cream set up as well, he's able to pharmacy) gives you an opportunity to do things more the way attract tourists and hungry visiyou'd like to see things done." tors in one portion ofhis business Brookshire purchased the busi- and get those filling prescriptions nessin 1994,then addedthe soda in another.

While business isn't bad, fountain more than two years ago to attract more business, he said. Brookshire has the challenge

WALLOWA COUNTY

Threatened plant found in abundance

By Katy Nesbitt WesCom News Service

ENTERPRISE — A plant scarce on the Palouse of southeastern Washington and seemingly abundant in Wallowa County has scientists bafHed as to how threatened, or not, it is.

Rob Taylor works for The Nature Conservancy's Enterprise office and serves on a technical team for Spalding's catchfly.

"I think it's the plant that

was designed to keep botanists employed," he said."It's really hard to monitor and it's hard to figure out the trends."

Spalding's catchfly is listed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's threatened list. The listing mostly impacts activities on federally managed public land.

Taylor said Spalding's Catchfly was listed in 1990.

"Now everyone's trying to SeePlant / Page 9B

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ofbeing a small business in the outskirts of Union County.

He said he doesn't believe in advertising his products because he feels that those who live in Union and work in La Grande aren't prone to supporting their owll.

"If I open at 8 a.m., the people areheading intoLa Grande at 8 a.m., will they stop here? No," Brookshire said. He said he was asked to buy advertising from a radio station and declined See Union / Page 9B

their successes lest they make others feel badly. Don't do this: celebratesuccesses.

The process is easy; sit down and make a list of all the things you are grateful for having accomplished between Jan. 1 and March 31. Write them all down, big and small, in all functions of the business.

Be sure to identify any significant breakthrough achievements that might warrant special thanks.

Often this kind of progress is identified only in hindsight as a game changer.

Take the time to share the good news, and allow others to share the spotlight.

Sincerely thank others, including employees, vendors, clients and business associates. If you can't do it in person, do it with a telephone call, an email or a handwritten note.

The kindness you display will be remembered for a very long time.

The second step is to take a list of all the projects and assignments that you have begun since the first of the year but are not yet com-

pleted.

Measure the progress and list those that can be quickly finished. This will enable the feeling of success to continue into April and May. Those projects that can't be finished quickly need to be prioritized and new focus given to complete them before the end of the first half of the year.

The third step is to review the sustainable, competitive SeeKeller / Page 9B

NRCS o6ers assistance for conservation easements WesCom News Service staff

PORTLAND — The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Oregon is accepting applications from private landowners,tribes,and eligible businesses and entities to restore and protect working agricultural lands and wetlands through the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.

The program contains two separate components, Wetland Reserve Easements andAgricultural Land Easements. To be considered for the current round of funding, applications must be

submitted to the Natural Resources Conservation Service by May 8 for the wetlands program component, and byMay 15 for the agric ulturallands program.

Applications are available at local USDA Service Centers and on the Oregon Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

webpage.

Nationally, NRCS is making $332 million in financial and technical assistance available under the Agricultural Lands program. These dollars will helpproductivefarm and ranch See Funding / Page 9B

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The AfFordable Care Act could be driving more procrastinators to tax preparers during this year's deadline rush.

As of March 27, the Internal Revenue Service had received more than 90 million individual tax returns, or roughly three out of five returns it expects this season. There are millions of stragglers.

"I do see a lot of people taking their time, thinking about it, waiting to file their tax returns," said Sandra Martin, a senior tax adviser for H&R Block in Houston."I do see more people tending to wait than in prior years."

Right now Martin is seeing about 16 people a day. That's one person every 45 minutes, with more customers dropping off documents. Her office will see at least 100

peoplea day.(On W ednesday,Tax Day,the doors stay open here until the last person is

served.)

Martin cited two main reasons people push theApril15deadline:They owe money and aren't ready to pay the government or,

• Employers with drug policies may continue to enforce them

By Joseph Ditzler WesCom News Service

Measum 91

The advent in July oflegalizing marijuana for recreational use in Oregon will have no efFect on workplace rules on druguse and drug testing, say lawyers speciahzmgin Oregon employmentlaw.

That hasn't stopped employers from wondering what changes, ifany,they need to make to those policies.

"Right now, we're in a holding pattern," said Tamara Weber, human resources manager at Robberson Ford, in Bend."We want to see how things play out in the Legislature."

M easure 91,the2014ballot i nitiative thatle~ rec r eational marijuana, specifically lek state law on employment andhousinguntouched. But several bills workingtheir way thmugh the legishtive session in Salem could further define the measurebeforepossession becomeslegal July 1and tecreational sales begin nextyear.

'The main concerns (from employers) are with drugtesting policies and what to do if somebody tests positive for marijuana aker July, when it becomes legal," said attorney Katherine Tank, of Bend, an employment law specialist."Can I still discipline an employee who tests positive if they use it for recreational use?"

The short answer is yes, according to Tank and attorneyAmanda Gamblin, of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, in Portland. The measure itself doesnotaff ectstate or federal employment laws, and that won't change, said Gamblin, also a specialist in employment law.

"It's amazing how many employers are having employees say to them,'But,

Measure 91 allows the personal use and possession of recreational marijuana under Oregon law for those age 21 and older. It also gives the Oregon Liquor Control Commission authority to tax, license and regulate recreational marijuana.

PERSONAL USE • Beginning July 1, recreational marijuana users can possess up to 8 ounces of marijuana and four plants per residence in Oregon. An individual can carry up to 1 ounce in public and can begin growing at home.

• Marijuana cannot be smoked or consumed in public.

• Measure 91 does not impact employment law in Oregon.

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marijuana users, recreational users haven't a prayer, lawyers said.

Many employers have workplace drug policies in place for liability reasons, others because their work is somehow governed by federal law ora federalcontract.

Pilots, for example, and truck drivers are governed by federal regulations that m andate zero a tolerance for marijuana use. So are companiesthat receivefederal grants. For those employers, Gamblin said, the message is

simple.

"I think, number one, communicating to employees that if you're a federally regulated employer, nothing is going to change for you," she said.

Outside of that, the degree to which employers use drugtestingvariesfrom one to another and the kind of work they do.At Robberson, employees typically operate heavy machineryand shuttle customers back and forth Source: Oregon Liquor Control Commission; www.oregon.gov/ in vehicles, Weber said. The olcc/meriioene/ company drug and alcohol policy extends to employees' has ingested marijuana, ofF-duty conductif they are wearing work apparel with a sometimes up to a month or m ore after thefact.Itdoesn't Robberson logo, she said. The company uses pre-employnecessarily indicate the ment drug screening and tests subject is impaired or under the influence of marijuana. employees in the event of an Gamblin said employers may accident on the job, she said.

Much the same goes at expect challenges aker July from employees who test R&H Construction Co., and positive on a workplace drug company Vice President for Central Oregon Gary North test but who ingested marisaid he doesn't expect that poljuana on their own time.

'The ACLU has long icy to change. Neither does he believedthat drugtestsonly anticipate a sudden blossomshow if there is a presence of a ingin the number of workers substance in somebody's sys- impaired by marijuana. nWe pay pretty close attentem," said Jann Carson, the interim executive director of tion, and the work we do rethe American Civil Liberties quires full use of motor skills," Union of Oregon."It doesn't North said,"and we can tell measure impairment." pretty quickly when someit's legal,"'she said."So is The courts in Oregon hold body is not operating to their alcohol." capacity. Nobody wants to get thateven Oregonians who Prohibiting on-the-job mar- claim medical marijuana hurt, and most of the work ijuana use is a no-brainer, but provides relief from a diswe do is in pairs or threes, so we have a built-in mechaquestions arise with ofF-duty ability can expect no protecmarijuana use and worktionfrom the state aslong as nism. People that wouldn't be the federal government lists undertheinfluence would be place drug testing. The most common method, urinalysis, marijuana as illegal. If the paying attention to anybody can show whether the subject law doesn't protect medicinal who might be."

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beginning this year, they're confused about how the health care law afFects their taxes.

Some are confused about how to calculate the size of the penalty for not having insurance. Others got insurance but miscalculated the subsidies they were entitled to when they signed up for health insurance last year.

H&R Block found that, nationwide, 52 percent of its customers enrolled in state or federalhealth exchanges had topayback a portionofthecreditdesigned tolower the cost of insurance. The average amount paid

back was $530, which decreased individual taxrefundsby an average of17 percent.

GndyAlam, who manages 34 Jackson Hewitt Tax Services in the Houston area, said this complexity is bringing in new customers."People that would have tried it on their own in the past, this year they're a little leery about doing it," she said.

But for many, waiting until the last minute is just their style. Van Young, 35, said he usually procrastinates.'The headache is going to come eventually, so why not put it offuntil later?"

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Now the fee could start appearing on broadband Recently adopted net bills too, in a major expanneutrality regulations soon sion of the nearly two-decade-old Universal Service could make your monthly Internet bill more complicat- Fund program. ed — and potentially more It's not clear yet, however, expensive. if most consumers would Every month, consumend up paying more in total ers pay a small fee on their USF fees than they do now. phone bills for a federal proIn approving the tough gram that uses the money rules for online traffic — a total of $8.8 billion in February, the Federal raised nationwide last year Communications Commis— to provide affordable sion put broadband in the access to telecommunicasame regulatorycategory as tionsservicesin ruralareas, phone service, opening the underserved inner cities and door for the charges. schools.

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firms pass the fees directly to their customers, with the average household paying

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Those who opposed the net neutrality rules foresee the feesrising.

'The federal government is sure to tap this new revenue stream soon to spend more of consumers'hard-earned dollars,"warnedAjit Pai, a Republican on the FCC. Kgher fees on Internet bills could make the service unafFordable for some

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Cascade Natural Gas files natural gas increase request in Oregon 'Ihe purpose of this announcement is to provide Cascade Natural Gas customers with general information about the company's proposals and their effects on its customers. Calculations and statements within this announcement are not binding on th e Oregon Public Utility Commission.

Cascade Natural Gas filed a natural gas rate increase request with the Oregon Public Utility Commission on March 31, 2015. If approved, it would increase residential customers' monthly bill by an average of $1.88 a month.

'Ihe main reason for the rate increase request is to recover the cost of the increased investment in natural gas facilities to ensure safe and reliable service. 'Ihe projected 2015 year-end total gross investment by Cascade for Oregon natural gas operations is $193 million, compared with $41 million in 1988 when the last general rate case was filed.

'Ihe proposed increase is for $3.6 mi l lion annually over current rates,or a 5.11 percent overallincrease. Cascade serves about 68,000 customers in 25 Oregon communities.

'Ihe proposed increase for each rate class, which is based on rate class studies, is: • Residential 3.48 percent • Commercial 5.98 percent • Industrial 6.78 percent Copies of the rate case filing are available for inspection at Cascade's main and district offices. For additional information, the company can be reached at:

8113 W. Grandridge Blvd Kennewick, WA 99336-7166 Phone: 888-522-1130

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Additional information about the rate case filing can also be found on the company's website: www.cngc.com.

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First Lutheran Church FREE KID'S CLUB F RIDAYS 1:30 p.m.— 3:30 p.m.

1st-6th grades 1734 3rd St. Use Valley St. entrance under Kid's Club sign

LATCH Baker County's breastfeeding support group. Meets every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month 11 a.m. —Noon St. Luke's EOMA, 3950 17t.h St. 5 41~2~ 6 8 1

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FARMANDSHOPEQUIPMENT RETIREMENT AUCTION SUNDAY APRIL19TH, 2015 OWNERS: GEORGE& JO YANAGAWA LocatedfromOntario Or.Onemile South onHWY201to SW.18th AV.Then3 /4mile east to2008SW18thAveOntario Or.97914.

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300 - Financial/Service 310- Mortgages, Contracts, Loans 320 - Business Investments 330 - Business Opportunities 340- Adult Care Baker Co 345 - Adult Care Union Co 350- Day Care Baker Co 355 - Day Care Union Co 360- Schools & Instruction 380 - Service Directory

400 - General Merchandise 405 - Antiques 410- Arts 8 Crafts 415 - Building Materials 420 - Christmas Trees 425 - Computers/Electronics 430- For Sale or Trade 435 - Fuel Supplies 440- Household Items 445 - Lawns 8 Cardens 450- Miscellaneous 460 - Musical Column 465 - Sporting Goods 470 - Tools 475 - Wanted to Buy 480 - FREEItems

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PREGNANCY ACCEPTANCE GROUP CIRCLE OF FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP of Overeaters (For spouses w/spouses Pre-pregnancy, Anonymous meets who have long term pregnancy, post-partum.

Tuesdays at 7pm terminaI illnesses) 541-786-9755 United Methodist Church Meets 1st Monday of on 16124th St. in the every month at St. SETTLER'S PARK library room in the Lukes/EOMAiN11:30 AM ACTIVITIES basement. $5.00 Catered Lunch 541-786-5535 Must RSVP for lunch 541-523-4242 AL-ANON MEETING (every month) Are you troubled by NARACOTICS Ceramics with Donna someone else's drinkANONYMOUS 9:00 AM — Noon. ing? Al-anon can help.

Goin' Straight Group (Prices from $3- $5) ENTERPRISE Meedn s: ~ 5 ~fH r ~r Mon. — Tues. —Thurs. conference room Fri. & Sat. -8 PM Nail Care 401 NE 1st St, Suite B Episcopal Church 6:00 PM (FREE) PH: ~41-4~2-4 g4 Basement Monday noon.

2177 1st Street TUESDAY NIGHTS Craft Time 6:00 PM Baker City AL-ANON MEETING (Sm.charge for materials) in Elgin.

First Saturday of every Meeting times EVERY WEDNE DAY month at 4 PM 1st & 3rd Wednesday Bible Study, 10:30 AM Pot Luck — Speaker Evenings e6:00 pm Public Bingo; 1:30 PM Meeting Elgin Methodist Church (.25 cents per card) 7th and Birch NARCOTICS EVERY M RNIN ANONYMOUS: AL-ANON (Monday — Friday) Monday, Thursday, & Concerned about Exercise Class; someone else's Friday at Bpm. Episcopal 9:30 AM (FREE) Church 2177 First St., drinking?

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VETERANS OF Northeast OR FOREIGN WARS NARCOTICS Compassion Center, POST 3048 ANONYMOUS 1250 Hughes Ln. MONTHLY MEETING HELP Baker City 2nd Thurs. of the month.

LINE-1-800-766-3724 (541)523-3431 Post & Auxiliary meet at Meetings: 6:30 p.m. VFW Hall, A L-ANON-HELP FO R 8:OOPM:Sunday, Mon2005 Valley Ave., Baker families & friends of al- day, Tuesday, Wednes541-523-4988 coholics .

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Sat.; 10AM — 11AM 24 HOUR HOTLINE Rear Basement En2533 Church St (541)624-5117 trance at 1501 0 Ave. Baker Valley www.oregonaadistnct29.com Church of Christ Serving Baker, Union, Open and Wallowa Counties NEED TO TALKto an AA member one on BAKER COUNTY AA MEETING: Cancer Support Group one? Call our Survior Group.

Meets 3rd Thursday of 24 HOUR HOTLINE Mon., Wed. & Thurs.

541-624-5117 every month at 12:05 pm-1:05 pm. or visit Presbyterian Church, St. Lukes/EOMA im 7 PM Contact: 541-523-4242 www.ore onaadistrict29 1995 4th St.. m (4th & Court Sts.) CHRONIC PAIN Baker City. Open, Support Group No smoking.

Meet Fridays — 12:15 pm AA MEETING: 1207 Dewey Ave. Baker Powder River Group Mon.; 7 PM -8 PM IPT Wellness Connection AA MEETINGS 541-523-9664 Wed.; 7 PM — 8 PM 2614 N. 3rd Street Fri.; 7 PM -8 PM La Grande Grove St. Apts.

NORTHEAST OREGON Corner of Grove & D Sts. MON, VVED, FRI CLASSIFIEDS offers Baker City, Open NOON-1 PM Self Help & Support Nonsmoking TUESDAy Group A n n o unce- Wheel Chair Accessible 7AM-BAM ments at no charge.

TUE, VVED, THU For Baker City call: UNION COUNTY 7PM-BPM Julie — 541-523-3673 AA Meeting SAT, SUN Info.

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620 - FarmEquipment 8 Supplies 630- Feeds 640- Horse, Stock Trailers 650- Horses, Mules, Tack 660 - Livestock 670 - Poultry 675 - Rabbits, Small Animals 680 - Irrigation 690 - Pasture

700 - Rentals 701 - Wanted to Rent 705 - Roommate Wanted 710 - Rooms for Rent 720 - Apartment Rentals 730 - Furnished Apartments 740- Duplex Rentals Baker Co 745 - Duplex Rentals Union Co 750 - Houses for Rent 760 - Commercial Rentals 770- Vacation Rentals 780 - Storage Units

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800 - Real Estate 801 - Wanted to Buy 810 - Condos, Townhouses, Baker Co 815 - Condos,Townhouses,Union Co 820- Houses for Sale, Baker Co 825 - Houses for Sale, Union Co 840- Mobile Homes, Baker Co 845 - Mobile Homes, Union Co 850- Lots 8 Property, Baker Co 855 - Lots & Property, Union Co 860 - Ranches, Farms 870 - Investment Property 880- Commercial Property

900 - Transportation 902 - Aviation 910 - ATVs,Motorcydes, Snowmobiles 915 - Boats 8 Motors 920 - Campers 925 - Motor Homes 930- Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels 940- Utility Trailers

950- Heavy Equipment 960 - Auto Parts 970- Autos for Sale 990 - Four-Wheel Drive

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BROOKSIDE MANOR THE ELMS APARTMENTS APARTMENTS Brookside Manor, Senior and Disabled Housing The Elms Apartments is 541-376-5575 1 bedroom, all utilities currently accepting paid, community room, applications. We have on-site laundry, clean, available 2 bedroom quiet & on the river. apartments in a clean, Rent based on income. attractive, quiet, well-maintained setting.

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Please contact Most utilities are paid, manager's office at with onsite laundry 55 9909 9 or stop t554t 552299-facilities and a by the office at 2920 playground. Income Elm Street, Baker City restrictions apply and for an application.

HUD vouchers are 705 - Roommate accepted. Please Wanted contact manager's office at j5441 ~2- 5IQII or stop HOME TO share, Call by the office at 2920 m e I ets t a Ik . J o Elm Street, Baker City 541-523-0596 ELKHORN VILLAGE for an application.

APARTMENTS Senior an d D i s abled 710- Rooms for This is an equal Housing. Accepting Rent opportunity provider applications for those aged 62 years or older NOTICE All real estate advertised as well as those dishere-in is subject to abled or handicapped the Federal Fair Hous- of any age. Income re- TDD 1-800-545-1833 ing Act, which makes strictions apply. Call Candi: 541-523-6578 it illegal to advertise 725 - Apartment any preference, limitaRentals Union Co. tions or discrimination 2 STUDIOS $380-$450, based on race, color, close to EOU, all utilireligion, sex, handicap, FURNISHED 2-BDRM ties paid 541-910-0811 familial status or naAPARTMENT tional origin, or intenUtilites paid, includes tion to make any such CENTURY 21 internet/cable preferences, l imita- $1200.00. 541-388-8382 PROPERTY tions or discrimination.

MANAGEMENT We will not knowingly UPSTAIRS S T U D IO. accept any advertising New appliances, carL r n R n I . m for real estate which is pet, paint...new everyin violation of this law. t hing .

Go rg e o u s (541)963-1210 All persons are hereby k itchen w / c u s t o m informed that all dwell- cabinets. 750 plus sq. CIMMARON MANOR ings advertised are ft. 10 ft ceilings with Kingsview Apts. available on an equal ceiling fans. Laundry 2 bd, 1 ba. Call Century opportunity basis. on site. W/S/G & lawn 21, Eagle Cap Realty.

EQUAL HOUSING care provided. Adult 541-963-1210 OPPORTUNITY living. Close to park & d owntown .

213 4 Grove St. $ 500/mo CLOSE TO downtown and EOU studio, all plus dep. Discounts utilities p a id no available. No pets, No smoking. Avail. May 1, smoking no pets, coin op laundry, $355/mo, 5 41-519-585 2 or 720 - Apartment p lus $ 3 0 0 de p.

541-519-5762 Rentals Baker Co. 541-910-3696.

1-BDRM, 1 bath, upstairs. Laundry on site. Traveling can be fun CLOSE T O EO U,1 Most utilities paid. when you're driving bdrm, w/s/g pd, no $425/mo. 541-519-6654 a dependable car. smoking/nopets,$375 month, $300 deposit.

See the wide vari541-910-3696. ety of models fea2-BDRM, BATH & 1/4.

W /G pd. Built-in D / W tured in the classi$590.+dep No pets fied section today.

Rentals.com 541-523-9414 PASTURE WANTED!

Summer range, for 150 pair.

bee equipment/sup pliesall types, new or used (hives, boxes, frames, tools, etc.).

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Small bales, No weeds or Rain. Tarped. We load 185./ton, here .

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SUPREME QUALITY grass hay. No rain, barn stored. More info: 541-519-3439

TOP QUALITY 25 ton grass hay for sale.

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660 - Livestock FOR SALE bulls. Angus/salers/optimizers. 2 yr olds & yearlings. bl & red.

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2212 Cove Avenue, *UVE INPAR ADISP' (Income Restrictions Apply) La Grande Professionally Managed Clean & well appointed 1 Beautiful Home. by: GSL Properties & 2 bedroom units in a 2-bdrm,1-bath Located Behind quiet location. Housing in Sumpter.

La Grande Town Center for those of 62 years W/S/G paid. Wood or older, as well as stove & propane. t hose d i s abled o r Private riverside park handicapped of any $500./mo. + dep. age. Rent based on in541-894-2263 come. HUD vouchers accepted. Please call OREGON TRAIL PLAZA 541-963-0906 HIGHLAND VIEW " We accept HUD " TDD 1-800-735-2900 Apartments 1- bdrm mobile home starting at $400/mo.

This institute is an equal 800 N 15th Ave Includes W/S/G opportunity provider Elgin, OR 97827 RV spaces avail. Nice quiet downtown location Now accepting applica541-523-2777 tions f o r f e d e rally funded housing. 1, 2, 1-BDRM, 1-BATH Home and 3 bedroom units 2239 1/2 9th st. w/s/g STUDIO APARTMENTS with rent based on inpaid. $450.00+dep large and spacious come when available.

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Rent based on income.

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Beautifully updated Community Room, featuring a theater room, a pool table, full kitchen and island, and an electric fireplace.

Renovated units!

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25X40 SHOP, gas heat, roll up & walk-in doors, cal businesses and $375. (541)963-4071, restaurants, for more 1-BDRM W/ATTACHED LG. informatio n ca l l garage. Efficient brick home. $500/mo + dep.

509-592-8179 Molly Ragsdale BEAUTY SALON/ Property Management Office space perfect UNION COUNTY Call: 541-519-8444 for one or two operaSenior Living ters 15x18, icludeds 30 FT. self c ontained restroom a n d off Mallard Heights trailer w/ W/D on Pow- street parking.

870 N 15th Ave $500 mo & $250 dep der River. $400/mo.

Elgin, OR 97827 541-910-3696 W/S/G and TV paid.

Propane & electric not Now accepting applicaINDUSTRIAL P R OPtions f o r f e d e rally furnished. Please call ERTY.2 bay shop with (541) 523-5351 o r f unded housing f o r office 541-910-1 442 (541)403-2050 t hose t hat ar e sixty-two years of age NORTHEAST or older, and handi- AVAIL. 4/17. 2-bdrm, 1 PROPERTY capped or disabled of bath. All appliances, W/D MANAGEMENT hookup, gas heat. any age. 1 and 2 bed541-910-0354 room units with rent $650/mo.. 541-519-6654 b ased o n in c o m e HOME SWEET HOME Commercial Rentals when available.

1200 plus sq. ft. profesCute & Warmi sional office space. 4 2 & 3 Bdrm Homes Project phone ¹: offices, reception 541-437-0452 No Smoking/1 small pet area, Ig. conference/ Call Ann Mehaffy TTY: 1(800)735-2900 break area, handicap (541)519-0698 access. Price negotiaEd Moses:(541)519-1 814 "This Institute is an ble per length of equal opportunity lease. pi'ovlder SINGLE WIDE, In Country: Secluded & quiet.

W ater & s ewer pd . OFFICE SPACE approx $450/mo. Please call 700 sq ft, 2 offices, re541-523-1077,evening cept area, break room, 541-523-4464, days. common restrooms, a ll utilitie s pa i d , Nelson Real Estate $500/mo + $450 dep.

740- Duplex Rentals 541-910-3696 Has Rentals Available!

Baker Co. 541-523-6485 2-BDRM, 1 b a th w i t h PRIME COMMERCIAL Q carport; appliances furspace for Rent. 1000 nished. W/S/G & yard sq. ft. plus 250 sq. ft. maintenance included. SUNFIRE REAL Estate loft, office and bathLLC. has Houses, DuNo p e t s / smoking. room, w/s included, $520/mo plus deposit. plexes & Apartments paved parking, located Days: 541-523-0527 for rent. Call Cheryl in Island City. MUST Guzman for listings, Eves: 541-523-5459 SEE! Call 541-963-3496 541-523-7727. after 10am.

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541-562-5411 A FFORDABLE S T U DENT HOUSING. 5 2BD, 1BA house for rent in La Grande Please bd, 5 ba, plus shared kitchen, all utillities call owner, Available paid, no smoking, no now! 541-328-6258 pets, $800/mo & $700 3 BD, 2 ba, pellet stove, dep. 541-910-3696 auxiliary heat, large living area, possible maVERY NICElarge deluxe. ture single dog, $900, Built in 2013. 3 bdrm, (541)910-0354 NE 2 ba, heated garage, Property Mgt. fenced back yard, all appliances included, w/s/g pd. Absolutely 3 BD, gargage, $850/mo N o Smoking & N o 541-963-8079, 2802 N P ets. $ 1 , 0 5 0 / m o . Fir St. La Grande $ 100 0 d ep .

3 BDRM. 2 bath $750, 541-910-3696 w/s/g. No smoking/tobacco no pet s, LARGE 2 bd, 1 ba du- 541-962-0398. plex, w/d included, upstairs unit, off-street 3BD, 1BA, large yard, parking.

B e a u t i f ul shed, $850/mo. No bamboo flooring and smoking or pets. n ew carpeting. w/ s 541-663-6673 paid. $650/mo, $700 deposit. No smoking/ 4 BR 3 Bath, 10 acres pets. 541-786-6058 near Elgin $1,200.00.

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BRAND N E W 2 01 4 , IN THE SHOP FOR SALE NOTICE OF F leetwood D e l u x e 2.8 acres. Water, sewer, SHERIFF'S SALE CIRCUIT COURT double wide home for and electric located on OF THE STATE OF s ale St on e w o o d property on Oregon St. On May 19, 2015, at the OREGON comm. over 1,500 sq. close to Hwy 7„edge hour of 9:00 a.m. at f t. 3 BD, 2 ba, w i t h of town. Heavy industhe B a ke r C o u nty FOR THE COUNTY family room 9 ft ceiltrial property. For more Court House, 1995 OF BAKER ings and more! Selling info call, 541-523-5351 Third Street, B a ker In Probate f or $ 7 4 , 00 0 cal l or 541-403-2050 City, Oregon, the de541-910-5059 for fendant's interest will details. be sold, subject to re- IN THE MATTER OF ) demption, in the real THE ESTATE )

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TONY J. BOYD AKA resentatives at Silven, office listed below. A Low maintenance: 3 Bd, 3.02 acres, $62,000 4 Lots of RV storage 820- Houses For A NTHONY J A S O N Schmeits & Vaughan, prospectus, bid form, 2 ba, mobile home, 208-761-4843 8 OYD; 8 LAC K D I S- Attorneys at Law, P.O. and complete informa41298 Chico Rd, Baker City Sale Baker Co. 24x48 yr. 1998, gas T RIBUTING, I N C . ; Box 965, Baker City, tion concerning the offftttcahonfas heat, air , ca r p o rt, CAM CREDITS, INC., Oregon 97814 within timber, the conditions s pace 1 2 lo c a t e d ROSE RIDGE 2 Subdivi- 2007 NUWA HitchHiker I OTHER PERSONS OR four (4) months after Champagne 37CKRD of sale, and submisCamas C o u r t La Cove, OR. City: PARTIES, i ncluding the date of first publision of bids is available $39,999 Grande. Show by appt. sion, Sewer/Water available. Triple axles, Bigfoot jack O CCUPANTS, U N - cation of this notice, or to the public from the I only. $44,900 cashout KNOWN CLAIMING A PLUS RENTALS Regular price: 1 acre leveling system, 2 new t he claims may b e La Grande Ranger Dislse lllilfl lf• or possible terms.

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CaII 541-910-3696 Blue Book Value 50K!! check, in hand, made torneys for the PerA/C, Forced Air Heat, out to Baker County sonal Representatives. NOTICE OF BUDGET Metal Roof, Vaulted 541-519-1488 e COMMITTEE S heriff's Office. F o r Ceilings, 2 pastures, NICE SOUTHSIDE MEETING more information on Dated and first published 2 wells & Sm. Shop.

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ORS 294.401, that a Behind Armory on East htt://eastore walk-in closet. New Published: April 15, 22, 1934 7t.h on.crai slist.or Ave. LG. 1100 sq. ft. public meeting of the and H Streets. Baker City 29, May 6, 2015 Baker City, OR 97814 /reo/4962112898.html 10x20 shop. Private, Lg. private parking. ReBudget Committee of nicely landscaped back model or use as is. 970- Autos For Sale NOTICE OF BUDGET the Cove School Disyard. $247,900. For an 541-805-9123 Mike A. Morrow COMMITTEE MEETING PO Box 233 trict, Union County, HOME FOR SALE a ppointment to s e e DONATE YOUR CAR, State of Oregon, will Haines, OR 97833 this home or more

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Bloom budget. A copy of the budget document may be inspected or ob- Amount Due: $575.00 as The following days are the time and place of tained on or after May of April 1, 2015 the scheduled addi11, 2015 at Huntington tional Budget CommitSchool District ¹16J, Auction to take place on 1. Full c o lor R e al Es ta te pic tu re a d tee Meetings that will 520 E 3rd St., HuntingWednesday, April 29, be held to take public Start your campaign with a full-color 2x4 ton, OR, between the 2015 at 9:00 AM at A comment and review hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2 Z Storage ¹3, o n picture ad in the Friday Baker City Herald 17th St reet, B a k er budget d o c u ment: 3:00 p.m. T his is a and The Observer Classified Section.

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"ButNorth Powder,Union and Cove haveto look after each other a little bit. I don't know how you go

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about doingit. It's very diPcult."

— Walt Brookshire, owner of the Union Drug Co. and Soda Fountain

fgure out what'sgoing on i with it,"he said.'The more you start looking, the more places you find it."

Kendrick Moholt, a Lostine biologist, said one reason

Spalding's catchfly is listed was because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had very little control of what would happen on private lands from a legal standpoint.

'The majority are still on private land, not federal land, which is different for the West," Moholt said.oWild remnant stuffis usually on public land, but in Wallowa County there is a significant amount of Spalding's catchfly on public and private land, especially the Zumwalt Prairie."

Even though the prairie was once plowed, when it was reverted tocattlegrazing, native plants came back and the noxious weeds didn't take over, Moholt said.

There isn't extensive data on the Spalding's catchfly, but it is definitely on land managers'radars.

In Oregon, Spalding's catchfly is only found in Wallowa County, with much of it documented on the Zumwalt Prairie, where The Nature Conservancy has a 33,000-acre preserve, and in the breaks of the Imnaha and Snake River canyons.

Moholt said the western tip of the range is in Lostine and its southernmost range is around Wallowa Lake. The plant is also found in Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and Montana.

The dataisnew and Jamie McCormack, range conservationist for the U.S. Forest Service's Wallowa Mountains 0$ce, said trends over time aren't known.

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animal population to reach specified numbers.

"It's a rare plantthatis really abundant in certain places,"Taylor said.'When you talk to people around here, they say it's not a rare plant, but these grasslands that we take for granted are hard to find outside of Wallowa County."

Spalding's catchfly thrives in the same soils as wheat.

On the Palouse, wheat farming pushed out the native plant.

"If they hadn't plowed up the Palouse, it wouldn't be Courtesy photo listed,"Taylor said.

RobTaylor, botanist for Moholt said almost 100 The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, percent of Spalding's catchfly is gone from the Palouse,exis on a technical committee for Spalding's catchfly. cept along a few edges where ground wasn't farmed.

'One thingin particular that In Wallowa County where makes ithard to track over cattle grazing is the main time, even thoughit's aperen- use of the land, not dryland nial,is it doesn'talways come wheat farming, Spalding's catchfly appears to be up everyyear,"Taylor said.

Moholt said some botanists thriving. The other two big believe it blooms on a threeareas are around Asotin, Washington, and in northern year cycle. This limits the botanists' abilityto geta good Montana.

Moholt said the plant apcount on how many plants thereare;thetriggerto delist pears to be compatible with responsible grazing. any species from the federal "Even light grazing in threatened and endangered spring doesn'thurtreproducspecies list is for the plant or

Continued from Page 1B lands remain in agriculture and protect the nation's critical wetlands and grasslands.

"NRCS helps farmers, ranchers, private forest landowners and partners to achieve their conservation goals using our technical expertise, Farm Bill funding and sound conservation planning," said Ron Alvarado, Oregon State Conservationist."Conservation easements are an important tool to help these landowners and partners voluntarily provide long-term protection of our nation's farmland, ranchland, wetlands and grasslands for future generations."

Agricultural land easements not only protect the long-term viability of the nation's food supply by preventing conversion of productive working lands

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Take the time to find out and compare how the company is performing versus the competition. What arethekey difFerentiators?

Are they understood within the company and are the differences being communicated regularly to clients and

prospects?

W hat has changed with the competition in the last three months? What are they doing better or worse? What strategiesare theyusing to grow their business?

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Spalding's catchfly, while abundant in Wallowa County, has been mostly extirpated by dryland wheat farming on the Palouse of southeastern Washington.

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to non-agricultural uses, but they also support environmental quality, historic preservation, wildlife habitat and protection of open spaces.

American Indian tribes, state and localgovernments and non-governmental organizations that have farmland or grassland protection programs are eligible to partner with the Conservation Service to purchase conservation easements. A key change under the new agricultural land easement component is the new"grasslands of special environmental significance" that will protect high-quality grasslands under threat of conversion to cropping, urban development and other non-grazing uses.

Wetland reserve easements allow landowners to successfully enhance and protect habitat for wildlife on their lands, reduce impacts from flooding, recharge groundwater and provide

What can be adapted or adopted from the competition that can be applied to how your company operates?

Fourth, review your own calendar for the last three months. How much time is spent riding your desk and ruling the business versus investing time with clients, prospects, employees, vendors and other business associates?

The more time spent with clients and prospects and the people in the company that generate revenue, the more revenue the business will galn.

Strengthening existing relationships both internally

tion," Moholt said.

Moholt said Spalding's catchfly blooms from late July to September and can be seen on the east moraine of WallowaLake,around Old

Chief Joseph's gravesite by the foot of Wallowa Lake and on the 60-plus acre Iwetemlaykin State Park.

Though endangered plant species have little efFect on private landowners, they do afFect the management of federally managed public lands. An endangered species can trigger a more thorough level of scrutiny when a management plan is written.

In the case of the Lower Imnaha RangeAnalysis,a plan to manage public grazing allotments, the presence

ofSpalding'scatchfl y added more time to the analysis as information on the threatened species was gathered.

"We know less about distribution in the canyons because there is no historical reference conditions, but we do know the impacts that convert certain pieces ofhabitat and expect a corresponding effect to that environment," said Jerry HustufFa, botanist for the Wallowa Mountains 0$ce.

outdoor recreational and educational opportunities. The Conservation Service provides technical and financial assistance directly to private and tribal landowners to restore, protect and enhancewetlands through the purchase of these easements. Eligible landowners can choose to enroll in a permanent or 30-yeareasement;triballandowners also have the option of enrolling in 340year contracts.

The 2014 Farm Bill consolidated three previous conservation easement programs into one to make it easier for diverse agricultural landowners to fully benefit from conservation initiatives.

The Conservation Service easement programs have been a critical tool in recent years for advancing landscapescale private lands conservation.

To learn more about and other technical and financial assistance, visit wwwornrcs.usda.gov.

and externally helps.

Creating new relationships is how your future is established.

As an employee, I know from firsthand experience how impactful spending time with the owner can be. It's a chance to listen, to learn and to understand what is important to the employee.

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Walt Brookshire, owner of the Union Drug Co and Soda Fountain, gets to work behind the counter in the pharmacy area of his store.

UNION Conti nued from Page 1B because ifhe bough a commercial, those who live in Union and commute to La Grande are going to hear the commercial while traveling and are more likely to stop in at Safeway, rather than travel into Union and purchase the product at his store.

'They come home and drive the 15 miles after they've worked all day, are they going to stop in the store?" Brookshire said. oHow can I get those customers to be my customers?

The town of 2,000 is down to 1,200 during the day, and that's the way it stays all

boat. They're all small communities with a less than diverse business identity.

Elgin has the sawmill. La Grande has the diversity of businesses.

"But North Powder, Union and Cove have to look after each other a little bit," he said."I don't know how you go about doing it.

It's very difftcult."

Business did go up when gas prices went up, though,

he said.

"I got a lot of new customers coming in because they weren't willing to travel back into La Grande,"he saId.

"(Business) keeps getting a little better. It's steady. I don't advertise a lot. I don't need to because it doesn't

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help."

He defended Union, though, and said the community may want to be more loyal to its own, but it's a difftcult situation for them, as well as the business owners.

"I try to give exceptional customerservicesothatit's worth their effort, but it's still a very uphill battle," he said."I've worked very diligently to recruit businesses."

Brookshire said the cities of Union, North Powder and Cove are in the same

Brookshire said the addition of the soda fountain has helped business. Duringthesummer months when the tourists come through, he'll open up on Sundays.

"I hate to disappoint people who come into town and see (the soda fountain) closed,"he said.

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Sexually active women must be vigilant about protection DEARABBY: I recently bought a new DEARABBYrI'm writing to warn as many otheryoung women asI can aboutthedangers cellphoneand was assigned a number by ofunprotected sex I thoughtI had met the the company that sold it to me. I have been man ofmy dreamsIknew from the beginning receiving calls and messages for the person he had a girlfriend in his hometown, but he who had the number before it was given to assured me he was breaking it off soI didn't me. While the number of the person callthink twm about starting a relationship. ing or texting comes up, I do not know the Well, shemoved here and found outabout numbersofallmy friends and associates,so us.He swore to m ethattherewas no one I have been accepting the calls or texts else besides her and me. We At first, Iwould let the have now discovered a third caller or texter know that the girl — his roommate — with person hefshe was trying whom he was involved.

ABBY tor each lono ngerhad this Abby, he used no protection number. However, it takes with any of us. He swore to us up my expensive minutes to all that he always used it and was regularly make those repliea Am I under any obligatested for STDs. Another lie. tion to contact thesefolks,orcan Ijustignore Now his former girlfriend thinks she may their contacts~ — POLITE INPENNSYLVANIA have picked up an STD from him, and we DEAR POLITE: No rule of etiquette all have to be tested to ensure we don't have "compels"you to respond to these callers and OlÃ.

Inow know you can'ttrustanythingyou're texters, so consider yourself ofFthe hook. being told unless there's proof. Go with the DEARABBY: I have a suggestion for guy to get tested and demand to be there for the results. If you suspect (or know) he's see- your readers. When you attend a funeral or ing someone else,always useprotection and a wake,ormeeta friend orrelativewho has insist he be tested regularly. been recently widowed, don't say, "If there is Allthreeofuscould have saved our anything I can dojust ask." Call the person hearts, our bodies and a lot of turmoil if we in the near future and invite him or her to hadn't been so trusting. This has left a lastdinner with you. It doesn't have to be a steak ing impression, and now we wonder whether dinner or anything fancy. A home-cooked pot we will be able to trust another man again. roast would be wonderfuL — AWAITING THE RESULTS Of all my friends, only one has done this DEARAWAITING: Your "boyfriend"was several times. The phone rings and he'll say, "We're having spaghetti tonight. Would you dishonest and irresponsible. You can't be blamed for feeling bitter. Now might be a like to come over? Well throw in another good time to re-evaluate whether premarital meatball."I get so tired ofgoing out alone to sex is worth the headache and the heartache. eat, or settling for a sandwich.

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When Ian Nelson agreed to his wife's plan to live in a converted school bus with their four kids, he negotiated a caveat — ifhe did not like it after a year, the family would move out.

He endedup lovinglifein the confines ofthebus,andthey stayed there for more than a year,butnow the familyis back to livingin ahouse. Nelson's job as an emergency medical technician for JefFerson County Emergency Medical Services requireshim to live near his stationin Madras.

He and Nina Nelson,his wife,hadnoluck fi ndinga spot to parkthe bus, so last July theymovedinto arentalhouse.

The shiR from a 294-squarefootbus toa 1,200-square-foot house was a dramatic one.

"It was just so big," Nina Nelson said."We were like, 'We don't need all this space.

It is so massive."'

Ian Nelson,33, and Nina Nelson,30, lived in the bus with their children, Isaac, 10, Eva, 7, Ella, 6, and Isaiah, 5, for about 13 months."I loved the closeness ofit," Nina Nelson said."We definitely did a lot more things together in it."

The couple andtheir kids have fond memories of their time in thebus andplan to make more, albeit on the road andnotin one spot. Theystill have the bus — which they called the'HomeSchool-Bus," becauseitservedas theirhome andit's where Nina Nelson taught the kids — andhope to travelinit thisyear. Ian Nelson

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lan and Nina Nelson stand with their children Isaac, from left, Eva, Ella and Isaiah in front of their home in Madras on Monday. The Nelson family recently moved out of their converted school bus after living out of it for about a year. said the firstroadtrip maybe in June to his firmilyreunion in WallaWalla, Washington.

A 1995Thomas, the bus' diesel engine still runs well.

The Nelsons said theyplan to fix up the outside of the bus before setting out in it. The previous owner of the bus converted it into an RVby taking out the windows and installing a patchwork of panels

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an Idaho man. Following the Nelsons'initial remodel, which included pulling out brown shag carpet, the family moved into the bus in June 2013.Around Christmas that year they finished building kitchen and bathroom spaces.

The bus hadbeen parked next to Nina Nelson's parents' home on a large herb farm south of Culver, so they could cook and use the bathroom there while the amenities in the bus were in the works. In all, the bus and remodel cost

"It is kind of a Frankenbus' exterior," Ian Nelson said.

The Nelsons plan to paint the bus,perhaps blue or white.

"Basically, we just need to make it so it is not so ugly anymore and take it on the road," Nina Nelson said.

Tryingtofi nd waysto make life less cluttered and incur less debt, Nina Nelson was inspired by tales of tiny homes. Some of the stories

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