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• Departure of Pat Lang creates another vacancy on Union City Council By Mike Shearer Correspondent
The Union City Cmmcil voted to accept the resignation oflong-tenn cmmcilor Pat Lang on Monday. The cmmcil already had one vacancy, which was advertised but had no applicants. The city vrill elect three councilors in November. The mayor's position is also up for election. Lang said, "I've worked hard to get the communication between the schools and the council back to a good level," and she urged the remaining councilors to continue that precedent. City Administrator Sandra Patterson said packets for those seeking election Nov. 6 would be prepared July 1 to be due Aug. 30. Union city councilors on Monday unanimously adopted a $2.8 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The budget had been worked out over a series of meetings of a committee of citizens and councilors over the past two months. See Union I Page 6A
Bosnian pine will take root on Opera House lawn • Tree planting will launch Riverfest By Dick Mason The Observer
Memories of a beloved towering evergreen that stood on the lawn in front of the Elgin Opera House for decades will be rekindled Friday morning. A 12-foot Bosnian pine will be planted on the north side of the Elgin Opera House's front lawn during a 9 a.m. ceremony. The tree planting will mark the start of the annual Elgin Riverfest celebration that mns through Saturday. The new tree is also meant to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Elgin Opera House. The opera house's centennial will be fonnally celebrated Sept. 22. The most famous tree in the opera house's history may have been an evergreen See Tree I Page 6A
• Senator blocks extension of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire this year By Andrew Clevenger WesCom Nevvs Serv1ce
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Sean Chambers, left, Union County's Mount Emily Recreation Area coordinator, was the leader of an afternoon-long tour of the area for cou nty officials Tuesday. Pictured with Chambers are County Commissioner Mark Davidson and Planning Director Hanley Jenkins.
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'A lot more's been done up here than you realize' By BILL RAUTENSTRAUCH The Observer
A group of Union County officials fired up all-terrain vehicles and went exploring Tuesday, riding the mgged trails of the Mount Emily Recreation Area and taking in some spectacular sights along the way. Led by MERA Coordinator Sean Chambers, the group including county Commissioners Bill Rosholt, Mark Davidson and Steve McClure took off from the MEMs Fox Hill Road trailhead and stayed gone most of the afternoon. They climbed trails to the top of the mountain, experienced sprawling views from the ridge tops and checked out recent improvements done by volunteers and county workers. When the tour ended, McClure, for one, expressed satisfaction with MEMs progress. "A lot more's been done up here than you realize," he said. Union County bought the 3, 700-acre prope1ty from Forest Capital Partners in 2008 and made it into a multi-use recreation area open to all. Now in it its fourth year as a public facility, MERA offers a wide range of motorized and non-motorized, off-highway recreational opportunities. It's
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Union County Adm inistrat ive Officer Shelley Burgess pilots her ATV around a curve during Tuesday's tour of the Mount Em ily Recreat ion Area.
a popular destination for ATV and motorcycle riders, mountain bikers, hikers, berry pickers and more. First stop on Tuesday's tour was the ATV training course being built near the Fox Hill trailhead. Chambers said construction of the course started two weeks ago on a site that was fonnerly a campground for Boy Scouts and other groups. "Already it's pretty flat and level, not too bumpy. We11 try this for awhile and improve it as we go along," he said.
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Funded by an Oregon Parks and Recreation Depa:Iiment grant, the course will be used to teach youngsters 16 and younger about off-road ATV and motorcycle riding. A little further on, the tour stopped at Onion Flats, where Chambers talked about a grantfunded cultural resources study that is nearing completion on the MERA. The area-wide study, identifying places of historical significance, is a requirement of the state. See MERA I Page 6A
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announood Monday that he V~-ill block the extension oflegislation that gives the government authority to intercept communications of suspected foreign agents because Congress has not received sufficient infonnation to know whether it is working as intended. By placing a hold on the FISA (short for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Amendments Act, Wyden prevents Senate passage of the five-year extension via a unanimous consent agreement. A senior member of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Wyden has repeatedly expressed concern over the growing body of secret law in the wake of the Patriot Act. ''The purpose of this 2008legislation was to give the government new authorities to collect the communications of people who are believed to be foreigners outside the United States, while still preserving the privacy of people inside the United States," Wyden wrote in a statement explaining his hold "Before Congress votes to renew these authorities, it is important to understand how they are working in practice. In particular, it is important for Congress to better understand how many people inside the United States have had their communications collected or reviewed under the authorities granted by the FISA Amendments Act," he said. Originally approved in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, authorizes the government's covert surveillance of foreign agents and entities. After revelations that the government was conducting widespread warrantless domestic wiretapping, Congress in 2008 passed the FISAAmendments Act, which clarified the circumstances and authority surrounding the government's intelligence gathering that includes monitoring phone and electronic communications. The FISA Amendments Act is set to expire in December. The current reauthorization bill would extend it until June 1, 2017. Last year, Wyden and fellow Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo ., asked the director of national intelligence to clarifY how many American citizens have had their communications reviewed under FISA. They were told it was "not reasonably possible to identify the number of people" and that the government's interpretation of parts of the Patriot Act and FISA is classified. "It is possible that this nun1ber could See Wyden I Page 7A
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All Breed Horse Show set for Saturday The 24th arumal Eastern Oregon All Breed Horse Show series begins Saturday at Mavericks Arena in La Grande. The office opens at
7:15 a.m. and the show starts at 8:30 a.m. A second show is scheduled for Aug. 25. For more information , call Sandy Henry at 541-963-9432. Spectators are welcome.
South County Health board meets The South County Health District board will meet at 6:30p.m. Wednesday in the conference room ofUnion Family Health Center. A
budget hearing will be held at that time. The public is welcome to attend.
Ukulele group sponsors jam session Java Jam will run from 4
tn 5:30p.m.Thursday at Joe Bean's on Adams Avenue, two doors from Max Square in La Grande. People of all skill levels are invited to bring their ukuleles and some songs to share with the group.
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DAILY PLANNER TODAY Today is Wednesday, June 13, the 165th day of 2012. There are 201 days left in the year. In history: On June 13, 1942, the first oftwo tourman Nazi sabotage teams arrived in the United States duringWorldWar II. The first group disembarked from a U-boat off Long Island, N.Y.; the second one arrived several days later on the Florida coast. (The eight were arrested after one of them went to U.S. authorities; six of the saboteurs were executed.)
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ENTERPRISE Jonathan Eischen of New York, a World Peace Fellow of Rotary International, will describe his international work toward peace in a talk at Fishtrap's Coffin House at 7 p.m. Tuesday. His visit, part of a tour throughout the Northwest, is sponsored by the Rotary Club ofWallowa County. Rotary Intemational has adopted world peace as an official goal. The
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MARKETS Wall Street at noon: • Dow Jones average Down 16 at 12,558 Broader stock indicators: • S&P 500 Index - Down 3 at 1,321 •Tech-heavy Nasdaq co mposite index - Down 2 at 2,841 • NYSE- Down 14 at 7.544 • Ru ssell - Down 2 at 759 Gold and silver: • Gold - Up $3 at $1,612.80 • Silver - Down 13 cents at $28.84
LA GRANDE POLICE Larceny: A man in th e 1100 block of Spring Avenue requested officer contact Monday regarding theft. An officer made contact and took a report. Cited: Natasha La rae Ramberg, 22, La Grande, was cited in lieu of custody Monday on a charge of child neglect in the second degree. Suspicious circumstances: A woman on Monday reported seeing a large fl ame at an address in the 1100 block of Willow Street. Dispatch determined the flame was a burn-off from Am erigas. Arrested: Travis Vann, 18, La Grande, w as arrested Monday on a Uni on County probation revocatio n warrant. Vann w as arrest ed and lodg ed in the Union Cou nty j ail after turning him self in. Safety hazard: Dispatch received an anonymous report Monday about a shotgun laying unattended on a table outside of an apartment at 301 Jefferson Ave. The responding office r was unabl e to locate the shotgun's owner. The shotgun w as impounded fo r safety. Disturbance: A man on Monday reported a disturbance on Second Street near th e
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Man blamed dog for arson LILLY, Pa. (AP) - Awestem Pem1sylvania man who blamed his dog for causing an apartment fire has been jailed on charges that he set the blaze himself The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown rep01ts Wednesday that C'resson Township police have charged 58-yearold John Saparo with setting the July 12 fire, though police have yet to specify how. Saparo remains in jail awaiting a hearing.
Extensive maintenance and reconstruction work on the portion of Idaho Power's 230-kilovolt line between La Grande to Baker City is now under way. Idaho Power crews will continue working on this segment of the line through the end of the month. The work is being done to ensure reliability and to meet a new mandate fi'Om the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, according to an Idaho Power news release.
The project is part ofone that encompasses Idaho Power's entire service area in Oregon and Idaho.Work that is being done in Eastem Oregon includes replacing or upgrading the line's "Hframe" structures. Prior to the start of the work, Idaho Power sent letters to propeity owners upon whose land the work will be done and line crews drilled holes. Existing roads will be used to access power lines whenever possible and some roads may require improvements.
railroad tracks. Officers and a Union County Sheriff's deputy responded and two people were cited. Cited: Christopher Michael Vivona,18, Bakersfield, Calif., was citedTuesday on a charge of criminal trespass in the first degree. Cited: Travis Dean Kelly, 20, Boise, Idaho, was cited Tuesday on a charge of criminal trespass in the first degree. Larceny: A woman in th e 900 block of B Avenue requested offi cer contact Wednesday regardi ng theft of a bicycle. An officer responded and took a report. Trespass: Union Pacific RailroadTuesday reported kids have been vandalizing trains and trespassing on the property. An officer checked t he area and will provide extra patrol. Disturbance: Officers responded to a report of a disturbanceTuesday at an address in the 300 block of Jefferson Avenue.The disturbance w as verbal only. A short time later, officers responded to another report of a disturbance at the same address and t he subjects w ere again advised to keep the noise down. Agency assist: Officers assisted a medica l crew with a ca iiTuesday in the 800 block of Miller Lane.
LA GRANDE FIRE &AMBULANCE La Grande Fire and Ambulance responded to eight medical calls Monday and 11 medical calls Tuesday.
LA GRANDE RURAL FIRE Suspicious odor: On Monday at about 12:09 a.m., a crew responded to the Flying J truck stop for a suspicious odor coming from a semi -trail er. Th e odor was caused by a hot brake. Mutual aid: On Sunday at about 12:29 p.m., a tender was dispatched to assist North Powder Fire with a train locomotive th at w as on fire. They w ere canceled prior to arrival. Medical assist: On Tuesday at about 3:50p.m., a crew responded to assist Medic IV.
UNION COUNTY SHERIFF Crash: A citizen on Monday reported a non-injury m otor vehicle crash on State Highway 82 at mil e post 18, n ear Elgin. The report was logged fo r information. Trespass: A m an at an address on Palmer Junction Road near Elgin Monday reported so m eone shootin g on his property. The report wa s logged fo r informatio n and a
deputy was advised. Suspicious circumstances: A m an on Monday repo rted hearing what sounded like a gunshot in t he area of North 12th Avenue and Evanston Street in Elgin. A deputy responded and will follow up. Arrested: John Robert Wagner, 27. address unavailable, was arrested in Lane County Monday on a Union County warrant charging parole violation. Disturbance: A woman at an address on West Road Monday reported a disturban ce. A deputy responded and the situation was resolved . Burglary: A w oman in the 1300 block of Seventh Street requested officer contact Monday regarding a burglary to her garage that occurred sometime in the last two days. An officer m ade co ntact and will follow up. Larceny: A man at an address o n G St reet in Island City requ ested deputy contact M onday regarding a possible th eft. A deputy was advised and follow-up will be done. Arrested: Taras Vl odimorovic, 27, ad dress unavailable, was arrested Monday at the Snoh om ish Co unty, Wash. , jail on a Union County warrant charging probation violation. The original charge w as manufacture/delivery of a counterfeit
Schedule II substance. Traffic hazard: A cit izen on Tuesday reported a stop sign leaning at East Fourth Street and South Sterling Street in Island City. Island City Public Works was notified. Burglary: A man in t he 1000 block of Alder Street in Elg in flagged down a deputy Tuesday to report a burglary. Follow-up will be done. Arrested: Crystal Lynn Hutchings, 32, Un ion, w as arrestedTuesday on a charg e of assault in t he fourth degree/ domestic.
WALLOWA COUNTY SHERIFF No incidents to report.
ENTERPRISE POLICE No incide nts to report.
OREGON STATE POLICE No report available. Information for the record is obtained from police departments and other public agency logs. Persons charged with crimes are presumed innocent until pleading guilty or proven guilty in a court of law. Those who appear in this column who have had charges dropped or have questions about information contained in the record should call The Observer at 541-963-3161.
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Dinner with Alley benefits GOP The Union County and Umatilla CDunty Republicans are sponsoring a fundraising dinner with special guest speaker, businessman and furmer gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30p.m. Friday at Westminster Woods (next to Emigrant State Park (I-84, exit234). The cost for the familyfriendly event will be $6 per person fur hot dogs or hamburgers or $7.50 for smoked barbecue beef(all-you-can-eat meal). Proceeds will benefit the local county central committees. For more infurmation or to RSVP, call Greg Barreto at 541-910-5246 or Chris Barreto at 541-910-5247.
Rockwall Grange hosts dance A dance is being held at Rockwall Grange Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. No Boundaries, from Enterprise, is providing music. The group
plays old-time rock and roll, country and gospel. Simple treats and drinks will be available. The cost is $5 per adult and free for children. Find the hall by following the Middle Road signs starting at Tollgate Highway next to the log yard to the hall about 11/2 miles north on that road. There will be a sign.
Alzheimer's and Dementia Education and Empov;erment Series Hosted by Wildflower Lodge Assisted Living and Memory Care Community
ReseiVe a spot for blood drive The next La Grande community blood drive will run fimn noon to 6 p.m. June 28 at The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gym, 1802 Gekeler Lane. To schedule an appointment, call C'A>lleen Langford at 541-562-5055. Identification is required to donate blood. Those who donate blood will be entered to win a $500 airline or hotel gift certificate. For more information, visit redcrossblood.org/sunnnerfun. More briefing on Page SA
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Fixing America's finances The Los Angeles Times:
Federal Reserve Chainnan Ben S. Bernanke mplored lawmakers last week to keep the federal government from driving off a "fiscal cliff''- a phrase he coined earlier this year to describe the hefty spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect simultaneously in January. But he was talking to the wrong audience. The two men he should have been lobbying are the ones running for president. Bernanke's remarks came amid a global economic slowdown, with Europe, Asia and China in azying degrees of decline. In the U.S., employment and economic growth have been sluggish since last year's surge, repeating the up-and-down pattern of the first two years of President Obama's administration. YET CORPORATE PROFITS HAVE BEEN RISING for two years, and companies are sitting on cash hoards worth more than $1.5 trillion. Corporate America has the wherewithal to hire and expand, but not the willingness to put the money at risk. Democrats and Republicans can't seem to agree on the cause of the problem, let alone the solution, so neither side's proposals are going anyv;here. Worse, lawmakers have planted a tax and spending time bomb that's set to go offin 2013. Tax cuts worth about $600 billion annually are slated to expire at the end of this year, and more than $100 billion in spending cuts go into effect on Jan. 1. These changes may reduce the federal deficit, but they're also likely to trigger a new recession. The mere existence of such a fiscal cliff may be harming the economy by making consumers and businesses unduly cautious about spending. Throw in the prospect of another debt-ceiling stalemate on Capitol Hill early next year and it's easy to understand why people would be nervous. WE'RE IN TillS MESS because Washington repeatedly put off addressing the deficit and debt problems amid the downturn. Even though sudden, across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts would have a disastrous effect on the economy, the longer the government waits to create a balanced budget, the harder the problem will be to solve. Lawmakers recognize that, and some are trying to build consensus for a proposal to overhaul the tax code, slow the growth in Medicare and other costly entitlements, and roll back discretionary spending. That's the right way to address the fiscal cliff, even if it means more deficit spending in the short run. Unfortunately, the gang's effort has little chance of succeeding in an election year. As long as most Republicans dig in their heels against any increase in taxes and Democrats demand higher rates on the rich, there's no middle ground. That's why Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, should make the fiscal cliffthe centerpiece of their campaigns. Rather than a referendum on the past, they should turn the election into a question about the very near future.
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What is college education worth? Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because "quality" is not synonymous with "value." Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University ofTeimessee law professor, believes that college has become, for many, merely a "status marker," signaling membership in the educated caste, and a place to meet spouses of similar status "associative mating." Since 1961, the time students spend reading, writing and otherwise studying has fallen from 24 hours a week to about 15 - enough for a degree often desired only as an expensive signifier of rudimentary qualities (e.g., the ability to follow instructions). Employers value tlris signifier as an alternative to aptitude tests when evaluating potential employees because such tests can provoke lawsuits by having a "disparate impact" on this or that racial or ethnic group. In lris "The Higher Education Bubble," Reynolds writes that this bubble exists for the same reasons the
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housing bubble did. The government decided that too few people owned homes/went to college, so government money was poured into subsidized and sometimes subprime mortgages/student loans, with the predictable result that housing prices/college tuitions soared and many borrowers went bust. TUITIONS AND FEES HAVE RISEN more than 440 percent in 30 years as schools happily raised prices - and lowered standards - to siphon up federal money. A recent Wall Street Jomnal headline: "Student Debt Rises by 8%as College Tuitions Climb." Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economist, writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that as many people - perhaps more - have student loan debts as have college degrees. Twenty-nine percent of borrowers never graduate, and many who do
graduate take decades to repay tlteir loans. In 2010, the New York Times reported on Cortney Munna, then 26, a New York University graduate with almost $100,000 in debt. Ifherrepayments were not then being deferred because she was enrolled in night school, she would have been paying $700 monthly from her $2,300 monthly after-tax income as a photographer's assistant. The budgets of California's universities are being cut, so recently Cal State Northridge students conducted an almost-hunger strike to protest, as usual, tuition increases and, unusually and properly, administrators' salaries. By 2006, academic administrators outnumbered faculty. So taxpayers should pay more and parents and students should borrow more to fund administrative sprawl in the service of stale political agendas? Perhaps they will, until "pop!" goes the bubble. Contact George Will at georgewill@washpost.com
Your views More logging not sustainable To the Editor: I read your recent commentary regarding forest management in Northeast Oregon, including the call for "more logging in counties where it is critical to the local economy." Senator Merkley was quoted promoting a sustainable harvest plan. Great ideas, but are they compatible? I recently talked with a financial manager for a major westside timber compan}~ He's the son of a mill owner in the Spokane area, so he understands dry forests. He believes sustainable management under modern industrial forestry is impossible in our chy-side forests. Capital costs are too high to merit the meager returns. Maybe he's wrong and there is a sustainable level of harvest. However,
the history oflocal forest management suggests we still don't know what that might be. Management for the last 50 years has targeted big trees, 200 to 400 years old, of the most fire- and disease-resistant species, ponderosa pine and western larch. Past harvest and fire suppression has left us with mostly over-stocked stands ofprecommercial-sized trees with a high percentage of drought,intolerant species like Douglas fir, and poor commercial species like grand fir and lodgepole pine. This is a recipe fur wildfire and insect and disease outbreak, not the basis of a healthy and sustainable timber economy. If there's any hope for the future of a sustainable timber industry in Northeast Oregon, what the forest
needs now is investment, not harvest. This means spending money for controlled burns, precommercial thinning and sales of small diameter trees for firewood or biomass. This is not "logging"in the historical sense and will not make money on its own. If political pressure pushes the U.S. Forest Service to increase commercial logging, as The Observer and many of our local leaders are demanding, it will not be sustainable. It will quickly take the last of any remaining timber value leaving us worse offin a few years. Instead, our leaders need to be advocating investment in our timber resources.Any other policy would be irresponsible. David Felley
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Riki Anderson, 42, of NorthPowder,diedJune 12 at Grande Ronde Hospital. Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center is in charge of the arrangements.
Father Daniel Ochiabuto Formerly of La Grande 1973-2012
Father Daniel Ochiabuto, 38, of Nyssa and formerly of La Grande, died June 1 in Nigeria in a motor vehicle accident. A memorial Ochiabuto Mass for Father Ochiabuto will be said at 7 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church in La Grande. Father Ochiabuto was born June 25, 1973, in Umuahia, Nigeria. He attended Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu, Nigeria, from 1998 to 2002 and the Seat ofWisdom Seminary in Owerri, Nigeria, from 2003 to 2007. He was ordained to the priesthood on
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Formerly of North Powder 1919-2012
June 14- Father Daniel Ochiabuto, memorial Mass, 7 p.m., Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church, La Grande June 16 - Jimmy Stone, memorial service, 1 p.m., First Baptist Church, La Grande
July 28, 2007, and arrived in the Diocese of Baker, which is comprised of Eastern and Central Oregon, in 2009. Ochiabuto became associate pastor ofOur Lady of the Valley Catholic Church in Novemberof2009. In January of 2011, he became pastor at St. Bridget of Kildare Church in Nyssa. Father Ochiabuto became ill in March and went home to Nigeria in April. He was struck by a passing vehicle while in Nigeria and killed. Father Ochiabuto was a member of the Sons of Mary Mother of Mercy congregation.
Clayton Alvin Davis, 93, of Seattle and formerly of North Powder, diedApril21 in Seattle. He was the second child of five born to Davis Edward Alvin and Henrietta Clementine "Hattie" Myeis Davis on Feb. 4, 1919, at the family ranch west of North Powder. He is the descendant of his grandparents, John S. and Susan Dealy Davis, who homesteaded the family ranch in North Powder in 1872, and Sam and Anna Haynes Meyers of Union County. Clayton grew up in North Powder and attended school in North Powder until the ninth grade when he quit school and went to work to help support the family. Clayton met Marie Miller of Eastern Idaho in North Powder, where her father worked for tl1e Union Pacific Rail Road. Clayton worked for the Rail Road for about a year. Clayton and Marie were married in 1939 in Weiser,
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New archery club meets for first time The first meeting for a new 4-H archery club will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday at Alpine Archery. The club is fur kids in the fourth grade through seniors in high school For more infonnation, call Thmmy at 541-786-3361.
Senior center hosts community dance A community dance at Union County Senior Center
will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $3 for singles and $5 for couples. Included will be a potluck and prize drawings. Attendees are asked to bring a favorite dish.
Rotary Club organizes clean-up day The Rotary Club ofWallowa County is organizing a community clean-up day Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Old tires, paint, electronics and certain otlter items may be dropped
off at the Recycling Center on Fish Hatchery Lane in Enterprise. Accepted will be clean tires off rims, cans oflatex paint, non-leaking automotive batteries, printer toner and ink cartridges, cell phones, computers, computer towers, keyboards, laptops and monitors.The county landfill usually accepts tires, but charges fur them. For infonnation, contact Jolene Cox at jcox@beobank. com or 541-426-4205.
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rass-fed beef is all the rage these days. Everyone, it seems, wants to eat in such a way as to delay the heart attack until at least after dessert. I was in on the ground floor of the grass-fed beef movement. The genesis. Our county 4-H fair was held in the middle of Eugene, a city of 100,000 in those days, if you included a few runaway steers tromping through the gladiolas. My steer, however, was one ofthe tame ones. I had trained him well by holding the rope and water skiing behind him. Well, I was water skiing when we ran through the creek and grass skiing when we ran through the pasture. We'd race from one side of the valley to the other and back again until he got tired and decided to eat more grass. By fair time, my steer was tamed down a bit. He was willing to stand still, ve:ry still, during showmanship and market classes. I would be standing holding a 1,200-pound steer at the end of a lead. I wasn't moving because the steer was nonnally standing on my foot. New Lego Mini 1s!
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The physical pain took away the emotional pain of being 13th in a line of 13. The top steers were grain fed, well marbled and led by children in suits and ties. My steer was skinny as an anorexic rail, a lean, mean, beef-making machine. I wore my Sunday best cotton shirt, blue jeans and what was left on my boots.
Frugal, not cheap The grass-fEd beefdidn't originate because our ranch was cheap. We were just frugal. And through our frugality we didn't finish the steers with much grain but mostly kept them on a pure grass diet. It was that way with all our cows. They seemed to enjoy just hanging out in the pasture eating. Happy cows make better beef Several years later, city folks began discovering the wonders of grass-fed beef They would take a drive into the country and admire our
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beef with 8 percent body fat that if they turned sideways would pretty much disappear. The city folks began to order a quarter ofbeefhere, a half of beef there. And they paid a premium for meat that had cost us less to produce. We liked that business formula for sure. It would allow us to get new boots to replace the ones the steer had stood on. Today ·with fast fuod joints on eve:ry comer, and people eating enough starch to make their clothes stand up without a body in it, a few brave folks are resisting and opting for lean beef My family, fur one, is happy about the trend, at least my cousin and uncle, who are the only two left still involved in the beefindustry. rm happy too. I1l opt for grass-fed beef and keep my arteries free and clear, so I can have more Oreos. No one's perfect. Reach the author at }petersen@ lagrandeobserver:com.
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Idaho. Clayton and Marie moved to Walla Walla, where he followed the wheat harvest in the Palouse area. In 1942, while working at Boeing, Clayton was drafted into the U. S. Anny Air Corp, and was stationed in Honolulu and served during World War II. He was discharged in 1945. Clayton owned and operated Richfield Gas Station in Seattle and his brothe1; Kenneth, worked for him. Clayton worked as a mechanic and in later years worked as a heavy equipment operator in the construction field until his retirement. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marie in 1985; his father, Edward in 1964; his mother, Hattie Pearson in 1983; his sisters, Susie Cecilia and her husband, Owen Gorhan1, Ida Joyce and her husband, William Tippett, and Jacqueline and her husband, Louis April; brother, Kelllleth Davis; and son-inlaw, Lany Hegenderfer. Clayton is survived by children, Karen Hegenderfer of Spokane, Wash., Gary Davis of Salmon, Idaho, and Judith Davis of Seattle; seven
grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; a sister-in-law, Maiy Davis of Montesano, Wash.; and many nieces and nephews.
Vivian I. Peters Baker City 1916-2012
Vivian Idella Peters, 95, died June 11 at St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Baker City. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Friday at Coles Peters Tribute Center, 1950 Place St. in Baker City. Ministers Michael Summers, 'l\vila Krigbaum and Becky Welch will officiate. A private burial for fumily will follow at Island City Cemetery. Vivian, the daughter of Carl and Esther (Miliander) Wahlin, was born Aug. 18, 1916, on a homestead five miles east of Goodridge, Millil. She moved with her fainily in 1929 to a small farm 13 miles south of Fosston, Millil. She married Ebright Peters on Sept. 12, 1938. They
lived in North Dakota and 1\fillilesota before moving to Oregon in 1955. They moved to the Grande Ronde Valley of Oregon in 1960. Vivian lived there until moving to Baker City in 1991. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ebright; her son, Vilus Peters; her daughter and son-in-lm11~ Joy and John Boettcher; and her granddaughter, Beth Synan. She is survived by her son, Virgil (Pete) Peters; son, Elvin (Joan) Peters; son, Jerry (Arden Bardol) Peters; daughter, Priscilla (Ron) Synan; daughter-in-law, Jackie Peters; daughter-inlaw, Jan (Pat) Callaghan; daughter-in-law, Deb (Ron) Hoy; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; sisters, Ruth Quick and Fern Boettcher; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Memorial contributions may be made to Baker County Meals on Wheels in lieu of flowers in care of Coles Tribute Center, 1950 Place Street, Baker City, OR 97814. The Observer publishes free obituaries as a. community service.
Walter Robert Tarter, 91, Union, OR passed away aLhis home on May 2G, 2012. He was born m Weiser, Idaho on May ~4, 18~1 , the ninth child of Alexander Davis Tarter and Ethel Rodelia Hill Tarter_ After spending his early years in Idaho, Walter moved to Union, OR. at 7 years old. The family lived for a time on a farm up Little Creek. At age 16, he worked as a farmhand and horse handler for Conley Brothers of Cove. He attended Union Schools until age 18 then worked as a jockey riding in some races at a few small tracks in the Northwest. He worked briefly at the shipyards in Va_ncouver, WA as a welder before enlisting in the Na_vy on September 30, 1944. On July 7, 1945 he was honorably discharged on a hardship, to care for his two small daughters when his wife became ill. After his discharge, he worked for a Finnish chicken farmer in Hockinson, WA; as a bellhop at The Redwoods Hotel in Grants Pass, OR and galloped horses for Carl Wood and Frank Woolridge. After a stint as a jockey at Lansdown Park, Exhibition Park (now Hastings) and Boundary Bay in Vancouver, B C_, Canada, he moved back to Union. He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad as a fireman and later as an engineer. He retired as an engineer for Amtrak in 1986. Some of his family members were lucky enough to ride the train on his last trip from La Grande to Hinkle and back. Walter married Juanita Hough in 1940 and had four children from this marriage. Juanita passed away in 1953 Walter then married Gracie Mae Dunn in 19.54 and had three daughters In 1953, he purchased the family homestead in Union and raised his six children there. Walter and Gracie purchased their first race horse in 1956. He galloped and trained his own horses as well as his clients' horses all while working for Union Pacific Railroad. He and Gracie were horse breeders, and owned many mares who produced many coiLs that Walt broke and then raced all over the Northwest including Portland Meadows, Yakima Meadows, Les Bois Park and Long acres. They traveled the Eastern Washington anrl On~gon fair circuits for many years_ He was a !earling trainer many times over the years. Walter and Gracie finished their horse racing career at Playfair Race Course in Spokane, WA. WalLer was a member and past president of Lhe Union Range Riders. During his presidency, he went on a trip with pack horses up West Eagle Meadows in the Eagle Cap Wilderness and helped build a homemade raft. to fish Traverse Lake. He loved to fish as a young man. He participated in the Oregon Centennial Pony Express ride in 1959. In past years, Walt served as an official starter and race track superintendent at the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show. He also participated in the chariot races at EOLS. Walt and Gracie were honored as the Grand Marshals of the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show in 2004. Walter was a member of The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, The Fraternal Order of Eagles, and National Horsemen's Benevolence and Protective Association. During his lifetime he worked in three movies: "Thunderhead, Son ofFlicka", "Rogue River" and "Pillars of the Sky". He could be seen in some full screen shots which always thrilled his kids and grandkids when they watched these films. Walter was a loyal Union Bobcats fan. Win or lose he loved to watch the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Mariners_ He also watched PBR, horse racing and golf on TV In his retirement years, he played a little golf He delighted in following his children's anrl grandchilrlren's athletic careers. Walter is survived by his wife, Gracie and six children: Brenda Cantrell (Dan Hoogen), Tacoma, WA; Rita Bangs, Union, OR: Bob Tarter (Ho'onani), Honolulu, HI; Jacqui Tarter, Spokane, WA; Kathy Miller, La Grande, OR and Cindy Tarter of Spokane, WA. Walter had 14 grandchildren: Nita Jeffreys (Charles), Rick Cantrell, Brenda Clayton (Tim), Rob Tarter, Sean Tarter (Jamaica), Jenmfer Demes (Chris), Cory Miller (K1m), Fred Renteria, Mike Tarter, Branrli Bangs, Evan Clemens (Diane), Eric Miller, Deena Tarter and Derek Thompson. There are eight great grandchildren Nick Jeffreys, Carlie Clackum, Zack Jeffreys, Savannah Clackum, Kaitlyn Cantrell, Ciara Vaage, Trey Miller and Casen Miller. The Tarter name will continue with a great grandson on the way, Merrick Michael Tarter due to arrive m September. Walter is also survived by his sister-in-law, Jessie Tarter of Hermiston OR as well as many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Alexander Tarter in 1926; his mother, Ethel Hard in 1983; an infant son, William Lee Tarter in 1948; his first wife, Juanita Tarter in 1953; his eight brothers, Dreyfus, Alfred, Floyd (an infant who died in 1909), Lyle, Bill, Vic, Donnie and Marvin; his three sisters, Louticia Tarter Simonis, Florence (an infant who died in 1909), and Edna Tarter Smvely (whom he lovingly called "Toad"). WalLer was Lhe last of the Tarter "boys", but the legacy will live on through his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He loved his family and his family loved and respected him_ He will be missed. The tears will fade, but the memories will last for years to come. The Tarter family would like to thank all those who attmded the funeral and graveside services on such short notice. Thank you for the cards, flowers and food. Thanks Lo Lhe Sub Shop for che plaLLers of sandwiches. To Dr. Graham and La Grande PosL Acute Rehab, thank-you for getting Dad back on his feet and strong enough to go home and be with our Mom for his last two months. Thank you to Home Health for your care anrl kinrlness, especially Canrly for your patience a_nrl help with hathing. Thanks to Loveland Funeral Chapel for putting everything together so quickly to accommodate the family already coming home for Dad's birthday. Our biggest thank you to Carol and Jack Kimball for all your care and help Lhe lasl three years, buL mostly for your love and kindness in caring for our Dad and Grandpa these last few months. You always go way above and beyond in caring for Mom and Dad. Thank you so much. We would also like to give a hig tha_nk you to Dolores Roper, lay minister at the Union Methodist Church, for officiating at both services, Fitzgerald Flowers for their excellent service, and the Urrion VFW for the tables and chairs at the BBQ, and participating in the graveside service. 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EOU commencement takes place Saturdav The conclusion of the academic year will be marked \vith celebration later this week when roughly 400 student'l fill the field at Community Stadium for Eastern Oregon University's 2012 Commencement Ceremony. The outdoor event begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the stadium located at Sixth Street and GAvenue on the EOU campus. Student check-in is at 8 a.m. in Quinn Coliseum. Lineup for faculty is at 8:45 a.m., also in Quinn near the entrance to the Fitness Center. Students walking at Commencement represent 58 percent of the total number of graduates anticipated this year. EOU will confer an estimated 593 bachelor's degrees, 95 master's degrees, one certificate and
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The outdoor graduation events begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Community Stadium.
seven associate's degrees, pending completion of final grades for spring and summertenns. Senior Nathan Smutz has been selected as the EOU president's scholar
and will deliver the keynote address to the graduating class. Smutz is completing his bachelor's degree in computer science with minors in business and mathematics.
Other scheduled EOU speakers include Bob Davies, president, and Brianna Coulombe, student member of the State Board ofHigher Education. John Turner, president of Blue Mountain
Community College, will also give greetings, and student Jonathan Davidson will perfonn theNational Anthem and Alma Mater. Seating at Community Stadium is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Guests should arrive early and bring sunscreen, water and a hat or umbrella. Free parking is available in all campus lots, excluding reserved spaces. A reception for graduates and families will be held on the northwest lawn of the stadium following the presentation ofdegrees. Loveland Funeral Chapel and the Union County Victims' Impact Panel will provide a designated driver offering free rides within La Grande and Island City from 10 p.m. Saturday to 2:30a.m.
Sunday. Goss Motor Company, Legacy Ford and Frontier Motors are donating vehicles. Call541-786-4331 to reach a designated driver for this event only. Related activities leading up to Commencement include the Oregon Health and Science University Convocation and Awards Ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday in McKenzie Theatre in Loso Hall. Also on Friday will be the annual Student Award s Assembly beginning at 1:30 p.m. in McKenzie Theatre. For more information, visit Vlrww.eou.edu/commence. Questions regarding faculty lineup should be directed to Kristen Kruse in the President's Office at 541-962-3512 or at kkruse®3ou.edu.
Imbler grads win prestigious awards at Oregon State University By Dick Mason The Observer
Most members of the selection committee for Oregon State University's prestigious Waldo-Cummins award probably did not know about Imbler High School earlier this year. The odds are they do now. Two of the six OSU sophomores to receive the WaldoCummins Outstanding Student Award this year, Nick West and Ariana Snow, are Imbler High School graduates. The award recognizes academic achievement, involvement in extra curricular activities and leadership. The Waldo-Cummins awards were presented at a ceremony recently attended by about 300 in OSU's Memorial Union ballroom. Snow likely will never
forget the pride she felt for her school and communitywhen she and West were called on stage to receive West their awards. "It was so cool," Snow said. Snow is a 2010 IHS graduate majoring in marine biology who has a 3.82 cumulative grade point average. West is a 2009 IHS graduate with a 3.92 GPA majoring in bioresource research with an emphasis on biotechnology. West is in a pre-med program and wants to later become a family practice physician in the Grande Ronde Valley. At OSU, West has been selected as an understudy for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute research program.
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Continued from Page lA The council also voted to approve the results of the library levy vote in May, clearing the way for the city to levy a property tax exclusively to fund library operations. Voters approved by a vote of 407 to 218 to allow the city to levy about 45 cents on each $1,000 of property value over the next five years. Bob Joseph spoke to the council about Union's lack of any ordinances about dogs barking, saying he has had a persistent problem with a neighbor's dog waking him at night. He objected to the city's referring all animal complaints to Union County Animal Control, which he said was not effective at resolving his complaint. Both Patterson and Mayor Bill Lindsley explained the city did not have theresources or staffto enforce any animal city ordinances and agreed to meet p1ivately with Joseph. Patterson also asked the council to consider soon an ordinance to give the city power to condemn property abandoned and neglected by owners because of maintenance costs cunently incurred by the city in such cases. Included in the report from Union Fire Chief Keith Montgomery was that truck 72 had failed its annual pump test.
Continued from Page lA Chambers said that some scant evidence of American Indian tool-making was found at Onion Flats. County Planning Director Hanley Jenkins, also along on the tour, said that trails and other facilities will not be built on such sites. "Our intention is to avoid rather than try and mitigate cultural sites," Jenkins said. The 3, 700-acre MERA includes about 50 miles of trails and roads that existed prior to purchase of the land by the county. Tuesday's tour ran basically south to north over the property, from the Fox Hill trailhead to the Lower and upper Igo Lane trailheads at the other
end. Climbing to elevations above 6,000 feet, the group experiencedATV riding on trails ranging from easy to very difficult. The tour strayed off the MERA and on to the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, stopping at a communications site sporting eight towers owned by private and public entities. County Emergency Services Officer J.B. Brock said all of Union County's 9-1-1 communications are routed to the county's 120-foot tower on the property. "We used to be the tallest one, but then Verizon put in
As an understudy in this program, West will soon begin participating in a amyotrophic Snow lateral sclerosis research pn:tiect with OSU biochemistry professor Joseph Beckman, who will serve as his mentor. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a disorder of nerve cells that control voluntary motion. West \vill be helping researchers detennine if certain specific protein mutations can lead to ALS. West has been working as a volunteer at an OSU lab where ALS research has been conducted for the past two months. The OSU sophomore is also active on the campus life front as a leader of his Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity. Snow has been assisting an OSU professor with coral reefresearch,studyingthe DNA of sea anemone. Snow will continue studying coral reef consmvation next school year at a number of sites including Bonaire, an island in the Caribbean. Much of Snow's academic expenses will be covered over the next two years by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ernest F. Hollings undergraduate scholarship she received earlier this year. Snow, who said she has been fascinated by marine biology since she was a child, will be examining the impact rising temperatures and acidity levels have on coral reefs. Her interest in coral reef
The 3,700-acre MERA includes about 50 miles oftrails and roads that existed prior to purchase ofthe land by the county.
treks into the MERA. Chambers said one man instrumental in construction work on the Lower Igo trailhead work was John Rysdam, a public works employee who was killed Feb. 28 in a highway accident near Elgin. Chambers said Rysdam worked hard leveling and grading the Lower Igo trailhead, and that the county plans to honor his contribution. 'We're talking about a memorial for him here," he said. On the way back to Fox Hill, the tour stopped at the Owsley Canyon trailhead, a spacious spot being built with the horseback recreationist in mind. Under construction there is a wide loop for horse trailers. The land at the Owsley Canyon site at tl1e trailhead has been cleared and the basic roadwork's been completed. Vaulted toilets have already been installed at the site, and Chambers said there are plans to add other amenities for day use picnickers. Other people taking part in Tuesday's tour were County Administrative Officer Shelley Burgess and Public Works Director Doug Wright.
one that's 140 feet," Brock said. He added that at an elevation of 6,200 feet, the Mount Emily location offers excellent radio coverage for the entire county. At the east end of the MERA, the tour visited the Lower Igo and Upper Igo Lane trailheads, areas built and improved over the last couple of years by volunteers and county workers. The Lower Igo Lane trailhead is an access point for non-motorized uses, while the Upper Igo allows access for both motorized and nonmotorized uses. Jenkins said the purchase of easements from private landowners allowed the county to build a Lower Igo Lane trailhead with room for horse trailers to turn around. He said that has reduced complaints from homeowners in the area whose driveways were often used for that purpose. Both Upper and Lower Igo also have room enough for people to park their vehicles and leave them for
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before entering OSU. ''I would not have been ready for college," West said. He credits his teachers at Imbler with playing an important role in the success he has enjoyed at OSU. West said he believes that the excellent work small schools do in preparing students for college is often overlooked. His teachers included Iris mother Mary who taught him chemistry. Nick West credits her with sparking his interest in chemistry. The OSU sophomore hopes the success he and Snow are expe1iencing at OSU will inspire others at small high schools in Northeast Oregon. "Even if you are from a rural setting you can still be successful at a big university."
TREE Continued from Page lA that served as one of Elgin's Christmas trees for decades before it was cut down about 10 years ago. The new tree is meant to help fill the void created by the loss of the Christmas tree. The old tree was decorated with large lights each holiday season. Countless children would come to the tree each December to sit with Santa on a bench under the tree's canopy. The line of children who came to see Santa sometimes extended across the street to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Cindy Chandler of Elgin. Chandler and Kern Brainerd are co-chairs of the Elgin Opera House's centennial committee. They said the old Christmas tree was cut down because its roots were damaging a nearby sidewalk. The Bosnian pine to be planted was donated by the GrandeScapes, a nursery
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Kitchen designer turns novelist with 'One ol Eleven' By Mike Shearer The Observer
Until recently, Terrie Biggs modestly hesitated to call herself a writer, much less an author. "I'm a storyteller," she would say. But with the publication of "One of Eleven'' this month, she is now proudly using the author label. Biggs lives in La Grande where she runs her own kitchen design business, Kitchens by Terrie. Her husband, Dan, is retired from the Sacramento City Police Department. She has been writing what she calls "creative non-fiction novels" for 18 years. She starts with a real story, gathering her facts as a journalist would, and then supplements the tale with some plausible fictional dialogue. The first book she has published through Amazon's CreateSpace is based on the life of Gary Kopperud, who has a drafting-design company in Pendleton. Kopperud designs houses, and frequently Biggs handles the cabinets and sometimes even the kitchen design for the houses he designs. They have worked togetl1er several years. She said she met Kopperud in 1999 and they had offices across the hall from each other until2010. It was
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be quite large;'Wyden's statement continued. "Since all of the communications collected by the government under Section 702 are collected without individual warrants, I believe that there should be clear rules prohibiting the govenunent from searching through these communications in an effort to find the phone calls or emails of a particular American, unless the government has obtained a warrant or emergency authorization permitting surveillance of that American." Oversight, transparency vs. national security Alexander Abdo, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project, described the FISAAmendments Act as the most sweeping access to Americans' international communications that Congress has ever allowed. "The FAA would seem to allow the government to intercept, for example, all communications between Iraq and the U.S., Mghanistan and the U.S., or any region of the world in which the U.S. has a foreign policy interest," he said. Any American on the other end of these international communications would be exposed to government surveillance \vithout the necessity of a warrant or a finding of probable cause, which U.S. law normally requires to monitor an American's com-
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over coffee one day that Kopperud told her the saga oflris growing up as an adopted only child. "Out of respect for the only parents Gary had knovvn," Biggs said, ''he waited until both of them had passed away to call the orphanage in pursuit of medical history on his biological parents." When he began his search, not only did he discover he had a brother who was searching for him but that he had 10 siblings.
Life-altering experience To go from an only child to one of 11 (hence the title) was a life-altering experience for Kopperud, as was unraveling, with the help of Biggs and his newly-found siblings, the World War 11-era tale of why his parents gave him up for adoption. munications \vithin the U.S. "It should trouble Americans that four years ago, Congress passed the most sweeping surveillance act it has ever passed, and to this day we still don't know how (the executive branch is) using that authority," Abdo said. "One ofthe concerns certainly is that, among other tl1ings, the National Secmity Agency might be storing An1ericans' international communications for analysis or data mining that haven't been made public." Because national security is involved, most ofthe inforn1ation surrounding the implementation of FISA is classified, he said. Oversight reports indicate repeated violations and mistakes, but the public doesn't know what they are, how often they occur, what procedures are in place to prevent them from recuning and whether those procedures are followed, he said. "At the very least, before Congress reauthorizes this sweeping surveillance bill, there needs to be significant transparency about its use so that the American public can decide for itself whether it's necessary," Abdo said. FISA's proponents argue that in a post-9/11 world, hindering the government's ability to monitor and intercept the communications offoreign agents intent on striking the U.S. weakens national security. "A c1itical component of our countertenvrism effmt - and, for that matter, any investigative effort- is the
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Terrie Biggs in her La Grande home office, where she has written two books and is working on two more. Mike Shearer photo
"His story was so profound," said Biggs. "He would talk to me for hours. He has a photographic memory, and he'd started writing down his genealogy from his new family. I was captivated by his whole story." She admitted the favmite part ofKopperud's birth family story is the story of his birth mother's dealing with so many children, a husband offto war, and very little money. "Sometlring about her just grabs my heart," Biggs said. She said she feels the story should appeal to readers interested in genealogy,
Gary Kopperud of Pendleton found at 58 he was not an only child, but one of 11.
adoptions, family relationships, and issues of separation of couples during World War II. It is set in North Dakota, Oregon and Waslrington. Readers can buy the book directly at www.createspace. com/3780565 or they reach it through Biggs's own site, designed by her son, www. novelsbyterrie.com. From her own site, one can also read about Biggs' other projects. Next she plans to publish "Earth, Wind & Fire," which was actually the first book she wrote. She said it
By Katy Nesbitt The Observer
Alpine Meadows Golf Course was given a rep1ieve in a contract with the city and will not be charged fees for testing treated water used for inigating tl1e golf course. Bill Ables told the city council Monday night that the course is run on a shoestring and any cost-savings would help. The course's budget is $180,000 a year and operates on greens fees and donations. Memberships are $565 for a family and $350 for singles. The council agreed that the city would pay for test-
ing fees, if necessary, for the next five years. At the end of that time, the city and the Alpine Meadows board of directors would review the contract. Ronnie Neal, public works manager for the city, said water sample tests run about$30. A long-time concern regarding children's safety crossing busy streets on their way will find some help from the Enterprise High School FCCLA club. The club will monitor three intersections where orange flags will be used by kids crossing the street. Buckets offlags will be on
either side of the intersection and the FCCLA will make sure they are put away each afternoon, said Mayor Steve Lear. Council member Doug Terry offered to donate five yards of orange fab1ic for the flags. The FCC Construction to fix Warde Park has come to a halt with the council's decision to pay the contractor for work finished, p1immily fixing broken bricks around the perimeter ofthe park, but not for the project to replace the paver stones. After taking a few of the pavers out, the contractor, La Ray Danner of Cove, discovered that the pavers
are absorbing moisture and deteriorating. Neal suggested the project could be done in phases to keep within the city's budget, but for now, it's on hold. A study conducted by Rural Community Assistance Corporation on the city's sewer rates was completed and presented at a special meeting last week. The concern over inequity in rates prompted the city to invest in the study, which offered a few different options. An on-going discussion to restructure sewer rates will be addressed at a special city council meeting Thursday night at 5 p.m.
Film camp coming to Ascension in Cove COVE - Ascension School Camp and (';Qnference Center in Cove is hosting a film camp for middle and high school students June 24-29. Students entering sixth through lOth grades will combine creative forces with Eastern Oregon University students and faculty to produce a short film from start to finish
during this week-long overnight camp. Through a partnerslrip between Ascension School and the Oregon Writing Project at Eastern Oregon University, this camp provides an opportunity for middle and high school students to develop their talents in a fun setting while getting to know other young writers, artists and
aspiring film-makers from across Eastern Oregon. Working in age-appropriate teams, students will write original scripts, design costumes, arrange music, act, film and edit their productions. Afternoons and evenings include typical can1p activities: swimming, outdoor games, a talent show, arts and crafts and can1pfires.
The film can1p is limited to 30 campers and the cost is $350. Visit the Ascension website, www.coveascensionschool.com, for more information or to download a registration form or call our office at 541568-4514. "Camperships" (scholarships) are available. Please call the office for scholarships.
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poems and stories as a child but had no formal training as writer, only a passion for the stories themselves. At her website, readers can also find out about her two works-in-progress. (.'uuently she is doing research for her "Bali Ram" book about the famous classical dancer born in Nepal, trained in India, and currently 76 years old and living in Bend. Her other pending book will be a compilation ofher great grandfather's Civil War letters to his new bride.
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is "an intimate account of Narcissa Whitman, a young lady from New York, and her remarkable and tragic journey." Biggs said her youngest son initially got her interested in the Whitman Mission, which led her do a lot of research, a play, and finally the 450-page book on "the first white women to travel overland from the United States to the 'countrY of Oregon in the mid-1800s resulting in the great migration on the Oregon Trail." Biggs said she wrote
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EOU students at CNFR 2012 CASPER, Wyo. -Three Eastern Oregon University students are competing at the Collegiate National Finals Rodeo this week. Bareback rider Seth Shelton posted a ride of 62 in Sunday's opening go-round, then came back with a 59-point ride on Monday. Tie-down roper Justin Jarvis posted a time of 15.3 on Sunday before tying for the sixth on Sunday with a time of 9.1 seconds Monday. Annie Mackenzie took a no score in the breakaway roping. AfterTuesday's results, Shelton was 24th overall in bareback riding, while Jarvis is 21th overall. McKenzie is tied for 48th overall in breakaway roping.
UHS set for hoops clinic The Union High School boys basketball team will host its second annual Live, Learn and Hoop clinic Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the UHS gymnasium. The clinic is for kids in grades second through eight and is $30 per participant. All participants will receive a clinicT-shirt, basketball and lunch. It is encouraged to register early. For more information call coach Brett Dunten at 541-910-3993.
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Seattle ace mad after latest loss SEATTLE (AP) - Mariners ace Felix Hernandez says things have to change. Hernandez allowed five runs in six ineffective innings and the Seattle Mariners lost to the San Diego Padres 5-4 Tuesday night. "''m tired of pitching like that' Hernandez said. "I've got to do something about this:' Hernandez (4-5) was making his first outing in 11 days.The 2010 CyYoung Award winner allowed nine hits, five runs and three walks. Hernandez is 0-2 in his last three starts.
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La Grande senior Jenny Tracy had a perfect fielding percentage in 2012. She also threw out 17 ofthe 20 runners who attempted to steal on her.
Tracv named lirst-team all-state • LHS catcher hit .537, scored 23 runs in 21 games and had a 1.000 fielding percentage La Grande's Jenny Tracy was named a first-team all-state catcher after an impressive senior season. Tracy, who was also the co-Greater Oregon League player of the year, hit .537 this season and scored 23 l1ll1'l in 21 games. She had a team-high 36 hits and stole 13 bases in 15 attempts. And while Tracy found plenty of success at the plate, she was also solid behind it. She had a perfect fielding percentage (1.000) and threw out 17 of20 (.850) runners who attempted to steal on her. Tracy was joined on the first team by McLoughlin catcher Cheyenne Kessler. Those two were the only GOL players to earn first-team all-state honors. La Grande's Denise Comfort earned honorable mention in all-state voting as an infielder. Comfort hit .392 this season in a team-high 74 at bats. The junior scored 14 runs, drove in seven and stole eight of 10 bases. Comfort, a shortstop, finished with a .907 fielding percentage in 107 total chances this season. Junior Madison Elliott was also an honorable mention in the outfield. Elliott hit .352 this year and had a team-high 15 RBis. She scored 15 runs, had two triples and one home run. Elliott was a perlect six for six on stolen bases. Tracy, Comfort and Elliott were the only three LHS players to earn first-team GOL honors as well, but the Lady Tigers had seven other players receive
postseason nominations. Both Kelly Walker and Emily Lawrence were second-team GOL pitchers. Walker finished with a 4.63 ERA and struck out 38 in 71 innings pitched. She also hit .369 at the plate and had 12 RBis, 12 runs scored and one home run. La~Tence posted a 2.62 ERA and had 31 strikeouts in 66 innings of work. The junior hit .265 with nine RBis and nine runs scored. Brandy Blackman and Kori Clipfell were both second-team infielders in the GOL this year. Blackman, a freshman, hit .274 with nine RBis, nine runs scored and had one of the team's three home runs. Clipfell finished with a .241 batting average with seven RBis and six runs scored. Austin McDaniel-Perrin and Elyse Humphreys were both second-team nominations in the outfield. McDaniel-Perrin hit .158 this year and had a perlect fielding percentage in 28 total chances. Humphreys finished with a .128 batting average and had a .765 fielding percentage. Sophomore Kendall Kirkland was an honorable mention in the infield. The first baseman scored four runs and had two RBis. She finished ~ith a .942 fielding percentage in a team-high 139 chances. The Lady Tigers finished ~ith an 8-13 record this year but are expected to lose only Walker and Tracy to graduation.
Tracy had a team-high 36 hits in 2012.
Tracy taking talents easttoNCCU After a successfull career on the softball diamond, La Grande High School graduate Jenny Tracy will suit up for Division I North Carolina Central University next year. Tracy accepted a full academic scholarship fromNCCU. She was also recruited by Division I McNeese State in Louisiana. Tracy was a first-team all-state catcher last season but will see some time at shortstop for the Eagles. ''They saw video of me taking ground balls," Tracy said of the NCCU coaching staff "I have quick hands, which is what also makes me a good catcher. It will be new for me." The Eagles finished 4-45 this past season in their first year as a Division I program. It was also the first year under head coach Theresa Stephens. Stephens has more than eight years of coaching experience at the Division I, II and III levels, as well as semi-professional playing experience. Stephens obtained her first head coaching position at Meredith College, a Division III institution in Raleigh, N.C., where she spent two seasons (2005-07).
OKLAHOlVIA CITY (AP) - Kevin Durant delivered the fourth quarter LeBron James never could last year. So forget those NBA Finals jitters at the start. Durant and the young Thunder showed they have already figured out how to finish. Durant scored 17 ofhis 36 points in another nightmarish final period for James and his team, leading a Thunder storm that overwhelmed the Heat and gave Oklahoma City a 10594 victory over Miami in Gan1e 1 on Tuesday night. "That's what they do, they keep on coming," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "They're relentless." Teaming with Russell Westbrook to outscore the Heat in the second half by themselves, Durant struck first in his head-to-head matchup with James, who had seven points in the final quarter and was helpless to stop the league's three-time scming champion. "Well, those guys, they came out on fire. They were passing the ball well, knocking down shots.We just wanted to continue to keep playing," Durant said. "It's a long game, and every time our coach was just saying play harder, play harder, and that's what we did." Westbrook turned around a poor shooting start to finish with 27 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds for the Thunder, keying a strong finish to the third period that gave the Thunder the lead for good. Scoring in nearly every way possible, Durant finished 12 of 20 from the field and added eight rebounds. He and Westbrook outscored the Heat41-40 over the final two periods, showing that maybe tlris time it will be offense that wins championships. James finished with 30 points, his most in any of his 11 finals games, but had only one basket over the first 8:15 of the fourth, when the Thunder seized control of a game they trailed for all but the final few seconds ofthe first three quarters. James averaged three points in the fourth quarters of the Heat's six-game loss to Dallas last year.
Kings, fans relish first Stanley Cup WSANGELES (AP) - The Stanley Cup barely had the Los Angeles Kings' fingerprints on it before Darryl Sutter suggested they should start preparing to ~in it again. "The first thing you think about as a coach, these guys are all young enough, they've got to try it again," the coach said Monday nigh~ mere moments after raising the Cup for the first time himself That's just how a pragmatic farmer from Alberta thinks about everything, and Sutter didn't allow his mental preparations for a sequel to stop him from celebrating this irreplaceable moment with his players. The Kings partied until well after midnight at a restaurant overlooking the Staples Center ice, where Los Angeles completed its 16-4 rampage through the postseason to the franchise's first NHL title.
Cook to join Cowboys' corral in pool Matt Cook had a career to remember at La Grande High School. And after capturing two state swim titles this past season, Cook is moving on to the next level. The recent LHS graduate will join the University of Wyoming swim team next season. Cook won state titles in the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke last year while leading the La Grande boys swim team to a third-place finish at the state meet. He has placed in the top five
at the high school championships in every event he has swam since his freshman year. Cook also keeps up Iris work in the classroom and was named a member of the National Honor Society. He plans on studying engineering at UW. Cook has been a member of the La Grande Swim Club for many years and has racked up more than 20 state championship titles. He attended junior nationals at Stanford in 2011. "Matt follows a long group of Oregonians to join Cowboy
Swimming," Wyoming coach Tom Johnson told wyomingathletics.com. ''Matt is a talented backstroker and midcUe-distance freestyler who has really shown a lot of improvement in the last year. "He should really contribute to our medley relays." The Cowboys had a thirdplace finish at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships this season, ~ith Johnson earning coach of the year honors for the fourth time.
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La Grande's Matt Cook won two high school state titles last year and will join a strong University ofWyoming swim team next year.
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Volleyball sweeps fifth annual Mountie Awards EOU Athletics
Eastern Oregon University volleyball swept the final awards of the evening at the fifth annual Mountie Awards Wednesday. Volleyball was named the 2011-12 Team ofthe Year. After a tragic offseason where the program lost its coach, the Mountaineers finished with one of the best seasons in school history. Eastern Oregon opened the season 0-6, but reeled off nine straight wins, including an 8-0 conference start. EOU finished third in the conference with a 15-3 record. Eastern finished one spot shy ofmaking the national tournament. Kaki Morehead was named the Coach of the Year after guiding the Mountaineer volleyball this season. She was named interim coach after the passing of Hailey Pearce, but took the job full-time at the end of the season. Morehead was named the Cascade Collegiate Conference andAVCA Nmthwest Region Coach of the Year. Kimmy Moore and Robbie Haynie each took a pair of awards home at the end of the evening. Both were
named the track and field athletes of the year for their respective gender; and the female and male athletes of the year. Haynie, a seven-time NAIA National Champion, ends his EOU career with six Mountie Awards to his name, the most of any athlete in the history of the awards. Korrie Bourn grabbed the women's basketball player of the year title and the breakout player of the year. In her fu·st year as a Mountaineer; the Spokane Falls Community College transfer was an All-Conference performer, averaging 9.42 points per game, shooting 42 percent from the field. The junior was fifth in the conference in rebounds per game, averaging 7.5. She was also fifth in the CCC with 2.33 steals per game. The Winthrop, Wash., native became the first Mountaineer to ever be named to an All-Tournament Team at the National Championships. Bourn's teammate at Spokane Falls and EOU, Brooke Randall, received the award for play of the year. Down two points, Randall made two free throws with no time left in regulation in the second round of the national tournament against No. 6
Concordia( Mich.), sending the game into overtime and eventually an upset win by the Mountaineers. Football's monumental upset over top-ranked Carroll College on the road received the Game ofthe Year award. It gave Eastern its first ever \vinover aNo.1-ranked team in any sport. The \Vin snapped several streaks, including the Saints' 44game conference win streak. Earlier in the evening, Chris Ware was named football player of the year.
Boha rd repeats For the second straight year, volleyball's Lindsey Eohard was named the Scholar Athlete of the Year. Bohard played in 164 sets for the Mountaineers in 2011. She was named a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete in both years at EOU, along with Academic All-Conference. She currently holds a 3.98 cumulative GPA. Grady and Shay White were named the Fans of the Year again. The brothers have been at almost every Mountaineer home event during their four years at Eastern Oregon University. They were surprised when
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they opened the envelope to see their own names as winners, as the Whites' assumed they were just presenting the award. Other repeat winners were Karlee Coffey and Emily Anderson. Coffey received women's cross country runner of the year for the third straight year, while Anderson was softball player of the year for the second straight year. After 25 years of voluntary service, the chain crew at EOU football games was honored with the Meritorious Service Award. Mel Frederick, KC Harris, Steve Harris, Mike Lowe, Albert Orton, and Greg Orton have given up Saturdays in the fall for the last 25 years for Mountaineer Athletics. Dr. Mike Dannells was also recognized for his volunteer service with the live video streaming during the football season. Dannells was presented the Gibb Pollard Award. Other winners from the night include Rebecca Haight (Volleyball), Brian Bragg (Men's Cross Country), Mauriana Gonzalez (Soccer), and Jamar Johnson (Men's Basketball).
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Bethany Weaver of La Grande practices setting Tuesday while Madison Elliott watches at the La Grande youth volleyball camp.
Broncs and Bulls rodeo returns to Wallowa County fairgrounds By Katy Nesbitt The Observer
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Randy Bare more ofWallowa rides in the saddle bronc competition at the Broncs and Bulls Rodeo.
ENTERPRISE- The ninth annual Mountain High Broncs and Bulls Rodeo returns to the Wallowa County Fairgrounds Friday and Saturday. The rodeo features 12 of the top 15 national finals ranch saddle bronc riders including recent world champion J.D. Brock of Imnaha. Other local bronc 1iders signed up this year are George Kohlepp and Randy Baremore. Pro Bull Riding Tour rider Cody Ford and Charlie Barker from the "World's Toughest Cowboy" TV smies are also scheduled to appear as well as local bull riders Lane Bailey and Eric Kolbaba. Broncs and Bulls is sanctioned by the Elite Professional Bull Riders Association and the Western States Ranch RodeoAssociation and is offering a purse of$28,600. Both Friday and Saturday nights the top six riders will
receive cash prizes in each category and will compete in a championship round. Featured entertainment is Danger Dave Whitmoyer, an entertainer and barrel man out of Montana, and the Rodeo Bandits drill team of Mollala. Two-time national finals ranch rodeo announcer Lee Daggett, Broncs and Bulls organizer, will be announcing the rodeo. New this year; a Blackhawk helicopter is scheduled to be on display at the fairgrounds all weekend. All current and retired National Guard will be admitted free with a military ID. Friday night's spectator event, "$100 the Hard Way," challenges daring souls to remove a $100 bill rubberbanded to a hull's horn. Saturday night, rodeo fans are given the chance to stand in a hula hoop as long as they can with a Mexican fighting bull loose in the arena. Mutton busting starts at
3:30 p.m. Saturday before the main events. On Friday and Saturday nights the Range Rider in Enterprise invites rodeo fans in for dancing to the tunes of the band Black Horse. The Cowboy Breakfast will be served at the fairgrounds Saturday morning at 7. Tickets will be sold at the gate- $12 for adults; 12 and younger are half price -sponsored by Ed Staub Propane. For more information visit www.mountainhighrodeo. com. Schedule Friday 6 p.m. - Ranch saddle bronc, first section (limit 12 contestants) Other events follow: • Bull riding, first section (limit 24 contestants) • Championship rounds (top six, Broncs and Bulls) • $100 the HardWay Saturday 7 a.m. - Saturday morn-
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• Quilters guild showcases antique and vintage designs By Katy Nesbitt The Observer
Fabric works of art hung from the walls of the Joseph School gymnasiwn and on panels throughout the room during last weekend's Wallowa Mountain Quilters Guild's 20th quilt show. Heritage quilts, antique and vintage designs, lined the hall of the school and told stories with scraps of fabric dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The hobo blocks display was a fascinating history lesson. Quilt guild members pitched in to replicate the dozens of signs used along railways that indicated where to get good water, ifjobs were available, where to get a hayloft for the night) or
how to access free medical care. Symbols made ofbits of cloth sewn into a block were hung outside homes as a code to communicate with hobos hiding from railroad security guards or ''bulls" who would beat them or at least throw them off the freight cars. Best in Show went to Becci Scott for her bed-sized "Twisted Bargello." Betty Whitehead placed first in the Miniature category; Sandra Gray, won Bed Quilts; Sue Wells was first in Wall Hangings; Karen Josi in purse/totes; Betty Whitehead won the Table Topper division; Barbara Witherrite was first in Wearables; and the Crib/Lap quilt contest was won by Bar·bal'a Tylei:
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Hobo blocks were quilted signs using symbols indicating where one could camp, find work or get medical care. These two blocks tell railroad travelers whether the water is drinkable or not. Green block indicates safe drinking water. Red and gray block indicates bad water. Quilt guild members pitched in to replicate dozens of signs used as a code to communicate.
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rodeo. This weekend the first of four rodeo events kicks off at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds, the Mountain High Broncs and Bulls Rodeo. I'll be there, with my I'Odeo side-kick Angie from Wallowa Valley Online, a couple cameras and a pocketful of batteries. Even though I spent half of my youth in cattle country, rodeo was not a part of the ebb and flow of my life, until I moved to Wallowa County. In the dead of winter I long for the dust and the blare of country music as I snap pictures behind the scenes of the cowboys gearing up for an eightsecond ride on a bull or bucking horse. No alcohol is allowed in the warm up area, instead, the boys drink a variety of"energy'' drinks to get themselves up for the game. It's amazing how much training, effort and fitness goes into a few seconds. The prepa ration goes right down to the few minutes before the ride when cowboys help each othe1· get ready for a ride on their dangerous livestock animal of choice. I have a brother who was an elite athlete. He bagged graduate school, a girlfriend, and a tomato patch to move to Boulde1· and train for the 2004 Olympic Trials. The first two years h e lived with me and I learned to live with the phrase, "I'm tired" and to assume all extra-curricular activities revolved
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around running. He even worked a swing shift job making maps so he could train in the morning with the pros - the guys whose job was running and endorsing a shoe. Periodically I'd be out for a run or at work trimming trees and see my brother training. His brow furrowed, he would run by without a smile, a ''hello", or even a glint of recognition. Serious athlete, my brother was. For two years buying plane tickets or finding races that would help pay his way were his focus. He h ad to get the qualifying time to run in Birmingham. I would wait expectantly for phone calls after his races - did he make money? Did he get a personal r ecord? Did he qualify for the Trials?
the test with the 80 plus fastest marathoners in the country. It was absolutely exhilarating.
Breathtaking finish The h eartbreaker was watching Pete drop out at mile 16. Sean hung in there and finished somewhere around 50th. But watching a guy from Boulder, a University of Colorado graduate, cross the line as the top American marathoner headed to the Olympics was breathtaking. Alan Culpepper, a well-known f1·equenter of family barbecues, won the Trials, arms high over his
head in a V. Now back to the arena. Marathoners aren't sprinters like boys who ride bucking critters, but the training, the focus, the sacrifice to socializing and steady income are the same. Not every cowboy has a sponsor or endo1·ses p1·oduct. They work construction or farm and ranch jobs with understandable bosses that let them hit the road in pursuit of an eight-second ride and d1·eams of the purse at the end of the weekend. Wallowa County hosts two professional rodeos,
t\vo ranch rodeos featuring real, honest-to-god working cowboys and cowgirls, and the Joseph Junior rodeo during the Wallowa County Fair. Not every kid, cowboy or cowgirl will make it to the National Finals Rodeo in
Las Vegas, but rodeos give athletes confidence and discipline - and for the general reporter, they are a camera's-eye view into the heart of the sub-culture in which I live. Reach the author at knesbitt@lagrandeobserver.com.
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Celebration of IMnu historv brings pioneer skills alive • 12th annual Flora School Days takes place Saturday By Katy Nesbitt The Observer
Days of old come once again to Flora School Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the 12th annual Flora School Days. Children continue to be the center of attention at the celebration with candle making, grain grinding, butter churning and com husk doll making. School Days brings together all this in the celebration of pioneer skills and the restoration of the Flora School. New demonstrations of pioneer skills are in the works as always: building wagon wheels, games for children and adults alike, soap making with oils, rope making and more. "Each year we try to show more pioneer skills and activities," said Nathan Thompson, volunteer coordinato1~ ''but it always depends on who is available and what they know, or sometimes what we can teach a volunteer to do in the time allotted." Old favorites of the Dutch-oven lunch, the country store, and the pie social continue to be part of the ever expanding activities, providing lunch and dessert for attendees wanting to savor the activities with a bite to eat. The wood cook stove workers, Dave and Carole Deringer, will help with the grinding and
churning while caring for the cornbread baking in the oven for the lunch. They also manage to tum out a cobbler or two for the pie social from that same woodstoked stove. Ferdinand, the cob oven built during one of the Flora School Education Center's 2011 classes, vvill only be for display this year, but should be baking for the 2013 celebration.
Pie social draws a crowd Dessert, in the form of an old-fashioned pie social, brings everyone into the school to see the restoration and repair work in progress. Every year a bit more of the Flora School is pieced back together, much as a quilter takes a piece ofcloth and sews it into a new creation. With each School Days celebration that comes around, visitors will see more and more of the completed repairs and renovations such as the sewing room, which is almost restored and renovated to be used for sewing and craft activities, along with classes in the same. The country store, held in the dmvnstairs hallway and foyer, highlights the accomplishments there in the fom1 ofrestoration along with handmade crafts from Pacific Northwest craftsmen.
The popular town tours via mule-drawn wagon will be back once again tlris yeru; giving the history inside and outside the town. The schoolliouse quilt raffle will be revived once again with Kathy Brown from Washougal, Wash., working on the new quilt. Tickets will be sold while the quilt is nearing completion. The raffle will be at the June 15, 2013, School Days 2013. School Days activities take place at the Flora School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and are provided by the Flora School Education Center, a 501c3 tax-exempt organization dedicated to promoting folk arts and pioneer skills and to the restoration, repair and renovation of the school. All demonstrators and workers are volunteers and no one receives any benefit from the center beyond "the good feeling you get," as stated by one school board member, from helping to restore history in the shape of a school and the needed skills of the pioneers. For more information on School Days, Flora School, becoming a volunteer/board member of the Flora School Education Center, call 541-828-7700 or leave amesSubmitted photo sage at 541-828-7010 or email Felting is one of the homesteading skills demonstrated at Flora School Days Saturday. The event also includes a quilt raffle and butter churning. info@floraschool.org.
hmovative reading program chosen as finalist for All-America City Award An ambitious plan developed in Wallowa County to ensure that more Wallowa County clrildren are reading at grade level by the end of third grade has been chosen as a finalist for the All-America City Award, sponsored each year by the National Civic League.Winners will be announced July 2 in Denver, Colo. The plan was submitted by a community coalition that included Building Healthy Families, Enterprise School District, Joseph School District, Wallowa School District, Wallowa County and city libraries, Head Start and members of the medical community. Wallowa County is selected through a peer review process from a field of more than 100 entries across the country. Students who haven't
Camp offered Arts in the Field is a threeday camp oftheater, dance and horse riding for youth 10 to 14. Youth will learn through theatm~ dance and a hands-on ranch experience at a horse ranch and neighboring Point of Connection in Joseph. The Arts in the Field theater camp is conducted by credentialed theater arts instructors and horse and outdoors professionals. Can1ps are June 22-24 and Aug.17-19. Scholarships are available. For more information email avma:f@earthlink.net or call 661-965-7915 or Point of Connection at 541-432-0750.
"The plnn was submitted mastered The 124 reading by cities and by a community coalition the third counties that included Building involved in grade are Healthy Families, the cammore likely to get stuck Enterprise School Distric~ paign for Grade-Level in a cycle of joseph School Distric~ Reading academic f~!ctllowa School Distric~ Community failure, drop out of school, Wallowa County and city Network are adopting and struggle libraries, Head Start and a collecthroughout members ofthe medical tive impact their lives, strategy, the coalition community." engaging said. "In order to provide greater the full community around the goal of supporting lowservices for a healthier community, Wallowa County's income children from birth through third grade. Community Partners have The plans involve schools become the epitome of the but acknowledge that they community partner concept alone cannot address the as recognized by selection as myriad problems that keep a finalist for the All-American City Award. The partners children from learning to read. are to be commended for The strategies include their efforts," said Wallowa County commissioner, Susan ensuring that children arrive at kindergarten ready Roberts.
to succeed, attend school regularly and keep learning through the summer months. Wallowa County's plan integrates 10 successful programs, with eight innovative practices including: out-ofschool time programming, parent/child interactive play groups, celebrating literacy at community events and computer-based literacy support programs for students grades kindergarten through the third grade to name a few. The plan aims to address schoolreadiness,surnrrmer leaming loss and clnunic absence. As a charter member of the Campaign for GradeLevel Reading Community Network, Wallowa County will have access to a Promising Practices Clearinghouse, an online help desk, peer-
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Tom Uchison 1942-2011 Please join Tom's family in a celebration of his life on Saturday, June 16th at 11am at St. Katherine's Catholic Church in Enterprise. a:lt.~~~~- Donations in Tom's name can be made to St. Katherine's Catholic Church, 301 East Garfield, Enterprise, OR 97828 or to the Bracher/Newman Memorial Scholarship, PO Box 548, Dallesport, WA 98617
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Sandy was a member of AA and the Church at The Summit in Bend, OR. She passed at the Partners in Care Hospice in Bend, OR. She was cremated and a memorial service was held November 8, 2011 at Redmond Memorial Chapel. Graveside services are being held at The Lostine Cemetery, Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 1:00PM. Followed by a gettogether I pot!uck at The Lostine Church basement. Sandy is survived by two daughters, Laurie Hunter and Lisa Hunter-DuPont and her husbaJ.cd, Ed DuPont; six grandchildren, Sylas Hunter, Tia1ca Hunter, Melody Hunter, JordaJ.c DuPont, Lilliana DuPont and Tre DuPont; aJ.cd one brother, Michael Fra11k Otto. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Melody Hunter; aJ.cd a sister, Joan Otto. For further information call: Lisa Hunter-DuPont 541-447-3836.
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The Market Place seeking retail tenants Work on The Market Place indoor retail community in the New Town Square Building downtown continues and, as it does, developer Al Adelsberger is looking for more local people to open businesses there. Since last year, Adelsberger has been remodeling the building at the comer of Fourth Street and Washington Avenue with an eye toward providing low-cost start-up opportunities for local entrepreneurs. Some space is already rented, but Adelsberger said there are still opportunities left. When complete, The Market Place ¥.rill showcase local businesses including restaurants, art galleries, clothing shops, gift and souvenir shops and more. People interested in exploring business opportunities at The Market Place should contact Coordinator Teny De Spain, 541-398-1142.
Fly shop near Baker City schedules grand opening Randy Newman has scheduled a grand opening this weekend for his fly-fishing business near Baker C'ity. The Powder River Fly Shop is at 18554 Griffin Gulch Lane, about two miles southwest of town. To get there, drive Highway 7 south towmd Sun1pte1; and tum Iight onto Giiffin Gulch Lane about one mile south of the Baker City limits. Follow the gravel road about one mile to the business on the left. The grand opening will be from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. There will also be a drawing for an IM6 rod and reel. To reach Newman, call541-523-4156 or 541-519-7210.
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. Email items to billr@ lagrandeobserver.com or call them in to 541-963-3161.
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Carla Sorweide, owner of Haught's 24 Flavors on Adams Avenue, was recently the victim of a burglary that leaves the future of her business in jeopardy.
Business helping business Joe Beans Coffee starts fundraiser to assist Haught's after thief steals money from ice cream shop's safe By Bill Rautenstrauch The Observer
LA GRANDE - It's never easy keeping a small, local business up and running and healthy but it gets much harder when someone breaks in and steals money that's been set aside for mmigage payments and employee paychecks. Cm'la Smweide, owner of Rought's 24 Flavors restaurant and ice cremn parlor, found that out the hm·d way recently but she found out something else. In La Grande, people tend to rally around their friends in need. "This is business to business, one helping another, and I can't even tell you how good it makes me feel," Sorweide said Monday as she talked about the efforts of Al and Colleen MacLeod, owners ofJoe Beans Coffee, to help her stay on her feet following a devastating burglary. Sorweide, who lives in a hou.se behind the store, said she was
awakened about 4 a.m. on June to the police, who continue to investigate. 4 by the sound of a door closing and a crashing noise. She got Sorweide also posted a note up to investigate, and by the about the heist on her Facebook back door she found an air tank page, m1d La Grande Mayor turned over on its side. Recalling Daniel Pokorney happened to see the incident, she said she believes "Things like this make me madder than a she almost came face-to-face with an snake. Carla's just the nicest person, and such intruder because a a hard worker." motion sensor light - Colleen Macleod, Joe Beans co-owner was still on when she came out. At the time, she didn't think to it. Pokorney is a customer at Joe check her safe. There were no signs Beans, and on one ofhis visits offorced entry and, except for the mentioned the incident to the air tank, nothing looked disturbed. MacLeods. But two days later when she The MacLeods took quick went to pay her bills, she found action, setting out a jar to collect all the money in the safe had money for Sorweide. They also been taken - apparently by posted news of their collection someone with a key. Sorweide efforts on Facebook So far, people declined to say exactly how much have donated about $300, and money was stolen, but did say the fundraising drive continues. the mnount represented about "Things like this make me two week's of income at the store. madder than a snake," Colleen She reported the missing money MacLeod said. "Carla's just the
nicest person, and such a hard worker." Rought's 24 Flavors is something of a landn1ark in La Grande, a locally-owned, locallyoperated business that harks back to a simpler time when a trip to the local soda fuuntain could be a cherished family event. Clair and Helen Rought opened the store at 602 Adams Ave. in 1951, selling burgers and other fare but mostly dealing in ice cream in a wide and exciting array of flavors, from peach to rocky road and everything in between. The Houghts closed their ice cream parlor in 1985, but didn't sell it- not 1ight away. The store with all its fixtures sat empty and idle until 2004, when Sorweide stepped in to buy it. It opened under the new ownership See Burglary I Page 2B
Downtown streetscape work ramps up By Bill Rautenstrauch The Observer
LA GRANDE - Jackhmnmers and other heavy machinery are running full bore in downtown La Grande this week, as construction workers continue on the Big H streestcape project. According to an update from La Grande Community and Economic Development Director Charlie Mitchell, the second week of the project June 11-15 - includes concrete removal and placement of conduit along Depot Street, sidewalk reconstruction, and curb installation. Work is being done on the west side of Depot between Adams and Washington avenues, and on the east side between between Adams and Jefferson. A new driveway will be installed on Jefferson Avenue near Depot. Demolition work is scheduled to begin soon on Elm Street. The city issued a reminder that there will be dust and noise associated with concrete removal, and there will be some alley closures in the project areas. Parking lanes will be closed
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Mike Becker employee John Savely smooths out some concrete during Big H project work Monday on Depot Street north of Adams Avenue.
in certain sections. The Big H project includes a rebuild of sidewalks, alleys and alley approaches on Elm and Depot str·eets between Washington
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13,2012
Dairv industrv sees vouth movement Twilight tour
By Bruce Pokamey
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Oregon's dairy industry seems to be bucking a trend that plagues other agricultural sectors nationwide. While the average age of farmers in general is going up, there appears to be an influx of young dairy operators in Oregon that is slowing down the graying of the state's dairy farmers overall. The enthusiasm of youth is helping the industry keep up with the times, both economically and environmentally. While current statistics are hard to come by, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Oregon dairy's demographics are changing. "I believe there is a much larger percentage of young people getting into the dairy industry in Oregon compared to other states," said Jim Krahn of the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association. ''At our latest convention, we had dairy farn1ers from Washington and Idaho in attendance and they commented on how they couldn't believe the high number of young people attending." The Oregon Depmtment ofAgriculture has noticed as well. ODA's Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) Program hosted a manure management field day in late April for CAFO permit holders and operators. The field day focused on calibrating different types of manure application equipment, measming and recording manure nutrient content, and implementing various cultural practices that help make manure management successful. "For our stafl; one of the most gratifying parts of the field day was the pmticipation by the next generation of operators," said Wym Matthews, ODA's CAFO
BURGLARY Continued from Page lB -but under the same name -on Valentine's Day in 2005. Sorweide has done her all to keep Haught's pretty much as it was back in the day, right down to the old juke box with its rock and roll tunes. The menu's about the same as it was before, with fresh home-made burgers, curly fries, hot fudge sundaes and waffles the specialities of the house. And, of course, there's still that wide, wonderful selection of ice crean1. Sorweide is a widow and a
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continued the farm, but only Program manager. ''We had if I wanted to." 16 operators under the age Perrin's education inof 30. It is ve1y impOitant eluded a degree in general to note that the younger agriculture from Oregon generation took the time to attend this activity. We were State University. He's also attended numerous conferimpressed by their interest ences and trainings, includlevel and questions." ing the ODA field day. But it Ceitainly, some of the was the life-long job training younger attendees were gained by working alongside strongly encouraged to athis father that has most tend the field day by their fathers - the primary given him the skills to be dairy operasuccessful. Perrin has tm: But others '1 believe there is a been a very took their much larger percentage active leader own initiative to be there and ofyoung people getting as well. He into the dairy industry currently learn more about success- in Oregon compared to is aboard member of fulmanure at1zer states." management. the Oregon "We all know - Jim Krahn, Oregon Dairy Dairy FarmFarmers Association the future ers Associaof successful tion. agricultural operations Pete Mahaffy is just as depends on cultivating the active and interested in next generation offarmers;' Oregon's dairy industry, said Matthews. "If Oregon's but it wasn't always that future CAFO operators are way. He and his wife Kelly like this group of young indi- currently run a 200-acre viduals, Oregon's CAFO agdairy near Coos Bay. "I grew up on my family's riculture operations will be in very capable hands:' farm, but I had no interest Dairy farming in Oregon in returning when I left has survived as well as for OSU," said Mahaffy, any state for a couple of who received a general agriculture degree but mireasons. First, the growth nored in horticulture. "The in organic dairying, while one moment that changed not unique to Oregon, has by direction was a guest provided a market for lecture on intensive rotaa value-added product. tional grazing. It seemed Secondly, the Tillamook area continues to provide like a perfect theory for the the opportunity for farmriver valley that the farm was located on east of Coos ers to graze their dairy Bay. That led me to work cattle- something that's for an organic dairy farmer not always an option in other states. following graduation, where I could learn my craft prior Younger dairy farmers are coming into the business to returning home." from different directions. MahaffY's parents did not encourage him to return "Dai1y farming is what home because they knew I've always known," said Matt Perrin of Perrin Family dairying was a hard life. Dairy in Woodburn. "It's part Still, he made the deciof who I am. In a way, I've al- sion to be part of the next ways known it is something generation of dai1y fanners in Oregon. I would do. But I also didn't "The attitude of the dairy want to see all of my dad's operators has changed hard work just disappear. Dad said he would love it if I significantly in the last grandmother who puts long hours in at Haught's, bolstering the work offive or more employees who keep the store running into the evening hours each day. Paying bills and making payroll is always a challenge, and Sorweide said she's worried she may not smvive this setback. She said her business insurance does not cover the loss. She said she has two mortgage payments coming due soon, and other bills to pay as well. "Wednesday's my birthday and I can't think of a worse thing to happen on a birthday," she said. For Al and Colleen Ma-
cLeod, it's unthinkable for Haught's to be driven out of business by a thief They said they want to help keep that from happening. ''She's a struggling businesswoman and she's got a place that's Americana from the word go," Colleen MacLeod said, adding she that empathizes with Sorweide because someone recently broke into Joe Beans. ''It's just unacceptable that people target these small businesses," she said. People wishing to donate can do so at Joe Beans at 1009 Adams Ave. Donations can also be made to Haught's account at Community Bank.
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nine years since I returned horne," said Mahaffy. "Some thought organic was just a flash in the pan moment, but the industry has rnatured to the point that there is confidence in its long term stability." Both Perrin and Maha:ffY agree that the younger generation of Oregon dairy farmers has a high interest in best management practices and good stewardship. That doesn't mean their parents do not share that interest. But with additional education and better technology, the new wave of operators may have an advantage. ''These young people are concerned about the product they are producing, the way their animals are handled, and environmental stewardship" said ODFA's Krahn. "They realize that dairy farming today is not just milking cows. It's a well-rounded approach that includes taking care ofthe animals, the land, and the water." Young dairy farmers are also being molded into leaders. ODFA offers a dairy leadership program to help engage the next generation. The program provides media training, meetings with legislators, and opportunities to attend industry meetings. It's all part of giving young dairy farn1ers as many tools as possible to succeed in today's fast-changing world of agriculture. ''The whole process we've set up helps make these young dairy farmers feel welcome and they are encouraged to be involved," said Krahn. For the Oregon consumer, it's good to know there is a new wave ofdairy farmers arriving on the scene.
to spotlight wood markets The Wallowa County Wood Marketing Twilight Tour is set for June 21. Participants can learn about emerging and existing wood product mmkets in Wallowa County and their potential impact for private woodland owners, contractors and others. The tour will run from 3 to 8 p.m. Participants will carpool from the Oregon Department of Forestry Office on Highway 82 in Wallowa. Highlights include: • John and Cheryl Peel's property, where a pilot harvesting/marketing project is under way that is selecting material for the Integrated Biomass Campus in Wallowa as well as other markets. Butch Tansey, a logger, and Rick Wagnei; ODF, will be on hand to explain the operation and answer questions. • The Integrated Biomass Campus. See and discuss current progress, future vision, wood needs and pwduct outputs from this unique facility. David Schmidt, Integrated Biomass Resomces, LLC, and Nils Christoffersen, Wallowa Resources, will lead the discussion.
• Jim Zacharias's mill in Joseph and Drew Wahon/ Joseph Goebel's mill. Learn about the raw material needs, including niche mmkets for these two small sawmills that purchase/process local logs. The Zacharias mill is stationary and the Wahon/ Goebel mill is portable. • A log buyer from Boise will give an overview of traditionallog markets, including log specifications, price trends and a look ahead. There will be time for questions and discussion. This tour is sponsored by the OSU Extension Service, Wallowa Resources and the Oregon Department of Forestry in cooperation with local business owners and conti·actors. Anyone interested in timber markets is invited to attend. limited walking over uneven terrain will occur, so wear appropriate closed-toe fuotwear and plan for inclement weather. Participants should also bring snaCks and water. Pre-register by June 19 by calling the OSU Extension Service Union County Office at 541-963-1010.
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NORTHEAST OREGON TRICT 5J 1s c urrently mat erials. books, new 7:30-2:00 . 2505 E 0 il ex p e ri e n ce Reta CLASSIFIEDS offers 'as seen on TV' items, accept ing app lica ti ons Ave . and/or a background 1 11 Self He lp & Support f or a B HS As s ista nt electric bui lt in stove. f a rmin g, ra n ch in g , Group Ann o un ce Footba ll Coach a nd tras h compa cto r, large YARD SALE& equine or we ld ing a ments at no charge . m en's pants & Jackets, tvvo Bus Drivers f or Fundraiser asset Schedule major Please ca ll th e 20 12-2013 school for the Celtic Society of rad ia I arm saw, Toyota flex ibility a must. ExJulie at 541-523-3673. year. For a comp lete Eastern Oregon custom t ires & w heels. ce ll ell t b enefit s a nd description of the posi'KIL TED' YARD SALE stroller, swing outstand 111 g growth THE DRIVE WILL tions go t o: Friday, Saturday, & SunNARCOTICS opportu nit ies are on ly www.baker.k 12.or.us day 9 am t o 4 pm ANONYMOUS: BE WORTH IT!!!! the beg1nni ng M onday, Th ursday, & or conta ct th e employ405 F Avenue (co rn er of Qua li f ied ca n didates ment div is ion . Y ou Friday at Bpm Epi scopal DON'T FORGET t o take F & Sunset La Gra nde, sho uld ema il res um e your s igns down after OR) may a ls o ca ll Church 2 177 First St., t o: yo ur garage sale. 541-524-22 61 A ll ya rd sale items sold Ba ker City. rbarksdale@tractorsupNortheast Oregon and donations raised, ply com Classifieds w ill go to help f und: NARCOTICS BAKER SCHOOL D1strict or apply onli ne at: Th e La Grande Ce lt ic ANONYMOUS 5J is cu rrently acceptwvvw.tract orsupply .jobs HUGE SALE. A ntrques. Fest 1 va l and H1ghland HELP Ing applications fo r a to requ 1s iti on t oy s, collecti bles, et c. Ga m es. AuQust 25 & LINE-1-800-766-3724 BHS H ead C ross #2 138.EOE Fri. & Sat.; Ba m - 3pm . 26, 2012 at -th e Union Meetings: Country Coach for th e 1928 Colorado St County Fa irgrounds La RN NEEDED FT in our 8 :00PM: Sunday, Mon2 01 2- 20 1 3 sc h o o l Grande, Oregon . day, Tuesday, VVednes- MOVING SALE. 13th & new Ba ker City office. year For a comp lete Rewa rding career w ith day, T hursday, Friday Cart er St s. June 15 & The Celtic Society of East ern description of the posiOregon Heart 'n Hom e HosNoon: Thursday 16; 8 am - 4 pm. Fu rniti o n s go to PO Box 3236 La Grande, p i 6:00PM: M onday,Tuesce $28$ 32/hr ., www.baker.k1 2 .or.us tu re, hou sewa re s , Oregon day, Wednesday, Thurss ign -o n bo n u s o f or contact t he employwood. lot s of m1 sc eocelts@yahoo.com $2.500 . ge nero u s day (Women 's) (54 1)975-3952 m e nt d iv is ion . Yo u MULTI-FAMILY SALE. V'./'NW.80CeltS.COrTI 7:00PM: Saturday PTO. f ull benefits. may a l so ca ll Fri. & Sat. ; 8 am - noon vvww.gohospice.com 541-524-2261. YARD SALE, Sat 16th , Rear Basement En· 3220 9th Dr. f o r more 1nfo . & t o ap8am-3pm . 903 4th St. ply . trance at 1501 0 Ave. HELP WANTED : CounQ uality horse t ack & MULTI-FAMILY SALE. t ry Cottage Cafe . For Sat. only . 7 arn - 3 pm. ri d ing appa1·e l. ta bl e BABYSITTER NEEDED mor~e i nfo co m e by in my hom e 2 - 3 days 1600 block of Birch St saw & oth er woo d per w k. $5/hr. Ca ll Jes29 15 1Ot h St . and f ill t ools, ca m ping equ ip., NARCOTICS out an applicatio n NEIGHBORHOOD SALE c lothe s , 30 1 Bo s e sica at 54 1-403-299 1 ANONYMOUS: 6/15 & 6/16; BAM speakers & lot s more ! Wed ., 8 p .m . "E" St. (b et wee n Baker County Lib rary Bi rch & Cedar) Bikes, YARD SALE. Fn . 9-3 & WEDNESDAY JUN E 13, 2012 Sa t: 8- N oo n. 807 f urniture, etc .. 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Clea n, o rWed · 7 PM - 8 PM subjects 14 Most recent 160 - Lost & Found gan ize d m a rk e d Fri. , l PM - 8 PM 46 Fine sediment 15 Work with oils 54 1-963 -4276. 1406 Grove St. Apt s. F OUND HOOD E D 6th St. 47 ltty-bitty bite 17 Polite addr. Corne r of Grove & D St s. Sweatshirt w/ personal 49 Loves madly Open be lo ngings. Found at 18 Forenoon hrs. 320 ESTHER, Imble r. Nonsmokin g 51 Lacking good Sa t: 8-2, no early 2106 Cove Ave. Call t o 19 CEO aides W heel Cha1r Accessible sa les . Crafts, sc rapidentify 541-963-4969. 20 Unlatch, taste bookin g, lad ies n ice 52 Grinding tooth to a bard FOUND METAL box AA MEETING: wo rk c lo th 1ng (6, 8, containing CO 's, ca ll to 21 Canary's Willing To Go To Any 1 0). m e n's clothin g, identify. Found M em oLength Group furniture, ho use ho ld DOWN dinner ri al weeke nd , 111 La 23 Insult, slangily Tues .; 7 PM - 8 PM items, yard stuff and a Grande. 541 -969-3320 Sat., 8 PM - 9 PM bunch more ! 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deal about you to someone who has been watching you and wantsto know you better. LEO {July 23-Aug. 22) -- Someone may credit your nxcnt success to "magic powers" ·- but it's really onJy a matter of dedication, hard work and alittleluck. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ·- You may enjoy a bit more personal power today than you havehad in the past, and your infiuence will be fell by many. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) ·- It's important to put a human face on certain issues that have been only theoretical for too long. Reality requires attention. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- You may find yourself asking a few questions today that you promised yourself -- and another -· that you would never ask. SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- The past is the past, and you must be willing to look ahead with your eyes open and your head in the game. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- An
by Stella Wilder honest show of feelmg will be required in a certain sensitive, and unavoidable, situatiOn today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Fcb. 18) -· You may have to take your chances today in order to maximize your rewards. You will rece1ve at least asmuch as you risk at thistime. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -· That which is new and different may be capt1vat1ng others, bui you arelikely lo find lhal you'resalisfied with the tried-and-tme. ARIES (:\larch 21-Aprill9) ·- You may have to work hard to convince a competitor that the time has come to cooperate rather than compete. A solid team can bemade. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -· What you see ahead of you today may both excite you and causeyou to fear what you do not know -- but vou must addressissues d1rectly. (Er:no Ps ~~ e:lit«ial q•wtiGrn, plt:U! cmt:Kt Hollie Wtnh g <J mmt"ing@
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68 -THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 2012
PUBLISHED BY THE LA GRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD· SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES
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Baker City Herald: 541-523-3673 • www.bakercityherald.com • classifieds@bakercityherald.com • Fax: 541-523-6426 The Observer: 541-963-3161 • www.lagrandeobserver.com • classifieds@lagrandeobserver.com • Fax: 541-963-3674 220 - HeI p Wanted Union Co. DUTCH BROS. coffee is accepting resumes now! Send resume to Blind Box #2403 c/o The Observer, 1406 Fifth St, La Grande, OR 97850. End date, Mon. June 18th.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECH I or 11Recreation (Temporary) Oxbow, OR The Environmental Tec h I or II conducts on-site rec reation use surveys at IPC' s hydroelectric facil1ties locat ed 011 the Snake River and its tributaries. Frequent weekend and hol iday work are required. Qualified cand idates must be at least 18 years of age, have a high school diploma or GED and demonstrated outdoor work expe ri e nc e in a ll weather cond1t1on s. A valid dr1ver's l1cense with an accepta ble dr1ving rec o rd required. Deadline to apply is 06/22/2012 For a complete JOb description and to apply, visit us at:www.idaho: power.com/ca reers, or contact our emp loyment office at (208) 388-2965 Idaho Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer LA GRANDE School District has an opening for a Scretary Ill/F iscal Officer. Visit our website for more Information! wvvw .lagrande.k12.or. us EEO
340- Adult Care 220 - Help Wanted 330 - Business OpUnion Co. portunities Baker Co. RELIABLE, DEPENDLICENSED OREGON INDEPENDENT ABLE, l ov in~/car in~ State Adult Foster CONTRACTED individuals t o- do 1n Home. Desires one feNEWSPAPER male res1dent . Lovely home ca re f or private CARRIERS WANTED THE OBSERVER country home specialelderly lady. For interDeliver The Obserer AND v iew please ca ll. izing in t otal care resito homes in BAKER CITY HERALD 541 -963 -9329 dence . Compet ent & or Wallowa County, Newspaper Delivery 541 -786-1754. qua lity care served Mon. Wed . & Fri . routes. both ea rner w ith kind ness . Ca ll APPROXIMATE and motor, w ill be ad(5 4 1 )8 56 -3 75 7 f o r PROFIT: $50 A DAY vertised in the Bu simore details . Contact Th e Observer ness Oppo rtunity ]lrn.OBSER~-ER 541 -963-3161 . sect1on . Plea se see 345- Adult Care classification #330 for Union Co. any available routes THE OBSERVER is current ly looking for at th1s time. ADULT FOSTER home 2 part t1me, t empoin La Grande has imMilieu Aide-Academic: rary circu lati on assismed iat e open111g f or HS diploma. FT. benetants to deliver The ma le or fema le resif1ts. Observer 111 Wallowa dent , private room . needed to deliver Child Treatment County. Hours are Ca l1541-910-7557. Mon. Wed . and Fri. Specialist· BA orBS deThe Observer in 1 pm-6 p m. Candigree in related field. Wallowa WALTER ELDERLY Ft, benefits. dates must have a County. Please CARE has one private valid OR drivers liOpen until f illed . Ca ll call morn avai lable now, (541 )963-8666. Grande cense. clean dnv111g 541 963 3161 fo r female Nice, Ronde Ch ild Center record, reliable ve hi• ' fri endly, homelike atprovldes intens ive cle, and must pass for more details! rnosphere, w ith qua lity mental health services drug test. The Obcare. 541 -963-7998. server is an equal op- INVESTIGATE BEFORE to ch ildren ages 3-12 . YOU INVEST! A lways Private agency. portunity emp loyer . a good policy, espe- 355- Day Care Union www .grcckids.org . Please send resume cia lly for bus1ness op- _C_o_._ _ _ _ _ __ OHSU SCHOOL of to cgibson@lagrande po rtunities & f ran- CHILDCARE AVAIL. in Nursing in La Grande observer.com or ca ll chises. Call OR Dept . Un1on, registe red . Ca ll is seeking a full-time Caro ly n Gibson of Ju stice at (503) 541-562-511 3. 54_1_-9_6_3_-3_1_6 1 Research Ass ista nt for ...__ _·_ __. 378-4320 or the Feda 4-year study to imeral Trade Commission 360. Schools & prove snacking habits 230 - Help Wanted at (877) FTC-H ELP for among youth. Dut1es free info r rna t ion . 0 r ...;l.;.;;ns.;;.t;;;.r.::uc.;;.t;;;.io;;.;n.;.__ __ inclu de data collection out of area vis it ou r Web site at ACCREDITED, PRIVATE in school and commu- AIRLINES ARE HIRINGwww.ftc.gov/bizop. C hr is tian Schoo l , nity site s, ass isting Train for hands on grades 1-8 . Now acAviation Maintenance w 1th project act1v1t1 es, cep ting app l1cat 1ons Career. FAA approved meeti ng with project for 2012-20 13 school program . Financial aid investigators, and preyear . A ll de nominaif qua lified - Housing paring repo rts. Application s accepted. Ca ll tiOn s are due June 25, available. Ca ll Aviation 523-4165 or 519-1715 2012. For more inforInstitute of Mainte- MOTOR ROUTE Driver Needed: 35 nance. mation and to apply 40 miles per day, 3 ATTEND COLLEGE ON1-877-804-5293 . online VIsit www.ohsuLINE from Horn e. jobs com , reference iPNDCI days a wk. for ap*Medica l, *Bu siness, proximately 2 hours IRC36584 . OHSU IS an *Cr1rnina l Justice, pe r day In co me MEO employer. *Ho s p 1ta l 1ty . Jo b about $3 75/mo . placement assistance. Do a two-way favor ... get Must have reliable Co mputer available. Fivehicle & insurance. extra cash for yourself and nancial Aid if qua li fied . Pick up Route Remake it possible for someone SCHEV cert1fied. Ca ll quest Form at 1915 else to enjoy those items you 866-688-7078 First Street, Baker never use. Sell them with a wvvvv.CenturaOn line.c City Olll (PN DC) classified ad. 220- Help Wanted Union Co.
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A CLASSIFIED ad is an EASY WAY TO BOONE'S WEED & Pest Control. LLC. Trees, REACH over 3 million 0 r na menta 1 & Pacific Nort hwesternTu rf -Herbicide, Insect ers. $5 25/25-word & Fungus . St ructural classified ad in 30 da ily lnsect s, includ ing Terne wspape r s for m 1t e s . Bare gro u nd 3-days Call th e Pac1fi c weed control: noxious Northwest Daily Con weeds, aquati c nection (916) 288-60 19 weeds . Ag ncu lt ure & e mail o r Righ t of Way Ca ll ellzabeth@cnpa.com Doug B oone· for more info (PNDC) 541-403-1439. BK ADVERTISE VACATION CEDAR/Chain Link SPECIALS to 3 mil lion fences, new construePac 1f 1c Nort hwestern tio n, r e m ode lin g, ers I 30 dally newspahandyman se rvice . pers, six s t ates. Great refe rences. 25-wo rd c lass ifi ed CCB# 60701 Kip Car$525 for a 3-day ad. ter Co ns tru ctio n, Call (916) 288-6019 or 541-519-6273, BK. visit www.pnna .com/ advertis in g_pndc .cf m D & H Roofing & for the Pacific Northw est Dally Co nnec- Construction, Inc CCB#1 92854. New roofs tion. (PNDC) & reroofs. Shi ngles, ANTIQUE FURNITURE metal. All phases of REPAIR construct ion. Pole build· Custom Woodworking ings a specialty. Call Max (541 )523-2480 Respond within 24 hrs. 541-524-9594 BK ANYTHING FOR EVER CONSIDER a ReA BUCK verse Mortga ge ? At Sa me owner for 21 yrs. least 62 years old ? 541-910-6013 Stay in your home & CCB#101518, LG in crease cas h f low ! CINDERELLA'S HOUSE Safe & Effective ! Ca ll Cleaning Serv1ce Now for your FR EE References available. DVD ! Ca ll Now 888-785-5938. (PNDC ) 541 -403-1004 BK
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MOW JOES Garden & other tilling, field mowing, gravel/dirt spreading, shrub digout and more. Joe Sandoz, La Grande: 541-963-7595 OREGON STATE law requires anyone w ho contracts for constructi on work to be licensed w1th the Construction Con tractors Board. An active license means the contractor is bonded & insured. Ver1fy th e contractor' s CCB license throug h th e CC B Consume r I/Veb s 1t e wwvv .hlrealicensedcontractor.com.
POE CARPENTRY • New Home Construction • Remodeling • Additi ons • Shops, Garages • Til e & Interior Finish • Decks & Fences Fast Response & Quality Work Wade, 541-523-4947 or 541-403-0483 CCB#176389
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SPRING CLEANING. No SEASONED FIRE- DO YOU need papers to job too big or sma ll. 8 sta rt your fi re w 1thl Or WOOD, delivered are yo u mov1ng & yrs experience & ex$ 150 a cord, La need papers t o vvrap ce llent referen ces . Grande, 541-786-2112. thos e special items 7 541 -519-5120, BK TAMARACK & Red F1r. The Baker City Hera ld $170/cord. TREE PROBLEMS? at 1915 First St reet 541 -523-3069 1/Ve can help sells tied bundles of Insect & Disease Co ntrol papers. BL111dles, $1 00 440 - Household Full Service Tree Careeach . Items Ferti111ng- Evaluations Tony's Tree Service APPLIANCES GREAT PRICES 600 Elm- 541-523-3708 Amana range, coi I top We buy all scrap CC B # 63504 $130. Kenmore built-in metals, vehicles & dishwasher; $90. Call batteries. Site TWILIGHT 541-519-5808 . Baker clea nups & drop off SEWER & DRAINS bins of all sizes . Time t o c lean out t he KENMORE A/C wirePick up service ROOTS! mote. Like nevv. $75, available. Call for Appt to be 541 -519-3280 . Baker Sam Haines Enterworry free for anprises other year I REFRIGERATOR FOR 541-519-8600 541-519-0409 sale . 1/Vor·ks gr·eat l 541 -403-2897 All work guaranteed $50. 541 -523-5528 (IN WRITING) 445 - Lawns & GarMOREL BUYER in Baker dens 541-403-0925 YARD A MESS? 1/Ve can Help ************* Lawns- Weed spray VICKIE' S CLEANING SERVICE CASH FOR JUNKERS Fertil ize - Renovations * House Cleaning Sprin kler Systems Unwanted cars & Tony's Tree Service trucks & scrap meta ls * Bu siness Cleanin g 600 Elm - 541-523-3708 Vickie Schaber too ! Ca ll today for 541 519-6086, BK more info. CCB# 63504 Excellent References! BAKER CITY 450 - Miscellaneous AUTO SALVAGE Open Satu rdays ATTENTION DIABET541-523-7500 ICS w ith M ed icare . 3210 H St. Get a FREE ta lkin g ************* meter and drabetic testing suppl1 es at NO COST , p lu s FP.EE NORTHEAST OREGON reCLASSIFIEDS home delivery I Best of serves the nght to reall, th 1s meter ell miject ads that do not 410- Arts & Crafts nat es pain f ul f111ge r comply w 1th state and pri c k in g ! Ca ll federal regu lations or "LATHER UP SOAPS" 888-739-7199. IPNDC) th at are off e nsiv e, Handmade 1n Baker City, fa lse, m isleading, deOregon!www.OLAcom/ AVAILABLE AT ceptive or otherw ise st ore/ latherupsoap T H E OBSERVER unacceptable. 928-234-5851 NEWSPAPER
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470- Tools MANTIS DELUXE Tiller. NEW! FastStart en g in e Sh1ps FREE . One-Yea r-Money-Back Guarantee when you buy DIRECT . Call f or th e DVD and FREE Goo d So il book ! 877-357-5647. IPNDCl 475- Wanted to Buy ANTLERS, BUYING brow n, whit e, chalk. Honest fair pri ces . Ca ll 541-786-4982. LG BUYING JUNIPER logs by th e truckload . Best rate f or dry logs, w ill co ns ider g reen as well. 541 -403-2727 BK
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750 - Houses For Rent Baker Co.
2 YR, F, spayed black & ROOM FOR rent. $320. TAKING applications Util ities included, parwh1te cat Shots curfor 3 -bdrm, 1 1/2 bath, "WELCOME HOME" Garage , large fenced rent. 541-523-385 1 t ially furnishe d, plus yard $850/m o. Please cab le. 541-962-7708 . Call call 541-52 3-4435 beLG 6 MITTEN-TOED kit(541 )963-7476 t ens . Need good tween 8 am - 5 pm GREENWELL MOTEL hom es ! Ready t o go ! GREEN TREE 541-963-4134 ext. 101 Call 541 -963-8179, LG. Rent $475/mo. APARTMENTS Furnished room w/micro- 2310 East 0 Av en ue HELP ATTRACT wave, small fridge, co lor La Grande,O R. 97850 ATTENTION TO Free to good home ads TV w/HBO, phone & all gtmanager@gslcommunities.c YOU R Am utilities included . 305 Adare FREE! ams Ave. La Grande . 3 lrnes for 3 days . Income Rest rict ions ApAdd symbols & baldply 720 - Apartment ing ! Professionally Managed Rentals Baker Co. by It' s a little extra t hat gets KITTENS: TAMED and 1300 SQ FT. 2 bdrm, in GSL Propert ies BIG results. Tra111ed 'N/Iove. Ready house. W i-fi W / S/G Located Behind La now.541-755-5003 p a 1d $ 625/mo. Grande Have your ad STAND (541)388-8382 Town Center QUI MINIATURE, LONG for as little as $1 extra. harred dachshund. Call 2 BDRM . W/S/G pa id. 541 -962-5664. Baker $470/mo plus $300 dep. 541-980-5553 www.LagrandeR-
entals.com 2-BDRM., 1 bath: Recently updated . Qu iet AKC YELLOW Lab Puplocation . No 730 - Furnished pies for sa l e . smoking/pets. Poo l, Apartments Baker 54 1-534- 24 4 4 or spa and lau ndry on site 1 BDRM, all utilities paid. 541 -263-1426. LG $425/mo. $585/mo plus dep. No 541-523-4824 pets. 541 -523-9414 GREAT FATHER'S Day Gift! Regist ered AKC ADULT LIVING. Quiet 1 740- Duplex Rentals Yellow Lab s. Ready bdrm. 1 bat h apa rt- Baker Co. 4th of July . Pa rents on men t. Laundry on site. site. 5 males. 3 f eBeau tiful b uildin g 3 BDRM, 1 bath. Fenced yard, no smoking/pets. ma les . 541 -523-3782 . W/S/G included. Clos e $550/mo . Ava il abl e La Grande t o park & downtovvn. 6/0 1 - 541 -519-2878 Grove St. 2 134 $600/mo plus dep. 3-BDRM, 1 bath . 2720 or 5 41- 5 2 3- 3035 4th St . $500/mo. W/S 509-366-1993 541 -523 -4464, pd days or 541-5 23-1077, YOU TOO can use CLEAN, QUIET 1 bdrm evenings. apartment in updat ed t his attention get bui ldi ng $375/ m o. ter. Ask a classif ied 745- Duplex Rentals $350 sec. dep 2332 rep how you can 9th St. Avail. aprrox. Union Co. get your ad to stand 06/01/12. out l1ke this I 2 BDRM, w/s paid, $550 (541)786-2888 pl us dep. M t Emily P r ope r t y Mgt. NICE 1 bdrm apartment 541-962-1 074. 1n Baker City Elderly or Disab led . Sub si- AVAIL 6/4. Very nice dized Low Rent . Beauqu iet 2 bdrm 1 bat h tifu l River Set t ing A ll 1/ 2 garage. Suitable uti lit ies paid except f or two. W/d, fri dge, phone and cab le . stove. W/S pa1d . Lawn Eq ual Oppo rtunit y care provided . Not Ca l l h o u s in g . HUD approve d. No 541 -523-3240 (off-site 660- Livestock pets . non- s moking . manager) or Taylor RE $550 mo. $400 de& Mgm t at GRASS FAT lambs & 6 posit 306 First St La 503-58 1-1 813 . breeding ewes. RichGrande. 541-910-5200 TIY-711 land . 541 -519-7194 750 - Houses For WE BUY all classes of QUIET EDGE of t own. Rent Baker Co. A ll utilit ies incl uded. horses, 541-523- 6119; J .A . Bennett Live- 2 bdrm. 2 bath; $550/mo 3-BDRM, OAK fl oors, ga s heat Carport storstock, Baker City, OR. 1 bdrm. 1 bath; $400/mo age. No smoking, sm. plus deposit. Reference pet c onsid . $675/mo checked. 541-51 9-0712 690 - Pasture & dep 541-383-3343 TAKING Applications PASTURE FOR rent, 3 for tw o 2-bd rm, 1 bath 1/ 2 a c re s, apartm e nts. O u1 et. 54 1-663 -04 79 , La completely remodeled. HOME SWEET HOME Grande. No pet s. Dow ntow n Cut e clean 2 & 3 bdrrns . locat 1o n. $695/ m o. 1 sm. pet considered . WANTED : SPRING or No smoking. Please ca ll between summer pa sture for 25 Ed M oses 8 a. m . - 5 p .m . - 200 p lu s cows. (541)5 19-1814 541 -523-4435 54 1-8 89 - 58 53 or 725 - Apartment 208-741 -0800. KW Rentals Union Co. EXCELLENT CONDIDORM ROOM $200. TION Econom ical off-street 3 bdrrn, 2 bath w /farn ily A ll offi ce spaces, room . Lg s111g le car uti lites paid. Northeast garage w/attached boPr op er t y M g mt nus room _View of city 541-910-0354. light s & mounta ins . 10 mi les from Bak er . 3 BDRM, $630/ month, 14853 Goodrrch Creek Incl udes uti lities, 1 yr 710- Rooms for Ln . $875/ mo . 1st. last lea se, no pets/ smokRent plus depos its. (Poss iIng. 54 1-91 0-5359 ble ace rage & barn NOTICE s p ac e ava il abl e) A ll rea l estate adverCENTURY21 541-519-8128 ti sed here-in is subject PROPERTY MANAGEMENT t o th e Fede ral Fa1r NICE LITTLE ho me in Ho usin g A ct, w hi ch Baker. 2 bdrm, 1 bath makes it illega l t o adLagrandeRentals.co w/f ridge , ra n ge & v ertise any prefere nce, m W/D $475/m o.& $325 limitations or discrimisecunty deposit Util inatron ba sed on race, (541)963-1210 ti es not inc l ud ed . co lo r, re li gion, sex, 541-893-6341 hand icap , fam i li al CIMMARON MANOR Kingsview Apts. status or nati ona l oriOREGON TRAIL PLAZA gin , or intent io n t o 2 bd, 1 ba . Call Cent ury Trailer/RV spaces make any such prefer21, Eagle Cap Realty. for· rent. ences, li mitations or 541 -963-1210 $1 85 per month discrimination. W e w ill Includes W/S/G. not know1ngly accept CLOSE TO EOU , 2 Nice quiet bdrm, 3rd floor, m ost any advertising fo r real downtow n locat1on utilities paid, co in-op estat e w hich is in vio541-523-2777 laundry, no srno krng, lati on of thi s law . A ll no pet s, $450/month. persons are hereby inSUMPTER: New ly re· $ 4 00 dep m odeled 2 bd rm, 1 ' 0-3696 541-91 @ bath. Sewer, garbage paid W ood st ove, fo rmed that all dwell- SMALL STUDIO apt. propan e, private river So uth s1 de lo cati on, ing s adve rt ised are side park. Smaller pet close to Univeristy. No avai lable on an equal consid. $450/mo plus pet s, no smo kin g. opportunity ba sis . dep (541)894-2263 $195/mo. EQ UA L HO USIHG OPPO RTU HilY 541-963-4907' SUNFIR E REAL Est ate LLC. has Houses, DuGREAT W EE KLY LARGE 1 bd, 1 ba, w/s/g st ove a nd fridge ill RATES: Baker City plexes & Apa rtm ents M ot el. W i-Fi, color TV, $385/m o, c luded, f or rent Call Chery l Guzman f or li stings, mi c row av e, f ri dg e . 18 08 3rd St . La Gra 11de, 1541)398-1602 541-523-6381 541-523-7727. 550- Pets
HOROSCOPES THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012 YOUR BIRTHDAY by Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most ere· alive individuals born under your sign -· or any other sign, for that matter ·· and you will pursue all manner of endeavors that allow you to explore your native creativity without any boundancs or restrictions at all. \'ou cannot abide being told that you cannot do a tbing; when you bear "no;' all you think is "yes" -· and you are likely to charge ahead and give it a try anyway, just to prove the nay-,ayers wrong! There are times when you may be somewhat bad -mannered -· or, ralh·
er, abmpt, for you are never tnuy bad-man· nered in a traditional sense ·- and others may find your self-absorbed manner offensive at times. FRIDAY, JUNE 15 GEMINI (May21-June 20) ·· You'll feel as though you are getting back in the swing of tbings today after a short period of uncertainty and doubt. CANCER (June 21-July 22) ·· You'll learn
a lot from watchmg a younger family mem· ber do something you've tried to do several times yourself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -· What you do for yourself today is likely to be far more impor· tant in the long run than an)1hingyou do for another. This is not selfishness! VIHGO (Aug. 23-ScpL 22) -- You must keep your eyes open today and read the signs that are presented to you. Accuracy in trans· lation will be impottant. LIBRA (Sept . 23-0 ct, 22) ·· What you imagine you can do will be done before you know il -· provided ym1lake lhal fils! slep in the direction you choose. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ·· You won't know what is happening today when some· thing is done in support of your own efforts with little or no warning. Accept it! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -· You may be getting a little too deep into a situalion that docs not really concern you. Someone you love may misunderstand. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ·· You
752 - Houses for Rent Union Co. 1 BDRM, $500, w/s paid, p l us dep . 541-963-4125 2 BDRM in Unio n. $450 plus dep . Mt Emily P r ope r ty Mg t . 541 -962-1074 2 BDRM mobile on 40 acres, in Summe rville. 3 miles from Elgin No Sm oking, no pets. $650/mo, f 1rst , last, deposit New kitc hen, new bath . Ava il. June 1. 509-680-8614 2 BDRM, mobile hom e. $560/month, w/s/g pa id , HU D okay 541-91 0-3166 2
PLUS bd rm , larg e fenc ed ya rd, shop. p l us dep $7 00 541-963-5125
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BDRM , 1 bath , no smoking, $750 plus dep. M t _Emily P r ope r t y Mg t 541-962-1074
3 BDRM, 2 bath, manuf home . Ve ry nice. cent ra l a/c, $900 plus dep, HUD O K. 1/V/ S paid 910-01 22 5 BDRM, 2 bath house, in Union . $900/month. No pets, no sm oking. V a ll ey Rea l t y 541-963-4174. FULLY FURNISHED 3 bd rm, 2 bath, f ireplace, family room , hot tub, 3 blocks from hospi t a l, av a il a bl e m id -A ug ust 2 0 12 thro ug h m1 d-Jun e 2013 . Com p le te ly hand icapped accessible. $1 100, Nort heast P r o p. M gm t . (541 )91 0-03 54 LA GRANDE, 403 Hamson, 2 bdrm, w / storag e sh ed, $600/ m o, $600 dep. No sm okers or pets, 541-562-5807 . LARGE, UNIQUE older ho me, f e nc ed ya rd , $800 pl us dep . 541-963-5125. 760 - Commercial Rentals 24X40 SHOP, w alk-In & overh ead doors, sma ll off1ce area. $350 mo. $30 0 de p . 541-910-3696. APPROX. 1300 sq. f t. commerc ial business dow ntown, prime locat io n. Attra ct ive st oref ront. M t . Emily Propert y M a na ge rn ent. 541-910-0345, LG. BEARCO BUSINESS Park 3600-1200 sq. ft. units available. For m o re i nf o c all 541-963-771 1. LG. PRIME OFFICE & retail spa ce avail. for rent at 1405 Ca mpbell St. Call 541-523-4434 780- Storage Units 12X35 STORAGE un it. mo $ 10 0 541-963-4125. 2
STORAGE units, 12x24, $4 0/ mo, 1808 3rd St , La Grande, (541)398-1602
by Stella Wilder know bow to look at what's been done in a way that lets you both learn quickly and apply what you have learned almost immedi· ately. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -· You may be tempted to quit a current endeavor in favor of something with a far less certain outcome. Do you really want to take the risk? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ·- You may feel the need to keep certain information to yourself today; the time will come when you must share it ·· and you'll know when that is. ARIFS (March 21-April1 9) -- Give your· self 1he benefit of ibe doubiioday, and don't
require so much of yourself that you simply cannot live up to your own demands. TACRUS (April 20-May 20) ·- A dream you have had recently may have practical applications today -- and theoffers that come your way as a result may surprise you. (mrrms Iff
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13,2012
PUBLISHED BY THE LA GRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD- SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES
DEADLINES: LINE ADS: Monday: noon Friday Wednesday: noon Tuesday Friday: noon Thursday
DISPLAY ADS: 2 days prior to pul:llication date
Baker City Herald: 541-523-3673 • www.bakercityherald.com • classifieds@bakercityherald.com • Fax: 541-523-6426 The Observer: 541-963-3161 • www.lagrandeobserver. com • classifieds@lagrandeobserver.com • Fax: 541-963-367 4 780- Storage Units
820 - Houses For Sale Baker Co. 3 BDRM, 2 bath ranch in quiet neighborhood, near the High School Fireplace, fenced, pat1o, 2 car garage. $159,000. Agents welcome. 541 -519-5132
+ Security Fenced • Coded Entry • Lighted for your protection • 4 different size units
+ Lots of RV storage 41298 Chico Rd, Baker City
FSBO. 3000+ sq. ft 3 bdrm, 2 bath. High-end complete re model. $185,000. rmls.com ML#12590961 Call 541 -519-2625
880- Commercial Property 1200 PLUS sq. ft. professional office space, 4 offices, reception area, lrg conference/break area, handicap accessible. Price negotiable per length of lease. Northeast Property Management (541 )91 0-0354
69475 Pumpkin Ridge Rd. Summerville • $226,900
541-523-9050
A PLUS Rentals has storage units available. 5x12 $30 permo 8x8 $25-$35 per mo 8x10 $30 permo *plus deposit* 1433 Madison Ave., or 40 2 Elm St . La Grande. Cal1541-403-1524
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to discuss t he budget closure is made is Grantors' failure to pay for t he f1sca l year bew hen due the monthly ginning July 1, 2012 as installment payments approved by the Northof princpal and intereast Oregon Economic est beg inning June 1, Development District 20 11, and required Budget Committee. A payments for property copy of the budget may be inspected or taxes. obta1n ed at 101 NE First Street , Suite 100, 4 . Amount of Default. By reason of the defau lt, Enterprise, Oregon bethe Beneficiary has detween t he hours of clared all sums ow ing 8:30 a. m . and 5:00 on the obligation sep.m . Th is is a publ1c cure d by th e Trust meeting. Any person may appear· a r1d preDeed immediately due sent argument s for or and payable w hich sum amounts to agai nst any tim in the $69,625.97 pnnc1pal, bu dget document plus interest in the amount of $5,860 .98 Publi sh : June 13, 2012 to February 2, 2012, Lega l no. 24952 w hich 1s accruin g at NOTICE OF t he ra te of 8 percent per ann um, and propBudget Hearing erty tax in th e amount A meet ing of the Boa rd of $2, 170.18. The total of Directors of TEC w 1ll be he ld on June amount of t he defau lt 21, 20 12, at 8:30 am is $77,657.13 together at 1901 Adams Avew ith attorney fees and costs incurred here in nue, La Grande , Orego n. The pu rp ose of by rea son of said det his meeting w ill be to fau lt discuss t he budget f or the f isca l yea r begin- 5. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby g1ven that ning J uly 1, 2012, as approved by the Traint he Beneficiary and ing and Empl oyment Successor Tru stee, by reason of the default, Budget Committee. A have elected and do copy of the budget hereby elect t o fo remay be inspect ed or obta ined at 1901 Adclose the Trust Deed by advertisement and ams Avenue, La sale pursuant to ORS Grande, Oregon, betvveen t he hours of 8 86 .705 to 86 .795, and am a nd 5 pm . This to cause to be sold at public auction to t he budget was prepared highest b1dder for cash on a ba sis of accountthe inter·est in the deing that is consiste nt scribed property w hich w 1t h the basis of accounting used du ring Grantors had, or had t he power to convey, the precedi ng yea r. at t he ti me of t he exeThis bu dget is f or: Annual Period. cution by Grantors of the Trust Deed, together w ith any interPublish June 13, 2012 Leqa l no. 25288 est Grantors' successor in rnterest acqu1red I-N-O_T_I_C_E_O_F_D_E_F_A_U_L_T_ after the execut ion of he Trust Deed, to sa tt AND ELECTION TO Isfy th e obl1gatrons seSELL cured by the Trust 1. Trust De ed. Th1s deed and t he examended notice of depenses of th e sale, infault and electi on t o cluding the compensa sell is recorded pu rsut ions of th e Successor ant to D RS 86.735 (3) Tru stee as provided by w ith respect to th at law, and reasonable atTrust Deed (hereinaftorney fees of Succester th e " Tru st Deed ") sor Trustee. made and executed by Henry P. Kanoho and Becky A Kanoho, bu s- 6 . Date and Place of Sa/e. The sale w ill be ba nd and w ife, w hose con ducted on July 17, address is 455 N. 1Oth 201 2, at 2 00 PM beStreet, Elgin, Oregon low t he steps of t he 97 827, Grant ors, t o Union County CourtWa llowa Titl e Com house corner ent ranee pa ny, Tru st ee, f or located at 1008 K AveKat he rine J. Ba remore, nue, La Gran de, OrePersona l Representagon 97850. t ive of the Estate of Helen R. Roberts, deceased, Ben ef ic iary, 7. Additional Option. Nodated March 29, 2002, t ice is f urther g iven recorded Aprrl 1, 2002, that any perso n na med as M icrof il m Docu111 O RS 86.753 has th e right, at any t ime prior ment No. 20021706, to f1ve (5) days before Records of Un ron County, Oregon. Katht he dat e last set for t he sa le, to have thi s erine J Ba rem ore, individu ally, w hose ad foreclosure proceeding dress is PO Box 11 88, dism1ssed and the Elgin, Oregon 97827, Tru st Deed reinstated was subsequently asby payment to the signed the benefi cial Benef iciary of t he ent ire amou nt then due int erest in the Tru st Deed a s s hown by (ot her t han such porthat A ss ig n111e11t of t ion of the principa l as w ould not th en be due Deed of Trust dat ed December 21 , 201 1, had no defau lt occurred) and by curing record ed December any other default com22, 201 1, as M icrof il m plained of herein that Doc u me n t N o. 2011 4024, and Ph il1p is capable of bei11g M. Wasley, w hose adcured by tendering the performance requi red dress is 105 F1r Street, under th e obligation or Suite 204, La Grand e, Oreg on 97850, w as Tru st Deed, and in adappointed the Succesdit ion to paying the sor Trust ee as shown sums or t endering the by that Appoin tm ent performance necessary to cure th e deof Successor Tru st ee dat ed Ja nuary 20, fa ult, by payrng all costs and expenses 201 2, and recorded as actually 111curred in enM1crof rl m Doc um ent No. 20 120157, both 111 forcing the obligation t he Records of Union and Trust Deed. toCounty. get her w ith Successor Tru stee's and attorney fees not exceeding the 2 . Property Description. The p roperty w hich is amounts provided by the s ubjec t of th e ORS 86 .753. Tru st Deed is know n as 455 Nort h 1Oth 8. Name and Address of Avenue, Elgin, Oregon Successor Trustee. 97827, and 1s more pa rt ic ularly desc r1bed Philip M . W as ley 105 Fir Street, Suite 204 as f ollows; La Grande, Oreg on Lots ei Qhteen (18), nine97850 tee n-(1 9), and tvve nty Telephone (20), and the South 5 541-962-7327 feet of the East 40 feet, of Lot tw enty-one Publish: June 8. 13, 20, (2 1), of Block 25, 2012. tw e nty-t hree (23), in Lega l no. 2536 7 HINDMAN'S ADD IT ION to the City of ElPlacing an ad in classified is a g in, Union County, Oregon, accord111g to simple process. Just call the record ed plat of I i department and said addition. I help you word your ad for
1010- Union Co. 1001- Baker County Legal Notices 2007 HARLEY Dav1dson 1!:~~~~~--- Legal Notices Sportster, 1200 CC's, 11-=--"L------CHICKEN CREEK black cherry & silver, NOTICE OF years 2006-2009 in the CULVERT B mUeDetGI.nEgT o~Et~eRINBoGard sum of $1 ,82t 9.02 tplusf very low miles, practlREPLACEMENT cally new, $8000 obo . acc ru1ng 111 eres o PROJECT of Dir·ectors of TE C $3.72 per day as of 54 1 910 7797 LG Decision Memo January 10, 2012, plu s ' · w il l be held on June 21, 2012, at 8:30 am real property t axes USDA - Forest Service Wa llowa-Whitma n at 1901 Adams Aveowed to Baker County 925- Motor Homes National Forest nue, LaGrande, Orefor tax y ear 2012 in La Grande Ranger gon. The purpose of the sum of $427 .24 MOTOR HOME 1987, District and tax yea r 201 1 111 thrs meetrng w rll be to 38 ft. 37,000 miles. discuss the budget for th e sum of $381 .84 Union County, Oregon Good shape, everyth e fisca l yea r beg1nplus interest accruing On June 4, 20 12, D1st rict th ing w orks. $2 500. Rang er Bi ll Ga mble, ning July 1, 2012, as at the rate of .2428 541 -263-1 577, made a decision to imapproved by th e Traincents per day; t he lur541 -398-2333, LG. plement the Ch1cken ther sum of $1,895.00 ing and Employment Creek Cu lvert ReplaceBudget Comm ittee. A as Plaintiff's rea son 930 - Recreational ment ProJect. The procopy of the budget able attorney fees and ject is locat ed 111 T6S, Vehicles may be inspected $518 .7 0 as Pla intiff' s R35.5E, Sectio n 3 apor obtained at reasonable cost s; plu s THE SALE of RVs not proximate ly 20 mi les 1901 Adam s Avenue, t he costs of sale. I w ill bearing an Oregon insou th wes t of La LaGrande, Oregon beon July 10, 20 12, signia of comp liance is Grande, Oregon. The tween th e hours of at1 0 :00 a.m . at th e illegal : ca ll Bu ildin g project area is located South East door of th e 8 AM and 5 PM. This Codes (503) 373-1257 . on Forest Service road county cou rt house in budget was prepa red 5100 w here it crosses on a basis of accountBake r City , Ba ker Chicken Creek. This BEAUTIFULLY MAINing that is co nsist ent County, Oregon, sell at proJect w ill improv e TAINED 23 ft . with the basis of acpublic auct1on (subject f 1sh pa ssa ge, reduce Ultra-L1t e T hor w/ counting used during to redemption as proeros1on. and w ithstand pu ll -out, fully con th e prece ding y ea r. vid ed by law) to th e a 100 yea r floo d event ta in ed, s lee ps 6, This budget 1s for: hiQhest bidder for cash reducing t he risk f or nevv er rubber roof, Annual Penod or- cashier's check in culvert fa ilu re. The exsmoke free. $12 k. hand, all the interest ISt in g culvert wil l be 541-437-9190 . LG that the above named Legal No. 00025289 repla ced w ith a botPublished June 13, 201 2 Defendants had on tomless, co ncrete cu1April 7, 2005, the date vert th at is 17 f eet 940 - Utlity Trailers of the contract of sale, PUBLIC NOTICE w ide and 4 fe et 6 he O regon Un1versal and all the interest that 1nches hiQh Work w ill COVERED, LIGHT ut1l1ty Services Admini strator Defendants had therebeg in in July 20 12 and tra il e r. New tires, (OUS) ha s increa sed after, in the following w ill be co mplet ed by w heels, w iring, axel & descnbed rea l propth e DUS end user surOct ober 31, 201 2. hubs. $495, Baker, charge rat e fr o m erty: This decision is not ap541-519-5808 6.55 % to 8.5% . This pealab le pursuant to change wi ll be effec- Lots 13 and 14, Block 3, Forest Service reg ulative on y our Ju ly 1, CLAUDE OFFICER'S tl o ns at (3 6 CFR 960 - Auto Parts 2012 bill from Oregon FIR ST ADD ITION, ac215 12(e)( 1 )) lmplel;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;jj Telephone Corp. cord rn g t o the off1c1al mentation of thi s proplat t hereof, 111 th e City BAKER CITY ject may occur 1mmeof Halfway, County of Legal No . 00025424 diately . Published: June 13, 15, Baker an d Stat e of For more information or 201 2 Oregon t o receive a copy of the d ec isi on docu A LSO all that portion of CIRCUIT COURT ment, contact Toni FOR THE STATE th e North one-half of Mo lllla, Project A naOF OREGON the alley adjoining said AUTO SALVAGE lyst, at th e La Grande Lot 14 on the South, COUNTY OF BAKER Ranger District , 3502 as vacated by Ord iUsed Parts Hwy 30, La Grande, D LD W EST nance No. 1-7, a ce rtiParts Locater FEDERAL CREDIT fi ed co py of w hi ch D R ' (541 ) 962-8598 · Service wa s reco rded January UNION, Unwanted cars & 31,1 97 9, in Deed Publish June 13, 20 12 trucks towed away 79 0 5073, Bake r Lega l no. 25447 Plaintiff, Cmmty Deed Reco rds. Save$$ today! 541-523-7500 The street add ress of t he 3210 H Street real property 1s: MI CHAEL R. SAND OOpen Saturdays VAL, AD MINI STR A154 Ciaude Street, IMPORTANT Halfway, D R 97834. TOR OF THE ESTATE PROGRAMMING LOOKING FOR OF JEAN ROSEMARY INFORMATION 1966 W OLF aka JEANNE R. Befo re b idd ing at th e M ercury Montclair or WOLF , W ESTERN sale, a prospective bid- Effective on or after July M on t erey f or parts. der shou ld In dependC RED IT SERV ICES 31 , 2012, Charter w ill 503-254-3199 ently investigate: CO. , an Oregon corpo_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ make the fo llowing 1 ration d/b/a WASHINGchange to t he channel TO N MUTU A L FIa. The prior1ty of th e li neup in La Grande, IsNANCE,C ITIFINANli en or interest of th e FIVE STAR TOWING land City, Union, an d CIAL, IN C AMER ITIjudgment creditor; Your community Union County, OR: b. Land use laws and TLE, an Oregon corpoHa llmark Channel, curration , and CAR L regulat ions applicable rently available on DrglDUTLI, TP. USTEE FOR to the property; tal V1ew and Expanded c. Approved uses f or AM ERITITLE, an OreBasic Digita l chann el t he property; gorl cor-poration, 187, will o nly be availd. Limits on farming or towing company able 011 Expanded Ba· Defendants . forest practices on th e Reasonable rates sic Digita l channel 187. property; 541-523-1555 Digital equipment is e. Right s of neighborCase No. 12-065 required to view this 11.-------....1 NOTICE OF SHERI FF 'S ing property ow ne rs; service (digital rece1ver SALE OF P.EAL PROPand or TV equipped w ith f . Env ironmental laws ERTY digital OAM tuner and 970- Autos For Sale and regulations that afCableCARD) fect t he property . w nt of exe cut1on IS-------sued f rom this Court in 1999 SILVER VW Bug, This change w ill notregreat s hape, auto, this cau se on May 15, Th e Judg ment c reditor sult in a modification 129,000 miles, $3,900 2012 , pu rsuant to a may bid any port1 on or of our current rates. all of its judgment and JUd gment re nde red OBO . Good on gas! This change w ill affect and entered on May 8, 541 -786-2873. LG. costs allow ed by O RS Charter customers 111 18.950(2) 2012, 111 favor of Old the follow ing areas: La We st Federal Credit Grande, Isla nd City, if~ Un ion, Plaintiff, and Union and Union against Mi chae l R. Dat ed th1 s 31st day of County, OR, however, May, 201 2 Sandova l, Admin ist ra may not be ava ilable rn t or of th e Est ate of all area s. If yo u have C1vil DeQ uty_ Jea n Rosemary Wolf any questi ons, please aka Jeann e R. W olf, Title Legals contact us at: 191 2 4t h W est ern Cre dit ServSt. Suite 100, La By: A Bowers ices d/b/a Wa shington Grand e, OR 97850 or Deputy M utual Fi11ance, Citifi1001 - Baker County 1-888 GET CHA RTER nan c ial, Amer iTitl e, (1 -888-438-24 27) Lega l Notices and Ca rl Dutli, Tru stee Lega l No 00025276 for AmeriTitle. Def en- Published Ju ne 6, 13, NOTICE OF BUDGET Publish: June 13, 20 12 dants. In th e jud g20, 27, 2012 HEARING ment, it wa s ordered 1- --------,,------ Le t:~a ln o . 254 25 that a certain mort- 1010 - Union Co. A public meeting of th e NOTICE OF Budget gage be fo reclosed. Legal Notices Northeast Oreg on EcoHearing A pub li c The exec uti on issued I- U -N =IO -_N _ C_O _U _ N_T_Y_M _ t _nom ic Deve lopme nt meetr ng of the North D1 stn ct w ill be held on pursuant t o th e jUdgEmily Recreation east Orego n Economic June 26, 2012 at 2:00 ment co mmanded me Area Motorized & Dev elopme nt Distri ct p .m . at th e Ba ker Non-Motorized t o sell the r·ea l propw i II be he ld on Ju ne County Co urthouse. erty desc ri bed below Advisory Committees 26, 2012 at 2 00 p. m. The pu rpose of th e t o sati sfy t he Ju dg- NOTICE IS HER EBY at th e Bake r Cou nty meetin g is t o discuss ment aga1n st M ic hael GIVEN, the un 1on Courthouse . The pu r- 3. the budget for the fi spose of the m eeting is County Mt Emily RecR. Sandoval, Admrniscal year beg inning July trator of th e Estate of reati on Area Advisory 1, 201 2 as approved Jean Rosemary 1/Volf Committees w 1ll hold a by th e North east Oreaka Jeann e R. Wo lf, joint meeting on Tuesgon Economic DevelWestern Cre dit Servday, June 19, 2012, at o pm e nt Di stri ct ices d/b/a Wa shington 7:00 p.m ., Joseph Budget Com mittee. A Mutual Fi nance, CitifiBuild 1ng Annex, Large copy of th e bud get nanc ial, Am e ri Titl e, Conference Room, may be inspect ed or and Carl Dutli,Trustee 1106 KAvenue, La obta in ed at 10 1 NE Grande, Oregon. The for A meriTitle. Def enFirst Street, Suite 100, public is invited to atdants, in th e sum of Enterprise, Oregon betend and may parti ci$21 ,667.95; plus untw een th e hours of paid int ere s t of pate during a desig8 :30 a.m . and 5:00 $6,206 .8 1 to May 15, nated public comment p.m . Thi s is a public age nda item . 201 2; plus interest accruing at the rate of meetin g. Any person 7% per annum on th e may appear and preSean Chambers unpaid principa l bal- M ERA Coordinator sent arguments f or or ance of $21,667 .95, again st any item in the from M ay 15,2012, un- Publish: June 13, 20 12 budget document ti l paid, plus rea l prop- Lega l no. 25426 Legal No. 00024951 erty taxes owed t o Baker County f or t ax Published June 13, 2012
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Growers face farmworker shortage By Darrell Smith McClatchy Newspapers
SACRAMENTO, Calif- Kevin Steward has spent more than a quarter-centucy in agriculture, much ofthat gruwing grapes for wineries. He's always been able to rely on seasonal workers to tend the vines and bring in the year's haiVest. But this year, workers are harder to come by. "I could use 30 men," Steward said. "We11 get 'er done, but I can't find anybody." Growers throughout California's fertile Central Valley are ¥-Tinging their hands as they struggle to find the manpower they need. Anti-immigration laws and policies, an aging population, and even a raging drug war south of the border all are contributing to a slowdown in the pipeline of Mexican workers that for so long have fueled the farm industry, experts say. "We'r e just not seeing the number of people we (usually) see this time of yem;" said B1yan Little, director offarm labor affairs at the California Farm Bureau Federation. Steward, president of the Sacramento County Fann Bureau, said he has only a fraction of the 40 workers he depends on to tend the 1,000 acres of vineyards he manages in Califomia's Amador and San Joaquin counties. "I've never seen it this bad," he said, though he's heard that there are "a lot of good workers who are busy picking cherries." But cheny growers say their labor situation is only marginally better. Laborers available to haiVest San Joaquin County's lucrative cheny crop are down as much as 30 percent, according to the county's farm bureau. At cheny grower Rutledge Farms in Woodbridge, Calif, 60 laborers m·e doing the work that 80 or 90 would in a typical year. San Joaquin County is an agricultural powerhouse in Cali-
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Juan Hernandez dumps a basket of cherries at Rutledge Farms in Lodi, Calif. Farmers in California's San Joaquin County say they are having trouble finding workers to harvest crops.
fornia built on dairy, wine grapes, tree nuts and the sweet cherries being picked now. The county's sweet-cheny crop alone is valued at more than $185.5 million, according to the California Farm Bureau. The cheny harvest is a quick one, just days long and very laborintensive. Shakers and other machines are useless in gathering the delicate fruit. Only pickers need apply. "I hope what we've seen is an aberration," Bruce Blodgett, executive director ofthe San Joaquin County Farm Bureau, said ofthe labor shortage. California growers hope so, too. Early crops such as asparagus, blueberries and cherries are in, but soon will come more stone fiuit, strawberries and the salad bowl crops - CaiTots, lettuce, mushrooms and peppers. All of them are crops that need hands in the soil.
California Farm Bureau officials say that as many as 225,000 workers toil on the state's farmland, a number that typically grows to about 450,000 by the heavy haiVest season in September. Farm labor contractors saw warning signs as early as last year's grape haiVest when a late season str·etched the labor supply to the limit, said Guadalupe Sandoval, managing director of the Sacramento-based California Farm Labor Contractor Association. "Things didn't 1ipen until late so everybody needed workers at the same time," Sandoval said. "There weren't enough crews out there. That was our canmy in the coal mine." Reasons for the brake on Mexican immigrant labor are many. Prices asked by the "coyotes" who smuggle workers across the border continue to 1ise- as high
as $7,500, Sandoval is told. And, he said, 'There's no guarantee of getting across. The coyotes may take your money. Maybe your life, as well." The narco-terrorism plaguing Mexico makes an already treacherous joumey north even more perilous. Jeff Passel, a senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, D.C., said surveys tracking the Mexican labor force "show a huge drop in the number of people setting out from Mexico. It's not surprising that that's having an effect on agriculture." "There's a lot of factors feeding into this," Passel continued. "We're looking at a severely reduced demand for unauthorized immigrants, increased enforcement and a ramp-up in violence that makes it more dangerous to get to the border." Mexico's demographics are changing, too, said Little, of the California Farm Bureau Federation. Families are getting smaller and the population is aging, shrinking the number of workers crossing the border to follow the crops, Little said. "That gigantic overlay of young people in the 1970s and 1980s - it just isn't there anymore," he said. It's not clear if farm labor shortages will continue, or what can be done to change the situation. Lawmakers have battled for yem·s about vmious immigration reform strategies, including the guest-worker progr8IllS favored by many in the agricultural industry. But Chuck Dudley, president of the Yolo County Fann Bmeau, said the implications for American food consumers are severe if shortages worsen. "It boils down to the fact that if labor continues as it is now ... the ability to get a ¥ride vaiiety of food to table is somewhat in jeopardy," Dudley said. "If you don't get it planted, picked and packed, it won't get to the table."
Eastern urad lauded tor agriculture advising work in Afghanistan Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently recognized the efforts of 62 U.S. Department ofAgriculture employees - including a former Union County resident- who have helped revitalize the agricultural sectors in Mghanistan and Iraq. Among those honored during a ceremony June 4 was Jonathan D. George, who served as an agricultural advisor in Paktika Province, Mghanistan, from 2010 to 2011. George, formerly a resident of the city of Union, currently works as a district conservationist for the USDA's Natural Resource (';Qnservation Office in Weaverville, Calif. "I'm honored to recognize these brave and devoted men and women for their tremendous service to the people ofMghanistan and Iraq," said Vilsack. "These USDA employees have played a vital role in furthering political and social stability throughout the world by building a foundation on which the economies of these countries will prosper." USDA agricultural advisors began serving in Mghanistan in 2003 and Iraq in 2006.Their goal has been to help Mghanistan and Iraq rebuild their agricultural sectors by planning and implementing reconstruction and agricultural development projects. Activities vmy depending on the needs ofthe area, but can range from mentoring local agricultmal officials to improving food and animal production and marketing systems to veterinmy infrastructure, soil and water conservation, and reclamation programs. Advisors working at the national govemment level help build the capacity of government ministries and collaborate with ministry staff to develop long-term strategies for agricultural development. In Mghanistan, George worked to improve communication between local farmers and district and provincial government leaders. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in rangeland management from Eastem Oregon University in La Grande.
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Couple headed for the altar trips over boyfriend's fling DEARAI3BY: My boyfriend, 'Wally;' and Thave been friends for several years, and a couple for nearly two. He recently brought up the subject of marriage, and we agreed that we are likely altar-bound. Only one thing gives me pause. A tew months ago, Wally got plastered and had a fling with a female friend. He regretted it immediately and said it was what made him realize I am "TI1e One." (He is getting help for his drinking now.) The problem is, the woman is still pursuing him. She huys him gift~ or brings him vegan meals. He has asked her repeatedly to stop, to no avail. Because Wally is a vegetarian and I'm no~ I suspect she's trying to prove she would be abetter partner for him. Thave a~kcd Wally to cut off contact with her. but he won't. He feels bad for her because she has few friends and lives in an isolated little lown. Whal do you suggesl I do? - UNWILLING TO SHARE DEAR UNWTT J JNG TO SHARE: Raise the subject of marriage with Wally again, and tell him his continued contact with the woman he cheated with is hurtful to you and a threat to your relationship. Ask how he would feel if you continued to see and accept gifts from a man you'd had a drunken fling with. If he says he wouldn't be thrilled, perhaps he'll be able to understand your reaction to what's going on.lf he says he'd be fine with it, then Wally isn't the man for you. DEAR ABBY: My 13-year-old niece, "Amelia," is a beautiful young girl. She has only two flaws - she lies constantly and she's boy-crazy. I have to listen to my sister talk on and on about how hard it is to tmst her. My sister and brother-in-Jaw have set many mles and limits for my niece. I think her punislnnents for breaking mles fit the crime - grounding, having things taken away, etc. Amelia knows she can't have a boyfriend until she's 16. Lately, she keeps
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trying to get boys' phone numbers and meet with them. She has also been caught sexting three times and lying about it. As her punislnnent this time, my sister and her husband shaved Amelia's head. I am shocked and devastated for my niece. I think it was extremely inappropriate. Vv'hen I try to talk to my sister about my concerns, she tells meshehadno DEAR choice because her daughter had so many warnmgs. I don'tknow what to do. I think my niece will need counseling. My sister says I am overreacting. Am I? Or did she? - WORRIED AUNT IN UTAH DEAR WORRIED AUNf: Amelia's parents went off the deep end. What was done to her wa~ awful, and you arc not overreacting. Instead of shaving her daughter's head, your sister should have tried to understand why she is lying and desperately seeking attention from boys. Ifi ever heard of a family in need of family therapy, it is your sister's. f DVC, attention and less draconian punislnnents are what Amelia needs. not months of public shaming.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband cormnitted suicide 20 years ago. He left a note, but I never shared it with our children, as they were very young at the time. They are all happy, successful adults. Should I share the note with them? I still have it. -ANONYMOUS DOWN SOUTH DEAR ANONYMOUS: Your children are probably curious about why their father chose to end his life. Let them know the note exists, share it with them if they would like to see it and answer any questions they may have. TI1ey have a right to know.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her nwther, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or PO Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
SHARPSVILLE, Pa. (AP)Unionized cafeteria workers in one western Pennsylvania school district have won the right to eat expired food for free - at their own risk. The Herald of Sharon, Pa., reports Monday that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a grievance against the Sharpsville Area School District last year after school officials "violated established past practice" by no longer allowing workers to eat the expired food for free. The newspaper got a copy of a settlement approved by the school board last month. Under the agreement, food items that are past their expiration date or reheated in a way that they can no longer be served to students may still be eaten for free by the cafeteria workers. Workers must pay for unexpired food they eat.
Boston transit workers save bunny toy on tracks BOSTON (AP) - A woman is praising Boston transit workers for rescuing her 3-year-old daughter's stuffed animal from the train tracks. According to Casey CareyBrown's blog, "Life with Roozle" 01ttp://bit.ly/McWgBo ), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers acted quickly to save her daughter's stuffed bunny from being run over Wednesday. Carey-Brown writes that the stuffed animal 'Jumped" from her daughter;s stroller as they exited the train at the Green Street stop in Jamaica Plain, and fell onto the tracks. She says an MBTA worker called the oncoming train, halting it, so he could safely rescue the toy. In her blog, the mother thanks the workers who aided in the rescue effort, saying "you really
didn't have to do what you did today, but you have made a little 3-year-old incredibly happy."
Texas woman uses paint ball gun to stop suspect GALVESTON, Texas (AP)Police say a Southeast Texas woman whipped out a paint ball gun and opened fire with distinctive yellow hue to stop a burglary suspect. Galveston police say a 53-yearold man who sometimes mowed the woman's yard was anested inside her home. Bond has been set at $40,000 for Elvis Alexander of Galveston on a charge of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit theft. Online jail records Monday did not list an attorney for Alexander. The Galveston County Daily News Olttp:/Jbit.ly/044Vcn ) reports 34-year-old Carrie King called police Friday to say an intruder was in her home and she was hiding. An arriving officer heard the firing of a paint ball gun and the sound of impact. Police say Alexander was struck several times. He did not require medical help.
Possible lungs found on LA County sidewalk LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say something that looks like lungs have been fuund on a sidewalk in south Los Angeles County. Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Dean tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat. ms/Lk.BEdZ ) that a citizen called Sunday evening to report organs on the sidewalk on Avalon Boulevard in an unincorporated area. He says he doesn't know what they are but deputies turned them over to coroner's officials. Coroner's spokesman Ed Winter says a doctor has not looked at what was found yet. He says an examination w:ill be conducted Monday or Tuesday.
Beer battle marks War of 1812 anniversary TOLEDO, Ohio (AP)- A northwest Ohio brewing company is creating its own version of the War of 1812 in a battle between two beers from that period, with one representing American style and the other English style. Maun1ee Bay Brewing Co. is offering its Old Siege Lifter Honey Brown and a King's Shilling Pale Ale at its pub in Toledo's Oliver House and at special tastings. Oliver House general manager Neal Kovacik tells The Blade Olttp:/Jbit.ly/L1o9B6 ) the nearby historical site at Fort Meigs battlefield contacted the brewery about creatively recognizing the war's 200th anniversary. He says bre.vers tried to use ingredients and brewing ttrlmiques similar to those used in the early 1800s in hopes ofreplicating the taste. He says so far the beer war for popularity is a toss-up.
Shar Pei nurses 2 endangered tiger cubs MOSCOW (AP) - Two Siberian tiger cubs abandoned in Russia by their motl1er have found an unusual wet nurse- a wrinkled, sand-colored Shar Pei dog named Cleopatra, a zoo worker said Wednesday. The cubs were born late May in a zoo at tl1e Oktyabrsky healtl1 resort in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Zoo assistant director Viktoria Kudlayeva said the dog in1lllediately gave the cubs all her attention. "She accepted them right away," Kudlayeva said in a telephone intervie\v. "She's cleaning them and breast feeding them as if they were her own. And they also sleep together." The cubs - nan1ed Clyopa, after their adopted mother; and Plyusha - are also being fed goat's milk. - From wire reports
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HOME SWEET HOMESTEAD NATIONAL HISTORIC OREGON 1RAIL INTERPRETIVE CENTER EXPLORES 1501H ANNIVERSARY OF HOMES1EAD ACT PAGE3
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Unlearning myths Native American historian Michael "Bad Hand" Terry will present his program "People of the Plains" at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center June 16-19.
Train robbery
KICKOFF CONCERT June 17, 2012 â&#x20AC;˘ 2PM
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Tribute to Veterans and Fathers held at the Veteran's Service Building **
Bandits from the Elgin Stampeders hold up the Wallowa Union Scenic Railway train.
1901 Main Street Baker City Admission $5/person (or buy a brick and get the whole family in for free)
Cover story Riverfest offers new events and old favorites as it kicks off with the quilt show Friday. Cover photo: a classic headlamp on a classic 1933 Chevy coupe reflects a sunburst of perfect Riverfest weather at the Show-N-Shine Car Show. (Chris Baxter /The Observer)
Marv Sundean Manny Gutierrez A special section of the bandstand is planned for placement of Veteran's bricks. Bricks purchased in honor of a Veteran will be sold at the June 17 concert for the special price of $50 for the 4x8 size.
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Powder River Music Review concert series is presented to raise funds to build a bandstand pavilion in the center of Geiser-Pollman Park. Brochure and brick order blanks may be downloaded at www.facebook.comBAKERCITYBANDSTAND for anyone interested in purchasing an engraved brick to be placed in the stage of the new bandstand pavilion. Soroptimist International of Baker City is the 501(c)3 non-profit for this project
The Wasteland Kings play for EOU graduation party Saturday night.
Canyon country Lostine Canyon is a great Wallowa County weekend getaway or day trip.
Thanks to the musicians for donating their time and talent to raise funds to build the bandstand.
Music review Surl's up at Joe Beans in La Grande, but alas the First Wednesday Concert Series is taking a summer break until September.
CONTACT OUR STAFF Editor: Jeff Petersen, jpetersen@ lagrandeobserver.com Baker County: Lisa Britton, Ibritton@ bakercityherald.com Wallowa County: Katy Nesbitt, knesbitt@lagrandeobserver.com ADVERTISING AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Call541-523-3673 (Baker) or 541-963-3161 (Union and Wallowa)
YOUR EVENT Email your event information by Friday for publication the following week.
Put your name down in history with an engraved brick! Makes a great birthday, anniversary or holiday gift. THINK FATHER'S DAY! 4 inch by 8 inch bricks are $60; 8 inch by 8 inch bricks are $300; 12 inch by 12 inch tiles are $1000; A support column sponsorship is $10,000. Powder River Music Review is organized and supported by the volunteer efforts of the Baker City Herald, SIBC and the Build the Bandstand Committee. For more information call:
Marv Sundean 541-523-4664 or Lynette Perry 541-519-5653 **Sorry no food or beverages allowed at the June 17 event to stay in compliance with rental contract. The rest of the 2012 Summer Sunday Concerts will be held at Geiser-Pollman Park at 2 pm. Watch Baker City Herald and Bandstand face book page for announcements of future concert dates and entertainers.
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Native American historian 'unlearns' common myths • What: "People of the Plains" • When: 10 a.m.-noon and 1:30-4 p.m. June 16-19 • Where: National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker City • Admission: $8 adults, $4.50 seniors, free for 15 and younger • Contact: 541-523-1843 By Lisa Britton Gol staff
Native American historian Michael "Bad Hand" Teny will present his program "People of the Plains" at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Saturday through Tuesday. His program runs each day from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to
4 p.m. in the Leo Adler Theater. Of Seminole descent, Bad Hand began his study of Plains Indian culture as a youngster. Today this historian, author, replica maker, actor and stuntman uses his knowledge to help provide an historically accurate and objective overview of American Indian history and the impact of westward migration on those cultures. He has worked on more than 40 Western films and television shows, including "Dances with Wolves," "Geronimo," "Indian in the Cupboard" and "Last of the Mohicans." As a replica maker, he recreates material culture items for museums, artists and films.
His presentations allow the audience to ask questions at any time while he creates an atmosphere of"unlearning'' as well as learning. He aims to dispel popular myths about Plains Indian history and culture. With an array of handmade quivers and arrows, saddles, saddlebags and other gear, he uses a lecture style, picking up objects and explaining how they were used. His focus is Plains Indian history from 1750 through 1870. For more information about center programs, call541-5231843 or visit the website, oregontrail.blm.gov. Current information is also available on the center's Facebook page. Baker City Herald file photo
Youth activities begin at Ore. Trail Center • What: Thursday Outdoor Club • When: June 14- Aug. 23 • Where: National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker City • Details: $2 • Contact: 541-523-1843
Youth ages 8 to 12 can experience hands-on history and nature every week at the Thursday Outdoor Club offered by the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. The club meets from 1:30 to 3 p.m. every Thursday from June 14 to Aug. 23. Each week has a different theme and will offer naturebased activities and short hikes. Guest presenters from regional resource agencies and non-profit
organizations will provide programs on habitat and wildlife. Activities are geared for ages 8-12, but are suitable for family members of all ages. Youngsters can participate for $2 per meeting, which includes all supplies. Families purchasing a NHOTIC family pass for $45 can bring the entire family to all sessions at no additional cost. Parents, grandparents or guardians accompanying a youngster can attend at no cost. The June 14 session will be the "Pioneer Hike" with Ranger Rachael using trails on site to explore the differences in technology, food and resources between hiking in the 1850s and hiking today. Hikers will learn basics on wayfinding and native plants and
animals in Eastern Oregon. On June 21, guest presenter Tom Novak, noted local artist, will lead club members through the basics of drawing native plants and animals and sketching outdoors. Pre-registration by calling 541523-1843 is appreciated, but visitors to the center who are unable to pre-register can join in as well. Also coming this month is the Birds of Prey rap tor show on June 23. This program includes "ambassador raptors" such as owls and hawks from the Birds of Prey Conservation Area outside Boise. The program is in the Leo Adler Theater, where the audience can see the birds up close and ask questions of their handler.
Michael "Bad Hand"Terry has worked on more than 40Western films and television shows.
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Bandits plan to strike train • What: Simulated train robbery on the Wallowa Union Scenic Railway • When: June 23 • Where: Near Elgin • Details: Train departs at 10 a.m. for 4.5-hour trip. Includes lunch break at Minam. • Contact: Alegre Travel, 1-800-3237330 or travel@ alegretravel.com Submitted to Go I Magazine
ELGIN- The 2012 Wallowa Union Scenic Railway season starts off with a simulated train robbery June 23. A notorious gang of bandits associated with the Elgin Stampeders plans to rob the train near Elgin. Passengers can expect lots oflaughs as horseback-riding robbers stop the train and climb on board. The robbery will take place while the train is passing through a remote section of the Grande Ronde River. Performed by experienced cowboys and cowgirls, the robbery includes the rescue of the outlaw Stella Rose from the clutches of the law, organizers say. The Stampeder organization is responsible for putting on the annual Elgin Stampede PRCA Rodeo in mid-July and uses the annual train robbery to bring attention to the rodeo. The train departs at 10 a.m. from Elgin for a 4.5-hour trip. Passengers also have plenty of time for relaxation, visiting and enjoying the view as they continue several miles up the Wild and Scenic-designated Wallowa River, take a lunch break at Minam and then return to Elgin. Ticket prices are youth, 3 to 16, $35; adults, $65; seniors 60 and older, $60.
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Passengers can expect lots of laughs as horseback-riding robbers stop the train and climb on board as a promotion for the Elgin Stampede, which takes place July 12-15.
A Western-style lunch prepared by Ten Depot Street is optional for $10 and must be ordered with ticket purchase. For train tickets, details on the excursions and lodging options, contact Alegre Travel, at 1-800-3237330 or travel @alegretravel.com.
Continues through October The scenic train season continues through mid-October with two excursion choices. The Two Rivers train departs from Elgin and travels through remote river canyons that can't be seen from any road. Towering ridges, basalt cliffs, deep forests and sparkling water are the scenic highlights. Wildlife and
waterfowl are also plentiful. The ChiefJoseph Express will run twice every Thursday beginning July 5, with 1.5-hour trips from Joseph to Enterprise and back, using the RDC equipment. Additional runs of the Chief Joseph Express will be offered daily during Chief Joseph Days and Alpenfest. Passengers can always expect beautiful scenery and a friendly atmosphere, organizers say. Later in the season, some scenic train rides will be powered by the steam engine known as No. 19 Blue Goose, which will be moving to its new home in Northeast Oregon from Yreka, Calif. Go to www.eaglecaptrain.
com for details on the Blue Goose and other additions to the railway this season. The Wallowa Union Scenic Railway (formerly known as the Eagle Cap Excursion Train) operates on sections of the 63-mile-long railroad that links the communities of Elgin, Wallowa, Lostine, Enterprise and Joseph. The track, historically known as the Joseph Branch, is owned by the governments ofWallowa and Union counties and operated by Wallowa Union Scenic Railway. Go to www.eaglecaptrain. com for more information about the train and surrounding attractions.
Music in the Park coming to Enterprise Submitted to Go I Magazine
Inland Northwest Musicians Music in the Park will pe:rform Saturday in Pendleton and Sunday in Enterprise. There is no admission charge for either concert. However, donations are always welcomed. The "Summer Pops Concert in the Park" is under the direction ofR. Lee Friese. The Saturday concert will begin at 7 p.m. at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. The Sunday concert will begin at 4 p.m. at Enterprise City Park, on Southwest Depot Street in Enterprise. The concerts will include the Inland Northwest Orchestra, Willow Creek Symphony and Wallowa Orchestra. Music includes "Theme from Magnificent Seven," the "Indiana Jones Medley'' and "Best of the Beatles." The Inland Northwest Chorale will perform "Do Lord" with piano, bass and drums; Beethoven's "Ode to Joy'' with piano, timpani, chimes and brass; "Come Rain or Come Shine," John Rutter's ''When the Saints Go Marching In" and Irving Berlin's ''America" with orchestra. As a mission outreach, Peace Lutheran Church, 210 N.W. Ninth St., Pendleton, will provide, free of charge, box lunches to anyone who would like them. The church will be open for distribution of these meals from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m., just prior to the concert in Pendleton. People attending are advised to bring a lawn chair or a blanket, and enjoy the music in the park. In the event of inclement weather alternative venues will be provided.
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Riverfest offers new events this year • What: Annual event to celebrate the community of Elgin • When:The Saturday before Father's Day each year. (The quilt show starts on Friday.) • Details: Firemen's breakfast, car show, antique tractor show, duck races, art show, vendors, much more ByTrish Verges Gol correspondent
ELGIN - The Elgin Lions Club will be hosting a fun-filled Riverfest with traditional events and new ones that everyone will enjoy Saturday. To set the stage for Riverfest, the Blue Mountain Quilters will host their quilt show and sale at the high school gymnasium starting on Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will carry over to Riverfest Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature the work of quilter Becci Scott. The quilt sale is a new feature this yeareverything from potholders to king size quilts - creatively made only from the home fabric stashes of the quilters. So come on down, view their displays and take a quilted item home with you. River fest Saturday will kick off with the traditional Firemen's Breakfast from 7 until 11 a.m. at the Elgin Emergency Services Building on lOth Avenue. The menu includes sizzling hot link sausages, buttery scrambled eggs, toasty light brown pancakes, rich coffee, cold juice and milk. The cost is $4 for adults and $3 for kids 12 and younger. While you are there, get your copy of the city-wide yard sale map and events schedule. If you want to be an early bird at the
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Duck races are part ofthe fun at Riverfest Saturday in Elgin. sales, the maps may be acquired in advance at the post office. Also, look for the Lions shuttle van that will make a loop from the Stampede grounds to the Community Center and from the high school back to the Stampede grounds. The service starts at 9 a.m. "We'll pick up anyone on the street who waves at us to stop," said driver Mike Garver. On the front lawn at Stella Mayfield's school, educators Bob and Susie Thomas will be giving away books all day as part of the
Read to Succeed program. These books have been gently used and donated for this event. Reading just 20 minutes a day to your child will empower them with one oflife's most important gifts, literacy, the Thomases say. While you're at Stella's, go around to the rear of the school and enjoy the Bicycle Safety Rodeo. Later in Stella's gymnasium, the annual Elgin Alumni Reunion reception and dinner will be held. For the second year, Riverfest will feature "Elgin's Amazing Race-Discover Elgin!" The popular event returns where individuals or teams can register and participate in finding specific treasures around town by following clues. Participants must meet at 9:30 a.m. and register at Elgin Electric and the race will begin at 10 a.m., ending at noon at the Elgin Chamber booth at the Community Center grounds. There's no registration fee, but there will be cash awards for first place ($100), second place ($75) and third place ($50) winners who have gathered all the treasure tokens required. The shuttle van will also take Riverfest guests to the seventh annual Antique Engines and Tractor Show. Chris Christenson and David Sanders started this
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show and were joined by Fred Alexis. They are expecting about 12 to 20 exhibits including antique tractors, one cylinder engine, drag saws, water pumps, sheep shearer, corn shelling and grinding as well as a "rope walk," demonstrating the making ofrope. There may be two to three antique cars or trucks and a couple of people doing some spinning. Riverfest attendees can come down and see what that's all about. While there, they can ask Fred Alexis to start an engine or two and get a history lesson from him at the same time.
Show-N-Shine revs up To see about 50 hot show vehicles on display, take the shuttle over to the Community Center park where the Show-N-Shine car show is being held. It begins at 9 a.m. and runs to 3 p.m. "Cash awards and plaques will be given out," said organizer Steve Oliver. "People attending can vote for the People's Choice award, and we'll have a judge to announce the Best of Show award." To enter your vehicle, call
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Oliver at 541-534-6405. Food and beverage vendors will be located at the Community Center grounds. Circling around the Community Center block is a favorite for the little kids at Riverfest-the Lions' Duck Train. A ride on the duck train is $1 per child and the proceeds go to the Lions sight and hearing charitable fund. Just before noon, the fourth annual duck race will begin near the Boise Cascade plant where 925 happy yellow plastic ducks will be released onto Phillips Creek. "Buy tickets (from Daryl Hawes) at $2 each or 6 for $10," said Lion Ann Warren. "There will be cash prizes for the first seven ducks to pass under the bridge - and for the last duck under the bridge." Right after the duck race at the Stampede Grounds there will be a new event, the "Catapult Challenge." Catapults have been made by the Lions and Elgin High School students. To participate in the challenge or get more information, call Daryl Hawes at 541-437-1810.
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Celebrating the Homestead Act • What: Home! Sweet Homestead! • When: On display through Sept. 3 • Where: National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center • Admission: $8 adults, $4.50 seniors, free for 15 and younger • Contact: 541-523-1843
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the landmark Homestead Act, which helped settle much of the West. To celebrate, a special exhibit titled "Home! Sweet Homestead'' is on display throughout the summer at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center's Flagstaff Gallery. The Homestead Act of 1862, and subsequent revisions of the act, eventually resulted in 62,926 patented homesteads and 10.5 million acres ofland transferred from public domain to homesteading farmers between 1863 and 1975-17 percent of all land in the state. Gov. John Kitzhaber has proclaimed June 7 as "Homesteading Day'' in Oregon to acknowledge the tremendous impact of this historical event. The exhibit includes photos, artwork, maps, artifacts and text panels related to the original Homestead Act of 1862, including the political and societal climate that created a movement to provide free land to small farmers, and the impacts ofhomesteading on settlement and culture of the West. One wall features all states westofthe Mississippi River, with statistics related to homesteading. Here is Oregon's: • Statehood date: 1859 • Number ofhomesteads:
62,926 • Percent of state homesteaded: 17 • Date oflast patent: 1975 The exhibit also includes personal stories of three homesteading families in Eastern Oregon, a replica cabin scaled to the minimum size structure required as part of the patent process, and artifacts that display the technology available to homesteaders building a new life in the West. A "General Land Office" area includes information on the patent process, maps and the opportunity to get a souvenir replica ''land patent" issued by a historical re-enactor. Interpreters will also be available to answer questions about resources available through the Bureau of Land Management to research historic homesteading documents and survey records online to find family connections. Throughout the summer, living history interpreters will present the special program ''Windows in Time" in the Leo Adler Theater depicting the concerns and issues of early day homesteaders. Also, from June 17 to July 9 the center will host a traveling exhibit from the National Park Service Homestead National Monument explaining how the 1862 Homestead Act is considered one of the most significant laws ever in
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The "Home! Sweet Homestead!" exhibit at the Interpretive Center celebrates the 150th anniversary ofthe Homestead Act, which granted pioneers 160 acres to settle in the West.
American history. The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, operated by the Bureau of Land Management, is east of Baker City. Take Exit 302 from Interstate 84 onto Highway 86 and proceed five miles. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Admission for adults is $8; seniors are $4.50; and children 15 and younger get in for free. Federal passes are accepted. Visit oregontrail.blm.gov for more information about the center or call541-523-1843 for program and event updates.
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Migraines are often caused by hormone imbalance or triggered by foods or additives such as MSG (monosodium glutamate, commonly found in flavor sauces and soy products) or artificial sweeteners such as aspartame. It can help to keep a food diary and try an elimination diet if you see a pattern of migraine occurrence after eating certain foods. When migraines do occur, the most appropriate drug for you depends on the unique characteristics of your migraine attack, as well as your preference for dosage form, etc. The optimal medication produces a rapid, sustained pain-free response with minimal adverse effects. Suspensions or suppositories can be used to treat migraines when an oral tablet or nasal spray is not suitable for a particular patient. A combination of isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen (most commonly known as Midrin®) has been used for decades to treat migraine. This combination may have a slight advantage compared with the drug sumatriptan succinate in the early treatment of mild-to-moderate migraine. Recently, Midrin® and other commercial preparations containing the same active ingredients have been discontinued. We can compound a similar preparation.
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LIVE MUSIC Bear Mountain Pizza Co., 21041sland Ave., La Grande, 541-963-2327 Bud Jacksons Sportsmans Bar and Grill, 2209 Adams Ave., La Grande, 541-962-7858 • Earth & Vine, 2001 Washington Ave., Baker City, 541-523-1687 Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St., Baker City, 541-523-1889 Haines Steak House, 910 Front St., Haines, 541-856-3639 Joe Bean's, 1009 Adams Ave., La Grande, 541-624-5600 Lear's Main Street Pub & Grill, 111 W. Main St., Enterprise LG Brewskis, 267 S. Main St., Union, 541-562-6286 Mount Emily Ale House, 1202 Adams Ave., La Grande, 541-962-7711
Outlaw Restaurant & Saloon, 108 N. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-4321 Stubborn Mule Saloon & Steakhouse, 104 S. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-6853 Ten Depot Street, La Grande, 541-963-8766 Terminal Gravity, 803 School St., Enterprise, 541-426-0158
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13 WEDNESDAY I Baker City Farmers Market: 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Geiser-Pollman Park, Madison and Grove Streets; 541-519-0716 or www. ba kercityfarm ersm arket. org I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St.
14 THURSDAY I Country Swing Thursday: A modern style of country western dancing that is a mixture of the country two-step and east coast swing with various moves from West Coast swing, salsa and other ballroom styles; $3 before 8 p.m., $5 after 8 p.m; dance instruction available from 7:30 to 8 p.m.; Maridell Center, 1124 Washington Ave., La Grande; 541910-5042. I Courthouse Concert Series: Wallowa County's own "Homemade Jam" performs Thursday, with their down-home flavor of old-time mountain music; free; 5:30-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St., Enterprise. I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County
'Bad Hand' speaks: Saturday-Tuesday Courthouse, 101 S. River St.. I Locavore Thursdays in Cove: farmers market and you-pick garden; noon-5 p.m.; Ascension School, 1140 Church St. I Monthly Northeast Oregon Folklore Society Irish Session: Musicians perform Irish airs, polkas, reels and
waltzes; 7 p.m.; Bear Mountain Pizza Co., 21041sland Ave., La Grande; 541-963-2327. I Terry LaMont: Country, classic and tropical rock as well as requests; 5-7:30 p.m.; American Legion, 2129 Second St., Baker City; 541523-2141.
15 FRIDAY I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St. I Fiddlin' Around: Stefannie Gordon plays live fiddle music;
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free; 7 p.m.; Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St., Baker City; 541523-1889 or www.geisergrand. com/events I 9th-annual Mountain High Broncs and Bulls Rodeo: Bronc and bull riding; $12 for adults, $6 for 12 and younger; 6 p.m.; Wallowa County
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Fairgrounds, 668 NW First St., Enterprise. I Riverfest: Elgin Lions Club hosts traditional events and new ones; Elgin. I Union CountyTimber Cruisers Car Display: 5:30-7:30 p.m.; La Grande Town Center, 22121sland Ave.
16 SATURDAY I 12th annual Flora School Days: Demonstrations of pioneer skills, restoration of Flora School; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Flora School Education Center; 541-828-7700 or
info@floraschool.org I People of the Plains: Michael "Bad Hand" Terry dispels myths about the Lakota, Cheyenne and Blackfeet 10 a.m.- noon and 1:304 p.m.; National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, 5 miles east of Baker City, 541-523-1843 I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St. I EOU graduation party: The Wasteland Kings perform live music, parking lot just east of Benchwarmers; $5; 7 p.m.midnight; Benchwarmers Pub & Grill, 210 Depot St., La Grande. I Firemen's Breakfast: traditional fixings at Emergency Services Building on 10th Avenue; $4 for adults and $3 for kids 12 and younger; 7-11 a.m.; Elgin. I Flora School Days: Demonstrations of pioneer skills; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Flora School Education Center. I Music at the Market: Carter Freeman: 9 a.m.-noon; Max Square, corner of Fourth Street and Adams Avenue, La Grande.
I Ninth annual Mountain High Broncs and Bulls Rodeo: mutton busting, bronc and bull riding; $12 for adults, $6 for 12 and younger; 3:30p.m.; Wallowa County Fairgrounds, 668 NW First St., Enterprise. I Riverfest: Elgin Lions Club hosts traditional events and new ones; Elgin. I Riverfest Show-N-Shine car show: See about 50 hot show vehicles on display; 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Elgin Community Center, 260 N. 10th Ave. I Seventh-annual Antique Engines and Tractor Show: about 12 to 20 exhibits including antique tractors; Elgin. I Train Robbery: The Gold Rush Bandits "rob" the Sumpter Valley Railroad; $16 adults, $14 seniors, $11 children, $45 family; Train departs McEwen Station at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Departs Sumpter Station at noon. These are round trips.; Sumpter Valley Railroad, 12259 Huckleberry Loop Road, Baker City; 866-894-2268 or www.sumptervalleyrailroad.org
I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St. I People of the Plains: 10 a.m. -noon and 1:30-4 p.m.; National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, 5 miles east of Baker City, 541-523-1843 I Music in the Park: Inland Northwest Musicians perform in concert; free, donations welcome; 4 p.m.; Enterprise City Park, Southwest Depot Street. I Powder River Music Review: Special jam session tribute for veterans and Father's Day; $5; 2 p.m.; Veterans Center, 1901 Main St., Baker City. I Train Robbery: The Gold Rush Bandits "rob" the Sumpter Valley Railroad; $16 adults, $14 seniors, $11 children, $45 family; Train departs McEwen Station at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Departs Sumpter Station at noon. These are round trips.; Sumpter Valley Railroad, 12259 Huckleberry Loop Road, Baker City; 866-894-2268 or www.sumptervalleyrailroad.org
18 MONDAY I Enterprise Farmers Market: Includes live music 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m; 4-7 p.m.; Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St.
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ATTRACTIONS Eagle Cap Excursion Train, www.eaglecaptrain.com, tickets: 800-323-7330 Elgin Opera House, 104 N. Eighth St., Elgin, 541-437-2014, www. elginoperahouse.com Hot Lake Springs, 66172 Ore. Highway 203, La Grande, 541-963-4685, www.hotlakesprings.com Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, 59116 Pierce Road, La Grande, 541-963-4954 National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, 22267 Oregon Highway 86, Baker City, 541-523-1843 Oregon Trail Interpretive Park at Blue Mountain Crossing, 1-84 exit 248, west of La Grande, 509-963-7186 Sumpter Valley Railroad, 12259 Huckleberry Loop Road, Baker City, 866-894-2268 Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area, Sumpter, 541-894-2486 Wallowa Lake Tramway, 59919Wallowa Lake Hwy., Joseph, 541-432-5331
RECREATION Alpine Meadows Golf Course, Enterprise, 541-426-3246, www.alpine
Museum, 102 Elm St., La Grande, 541-963-8588 Eastern Oregon Museum, 610Third St., Haines, 541-856-3233 Union County Museum, 333 S. Main St., Union, 541-562-6003 Wallowa County Museum, 110 Main St., Joseph, 541-432-6095
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mea dowsgo lfcou rse .com Anthony Lake Recreation Area, 47500 Anthony Lake Highway, North Powder, 541-856-3277 Buffalo Peak Golf Course, Union, 541-562-5527, 866-202-5950, www. buffalopeakgolf.com Forest Cove Warm Springs Pool, Cove, 541-568-4890 Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, 541-523-6391
La Grande Country Club golf course, 541-963-4241, www.lagrandecountry club.com La Grande SK8 Park, Oak and Palmer, 541-962-1352 Meacham Divide Nordic Ski Area, west of La Grande Mount Emily Recreation Area, www.mtemily.org Quail Ridge Golf Course, 2801 Indiana Ave., Baker City, 541-523-2358 Sam-0 Swim Center,
580 Baker St., Baker City, 541-523-9622 Spout Springs Ski Area, www.skispoutsprings. com, 541-566-0327 Veterans Memorial Pool, 401 Palmer St., La Grande, 541-962-1347
MUSEUMS Baker Heritage Museum, 2480 Grove St., Baker City, 541-523-9308 Eastern Oregon Fire
Art Center at the Old Library, 1006 Penn Ave., La Grande, 541-624-2800 ArtsEast Gallery, corner of Sixth Street and LAvenue, La Grande, 541-962-3624 Aspen Grove Gallery, 602 N. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-9555 Back to Nature, 1617 Fourth St., La Grande, 541-962-0437 BlueTurtle Gallery, 1124 Adams Ave., La Grande, 541-963-3841 Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., Baker City, 541-523-5369 Fire Works Pottery Studio & Gallery, 62378 Hurricane Creek Road, Joseph, 541-432-0445 • Gene Hayes Gallery of Western Art, 301 Donald St., Wallowa, 541-886-3311
Kelly's Gallery on Main, 103 N. Main St., 541-432-3116 Lakeside Interiors, 305 N. Main St., Joseph, 503-692-5050 and 541-432-5885 Mitre's Touch Gallery, 1414AdamsAve., La Grande, 541-963-3477 Mount Emily Ale House, 1202AdamsAve., La Grande, 541-962-7711 Nightingale Gallery, Loso Hall, 1 University Boulevard, Eastern Oregon University campus, La Grande, 541-962-3667 Peterson's Gallery, 1925 Main St., Baker City, 541-523-1022 Potter's House, corner of Sixth Street and Penn Avenue, La Grande, 541-963-5351 Roxy's One-of-a-Kind Furniture, 603 N. Main St., Joseph, 541-263-1796 Short Term Gallery, 1829 Main St., Baker City Skylight Gallery, 107 E. Main St., Enterprise, 541-426-3351 Stewart Jones Designs jewelry studio and gallery, 2 S. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-5202 The Sheep Shed, 207 N. Main St., Joseph,
Call or email us with updates to this guide • Baker County: 541-523-3673, events@bakercityherald • Union and Wallowa counties: 541-963-3161, events@lagrandeobserver.com
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Movie review
'Rock of Ages' shows little 'Glee' By Roger Moore
Eltrym Theater
McCiatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT) - Most movie musicals, even in the age of"Glee," still face that awkward moment when somebody- say her name is "Sherrie Christian"- riding a Greyhound, bursts into "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger, and the rest of the bus bursts in to join her for the chorus. Audiences today titter at that. But you measure the movie by how quickly we get over it. "Rock of Ages," the big-screen version of the jukebox musical set to '80s ''hair metal" anthems and ballads, never does. The all-star cast is game, but the filmmakers can't stop winking and mocking the mockable music and the era long enough to let the picture, built around over-the-top tunes by Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Journey and others, pay off. It's enough to make you "stop believin'." Tom Cruise, as burnt-out rocker Stacee Jaxx, will do his best Axl Rose impression- bare-chested belting, waving a mike-stand bedecked in scarves -or Diego Boneta, aspiring metal singer, will tear into Foreigner's "Jukebox Hero," or Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand and the rest of the cast blast "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," and director Alan Shankman ("Hairspray'') will go for some cheap laugh and utterly undercut the moment. Maybe the music, the fashion, the whole rapacious testosterone vibe of that spandex, eye-shadow, poodle-haired era is laughable. But it's one thing to poke fun at something, quite another to attack it with utter contempt. That's the feel here. Would you let a guy who hates com and corny film "Oklahoma!"? "Rock of Ages," which discards quite a bit of the book of the stage musical it's based on,
Baker City • Rock of Ages (PG-13) • Madagacar3:Europe~ MostWanted (PG) • Snow White &The Huntsman (PG-13)
Granada Theaters La Grande • Rock of Ages (PG-13) • Madagacar3:Europe~ MostWanted (PG) • Snow White &The Huntsman (PG-13)
Drive-In La Grande • Men in Black 3 (PG-13) • 21 Jump Street (PG)
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Alec Baldwin, left, as Dennis Dupree and Russell Brand as Lonny are among the stars in New Line Cinema's rock musical "Rock of Ages;' a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
swirls around Jaxx, who staggers onstage for his farewell show at the Sunset Strip's famed "Bourbon Room," and prepares to launch a solo career. Sherrie, a new waitress and would-be singer (Julianne Hough), and bartender-guitarist Drew (Boneta) dream ofliving the rock-god life Stacee leads.
World about to change But it's 1987, and that world is about to change. The film says it's rap and boy bands that will kill the moussed music (musicians say it was grunge that did them in). The Bourbon Room is under pressure from the mayor's wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a cross between Anita Bryant and Tipper Gore, who pledges to "clean up Sunset Strip" and "take Satan off our streets." She and her fellow
Mothers Against Drunk Rockers then kick into a rowdy-raunchy rendition of"Hit Me With Your Best Shot." Drew writes songs for Sherrie, Sherrie moons over Drew, but fame ruins romance in La La Land. ''The spotlight doesn't just light them up. It's makes us disappear," another waitress warns Sherrie. Thus, does Miss Innocent from Oklahoma wind up in a strip club run by Mary J. Blige, who delivers what passes for a show-stopper here_ ''Any Way You Want it," with a choreographed crew ofVERY athletic pole dancers behind her. You will be amazed at the actors who take on singing, often for the first time onscreen (Baldwin, Malin Akerman as a sexy Rolling Stone reporter, Paul Giamatti as Stacee's sleazy manager) and don't
embarrass themselves. Cruise, in particular, is a demented delight to watch, all jewel-encrusted dragon's head codpiece, buttless chaps and self-serious drunken swagger.
But the songs, with a few exceptions, lack the urgency of the original renditions. The leads (Hough and Boneta) are so bland and tlrinvoiced that they seem out of step with 1987, even if they're exactly what we get from pop stars in our Auto-tune era.
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Kings play for grad party • What: EOU graduation party • When: 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday
• Where: Parking lot east of Benchwarmers Pub & Grill, 210 Depot St., La Grande
• Details: The Wasteland Kings play. The cover charge is $5 By Jeff Petersen Go I Magazine staff
It's good to be a king. That's especially true if you're one ofThe Wasteland Kings as the summer of2012 fast approaches. The La Grande band, which specializes in bluesy rock, will perform for an Eastern Oregon University graduation party from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the parking lot just east of Benchwarmers Pub & Grill, 210 Depot St., La Grande. Music will run from 7 p.m. to midnight. The cover charge is
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Mike Mallory plays a mean guitarasTheWasteland Kings crank up their unique version of bluesy rock.
$5. The Wasteland Kings' lineup includes acoustic guitar player and vocalist Kris Mallory. "He has a gritty voice, and his vocals are extremely good with Mike (Mallory), Holly (Sorensen) and Luke (McKern) doing harmonies," said the band's manager, Christy Marsing. Sorensen sings and plays tambourine, McKern and Mike Mallory sing and play lead guitar, Roger Barnes plays bass and Curt Perry plays drums. The group has been together since 2008. Their self-titled CD, recorded in 2009, has sold more than 1,000 copies, and a new CD is in the works, hopefully to be recorded this fall. Their CD is available at La Grande Stereo and Music or through Amazon. com. The Wasteland Kings have written and performed many original songs, but they are also well known for taking cover songs and
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Kris Mallory's gritty voice contributes to the trademark sound ofTheWasteland Kings, who are performing in concert Saturday.
putting their own unique twist on them. One example is Johnny Cash's classic "Cocaine Blues." Fans can check out the band's video of the song on YouTube or reverbnation.com/thewasteland kings. "Rex's Blues" is another popular song, originally by Texas legend Townes VanZandt, the band has put its unique twist on. ''The original version sounds pensive," Mike Mallory said. "Kris
turned that all around" with a kind of contrarian's twist. Among the originals the band performs, "Old Reb" is a crowd favorite, as is ''Why Do I," "Get Along" and "History." The band is doing more touring this year. On June 2 it performed at Mill Ends Tavern in Portland, and who should pop into the show but three members of the band, Daughtry, fresh off a performance at the Rose Garden. Josh Steely,
lead guitarist for the band, called Kris Mallory's music-making "over the top," Marsing said. On the way home, June 3, the band was featured live in the "Off the Beaten Track" by Dan Ross. "I could see Ross' jaw drop when he heard Kris," Marsing said. Marsing was once a diehard fan of the band, she said. ''Now I have the honor ofbeing part of the team," she said. "Seeing how fans react to them is heartwarming and exciting. The sky's the limit." Marsing said she hopes the band will continue to gain a wider audience. What will it take for them to break through to the next level? Marsing figures the keys are an amazing amount of talent, drive, full-time perseverance, a little bit ofluck and knowing the right people. She has no doubts about The Wasteland Kings' chemistry. ''This is a unique blend of personalities with great senses of humor," she said. ''They encourage each other to be the best they can be."
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'Arts to the Max' concert series debuts The "Art To The Max" concert series kicks off June 21. Begun in 1988, this is the 15th year of the concert series. Music will be performed Thursday evenings, 7 to 9, through Aug. 30, at Max Square in downtown La Grande. Types of music will include blues, Christian, country, pop, punk rock and soul. The opening date, June 21, will feature "Forgiven," K.C. Kunkle's contemporary Christian band. The City of La Grande Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for scheduling, organizing and promoting the series. Minnie Tucker, the liaison, can be reached at 541-962-1352. Sponsors for 2012 are City of La Grande Parks and Recreation, La Grande Arts Commission, KCMB, Sorbenots Coffee and Horizon Wind. Series organizers say three open dates remain: •Aug.9 •Aug.16 •Aug.30. Any musician or band interested in performing can call either Tucker, the series liaison, at the above number or Shaneen Bergette at 541-963-6131.
Wicked Mary performs Saturday at Bud's Get ready for some wicked music Saturday. Wicked Mary is gearing up for an evening oflive music at Bud Jackson's Sportmans Bar & Grill, 2209 Adams Ave., La Grande. Band members are Todd Arnoldus, Christopher Bechtel, Jeff Carman and Marcus Case. Music runs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Books
Author offers guide to living the country life • What: Talk by author Kristy Athens • When: 7 p.m. Tuesday • Where: Crossroads Carnegie Art
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Kristy Athens learned a thing or two about country living, and now she's published a ''how to" for those considering a more rural life. "Get Your Pitchfork On: The
Real Dirt on Country Living" is now available in bookstores. Athens is on tour, and will give a talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., Baker City. She will also appear in Enterprise at 7 p.m. June 21 at Fishtrap's Coffin House. She and her husband, Mike, bought a seven-acre parcel near White Salmon, Wash., in August 2003. They moved to Portland in July2009. "Get Your Pitchfork On" originated in 2005 because she felt the need for a modern take on
country living. "I felt that existing books did not express just how hard it was to own a substantial piece of property, nor the dynamics of living among rural people," she writes on her website. Athens works at Oregon Humanities. Also, her "text-infused, repurposed collage artwork" appears in "1,000 Ideas for Creative Reuse" and is available at http://ithaka.etsy.com. For more information, visit her website, www.getyourpitch forkon.com, or search for it on Facebook.
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On the Nightstand with David Axelrod of La Grande • What are you reading? Currently, three books: a biography of Simone Weil by Francine de Plessix Grey, ''Wittgenstein's Poker," by David Edmonds and John Eidonow, and a book that discusses the Swiss bankrolling of Nazi munitions in WWII, "The Swiss, The Gold, and the Dead," by Jean Ziegler.
• What do you think so far? De Plessix Grey is a little impatient with the admittedly odd, still very young Simone Weil, but now that she is discussing Weil's philosophical ideas, the book is much more engaging. Edmonds and Eidinow are telling the story of a famous argument between two of the 20th century's great philosophers that ended with one of them threatening the other with a hot poker from the coal grate! It's very entertaining. Ziegler's critique of Swiss "neutrality'' is well known, grim, but
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• What's next on your list? I'm currently also interested in the philosophy of pleasure, and so I am going to be reading ''The Nature of Things" by Lucretius, and his inspiration, Epicurus, whose letters in the second century B.C.E. put forth his argument
that pleasure is the ultimate goal of life. He's a far cry from Jean Calvin or Simone Weil! I'm looking forward to reading Jack Gilbert's new "Collected Poems," and Peter Stamm's short story collection "In Strange Gardens." By then a number of writers I like very much will have new novels out that I'm sure I'll be reading by late summer.
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Once again it is time to start the annual fire hydrant testing and maintenance program. The La Grande Public Works Department will be conducting these this year starting June 11, 2012. This program is very important to allow the public works department to identify the quantity of water available for firefighting purposes and it serves to rid the city's water distribution system of accumulations of sedimentation deposits over the past year. Citizens who experience any unusual water clarity problems the hydrants are flushed are encouraged to turn on a cold-water faucet outside the house and let it run for 5 to 10 minutes. This will normally clear up the agitated water from the service line to the home. problems may be referred to the La Grande Public Works Department by calling 962-1325.
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DAY TRIP Destination Lostine Canvon • What: Lostine is just more than two hours from Baker City, one hour and 20 minutes from La Grande and 17 minutes from Enterprise. There are many lodging options nearby in Wallowa County.
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The Lostine Canyon is a wonder year round, but only accessible by skis or snowshoes from Pole Bridge, eight miles from the town of Lostine, from when the snow flies until late spring. This year the road was open and the fallen trees and debris were cleared early in May. By now, the entire 17 miles are open to the end of the road at the Two Pan trailhead. The trails into the Eagle Cap Wilderness are popular for backpackers and horse and mule packers, but there are several good short hikes as well. For the casual day trip, start off with a cup of coffee at the Blue Banana in Lostine or last minute supplies at the M. Crow and Company General Store, a family-run gem run by the Crow family since 1907. You can get fishing tackle, hardware supplies and a smattering of groceries besides the typical pop, beer and ice. Drive up the Lostine Canyon Road as it veers of Highway 82. The road meanders through farm and ranch land for the first six miles. Look closely and you may see elk, whitetail or mule deer in the pastures of the valley. Just before you hit Six Mile Bridge there is an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife area open to the public. Be sure to close the gate behind you. From there you can wander
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The trail along Maxwell Creek ends at Maxwell Lake, a short hike from Shady Campground on the Lostine River. There's a leash law in the wilderness, so be sure your dogs are tethered.
around to pick mushrooms, bird watch, snap shots of wildflowers or hike along an old road on the face of Sheep Ridge. It's an easy hike and provides good views of the valley. Upstream about 2.5 more miles is the Pole Bridge Picnic Area with a view of falls and the crystal clear water of the Lostine River. Standing on top of Pole Bridge is a good spot to take pictures of the tumbling water below. As you drive up the road from Pole Bridge, there are a few curves with some pretty severe washboards, so take it easy driving up and down and provide room for oncoming traffic. The road sees a lot of use from pick-ups hauling horse trailers. Two miles from Pole Bridge be sure to pull over to read the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest interpretive sign describing the canyon and the wilderness access. Next stop is Williamson Campground. Depending on the time of year this is a great fishing spot, and, for the brave, there are several good holes deep enough to dive into. The beaches at Williamson are inviting to the day dreamer. When the water is low enough, wade across the river and follow it upstream for even more sandy
beaches and swimming holes. In late August, you can see spawning chinook salmon. A mile from Williamson, just before the Lostine guard station, is a tiny trail that provides good fishing access. Keep a sharp eye out for it to the right of the road. Walla Walla Campground is a mile up from the guard station and is another good spot to wander, fish or bask in the sun. Maxwell Lake, accessed from trailhead 1674 at Shady Campground, is 16 miles up the canyon. The trail to Maxwell Lake is only a couple miles and is a perfect picnic spot. Chimney Lake is a moderate day hike, approximately five miles up from the Francis-Bowman Lake Trailhead. There is still snow in patches, but the lake is fairly accessible even this early due to a mild winter. lfyou are hungry when you return to Lostine, grab a burger at the Lostine Tavern, big enough to fill up the hungriest day hiker. Lostine is 10 miles from Enterprise, 16 miles from Joseph, and 55 miles from La Grande on Highway 82, also known as the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway.
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Surf's up at Joe Beans By Steve Tool Submitted to Go I Magazine
Surf guitar music took center stage at Joe Beans monthly music specialty show June 6. Other than a brief tribute to the passing oflegendary flat picker Doc Watson, the show was devoted entirely to guitar instrmnentals. The surf guitar hordes were out in full force as evidenced by the casual wear. I haven't seen that many flowered shirts since my last unsuccessful attempt to sit through the entirety of "Blue Hawaii"- sorry, Elvis. Joe Beans' co-proprietor Al ''Too Loud'' MacLeod paradoxically celebrated the evening by trading in his customary shorts for long pants. Al shared guitar duties with Jerry Smith, one of the best lead guitarists around.
The group also featured Tim Erickson on drmns and Greg Johnson on sax. Tim Hines anchored the bass, and Kevin Durfee played electric piano/ organ. The group ran through all the old hits: "Pipeline," ''Walk, Don't Run," "Miserlou" and others. Several non-surf guitar hits were played as well: ''Apache," "Sleepwalk" and "Tequila" were dusted off and shined up for the very appreciative audience. Unfortunately, this is the last event until September. I've made it to a couple of these gatherings and I really enjoy them. Joe Beans has a $5 cover for these hour-plus special nights. It is well worth it and highly recommended. Steve Tool occasionally reviews music for Go! magazine.
Time for some Homemade Jam SubmittedtoGoiMagazine
Wallowa County's own "Homemade Jam" performs Thursday, with their down-home flavor of old-time mountain music at the gazebo on the courthouse lawn in Enterprise. The Courthouse Concert Series runs Thursdays through the summer from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in conjunction with the farmers market. Homemade Jam first formed to play at the Maxville Gathering in 2010. The original four members -Lorraine Ragsdale and her husband, Mike Ragsdale, and Lorraine's daughter, Sandi Richerson, and her husband, Larry Richerson- have been playing together for many years. Lorraine plays the accordion, Mike sings and plays lead guitar, Sandi plays autoharp and Larry plays rhythm guitar. Local fiddler and bass player Caleb Samples soon joined the band, followed by Laura Skovlin, who brought her banjo and sweet voice to the group. Later, Sue Juve joined with her strong voice
Flmâ&#x20AC;˘t, the most andfun personalâ&#x20AC;˘ty.R 1 . yya recent member, brought another fiddle and a big smile to the band. The band's focus, band members say, is on old-time, fun, toe-tapping mountain music that people recognize and love. All members live in or near Joseph. For the seventh consecutive year, the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance is presenting the Courthouse Concert Series Every Thursday the community gathers to enjoy free 90-minute performances by local and regional musicians. Running all summer long, the series features a broad range of musical genres, including classical, folk., jazz and rock. The series is free and open to the public. Organizers call it a perfect opportunity to pack a picnic, bring family, meet up with friends and enjoy music. The Community Farmers Market enhances the festivities with wholesome locally grown produce, arts and crafts starting around 4 p.m.
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