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OREGON LEGISLATURE FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMERICA BLUE MOUNTAIN REGIONAL Sit',ILLS CONFERENCE
• Senate Bill 524 would give powertotax,ban potto Oregon city councils Closer look
By Taylor W. Anderson VVesCom News Service
Tim Mustoe/The Observer
La Grande High School sophomores, from left, Emma Eggert, Keesha Grover, Braden Crews and Mariah Bornstedt talk while taking a break between events at the FBLA's Blue Mountain Regional Skills Conference onThursday.
SALEM — La Grande and other Oregon cities and counties would get more power to ban, tax and regulate recreational marijuana under a bill filed this week in the Oregon Senate.
The bill proposed by the
By Dick Mason, The Observer
Elgin High School student Carrie Jo Moore did not look but she could see aminidisaster looming A disaster she deftly avoided Moore was giving a speech on education in competition at the Future Business Leaders ofAmerica Blue Mountain Regional Skills Conference on Thursday at Eastern Oregon University. Her talk before judges was going smoothly when two of the notecards she was holding fell to the floor. Moore then displayed poise beyond her years, continuing her speech without missing a beat or even glancing at her fallen notecards. "I was ready for the worst," Moore said in explaining her
unflappable attitude. The calm that Moore displayed helped her achieve a higher score and was symbolic of the poise many of the more than 100 students at the district competition displayed Thursday. Speech was one of the approximately 40 events students competed in. La Grande High School sophomore Mariah Bornstedt, like Moore, was ready for adversity .She said beforeher speeches that sometimes she forgetswhat she istrying to
say but escapes stumbling with improvisation. 'You canmake itup iifyou forget something) because the judges do not know what you are supposed to say," Bornstedt said. Bornstedt gave her speech after an intense week of preparation. She learned on Monday that she was entered in speech at the FBLA event. Bornstedt then wrote her speech and on Wednesday practiceditfrom 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. She credits a near photographic solid memory
with allowing her to prepare quickly. "It helps," she said. Adults who tried to calm nervesfrom getting the best of students taking part in the speech competition included TeresaStratton,theadviser of Union High School's FBLA chapter. "I tell them, 'Feel confident about what you can do and the rest will take care of itself,"' Stratton said during the skills conference. Students also tested their See FBLA / Page 5A
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• Ranchers testify in support of removing wolf from endangered species list By Cherise Kaechele The Observer
Union County commissioners voted unanimously to begin delisting the gray wolf from the county's endangered species list at their Wednesday meeting. A public hearing was held requesting testimony regarding taking the wolf off the endan-
gered species list after seven W hat do you think? breeding pairs were confirmed in Northeast Oregon recently. We want to hear "The number of breeding pairs your thoughts. has met the standard," said Email letters Commissioner Mark Davidson. to the editor The requirements of the to letters@ Oregon DepartmentofFish and lagrandeobserver. Wildlife wolf plan state there com and join the must be four breeding pairs conversation on for three consecutive years. In The Observer Opinion Northeast Oregon alone, there page. are seven confirmed pairs. Those who testified were all wolves and the economy has in support of delisting the gray been affected by the wolves. Lee Insko, a representative wolf, arguing their livestock for the Union County Cattlehave beenthe targetsforthe
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men's Association, said the cattle coming off the range are lighter in weight because they're always moving to avoid the wolves. "Cows are skittish and don't breed as well," Insko said."Trying tokeep wolves off20,000 acres ofland is ridiculous." Insko said the economy has sufferedbecause thecattle are losing weight when they're being harassed by the wolf pack. Mary McCracken mirrored Insko and said if the wolves are killing the livestock, they should be shot. See County / Page 5A
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Convicted killer Sidney Dean Porter, left, sits next to his attorney at a parole board hearing in Salem in 2013.
State rejects parole for Porter • Board says cop Release date killer poses The board continuing danger pushed
Sidney Dean Porter's The Oregonian projected Convicted cop killer Sidney release date Dean Porter of John Day to June 7, "suffers fiom apresentsevere 2020, by emotional disturbance that which time constitutes a danger to the he will have health or safety of the commu- served a little nity" and shouldn't be released more than this year, the Oregon Board of 28 years in Parole said Thursday morning. prison. See Porter / Page 5A By Mike Francis
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League of Oregon Cities, would include the biggest changes to the measure voters passed in November of dozens ofbills already filed. The proposal would allow city councils to ban retail marijuana outlets in their towns, rather than require a voteofthe city'sresidents as the language in Ballot Measure 91 said. Councils could See Power / Page 5A
Senate Bill 542 would give cities and counties more power over regulating pot that is set to become legal July 1 with retail markets opening in 2016. Sponsors: Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem
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