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Things are heating up between House District 58 candidates John Turner and Greg Barreto. With ballots out, the two men vying for the Republican nomination for the seat have amped up campaign messages in an effort to differentiate themselves. In the past week, the candidates' socialm edia pages show an increasingly antagonistic

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Students and faculty share their thoughts and concerns Monday about proposed cuts at Eastern Oregon University. Clockwise, from top left, are student Chane Nelson, Assistant Education Professor Ray Brown, student Daniel Wagner, instructor of English and writing Jim Benton, student Clarissa Talbott, student Kendra Hackwith and Student Body President Evan Bryan.

• Eastern Oregon University students, faculty voice concerns about impending budget cuts By Dick Mason The Observer

The news did not come as a surprise. Still it rocked Eastern Oregon University's world last week. President Bob Davies announced on April 30 that Eastern must make $4 million in cutsdue to a budgetshortfall caused by falling enrollment and reducedfunding from the state. A draft financial sustainability plan released by Davies calls forabout25faculty positions and seven administrative staff positions to be cut in the process of making the $4 million in budget reductions. Students and faculty at Easternarelooking for answers and venting feelings of frustration with the state in

the wake of the news. Susan Whitlock, an English and writing instructor at Eastern, said the reason for Eastern's budget problems can betraced to lack ofsupport from the Legislature. "They are saying that students don't matter. It is the legislators' choice,"Whitlock sald. Whitlock said it is obvious to her that the Legislature is overlooking higher education in Eastern Oregon. "It feels like the west side has abandoned us," she said. Whitlock said that jeopardizing EOU is unfortunate because if something happens to the university, many of its students, who come from low-income families and have

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country roots likely would not go on to another university. 'They are accustomed to rural living. They don't want to live in metropolitan areas and go to a large university," Whitlock said."They have a devotionto place." EOU senior Daniel Wagner is so disturbed by thebudget news that he said he would support a tuition increase. "It would help keep the programs students come here for,"Wagner said.'This is the irsttime I've advocated raisf ing the price on anything. In this case it would be worth it." The student said that there is room to raise tuition. He noted that tuition at Eastern is much lower than it is at many other universities.

Presently, EOU has the lowest tuition of any school in the Oregon University System. Jake Kuwahara, a senior from Halfway, is also rattled by the sobering budget news. "As a graduating senior it doesn't affectme ,butIdo fear for the school itself," Kuwahara said. He hates to see Eastern lose professors, individuals who have so much to offer students. "A lot of knowledge is going out the door," Kuwahara said. Jim Benton, an English and writing instructor, does not mince words when discussing the budget situation. "I'm angry about it," Benton sard. See Concerns / Page6A

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The Urban Renewal Agency approved moving to the next step in the process to aidapplicants wanting to establishagrocery store on the corner of Fourth Street and Adams Avenue. On a 4-3 vote Wednesday night, agency members authorized District ManagerRobertStrope to enter negotiati ons with partiesof Market Place Family Foods. Developer Al Adelsberger and grocer Troy Berglund seek to establish the store in the building previously occupied by Blockbuster and have SeeURA / Page6A

adopted an ordinance Wednesday night that will vacate KAvenue between Fifth and Sixth streets. Page 2A

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Office, said the county was to take no further action to repair the road until ENTERPRISE — Reconstruction further notice. of the Wildcat Road, a well-used route Woods' letter said BLM manages to Troy and the Grande Ronde River, the land where the road is washed out. may be reconstructed as early as this Wallowa County has not been issued summer. a right of way grant for the road as The route that cuts ofFfrom Promise required, the letter said, so no mainRoad, which connects with Highway 82 tenance, reconstruction or emergency west of Wallowa, has two washed out roadwork procedures have been estabsites, making theroad impassable, forc- lished, nor has any past environmental ing rafters, fishers and log truck hauls analysis been conducted. Any activito useother roads totheremote region ties such as removing rock, stockpilof northern Wallowa County. ing equipment and materials or any Wallowa County officials assessed otherground-disturbing activitiesare the damage March 11 and within a unauthorized and are in violation of the Federal Land Policy Management few days were in consultation with Anderson Perry and Associates, a Act of 1976. La Grande engineering firm, to start Almost two months after the floodthe stateand federal permitting ing, Don Gonzalez, the BLM's Vale district manager, said he met with process. Mike Hayward, Wallowa County Board However, a letterdatedAp ril11from Lori Wood, field manager for the Buof Commissioners chairman, last week. ''What we said was, as soon as reau of Land Management Baker Field The Observer

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Enterprise High School received a silver medal rating from U.S. News and World Report in its annual ratings of high schools in the United States.

Enterprise North Powder schools saluted By Dick Mason

students," Royse said. North Powder School DisEnterprise School District trict officials also have reason Superintendent Brad Royse to be proud and elated. The was so excited when he read North Powder School District the news Wednesday on was awarded bronze medal the Internet that he quickly status by U.S. News and called his high school princiWorld Report for the second pal, Blake Carlsen. year in a row. "I'm very excited," North Royse knew that his call to Carlsen, who was traveling Powder School District Prinwith the high school choir to cipal Gerald Hopkins said. He credits North Powder's Newberg, might alarm him. "He'safraid ofcallson the high rating to the eagerness of the school district's teachroad, since they are often bad," Royse said. erstogo the extra mileto Carlsen soon had reason help their students. Hopkins to be as elated as Royse. The noted that teachers comsuperintendent told Carlsen monly stay after school to that he had just learned that help students. "All of this work after Enterprise High School was in select company. school is paying offn Hopkins EHS had been awarded a sald. silver medal rating by U.S. The magazine analyzed News and World Report in data from 19,411 public high its annual ratings ofhigh schools in all 50 states and schools in the United States. District of Columbia before EHS is just one of 22 high determining its rankings. schools in the state and the These were high schools only one in Eastern Oregon which have at least 15 to receive the heavy medal students in their senior class honor. This is the second and provided enough data to highest ranking a high school qualify for a ranking. can receive from the magaNationally, 3 percent of the zine after the gold medal rat- high schools received gold ing, which only four Oregon rankings, 9 percent received high schools were awarded. silver medal rankings and 15 "I'm extremely proud of percent were awarded bronze our high school stafF and medal rankings. The Observer

iHaywardl gives us the plans that the engineers are putting together, then we will proceed," Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said with engineering plans in hand, the BLM will begin developing an environmental assessment in consultation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon's State Historic Preservation 0$ce, andthe Nez Perce and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. "If we get it all going at one time, we are projecting about two months to havea decision out,"Gonzalez said. "Ifthere arenoappeals,we getthegoahead to fi x theroad." That is the short-term fix, said Gonzalez. The long-term fix will require getting a right-of-way easement along the threemilesofroad acrossland managed by the BLM that would allow the county to maintain the road in the future.

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Ci OKs KAvenue vacation request • Council also appoints Troy Pointer as new city councilor

menced for the Union County Courthouse Project. Union County Pointer so u ght the vacaBy Kelly Ducote tioninorderto The Observer provide enough parking for The La Grande City Coun- a new courthouse to be sited ciladopted an ordinance on the county campus where Wednesday night that will Shelter From the Storm curvacate KAvenue between rently sits. Fifth and Sixth streets. Councilor Jerry Sebestyen The council adopted the or- voted against the measure, dinance with four conditions saying he thought a traffic of approval, om itting onethat study should be required prior was a recommendation that to adopting the vacation. required a traffic study prior County officials have said to the right-of-way vacation. the vacation will not change City Manager Robert Strope traffic flow in the area. They said that does not mean a plantoconvert the area into traffic study will not be done, a parking lot with two-way but that the requirement will access. be decidedon thestafFlevel The city council also swore rather than by the council. in new City Councilor Troy Other conditions include Pointer to replace Kelly Mcleavingaccess easements Gee. Pointer was appointed for utilities, that 20 parking on a pro tem basis to the Pospotsbe designated forthe sition No. 2 spot because he public and that the right-ofwas the only non-incumbent way vacation not be finalized candidate running unopuntil construction has composedinthe2014 election.

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Today is Friday, May 9, the 129th day of 2014. There are 236 days left in the year. In history:On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May asMother's Day. On this date:In1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett supposedly became the first men to fly over the North Pole. (However, U.S. scholars announced in 1996 that their examination of Byrd's recently discovered flight diary suggested he had turned back150 miles short of his goal.) In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

A Klamath County man in debttoa M exican drug cartel led local authorities to an elaboratemoney-laundering scheme involving food stamp cardsthat authoritiesbroke up Thursday. The scheme involved phony charges to state food stamp cards of as much

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a Mexican meat market in downtown Klamath Falls was at the heart of the conspiracy, and its two owners were among 34 people arrested Thursday. The case isa spinoffofa major drug investigation in the same county brought to a closealmost exactl y a year ago. Oregon Justice Department officials at the time said that investigation tied a "largeand violent"drug traf-

ficking organization operating in Klamath County to M exican drug cartels. Thatinvestigation opened with the discoveryin October 2012 of the bodiesoftw osuspected drug trafickers in the rural area of Bonanza. The California men had been shot and buried and their pickup truck burned and abandoned at another location. The investigation of that double homicide led to

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Thursday's operation. Law enforcement officials said a key suspect in that killing told Det. Eric Shepherd of the Klamath County Sherif's OIIice he wasn't involved directly in the murders, but

Do the right thing and pay us or you'll end up dying."' The suspect was paying off the debt by making regular payments at what Skrah said turned out to be a phony meat market — Carniceria he owed about $67,000 to a Mexican cartel. He said he Mi Pueblo on East Main was stealing drugs from loads Street. Authorities didn't elaborate the cartel hired him to bring on the suspect's involvement, to Oregon. "He got caught," said Klam- but hisconfession triggered a lengthy investigation. ath County Sheriff Frank

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Cove senior meal served May 16 COVE — The Cove senior meal will take place May 16 at the Cove Baptist Church. The m enu cooked by ChefMe rlin Bakerwillbe ahamburger picnic dinner with all the trininiings. Live music will be provi ded atthis,thelast dinner until September, by the BlueMountaineers. Coffee and tea will be served starting at noon, and lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. People who plan to attend should RSVP to Imie Bristow by Monday at 541-568-4545.

of the official birth certificate and a complete immunization record are required for enrollment. For more information, call Patti Durfee at 541437-2321.

Oregon Green Free meets Saturday

The local chapter of Oregon Green Free meets at noon Saturday at the Integrated Services Building, 1607 Gekeler Lane. Lunch this week will be a surprise. Oregon GreenFree is an Oregon Medical Marijuana Program's resource center committed to providing Kindergarten information, education and a registration set sense of unity for those who ELGIN — Elgin School choose to use medicinal canDistric t2014-2015 kindergar- nabis. For more information, ten registration will take place call 541-963-2529. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 'Cruise-ins' gear up 19-20. on Friday evenings Students must be 5 years of age before Sept. 1.A copy The Friday night"cruise-

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ins" at the Adams Avenue Texaco, sponsored by the Union County Timber Cruisers car club, continue throughoutMay and the summer. The cruise-ins are from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. People are invited to enjoy chatting with club members, have a hot dog and check out the classic cai's.

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meets for lunch La Grande High School Class of1957 will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday for lunch at the Flying JTravel Plaza.

Buy Mom 'Something Special' Saturday The Something Special CraftAntique& Garden Show will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Riveria Activity Center, 2609 Second St. Items for sale in-

clude hand-crafted decor and clothing, antiques, CountyChic decor, woodworking, garden decor, jewelry and doll clothes.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is offering grants for the constructionorrestoration of veterans and war memorials. "The program is designed to honor Oregon's soldiers

and veterans by commemorating their service to the country," said Kuri Gill, a grants and outreach coordinator for the department."Local governments may apply to build or repair monuments on local government lands." New monuments should recognize veterans and wars not already recognized. Grantsforrestoration could be used for broken monuments, missing elements of monuments or the related design elements of monum entsforveterans orearlier wars, such as World War I. Details and the application information are available at www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/ FINASST/Pages/grants.aspx. The application deadline is June 30. For more information, contact Kuri Gill at 503-9860685 orKuri.Gill@oregon.gov.

daughters, Debi Bridgman of Pendleton; Alaina Oster of The Dalles; Shae and husband, Mike Kasinger, of The Dalles, his brother, Bruce, and wife, Shelia Bridgman, of Gallatin, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; and many relatives in

the Midwest. Gary was preceded in death by his parents and grandson Micah Kimball. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to woundedwarriorsproject.org or samaritanspurse.org.

OTEC board meets Tuesday morning BAKER CITY — The Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative Board of Diiectors will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesdayin the boardroom at headquarters, 4005 23rd St., Baker City. Scholarship opportunities are among the discussion items.

Grants offered for war memorials

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ROAD REPORT Numbers to call: • Inside Oregon: 800-977-6368. • Outside Oregon: 503-588-2941.

MARKETS Wall Street at noon: • Dow Jones average — Up 32 points at 16,583 Broader stock indicators:

• SarP 5001ndex — Up 1 point at 1,877 •Tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index — Up 13 points at 4,o65 • NYSE — Down 13 points at 10,598 • Russell — Up 5 points at 1,103 Gold and silver: • Gold — Down $1.90 at $1,287.90 • Silver — Down 6 cents at $19.09

GRAIN REPORT Portland grain bids were not available at press time.

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Samantha May Danel Summerville 1944-2014 Samantha May Danel, 69, of Summerville, died May 2 at her residence. No services are planned at this time. Samantha was born June 23, 1944, in Tulsa, Okla., to Charles and Myrtle lPowelll Danel. She was raised in Oklahoma andgraduated from senior high school in Tulsa. Samantha was an owner of a restaurant. She enjoyed cooking and working with customers. Golf was Samantha's favorite activity. She won several golfing awards. In elementary school, she received an award for not having a single absent day. She enjoyed reading and loved her country music, especially Conway Twitty. She loved to sit in the sun and enjoy

a cocktail. She wasa member ofthe country club and the Elks

Gary was born Sept. 9, 1943, in Winston, Mo., to Lodge. Vern and Pauline Samantha is survived by Bridgman. He married his her sons, Harold Lee Ray Jr. bestfriend and loveofhis of Tulsa and Anthony"Tony" life, Vonda lHinesl Bridgman Jo Ray and his friend, Dawn, on Oct. 5, 1963. Gary's joy was in knowing of Puyallup, Washington; brothers, Chuck Danel, Ken- Jesus personally, living his neth Danel, Lonni Danel and faith and serving others. He Roy Danel; sisters, Matty was with the 101st Airborne Danel and Norma Danel; Divisionfrom 1962 to 1965. three grandchildren and two H e received hismaster of great-grandchildren. arts in teaching, and taught Online condolences may be industrial arts and coached made to the family at www. for 34 years. lovelandfuneralchapel.com. He was a high school teacher in Elgin for 18 years, from 1983 to 2002. Formerly of Elgin For the last 10 years, he 1943-2014 and Vonda have been members of the Mobile MissionGary Lee Bridgman, of ary Assistance Program. The Dalles and formerly of His passions outside of Elgin, died May 1. teaching included hunting, A celebration oflife will fishing, building projects, beheld at1p.m. May17 at taxidermy, traveling and Calvary Baptist Church, spending time with his fam3350 Columbia View Drive, ily and friends. The Dalles. Survivors include his wife;

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Accident: One person was injured in an accident near 1901 Adams Avenue around noon Wednesday. Cited: Tenaya Lee Ann Sanchez, 23, La Grande, was citedWednesday on acharge of telephonic harassment. Arrested: John Paul Surber, 45, La Grande, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of disorderly conduct, domestic

LA GRANDE RURAL FIRE A crew responded to a call for medical assistance about 4:45 a.m. Friday.

UNION COUNTY SHERIFF Accident: No one was injured in an accident near lsland Avenue andWalton RoadWednesday morning. Cited: Daniel E. Hall,52, Union,was cited earlyTuesday

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blooming like dafFodils given a huge doseof Miracle-Gro. Perhaps you've read the massive amounts ofletters sent to The Observer and studied The Observer's comprehensive Primary Election Guide, published May 2, or reviewed the Voter's Pamphlet that recently came in the mail. Perhaps you've even met the candidates at forums held hither and yon and learned more about their views in person. Good for you. Election day will be here before we know it. Now is the time to take action, to exercise your sacred right and make your voice heard. Many people today complain about politicians not listening to the public. The first step in getting politicians to listen, to grab their attention, to promote change is to vote your conscience. No, Oregon's election day is not a state holiday. Voters won't walk through an avenue of Hags to get to the polls, nor will they be serenaded by marching bands playing patriotic songs. Some of the pomp and circumstance of going to the ballot box, at least in Oregon, is gone. Voting by mail, however, is way easier for most of us than going to the polls. We don't have to take time ofFwork to get to the polling places. We don'thave to remember tovote on a specificdate. We can sit down in the comfort of our own home, at ourconvenience,and vote our conscience. Sure, we're not going to like all the candidates. Sometimes we're forced to pick the better of two choices we feel are not so great. No matter. The important thing is that we weigh in and contribute our part to making the democracy thrive. In some parts of the world, people don't get a chance to vote. Every time we fail to vote, through apathy, alienation or just plain laziness, we erode this valuable right. Take a few minutes to vote in the next week and put your ballots in the mail. It's as easy as that. Exercise your right to vote and show the nation that the innovative Oregon vote by mail system is the right way to go.

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on that tsunami-like wave. When I first started in the newspaper business, back in the Pleistocene epoch, we wrote on typewriters. We rolled our own ... film, that is, and we developed picturesin darkrooms.Itwasa sim pler time — and enough work for every story deliveredto thereader thatwe ended the week a bundle of wet rags. Today, even old dogs like me are learning new tricks. We Twitter, which some ofus feelislike dropping a rose petal over the edge of the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. We post stories and photos on Facebook and WordPress. And, heavens to Betsy, we even publish an old-fashioned, yet lively, paper copy of the newspaper. For now. To do all this, we dance from task to task like a cat on a superheated tin roof. Readers want up-to-the-minute knowledge about what's going on. Thanks to TV and 24-hour news channels, readers have an insatiable appetite for immediacy. Bigger newspapers have an advantage.They have socialm edia editors. That allows the King Kong of newspapers to give its customers almost constantstimulation forreaderssalivating like Pavlov's dogs for new information. Some old-fashioned types, like me,

JEFF PETERSEN think the world is overstimulated. No matter. I am not a Luddite, a person who resists technological change. I know I must jump on the 21st century highspeedinformation train orgetrun over. The news cycle is now 24 hours a day, seven days a week for not only newspapers but also radio and TV. Few peoplehave the patience tow aitfor the eveningnewspaper tobe delivered to theirdoorstep to learn the latest headlines. They want the scoop — now. People want to be on the cutting edge, the first to know, and if we as newspaperpeople can give them confi rmed news and not just idle gossip, all the better. Now, a weekly newspaper can break news on its website before a daily. Online, every newspaper is a daily. Now, we publish a paper copy of the news for people like me, asold asEagle Cap granite, and electronic versions for younger people who have grown up with smart phones, Facebook, Twitter and all the pulsating rest. Some people resistchange.Itfeels uncomfortable. Even if you are technologically challenged, like I am, you can find a lot of good coming trom the infor-

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mation age. Facebook allows a lot of us, including old-timers like me, to connect with old high school and college classmates and people around town. That and WordPress, with its endless array ofblogs, givespeople an opportunity to publish what in essence is their own personal newspaper, however elaborate or modest. It evens out the playing field of creativity. The online world can enrich your life. That's true not just for young people butforretired folkstryingtopainttheir remaining years golden. The good thing is, we each have a choice. We can embrace the new technology, and make use of it up to our personalcapabilities,orwe can say no thanks. We can hop on the Internet train. Or we can watch it whistle its way through town and be glad no one is forcing us to get on board. If my dad were still around — he died in 1997 — and I mentioned"Twitter" or "Facebook," he would not have a clue. We are lucky to have lived long enough to have a chance to ride the information wave and to look forward to the next innovation. May it be "user friendly." Contact JeffPetersen at 541-963-3161 or jpetersen0 lagrandeobserver.com. Follow Jeff on Twitter SgoNEoregon.

YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS President Barack Obama: TheWhite House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,Washington, D.C. 20500; 202456-1414; fax 202456-2461;to send comments, go to www.whitehouse.gov/contact. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley: D.C. office: 313 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510. Phone: 202-2243753. Fax: 202-228-3997. Website: merkley.senate.gov/. Email: merkley.senate.gov/ contacV. Portland office: One WorldTrade Center, 121 S.W. Salmon SL Suite 1250, Portland, OR 97204; 503-326-3386; fax 503-326-2900.Pendleton office: 310 S.E. Second SL Suite 105, Pendleton 97801; 541-278-1129; email elizabeth scheeler@ merkley.senate.gov. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden: D.C. office: 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building,Washington, D.C. 20510-3703; phone: 202-2245244;fax 202-228-2717.Website: wyden.senate.gov.Email:

wyden.senate.gov/contacV. La Grande office: 105 Fir SL, No. 210, La Grande, OR 97850; 541-962-7691;fax,541-963-0885; email kathleen cathey4wyden. senate.gov.

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (2nd District): D.C. office: 2182 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515-0001, 202-225-6730; fax 202-2255774.Website: walden.house. gov/. Email: walden.house. gov/e-mail-greg. La Grande office: 1211 Washington Ave., La Grande, OR 97850; 541-6242400, email kirby.garrett@mail. house.gov. U.S. Rep Earl Blumenauer (3rd District): D.C. office: 2446 Rayburn Office building, Washington, D.C. 20515; 202225-4811; fax 202-225-8941. Portland office: 729 NE Oregon St. Suite 115, Portland 97232; 503-231-2300, fax 503-230-5413. U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (4th District): D.C. office:

2134 Rayburn Office Bldg., Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-6416; fax 202-225-2994. Eugene office: 151 W. Seventh SL, Suite 400, Eugene, OR 97401, 541-465-6732; 800-9449603; fax 541-465-6458. U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (5th District): D.C. office: 1419 Longworth Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20515; 202225-5711; fax 202-225-5699. Salem office: 494 State SL, Suite 210, Salem, OR 97301; 503-5889100; fax 503-588-5517. U.S. Department of Justice: Main switchboard, 202-504-2000;comment line, 202-353-1555. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber: 254 State Capitol, Salem, OR 97310; 503-378-311t Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown: 900 Court St. N.E., Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1523. Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler: 350Winter St. N.E., Suite 100, Salem, OR 97301-

3896; 503-378-4329. Oregon Attorney General John Kroger: Justice Building, Salem, OR 97301-4096; 503-3786002. State Sen. William S. Hansell (29th DistricVPendleton): Salem office: 900 Court SL NE., S-423, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1729. Website: www.leg.state.or.us/ hansell. Email: Sen.BIIIHansell@ state.or.us. State Rep. Bob Jenson (58th DistricVPendleton): Salem office: 900 Court SL NE., S-481, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1458. Website: www.leg.state.or.us/ jenson.Email:Rep.BobJenson@ state.or.us. State Rep. Greg Smith (57th District): Salem office: 900 Court St. NE., H-482, Salem, OR, 97301; 503-986-1457. Heppner office:PO. Box 219, Heppner, OR 97836; 541-676-5154; email rep.gregsmith@state.or.us; website www.leg.state.or.us/ smithg.

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Your views Kauffman: Walden represents 'we the people' To the Editor: Ialwaysfi nd reading ourpaper interesting simply to see the differentpointofviewspeople have.I would like to show that here since I have a different view on the letter written by Mr. John George of Bates on May 2. I have dealt with Rep. Greg Walden's staffby phone and in person on subjects ranging from the Wallowa-Whitman National Forestroads being closed to health matters. There has never been a problemofany kind in working with them. They are always polite and helpful. Mr. George states that Walden wants our Wallowa-Whitman National Forest closed when in fact he was the only one to stand up and say no to the Forest Service You will leave it open and listen to the will of the peoplebefore any decisionsare made."Walden was the only one of our three elected public officials to stand up to the Forest Service and say no. Both Sen. Merkley and Sen. Wyden simply brushed the closing of the Wallowa-Whitman off with,"Oh, I11 ask (the Forest Service) about it." Walden also happens to be the one who just introduced HR4272 intoCongress,abillthatforcesthe ForestServicetoreturn controlofall national forestroads to thecounties of those national forests. The Forest Service must then ask the county to close any road in that forest and explain why they want to do so. I certainly understand all of us wanting a person who we feel will represent us best in Congress being there. However, I don't see any reason to not show what Walden has done for us as well. After all, it's "we the people" he represents. Not just one of us, it's all of us.

JR. Kauffman La Grande

Brown: Hunters paying for wolf reintroduction To the Editor: Some despise the re-introduction of the wolf, while others think it's the greatest thing since bubble gum. But that aside, I'm writing about information I found on the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife website that Oregonians should know. On the ODFW website under the "wildlife division" home page you will find"hot topics." Then find "gray wolves," then'frequently asked questions." Here you will find the question"How much does it cost to manage wolves in Oregon and how is it paid for?" Here is the answer. 'The fiscal biennium 2013-15

w olf program budgetis $641,004, which covers ODFW's wolf monitoring programs,response to livestock depredation, equipment needs and the cost of two full-time wolf managementemployees.Funding comesfrom a variety ofsources, including the State Wildlife Grant program, Pittman-Robertson funds and Wildlife Service grants. Some ofthesefederalgrants require state match, which comes from a combination of ODFW license dollars and lottery funds. No state general fund dollars (e.g., income taxl are used to support ODFWs wolf program

budget." The Pittman-Robertson Act is an excise tax on hunting gear, and licensedollarsarealso generated from hunters. ODFW depends heavily on hunter licenses and tag feesto manage allofOregon's wildlife. ODFW has plans to phase in moreincreasesoflicense and tag fees. This is in response to declining hunter numbers. The point I want to make is that hunter dollars are being used for Oregon's wolf recovery and to me that is very disturbing. Hunting is conservation, and bringing the wolf back is not a wise conservation choice. With a healthy population of cougars and bears and now the wolf, I predict a heavy decline in hunting quality. Wildlife conservation will take a big hit. Hunters arepaying forwolfrecovery and ranchers lose 6om every wolf-killed cow. So to be fair, those that support the wolf recovery in Oregon should alsocontribute.Ipropose we use those general fund tax dollars. This sounds fair to me. Jim Brown La Grande

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McCracken: County needs to develop a better plan

the U.S. expands Medicare to cover people of all ages, over a half-trillion To the Editor: dollars willbe saved the fi rstyear, enough to pay for high quality comOnce Union County had an elegant old courthouse. The comprehensive benefits for everyone in missioners allowed shelter staff to the U.S. at a lower cost to mostindiwork out of its basement for years. viduals, families and businesses." When the commissioners decided Even though the Affordable Care to raze the courthouse, shelter Act expands insurance coverage, it services were provided in the Old doesn't cover everyone, and it won't Joseph Building maze along with contain costs, Friedman says. In five or 10years,hepredicts,health costs county commissioner offices and will be even higher. Private employcourtrooms. Finding this unsatisfactory, the ersand stateand localgovernshelterhad a successfulfederal ments will again feel squeezed and grant written for constructing their demand a solution. own headquarters. The commissionI want real health care reform ersoffered them a perfectlocation. that saves money with everybody In 1998, a building designed spein andnobody out — me, my family, cifically to meet shelter needs was m y fiiends and neighbors.How built on that site in good faith. about you? The Joseph Building was not well suited for the commissioners Cheryl Simpson or county court either. Our ever La Grande greedy, big government bashing Smith: Time to vote for commissionerswrote a federal t he person,notthe party grant asking for $15M. Not too surprisingly, it was turned down. Now To the Editor: those commissioners are ready to A yes vote on Ballot Measure 31-84 gives any Union County jump fast and high for a mere $3M in state funding. The state wrongly registeredvoterthe ability torun assumed the commissioners had a for the position of county commisplan and could act in a timely man- sioner without needing the backing ner. Caught flat footed, the commis- of a political party. Consequently, all sioners now claim there isn't time registered voters will be able to vote to dothejob right,sothey propose forthe candidate oftheir choice. razing the shelter building to create Political parties have blurred a spacetostartdigging. theirplatforms. It'stim e tovote for The shelter was built with a the person and not the party. In $487,040community block grant. our valley where you have a better Replacing it would cost far more chance of knowing the actual people now. The county has no plans to on a ballot let's eliminate the divicompensate the shelter financially. siveness of party affrliation. Guesstheirstaffissupposed to go back to the grant writing phase S.C.Smith afterbeing tossed back into some Union existing basement or maze. Both a county shelter and county Cremin: Shelter building should not be sacrificed court are necessary. The shelter successfully met its needs 16 years To the Editor: ago. The county still hasn't. RegardMany years ago my family lived less, the county needs to develop a at the corner of Fifth and L with a plan that doesn't negatively impact view of the landmark courthouse another critical community service from our living room window. provider. Commissioners must It was with disgust and sadness determine what the county really we watched the demolition of one needs/wants, find a suitable site, get of the historic buildings of Union parking and traffic studies done, County. come up with a cost estimate and But, a Phoenix arose, filling then write a grant proposal. an important niche in the Union Actual community involvement County community. would lessen shock and outrage and What possible justification can likely avoid time-consuming and our county commissioners have to costly lawsuits. destroyarecently-built,perfectly functioning building, to site an Mary McCracken inadequate courthouse in its place? La Grande This is fiscal irresponsibility at its worst. Simpson: I want real No question we need a functionhealth care reform ing court system. We have a criticalTo the Editor: ly important community advocacy Eastern Oregon is like the rest center in Shelter From the Storm. of the state and the nation. We care One should not be sacrificed to fill about health care for everyone. Will the other need. it be there when we need it, will it I hope the commissioners will be complicated to obtain,can we af- pleasetake adeep breath,a step ford it? These are some of the ques- back, and look at the long-term tions people are asking — especially ramifications here. There has got to "can weafford it?" be a better way. People in La Grande showed theirsupport for health carereform Janet Cremin April 27 when they came out in La Grande pouring rain and a power outage Ruberg: Changes need to to gather in McKenzie Theatre for be made at animal shelter the George Mann Benefit Concert. Colton Haney was a wonderful To The Editor: emcee. Steve Hines and Friends Changes need to be made at were spectacular. Mann met and ex- the Blue Mountain Humane Asceededexpectations ashe sang for sociationand operate itasitwas health care reform in Oregon and intended to be. The "no kill" policy is nice to hear across the nation. In April, we sang and clapped for and very humane, but somebody health care reform. In May, we are has to make the hard choices. asking the hard question — what Some cats are just not going to be would real health care reformadoptable, which is what I saw beyond Obamacare — mean to us when I went there — 90 percent in Oregon? Dr. Gerald Friedman black cats. Health Economist's fiscal analysis It would be wonderful if we could ofhealthcarereform reports,"If give them all a comfortable home

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(no one loves cats any more than I dol but let's be practical, folks. It's just not feasible. As I left the shelter, a man was just leaving. After having looked at thesign ("No catsaccepted — we are full") he said he didn't know what he was going to do now. He had a large brown and blonde Burmese cat in his carrier. He was moving where no cats were accepted. The nextday on my way into La Grande, I saw a large, beautiful similar looking cat, dead on the overpass at Hot Lake. I could not say it was the same one, but I do know that people will dump their cats when there is no other choice. Consequently, they are killed by cars, coyotesorstarvation.Now,tell me that's humane. Some who go there will not take them back home (as was suggested to mel. They can't for various reasons. There may be a generous sum of money donated to the shelter one of these days, but that money may not be forthcoming unless things change. Etta Ruberg Union

Dunn:Don'tlet partisan backers scare you To the Editor: Ihave voted in every election since becoming old enough to vote. In the last primary election I wanted to vote for a county commissioner candidate other than my own party and I changed parties to voteforthatcandidate and changed back after the election. It went against the grain to have to go to all that trouble and I became involved with the effort to make a change in the primary election and joined Union County Citizens for Good Government's effort to change this. In answerto thescaretacticad in the May 3 Nickel stating that if Ballot Measure 31-84 passes,party affiliation will not be printed for the position of Union County commissioner, this is true. We all know this and we read our voter's pamphlets to educate ourselves on the candidateofourchoice.No big deal. We are adults and know how our elections work. Nothing is hidden from the public at all and these are oppositionscare tactics,plain and simple. Itis time this office was voted on by all voters, notjust those in the candidate's party. It is the American way ofvoting.Many ofuschanged parties tovotefor ourUnion County commissioner candidate in the last primary and many more would have had they understood the process. In gathering signatures to get this to the ballot, so many peoplewere astounded that it wasn't already that way and voiced strong opinions against the current process, and many were just plain angry about the unfairness and thanked us for our efforts to make a difference. It is interesting to note Klamath County has made the change and Baker County is in the processofchanging theposition to non-partisan. Please vote yes on Measure 31-84 when you receive your ballots. The time is now to help make a difference. With your help we can make it happen. BonnieDunn Union

Olson: Greg Barreto's knowledge, skills needed To the Editor: We attended the Chamber of Commerce meeting in Pendleton on April 23 where Greg Barreto and John Turner presented their views and answered questions. We were impressed with how well the meeting was run and the fine setting at the arts center. Also, everyone behaved quite well, the speakers and the audience. Both candidates seem to be very ine gentlemen and have a few posif tions in common, such as pro-life and Second Amendment. Their life work is very different, however, and both have significant success in their fields. John Turner has been in administration work and Greg Barretoin entrepreneurial,private business development. We see this difference as the key point in deciding who to vote for. Greg Barreto's work is creating tax dollars, and John Turner's work

is using and managing them. The state in general, and Eastern Oregon specifically, need businesses to create tax dollars —notincreasing taxes for existing businesses and workers. Creation ofbusinesses also creates jobs, resulting in a larger tax base and less draws on tax dollars by the unemployed and underemployed. With increased taxes collected, it follows that budgets will then be larger for schools, law enforcement, museums and care for the truly needy. The knowledge and skills ofbusinesspeople,like Greg Barreto,are needed to help create the environment in Oregon for businesses to thrive. Pleasevote forGreg Barreto. Mike and Garnet Olson Pendleton

Boyd: Barreto stands for honesty, integrity To the Editor: You can lie by directly misstating. You can lie by purposefully misleading people, or you can lie by omission. All of them are still lies. Greg Barreto will not purposefully participate in any of the above.He believes thatthe people deserve to know what decisions he is making and why. Greg's transparency has been reflected in his handling of donations. The public is well aware of the donations he has received and who they came from. He has made no effort to infer otherwise. His opponent is accepting donations from a PAC that disguises the fact that money is being funneled from theSEIU through the PACOregonians for Rural Jobs — and then to him. I call that purposefully m isleading the voters. John has received $74,171 in donations, of which $48,650 is from unions or political entities, twothirds of his donations. Why is this not reported in the media? This is one of the many reasons that I am voting for Greg Barreto — honesty and integrity. Jennifer Boyd La Grande

Felley: Commission races should be nonpartisan To the Editor: No. No. No, Mike Burton and the Union County Republican Party Central Committee. The vote for nonpartisan county commission elections, Ballot Measure 31-84, is for one reason, plain and simplefairness. Right now, if you are not a registered Republican in Union County and can't vote in the primary, you have no say in the county commissionraces.Potholesarenota partisan issue, and most other Oregon counties recognize this by holding nonpartisan county commission races. If you think every voter should have a say in who's running Union County, then vote for Ballot Measure 31-84. Dave Felley La Grande

Berry: Hate campaign against PERS will not win To the Editor:

I am a public employee (PERSl since 2002. I voiced my opinion in your newspaper when Gov. Kitzhaber and his political puppets decided to reduce my monthly retirement income. Now we have a staunch Republican, Greg Barreto, who is running on a political platform ofhate and misinformation. His comment in the voter pamphlet states, "I will simply refuse to be enrolled in PERS." His ad in the April 28 Observer claimed that public employees don't support him because he votes like a Republican should. He then went on to describe how his opponent John Turner accepts money from PERS. A hate campaign against PERS will not win elections. I urge all state employees and others who are involved in PERS to vote your concerns. We do not need another antiPERS radical in our district. Join me and vote John Turner as the staterepresentative forthe58th district. DuaneBerry Imbler

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Students and faculty at Eastern Oregon University are looking for answers and venting feelings of frustration with the state in the wake of the news that the school must make $4 million in cuts due to a budget shortfall caused by falling enrollment and reduced funding from the state.

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students who will not be able to stay at Eastern because of cuts or reductions Continued from Page1A to their programs. Hackwith, a biology student, hopes that the curriculum for The instructor isupsetthe stateis her course of study remains intact. "I would like to finish out here. It able to spend millions of dollars renovating buildings at Eastern but not would be hard to transfer," Hackwith provide it with enough money to main- saId. tain its programs and staf. Eastern Evan Bryan, EOU's student body has spent more than $15 million over president, agrees thattheproblem is lackofsupportfrom the state. the past four years renovating Pierce Library, Zabel Hall, Quinn Coliseum cWe have to tell the state that it and the Hoke Union Building. needs to invest in higher education for State laws prevent Eastern from the success of the economy," Bryan said, beingabletouse funds setasidefor explaining that people with degrees building improvements for anything make more money and pay more in else, including salaries and operating taxes as a result. expenses. Benton believes steps should He traces the lack of funding directly be taken to someday allow for some of to state leaders in Salem. "This disinvestment originated at this money to be spent to support programs atOregon's state universities. the top, the state," Bryan said. He believes this can happen. Bryan said there is a feeling of anxi"I don't accept the notion that nothety on campus because students care so ing can be done about it," Benton said. much about their programs. "People are uneasy. It is tough when He said that allowing money set aside for building projects to be spent thereisa lotofpassion in programs," foroperating expenses and salaries Bryan said. would only be logical. Clarissa Talbott, a junior from Baker ''Whatgood does itdo to spend City, said that students would have money on buildings when you can not liked to have the opportunity to help fill them?" Benton said. professors whose jobsarein jeopardy Kendra Hackwith, a freshman from because enrollment in their classes is Cove, said that the proposed cuts would down. "Students want to help keep pronotaffectherdirectly.Shefeelsbad for

grams," Talbott,said. The junior said she would like it ifadviserswould tellstudents about professors who need extra students in their classes so they can have the opportunity to help them. Chane Nelson, a sophomore from Idaho, said that proposed cuts will hurt her because some of the classes she needstograduate would be offered less frequently, making scheduling more diffIcult. Education Professor Ray Brown, EOU's master of arts in teaching secondarycoordinator,said thatheis "greatly saddened" forthecolleagues who will be losing their jobs due to the budget cuts. The need for future cuts would be reduced of course by boosting enrollment. Brown believes one way this could be achievedisaddingmore evening classes. This would make it easier for students who work and have child care issues to take classes at Eastern, Brown said. The professor is focusing on maintaining a positive outlook during this difficult time. cWe're going to make it out of this together as a group," Brown said. Contact Dick Mason at 541-786-5386 or dmason C lagrandeobserver.com. Follow Dick on Twitter C IgoMason.

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requested $500,000 in Urban Renewal assistance. The funding, if approved, would come in the form of a loan that couldbe converted toa grant if certain criteria are met. Discussion Wednesday night centered on what agency members would like to see in the agreement in addition to a draft that was provided by staff. Over afive-year period, the gmmy store would berequired to maintain 10 full-timejobs at $15 an hour andfi vepart-tim e jobs, according to adraftoutliningIequimnents. The store would beIectuiIed to be open atleastfive days aweek for 52 weeks ayear for five years, and construction would have to begin no later than March 1,2015, with the store open byAug. 31,2015, according to draftIecommendations. The city is also asking that the applicants acquire a Small Business Administration loan and no less than

$750,000 in cash. Agency members struck one requirement that the applicant would have to provide baseline data and report on data throughout the five-year period. Membersfeltthatcould be an

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Market Place Family Foods would be sited on the corner of Adams Avenue and Fourth Street, in the building formerly occupied by Blockbuster. unrealistic expectation. Another requirement would be that the city have a lien on the property. "Ifwe'renotabletodo that,that' sit,gam e over," Strope said. Discussion indicated the city would hold a second position lien on the property. Agency members acknowledgedthattheprojectwould be a bigrisk, and some said they were not willing to take it. "I can't support it at $500,000,u said Mayor Daniel Pokorney. He, Jerry Sebestyen and Troy Pointer voted against moving forward. Others argued that the city needed to try something new in the way of economic development and that this is a unique opportunity.

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"It has been a do-nothing community for too long," said Gary Lillard. Agency member John Bozarth, who has been a vocalsupporter oftheproject, said economic development requires taking risks. "On the other hand we can be very safe and watch the jobs leave the city," he said. Final approval is subject to atleastonemore agency vote. Also at the URA meeting, the agency approved funding fortwo discretionary projects

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received $65,000 in loans. Barreto, a Cove resident and longtime owner of Barreto Manufacturing in Union County, says that doesn't paintan accurate picture of his campaign finances. cWe personally, Chris and I, loaned to our campaign," Barreto said."So we didn't go out and borrow the money." Barreto has also made an issue of Turner supporting Measures 66 and 67, which proposed tax increases. Turner says it's true that the Blue Mountain Commu-

forwork,butagency members agreed the building was not blighted and was not in need ofthefunding. Contact Kelly Ducote at 541-786-4230 or kducote 0 lagrandeobserver.com. Follow Kelly on Twitter @IgoDucote.

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A routine motor vehicle stop on Wednesday afternoon led toan arrestand seizure of methamphetamine. Around 4:45 p.m., deputiesstopped avehicle on McAlister Road near Gekeler Lane for a minor traffIc violation, according to the Union County SherifFs OffIce. After making contact, deputies discovered that the passenger, Richard Carroll, 44, of Baker City, had a

felony parole warrant out for his arrest. Carroll was arrested atthe scene. According to the sherifFs offIce, a subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the discovery and seizure of a significant amount of methamphetamineand aloaded handgun. The case remains under investigation by the Union/ Wallowa Drug Task Force, which includes officers and deputies from the La Grande Police Department, Enterprise Police Department, Wallowa County SherifFs OffIce and Union County SherifFs OffIce. Law enforcement officials anticipate additional charges to come.

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FRIDAY • Aelea Christofferson Open House: 10 a.m.-noon; Sac Annex, second-floor conference room. • Aviation Symposium: "Maximizing the Economic and Social Values of Wallowa County Airports"; 3-5 p.m.; Joseph State Airport. • Chair Exercise Class:9:30 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • DAR Lone Pine Tree Chapter:11:30 a.m.; Sunridge Restaurant, 1 Sunridge Lane, Baker City. • Fishtrap Fireside: 7-9 p.m.; Fishtrap House,400 E. Grant St., Enterprise. • Free Children's Health Clinic: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Grande Ronde Hospital Children's Clinic, 612 Sunset Drive. • Grande Ronde Academy Tour: 12:30 p.m.; Grande Ronde Academy, 507B Palmer Ave. (Valley Fellowship building). • Indoor Walking: 8 a.m.; Union LDS Church. • Live 'Section Ate' Music by Terry LaMont:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • '13' Live Musical Theater:$6-$15; 7:30 p.m..; Elgin Opera House,104 N. Eighth. • United Way Open House:1 p.m.; Walmait, Island City. • Northeast Oregon Forests Regional Advisory Committee:9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; public input at 1:30 p.m.; Blue Mt. Conference Center, 404 12th St. • Pinochle Social Club:18 and older; 6 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St.

SATURDAY • Central PTAYard Sale:7 a.m.-noon; Central School gym, 402 KAve. • Community Dance: potluck, door prizes Bi. music provided by ChinookWinds; $3,

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$5 couples; 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande. • Community Garden Kick-Off: tool sharpening Bi. communal work 11 a.m.-1 p.m., potluck lunch 1-2, Bees Friendly Bi. Grow-aRow information 1:30, individual plot work 2-4; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; La Grande Community Garden, H andIavenues off 12th Street. • For the Love of a Mother Senior Meal Fundraiser:$22, $7 kids;4 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Community Connection Enterprise Center, 702 N.W. First St. • Game Night:free; 5-9 p.m.; Hobby Habit,409 Fir St. • Joseph Art Walk: 3-7 p.m.; Downtown Joseph. • Joseph Hardware Grand Opening: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 101S. Main St., Joseph. • Lego Play:free; 9 a.m.-noon; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • '13' Live Musical Theater:$6-$15; 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m..; Elgin Opera House, 104 N. Eighth St. • Oregon Green Free: noon; Integrated Services Building, 1607 Gekeler Lane. • PE.O. Chapter DK Mother's Day Brunch:10:30 a.m.; Island City City Hall. • Pamperfest 2014: 3-6p.m.;Tempting Teal Boutique, 12 S. Main St., Joseph. • Science Saturday: 1st-6th grade; free; 10 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Something Special Craft, Antique & Garden Show: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Riveria Activity Center, 2609 Second St. • Hot Lakes Resort Spring Fling 2014: art, history, music and barbecue; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Hot Lake Springs Resort, 66172 Highway 203. • Spring Sprint 5k/10k:proceeds benefit Friday Backpack Program; $10 or 4 items off program food list; 8:30a.m.;M ountain Valley Fitness Bi. Health. • Tunesmith Night: Dennis McGregor, Willie Carmichael Bi. Karin Blaine; $10; doors open at 6 p.m., music at 7; Lear's Main Street Pub Bi. Grill,111W. Main St., Enterprise. • Union County Historical Society Potluck & Meeting:

noon; Union County Fairgrounds, 3604 N. Second St. • Union/Wallowa County OHA Chapter Banquet: 5 p.m.; Blue Mt. Conference Center, 404 12th St. • Wallowa County Grain Growers & Humane Society Open House: 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wallowa County Grain Growers, 911 South St., Enterprise. • Wallowa FBLA Banquet & Auction $10; 5:30 p.m.; Wallowa School.

• Music with Mr. Mark:9-9:45 a.m. 3 months-walking, 1010:45 a.m. toddlers, 11-11:45 a.m. pre-K;: AitsEast, Sixth Street and LAvenue. • Run Girl Run:4-H after-school program for girls in fourth and fifth grade; 2:303:30 p.m.; Central Elementary School, 402 KAve. • TOPS OR 98:Take . OffPounds Sensibly; weigh-in at 5:30 p.m., meeting at 6; Faith Lutheran Church,12th Street and Gekeler Lane. • Union County Chess Club:3-7 p.m.; Sub Shop, 111 Depot St. :

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TUESDAY • BabyTot Bop Story Circle:ages 0-3; free; 11:15 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Bingo:6:30 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • Brown Bag Lunch at the Josephy Library:free; noon; Josephy Center for Arts Bi. Culture, 403 N.

Main St., Joseph. • Cove Senior Fitness Class:9-10: : • a.m.; Cove Baptist Church,707 Main St. • Emotions Anonymous: 2 p.m.; Union United Methodist Church. • EOLS Directors Meeting: 7:30 p.m.; Eastern Oregon Livestock Show Clubhouse, 760 E. Delta St., Union. • EOU Community African Drumming: 6-7 p.m.; Loso Hall, Room 123, EOU. : • • Family Fun Swim: $2; 7-8:30 p.m.; Veterans Memorial Pool, 401 Palmer Ave. • Friends of the Union Carnegie Library:7 p.m.; 182 N. Main St., Union. • Government Contract Assistance Program Seminar: "Selling to the • Bingo:doors open Government: Tapping at 5 p.m., early bird into a Trillion Dollar games at 6, regular Market"; 4-6 p.m.; games at 7;VFW High GCAP office, 104 Valley Post 4060, Depot St. 518 N. Main St., • Gerald Friedman Union. Health Care • Chair Exercise Presentation:free; Class:9:30 a.m.; 3:30-4:30 p.m. Bi. Union County Senior 7-8:30 p.m.; Huber Center, 1504 N. Auditorium, Badgley Albany St. Hall, EOU. • Conscious • Indoor Park:free Discipline Series: play space; 9 a.m.Free; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; noon; La Grande Child Care Resource Methodist Church, Bi. Referral, 1901 1612 Fourth St. Adams, suite 3. • La Grande High • Indoor Park:free :'

MONDAY • Bridge: 1:15 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • Central Elementary PTA:6:30 p.m.; Central Elementary School, 402 KAve. • Chair Exercise Class:9:30 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • Driver Education Class:6-9 p.m.; ODOT BiDMV . Region 5 Headquarters, 3012 Island Ave. • Fresh Food Alliance:12:301 p.m.; Union United Methodist Church. • Indoor Park:free play space; 9 a.m.noon; La Grande Methodist Church, 1612 Fourth St. • Indoor Walking: 8 a.m.; Union LDS Church. • Live Music by Dennis Winn:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St.

School Choir Concert:free; 7 p.m.; LHS auditorium, 708 KAve. La Grande Planning & Landmarks Commissions: 6 p.m.; La Grande City Hall, 1000 Adams Ave. LHS Class of 1957: 1 p.m.; Flying JTravel Plaza, 63276 Highway 203. Literacy Center: 2:30-4:30 p.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. Live Music by Blue Mountaineers:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers): 6-8 p.m.; Valley Fellowship Church, 507 Palmer Ave. Page Turners Book Club:1 p.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. Painting the Stars: Science, Religion Bi. an Evolving Faith; sandwich supper, film viewing and discussion; 5:307 p.m.; K-House, Sixth Street and I Avenue. Pinochle:1 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. Live Music by Rick Estrin & the Nightcats:$10; 7 p.m.; OKTheatre, 208W. Main St., Enterprise. Swiss-Austria Dinner:Rotary Club of Wallowa County youth exchange program fundraiser; $15, $30 family at the door; 5:30 p.m.; Enterprise VFW Hall,800 N. River St. Union County Timber Cruisers Car Club:5:30 p.m.; Flying JTravel Plaza, 63276 Highway 203. Union Senior Lunch:noon; Union United Methodist Church.

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play space; 9 a.m.noon; La Grande Methodist Church, 1612 Fourth St. • Indoor Walking: 8 a.m.; Union LDS Church. • Literacy Center: 2:30-4:30 p.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Live Music by Blue Mountaineers:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • LMS Plant Sale: during school hours; La Grande Middle School, 1108Fourth St. • NARVRE No. 89 Meeting:10:30 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Rotary Club of Wallowa County: noon; St. Katherine's Parish Hall,301 E. Garfield St., Enterprise. • Workers Compensation Seminar:1-4:30 p.m.; Prairie Creek Center, 104 S. Litch St., Enterprise

FRIDAY THURSDAY • Bingo:1 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • Bingo:cash only; 6:30-9 p.m.; La Grande American Legion Post 43, 301 Fir St. • Blue Mountain Peggers Cribbage Club:$7;5 p.m.; Denny's, 2604 Island Ave. • Country Swing Thursday: $3 before 8 p.m., $5 after 8; 7:30 p.m.; Maridell Center, 1124 Washington Ave. • Cove Senior Fitness Class:9-10 a.m.; Cove Baptist Church, 707 Main St. • Crazy Days Planning Committee: 6 p.m.; Frontier Communications, 1101 AdamsAve. • Diabetes Support Group:6:30 p.m.; Grande Ronde Hospital Mt. Emily Conference Room. • Indoor Park:free play space; 9 a.m.noon; La Grande Methodist Church, 1612 Fourth St. • Literacy Center: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Bi.

2:30-4:30 p.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Live Music by Fine Tunes:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • LMS Plant Sale: during school hours;

Cove School District budget picture looks bright • Budget may increase 5 percent By Dick Mason The Observer

The Cove School District's budget picture is awash with bright, if not blinding, colors. The Cove School Board is closetoadopting a 2014-15 general fund budget, which would be up 5 percent. "Our budget looks solid," said Cove School District

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and activities. There are no plans to add new programs or hire additional stafE however. '%e need to be prudent and thoughtM with how we spend taxpayer money," get of $3.759 million, one Neil said. which would be $221,400 The proposed budget is greaterthan its2013-14 up for a number of reabudget. sons. One is that 2014-15 The additional funding represents the second year will allow the school district oftheLegislature's2013-15 to boost funding for building biennium budget.TheLegmaintenance projects, tech- islature allocated 49 percent nology support and athletics of its funding for schools in

the first year of the biennium and 51 percent in the second year. The Legislature's 2013-15 budget for school funding was up significantly kom its2011-13 budget due to an improvingeconomy. The dist rict'sbudget alsolooks brighterbecause of aprojected enrollment increase. The school district isprojected tohave271 students in 2014-15, up about three &om the current year. This is significant because

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La Grande Middle School, 1108Fourth St. • Oregon Employer Council:11:30 a.m.1 p.m.; Chrisman Development and Viridian Management Building, 200 E. Main St., Enterprise. • Run Girl Run:4-H after-school program for girls in 4th Bi.5th grade; 2:30-3:30 p.m.; Central Elementary School, 402 KAve. • Open Music Session:free; 7 p.m.-9 p.m.; Bear Mountain Pizza. • Storytime:free; 11:15 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Third Thursday Open Mic: sign up begins 6:15 p.m.; free; 7 p.m.; Lear's Main Street Pub Bi. Grill,111W. Main St., Enterprise. • Wallowa County Chess Club:4-8 p.m.; Josephy Center for Arts Bi.Culture, 403 N. Main St., Joseph.

school districts receive about $6,000 &om the state for each student. The school board will conduct a public hearing on its proposed budget June 17. The Cove School Board will vote on adoption of its proposedbudget following the public hearing. Contact Dick Mason at 541-786-5386 or dmason C /agrandeobserver.com. Follow Dick on Twitter C' /goMason.

• Traditional-Live! SpringAlive Concert & Community Dance: free; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Riverside Park pavilion. • Chair Exercise Class:9:30 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • Cove Senior Picnic Dinner:Iive music by Blue Mountaineers; noon; Cove Baptist Church, 707 Main St. • Fishtrap Spring Arts & Lecture Series:"Breaking Chains: Slavery and Jim Crow in Oregon" by R. Gregory Nokes; suggested $5 donation; 7 p.m.; Fishtrap House, 400 E. Grant St., Enterprise. • Free Children's Health Clinic: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Grande Ronde Hospital Children's Clinic, 612 Sunset Drive. • Indoor Walking: 8 a.m.; Union LDS Church. • Live Music by Fine Tunes:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St. • LMS Plant Sale: during school hours; La Grande Middle School, 1108Fourth St. • Pinochle Social Club:18 and older; 6 p m Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St.

SENIOR MENUS Union County Senior Center Lunch Menu MAY 12-16 Monday: pork roast, red potatoes, steamed carrots, Caesar salad, onion rolls, baked apples. Tuesday:baked potato bar,steamed broccoli, salad greens, fresh fruit. Wednesday: fried chicken, boiled red potatoes, carrots, Jell-O, baked breads, dessert. Thursday: BBQ pork ribs, baked beans, cabbage slaw, rolls, fresh fruit.

Friday: baked pizza with vegetables and meats, salad greens, fresh fruit.

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May 14-15 — Owners meetings, New York. June 5 — Amateur draft. July 15 — All-Star game, Minneapolis. July 18 — Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign. July 27 — Hall of Fame inductions, Cooperstown, N.Y. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers. Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players. Sept. 30 — Postseason begins. Oct. 22 — World Series begins. November TBA — Deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to their eligible former players who became free agents, fifth day after World Series. November TBA — Deadline for free agents to accept qualifying offers, 12th day after World Series. Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer 2015 contracts to unsigned players. Dec. 8-11 — Winter meetings, San Diego. Dec. 8 — Hall of Fame golden era (1947-72) vote announced, San Diego. 2015 Jan. 13 — Salary arbitration filing. Jan. 16 — Salary arbitration figures exchanged. Feb. 1-21 — Salary arbitration hearings. July 14 — All-Star game, Cincinnati. July 17 — Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers. Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players. Dec. 7-10 — Winter meetings, Nashville, Tenn.

PREP Baseball Greater Oregon League GOL All RSRA RkRPI Baker/PV 9 - 1 1 5-6 147 87 8 609 La Grande 7-1 13-8 14710213 551 Ontario 1-7 4- 1 5 9 6 173 36 413 McLoughlin 1-9 8-11 98 142 32 440

Eastern Oregon League EOL All RSRA RkRPI Stan/Echo 8 - 2 1 5-4 172 70 7 597 Nyssa 7-1 1 2 -10 182 146 21 447 Vale 7-3 16-5 168 83 12 543 Burns 6-2 11-9 137 152 15 514 Elgin/Imbler 4-8 4-12 68 152 29 377 Riverside 2 - 6 7 - 11 79 107 27 388 Umatilla 0- 1 2 0 -17 20 116 35 296 Special District 7 EOL All RSRA RkRPI Union/Cove 6-2 8-7 104 108 12 551 Grant Union 5-0 11-6 168 89 11 553 Wallowa 3-3 4- 9 110 131 42 329 Joseph/Ent 3-4 5-10 100 124 37 361 Prairie City 0- 8 0-13 32 291 49 223

SoftbaII Greater Oregon League GOL All RS RA Rk RPI McLoughlin 10-0 16-3 143 43 4 691 Ontario 3-5 6-9 107 100 33 418 Baker/PV 3 - 7 7 - 14 123 226 31 425 La Grande 2-6 5-12 9112927472

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Players who have applied for early entry into the 2014 NBA Draft: Draft: June 26, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. Jordan Adams, sophomore, G, UCLA William Alston CC, freshman, F, of Baltimore County Dundalk MychalAmmons, junior, F, South Alabama Kyle Anderson, sophomore, G, UCLA IsaiahAustin, sophomore, C, Baylor Chane Behanan, junior, F, Louisville Sim Bhullar, sophomore, C, New Mexico State Khem Birch, junior, F, UNLV Jabari Brown, junior, G, Missouri Jahii Carson, sophomore, G, Arizona State Semaj Christon, sophomore, G, Xavier Jordan Clarkson, junior, G, Missouri DeAndre Daniels, junior, F, Connecticut Spencer Dinwiddie, junior, G, ColoIado

Joel Embiid, freshman, C, Kansas Tyler Ennis, freshman, G, Syracuse Aaron Gordon, freshman, F, Arizona Jerami Grant, sophomore, F, Syracuse P.J. Hairston, G, North Carolina/Texas

(NBADL) Gary Harris, sophomore, G, Michigan State Rodney Hood,sophomore, F, Duke Nick Johnson, junior, G, Arizona Alex Kirk, junior, C, New Mexico Zach LaVine, freshman, G, UCLA James Michael McAdoo, junior, F, North Carolina K.J. McDaniels, junior, F, Clemson Mitch McGary, sophomore, F, Michigan Eric Moreland, junior, F, Oregon State Johnny O'Bryant III, junior, F, LSU Jabari Parker, freshman, F, Duke Elfrid Payton, junior, G, LouisianaLafayette Julius Randle, freshman, F, Kentucky Glenn Robinson III, sophomore, F, Michigan LaQuinton Ross, junior, F, Ohio State Antonio Rucker, sophomore, G,

Clinton JC (SC) JaKarr Sampson, sophomore, F, St. John's Marcus Smart, junior, G, Oklahoma

State Roscoe Smith, junior, F, UNLV Nik Stauskas, sophomore, G, Michigan Jarnell Stokes, junior, F, Tennessee Noah Vonleh, freshman, C-F, Indiana T.J. Warren, sophomore, F, NC State Andrew Wiggins, freshman, F, Kansas James Young, freshman, G, Kentucky Ta'Quan Zimmerman, junior, G,

Thompson Rivers (Canada) International Players Eleftherios Bochoridis, Aris (Greece)/ Greece Matias Bortolin, Regatas Corrientes (Argentina)/Argentina Nedim Buza, Spars Sarajevo (Bosnia)/ Bosnia 8 Herzegovina Bruno Caboclo, Pinheiros (Brazil)/ Brazil Berkay Candan, TED Kolejliler (Turkey)/Turkey Clint Capela, Chalon (France)/ Switzerland Joonas Caven, Joventut (Spain) / Finland Nemanja Dangubic, Mega Vizura (Serbia)/Serbia Moussa Diagne, Fuenlabrada (Spain)/ Senegal Tomas Dimsa, Zalgiris (Lithuania)/ Lithuania Marcus Eriksson, Manresa (Spain) / Sweden Dante Exum, Australia llja Gromovs, Ventspils (Latvia)/Latvia Damien lnglis, Roanne (France) / France Nikola Jokic, Mega Vizura (Serbia)/ Serbia Michalis Kamperidis, Filathlitikos (Greece)/Greece Artem Klimenko, Avtodor (Russia)/ Russia Rasmus Larsen, Manresa (Spain) / Denmark Lucas Mariano, Vivo Franca (Brazil)/ Brazil Vasilije Micic, Mega Vizura (Serbia)/ Serbia Jusuf Nurkic, Cedevita (Croatia)/Bosnia 8 Herzegovina Mateusz Ponitka, Oostende (Belgium)/ Poland Kristaps Porzingis, Cajasol (Spain)/ Latvia Marko Ramljak, Zadar (Croatia)/ Croatia Dario Saric, Cibona (Croatia)/Croatia Ojars Silins, Reggio Emilia (Italy)/ Latvia Alejandro Suarez, Joventut (Spain)/ Spain Devon Van Oostrum, Vitoria (Spain)/ Holland Guillem Vives, Joventut (Spain)/Spain Adin Vrabac, Spars Sarajevo (Bosnia)/ Bosnia 8 Herzegovina

EOL All RSRA RkRPI Vale 8-0 15-3 178 65 7 615 Ent/J/W 8-0 1 2 -4 183 89 21451 Elgin/Imbler 6-2 8-4 108 77 12 542 NHL Playoff Glance Echo/Stan 5 - 5 8 -10 123 121 19 473 Nyssa 4-4 5- 1 5 188 273 24 410 All Times PDT Riverside 3 - 7 8 - 12 157 184 25 406 SECOND ROUND 2-8 2-15 108 222 27 354 Burns IBest-of-7; x-if necessary) Umatilla 0- 1 0 0 -13 29 247 34 236 EASTERN CONFERENCE Special District 5 Montreal 2, Boston 2 SD5 Al l RSRA RkRPI Thursday, May 1: Montreal 4, Boston W-Mc/Gris 10-1 18-1 203 52 1 725 3, 2OT Union/Cove 8-2 16-2 193 61 2 682 Saturday, May 3: Boston 5, Montreal 3 Pilot R/Nix 7 - 4 1 4-6 148 48 8 582 Tuesday, May 6: Montreal4,Boston 2 GrantUnion 3-7 10-8 12612018479 Thursday, May 8: Boston 1, Montreal Irrigon 2-9 5- 1 3 106 152 24 420 0, OT Hepp/lone 2 - 9 2 -14 64 169 31 347 Saturday, May 10: Montreal at Boston, 4 p.m. Monday, May 12: Boston at Montreal, TBA x-Wednesday, May 14: Montreal at NBA Playoff Glance Boston, TBA Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 All Times PDT Friday, May 2: N.Y. Rangers 3, PittsCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS burgh 2, OT IBest-of-7; x-if necessary) Sunday, May 4: Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. EASTERN CONFERENCE Rangers 0 Miami 2, Brooklyn 0 Monday, May 5: Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Tuesday, May 6: Miami107, Brooklyn 86 Rangers 0 Thursday, May 8: Miami 94, Brooklyn 82 W ednesday, May 7: Pittsburgh 4,N.Y. Saturday, May 10: Miami at Brooklyn, Rangers 2 5 p.m. Friday, May 9: N.Y. Rangers at PittsMonday, May 12: Miami at Brooklyn, burgh, 4 p.m. 5 p.m. x-Sunday, May 11: Pittsburgh at N.Y. x-Wednesday,May 14:Brooklyn at Rangers, TBA Miami, 4 or 5 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 13: N.Y. Rangers at x-Friday, May 16: Miami at Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, TBA TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE x-Sunday, May 18: Brooklyn at Miami, Chicago 2, Minnesota 1 TBA Friday, May 2: Chicago 5, Minnesota 2 Washington 1, Indiana 1 Sunday,May 4:Chicago 4,Minnesota 1 Monday,May 5:Washington 102, Tuesday,May 6:Minnesota 4,Chicago 0 Indiana 96 Friday, May 9: Chicago at Minnesota, Wednesday,May 7: Indiana 86, 6:30 p.m. Washington 82 Sunday, May 11: Minnesota at ChiFriday, May 9: Indiana at Washington, cago, TBA 5 p.m. x-Tuesday,May 13:Chicago atMinSunday, May 11: Indiana at Washingnesota, TBA ton, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, May 15: Minnesota at Tuesday,May 13:Washington at Chicago, TBA Indiana, 4 p.m. Los Angeles 2, Anaheim 1 x-Thursday, May 15: Indiana at WashSaturday, May 3: LosAngeles 3, ington, TBA Anaheim 2, OT x-Sunday,May 18:Washington at Monday, May 5: Los Angeles 3, Indiana, TBA Anaheim 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Thursday, May 8: Anaheim 3, Los San Antonio 2, Portland 0 Angeles 2 Tuesday, May 6: San Antonio 116, Saturday, May 10: Anaheim at Los Portland 92 Angeles, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8: San Antonio 114, Monday,May 12:Los Angeles at Portland 97 Anaheim, TBA Saturday, May 10: San Antonio at x-Wednesday,May 14:Anaheim at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles, TBA Monday, May 12: at San Antonio at x-Friday, May 16: Los Angeles at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim, TBA x-Wednesday, May 14: Portland at San Antonio, 5:30 or 6:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 16: San Antonio at Portland, TBA x-Monday, May 19: Portland at San Thursday Antonio, TBA L.A. Clippers 1, Oklahoma City1 BASEBALL Monday, May 5: L.A. Clippers 122, American League Oklahoma City 105 MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Wednesday, May 7: Oklahoma City Sam Fuld on the 7-day DL. Recalled INF 112, L.A. Clippers 101 Eduardo Nunez from Rochester (IL). SeFriday, May 9: Oklahoma City at L.A. lected the contract of RHP Matt Guerrier Clippers, 7:30 p.m. from Rochester. Optioned LHP Logan Sunday, May 11: Oklahoma City at Darnell, INF Pedro Florimon and C-OF L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m. Chris Herrmann to Rochester. Tuesday, May 13: L.A. Clippers at LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m. LHP Brooks Raley off waivers from Minx-Thursday, May 15: Oklahoma City at nesota. Designated LHP Buddy Boshers

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for assignment. TEXAS RANGERS — Placed INF Donnie Murphy on the 15-day DL. Purchased the contract of RHP Justin Germano from Round Rock (PCL). Recalled INF Luis Sardinas from Frisco (Texas). Purchased the contract of INF Rougned Odor from Frisco. Designated INF Josh Wilson and RHP Scott Baker for assignment. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated 1B Adam Lind from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Chad Jenkins to Buffalo (IL).

National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled RHP Luis Garcia from Lehigh Valley (IL). Sent RHP Shawn Camp outright to Lehigh Valley. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Phil Irwin to Indianapolis (IL). SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP Kevin Quackenbush from El Paso (PCL). Designated RHP HectorAmbriz for assignment. Announced that OF Xavier Nady cleared waivers and was sent outright to El Paso. HOCKEY

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BOSTON BRUINS — Called up F Matt Fraser from Providence (AHL). Assigned F Justin Florek to Providence. EDMONTON OILERS — Signed C Bogdan Yakimov to a three-year entrylevel contract. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Signed D Greg Pateryn to a two-year contract extension. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Extended their affiliation agreement with Milwaukee (AHL) through the 2016-17 season. OTTAWA SENATORS — SignedD Mikael Wikstrand to a three-year entrylevel contract. PHOENIX COYOTES — SignedG Marek Langhamer to a three-year entrylevel contract. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed coach Randy Carlyle to a two-year contract extension. Announced assistant coaches Dave Farrish, Greg Cronin and Scott Gordon will not return next season. SOCCER

Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA — Acquired MF Marvin Chavez from Colorado for F Luke Moore. COLORADO RAPIDS — Acquired D Gale Agbossoumondefrom Toronto FC for F LUke Moore. COLUMBUS CREW — Acquired a conditional 2016 second-round SuperDraft pick from Chivas USAfor F Ryan Finley. COLLEGE NORTHEAST CONFERENCE —Announced the retirement coordinator of men's basketball officials Tom Lopes. Named Jack Sweeney coordinator of men's basketball officials. KANSAS — Announced sophomore G Andrew White III will be leaving the men's basketball team. SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE — Named Kelsey Burglund director of external operations. SPRING HILL — Announced the resignation of director of facilities, intramurals 8 operations Angel Gray. TEXAS ASM — Named Rick Stansbury men's assistant basketball coach.

Martin Kaymer Russell Henley Sang-Moon Bae Lee Westwood Brian Stuard Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Gary Woodland Jordan Spieth Scott Stallings Justin Rose Sergio Garcia Scott Brown Ernie Els Dustin Johnson Pat Perez Justin Leonard Bill Haas Joost Luiten Brendon de Jonge Geoff Ogilvy Kevin Streelman Jason Dufner Zach Johnson Graeme McDowell Brendan Steele Graham DeLaet John Huh Bubba Watson Martin Flores James Hahn Brian Gay Marc Leishman Matt Jones Ryan Moore Kevin Na Rory Mcllroy Stewart Cink Camilo Villegas Jason Kokrak Stephen Gallacher Hideki Matsuyama Jeff Overton Angel Cabrera John Senden Jim Furyk Freddie Jacobson David Hearn

World Golf Rankings Through May4 1. Tiger Woods 2. Adam Scott 3. Henrik Stenson 4. Bubba Watson 5. Matt Kuchar 6. Jason Day 7. Jordan Spieth 8. Phil Mickelson 9. Sergio Garcia 10. Justin Rose 11. Rory Mcllroy 12. Zach Johnson 13. Dustin Johnson 14. Jim Furyk 15. Graeme McDowell 16. Steve Stricker 17. Charl Schwartzel 18.Luke Donald 19. Jason Dufner 20. Keegan Bradley 21. Ian Poulter 22. Jimmy Walker 23. Victor Dubuisson 24. Patrick Reed 25. Brandt Snedeker

At New York Thursday First Round 1. Houston, Jadeveon Clowney, de, South Carolina. 2. St. Louis (from Washington), Greg Robinson, ot, Auburn. 3. Jacksonville, Blake Bortles, qb, UCF. 4. Buffalo (from Cleveland), Sammy Watkins, wr, Clemson. 5. Oakland, Khalil Mack, Ib, Buffalo. 6. Atlanta, Jake Matthews, ot, Texas ASM. 7. Tampa Bay, Mike Evans, wr, Texas ASM. 8. Cleveland (from Minnesota), Justin Gilbert, db, Oklahoma State. 9. Minnesota (from Buffalo through Cleveland), Anthony Barr, Ib, UCLA. 10. Detroit, Eric Ebron, te, North Carolina. 11. Tennessee, Taylor Lewan, ot, Michigan. 12. New York Giants, Odell Beckham, wr, LSU. 13. St. Louis, Aaron Donald, dt, Pittsburgh. 14. Chicago, Kyle Fuller, db, Virginia Tech. 15. Pittsburgh, Ryan Shazier, Ib, Ohio State. 16. Dallas, Zach Martin, g, Notre Dame. 17. Baltimore, C.J. Mosley, Ib, Alabama. 18. New York Jets, Calvin Pryor, db, Louisville. 19. Miami, Ja'Wuan James, ot, Tennessee.

20. New Orleans (from Arizona), Brandin Cooks, wr, Oregon State. 21. Green Bay, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, db, Alabama. 22. Cleveland (from Philadelphia), Johnny Manziel, qb, Texas ASM. 23. Kansas City, Dee Ford, de, Auburn. 24. Cincinnati, Darqueze Dennard, db, Michigan State. 25. San Diego, Jason Verrett, db, TCU. 26. Philadelphia (from lndianapolis through Cleveland), Marcus Smith, Ib, Louisville. 27. Arizona (from New Orleans), Deone Bucannon,db, Washington State. 28. Carolina, Kelvin Benjamin, wr, Florida State. 29. New England,Dominique Easley, de, Florida. 30. San Francisco, Jimmie Ward, db, Northern lllinois. 3L Denver, Bradley Roby, db, Ohio State. 32. Minnesota (from Seattle), Teddy Bridgewater, qb, Louisville.

SOCCER MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W D L GF G A Pts Sporting KC 4 2 2 11 6 14 Houston 4 2 4 13 14 1 4 New England 4 2 3 9 10 14 New York 3 5 2 14 12 14 Columbus 3 3 3 10 10 12 D.C. United 3 2 3 12 11 11 Toronto 3 0 4 7 9 9 Philadelphia 1 5 4 10 13 8 Montreal 1 3 4 7 14 6 Chicago 0 6 2 12 14 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE W D L GF G A Pts Seattle 7 1 2 22 14 2 2 Real Salt Lake 4 5 0 16 10 1 7 Dallas 5 1 4 19 17 1 6 Colorado 4 3 2 10 9 15 Vancouver 3 4 2 15 12 1 3 LosAngeles 2 2 2 7 5 8 Portland 1 5 3 12 15 8 San Jose 1 4 3 8 10 7 Chivas 1 3 5 9 18 6 All Times PDT

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All Times PDT Saturday, May10 AUTO RACING 5 a.m. NBCSN — Formula One, qualifying for Gran Premio de Espana, at Barcelona, Spain 12:30 p.m. ABC — IndyCar, Grand Prix of lndianapolis 4:30 p.m. FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, 5-Hour Energy 400, at Kansas City, Kan. BOXI NG 5 p.m. ESPN — Bermane Stiverne (23-1-1) vs. Chris Arreola (35-3-0), for vacant WBC heavyweight title, at Los Angeles COLLEGE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. FSN — Oklahoma at TCU COLLEGE LACROSSE 9 a.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Albany (NY) at Loyola (Md.) 11:30 a.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Harvard at Notre Dame 2 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Cornell at Maryland 4:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, North Carolina at Denver COLLEGE SOFTBALL 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Atlantic Coast Conference,championship, teams TBD, at College Park, Md. 1 p.m. ESPN2 — American Athletic Conference,championship, teams TBD, at Houston 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Southeastern Conference, championship, teams TBD, at Columbia, S.C. GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — PGATour, THE PLAYERS Championship, third round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 11 a.m. NBC — PGATour, THE PLAYERS Championship, third round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. HOCKEY 10:30 a.m. NBCSN — IIHF, World Championship, Switzerland vs. United States, at Minsk, Belarus MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10 a.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Minnesota at Detroit or L.A. Angels at Toronto 1

4:30 a.m. NBCSN — Formula One, Gran Premio de Espana, at Barcelona, Spain COLLEGE BASEBALL 10 a.m. FS1 — Creighton at St. John's COLLEGE LACROSSE 10 a.m. ESPN2 — NCAA, Division I playoffs, Johns Hopkins at Virginia 12 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Drexel at Pennsylvania 2:15 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Air Force or Richmond at Duke 5:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Division I tournament, Bryant or Siena at Syracuse CYCLING 2 p.m. NBCSN — Tour of California, stage 1, at Sacramento, Calif. GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — PGATour, The Players Championship, final round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 11 a.m. NBC — PGATour, The Players Championship, final round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. HORSE RACING 1:30 p.m. FS1 — Thoroughbreds, Man o' War Stakes, at Elmont, N.Y. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10:30a.m. MLB — Regionalcoverage, Chicago Cubs atAtlanta or Cleveland at Tampa Bay WGN — Chicago Cubs at Atlanta 5 p.m. ESPN — St. Louis at Pittsburgh NBA 12:30 p.m. ABC — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 4, Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers 2 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 4, Indiana at Washington NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 5, Minnesota at Chicago SOCCER 7 a.m. BRAVO — Premier League, Everton at Hull City CNBC — Premier League, Chelsea at Cardiff City E! — Premier League, Crystal Palace at Fulham ESQ — Premier League, Swansea City at Sunderland MSNBC — Premier League, Arsenal at Norwich City NBC — Premier League, West Ham United at Manchester City NBCSN — Premier League, Newcastle United at Liverpool OXY — Premier League, Stoke City at West Bromwich SYFY — Premier League, Manchester United at Southampton USA — Premier League, Aston Villa at Tottenham 2:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Los Angeles at Portland

NASCAR Nationwide Series Driver Standings Through May 3 1. Chase Elliott, 339. 2. Elliott Sadler, 338. 3. Regan Smith, 336. 4. Trevor Bayne, 308. 5. Ty Dillon, 308. 6. Brian Scott, 277. 7. Brendan Gaughan, 250. 8. James Buescher, 244. 9. Chris Buescher, 229. 10. Ryan Reed,225. 11. Mike Bliss, 225. 12. Landon Cassill, 224. 13. Dylan Kwasniewski, 221. 14. Dakoda Armstrong, 213. 15. Jeffrey Earnhardt, 172. 16. Eric McClure, 168. 17. Jeremy Clements, 168. 18. Mike Wallace, 167. 19. Joey Gase, 156. 20. J.J. Yeley, 148.

Nationwide Series Schedule Feb. 22 — DRIVE4COPD 300, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Regan Smith) March 1— Blue Jeans Go Green 200, Avondale, Ariz. (Kyle Busch) March 8 — Boyd Gaming 300, Las Vegas (Brad Keselowski) March 15 — Drive To Stop Diabetes 300, Bri

p.m. FS1 — San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers 4 p.m. FS1 — Cleveland at Tampa Bay WGN — Chicago Cubs atAtlanta NBA 5:15 p.m. ABC — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 3, Miami at Brooklyn 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 3, San Antonio at Portland NFL 9 a.m. ESPN — Draft, rounds 4-7, at New York NHL 4 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 5, Montreal at Boston 6:30 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 5, Anaheim at LosAngeles

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Sunday's Games LosAngeles at Portland, 11:30 a.m. Chivas at Colorado, noon Seattle at New England, 3 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Houston, 4 p.m.

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Tigers close out Final test Even after a solid showing Thursday morning in Hermiston, La Grande golfer Jake Girard was back at it in the afternoon, putting in work before Monday's district meet. "I'm driving past the golf course on my way home, and I saw Jake was out there practicing," head coach Ron Evans said. The senior Giratd fited a team-best 82 at the Hermiston Invite to pace the Tigers, withjust a few stmkes separatinghim fiom a top-five finish. "Jake has been working hard," Evans said. "He struggled on the first three holes but really settled in after that. His mindset is really good now, and it's working. He's showing these other kids how hard you have to work, because golf is not an easy game." CraigWallace also broke the 90-stroke barrier for La Grande, carding an 89. "He struggled a little bit on the tront nine but then really came around and finished well on the back," Evans said. Andrew Branen shot a 97, as the Tigers only took three boys due to Elias Siltanen's wrist injury, as he tries to get it healed up. Pendleton won the team title with 310, followed by Hermiston at 313. Baker combined

for340 strokes to placethird,Goldendale, Wash., was fourth and Milton-Freewater took fifth in the Tigers' final meet before Monday's district meet in Redmond at the Eagle Crest Golf Course. ''We leave Sunday morning," Evans said. ''We'll play a practice round Sunday atternoon, then we tee otf at 8 a.m., and hopefully, we can make it to state." Paden LaCoursiere of Hermiston shot the low round of the day with a 73, and Baker's Brandon Ellwanger tied with three others in second at 74. On the girls side, Kayli Miles turned in the best score for La Grande with a 90. Trinity McCarthy shot a 98 and Cassidee Miller carded a 112. Pendleton placed first on the girls side as well, finishing with 338. Hermiston was second with a 366, Goldendale took third, and the Dalles rounded out the top four. Only four teams to fielded a full squad out of the eight school there. Bree Wanderscheid of Goldendale was the top medalist with a round of 72, and Pendleton's Hailey Greb took second with a 76. The district meet for the girls will be played Monday at Pendleton.

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Cole Rohan, top, grapples during last December's state tournament.

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is that support trom his family that has helped Rohan Continued from Page 8A developinto thewrestler he is today. "His parents have done the same thing in the finals at state lastyear." a phenomenal job with his Rohan said that despite wrestling," Carson said. 'You've got to have a supporthis success when the going got tough, he still got nervous ive family to go to all these last weekend. tournaments. They have "I always go out expectto make big sacrifices, and that's a hard thing for some ing to win, but it got nervewracking there at the end," families." Rohan said. Of course, the wrestler When he pulled otfboth and his coaches have to have victories in the finals, his quitea bitoftalentto start grandfather, who accompaout, something Rohan has in nied him on the trip was as spades, and get some good excited as he was, if not even fortune in all these diferent more so. tournaments. "He doesn't stay very calm 'You have to be really good, during my matches," Rohan then you have to have some said.'When I won he was help, and luck factors in, too," Carson said."To have really excited." Carson pointed out that it the kind ofdedication to do

get to watch very often as I am solving problems that arise. They are similar in one way, as a coach you have to adapt to changes in the contest. As an AD you need to adapt daily if not by the minute sometimes, so thinking on your feet and finding solutions to problems is critical." Boyd said he is constantly busy juggling his responsibilities between teaching social studies, managing local youth baseball operationsand being athleticdirectorofthe

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that is amazing — not to get caught by a random headlock or get caught by surprise. You alsohave to be able to stay healthy, and for kids they can't." With the achievements Rohan has racked up, one could see him getting complacent. Not this Tiger, however, as he is aware that he will have a bullseye on his back when he competes during his senior season. "My confidence has gone up a lot, but all this means is that I have to step up my game and work even harder," Rohan said.

After graduating trom EOU, he moved back to his native Seaside, where he coached volleyball and basketball at the high school. Boyd said he was happy to receive the award, and insisted that the honor doesn't change how he will approach his job. "I feel all the years ofhard work and dedicationwere vindicated,"Boyd said on receiv- high school. "The biggest challenge I face every day as ing the award."I always make sure the interestsofthekidsarefi rstand foremost, athletic director is keeping everyone happy," and that's never going to change for me." Boyd said."I try to always keep everyone Boyd also has a substantial deal of coaching safe, happy and competitive. Our coaches experience. He's previously coached girls volw ant to play games allover the state,so I leyball for 13years,boysbasketballfor 10years try to schedule as many games as possible and gi rlsbasketballforthree.Hedescribedhis to keep them happy." responsibilities as AD beingmuch differenton game daycompared to his coachingdays. Contact EricAvissar at 541-963-3161 or "As AD you schedule and set up the eavissar0 lagrandeobserver.com. Follow Eric on Twitter C lgoAvissar. events," Boyd said."During an event I don't

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in a strong position to take a third. Obviously some of the circumstances are tweaked, but the message remains the same: playofF failures can help harden a team's resolve and prepare them for future series. There is no substitute in a team's progressionlike experience,

be optimistic of the future because in the long run a resounding defeat might be what this potential powerhouse needs. You can trace through the history of the NBA and see that a big number of championship teams and dynasties first took their lumps against the "big dog on the block" at the time. Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls lost three straight times in the playotfs to the Detroit Pistons from 1988 to 1990. What happened next? Well, Jordan cemented his status as the greatest playereverwith two consecutive"3-peats" following the Bulls sweeping the Pistons in 1991. The Los Angeles Lakers with Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant also were bounced out of the playotfs by the Utah Jazz and the Spurs in the three seasons preceding their own trio of consecutive titles. Even the reigning champion Miami Heat suffered a demoralizingdefeat to the Dallas Mavericks in the Finals before they won two championships, and now sit

Continued ~om Page 8A blew Portland out trom the openingtip in for a 116-92 Game 1 win that wasn't even ascloseasthe 24-point winning margin suggested. The Spurs surgically carved up the Blazers and made them look nothing like the team that outclassed the Rockets. Frankly, Portland seemed a little scared of the moment. Game 2 on Thursday night did little to dispel that notion. The Blazers made it closer down the stretch, but the Spurs were never really threatened. San Antonio went on to win 114-97, putting Portland in a very tough hole. Winning four of five games against any NBA team is difficult enough, but having to do that against such a seasoned team is next to impossible. Crazier things have happened, and maybe the Blazers will make me look foolish with a historic rally. Nevertheless, such a comeback appears highly unlikely. Blazers fans should still

good or bad. Now, a few things have to work out, namely keeping this young core of players together and hoping they avoid serious injuries. If that happens however, the Blazersare poised for serious runs for the next five to eight years. They have a superb nucleus centered around Lillard and Aldridge and a great young coach in Terry Stotts. Even if the Spurs do end the season for the Blazers in the coming days it may hurt in the present, but the future Portland squads will be betterotfforit. Contact Josh Benham at 541-975-3351 orj benham 0 lagrandeobserver.com. Follow Josh on Twitter C IgoBenham.

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METAIRIE, La. iAPl — When New Orleans Saints scouts interviewed college defensive backs in advance ofthe draft, they'd always be sure to ask which receivers they found toughest to cover. Brandin Cooks' name kept coming up, further confirming the Saints' flattering evaluationofthe blazing-fast,prolifi creceiver from Oregon State. "It was pretty apparent he was one of those guys," Saints coach Sean Payton said. The Saints made Cooks their first-round selection on Thursday night, trading up from the27th overallslotto the 20th to get him. The deal sent the Saints' first round pick, as well as their third-rounder — 91st overall — to the Arizona Cardinals. Cooks caught 128 passes for 1,730 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2013, when he won the Biletnikotf award as the top receiver in the nation. At 5-foot-10, 190-pounds, Cooks is not big, but he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.33 seconds at the NFL combine in Indianapolis. And it wasn't just his talent and his measurable skills that compelled New Orleans to trade up to snag him, Payton said. "One thing about him that stood out is he's a tough player both physically and mentally," Payton said."He's been very consistent, very durable. Obviously, he runs well. "His interview was fantastic," Payton added. "A lot of intangibles besides just his skill

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m ost cubic yards ofsoilthat DEQ has ever excavated. It is the biggest spill without a

PENDLETON — Crews in Eastern Oregon have dug up more than 30,000 cubic yards of dirt to clean up diesel fuel spilled after a truck crash. The workers dug 53 feet at the deepestpoint,according to the Department of Environmental Quality, and at its maximum, the hole extends 250 feet long and 160 feet wide, approaching football field size. Now, crews are beginning to refill the hole, the East Oregonian 4ttp://bit. ly/1npzN9gl reports. Workers involved in the cleanup say it ranks high among such digs in Oregon. "It is the biggest I have been involved with in 26 years," said Mike Renz of the state agency. Without checking records, I believe it is the

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to protect the water supply in the regional aquifer. Finally, the workers reached safe ground. ''Weexcavated to almost nondetectable levels. The DEQ is satisfied that everything is cleaned up," said Dave Ammons, co-owner of Eastern Oregon Environmental Recovery.

On March 2, a semitrailer truck towing a fuel trailer for the convenience store chain Maverik went out of conDEQ spokesman Greg trol on state Route 37 near Svelund said the estimated Pendleton. 30,000 cubic yards is the The fuel trailer broke loose amount taken off site to be and tumbled into a ditch, put in a landfill. spilling 5,000 gallons. The Uncontaminated dirt fuel seeped through the soil, was saved and is being combined with dirt bought creating a plume and penfrom the property owner, etrating basalt fissures until ithitbedrock. Hill Ranches, to backfill the The cleanup got underway, excavation, Svelund said. and the crews sent samples That work is expected to be to the lab for testing to see done perhaps by the end of how much farther they'd next week, creating a flathave to dig. ter terrain that the ranch As the hole grew, a operationplans to use asa century-old farmhouse was gravel parking lot. demolished, along with a Svelund said Maverik's inshed. Two wells were capped surer is paying for the work.

Heal website owes insurance agents 900,000 agents and plans to send out more checks next week. ''We know it's a serious problem, and it's not right commissions that agents didn't get paid," The Associated Press Hamstreet said,adding DURHAM — Cover the agents were probably Oregon says it owes about neglected because so much effort was put into enroll$900,000 to the health insurance agents who were ment when the online portal trained and certified through failed to work. the exchange and have Oregon's exchange website enrolled thousands of Orego- was not fully operational nians, but who have not been throughout the entire open paid since enrollment began. enrollment period and did The admission came after not allow the general public to signup forcoverage in a board meeting Thursday during which an angry agent one sitting. Instead, Oregonians — and the agents who told officials he hasn't been paidover the pasthalfa year. helped them — had to use Steve Cox, aWest Linn agent a time-consuming hybrid process tosign who said he has processedmore paper-online than 150applications,said he up for insurance. Last month, Cover Oregon has been told for months by Cover Oregon staffers thathis decided to partner with the federal government on payments are coming. "It's incompetence," Cox health insurance enrollment, said. "A lotofpeople aren't abandoning plans to fix the gettingpaid;there are a lotof glitch-filled portal — the first angry agents out there." state in the nation to do so. Certified agents are paid Hamstreet said he first through commission paybecame aware of the agent ments, which are set by each paymentproblem during of the insurance carriers. an April 10 board meeting, Cover Oregon passes through when another agent comthe commission payments to plained about not getting agents when enrollments are paid. He said he added four stafFmembers two weeks made. Cover Oregon interim ago to deal with the payment executive director Clyde issue. Hamstreetsaid the corporaCover Oregon says about tion just sent checks totaling 1,050 agents accounted for more than $200,000 to the 18 percent of Cover Oregon's

enrollments in private plans. That means they enrolled nearly 14,000 of the 77,500 total enrollees in private plans via the exchange. But in April, when the hybrid process was improved, they accounted for 30 percent of Cover Oregon's enrollments, Hamstreet said. "I think the agents are very important to Cover Oregon's success and as we go forward, it will be even more so," he said. The agents also made thousands of Medicaid determinations, though they do not get commissions for clients who qualify for the Oregon Health Plan, the state's version of Medicaid. Cover Oregon officials also announced that they signed a 45-day, $2.9 million contract with Deloitte on Thursday to analyze the differences between the Cover Oregon and the OHP enrollment systems. Oregon will try to salvage parts of the current exchange technology and migrate them into its Medicaid enrollment system, but will have to improve the technology at an estimatedcostofabout$35 million. The Cover Oregon board did not get to review the contract, although board bylaws say board members must review all contracts with such a high price tag.

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'Significant' sum of money found at mall PORTLAND — Police are trying to find the owner of a "significant" sum of money found at the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland. A good Samaritan who found the money Thursday turned it over to police. To claim the money you'll have to identify the amount and explain how it was lost.

Man, young girl found dead in home PORTLAND — Police say a 34-year-old man and a 4-year-old girl have been found dead in a north Portland home. The Oregonian reported that Sgt. Pete Simpson says thetwo are believed to be related. Police found the bodies Thursday evening. Simpson says there have been no arrests and police are not looking for any suspects. He says the Oregon state medical examiner will perform autopsies Friday to determine the cause of death.

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PORTLAND — The firings of the Oregon Zoo's director and top veterinarianarerelated tothe January death of a 20-yearold orangutan, regional governmentleaders said Thursday. A statement from Metro, the regional government thatruns the zoo,said Metroleaders"concluded mistakes were made and important information was not fully disclosed," The Oregonian reported. Zoo director Kimberly Smith and veterinarian Mitch Finnegan were fired Monday. Finnegan said his dismissal came without much explanation beyond a lack of confidence in his abil-

ity to lead his department. Finnegan said Thursday in an Oregonian interview that the death of Kutai the orangutan was a bigger loss for him than his job.

Guilty verdict in 2012 Eugene slaying EUGENE — Jurors in Lane County have convicted a 58-year-old man of aggravated murder in the 2012 death of a young Eugene, Oregon, man. The Register-Guard said the jury also convicted David Ray Taylor on Thursday of robbery charges in connection with two bank robberiescommitted in 2012. Jurors found that Taylor

kidnapped and robbed Celestino Gutierrez, the murder victim. The same Circuit Court jury will next decide whether Taylor should be sentencedtodeath or tolife without parole.

Appeals court affirms OT ruling SALEM — The Oregon Court of Appeals has afirmed aruling by Oregon's f labor commissioner in a casethatdirectsthe payment of more than $100,000 in back wages and overtime for firefighters in Grants Pass. The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries says Local 3564 of the International Association of Fire Fighters asked the state agency in June 2011 for a ruling about whether the city of Grants Pass must include authorized vacation and sick leave time when calculating the overtime wages of its members.

Man pleads guilty in $50 million fraud SAN DIEGO — A real estatedeveloper and mort-

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Three marine mammal researchers have managed to &ee a young humpback whale that found itself tangledin crab potgearoff the entrance to Grays Harbor on the Washington coast. The Olympianreported that the trio from the nonprofit Cascadia Research of Olympia worked &om their 20-foot boat. Tuesday's rescue oIFWestport Harbor took nearly three hours. A Coast Guard crew in a 47-foot boat assisted. John Calambokidis of Cascadia Research describes the whale as very approachableand says itseemed to initiate close contact with the inflatable boat. The crab line and floats were wrapped around the whale's flukes, but the Cascadia crew was abletocutthelineattached to thecrab gearand setthe whale free. The newspaper says markings on the float indicated it was a crab pot from Oregon. Once &eed, the whale swam away quickly.

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having doubts when he encountered no tratIIc and no place to turn around. He made it six miles before the trailer rolled. The truck remained upright but twisted.Rayo says it'stotaled. Authorities say no sand spilled into the creek.

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DENVER — Frustrated by the cash-heavy aspect of its new marijuana industry, Colorado is trying a long-shot bid to create the world's first financial system devoted to the pot business. But Colorado's plan to move the weed industry away &om dank-smelling cash to easily auditable banking accounts is a Hail Mary pass that won't work, industry and regulatory offic ialsagree. "It's definitely creative, but I don't know whether it's a solution or just a statement," said Toni Fox, owner of 3D Cannabis Center in Denver. H ere's the plan approved by state lawmakers Wednesday — statelicensedpot growers and sellerswould

4 people found dead in Southern California POMONA, Calif — Authoritie ssay fourpeoplehave been found dead inside a Southern California home following what investigators believe might have been a murder-suicide. KNBC-TV reported officers arriving at the home in Pomona late Thursday discoveredthe bodiesoftw o males and two females. Pomona police say they were contacted by family members who were concerned about the welfare oftheirrelatives atthe residence. 0$cials say homicide detectives are investigating the incident as a possible murder-suicide.

The February Treasury guidance, though, was met with a shrug by many banks. Banks generally considered the elaborate reporting requirements associated with taking marijuana customers too onerous to bother with. Instead, Colorado authorities hope the Federal Reserve will allow new marijuana co-ops to accessmerchant servicesiftheco-ops agreetobearallthecostofcom plying with the marijuana banking guidance, as well as assuming all the risk It sounds like a long shot even to marijuana industry workers. "I don't see it," said Shawn Coleman, a Denver-based lobbyist who represents marijuana retailers."The administration has gone as far as they possibly could to help the marijuana industry without an act of Congress." And despite complaints from banking groups and pot shops about Treasury'spotguidance,there are signsthe guidelinesareworking forsome.

pool their cash into uninsured financial cooperatives. The cooperatives would then ask the U.S. Federal Reserve System to let them access so-called "merchantservices,"a broad category thatincludes accepting creditcards and being able to write checks. The Federal Reserve had no immediate response Thursday to Colorado's cooperative plan. The cooperative stratagem isa response to marijuana guidance issued in February by the U.S. Treasury Department. Marijuana shops in Colorado and elsewhere have been clamoring for yearsfor accessto traditional banks, complaining of dousing cash in air &eshener to try to dupe banks. Others pile cash in self-storage units or safety deposit boxes, requiring frequent trips to exchange the cash for money orders in order to pay employees and utility

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SusgectshotatIdaho store was wantedfollowing Ontario incident By John Sowell

Ontario provided police with a description ofthe car and its license plate. The car was parked at a gas pump outside the Maverik convenience store at 275 N 16th St., six miles east &om the location where the single shot was fired in Ontario. The deputy approached the car at about 2:15 p.m. in an attempt to talk with the suspect. The man pulled out a gun, police said. "The guy started shooting and the deputy returned fire," Baker said. Both the deputy and the suspect, whose names have not been publicly released, were taken by air ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. A number of police cars were seen at the hos-

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PAYETTE, Idaho — A suspect wanted for firing a gun into the air near an Ontario, Ore., elementary school Thursday afternoon openedfi re on a Payette County sherifFs deputy a few minutes later outside a Payette convenience store, accordingto Idaho State Police. The deputy was shot in the leg and the suspect was seriously injured in the exchangeoffire,ISP spokeswoman Teresa Baker said. The deputy spotted the car listed in an all-points bulletin issued by the Ontario Police Department. A witness to the 2:10 p.m., incident in the 400 block of Northwest Eighth Street in

Montana agrees not to issue elk-kill permits

HELENA, Mont. — Montana officials have agreed not COEUR DALENE, Idaho to issue any elk-kill permits — A truck driver trying to this season atter a legal deliver a load ofOregon challenge to their plan to sand to a northern Idaho golf reduce the spread of disease course's sand traps drove into to cattle. a trap himself when his GPS The Park County brucelsent him down a narrow losisplan approved by the route through the forest. Montana Fish and Wildlife Beauty Creek Road got Commission last month aims ugly for Demetrio Rayo of to separateelk and cattleto Ontario on Wednesday when preventthe spread ofthe dishis tractor-trailer partially ease, which can cause cattle rolled off the single-lane U.S. to aborttheircalves. ForestServiceroad thatis The plan allows the state washed out in places. to issue elk kill permits to Rayo told the Coeur landowners or to pay for elkd'Alene Press that his GPS proof fencing in the spring, told him that was the way to when the chance of disease Gozzer Ranch, but he started transmission is the greatest.

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Traffic from May Roberts Grade School next to the Ontario shooting scene was temporarilydiverted but school officials did not lock down the school. The traffic diversion was to allow investigators time to searchforevidence at the scene.

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HIGHLIGHTS 'Painting the Stars' forumcontinues Zion Lutheran Church will observe the Fourth Sunday of Easter with Pastor Colleen Nelson. The 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion worship service will be followed by fellowship time at 10:30 a.m., with classes and an adult forum following at 11 a.m. The"Painting the Stars" film and discussion forum continues at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the K-House, Sixth Street and IAvenue. The series is fiee to the public. A light sandwich supperisavailable.Form ore information, call Zion Lutheran Church at 541-963-5998. Zion Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Church ofAmerica congregation.

working toward Living the Resurrection, Pastor Wolff will explore this process though a sermon titled Protection Racket." The service begins at 10 a.m. with fellowship following. While child care is available, all are welcome in the service.

'Beware of the Thief' is sermon title

COVE — The fourth Sunday of Easter will be celebrated at the Cove United Methodist Church. The sermon is titled "Beware of the Thief." It's about watching out for those people who sound like Christ but are not; they are false teachers. A baptism will take place for two children, with communion following Mother's Day Tea the service. follows service The service will start at St. Peter's Episcopal 9 a.m., with a coffee fellowChurch will observe the ship afterward. Fourth Sunday of Easter There will be no Men's with Holy Eucharist at 9 a.m. Breakfast until the first The Rev. Kathryn Macek Saturdayin September. will preside and preach. A A Bible study takes place Mother's Day Tea will follow at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday the service. The church office in the fellowship hall. All are will be closed, and there will welcome. This Wednesday, be no weekday services next the Scri ptures to discuss are Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1 Peweek. ter 2:19-25 and John 10:1-10. St. Peter's will host the Thursday K House dinner Find the church at 1708 May 15. If you can help, call Jasper St. Val Royes at 541-534-2291.

Four tributes given Celebration continues to mothers Sunday with music, ministry First Christian Church The La Grande United Methodist Church will continue to celebrate Easter through music and ministry. Sunday,

iDisciples of Christ), 901 Penn Ave., will celebrate Mother's Day with four tributes to mothers given by church

members during the 10 a.m. worship service. Pastor Don Dunn's message,"Hearing the Shepherd's Voice"will explore who the Shepherd is, with reference to John 10:1-10 and Psalm 23. The Children's Chimes and Choir will provide special music. The church will hold a FUNraising Auction, with ice cream sundaes, kom 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. May 16. Many greatitems have been donated for the silent auction, as well as the oralauction.Icecream and toppings will be available at the ice cream sundae bar.

Mother's Day message presented COVE — Grace Community Lutheran Church celebratestheword ofGod with a contemporary worship service at 10 a.m. Sunday. Roger Wilkerson will present a Mother's Day message titled "Beyond Charm and Beauty." Sunday school for all ages begins at 9 a.m. Fellowship follows the service. Men's Bible study and breakfastmeets at7:30 a.m. every Thursday. All activities are held at the Cove Seventhday Adventist Church.

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mary Biblical principles that one may employ to identify a trueprophet ormessengerof God. Armayor's message, titled "Deception — Satan's Game," will expose the way modernday spiritualism can manifest itselfin the church. The Cove Seventh-day Adventist Church meets at 9:30 a.m., and the La Grande SDA church meets at 11 a.m. Be~ at 7 p.m. Monday at the New Town Square Market Place is the opening ofWorld Events In Bible Prophesy, Revelation Seminar. The seminar continues nightly except Thursday and Sunday. This seminar will satisfy people' scuriosity aboutthe future, Armayor said, and will givepeoplespecifi cand dramatic revelations of things to come — notkom the psychics b utkom the ~ gW o r d

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Doug Edmonds' lesson Sunday at the Church of Christ will be "Everyone Needs to be Looked After" coming kom the passage Romans 12:1-8. Communion is taken every Sunday. Sunday morning classes are kom 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., and the worshipservice follows at 10:30 a.m. Children's church is offered during the sermon for the little ones. Wednesday small groups are at 7 p.m. at various home locations. For more information, call Doug at 541-805-5070.

First Baptist Church Crossroads SIXTH 8c SPRING • 963-3911 Community Church

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The sermon at Faith Lutheran will be based on John Chapter 10. This Scripture records Jesus' words about himself as the good shepherd. Psalm 23 is a beautiful, poeticScripture thatforetold Jesus' calling and leading the faithful. In John 10:3 we hear,"He iJesusl calls his own sheep by name and leads them out." Services are at 10 a.m. in LaGrande and 2 p.m. in Enterprise.

UNION — A tribute to Mother's Day and Festival of the Christian Home will be led by Pastor Sue Peeples at 11 a.m. Sunday at the United Methodist Church in Union. Her message topic is"Hide and Seek." Fellowship will follow the service. The potluck has been postponed until May 18. This week, the church plays host to the Monday Fresh Food Alliance kom 12:30 p.m. to 1p.m. Senior lunch is served at noon Tuesday, and Wednesday prayer service runs kom 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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will be based on Psalm 27:1-6 and John 8:12-20. The handbell choirs and an organ and bell piece will be part of the music offerings for the morning's worshipful praise to God. Fellowship will follow the service.

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WrRE BmzHNG Nation News

Names: Noah ends 3acob's 14-year run WASHINGTON — Noah sailedpast Jacob to become the most popular baby name for boys in 2013, ending Jacob's 14-year run at the top. Sophia was the most popular baby name for girls for the third straight year. The Social Security Administration announced the most popular baby names Friday. Noah was followed by Liam, Jacob, Mason and William. Sophia was followed by Emma, Olivia, Isabella andAva. The most popular baby names aren't nearly as popular as they used to be. A little more than 18,000 babies born last year were named Noah. In 1950, when James was No. 1, more than 86,000 newborns got that name. About 21,000 newborns were named Sophia last year. In 1950, more than 80,000 were named Linda.

Senate pushes for Venezuela sanctions WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said in a Senate hearing Thursday it was hesitant to use individual sanctions as a tactic in the Venezuelan political crisis, saying that doingsocould escalate the situation into a fight between the Maduro regime and the United States rather than a struggle between that country's people and their government. In response, Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sharply criticized the administration, indicating it was being far too timid in pushing back against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduroand itsrepressive tactics against political protesters.

$17.9 billion funding plan would boost planetary science The House Appropriations Committee recommended

$17.9 billion in funding for NASA on Thursday, significantly boosting planetary science programs at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and continuing operation of a flying telescope. However, the committee also expressed doubts about the feasibility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's proposed plan to capture an asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon. The 2015 funding proposal is $250 million more than the current year and $435 million more than what was requested by the White House.

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HHS nominee easily clears 1st confirmation hurdle By Tony Pugh McClatchywashington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The first Senate nomination hearing for Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the prospective Health and Human Services secretary, offered no political fireworks or surprises Thursday. President Barack Obama's choice to replaceoutgoing department chief Kathleen Sebelius glided through nearly two hours of polite questioning from members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Gone was the hyper-parti san vitriolthatcharacterized so many of Sebelius' congressional appearances. Burwell, the director of the White House 0$ce of Management and Budget, received strong endorsements from committee Democrats and Republicans alike. But it was her introduction and opening statements of support &om Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-WVa., that set the tone for the unusually cordial session. Calling the post a thankless job, McCain said the department"needs

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competent leadership" and that he'd support Burwell's nomination even though he opposed the Affordable Care Act. But he cautioned her not to become the new face of the health care law. ''Afier all, who would recommend theirfriend take over ascaptain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg?" McCain joked.

House Democrats weigh role in new Benghazi probe

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WASHINGTON — Divided House Democrats are weighing whether to participate in a new investigation of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, or boycott the election-year inquiry of a tragedy they accuse Republicans of politicizing. Party leaders will meet with rank-and-file members Friday to decide the next step after Republicans the day beforerammed through aresolut ion creating a specialselectcommittee to examine the Sept. 11, 2012, assault. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed when militants stormed the

diplomatic outpost. The vote Thursday to createthe specialcommittee was 232-186. Seven Democrats, many of whom face tough re-elections in November, broke ranks and joined the GOP majority. The panel's investigation will be the eighth on Benghazi and means high-profile hearings in the months leading up to the elections, with Republicans grilling current and former Obama administration officials. Certain to be called to testify is former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrats' potential 2016 presi dentialcandidate. Democrats aresplitover

whether to boycott the select committee, which will have a 7-5 Republican edge in membership. They are concernedthattheirparticipation would grant legitimacy to what they believe will be a partisan forum. But they also worry that if they avoid it they won't have the chance to counter GOP claimsand defend potential witnesses. "This doesn't need to be, shouldn't be and will not be a partisan process," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a speech on the House floor promising pursuit of the truth. Democrats have their doubts.

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Sebelius, who's been in the Obama Cabinet since 2009, said she was stepping down last month. She'd been a constant target of Republican attacksover thehealth carelaw, and she came in for considerable criticism last fall because of its rocky rollout. Burwell, with her sister, brotherin-law, two friends and husband, Stephen, seated behind her, calmly fielded questions and told committee members ofher formula for career success. Among other posts, the 49-year-old Burwell has served as the deputy chief of stafF to President Bill Clinton, chief of stafF to the treasurysecretary and president of the Walmart Foundation. "Whether in the public or private sector, working across a wide range of issues, I focus my work on three things: building strong relationships, building strong teams and delivering results," she said. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questioned whether Burwell would be "the ambassador of Obamacare or whether you will be the secretary ofhealth and human services."

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Landmark Syrian hotel destroyed by rebels BEIRUT — A huge blast destroyed a hotel in the historic heart of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday after rebels detonated explosives in a tunnel dug beneath government lines, according to opposition and government accounts. The explosion ripped through the Carlton Citadel Hotel, near the landmark medieval Citadel and

Aleppo's walled Old City, bothdeemed United Nations World Heritage sites. Opposition activists said the onetime luxury hotel had become a military base.

South Africa's ANC

set to win election JOHANNESBURGSouth Alrica's governing African National Congress was headedforvictory afterthe tallyingof70percent ofvotes in Wednesday's national election, but its major opponent made significant gains. The ANC had won 62.5 percent of the vote in the latest tabulations,compared with 65.9 percent in the last election in 2009. The main challenger, the Democratic Alliance, or DA, was at 22.5 percent, up from its 16.7 percent support five years ago.

Obama: UScommitted to Israel's security JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama's security adviser says U.S. investment in Israel's defense shows it is committed to its security. Susan Rice said Friday that the Obama administrationand Israelrecently signed an agreement for further U.S investment in its Iron Dome system. The Iron Dome defends Israelagainst short-range rockets fired by militants in

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Damaged buildings are seen in the old city of Homs in central Syria Thursday, after the evacuation of opposition fighters. Gaza, Sinai and Lebanon. Itdetectstherocketsand strikes them in midair. Rice said that the new deal "will take our total investment in Iron Dome, which has saved countless of Israeli lives, to nearly $900 million, a sign of our continued commitment to Israel's security." Rice is in the region meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders.Her visitcomes soon after the latest round of U.S.backedMideastpeace talks ended in failure.

stan who is being held on weapons charges in a prison in Tijuana. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, now in the Marine reserves, has been held in the La Mesa prison since April 1 after he was charged with being an arms traffi cker.

eastofKarachi,thecapital ofsouthern Sindh province, said Roshan Ali Sheikh, the topoffi cialatthe province's rehabilitation and disaster management department. It hit around 4 a.m. local time while many still slept, causing panic, he said. Pakistani meteorologist Toseef Ahmed said the epicenter of the quake was 15 miles north of Nawabshah. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 and struck some 7-V2 miles north of Nawabshah. Such figures are common just after a quake.

ern Nigeria. The death toll from the Monday afternoon attack in Gamboru was initially reported by a senator to be as many as 300, but a security official said it is more likely to be around 100. Some Gamboru residents said bodies were recoveredfrom the debris ofburned shops around the town's main market, which

was the focus of the attack. The bodies were found after the market reopened on Wednesday as health workers, volunteers and traders searchedformissing people, saidGamboru resident Abuwar Masta. He said most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. Some of the victims were traders fiom Chad and Cameroon, he said.

Brazil worker dies at construction site

SAO PAULO — A Brazilian official says a worker at one of the World Cup stadiums still under construction has been killed in an electrical accident. Dissident, in TV Head of Cuiaba city emershaming, apologizes gency services Rosenil Moraes BEIJING — One of China's says the worker received an electric shock at the site most venerabledissident ofArena Pantanal. He died journalists was paraded on more than half an hour later state television Thursday morning, apologizing for of acardiorespiratory arrest. Mexico hit by strong, spilling state secrets that shallow earthquake embarrassed the Chinese 50 bodies found in Nigeria violence MEXICO CITY — A Communist Party. shallow earthquake with a The public shaming of Gao BAUCHI, Nigeriapreliminary magnitude of 6.4 Yu, a 70-year-old grandmoth- Residents of a Nigerian town rattled Mexico City and other er who had written widely attacked by Boko Haram critiparts of the country Thursabout the pro-democracy pro- cized security forces for failing day, sending people running tests at Tiananmen Square, toprotectthem despitewarnintothe streets. was perhaps the most shock- ings that the Islamic militants The temblor struck near ing ina recent seriesofon-air werenearby.Atleast50bodies the southwestern Mexican confessions. have beenrecoveml, manyhorcity of Tecpan de Galeana, riblyburned,in the town. Magnitude 5 quake about 60 miles northwest of The attack on Gamboru, in kills 1 in Pakistan Acapulco, according to the remote northeastern Nigeria U.S.GeologicalSurvey. KARACHI, Pakistan — A near the border with Cammoderate earthquake rattled eroon, is part of the Islamic Congress calls on several towns in southern m ilitants' campaign ofterror Mexico to free vet Pakistanbeforedawn Friday, that included the kidnapSAN DIEGO — A biparti- killirg one person and injuring ping of teenaged girlsfrom a san group of 21 members of 70, a government official said. school, 276 of whom remain Congress has appealed to the The magnitude 5 quake missing and believed held Mexican government to free struckthe districtofNawabby Boko Haram in the vast aMarineveteran ofAfghani- shah, about 240 miles north- Sambisa Forest in northeast-

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2014-15HuntingChangesProposed

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of Fish and Wildlife iODFWl is proposing changes that would give wild turkey hunters more opportunities in Eastern Oregon. Among the proposals the Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider when it meets in August: • Increase the season limit for the spring turkey hunt from two birds to three statewide inow, hunters in 17 units in Western Oregon can buy a bonus tag allowing them to take a third bird). • Replace the current Eastern Oregon fall controlled turkey hunts with a general season, with a limited number of tags sold at license agents on a firstcome,fi rst-served basis. That's the system used forthe generalfallseason in Western Oregon. • Increase the daily turkey bag limit, for both spring and fall seasons, from the current limit of one bird to two or three idepending on the season bag limit for a particular hunt). The Fish and Wildlife Departmentalso isproposing to extend the forest grouse hunting season from the current end, Dec. 31, for one month to Jan. 31. This would be consistent with the season for Western Oregon. According to ODFW, extending the grouse season for one month in Eastern Oregon probably would have little effect because blue grouse aren't widely accessible in January, and more than 85percentofthe ruffed grouse harvest happens during the first six weeks of the season,Sept.1 to Oct.15.

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How can you not love spring? I used to think that fall was my favorite time of year. With elk, deer, waterfowl and upland bird season in full bore how could I not love it? But now I've decided that my favorite time of year is spring, closely followed by summer. Think about it. We've been

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Turkey hunters often give up after the first week of the season. Henned-up gobblers can be difficult to lure with artificial calls. But, as the season progresses, toms will often lose all hens to nesting duties and become vulnerable to a soft hen call. And, those males with few hens left can find themselves lonely and callable for about an hour as most hens will leave their mate to lay their eggs around 11 a.m. Many hunters are back in camp before that. The wild turkey season runs through the end of May

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By Dick Mason The Observer

Bird watchers will be flocking to the Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area next weekend. The LMWA will be the base-site of the ninth-annual Ladd Marsh Bird Festival, May 16-18. The festival will feature a guided bird walk tour of Ladd Marsh, birding stations at which people will learn how to identify and locate birds,see apresentation on birds of prey, six field trips, a photography workshop and much more.

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winter. Sure, there's winter ", ~ TQM C IAYCQMB activities and I do all thatbut after a long cold winter, spring is sweet. It always teases us. Snow will start melting, the sun will poke her head out for one day and then temps drop and we'll get another snow. She plays with us like a cat with a mouse. But no matter how hard she plays hard to get, we know that someday soon spring will actually be here in all ofher glory. How can you not love spring? Suddenly after a hard winter the grass is green, trees are budding and the earth is coming back to life. This year Easter fell right in the midst of it all which is the personification of spring. Like I say, how can you not love spring? Good things all hit at once. Whistle pigs are out in full force, crappie start spawning, bear and turkey season opens and the morel mushrooms start popping up. Of the million things we could talk about, today let's talk about morel mushroom hunting. The spring morel mushroom season is a huge event for many people. I learned to hunt them over 35 years ago from my boss. He had been raised in Iowa and he took vacation to go back and hunt them there every year. He was a fanatic. I thought he lived a boring life to get that excited about a mushroom.....until I ate one. They are worth getting excited over. He always started hunting them the middle ofApril in his home state of Iowa but out west I start finding them at 5,500 feet elevation the second to third week of May. Some people act like that they're authorities on where theygrow and where to find them. I've been hunting them for 35 years and sometimes I'm still not sure that I have a clue. I learn something new every year. They like to pop up after a rain but I don't find them in swampy terrain. In fact most of the time I'll find them on somewhat of a berm. But one thing that I will guarantee you though — the year following a forest fire is the absolute best place to hunt. Burns can be almost magical. But also go back to where you found them last year. I usually find them year after year in the same spots. W hether it'sbecause thesporesarethereorit'sthe perfect terrain for them to grow I can't say. Many hardcore hunters carry a paring knife and cut them off above the ground. They also use a small mesh bag to carry them in. This allows the spores to fall out so more grow. Myself, Iuse a plasticgrocery sack ora 5-gallon bucket. A lot of times when you find them it will seem like you will find a bunch within a small area. Last night we gotallofoursw ithin a 200 yard area.Ihave some spots where I bear hunt. One is on a small hillside. I find morels on one side and cauliflower mushrooms on the other. They're all within 200 yards of each other every year. This isn't always the case of course. Many times you'll find a single here and a single there. In mountainous country many times the spores wash downhill so look up and down when you find one. SeeMorelsIPrrI,e 2B

Biologistwith41yearsinN.i.Oregon lalks endangeredspeciesprstectisn By Katy Nesbitt The Observer

ENTERPRISE — In 47 years of the wildlife biology business, Vic Coggins managed everything from bighorn sheep to sharp tailed grousetolargecarnivores,including gray wolves. Nearly 20 years after their reintroduction, Coggins, who worked for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Enterprise district, thinks itstime to letthe statesmanage the apex predator. Last spring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposed delisting the gray

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recoveredto the targetpopulation, activists resisted getting them off theli st.Bald eagleswereremoved from theendangered specieslist, but are still protected under federal law. Gray wolves were removed from protection twice, and twice the Service was sued to relist them. An actofcongressdelisted wo lves in Montana, Idaho, eastern Washington,eastern Oregon,Wyoming and Utah in 2011. Now it wants to delist them in the entire U.S. SeeCogginslPage 2B

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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

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top ofthoseIalsocarry a headlamp. And as you know, I do a lot ofbear hunting. When do dies? For this reason I'd recombears come out? 90 percent mend carrying two lights, one of the time right near dark. rechargeable and one that I also take a lot ofkids bear hunting so who do you think uses batteries. You can carry extra batteries. You can't run has to do the tracking if one an extension cord 40 miles gets wounded? They always to elk camp. On life-saving run into the thickest chaparitems I always recommend ral in the country. carryingtwo and Iconsidera Even with a good light flashlight a life-saving item. there can be shadows, and If you're on a tight budget bears being black can be you don't necessarily have to super hard to see in the dark. And remember, action is buy two high-dollar lights. In fact, I always carry a little always quicker than reaction. Here's what I mean by that. cheap one to read at night in the tent or cook with, so that Ifhe is lying in wait, he's goway if my main one breaks ing to get the jump before you I'm OK. Then of course on even know what's going on.

by Terrell Rich of Boise. Rich is a fellow of the American Ornithologist Continued from Page 1B Union. He will discuss steps which 'This is something for the whole can be taken to get more of the 40 to family," said Cathy Nowak, a biologist 60 million Americans who feed and for the Oregon Department of Fish watch birds to become engaged in and Wildlife.'You do not have to be bird conservation. an expert birder to enjoy it. There is Rich will also discuss a Partners something for everyone." in Flight report which identifies bird Many portions of Ladd Marsh speciesand habitatsmost in need of which are normally closed to pubconservation across North America. lic access will be open during the Rich earlier worked for 20 years as festival. a biologist for the BLM in Colorado, 'This will allow expert birders to Idaho and North Dakota. explore areas which are normally He is pursuing a Ph.D. in public closed the public," Nowak said. policy at Boise State University and Activities begin the evening of has started a consulting firm — SoluMay 16 at the Union County Senior tions for Bird Conservation LLC. Center and will feature a keynote adRich will speak at 7:30 p.m. dressat 7:30 p.m.,"State oftheBirds" Events on May 16 start at 6 p.m.

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at the Union County Senior Center with registration. People will receive a passportdirecting them tobirding stations at Ladd Marsh, and they11 be able to sign up for field trips. At 7 p.m. on May 16, the Odd-Stringers, a local musical group, will perform original songs about birding. The bird festival will move to the Tule Lake Public Access Area on Peach Road, part of the LMWA, on May 17 and 18. Birding stations will be staffed from 6 a.m. to noon on May 17. Saturday highlights will include a wildlife photography workshop from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., a guided bird walk at 2:30 p.m. and a Blue Mountain Birds of Prey presentation by Blue Mountain Wildlife of Pendleton

at 1 p.m. Those attending the Birds of Prey presentation will get a close up

look at bald eagle. Sunday highlights will include a barn owl banding program from 9 a.m. to noon. Dave Larson, manager of the Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, will take people to a barn owl nest, remove young owls from it and demonstrated how they are banded. The owls will then be returned to their nest. All events at the festival are free except for the six field trips, which

will cost $10 each. The festival is being put on by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Friends of Ladd Marsh. For information call the Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, 541-963-4954.

September 2009. When the Imnaha pack's kills racked up in Wallowa County, ODFW agentskilled tw oofm embers of that pack. When the agency went to kill two more in 2011, an injunction filed by animal rights activists stopped the hunt. A lawsuit settlement in May 2013 now allows the state to consider killing wolves if a pack has killed or wounded four head oflivestock in six months. To date, no wolves have been killed by the agency since May 2011. Coggins said he looks forward to wolves beingremoved from the state list as well. 'The amount of time and effort the department has to spend spills out to the districts. It's a huge amount of time. Wolves aren't unionthey11 kill cattle any day they want." He said he remembered a killing spree by the Imnaha pack in the Wallowa Valley that kept then-Wildlife Services agent Marlyn Riggs and him busy on a holiday weekend. ''We called it the Memorial Day Massacre," Coggins said. Genetic data linked the alpha male and female of the Imnaha pack to Idaho wolves, he said. It was no surprise thatthewo lvesreleased into the Idaho wilderness in 1995 and 1996 would eventually

make their wa yto Oregon. In 1999 B-45, a collared female, was tracked to Grant County, captured and returned to Idaho. Since then, the others that migrated into Oregonhave established territory. In 2005, when the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan was completed, the state was legally and practically bracingitself for the inevitable. Coggins said he relied heavily on his fiiends who worked for the Nez Perce Tribe, the agency that agreed to help manage wolves with the federal governmentin Idaho. He said what Idaho experienced in the earlyyears is a direct parallel of what has occurred in Eastern Oregon. Coggins said hunting wolves in Montana changed attitudes."Since they started hunting, the people's bitterness against wolves went away." In 47 years, Coggins has seen controversy, whether it is elk on the Zumwalt Prairie competing with livestock for grazing or wolves being introduced in a neighboring state. ''When we did our wolf plan, the most contested, hottest public meeting was in Wallowa County at the EnterpriseSchool.About 300people came; the largest turnout of any of the meetings," he said. Two dozen wolves have

any absolutes. For more info on how to fi nd and cook them read myarticle on basspro1source.com titled"Hunting For Morel Mushrooms."

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been collared in Oregon since 2009. The state's goal is to have at leastonecollared wolf from each pack. Northeastern Oregon is home to seven documented wolf packs. Coggins said he looks forwardto the day the state is able to delist gray wolves. ''Wolf management is expensive," he said."Every pack has a radio and you have to track them." The management cost comes from federal money and through hunting tag fees and taxes on guns and ammunition.

BRtEFING Deadline May 15 to apply for hunting tags Hunters have until May 15 to apply for a limitedentry controlled hunt opportunity this fall in Oregon. A total of 134,345 tags should be available for big game hunts (deer, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, Rocky Mtn goat). Apply online (www.dfw. state.or.us), at a license sales agent or by mail or fax. Applications are $8 per hunt series (buck deer, antlerless deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, Rocky Mtn goat, and bighorn sheep). A 2014 annual hunting license is required to apply. Draw results will be available by June 20 online at My Hunter Information or by calling 1-800708-1782. ODFW no longer mails postcard notifications of draw results.

Camp hosts sought for two local lakes PENDLETON —The Umatilla National Forest is looking for volunteers to serve as campground hosts this summer at Bull Prairie and Jubilee Lake campgrounds. Camp hosts talk with campers,clean and maintain restrooms, restock supplies and do minor maintenance as needed. Hosts need to have their own tent, camp or motor home. Afood allowance and propane will be supplied. Bull Prairie Lake is 36 miles south of Heppner. The campground is usually open from late May through mid October. Anyone interested in serving as a camp host there should call Kathy Rankin at 541-676-21 55. Jubilee Lake is about12 miles northeast ofTollgate. The campground usually is open from early July through mid September. Prospective camp hosts should call Jeff Bloom at 509-522-6277.

"I think they need a different system of funding," Coggins said."A lot of the people who want wolves pay nothing — they don't buy licenses or buy guns and ammunition with excise taxes. Oregon never did get money from the fedsliketheotherstatesdid. The system of funding is not very just by asking hunters to fund alotofit." As for the federal listing, Coggins said,"To me, right now is the time to get them offofthatendangered species list so you can manage them without a lot of constraints."

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150 - Bazaars, Fund- 2 1 0 - Help Wantedraisers Baker Co. 9TH ANNUAL Something Special Craft Antique 8t Garden Show. ...You love our Winter Bazaar... Come see what we have blooming for Spring!

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t ion can lead t o f u l l time w o rk . F u ll-time positions carry benefits; medical, life insurance, retirement plan, pd. holidays, vacation, sick l e ave . S t a r t ing wage i s $ 1 1 . 42/hr. Qualified a p p l icants m ust be 1 8 y r s . o f age, pass a c r i minal history check, btt have a valid Oregon dnver's license. Apply at 3720 10th St., Baker City.

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Center Gym 2609 2nd Street La Grande 'Handcrafted Decor btt clothing'Antiques'

'County-Chic' 'Woodworking' 'GardenDecor'Jewlry' '18" Doll Clothes' .....And much more!

TRUCK DRIVER. Flat bed d o u b l es . No weekends r e q u ired. Based in Baker City. Gary N. Smith Trucking. Contact M ike at

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FOUND BOB tailed Female cat early March BAKER SCHOOL DISTRICT 5J is currently in Cove, 541-562-5862 accepting applications LOST: ROUND, for a Physics/Chemisengraved, silver charm try/Physical Sc ience "Endings btt Beginnings" t eacher. For a c o m If found please return to p lete d e s cription o f Baker City Herald t he p o s i t io n g o t o www.baker.k12.or.us MISSING YOUR PET? or contact the employCheck the m ent d i v i s i on . Y o u Baker City Animal Clinic may aIs o c a II 541-523-3611 541-524-2261

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MEET S I NGLES right now! No paid operators, Iust real people l ike y o u . Bro ws e greetings, ex change m essages and c o n- BAKER SCHOOL DISTRICT 5J is currently n ect live. Try it f r e e . accepting applications CaII n ow : f or a P a r a P r o a t 877-955-5505. (PNDC) Haines E l e m entary. F or a c o mplete d escription of th e p o sit io n

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900 - Transportation 902 - Aviation 910 - ATVs,Molorcycles,Snowmobiles 915 - Boats 8 Motors 920 - Campers 925 - Motor Homes 930 - Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels 940 - Utility Trailers 950- Heavy Equipment 960 - Auto Parts 970 - Autos for Sale 990 - Four-Wheel Drive

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C ompany seeks t h e Academy,a localPnvate Employment Maryanne's H o u s efollowing for approx 3 C hristian s c h o ol , i s Opportunity: cleaning. $15/hr. Call mo. paving pro)ect in currently accepting ap- Now accepting applica541-794-8620 La Grande, OR: t ions for crew m e mplications for a c e rti10 Wheel Dump Truck fied elementary classbers on the 2014 Ladd Drivers/Class A or B room teacher. To be Marsh Summer OYCC CDL, Iron Workers/Re- considered for this poYouth Pr o ) e c t at Add BOLDING bar Placement, Davis sition, please submit ODFW Ladd M a rsh or a BORDER! Bacon-Prevailing Area. Duties Include: your resume and comWages plete the GRA employw orking w it h w a t e r It's a little extra m ent a p plication b y fowl, some constructhat gets Send work history to May 15th. For more tion and working outBIG results. Concrete Placing information, please call side in all weather conCompany 541-975-1147 or email ditions. 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Qualified apM edical A s s i s t a n t . ero 2711 Bearco Loop plicants w il l i n s t ruct tion of standard office La Grande OR Wallowa Valley Center DID YOU ICNOW NewsMedical office experiequipment. 1 7 hours paper-generated constudent dnvers in the for Wellness, the priper week. A p ply at ence required. Closing tent is so valuable it's classroom and behind mary provider of mendate: May 16th, 2014. NOW HIRING 1106 IC Avenue, La taken and r e peated, the wheel. All training tal health services in Please mail application Grande Ronde Fitness Grande by 4:00 p.m. condensed, broadcast, for this position is paid Wallowa County has May 23rd. E E O/AA t o S o u t h Coun t y Club. Indoor Cycling tweeted, d i scussed, by the employer. For an opening for Mental H ealth D i s t r ict , P O Instructor (II Boxing Fitposted, copied, edited, more information conEmployer Health Therapist with B ox 605, Union. 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3 -bdrm, 2 b a th . 2 0 00 plus sq. ft. Oversized attached garage, barn & storage buildings. All on 3 i r rigated acres. $950/mo plus dep. Molly Ragsdale Property Management Call: 541-519-8444

THUNDERBIRD APARTMENTS 307 20th Street

& COVE APARTMENTS 1906 Cove Avenue UNITS AVAILABLE NOW!

745 - Duplex Rentals Union Co.

APPLY today to qualify for subsidized rents at these quiet and centrally located multifamily housing properties.

1 BDRM, $490 plus dep. w/s/ g pa id 541-963-41 25

1, 2 Br 3 bedroom units with rent based on income when available.

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for a 3bdrm, I bth, garge, $899/mo a nd $ 65 0 de p . 541-91 0-4444

745 - Duplex Rentals Union Co.

740 - Duplex Rentals Baker Co. 2-BDRM DUPLEX Appliances, good location. Garbage paid. N o s m o k i ng , n o

pets. 541-523-4701 Classifieds get results.

752 - Houses for Rent Union Co.

NICE CLEAN 2 bdrm, 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath, ga1 ba. w / d , st ov e , rage, W/S i n cluded. fridgew, 1 1/2 garage, Small pet considered. No smoking.$425/mo w/s pd, suitable for 1 or 2 adults, no pets, no p lus d eposit. ( 5 4 1) smoking, not HUD 523-7855 approved. $575/mo. $400 dep. 310 1st St. 4-BDRM, 2 1/2 ba th in North Baker. 3000 sq. LG. (541)910-5200 ft. Avail. May 3, Dou750 - Houses For ble Garage, S h o p, Rent Baker Co. Fenced yard. Bea utiful historic

*LIVE III PAR ABISE* Beautiful Home. 2-bdrm,1-bath in Sumpter.

W/S/G paid. Wood stove & propane. Pnvate nverside park $450/mo. + dep. 541-894-2263

OREGON TRAIL PLAZA Charming, Southside, 1-2 bdrm mobile homes Highend Duplex, only starting at $400/mo. $800/mo 3 brdm, 1 Includes W/S/G bath, all appl, gas fireRV spaces avail. Nice place, fenced back- quiet downtown location yard, off street park541-523-2777 ing, 1st, last, and deposit. Includes s/w HOME SWEET HOME and yard care. NO Cute &Clean Pets/Smoking/HUD. 2 & 3-Bdrm Homes Leave message at No Smoking/1 small 541-963-3670. pet considered. Call Ann Mehaffy EXCELLENT 3 bdrm du541-51 9-0698 plex, storage, South Ed Moses:(541)519-1814 Side La Grande location, close to EOU No 2-BDRM., 1-BATH: No smoking o r pet s . pets/waterbeds. $ 725/ m o . C a II McElroy P r operties. 541-963-4907. 541-523-2621

Proiect phone ¹: (541)963-3785 TTY: 1(800)735-2900

750 - Houses For Rent Baker Co.

h o m e . No Smoking. $ 1250/mo p lu s d epos it . 541-403-11 88

CLEAN 1 bdrm, 1 bath, w/ basement, all appliances. Great location. $550/mo plus dep. & last m o . re n t . No p ets/smoking. 2 2 4 3 3rd. 541-519-0621. SUNFIRE REAL Estate LLC. has Houses, Duplexes & Apartments for rent. Call Cheryl Guzman fo r l i s t ings, 541-523-7727.

752 - Houses for Rent Union Co. 3 BDRM, 2 ba in Elgin.

$800/mo. W/S pd. (541 ) 910-0354 AVAILABLE MAY 1st, 2bdrm, 1ba, f e nced yard and basement. Close to Greenwood S chool. No P et s o r HUD. $700 mo & $450 dep. 541-910-1807

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s• Custom-built 3190 sq ft solid cedar log home on 23 view acres bor-

101 ft. x 102 ft. Island City. $70,000. A rmand o Rob l e s , 541-963-3474, 541-975-4014

denng USFS. MAGNIFICENT views of RESIDENTIAL LOTS on A PLUS RENTALS snow-capped mounq uiet c u l -de-sac, i n has storage units Sunny Hills, South LG. tains, Joseph valley, availabie. 541-786-5674. Owner and 7 Devils of Idaho. 5x12 $30 per mo. licensed real e s t ate Just 4 miles from 8x8 $25-$35 per mo. Joseph. $395,000 agent. 8x10 $30 per mo. (negotiable) f l e x ible 'plus deposit' terms, ow ner w i l ling ROSE RIDGE 2 Subdivi1433 Madison Ave., t o c a r r y c on t r a c t sion, Cove, OR. City: or 402 Elm St. La Sewer/VVater available. 6 2326 Hurricane C r Grande. Rd, J o s e ph , O R . Regular price: 1 acre Ca II 541-910-3696 m/I $69,900-$74,900. 541-432-7870, 541-593-2135, cell We also provide property management. C h eck 541-263-0419 3 BDR. 1 BA, South LG American West out our rental link on © 90 Oak, No pets, Storage our w ebs i t e smokers, or rent asst. 7 days/24 houraccess 820 - Houses For www.ranchnhome.co prgms. $700.00/Mo. 541-523-4564 Sale Baker Co. m or c aII w/ $350.00 Sec. Dep. COMPETITIVE RATES Ranch-N-Home Realty, 3-BDRM, 2 bath Mfg References required. Behind Armory on East In c 541-963-5450. Call Steve Anderson at and H Streets. Baker City home on 120'x150' lot. Room for RV parking, (541) 786-2480 I severaloutbuildings, I garden area with fruit 3BDRM, 2BA, Mobile in trees and grape arbor. LG, w/s paid, a/c, HUD 880 - Commercial Home has a large MIII STOELGI approved, $950 + dep. basement, ishandicap Property 541-91 0-01 22 • Secure accessible & has many BEST CORNER location other amenities. 3BRDM, 1BA, fe nced • Keppad EIlfzjj for lease on A dams $110,000 • Auto-Lock Gate yard, clean, 1 yr lease, Ave. LG. 1100 sq. ft. 541-523-5967 • Security Liirbting 1106 F St. LG $900/mo Lg. pnvate parking. Re• Fenced Area 541-963-7517 m odel or us e a s i s . (6-foot barb) 541-805-91 23 3-BDRM, 2 bath, with 4 BDRM, 2 bath, single SEW I Ix36 units fireplace on 12 acres. car garage, hardwood Excellent view of for "Big Boy Toys" floors. $975/mo, 1 yr Wallowa Mtns and lease. 1612 Fifth St . S2S-1688 great fishing access. 541-963-7517. Located on Hwy 86, 2518 14th ICeating Valley. 4BDRM, 2BA, $850/mo $159,900. 479-283-6372 CLASSIC STORAGE (541) 523-5871 541-524-1534 Andrew Bryan FOR RENT 2805 L Street Pnncipal Broker 910 - ATV, MotorcyNEW FACILITY!! La Grande-Island City: Vanety of Sizes Available cles, Snowmobiles 3350 ESTES St. 3-bdrm, Secunty Access Entry 2003 ARTICAT 4x4 400. (1) -1 BR Apt. 1 bath with attached 1 RV Storage E xcellent c o n d i t i o n 1/2 garage on a corner w/winch an d r a c ks. Ranch-N-Home DRC'S PROPERTY lot. $112,500. Please $3000. 541-419-8523 Rentals, Inc call: 541-403-0958 MANAGEMENT, INC. 54 1-963-5450 215 Fir Str 930 - Recreational La Grande OR Vehicles 541-553-1055 P RICE RE D U C E D ! LARGE 2BDRM 1 bath, THE SALE of RVs not 2-bdrm, 1 bath home $750.00. Storage units beanng an Oregon inon 75x120 ft. corner 541-91 0-0354 signia of compliance is LaGrande and Union lot on paved streets. illegal: call B u i lding All utilities are on propUNION, 3 BD, 2B T H, 1 month FREE with 5 Codes(503) 373-1257 erty. $42,500. Call for d ouble w i de, $ 8 5 0 . month Rental an ap p oi nt m en t 3 BD, 1 B T H $ 7 5 0 . (New Rentals Only) 541-524-106 3 o r PRESIDENT GOLF Cart. 2 BD $ 6 50 . Good cond. Repriced 541-51 9-1 31 7 541-91 0-0811 Come see our new at $2999. Contact Lisa office (541 ) 963-21 61 760 - Commercial 825 - Houses for M-F 9-11:30, 1-5

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20 X40 shop, gas heat, roll-up a nd w a l k -in doors, restroom, small o ffice s p ace, $ 3 5 0 month, $300 deposit. 541-91 0-3696.

BEARCO BUSINESS PARK Has 6000, 3000, 2000 sq ft units, all have overheard doors and man doors. Call 541-963-7711

BEAUTY SALON/ Office space perfect for one or two operaters 15x18, icludeds restroom a n d off street parking. $500 mo & $250 dep 541-91 0-3696

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780 - Storage Units

RV SPACES Halfway, OR Full Hookups $22/day Monthly & Weekly

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970 - Autos For Sale WALLOWA MEMORIAL

rates available. Also 2-Bdrm, 2-bath mobile home for rent. For details call: Mt. View RV & Storage 541-540-0976

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541-523-2128 3100 15th St. Baker City

BIG!!! SHOP w/office, 2000 sq ft, 2 overhead doors, large f e nced SHOP FOR RENT, 2,200 sq. ft, concrete floor, outside storage area, garage door, side heat, a/c, will rent part entry, electncity and or all. Call for details water. $285.00 mo 541-963-51 25. CaII 541-975-3800 or 541-663-6673 COMM E RCIAL SPACE h i s t o ric Sommer Helm Build- SPRING SPECIAL (First Time Renters) ing, 1215 Washington Ave across from post office. 1000 plus s.f. O I ~M great location $750 per Rent Now & Get month includes heat, 3rd Month air, electric, gas, waFREE! ter, sewer, g arbage and recycle. Available RdrK Mini Storage June 1st please call 1407 Monroe, LG 541-786-1133 for more *Call Ranch-N-Home information and viewfor details:

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utilities paid . $9 00 month, $800 deposit. 541-91 0-3696. OFFICE SPACE, approx 1300sq ft, r e ception a nd waiting room. 3 offices, restrooms, all

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Sx10 - 10x10 - 10x20 /nsrde Storagefor rnowmobrier, boats, E small R Vs

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STEV ENSONSTORAGE •Mini W-arehouse • Outside Fenced Parking • ReasonableRates For informationcall:

528-N18days 5234807eveffings 378510th Street

utilities paid . $9 00 795 -Mobile Home month, $800 deposit. Spaces 541-91 0-3696. SPACES AVAILABLE, one block from Safe780 - Storage Units way, trailer/RV spaces. W ater, s e w er , g a r 12 X 20 storage with roll bage. $200. Jeri, manup door, $70 mth, $60 a ger. La Gra n d e deposit 541-910-3696 541-962-6246

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$45,000 THIS 2.15 ACRE BUILDINGLOT is located in Slarkey. Private, lots of wild life

and very nice views of the surrounding area. 13100605

Century 21 Eagle Cap Realty, 541-9634511.

H ospital w il l b e a c cepting sealed bids on a 1995 F ord D i esel E350 Econoline Van with decommissioned ambulance module,no l onger s u i t able f o r medical transportation.

VIN¹ 1FDICE30FXSHCO283 1 No equipment included, as i s — no warranty. The vehicle will be available for personal inspection at 601 Medical Parkway, Enterpnse Oregon between the hours of 8am and 5pm. For information on arranging a personal i n s p e ct ion contact Wallowa Memorial Hospital, EMS D epa r t m e n t at 541-426-5405. S ealed bids m a y b e mailed or hand delivered to the Administration Office, Wallowa Memorial H o s p i t al, 601 M edica I Pa rkway, Enterpnse, OR 97828. Bids must be received on or before 3:00pm May 26th, 2014.

980 - Trucks, Pickups 2012 GMC Canyon 5cly, extended cab, Silver Metallic Pick-up. Like

Newi 2wd all power

850 - Lots & Property Baker Co. 5 .78 A CRES, 3 5 x 4 8 shop, full bath, well Br septic installed. 7 mi. from town. Price reduced to $155,500. 503-385-8577

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1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County 1001 - Baker County Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices IN THE CIRCUIT JPMORGAN CHASE IN THE CIRCUIT ING TO COLLECT A dence, the new owner and are otherwise eligrantor had, or had the COURT FOR THE COURT OF THE DEBT AND THAT ANY power to c o nvey, at can give you w r i tten BANIC, NATIONAL ASgible you may be able DISTRICT 2014 STATE OF OREGON IN SOCIATION, its sucSTATE OF OREGON INFORMATION OBthe time of the execunotice and require you to receive legal assisNOTICE OF BUDGET AND FOR THE c essors i n in t e r e s t T AINED W I L L B E tion by him of the said to move out after 90 tance for free. InforCOMMITTEE MEETING COUNTY OF BAKER and/or assigns is plainFOR THE COUNTY U SED FO R T H A T trust deed, t o gether mation about whom to days, even though you OF BAKER PURPOSE. Reference w it h a ny i nt e r e s t h ave a f i x e d t e r m contact for free legal tiff, and TERRY LEE A public meeting of the JPMORGAN CHASE is made to that certain lease with more than MOSER; S H E R RY which the grantor or assistance may be obBudget Committee of BANIC, NATIONAL STRONG MOSER; and Nationstar Mortgage LLC Deed of Trust made his successors in inter90 days left. You must tained through Safenet the Baker Valley Vec- ASSOC IATION, its OCCUPANTS OF THE d/b/aChampion b e provided w it h a t at 8 00 - S A F ENET. by, ADAM F Z I N IC est acquired after the tor C o nt ro l D i s t r ict, successors in interest PREMISES is defen- Mortgage Company, AND MALHIA ZINIC AS execution of said trust least 90 days' written W ithout l i m i t ing t h e State of Oregon, will and/or assigns, d ant. T h e s al e i s a TENANTS BY THE EN- d eed, to s a t isfy t h e notice after the f oretrustee's disclaimer of m eet to d i s cuss t h e budget for the f i scal Plaintiff,

p ublic auction to t h e Plaintiff, highest bidder for cash or cashier's check, in vs. h and, mad e o u t t o

V. year July 1, 2014 to J une 30, 2015. T h i s meeting will be held at REX TRAVIS Baker County Shenff's SHERMA DOUGHERTY, the Sunndge Restau- ICI R ICWOOD AICA Office. For more infor- INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS TRAVIS ICIRICWOOD; mation on this sale go CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSrant, 1 Sunridge Lane, Baker City, OR 97814 NANCY KAY to: w w w . ore onsher- TEE OF THE ESTATE OF o n T h ursday, M a y ICIRICWOOD; AND CHARLES J. DOUGHERTY; SUSAN 29th, 2014 at 1 2 : 00 OCCUPANTS OF PM. PREMISES, LegaI No. 00035692 DOUGHERTY; This is a public meetPublished:April 25, May UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ing w here d e l ibera- Defendants. 2, 9, 16, 2014 CHARLES J. tions of t h e B u d get DOUGHERTY; UNITED NOTICE OF BUDGET C ommittee w i l l t a k e Case No. 14064 STATES OF AMERICA; COMMITTEE MEETING p lace. A copy of t he STATE OF OREGON; b udget ma y b e i n - SUMMONS BY OCCUPANTS OF THE A public meeting of the spected or obtained at P U BLICATION PREMISES Budget Committee of 2 790 M a i n S t r e e t , the City of Baker City, Defendants. Baker City, OR. Any TO THE DEFENDANTS: Baker County, State of person may appear at REX TRAVIS Oregon to discuss the No. 14162 the meeting to discuss ICI R ICWOOD AICA budget for the f i scal the proposed budget TRAVIS ICIRICWOOD: year July 1, 2014 t o CIVIL SUMMONS with the Budget Com- In the name of the State mittee. o f Oregon, you a r e June 30, 2015, will be held at Baker City Hall, hereby required to ap1655 First Street in the TO THE DEFENDANTS: LegaI No. 00036001 pear and answer the City Council C h am- Unknown Heirs of Published: May 9, 2014 complaint filed against bers. The meeting will Charles J. Dougherty you in the above-entitake place on the 19th NOTICE OF BUDGET tled Court and cause day of May 2014 at COMMITTEE MEETING on or before the expiNOTICE TO 6 0 0 p m . , a nd if ration of 30 days from DEFENDANT: n eeded, a d d i t i o n a l t he date o f t h e f i r s t READ THESE PAPERS A public meeting of the meetings will be held Budget Committee of CAREFULLY! publication o f t hi s on the 20th, 21st and the City of S umpter, summons. The date A l a w s ui t h a s be e n 2 2nd days o f M a y started against you in Baker County, State of of first p u blication in 2014. this matter is May 9, t he a b o v e - e n t i t l e d Oregon, to discuss the T he purpose of t h e budget for the f i scal 2014. If you fail timely Court b y N a t i onstar meeting is to r e ceive to appear and answer, Mortgage LLC d/b/a year July 1, 2014 to the budget message June 30, 2015 will be plaintiff will apply to Champion M o rtgage t he a b o v e - e n t i t l e d and to receive comC ompany, P l a i nt iff . held at th e S u mpter ment from the public c ourt fo r t h e r e l i e f Plaintiff' s claim is City Hall, 240 N. Mill on the budget. Street, Sumpter Ores tated in t h e w r i t t e n prayed for in its comComplaint, a copy of gon. The meeting will plaint. This is a Iudicial At this meeting, a special time will be reserved foreclosure of a deed which is on file at the take place on 21st of t o receive written or o f trust in w h ich t h e Baker County CourtMay 2014 at 1:00 p.m. oral comments on the T he purpose of t h e house. You must "applaintiff requests that possible use of State pear" in t his case or meeting is to r e ceive the plaintiff be allowed R evenu e Sha r i n g to foreclose your interthe other side will win the budget message Funds. est in the following deautomatically. To "apand to receive comment from the public scnbed real property: A copy of t h e b u dget p ear" yo u m u s t f i l e document may be in- with the court a legal on the budget. This is THE NORTH 34 FEET spected or obtained on OF LOT 2, AND ALL paper called a "moa p u b l i c m eet i n g OF LOT 3, BLOCIC "G" or after May 12, 2014 tion" or "answer." where deliberation of The "motion" or "anthe Budget Committee OF FATHER DEROOS at the office of the City swer" must be given will take place. Any ADDITION TO BAICER Finance Director, City all, b e t w ee n t h e to the court clerk or person may appear to CITY, IN BAICER CITY, H COUNTY OF BAICER hours of 8:00 a.m. and administrator within 30 discuss the proposed AND STATE OF ORE- 5 :00 p.m . T hi s i s a days along with the reprograms w i t h the public meeting where Budget Committee. A GON q uired f i l ing f e e . I t deliberation o f t he copy of t h e b u d get Commonly known as: m ust b e i n pr o p e r B udget C o m m i t t e e form and have proof of document may be in- 2615 1st Street, Baker will take place. Any spected or obtained on service on th e p l ainCity, Oregon 97814. person may appear at tiff's attorney or, if the or after May 21, 2014 NOTICE TO the meeting and disat Sumpter City Hall, DEFENDANTS: plaintiff does not have cuss the proposed pro- an attorney, proof of 240 N . M i l l S t r e et, READ THESE PAPERS grams with the Budget Sumpter, Oregon, beCAREFULLY! service on the plaintiff. Committee. t ween th e h o urs o f A lawsuit ha s b e e n The oblect of the com8:00 a.m. to noon and started against you in plaint is to foreclose a LegaI No. 00035823 t he a b o v e - e n t i t l e d d eed of t r us t d a t e d 1 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., court b y J P M o rgan P ublished: May 2 , 9 , June 7, 1999 and reMonday through Fri2014 day. With the excepChase Bank, National corded as Document tion of Wednesday beAssociation, p laintiff. No. 99 24 074 given NOTICE OF BUDGET P laintiff's c l aims a r e by C h a r le s J . ing open 8:00 a.m. to COMMITTEE MEETING 12 noon. s tated in t h e w r i t t e n Dougherty on property At this meeting, a PUBcomplaint, a copy of A public meeting of the commonly known as LIC HEARING will be w hich was f iled w i t h 1226 Washington AveBudget Committee of t he a b o v e - e n t i t l e d the City of Huntington, held to receive wntten n ue, Baker City, O R Court. 97814 and legally deor oral comments on Baker County, State of t he possible us e o f You must "appear" in scnbed as: Oregon, to discuss the State Revenue Shanng this case or the other THE WEST 49 FEET budget for fiscal year Funds received by the side will win automatiOF LOTS 1, 2 3 AND July 1, 2014 to June City of Sumpter. cally. To "appear" you 4, BLOCIC 1 PACIFIC 30, 2015 will be held The City of S umpter must f i l e w i t h t he ADDITION TO BAICER at the Huntington City complies with Section court a legal document CITY, IN BAICER CITY, Hall, 50 East Adams 504 of the Rehabilitacalled a "motion" or COUNTY OF BAICER Street. T h e m e eting "answer." T h e " m o- will take place on May AND STATE OF OREtion Act of 1973 and tion" or "answer" (or t he A m e r icans w i t h GON; PARCEL NO. 27, 2014 at 6:00 pm "reply") must be given Disabilities Act. Assis0501-940-16DC-4300 PST. The purpose of tance is available for to the court clerk or ¹1339. t he meeting is to r e i ndividuals w i t h d i s - administrator within 30 The complaint seeks ceive the budget mesa bilities b y ca l l i n g d ays of th e d ate o f sage and t o r e c eive to foreclose and termi5 41-894-2314 or t h e first publication specinate all interest of Unc omment f r o m th e Oregon Telecommunified herein along with known Heirs of Charpublic on the budget. the required filing fee. les J. Dougherty and cation Relay Service. A copy of the budget It must be i n p roper documents may be in- a ll other interests i n ICathi Vinson form and have proof of the property. spected or obtained on The "motion" or "anBudget Officer service on th e p l ainor after May 27, 2014 tiff's attorney or, if the City of Sumpter, OR a t 5 0 E a s t A d a m s s wer" ( o r "reply") must be given to t he plaintiff does not have S treet, between t h e Legal No. 00035640 an attorney, proof of court clerk or adminishours of 9:00 am and Published: April 25, May service on the plaintiff. trator within 30 days 4:00pm. If you have any quesof the date of first pub9, 2014 tions, you should see This is a public meeting l icatio n s p e c if i e d INVITATION TO BID an attorney i m m e diherein along with the where deliberation of Cusick Creek ately. If you need help required filing fee. The the Budget Committee Restoration Project in finding an attorney, date of first publication w ill take place. A n y o f th e s u m m on s i s you may contact the person may appear at O regon St at e B a r ' s the meeting and disApnl22,2014. Request for Contracting Bids for the ImplemenLawyer Referral ServIf you have questions, cuss the proposed protation and C o nstrucice online at www.oreyou should see an atgrams with the Budget torney immediately. If t ion o f t he Cu s i c k gonstatebar.org or by Committee i n c luding Creek Restoration Procalling (503) 684-3763 you need help in findthe use of State Reveing an attorney, you Iect will b e r e c eived (in the Portland metronue Shanng Funds. from qualified vendors politan area) or toll-free may contact the Oreelsewhere in Oregon LegaI No. 00035653 by the ICeating Soil and gon State Bar's Lawat (800) 452-7636. yer Referral Service Water C o n servation P ublished: May 2 , 9 , Distnct, until 4:00 pm T his summons i s i s online at www.oregon2014 sued p u r s u an t t o statebar.org or by callMay 29, 2014 at the ORCP 7. ing (503) 684-3763 (in Distnct Office, located REQUEST FOR the Portland metropoliat 3990 Midway Dnve, PROPOSALS Baker City, OR. P r o- RCO LEGAL, P.C. tan area) or toll-free Sealed bids for the conposals received will be Alex Gund, elsewhere in Oregon struction of th e P i ne at (800) 452-7636. opened the same day OSB ¹114067 agund©rcolegal.com Creek Restoration at and evaluated in May 2014. Attorneys for Plaintiff McMullen Slough will Attorney for Plaintiff, b e received b y t h e SHAPIRO 5 A mandatory pre-bid 511 SW 10th Ave., Powder Basin Water- SUTHERLAND, LLC s ite visit of t h e w o r k Ste. 400 shed Council until 4:00 area will be conducted Portland, OR 97205 on May 20, 2014. All P: (503) 977-7840 p.m. on May 15, 2014. /s/. James A. Craft Bids will b e p u blicly James A. Craft ¹090146 prospective bidders in- F: (503) 977-7963 t erested i n t h e s i t e opened at 4:00 p.m. Ilcraft©logs.comi on the same day. Con- 7632 SW Durham Road, v isit should m ee t a t LegaI No. 00035950 the Distnct Office (ad- Pubished: May 9, 16, 23 t racting d o c u m e n t s Suite 350 a nd instructions f o r Tigard, OR 97224 dress above) in Baker 30, 2014 b idding may b e o b - (360) 260-2253; City, OR at 10:30 a.m. NOTICE OF tained on the Powder Fax (360)260-2285 Request for Bid packSHERIFF'S SALE B asin W at er s h e d ages are available at C ouncil w e b s it e a t Legal No. 00035563 t he District Office. I f www.bakercount .or Published: April 18, 25, you have any q ues- On May 27, 2014, at the watershed/home.html May 2, 9, 2014 tions o r c o m m e n t s, hour of 9:00 a.m. at t he B a k e r C o u n t y p lease c o n t act t h e C ourthouse, 199 5 LegaI No. 00035796 TRUSTEE'S NOTICE D ISTRICT office a t OF SALE 541-523-7121 x 111 or T hird S t reet , B a k e r Published:Apnl 30, May P ursuant t o O.R. S . email: a n l alina.lohnCity, Oregon, the de2,5,7,9, 12,2014 fendant's interest will 8 6 705 et s e q . a n d ston©or.nacdnet.net. be sold, sublect to re- READ Y O . R.S. 79.5010, e t FO R A seq. Trustee's Safe This projectis fundedin demption, in the real CHANGE? Don't Iust sit No. 0 9 - CW-131748 property c o m m o nly part by funds from the Oregon Lottery. known as: 43732 Po- there, let the classified N OTICE TO B O R cahontas Road, Baker help wanted column find ROWER : YOU SHOULD BE AWARE Legal No. 00035988 City, Oregon 97814. a new and challenging The court case numTHAT THE UNDERP ublished: May 9, 1 2 ber is 13 218, where Iob for you. SIGNED IS ATTEMPT14,16, 19, 2014

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TIRETY, as grantor, to D lRECT TITLE, a s T rustee, i n f a vo r o f UNITED SECURITY FINAN C IAL, A UTAH CORPORATION, as b eneficiary , da t e d 12/11/2009, recorded 2/22/2010, under Instrument No. B10 08 0058, r e c o r d s of BAICER County, OREGON. The beneficial i nterest u n d e r s a i d Trust Deed and the obl igation s s ec ur e d thereby are presently held by UNITED SECURITY FINANCIAL. Said Trust Deed e ncumbers the following descnbed real property situated in said county and state, to-wit: THE EAST 100 FEET OF THE NORTH 25 FEET OF LOT 4, AND THE EAST 100 FEET OF LOT 5, ALL IN BLOCIC 26, REVISED PLAN OF MCCRARY'S ADDITION ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, IN BAICER CITY, COUNTY OF BAICER AND STATE O F OREGON. T h e street address or other common designation, if any, of the real property described above i s purported t o b e : 2915 PLACE STREET B AICER CITY, O R 9 7814 T h e u n d e r s igned T r ustee d i s claims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address or o t her c o mmon designation. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell th e s aid r eal property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3); the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantor's failure to pay when due, the following sums: Amount due as of April 18, 2014 Delinquent Payments from March 01, 2017 11 p a y m e n t s at $ 672 .4 3 e a ch $7,396.73 7 payments at $ 6 7 1 , 3 1 eac h $4,699.17 8 payments at $ 8 7 3 . 7 4 eac h $6,989.92 (03-01-12 through 04-18-14) Late C harges: $ 3 6 3 . 4 2 BENEF ICIARY ADVANCES OTHER FEES $500.00 S u s p e nse Credit: $0.00 TOTAL: $19,949.24 ALSO, if you have failed to pay taxes on the property, provide insurance on t he property o r p a y o ther senior liens o r encumbrances as required in the note and d eed o f tr u s t , t h e beneficiary may insist that you do so in order to reinstate your account in good standing. The b e n e f iciary may require as a con-

foregoing obligations

thereby secured and t he c o st s a n d e x penses of sale, includi ng a reas o n a b l e charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the nght, at any time pnor to five days before the d ate last set fo r t h e sale, to have this foreclosure p r o c e e ding dismissed a n d t he trust deed reinstated b y payment t o th e beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due h ad no d e f ault o c curred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that i s capable o f b e i n g cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, and in addit ion t o p a y i n g s a i d sums or tendenng the performance necess ary to cure the d e f ault, b y p a y ing a l l costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation a nd trust d e ed , t o gether with t rustee's a nd attorney's f e e s n ot e x c e e ding t h e amounts provided by said ORS 86.753. In

closure sale b e f o re you can be required to move. A bona fide tenant is a residential tenant who is not the bor-

representation s or w arranties, O r e g o n law requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residen-

r owe r (p ro pe r t y tial property sold at a o wner) o r a chi l d , t rustee's s a l e m a y spouse or parent of h ave bee n u s e d i n t he b o r r ower , a n d manufacturing methwhose rental agreea mphetamines, t h e ment: Is the result of chemical components an arm's-length transof which are known to a ction; Requires t h e be toxic Prospective payment of rent that is purchasers of residennot substantially less tial property should be than fair market rent aware of this potential for the property, undanger before deciding l ess th e r e n t i s r e to place a bid for this duced or s u bsidized property at th e t r usdue to a federal, state tee's sale, y DATED: or local subsidy; and 4/18/2014 REGIONAL Was entered into pnor TRUSTEE SERVICES to the date of the foreCORPORATION Trusclosure sale. ABOUT tee By: LISA HACICYOUR TENANCY BENEY, AUTHORIZED T WEEN NOW A N D AGENT 616 1st AveTHE FORECLOSURE nue, Suite 500, SeatS ALE: RENT Y O U tle, WA 98104 Phone: SHOULD CONTINUE (206) 340-2950 T O PAY RENT T O Sale Information: YOUR L A N DLORD http://www.rtrustee.com UNTIL THE P ROP- A-4454704 05/02/2014, ERTY IS SOLD OR 05/09/2014, 05/16/2014, U NTIL A COU R T 05/23/2014 TELLS YOU OTHERW ISE. IF YO U D O LegaI No. 00035656 NOT PAY RENT, YOU Published: May 2, 9, 16, CAN BE EVICTED. BE 23, 2014 S URE T O IC E E P STORAGE UNIT PROOF OF ANY PAYAUCTIONS MENTS YOU MAICE. ABC Storesall, Inc. SECURITY DEPOSIT 41298 Chico Lane You may apply your Baker City, OR 97814 s ecurity deposit a n d Auction on a ny rent yo u p aid i n Saturday at 10 a.m. a dvance against t h e construing this notice, May 10, 2014 the masculine gender current rent you owe includes the feminine your landlord as provided in ORS 90.367. Description of property: a nd the n e uter, t h e To do this, you must Household, p e r s o nal singular includes the items, and misc. notify your landlord in plural, the word "grantor" includes any sucwriting that you want P roperty ow ner: G l e n Smith to subtract the amount c essor in i n terest t o of your security de- Amount due: $287.90 the grantor as well as any other person owposit or p repaid rent Unit ¹ E16 ing an obligation, the f rom yo u r e n t p a y ment. You may do this Foreclosures under ORS performance of which i s secured b y s a i d only for the rent you 87. 669-87. 691 t rust deed, an d t h e owe your current landwords "trustee" and lord. If you do this, you LegaI No. 00035694 must do so before the Published: April 25, May "beneficiary" i n c lude 9, 2014 foreclosure sale. The their respective sucbusiness or individual cessors in interest, if 1010 - Union Co. any. Anyone having who buys this property at the foreclosure sale Legal Notices a ny oblection t o t h e is not responsible to sa le on a ny g rounds NOTICE OF BUDGET whatsoever will be afyou for any deposit or COMMITTEE forded an opportunity prepaid rent you paid MEETING t o b e h e a r d a s to t o y o u r lan d l o r d . A public meeting of the ABOUT YOUR TENt hose o b l e c t ion s i f Budget Committee of ANCY AFTER THE they bnng a lawsuit to the City of Cove, Unrestrain the same. NOFORECLOSURE SALE ion, State of Oregon, TICE TO RESIDENThe new ow ner that to discuss the budget buys this property at TIAL TENANTS: The for the fiscal year July the foreclosure sale property in which you 1, 2014 to June 30, may be willing to allow are living is in foreclo2015, will be the held sure. A f o r e closure you to stay as a tenant at 504 A lder, Cove, instead o f r e q u i ring OR. The meeting will sale is scheduled for August 20, 2014. The you to move out after t a ke p la ce on 90 days or at the end date of this sale may 0 5/20/2014 a t 7 : 0 0 be postponed. Unless o f y ou r f i x e d t e r m p.m. The purpose of lease. After the sale, the lender who is foret he meeting is to r e closing on this propyou should receive a ceive the budget meswritten notice informerty is paid before the sage and t o r e c eive sale date, the forecloing you that the sale c omment f r o m th e took place and giving sure will go t h rough public on the budget. and someone new will you the new owner's This is a public meetname and contact inown this property. Afing where deliberation ter the sale, the new formation. You should of the Budget Commitowner is r equired to contact the new tee w il l t a k e p l ace. o wner if y o u w o u l d Any person may approvide you with conlike to stay. If the new tact information a nd pear at t h e m e e t i ng n otice that t h e s a l e o wner accepts r e n t and discuss the protook place. The followfrom you, signs a new posed programs with resident ia l r ent al ing information applies the Budget Commitagreement with you or to you only if you are a tee. bona fide tenant occudoes not notify you in A copy of t h e b u dget dition to reinstatement wnting within 30 days pying and renting this document may be inthat you provide relia fter the date of t h e spected or obtained on property as a residenable written evidence foreclosure sale that tial dwelling under a leor after 05/16/14 at that you have paid all you must move out, 504 Alder, between gitimate rental agreesenior liens or encumment. The information t he new o w n e r b e the hours of 8:00 a.m. b rances, p ro p e r t y does not apply to you comes your new landand Noon. taxes, and hazard inlord and must maintain if you own this props urance p r e m i u m s . erty or if you are not a the property. Other- Published: May 9 and 14, These r e q uirements bona fide r e sidential wise: You do not owe 2014 f or rei n s t a t e m e n t tenant If the f oreclorent; The new owner should be confirmed is not y ou r l a ndlord s ure s al e g oe s Legal No.00035965 by contacting the unand is not responsible t hrough, t h e new NOTICE OF dersigned Trustee. By o wner will have t h e f or m a i n t a ining t h e reason of said default, nght to require you to property on your be- INTERESTED PERSONS the beneficiary has deh alf; and Yo u m u s t move out. Before the clared all sums owing move out by the date Phyllis R i m bey h a s n ew ow ne r c a n r e been appointed Peron the obligation sethe new owner speciquire you to move, the sonal Representative c ured by s a i d t r u s t new owner must profies in a notice to you. (hereafter PR) of the deed immediately due The new owner may vide you w ith w r itten a nd p a y able, s a i d notice t hat s p e c ifies offer to pay your movEstate of Adrion Rimbey, Deceased, Prosums being the followthe date by which you ing expenses and any bate No. 14-04-8491, ing: UNPAID PRINCImust move out. If you othe r c o st s or Union County Circuit PAL BALANCE OF amounts you and the do not leave before new owner agree on C ourt, State of O r e $84,920.18, PLUS inthe move-out date, the g on. A l l pers o n s terest thereon at 5.5% new owner can have in exchange for your per a n n u m f ro m the shenff remove you a greement t o l e a v e whose rights may be affected by th e p rothe premises in l e ss 02/01/12, until paid, tofrom the property after than 90 days or before c eeding ma y o b t a i n gether w it h e s c r ow a court hearing. You additional information advances, foreclosure will receive notice of your fixed term lease costs, trustee fees, att he c o u r t h e a r i n g . expires. You s h o uld f rom t h e c o u r t r e cords, the PR, or the torney fees, sums respeak with a lawyer to PROTECTION F ROM attorney for the PR. All quired for the protecEVICTION IF YOU ARE fully understand your tion of t h e p r o perty A BONA FIDE TENrights before making persons having claims a gainst t h e est a t e a nd additional s u m s ANT O C C U PYING any decisions regardmust present them to secured by the Deed ing your tenancy. IT IS AND RENTING THIS of T r u st . W H E R E- P ROPERTY A S A UNLAWFUL FOR ANY the PR at: FORE, notice hereby is RESIDENTIAL PERSON TO TRY TO Mammen 5 Null, D WELLING, Y O U FORCE Y O U TO Lawyers LLC given that the undersigned trustee, will on HAVE THE RIGHT TO LEAVE YOUR DWELL- J. Glenn Null, August 20, 2 0 14, at CONTINUE LIVING IN ING UNIT WITHOUT Attorney for PR the hour of 11:00 AM, FIRST G IVING YOU 1602 Sixth Street. THIS PROPERTY AFi n accord w i t h t h e TER THE FORECLO- WRITTEN N O T ICE P.O. Box 477 s tandard of t im e e s SURE SALE FOR: THE A ND G O I N G TO La Grande, OR 97850 tablished b y ORS COURT TO E V I CT within four months REMAINDER OF after the first publica187.110, at ON THE YOUR FIXED TERM YOU FOR MORE INFRONT ENTRANCE LEASE, IF YOU HAVE FORMATION ABOUT tion date of this notice or they may be barred. OF T H E BA I CER A FI X E D TER M YOU R R IGHTS, YOU COUNTY C O U RT- LEASE; AT LEAST 90 MAY WISH TO CONH OUSE, 1995 3 R D D AYS F ROM T H E SULT A LAWYER ' If Published: May 2, 9, and 16, 2014 STREET, BAICER CITY, DATE Y O U A RE you believe you need County o f B A ICER, GIVEN A WRITTEN legal assistance, conState of OREGON, sell tact the Oregon State LegaI No. 00035799 TE RMINATION NOat public auction to the T ICE. I f t he new Bar at 800-452-7636 and ask for the lawyer Tell someone H a p py h ighest b i d d e r f o r owner wants to move in and use this propreferral service. If you c ash, the i n terest i n the s a i d d e s c r i b ed erty as a primary resido not have enough Birthday in our classified money to pay a lawyer section today! p roperty w h i c h t h e

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Husband's absence gives wife a taste of fI eedom fmm abuse DBRABBY: I'm a 27-year-old womantrapped in a lovelessmarriage. My husband is afew years younger, andveryco-dependent.Beforehedated me, hehadneverhad agirl jiend or a settual encounter.

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

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— FUMING IN FLORIDA DEAR FUMING: If this hasbeenhappening truQearissue sbecausemyerhadabused me. "for years" and you arejust now writing me about My husband hasnow become verbally,serually and to a lesserdegree,physically abusive, to the it, I'd call that one slow bum. Pick up thephone, point of striking my 5-year-old son I threw him out call your friend and tell her exactly how you feel forthat,butcavedtopressurejom about it. If you don't, she'll continue doing what shehasbeen my family to take himback They DEAR think he's a "stabilizing" influence doing becauseshethinks it's all in my life. Theydon't know about, ABBY right with you. or can't grasp, his abuseor the abuseIsurvivedpreviously.Ifl DBRABBY: I'm a young hint at it, they accuse mefo"lying for attention." professional female with a military background. I'm My husband hasleft for basic training with the well-e ducated andhaveagreatjob.However,Iam army and will be gone for a few months. I already also tattooed. ~e design is a tasteful full sleeve, with some work on my chest and other arm. feel freer, lighter and moreable to copewith things. I will be attending a black tie afair for my IfI leave him while he's away, thesocial and family repercus sionswillbedevastating.My sonandI boyfriend's companyand amwondering what atti re may be forcedtorelocate. would be appropriate for such anevent. I'm not I'm torn and ajaid. I went through with the ashamed of myart, and I have no issue with barmarriage only to please my family, as the abuse ing my arms, but would this beacceptable in this circumstance? started before thewedding. It has been ayear and — FOREVER COVERED a half, and all I can think about is getting out. Help DEAR FOREVER COVERED: I'm glad you me, please. — CANADIAN READER asked, because it dependsupon what kind of comDEAR READER: Of course I will help. Decid- panyyourboyfriendworksfor.Ifit'screative,then ingtoleavean abusiveparlnercan bewrenchingas to display your body att would not beshocking. well asfrightening.However,becauseabusetends However, if the companyculture is conservative, it might attract unwelcome attention, and I don't to escalate, it is what you mustdo.Your andyour child's safety could depend on it. It is shameful that recommend it. your family isn't supportive, but don't let that stop DBRABBY: I have beentrying to plan my son you. Relocate if you must. You need to form anescapeplan. The way to do andfuturedaughter-in-law'srehearsaldinner.P e that is to call the National Domestic Violence Hot- bride originally told me a local pizza place would line. The phonenumber is 800-799-7233. Counselbefine for the dinner I insisted that I would like orstherecan referyouto helpinyourarea— they something "nicer," and shesaid it was up to me. have done this for other Canadian women.They I have found a place within budget, but havej ust also ofer education andempowerment propams so learned that the bridal shower is being catered by that victims will be less likely to be sweet-talked by the sameplace. Isit acceptablefor me to have the their abusers into returning for more punishment. rehearsal atthesameplace? Don't wait to reachoutbecauseyour son's physiWe live in a town with relatively limited options, cal and emotional health depend on it. If not for and there are other importantfestivities going on that day that limit my optionsfurther. Holding the yourself, do it for him. rehearsal dinneratmyhousewould betoostressf' uI. DEAR ABBY: I have ajiend who lives a few Would it be OK to have it at the same restaurant, states away.Wetalkonthephoneeveryweek.Eibut serve diIerent food? ther she calls me or I call her. Every time shecalls — FUTUREMOTHER-IN-LAW DEAR HJTUIK MOTHER-IN-LAW: Abme,it'swhensheisdrivingsomewhere.Assoon as she arrives at her destination or pulls up in her solutely. And conpatulations on the forthcoming happy event. driveway, shesays, "I'm home (here) now.Gotta

SEVASTOPOL,CrimeaPresident Vladimir Putin on Friday traveled to Crimea on his first trip to the Black Sea region since its annexation, a triumphant visit that follows a massive show of military muscle in the annual Red Square parade marking victory over Nazi Germany. The celebrations come at a time when the world's attention is focused on Ukraine where pro-Russian insurgents are preparing a referendum on secession. Putin made no reference to the situation in Ukraine in his speech in Moscow, which focused on the historic importanceofthevictory over Nazi Germany. But he then headed to Crimea, where he is tooversee a mass ivenavy parade. In a sign of triumph, parading troops on Red Square included a marine unit trom the Black Sea Fleet that flew the Crimean flag on its armored personnel carriers. About 11,000 Russian troops proudly marched across Red Square to the tunes of marches and patrioti csongs,followed by columns of dozens of tanks and rocket launchers. About 70 combat aircraft, including giant nuclear-capable strategic bombers,roared overhead. Victory Day is Russia's most important secular holiday and a key element of the national identity, honoring the armed forces and the millions who died in World War II. This year it comes as

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EYE ON HEALTH DR. DAVIDGLABE

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he majority of eye injuries do not happenon thejob orduring athletic events — most of them occur at home. There are many common household risks to eye safety; recognizing the dangers and protecting yourself and your family against potential hazards is critical to eye health. Routine household maintenance is a frequent cause of eye injury. Lawnmowers, weed trimmers, leaf blowers and other tools can cause foreignmaterialtoentertheeye at high velocity, resulting in scrapes, cuts and even blindness. Indoors, use of common household cleaners containing ammonia, bleach, chlorine and other chemicals can result in severe burns to the surface of the eye, possibly resulting in scarring and permanent loss of vision. In recent years, the sale of airsoft and other "toy" guns has risen dramatically, and so have the number of related eye injuries. Children and adults who use these "toys" should wear appropriat e impact-resistant eyewear and use extreme care when aiming to avoid accidental injury. The best way to protect your eyes from foreign objects and chemical splashes is with appropriate eyewear. Regular prescription glassesarerarely suffi cientto protect against these hazards.Even during routine household cleaning, protective eyewear that fits snugly against the brow and cheek with sideshields isnecessary to prevent material from entering the eyes. In situations where high-speed objectsorparticlesmay enterthe eye, protective eyewear should be impact resistant. International standardshave determined the level ofimpact resistance required to protect the eye from most commonly encountered high velocity objects. Eyewear that meets this standard is engraved with a"Z87.1" typically locatedon thelensorthe insideportion of the frame. Appropriate safety eyewear can be purchased for general use at hardware suppliers or department stores. For those who wear glasses to see, prescription safety eyewear is available from local eye care practit ioners,or"fi tover"safety frames may be worn over the top of standardprescription glasses. Should an eye injury occur, it is wise to consult an eye care professional with appropriate expertise to diagnose and treat the problem. Objects that may have penetrated the eye should never be pulled out prior to seeing a professional. While small particles in the eye can often be gently flushed out with clean water, scrapes or cuts may require treatment. Most offices in our valley offer on-call consultation for after-hours or weekend emergencies, which oftensaves time and resourcesover an emergency room visit. Most importantly, proper prevention can avoid most eye injuries.

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Even superheroes use proper trail etiquette. This is the most important thing I learned on a recent weekend when my son and I watched"Captain America: The Winter Soldier." In the opening scene, Captain America iplayed by Chris Evans) is running impossibly fast and repeat-

edly passing Sam Wilson iplayed by Anthony Mackiel. Each time Cap alerts Wilson ofhis presence with a polite "On your left." ilt should also be noted that the superhero isn't wearing headphones.) Wilson gets pretty annoyed by all the "On your left" announcements, but using proper etiquette means something truly bizarre is going to happen for these guys to get hurt. And, of course, it does. But that's besidethe point.

As the weather becomes too nice for us to hang out in movie theaters, people are flocking to paved multiuse trails. They're walking, running, biking, longboarding, skating and evenriding horses.Thesetrailsare usually safe placesto exercise,but they can get dangerous quicker than a Marvel action movie when people aren't using proper decorum. Recently, my wife and I headed out for a quick bike ride when I heard a shriek of terror. Irecognizedthescream. Itbelonged to my wife. It was the bloodcurdling scream she uses only when she's truly scared — like when a child darts into traffic or a crane fly gets in the house. Ineverknow what end ofthe spectrum we are dealing with, so I turned to look. And just in time. The cyclist we were overtaking, a guy riding right down the middle of

the busy trail while wearing headphones apparently hadn't heard either of our"on you left" greetings. He was swerving left toward me and this is why my wife was screaming. I veered left, off the trail, into a ditch and then rolled back up onto the trail. I didn't fall, but I broke a spoke on my back wheel. The other cyclist paid a more painful price. He'd lost control when he brushed against me and hit the ground with a sickening slap. A handful of cyclists behind us, my wife included, dodged him to avoid even more calamity. When my wife suggested he ride with one ear bud out so he'd be more aware ofhis surroundings, he told her he was a little confused about what to do when he was being

passed. I'm pretty sure he won't be confused next time.

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NEW YORK — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago helped change her mind. Though she and her husband, a market researcher, managed to keep their jobs, she fears they won't be so fortunate next time. "After we had a kid in 2009, I thought, 'This is not happening again,"' says Strumwasser, 41, adding, "I never really felt comfortable about jobs, how solid they can be." The financial crisis that followed

BIRTH RATES the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 did more than wipe out billions in wealth and millions of jobs. It also sent birth rates tumbling around the world as couples found themselvestoo shortofm oney or too fearful about their finances to have children. Six years later, birth rates haven't bounced back. For those who fear an overcrowded planet, this is good news. For the economy, not so good. We tend to think economic growth comes from working harder and smarter. But economists attributeup to athird ofitto m ore

people joining the workforce each year than leaving it. The result is more producing, earning and spending. Now this secret fuel of the economy, rarely missing and little noticed, is running out. "For the first time since World War II, we're no longer getting a tailwind," says Russ Koesterich, chiefinvestment strategistat BlackRock, the world's largest m oney manager.' You're going to create fewer jobs.... All else equal, wage growth will be slower." Births are falling in China, Japan, the United States, Germany, Italy and nearly all other European countries. Studies have

shown that births drop when unemployment rises, such as during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Birth rates have fallen the most in some regions that were hardest hit by the financial crisis. In the United States, three-quarters of people surveyed by Gallup last year said the main reason couples weren't having more children was a lack of money or fear of the economy. The trend emerges as a key gauge of future economic healththe growth in the pool of potential workers, ages 20-64— issignaling trouble ahead. This labor pool had expanded for decades, thanks to SeeBirths / Page6C

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Baby shouldsleep on its back to prevent SIDS

Child literacy, development focus of training

Most parents are well aware of safety warnings to place sleeping infants on their backs to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome. But that may not alleviate parental concerns about sleeping infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers this information for anxious parents: Despite sleeping on the back, a baby is at little risk of choking on spit-up, or breathing or digestive problems, research has found. To ease concerns about baby developing a "flat head," alternate which direction baby's head faces while sleeping.

ParentTraining Sessions focusing on early literacy and child brain development are now offered monthly each second Friday of the month at 3 p.m. in the Riverside Meeting Room of the Baker County Public Library. The next session is today. Child development specialist Ms. Michelle will show how to develop expressive language skills with kids through singing, stretching and playing with fun things such as puppets, maracas,bubbles and a parachute.

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Multipurpose trails are true recreational gems, but it seems there are some things everybody should know in order to keep them safe. Safety tips that really don't have to be learned the hard way. Such as: PASS WITH CARE: Follow Captain America's lead and announce your presence before passing. Pass on your left as you would on the road and give yourself as much room as possible. AVOID SPREADING OUT:Imagine a caravan of friends or family driving cross country. Would they spread out, driving side by side blocking traffic in both directions? Of course not. But this is commonplace on local trails. If you want to travel the trail side by side, be diligent about checking behind you to make sure you aren't a road block by the time others reach you. RESPECTTHEYELLOW LINE:When the trail bends, solid yellow center lines appear on the trail. This is not coincidental. Just like the road, these lines mean "Don't pass." Stay right to avoid finding a collision around the corner. CONSIDERTHE ROAD:If you're an experienced cyclist who likes to Spandexup and rip down the trail at 20 mph, you've probably spent enough time on the road to handle skipping the busy sections of trails. Switching to a back road not only will get you through towns faster, but it will keep you from having to dodge slower trail users along the way. Some motorists won't be happy to see you off the trail, but don't worry about it. You have as much right to the road as they do.

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Spread ofpolio now a Cl"1sls • WHO says polio emergency could continue to grow in coming months The Associated Press

LONDON — For the first time ever, the World Health Organization on Monday declaredthe spread ofpolio an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly threedecadeeffortto eradicatethe crippling disease. The agency described currentpoliooutbreaks across at least 10 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an"extraordinary event" thatrequired a coordinated international response. It identified Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon as having allowed the virus to spread beyond their borders, and recommended that those three governments require citizens to obtainacertifi cateproving they have been vaccinated for polio beforetraveling abroad. "Until it is eradicated, polio will continue to spread internationally, find and paralyze susceptible kids," Dr. Bruce Aylward, who leads WHO's polio efforts, said during a press briefing. Critics, however, questioned whether Monday's announcementwould make much of a difference, given the limits faced by governments confronting not only polio but armed insurrection and widespread poverty. ''What happens when you continue whipping a horse to go ever faster, no matter how rapidly he is alreadyrunning?" said Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who led the WHOs initiative to get rid of smallpox, the only human disease ever to have been eradicated. The WHO has never before issued an international alert on polio, a disease that usually strikes children under 5 and ismost often spread through infected water. There is no specific cure, but several vaccines exist. Experts are particularly concernedthatpolioisreemergingin countries previouslyfree of the disease, such as Syria, Somalia and Iraq, where civil war or unrest now complicates efforts to contain the virus. Itis happening during the traditionally low season forthespreadofpolio,leaving experts worriedthatcases could spike as the weather becomes wanner and wetter in the coming months across the northern hemisphere.

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Health insurers: Payment rates above 80 percent The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — Top health insurance companies told members of Congress Wednesday that more than 80 percentofpeople who've signed up under the president's new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums — a necessary step for the enrollment figures touted by the Obama administration to hold up. Aetna reported payment rates in "the low- to mid-80 percent range;" Wellpoint said the rate was as high as 90 percent for those whose premium had come due; and the Health Care Service Corporation, which sells Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in fiv e states,pegged therate at83 percent or above. The figures were in

line with what individual insurers have said on earnings calls with analysts and elsewhere in recent weeks. Democrats seized on the figures disclosed at a House hearing as the latest sign that the health care law has defied its critics and is working. "By any rational, reasonable measure we can call this law a success," said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. Republicans said plenty more questions remained — including whether rates will rise next year and by howmuch,and how many ofthose covered were previously uninsured. ''While the administration toasts the law's success with its Hollywood

allies, declaring this conversation over, we will continue our pursuit for facts," said Rep. Fred Upton, RMich., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The six insurance industry witnesses summoned by an investigations subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee were unabletoprovidedetailson coming rate changes or how many people were previously uninsured, prompting frustration at times from Republicans who'd called the hearing. "It is ba%ng that we can have some of our nation's largest insures and youdon'thave any internal analysis" on whether rates will go up, complained Rep. Marsha Black-

burn, R-Tenn. In response to that question and others, insurers responded that the calculati ons were notcompleted or the datawere notyetavailable. ''We just don't have access to those numbers," said Dennis Matheis, an executive at Wellpoint, Inc. Wednesday's hearing was called in the wake of the release of a GOP report last week finding that as of mid-April, only 67 percent of people who'd signed up for health plans actually had paid their first month's premium.That would have undermined the Obama administration's claims that with more than 8 million peoplesigned up,theAffordable Care Act has proven itselfa success.

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LONDON — Bacteria resistant to antibiot icshave now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization. In its first global survey of the resistance problem, the World Health Organization said it found very high rates of drug-resistant E. coli bacteria, which causes problems including meningitis and infections of the skin, blood and the kidneys. The agency noted there are many countries where treatment for the bug is useless in more than half of patients. WHO's report also found worrying ratesofresistance in other bacteria, including common causes of pneumonia and gonorrhea. Unless there is urgent action, "the worldisheaded fora post-antibiotic era in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatablefordecades can once again kill," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, one of the agency's assistantdirector-generals,w arned in a release. WHO acknowledged it couldn't assessthe validity ofthe data provided by countries and that many had no information on antibiotic resistance available. Health experts have long warned aboutthe dangers ofdrug resistance, particularly in diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and flu. In a report by Britain's Chief Medical Officer last year, Dr. Sally Davies described resistance as a "ticking time bomb" and saiditwas asbig a threatas terrorism. In 1928, Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin revolutionized medicine by giving doctors the first effective treatment foraw ide variety of infections. Despite the introduction of numerous other antibiotics since then, there have been no new classes ofthe drugs discovered for more than 30 years. "We see horrendous rates of antibiotic resistance wherever we look...

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"Otherwise, our actions are just a shot in the dark." WHO said people should use antibiotics only when prescribed by a doctor, that they should complete the full prescript ion and never share antibiotics with others or use leftover prescriptions.

Injured Oregon skateboarder focuses on recovery EUGENE — Maning over his lap, Scott Svetal concentrates hard as he works, slowly pulling apart a ball of twist ties. His left thumb shakes slightly as his fingers untangle each tie one by one from the mass. Svetal loathestheexercise — it's boring, he says. But 10 minutes later, Svetal finishes the job. His occupational therapist, Jan Pylar, asks him to pinch a device that measures how hard he can squeeze his fingers. Earlier in the day, Svetal practiced liNng his legs quickly and then slowly lowering them. Then he worked on a memory exercise, going through a series ofhomemade

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flash cards — each a photo of a Green Valley Rehabilitation Health Center stafFmember — trying to recall more than a dozen names. Svetal' sdaysatthecenter in north Eugene are composed of such mental and physical exercises. His stamina is increasing, and depending on the task, hecan stayfocused for20 to 40 minutes at a time before needing a break. At age 20, he's the youngest one at the facilitybyfar — the roughly 75 other residents currently at the facilityrange in age from 50 to 100. Svetal, who was on a state champion chess team at Willamette High School and competed on the regional and state levels in soccer, cross country

and track, is relearning how to move, walk, speak and even focus. At the University of Oregon, Svetal was a member of the chess club. "Scott' sgoing to keep recovering his physical ability for at least two years," Pylar says. Last fall, Svetal began his sophomore year at the UO. But on Nov. 13, a Wednesday, justbefore2 p.m.,hewas struck by a VW Beetle while skateboarding through the intersection at Harris Street and East 20th Avenue, just south of the UO campus. The car's driver, heading south on Harris, had no stop sign at the intersection. Svetal was riding his skateboard downhill on 20th Avenue and passed through a stop sign.

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Germany's Bayer plans to buy U.S.-based Merck & Co.'s consumer health business, creating a combined medicine cabinet of household names from Bayer's aspirin to Merck's Claritin allergy pills.

ofhis skull on the right and left side ofhis head to reduce pressure on his swelling brain. Mike and Christina Svetal arrived at the hospital while Scott was in surgery. 'They told us it was unclear ifhe was going to make it through that first surgery," Mike Svetal recalls. After waiting for 31/2 hours, they saw Scott wheeled out of surgery but still in a coma. "It was bad," Mike Svetal said."He couldn't breathe on his own. He was on life support. While standing next to Scott in the intensive can. unit, Christina — Scott's stepmom — noticed bleeding fiom Scott's left ear. Doctors decided to go backinto surgery.

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Company taps Internet for toug diagnoses CROWDMED

By Tracy Seipei San Jose Mercury News

If your doctor can't determine what's ailing you, can the collective wisdom of crowds? What Wikipedia has done for knowledge, a San Francisco company called CrowdMed is betting it can do for medicine. Send your symptoms and a nominal fee to CrowdMed.com, and dozens of m edical professionals,students and average Joes will"crowdsource"that is, share their knowledge and expertise — to help diagnose what's wrong with you. The company isn't out to replace your family doctor but instead take advantageofthereach ofsocial

to thesecurit y ofsensitive medical information that patients upload media to tap into an age-old medical onto the website. Asked about the company, a Califorpractice: seeking second opinions. Or, in this case, hundreds of them. nia MedicalAssociation spokeswoman ''We're essentially trying to match said their group's 40,000 members believethatdoctors"with the appropriup the patient with a group of detectives who can help solve their ate education, training, access to medicalrecords and aphysician-patient case," said CrowdMed CEO Jared Heyman, whose company is backed relationship are in the best position to diagnose medical conditions." by $2.4 million in venture capital funding."And the more diverse Still ,some doctors are open to the backgrounds they have, the better idea — and others are downright our chances." enthusiastic. "It may be of value for diKcult diThe concept, however, is not without its critics. Some physicians say agnoses," said Dr. Michael Hogarth, the business model raises a number professorofpathology and laboraof serious concerns — from the tory medicine at the University of credibility of those offering advice California-Davis Health System.

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The man authorities cite as the nation's first confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome and dozens of hospital workers who first came into contact with him are being isolated from the public, in an effort to contain the potential spread of a deadly pathogen. Medical workers at the Indiana hospital who have contact with the man are required to wear gloves, masks, gowns and eye protection. The man, who flew into OHare InternationalAirport in Chicago from Saudi Arabia last month and was hospitalized days later, is being held in a room designed for patients with respiratory infections, and is segregatedfrom the hospital's air circulation system. The patient needed oxygen during the first part ofhis stay, officials at Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., said Monday, but was not admitted tointensive care.Doctors said he's now breathing regular air, is in good spirits and has a good appetite. As the man's condition appears to improve and nobody else has shown evidence of infection, officials provided the most detailed account to dateofthe seriousnessof care with which public health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have taken to investigate and containthe potentialspread of MERS in the United States. About 50 hospital nurses, clerks, aides,dietary experts and other workers who came into contact with the patient before his infection was confirmed are on paid leave — isolated in their homes as experts watch for signsof symptoms and test for infection during the virus' known incubation period. The patient's family membersarein thesame predicament. Those isolated at home have been asked to wear face masks if they leave the building, officials said. At a briefing with Indiana and federal officials Monday, officials said the Saudi Arabian health care worker, who has not been identified but whom experts refer to as the "indexpatient,"isexpected to return to home isolation with his family"very soon." But it's unclear when the man, who officials said entered the U.S. through O'Hare while en route to a planned visit with Indiana relatives, will be able to travel or leave the country. No one who has been isolatedbecause oftheircontact with the patient has tested positive for the virus, officials sald.

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And CrowdMed's greatest potential, he said, may be its ability to provide a way to"double check" a physician's work. At the UC-Berkeley/UC-San Francisco Joint Medical Program, Dr. Amin Azzam, director of the "problem-based learning" curriculum, wants to use CrowdMed"to push the boundaries ofhow we train medical students." Instead of teaching first- and second-year students with"pretend patients," as is done now, Azzam is proposing adding CrowdMed's cases to the curriculum."They might even be moremotivated to learn because it'sarealpatient,nota fake patient," he said.

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• Tips: 5 essential stretches you should do daily to keep the body from tightening up By Greg Presto

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Almost everyone has tight calves, says Chrissy Carter, a yoga instructor in New York and star of Gaiam's DVD "Beginning Yoga." To give your lower legs a new kind ofrelieving stretch,Carter suggests rolling up a blanket or yoga mat. Place the balls of your feet up on the mat so that your heels are on the floor and you're still standing almost upright. From this position, hinge forward at the hips to bring your body into a forward bend. Keep your hips stacked over your heels throughout this forward bend. To avoid tightness, Carter says, the body will try to push your hips back. To maintain the calf stretch, only fold as far forward as you can go while keeping your hips above your heels.

Kneeling hip flexor stretch "Everybody has tight hips," says Jeremy Frisch, owner of Achieve Performance Training in Clinton, Mass. It'sespecially true for"deskjockeys." Sitting all day shortens the hip flexors, which can result in back pain and poor posture. To combat this, Frisch has almost all ofhis clients warm up for their workout with a kneeling hip flexor stretch. To do it, kneel on one knee while facing a wall at slightly less than arm's length. Put your hands against the wall. Hold this pressure on the wall and floor for a few seconds. Switch sides, and repeat.

The chair trifecta stretch If you're an office worker, your chair is hurting more than just your hips,

Children remain at

risk in DUI crashes • Kids riding with drunk drivers poses serious threat to their safety The Associated Press

CHICAGO — The number of children killed by drunken motorists has declined substantially in recent years but the biggest threat remains their own drivers, not strangers in other vehicles, a study found. The data show most impaireddrivers survived these crashes, suggesting many kids might have survived if they'd been wearing seat belts or using car seats.

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Even for fitness fanatics, flexibility work is often the first thing left out of a workout. And that's a bad thing: Letting the body tighten up can result in hindered performance at the gym, lack of mobility in the joints, posture issues, and pain in the back, knees, neck, hips, and shoulders. Save yourself a little pain with these 5 stretches you can spread throughout the day. As a bonus, you'll improve your energy levels, readiness for sleep, and your workout results — well worth the four or five minutes theQ take up in your schedule.

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Stretching can save the body unnecessary pain and improve energy levels, readiness for sleep and workout results — well worth the four or five minutes they'll take up in your schedule. of course. It's also increasing your risk straight down below your shoulders, of death: In a recent study, workers and your stomach facing the ceiling. who sat 9 or more hours per day had In this position, lift your hips up and an increased risk of death from heart squeeze your shoulder blades together disease and cancer. so that your body forms a straight line Stand facing your chair and place from your shoulders to knees, perpenone foot on the chair with knee bent dicular to the floor. 90 degrees. Your otherfootshould be From this position, shift your weight behind you with your knee straight forward so your knees go towards and and your foot slightly pigeon-toed. past your toes, and your heels almost Draw your abs in to stabilize your touch your butt. You11 feel a stretch all spine. In this position, lean forward over the front of your body. until you feel a stretch in your groinA hip-groin stretch this will help loosen your hip flexor. While maintaining this stretch, you'll Get even more stretch for your hips perform three movements. justbefore sleeping,saysCarter. "Tension or tightness prevents us First, lift your arms straight overhead,palms facing each other,as from letting go. Releasing that tension your pelvis comes forward. Next, bring allows you to do so. You're grounded, your arms straight out in front of your and it's a great way to end the day," chest. Rotate your arms, chest, and she says."And when you do poses in head away from your standing leg. Fi- bed,the softnessofthe m attressis nally, rest the arm on your bent-knee forgiving." side on your bent leg. Lift your arm on Carter's before-sleep suggestion:A the side of your standing leg straight simple hip and groin stretch. Lie face up nexttoyourear.W ith your arm up on your mattress with your feet raised, lean forward slightly while you flaton the bed,knees bent.Hug your simultaneously reach your hand over right knee to your chest, then turn your head, stretching your side body. your thigh out so that your right ankle When you've finished, switch legs and goesacrossyour leftthigh justabove repeatallm ovements. the knee. In this position, your right leg and left thigh will form a triangle. Putting your best stretch forward Reach your arms around your left Before your next workout, stretch thigh to grab your left shin. Pull your your quads,hip flexors,abs,and shoul- left shin towards your chest, rolling ders — and do it all at once with this slightly onto your back. In this posimove from Frisch. tion, you should feel a stretch in your Start in a crab walk position, with outer right hip and glute. Hold for a your knees bent 90 degrees, your arms few seconds, release,and switch sides.

Researchers analyzed 2000-10 government traffic deaths data and found 2,344 passengers younger than age 15were killed in crashes involving a drunk driver. Two-thirds Online were riding For more in cars driven information by drunken log on to drivers, but www.aap. those cases org. declined by 40 percent during the decade. Texas and California had the most deaths among kids riding with drunken drivers, but rates were higher in smaller, less populous states. Almost two-thirds of kids who died while riding with drunken drivers were not wearing seat belts. And many ofthedrivershad no valid license. Most were adults.

Deja vu Some of the same researchers published a similar analysis 14 years ago that found close to 6,000 child deaths involving a drunken driverfrom 1985-1996.Like the new numbers, two-thirds of those deaths were in kids riding with a drunken driver. The new study was led by Dr. Kyran Quinlan of Northwestern University and researchersfrom thefederal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was published online Monday in Pediatrics.

The recommendations The researchers note that most states have laws that provide stiffer DUI penalties for driving with a child, but suggest the laws need to be uniformly enforced. They also suggestbetter methods for preventing adults without drivers' licensesfrom getting behind the wheel, and other proven deterrents including more sobriety checkpoints on roadways.

AGING SUCCESSFULLY

E xercise remains e est anti-a n By Mimi Whitefield The Miami Herald

MIAMI — Astrid Flaherty nimbly hops off a low platform and then swoops from sidetosidetouching orange plastic cones. Though she is 70 years old and a breast cancer survivor, she seems barely winded. Her secret: lifelong exercise and healthy eating. "Exercise is the best antiaging pill you can take," says Dawn Davis, a fitness instructor at Shula's Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, Fla. And Flaherty has discovered on her own what doctorsand fitnessexperts are saying: people can age more

successfully if they develop a healthy lifestyle when they're young that includes exercise, a healthy diet, sufficient sleep and watching their weight. The Miami Lakes resident still hits the gym three times a week and plays tennis on Saturdays. And her diet emphasizes fresh, natural foods. Being in good shape also helped when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007."My doctors were amazed thatIwa s ableto come back from my chemo sessions so quickly," she says. "People need to think about the aging process

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throughout their lives. I know it's hard when you're 20 years old," says Dr. Sara Czaja, professorofpsychiatryand behavioralsciences and the scientific director of the Center on Aging at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. "It's really important to take advantage of what we know," Czaja says,"and we do know a lot about how to age healthily." That includes staying socially engaged throughout life and being mindful at a young age of the dangers of smoking, the links between skin cancer and overexposure to the sun, and having recommended preventive

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screenings, Czaja says. "A lot ofchronicdisease-

their health, says Rickie Ali, a fitness/wellness specialdiabetes, high-blood presistand personal trainerat sure, cardiovascular disease, Shula's Athletic Club. "The fitness business obesity — may be prevented by maintaining a healthy knows this — with the ads lifestyle throughout life too," about six-pack abs and all she says. that," he says. You can get ''What we're also learnlean following some of the ing more and more is the programs now in vogue, importance of engaging in he says, but they are not physical exercise. That leads complete and some also put to notonly better cardiovas- people at risk of injury by cularhealth but also better trying to do too much too cognitive health," Czaja says. fast. "There is suggested evidence "My main goal for people that being obese can cause is for them to have the cognitive problems." fitness they need to get But the reality is what ini- through their everyday actially motivates many people tivities," he says."By default, to exercis eisconcern about the body gets leaner. But their appearance — not that is not my motivation."

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II • Legislature approves 75 adjustments to Oregon law that are designed to clarify roles of physician assistants and nurse practitioners

Saving time and money

By Tara Bannow

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Providing that care through a physician assistant and nurse practitioner often saves clinics money, as they're making more efficient use of the physicians' time by having midlevel providers take care of things such as physical examinations, providing diagnoses and doling out certain treatments. Physician assistants' median salary in 2012 was

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Nicole O'Neill has one job, but depending on the day, it can look very different. Some days, the physician assistant is seeing patients in thehospitalbefore or aftertheir surgeries.Other days, she sees them in the outpatient clinic. She treats car accident victims in the emergency room. She helps a doctor during surgeries. "I'm kind of all over the place," said O'Neill, who works at Advanced Specialty Care, which has offices in Bend and Redmond. Although nonphysician providers such as physician assistants and nurse practit ioners have a lotof different responsibilities, it's not uncommon for them to getsnagged in thelegal technicalities that are woven throughout the medical industry. Oregon law contains a long list of services medical professionalscan provide, as well as a list of which professionalscan provide them. In many cases, physician assistants or nurse practiti oners arenoton that list, even if a service is within their training and they'realready doing itto a wide degree across the state. For O'Neill, that could be surgically removing a foreignobjectfrom a lesion, for example. "Something I know I am capableofdoing,but,for whatever reason, the law states that I haven't been approved to do that," she

cording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For nurse practiti oners,itwasm ore

than $96 000. Physicians and surgeons, by contrast, made

at least $187,000 in 2012,

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Nicole ONeill, a physician assistant atAdvanced Specialty Care in Redmond, gives Jamie Stinson of Klamath Falls her annual wellness exam. Oregon law will soon allow physician assistants to have broader roles. said, "So I have to be really careful in the confines of what I'm allowed to do." Come July, that's going to bea thing ofthe past. The Oregon Legislature this year unanimously approvediwith one member abstaining) a list of 75 tweaks to the law that are designedto clarify the roles of physician assistants and nurse practitioners. In many cases, that means simply adding those titles to alist ofpeople who can legally perform a servicea list that often says simply "physician." Physician assistants are required to work under the supervision of physicians, although they commonly provide services autonomously and in Oregon must be supervisedat leasteight hours per month. In most states, physician assistants can take medical histories, perform physical exams, diagnoseand treat illnesses and prescribe medications, among other tasks. Nurse

practitioners generally perform the same tasks but don't necessarily require supervision. Both groups of professionals usually have master's degrees. These might seem like small changes, but advocates for nonphysician providers say clarifying their roles will prevent situations in which patients have to w aitfordoctorsto sign off on services. They argue it's an especially important change at a time when so many people who have recently become insured undertheAffordable Care Act are overwhelming physicians' schedules and the country faces a looming physician shortage — expectedtohit91,500 by 2020, accordingto theAssociation of American Medical

Colleges. '%e are experiencing a shortageofprimary care providers and we are aspiringtoprovidecare to everyone — not just the past insured people — and so

we need to make sure that physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians can all practice to theutmost of their abilities, their skills and their training," said Erin Cramer, legislative affairschairforthe Oregon Society of Physician Assistants.

Removing barriers Examplesofservices physician assistants and nurse practitioners will legally be able to provide in July include administering family planning or birth control services, examining victims of abuse and hosting medicaltreatment programs for sex offenders, among others. Physician assistants alsowere added to the lists of providers, which already included nurse practitioners, who can provide hospice and home health services and can determine whether a patientisdeaforhasa visual or speech impairment in orderto receive assistive devices.

Many of these providers were already widely performing these services. In some facilities, however, a physician or administrator's strict interpretation of the law may have prevented physician assistants and nurse practitioners from providing them. At St. Charles Health System, the new law won't change anything, as the administration already held an open view on midlevel providers, said Robin Henderson, St. Charles' chiefbehavioral health officer and director of governmentstrategies. 'You can interpret a law any way that you want, and if you're predisposed to not being open to physician assistants orothertypes of midlevel providers, then you're going to take the most conservative interpretation that you can," she said. 'That's not been the case at St. Charles. These have been providersthat we'veutilized in ourhospitalsforyears,so it really doesn't do anything for us."

althoughdoctors'salaries vary widely depending on their specialty. Ann Davis, vice president of constituent organization outreach and advocacy for the American Academy of Physician Assistants, said lastyear 43 statesand the District of Columbia made changes to their laws involving physician assistants, but Oregon's was comprehensive. '%e'reseeing sortofa wave of states wanting to make their laws better for PAs to provide health care and to practice to the full ability of their education and license," she said. Removing barriers for nonphysicianproviders iseven more important in a state like Oregon, where there are largestretches ofruralareas that don't draw many physicians, Cramer said. Oakridge, a small city about 40 miles east of Eugene, for example, has only one medical provider in town: a physician assistant, he said. "If the PA is not permitted to provide appropriate care that he is qualified and reallycapable ofdoing,then it's not just a tiny roadblock," Cramer said."I tbecomes iaboutltransportation and funding and all sorts of things that can keep people from getting care in an appropriate manner."

Tweets about migraines give researchers real-time information By Mary MacVean Los Angeles Times

Not even the pain of a migraine headache keeps people from Twitter. iJust 67 characters.) Over the course of a week, students studying how peopleshare theirm igraine pain on Twitter collected every tweet that mentioned the word migraine. Once they cleared out the ads, the re-tweets and the metaphori-

BIRTHS Continued from Page1C the vast generation ofbaby boomers. Now the boomers areretiring,and there are barely enough new workers toreplacethem, letaloneadd to their numbers. Growth in the workingage population has halted in developedcountries overall. Even in France and the United Kingdom, with relatively healthy birth rates, growth in the labor pool has slowed dramatically. In Japan, Germany and Italy, the labor pool is shrinking. "It's like health — you only realize it exists until you don't have it," says Alejandro Macarron Larumbe, managing directorofDemographic Renaissance, a think tank in Madrid. The drop in birth rates is rooted in the 1960s, when many women enteredthe workforce for the first time and couples decided to have smaller families. Births did begin rising in many countries in the new millen-

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cal uses of the word, they had source of knowledge" about the headaches because usu14,028tweets 6om people ally sufferers are providing who described their headinformation after the fact in aches in real time — with clinical situations. words such as 'killer,""the "The technology evolves, worst" ialmost 15percent of the tweetsl and the F-word. and our language evolves," The Twitter users also Dr. Alexandre DaSilva, an reported the repercussions assistant professoratthe from their migraines: missed University of Michigan schoolorwork,lostsleep, School of Dentistry and lead mood changes. author of the study, said by The researchers found the phone. Clinical researchers' information to be "a powerful language — such as "throb-

bing" or"pulsating" — might not be as apttoday,to"the generation that grew up with video games." Their vocabulary, he said, often reflects those games, with words such as 'killer,""splitting" or "pounding." In his study, published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, DaSilva and his colleagues and studentscollected 21,741 tweets with the word

nium. But then the financial crisis struck. Stocks and home values plummeted, blowing a hole in household finances, and tens of millions of people lost jobs. Many couples delayed having children or decided to have none at all. Couples in the world's five biggest developed economies — the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom — had 350,000 fewer babies in 2012 than in 2008, a drop of nearly 5 percent. The United Nations forecasts that women in those countries will have an average1.7 children in their lifetimes. Demographers say the fertility rate needs to reach 2.1 just to replace

will generate lower profits, thereby weighing down stock prices. And the share of people in the population at the age when they tend to invest in stocks and homes is set to fall, too. All else equal, that implies stagnant or lower values. Homes are the biggestsourceofw ealth for most middle-class families. Births might pick up again, of course. In France, where the government provides big subsidies and tax breaks for children, birth rates are back where they were in the early 1970s. In other countries, women who put offhaving children in the recession might play catch up soon, as they did after World War II. Demographers note thatwomen were having children later in life even beforethe crisis,and so births are likely to rise anyway. But even a snapback in birthstopre-recession levels will leave families much smaller than they were decadesago,a shiftthathas already affected industries and economies around the world.

people dying and keep populations constant. The effects on economies, personal wealth and living standards are far reaching: • A return to "normal" growth is unlikely: Economic growth of 3 percent a year in developed countries, the average over four decades, had been considered a naturalrate ofexpansion,sureto

return once damage from the global downturn faded. But many economists argue that that pace can't be sustained without a surge of new workers. The Congressional Budget Offtce has estimated that the U.S. economy will grow 3 percent or so in each of the next three years, then slow to an average 2.3 percent for next eight years. The main reason: Not enough new workers. • Reduced pay and lifestyles: Slower economic growth will limit wage gains and make it difficult for middle-class families to raise their living standards, and forthosein poverty toescape it. One measure ofliving standardsisalready signaling trouble: Gross domestic productper capita — the value of goods and services a country produces per person — fell 1 percent in the five biggest developed countriesfrom the startof2008 through 2012, according to the World Bank. • A drag on household wealth: Slower economic growth means companies

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migraine, keeping 14,028 of them and sorting them intocategoriesbased on the sort of information that was revealed. Nearly three-quarters of the tweeters were female; two identified themselves as transgender. They used 242 descriptive words, butsome were common — "horrible," ''killing,a"pounding" and "splitting" among them. The researchers also found pat-

terns in the timing of tweets, with the peaks coming Monday morning and evening. On a recent day, "migraine" tweets included "splitting migraine:l a and 'Took 6 ibuprofen in 45 minutes and I still have this damn migraine." DaSilva said he was astonished by the trove of information. "I was surprised, and I believe that social media is alsoa relieffor them."

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