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Frequent bicyclist and recent La Grande High School graduate Cabe Baum rides his bike through downtown La Grande recently.
• Pblice remind drivers, cyclists to pay attention, be seen on the roadways By Kelly Ducote The Observer
Eastern Oregon University student Courtney Millsap has been riding bicycles in La Grande since she got here five years ago. It's not always fun. "It's terrifyingtobe on a bike in this town," she said. Millsap, who lives relatively closeto campus, also drivesa car. She bikes when the weather is nice and her errand list isn't too long. She prefers, though, leaving the city for a ride on Hunter Road or Foothill Road, where
driversseem tobe more familiar with cyclists, she said. "A lotofpeople who drive Foothill know there are bikes," Millsap said. Learning there had been three vehicle vs. bicycle accidents in La Grande within an eight-day span didn't come as a huge surprise to her. oiDrivers arel paying attention to other cars and not necessarily cyclists," she said. The La Grande Police Department responded to two such accidents in one day earlier this month. On June 10, police responded to a crash about 9 a.m.
and another just before 5 p.m. In the first crash, it was determined the bicyclist was at fault, said Lt. Derick Reddington. "That person was traveling the wrong way on the roadway," he said. When a vehicle turned out of an alley, the bicyclist was struck. In the second crash that day, the vehicleoperatorwas atfault "for making a dangerous left turn," Reddington said. The driver of the car was attempting to turn left into Millers at Greenwood and Madison. The front-end of the vehicle See Safety / Page 5A
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Men from Camp RiverbendyouthTransitional Facility helped spruce up the Community Garden recently.
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The temperatures are warming up, the bees are buzzing and the Community Garden is ready for those restricted by an apartment or small space toplantsome fruits and vegetables. Oregon Rural Action and Eastern Oregon University provide this garden for anyone with a green thumb but without space to have F ull forecast onthe backof B section
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BEND — Yet another Oregon county is looking for a drought emergency declaration from Gov. Kate Brown. A request from Sherman County along the Columbia River Gorge has made its way through committees to the governor. She might decideon the declaration for Sherman County as soon as this week, said Chris Pair, press secretary for Brown. 'That's actually on the governor's desk now," Pair said Friday. Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties already have drought designations. Brown declared a drought emergency in Crook County in early April, Deschutes in late May and Jefferson earlier this month. All three Central See Drought / Page 5A
In all, Gov. Kate Brown has declared drought emergencies for 19 out of Oregon's 36 counties so far, said Cory Grogan, spokesman for the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.
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their own garden. Plots of ground can be rented year-round and the toolsareprovided,including water, to grow a row. A small group from Camp Riverbend Youth Transitional Facility came to La Grande in early June to pull weeds and spruce up an area of thegarden that needed some TLC. Group Life Coordinator Dino May, from the youth facility, said See Garden / Page 5A
ByAlyssa Sutton The Observer
BAKER CITY — The Wallowa-Whitman National Foreststaffism aking good use of summer weather to catch up on construction and maintenance projects. In additio n to severalother construction projects, the U.S. Forest Service will be working on Anthony Lakes Campground and day use sites, the Elkhorn Scenic Byway, Forest Service Road 77 and the Little Minam River Trail Bridge this summer, according to a news release. See Forest / Page 5A
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