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FLOURISH IN THE HOT TEMPERATURES
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By Betsy Hammong The Oregonian
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Folly Farm co-owner Cindy Edwards tends to the garden during her breaks from work. With the warmer weather, she said, her garden has flourished sooner than usual. Some of the fruits are tasting sweeter than normal.
• Warm weather affect ing localgardens in a positive way By Cherise Kaechele The Observer
Gardenersarerejoicing atthe abnormally warm weather Eastern Oregon has experienced this past month. Many vegetables and fruits are flourishing and the ramifications are more leafy greens. Cindy Edwards, co-owner of Folly Farm in Cove, said the warm weather has affected her in nothing but good ways. 'The tomatoes are looking really good this year," Edwards said. Cindy and her husband, Ralph, work full-time jobs at home and on their
breaks go out to the garden. The garden takes up about one-third of an acre and seems tobe a good sizeforthe amount of time they have on their hands. 'The currants, a f'ruit plant native to the area, has been great this year," Edwards said."They are loaded, and the fruit is absolutely beautiful." The temperature in Union County is, on average, 85 degrees in July. August's temperature is usually about 85 degrees. The July average this year was in the
90s. And Folly Farm is loving it. Their gardens grow "a little bit of everything," Cindy said. Folly Farm grows numerous types of vegetables, fruitsand herbs. 'The spinach and lettuce were really quick this year," Edwards said.
She said she has already started planting succession plants. After one crop is done, she'll replant more of the same crop,or a differenttype,in itsplace. The spinach has already come up and they're on their second crop already, she sald. "Last year, we didn't have a spinach crop until the first of August," she said. Lettuce, too,isalready on itssecond crop.Despite the rapid growth, lettuce and spinach like cooler weather. Cindy has to be fast with pickingit or riskit wilting in the heat. She added that she doesn't believe the temperature is any warmer than usual, but she said it got warmer sooner this year which helped her garden substantially. SeeHeat / Page5A
Oregon pot campaign raises over 1 million By Hillary Borrud VVesCom News Service
The campaigntolegalizerecreational marijuana in Oregon had raised over $1 million, with three months left until voters decideon the November ballot measure. A spokesman for New Approach Oregon said last week
the group isjustgetting started on fundraising. Peter Zuckerman, communications director for the campaign, said Thursday that many potential donors probably watched from the sidelines to make sure supporters had collected enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, which the state confirmedthey did on July 22. "Since we just qualified, the campaign is just beginning in earnest," Zuckerman said."Now
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is where it really begins, because a lot of people logically are going to hang back and make sure we've qualified before they invest in the campaign." So far, the largest contributions come from individuals and groups on the East Coast, in New York City and Washington, D.C. A Washington, D.C.-based political action committee, New Approach PAC, contributed
$250,000 to New Approach Oregon in June, and The Oregonian has reported that
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family members of the late Peter Lewis, former chief executive of Progressive Corporation auto insurance companies, contributed to the committee.
Lewis gave $96,000 to New Approach Oregon before his death in November 2013, according to campaign finance data from the Oregon Secretary of State's Office. According to an Internal Revenue Service filing from June, Adam Lewis gave
$100,000 to the Washington, SeeCampaign / Page5A
Commission regulates east moraine homes Next
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ENTERPRISE — Three homesites proposed forWal lowa Lake's east moraine will have someconstraints placed on them by the county. County Planning Director Harold Black reminded the planning commissioners that they areallowed to regulate the threeproposed dwellings, but, in compliance with state law, cannot prohibit them from being built. At the June meeting, Millie Frasier objected to the development and said they should not be buil tbecause thecrest of the moraine is a national historic site and is sacred to SeeHomes / Page5A
The Wallowa County Planning Commission's next meeting is 7 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Thornton Conference Room of the courthouse in Enterprise.
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PORTLAND — Oregon's chief education officer, Nancy Golden, is busy presiding over amassive effortto help decide how Oregon should marshaltaxpayer money for education in the 2015-17 state budget. Those decisions, which won't affect students and classrooms until September 2015, need to be made soon, and Golden is taking part in near-weekly public meetings in which possibilities are being aired and debated and will be whittled down. But she is also gearing up for efforts she will push during the coming school yearsteps she will have to try to accomplish without the sway of state millions. She told The Oregonian this week that her top prioritiesfor2014-15 are toinspire and encourage school leaders SeeGoals / Page5A
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