Wednesday, July 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Good job, ladies...
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
PHOTO PROVIDED
The 2017 Junior Softball All-Stars combined Sisters, Madras, and Prineville team had just 2 weeks to come
together, prepare, and play as a team. They lost in the championship game to Warm Springs. From left to
right: Coach Shad Sitz, Natalie Hockey, Shanti Rodriguez, Fiona White, Elizabeth Blanchard, Anessa Stotts,
Greta Davis, Liz Barker, Hannah Holliday, Payden Petterson, Madi Larrabee, Hannah Maiden, Tatum Sitz,
Daisy Patterson, Coach Andrea White, Coach Desmond Boots.
House passes transportation bill
SALEM (AP) — The
Oregon House passed a trans-
portation bill Wednesday with
new taxes and fees that would
raise $3.8 billion over seven
years for repairs to the state’s
roads and bridges.
House Bill 2017 now
heads to the Oregon Senate,
where it’s expected to pass,
The Register Guard reported.
The bill received bipar-
tisan support after a con-
voluted path that included
strong disagreements among
lawmakers.
Gov. Kate Brown and leg-
islative leaders had to step
in to prevent a repeat of the
2015 session, when a different
transportation deal unraveled.
The package had to be
scaled back in size and
Democrats had to agree to
GOP-endorsed changes to
Oregon’s fuels standard to get
it to the finish line.
The tax hikes in the
package include: a 10-cent
increase in the state gas tax
over the next seven years; a
$13 increase in vehicle title
and registration fees in 2018;
a new statewide payroll tax of
.1 percent paid by employees
to fund transit districts; a new
.05 percent tax on the sale of
new cars, motorhomes, motor-
bike and snowmobiles; and a
new $15 surcharge on the
sales of adult bikes over $200.
The tax and fee increases
would provide the Oregon
Department of Transportation
about $1.25 billion in new
money over the next seven
years for maintenance work.
The increases would also
mean a windfall for local
governments.
The new payroll tax would
raise an estimated $115 mil-
lion a year at the start and
would be split among the
state’s transit districts.
The measure also takes
first steps toward establishing
non-bridge tolls on Interstate 5
and 205 in the Portland area to
pay for widening projects.
And it creates a $12 mil-
lion-a-year rebate program for
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residents who buy new elec-
tric or hybrid cars.
Rep. John Lively, a
Springfield Democrat, said
the transit funding would help
add bus lines and increase bus
frequency.
“Those increased services
will help the elderly and all
the others who rely on transit
in our state,” he said.
Republican Rep. Julie
Parrish of West Linn was
the only lawmaker to speak
against the bill during floor
debate. She objected to the
potential tolls in the Portland
area and rebate program for
people who buy electric and
hybrid cars.
Rep. Greg Smith, a
Heppner Republican, said the
transportation vote should
be “a day of elation and
celebration.”
“I’m a firm believer that
public sector investment leads
to private sector investment,”
he said. “It’s going to help
build the economy of the state
of Oregon.”
The cedar waxwing
[bombycilla cedrorum]
occurs in medium to large
flocks that will be seen on
almost any tree that has ber-
ries. Serviceberry, dogwood,
honeysuckle and mistletoe
are just a few fruiting plants
that provide food. In winter
they consume cedar berries,
hence their name “cedar”
waxwing.
Waxwing refers to the
red waxy secretions that
appears on their secondary
feathers, which may help in
attracting a mate.
Cedar waxwings are
among the latest nesting
birds. The female chooses
the nest and then starts the
five-to-six-day building pro-
cess, which may require up
to 2,500 trips to the nest. The
nest consists of fine grasses,
twigs, moss, bark and hair.
Two to six blue-gray eggs
are incubated for 11-13 days
and then fed at the nest for
about two weeks.
The late nesting period
allows for many berries to
ripen for the young hatch-
lings to grow quickly on.
Later in summer the cedar
waxwings will catch many
insects on the fly for neces-
sary dietary protein.
A group of waxwings
is called an “ear-full” or a
“museum.”
For more cedar waxwing
images visit http://abird
singsbecauseithasasong.
com/recent-journeys/.
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
Cedar waxwing.
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