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A4 Wednesday, January 15, 2020 The Dalles Chronicle TheDallesChronicle.com STARS performance. “My mind is numb and my legs are numb, I’m doing fine,” he said in Commemorative but the video introduction to the video available performance. After an intermission, Continued from page A1 the professional dancers performed a medley for the audience, and a group of Brian Lauterbach’s salsa “Dancing With the Gorge to Pitbull’s remix of “Shake Stars” alumni made an Señora” was the final appearance before Davis was contestant performance, presented her trophy by 2019 and received a 29.5 from champion George Mickens. the judges after the routine Blagg said copies of the incorporated an act-out with Lauterbach shuffling behind commemorative video pro- a walker before pushing duced by Civic Auditorium it aside and busting into a Executive Director Skot vigorous shimmy. Barker will be available in Lauterbach said he was the future. Contact Blagg at glad to be done with his pattispartan@gmail.com. Mary Davis (holding trophy) receives the “Dancing With the Gorge Stars” Mirror Ball Trophy from 2019 champ George Mickens for re- ceiving the most audience votes on Jan. 10, 2020 at The Dalles High School. “Season 7” of the annual Mid-Columbia Community Concert Association fundraiser filled the high school’s auditorium with over 600 fans. Walker Sacon photos Dancing with the stars “Dancing With the Gorge Stars” alumni perform. Utah Ballroom Dance Company Executive Director Mark Baker (left, in white jacket) addresses judges Dancers from Utah Ballroom Dance Company perform swing at “Dancing With the Gorge Stars” in (left to right) Scott Hege, Addie Case and Dean Dollarhide at “Dancing With the Gorge Stars.” Baker’s The Dalles High School Auditorium on Jan. 10, 2020. The fundraiser kicked off a 50-show tour for the dance company worked with local contestants on the routines. company. Scott Stephenson dances the country two step with partner Alysha Tyler Bean Kelly, pastor at Zion Lutheran Church, strikes a pose Mimi McDonnell of North Central Public Health District performs the mambo with Utah Ballroom Dance Company’s Zeontre Clark. with Utah Ballroom Dance Company’s Mary McConahay. Meno of Utah Ballroom Dance Company. OUTREACH housing solutions coalition board. In the week prior to the Men and women event, “we try to do a lot of attend the event on-the-street outreach so we can get the information” Continued from page A1 about the event to people who need it, Thornberry said. She said more women available, and various service “than you would think” come providers will be on hand to to the events. connect people to available The goal of the event is to services. get services directed to the Another important ele- homeless and near-home- ment of the event is it will also be the annual “point in less, Thornberry said. time” count of how many The first two events, held homeless people are living a year ago and then last fall, in the area, said Sharon each drew about 100 people, Thornberry, who is manager and a similar number is ex- of the Columbia Gorge Food pected this time as well. Bank and also sits on the Hopes are to have someone to offer haircuts and foot care. Anyone who wishes to volunteer to help in those areas, or who wishes to donate items or cash, can call Thornberry at 541-370-2333. The coalition, which hopes to eventually find solutions to housing in the community, is housed under the non-profit status of the food bank. “Right now we don’t have big picture solutions for peo- ple. Those are in the future. This is something we can do now to support people,” Thornberry said of the event. “To see so many partners in this community come togeth- er to do this is absolutely amazing. I feel very blessed when I see the response here and the people we’re able to help. “It’s also the transition. Someone gets a haircut, you can tell that they don‘t just look different, they feel different. It makes a huge difference for them. So just those minor things are really important in these events.” “Our point is to set up a friendly, relaxed environ- ment where people can visit, they can get their resources that they need. They can talk to any one of the providers that’s there and find out what’s available to them,” Thornberry said. Some people help at the event simply by hanging out to visit with people. “So it’s a place to make contact, have a chat with somebody, have a chat with your friends,” she said. The event includes trans- portation to the Civic from the Warming Place shelter and probably several other places. “We tailor that to what the police are telling us are the most likely spots for people to congregate,” Thornberry said. The bus schedule will be posted at the Warming Place, at St. Vincent de Paul offices at Third and Pentland. Thornberry said because of the high cost of housing lo- cally, there are a lot of people who don’t have housing but do have jobs. “And there are also people that have pretty decent disability checks, but it’s not enough to get them houses here so they’re living in tents and shuffling from place to place,” Thornberry added. When Columbia Gorge Food Bank opened a food bank in Rufus, they learned that at any given time 10- 20 people are living there homeless. “Sadly it’s becoming a way of life for people because they can’t afford housing,” she said. million for violations relating to a fuel spill from under- ground storage tanks. Air quality not Calls to Hydro Extrusion The Dalles, 2929 W. Second protected Street, were not immediately Continued from page A1 returned. According to a report by the East Oregonian, this isn’t The largest air quality the first time Hydro Extrusion permit penalty previously issued by DEQ was $303,169. USA has run afoul of gov- The largest penalty in any ernment regulation. In April DEQ program area was $1.4 2019, the company agreed to pay $46 million to NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense in resolving criminal and civil claims for falsifying certifications for aluminum extrusions to thousands of customers across the coun- try, including government contracts. According to the civil penalty assessment issued to the company, “In addition to violating the clean charge requirement, from at least May 1, 2018 to April 24, 2019, you failed to conduct moni- toring and training required by the Permit and designed to prevent the acceptance and processing of unclean aluminum scrap at the facility. More specifically, you failed to inspect each load of incoming scrap material accepted by the facility to en- sure that it is clean. You also failed to inspect the material prior to charging the furnaces and to conduct required employee training.” In addition, the company was cited, without penal- ty, for “failing to operate and maintain one of your holder furnaces consistent with safety and good air pollution control practices to minimize emissions, and failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent particulate matter from be- coming airborne from your dross handling operations,” according to the civil penalty assessment. 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