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TheDallesChron icle.com The Dalles en te rtai Entertainment Update | A2 Chronicle E N T E R TA upda nm t en e t INMENT Wednesday, Februar y 19, 2020 A3 Scott and Rebec ca at Every Live music body’s Brewi Monday’s at ng Feb. 17: Scott Everybody’s: Feb. 24: Fields and Rebecca (Folk-r March 2: Chris of May, 6-8 p.m. ock), 6-8 p.m. Everybody’s Baron, 6-8 p.m. Wash; 509-63 Brewing, 177 E. Jewett 7-2774. Blvd., White Salmon, Black Histo ry Month celeb Coming up at the Hood rated Feb. 19: Hum River Library along with Aretha : make an African Franklin’s classics Feb. 26: Listen Kente cloth, 5:30 p.m. and to lively, dancea creating your ble African music while Hood River own African mask, 541-386-2535 County Library, 502 5:30 p.m. State St., Hood . River; Reynolds-D rake Duo at GALS - aka Gorge River. The monthl Acappella Lady Singers, were y event Saunders. The GALS will “provides a support present in full force at last Wednes ive environ appear Feb. ment day’s Women 21 and Feb. 23 at Wy’east for women musicians ’s and aspiring Open Mic at the White PAC (details performers,” Buffalo in Hood this page). says open-m ic host Lesley Jim Drake photo White On Thursday, Buffalo Feb. Feb. 20, 6-8 Reynolds (guitar, 20 p.m., singer- mandolin) and songwriter Mark return to the Jim Drake White Buffalo deep folk blues for an evenin (mandolin, guitar) g of original Wines, 4040 and eclectic rock and reVoiced plays songs, Westcliff Dr., The Civic Feb. Hood River; jazz covers. White Buffalo 18. 541-386-5534. Alasdair Frase Submitted r, Natalie Hass photo Solera Brewer Scottish return Feb. y, 4945 Baselin Haas bring fiddler Alasdair Fraser 20 e Dr., Parkda and California Cardboard le; 541-352-5500 music to the cutting-edge explorations cellist Natalie Columbia Center Armor Work of Scottish and . Thursday, Feb. Visit the shop Feb. 22 for global the River Library Arts in Hood 22, from 10 Hood career spanni 20, at 7 p.m. With Makers River on a.m. to 2 p.m. a concert and mor, or pauldro awards include ng over 30 years, Alasda to make your pace on Saturday, Feb. recording n, own piece of ir Fraser’s long out of will such as “Last performances on cardbo lead particip shoulder ar- NAlasdair Fraser, Natalie list ants through ard. Instructor Brookly ter. Program inducted into of the Mohicans” and top movie soundtracks of Hass play CCA n Williams suitable for childre the simple process Feb. 20. County Library Natalie Haas, the Scottish Traditi “Titanic.” In 2011, he . Submitted Must n preregi ages onal photo , 502 State 8 and up only. s- Jessica Lynne is one of the a graduate of the Juilliard Music Hall of Fame. was Hood River in TD March most sought ‘Wind and Wire’ St., Hood River; 541-386-2535. today. She has Mid-Columbia -after cellists School of Music, 10 conce performed Community in traditio Jessica Lynne rts Natalie MacMa Columbia at HR Middl and recorde nal music Concert Associa to The Dalles e School March 10, and Wire with Gorge Orchestra Associa $25 general ster, and Irish superg d with Mark O’Conn at 7 p.m. After Civic Auditorium tion welcomes admission, tion presen on Tuesda Arts and Wauco moving to the available at roup Solas. Tickets are or, Friday, Feb. 28 the Sinfonietta and soloist ts Wind Columbia Center U.S. from Denma y, (7:30 p.m.) and ma Bookst Dr. Erik Steighn at the Hood 215 Cascad Sunday, March for the rk e Avenue, Hood ore. Columbia Center er, for Baritone River Middle School. 1 (2 p.m.) for the Arts, River; 541-38 On Saxoph the bill: one 7-8877 poem by Alan “Rhaps and Orches Kit Garoutte . tra,” “Floating ody at Rivertap Abomination, Hovhaness, and “Frank Friday, Feb. World,” a Feb. 21 21: Kit Garout phonies by ” which grafts togethe ensymphony: A Musica Rock) te, 6-9 p.m. Anton Bruckn r movements l (One Man Band, door Sunday, Feb. er Soft youth or gorgeorchestra.org: and Johannes Brahm from sym- 23: Sunday Black Trio, 6:30-8: s. Tickets at adults $20, (10-17) Night Jam featurin CGOA membe Middle School $5, and free for childre Rivertap, 703 30 p.m. g The Reddy rs $15, Onl y , 1602 May St., n under E 2nd St, The Hood River; 10. Hood River Dalles; 541-29 ‘Keeping the 541-386-2114 6-7870. History Forum Beat’ Music . returns in Febru The origina Join musici Impro l Wasco County ary (vocal, storyte ans Hasan Bakr (percus visation Feb. 21 Place, The Dalles) Must present Courthouse lling, folk/jaz sion) hosts the Region Not valid with coupon. (410 West 2nd of joyous sounds z songwriter) and Robbi Kumalo Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. other off ers. any al History Forum with body, mind, for an evenin from top local featuring lecture on Friday, Expires 2/29/20. series g nations accepte and regional historia s and presentations Music. Join Feb. 21, starting at 7 p.m. voice, drums and song the GCM Drum at Gorge Comm 5 41-2 9 Early Instant d. Saturday, Feb. ns. Free admission; multi-cultural 6 -0 0 9 9 do- 22: Finding Communicati conversation Circle and other special unity Wand and Larry Suggested donatio the Wire Trail: on and dynam in guests the Gorge for ic performance n $10. Gorge (Dave Visitors: Guess McGinnis); Saturd St. The Dalles; Community art. ay, Feb. 29: and Helen 541- 296-29 Who Came Music, 410 E. Famous 00. to Dinner? (Rodge 2nd Community r Nichols). ‘West Side Story’ opens Sings II opens Columbia Columbia Gorge March 6 Feb. 21 Orchestra Side Story at Gorge Orchestra Associa Choir and Audien the Wy’east ce Singalong Association presents beginning Friday Arts Perform Middle School tion Stages presents West the Voci at the Wy’Eas Performing , March 6. Directo 14-piece orchest and Sunday, ing Arts Center on Friday t Performing Arts Feb. 23 (2 p.m.) , Feb. and Jazz Collect ra, culled from the r Mark Steighner will Center, Choir, Canticu Concert feature 21 (7:30 p.m.) lead a retelling of S ive ensembles, to br ranks of CGOA’s Sinfoni Youth Choir m, Hood River V s the CG et AN SW ER nzo at Trilliu School Boi at Route 30 Midweek $1.00 February 19, 2020 The Dalles, Oregon www.thedalleschronicle.com XL Ph i l l y Pi zza $ Alonzo Garba History made by TD swim team | A9 ▶ 20 9 9 Vol. 229, Issue 15 m Feb. 22 Fire logo lawsuit settled Rock Docto Feb. 22 rs at Zim’s Feb. Albert Nicho las at Solera 22 Feb. 22 Cecil ■ By The Neita Dalles Chronicle In a mediated settlement, the fire district dropped the lawsuit against its union, the union agreed not to use the logo that spurred the suit, and each side will pay its own attorney fees. The fire district agreed that it committed one labor violation, and the union agreed to drop the remaining claims in an unfair labor practice complaint filed last year. Also agreed was that Mid- Columbia Fire & Rescue and its union, Mid-Columbia Firefighters Association, IASAF Local 1308, will hire a third party to evaluate their relationship. Both parties agree to follow through with reasonable recommendations, subject to avail- able resources. The fire board sued its union last summer, alleging the union wrongly created a logo nearly identical to the fire district’s, which the district had trademarked. Each party claimed they had created the logo first. When the district filed the suit after the union refused to comply with its request to stop using the logo it had asked that the union pay its legal fees. The fire board met Thursday, Feb. 13, and approved the settlement, which had been reached Monday, Feb. 10. Both parties released a joint press release, and have agreed not to make any further public comments. In the release, the parties stated the union and district “agree that the historical means by which the logo was developed and used are no longer disputed by either side. With no admission of fault or wrongdo- ing, this matter has concluded. As a result of the resolution, there is a permanent injunction that the [union] will no longer use the dis- puted logos or similar. Each party is responsible for their own attorney fees and costs.” “The parties have also agreed to engage in a process of evaluation of their relationship and follow through with recommendations that will strengthen their commu- nication and interactions in the See LOGO, page A4 Presidents’ Day Salute Pot vaping up sharply Cecil ■ By The Neita Dalles Chronicle A 2019 state survey shows about 20 percent of Oregon 11th graders use marijuana, a rate unchanged from 2017, but one method of ingesting it, vaping, was up nearly 300 percent. In Wasco and Sherman coun- ties, the use of pot actually went down from 2017 to 2019 among 11th graders, from 22.6 percent to 16.8 percent. But among those pot users, the increase in vaping of THC, the ingredient in marijuana that produces a “high,” went up a whopping 909 percent since 2017. Vaping of THC was linked last fall to a national epidemic of lung injuries that have hospitalized over 2,700 people so far. Sixty people have died. In 2017, just 3.3 percent of Wasco and Sherman teens report- ed vaping THC. By 2019, it was 33.3 percent. Despite that huge increase, local vaping of THC is still below the state average, which went up from 11.2 percent of pot users in 2017 to 44.2 percent in 2019. The survey also found that about 27 percent of Wasco and Sherman 11th graders had vaped in the past 30 days, which re- searchers consider an indication of regular use. Just four years ago, that number was 10 percent. That local number is higher than the state average of 21.4 percent. The Oregon Healthy Teens Survey, which comes out every other year, asked 11th graders in Wasco and Sherman counties a range of health questions. The only school districts participating were North Wasco County School District 21 and Sherman County School District. Vaping was declared an epi- demic by the U.S. surgeon general in 2018, and last fall a vaping lung injury outbreak drew national attention, with reports of peo- ple being injured or dying from vaping. Two students from The Dalles High School were taken to the hos- pital last fall after vaping, accord- ing to police logs. The nationally reported tallies for vaping injuries include two deaths and 23 illnesses in Oregon. Most cases were linked to the vaping of THC, particularly from informal sources like friends, fami- ly or online sources. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control found vitamin E acetate is strongly linked to the illness See POT, page A4 INSIDE Like clockwork, American flags have gone up and come down in The Dalles on major holidays for 60 years. Above, scouts with Boy Scout Troop 398, chartered by the Catholic Church with Anthony Pereira as scoutmaster, make an early-morning run Monday to place flags along Second Street downtown for Washington’s Birthday, popularly known as Presidents’ Day, Feb. 17. Mark B. Gibson photo ‘What’s on your mind,’ says senator Town hall crowd raises variety of topics Bravo ■ By The Gabriel Dalles Chronicle Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden held a town hall meeting Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Fort Dalles Readiness Center. With attendance at around 75 people, participants were chosen through a raffle system and given a chance to ask questions or voice their concerns. “This is part of the pledge I made to Oregonians,” Wyden said. “I’ll be in a every county each year and I’m not reading any teleprompters, I’m not giving any speeches. No subjects are off limits. This will be the 967th time we’ve done this. For the next 90 minutes we’re going to do what the founding fathers wanted us to do. You tell me what’s on your mind, your question or whatever you want, and I’ll do my best to respond.” Audience members asked questions regarding education, environment, senior living and other topics. One audience member asked Wyden if he could speak on the importance of state and national parks. “Well, you talked about all the areas that worry me, and my sense is that one of the best ways for us to push back is to keep pointing out that recreation and the great Senior News Entertainment Obituaries outdoors are now a huge economic engine for our country,” Wyden said. “So protecting these special places happens to be really good for the economy. They create jobs all the way across the state. We've got rafters, anglers and hunters every weekend. Just go and look and see who’s out there enjoying these special places. In an effort to try and show how important rivers are I started something called river democracy.” Since he joined Congress in 1981, Wyden has helped designate 1,984 miles of river and over 600,000 riverfront-acres as scenic areas through river democracy, he said. Another audience member brought up the issue of families no longer being eligible to enroll their kids in Early Head Start due to the minimum wage increase. “I want us to be all over this Early Head Start issue because it is a serious problem for families in rural areas,” Wyden said. “We’ve set up these zones, as we’ve done in our state, where pay would be higher in relation to population area. I don’t think anybody thought through what the connection would be for Oregon to be going above the 2020 federal minimum wage. If Oregon goes up a few dollars and rural families lose Early Head Start, that’s a really dumb idea.” One concerned citizen spoke about the cost of living for seniors. Wyden said he’d fight for seniors’ way of life until he breathes his last A2 A3 A5 breath. “Growing older in America is really a costly deal,” Wyden said. “You can have been a couple that never went and did the extra. Never went and bought a boat that they were thinking about or went on that great vacation. They scraped and they saved because they knew they want- ed to have a dignified re- tirement. Then one spouse died. So, you have the widower up on the corner and maybe the kid down the street mows the lawn for 25 cents or something like that. But she doesn’t have any money to pay for long-term care. Medicare is there for her. I just want you to know that I’ve told the Trump people that if you try to unravel the guarantee of nursing home protecting, you’re going to have to run over me with a bus. You better make sure you get rid of my body, because if I have a little life in me I will fight them till I don’t have an ounce of breath in my body. It’s not right to say to our older people—who fought our wars, and done so much for our communi- ty—that when they grow older, and run out of money, we’re going to say that’s that and they’ll be on the streets.” Wyden’s next town hall will be Friday, Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. at the Madras Performing Arts Center. Comics Marketplace Sports Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden talks during a town hall meeting at the Fort Dalles Readiness Center Saturday, Feb. 15. Gabriel Bravo photo A7 A8 A9
