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The Dalles, Oregon
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Vol. 229, Issue 16
Marlys Krein
Scholarship
honors
Marlys Krein
Cecil
■ By The Neita
Dalles Chronicle
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N HONOR OF HER GRAND-
mother, the late Marlys Krein,
Jenny Krein has set up a $500
scholarship for graduating seniors
who exemplify Marlys’s well-
known spirit of volunteerism.
Marlys was a super volunteer
who contributed extensively to
the community, in everything
from youth sports to calling bingo
for senior citizens. She also took
on perhaps the most demanding
volunteer task in town: staffing
the homeless warming shelter on
overnight shifts.
She may have been best known
for her 62 years of volunteering
for Red Cross blood drives, where
she worked in the canteen serving
donuts.
Jenny, the daughter of Bob and
Joy Krein, herself benefitted from
receiving scholarships when she
graduated from high school in
Heppner. So she saw a scholarship
in her grandmother’s name as
a way to give back, to honor her
grandmother’s contribution and
recognize the volunteer efforts of a
graduating senior.
Jenny, who lives in Tigard with
her husband and two children, has
seeded the scholarship with $1,000
and will continue to fund it as long
as she can. She said donations
to the Marlys Krein Memorial
Scholarship fund are welcome.
Tax deductible donations can
be made out in Marlys’ memory to
the North Wasco County School
District 21 Scholarship Foundation
and mailed or dropped off at The
Dalles High School, 220 E. 10th St.
The local scholarship packet is
due for seniors on March 2, and
scholarship awards will be made
on Senior Scholarship Awards
Night, Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in
the high school auditorium.
Jenny said in the social media
era, people may post about their
volunteer efforts and follow it
with, “#volunteer and #giveback.
My grandma didn’t have social
media and it can seem like people
just want everybody to know what
they did. She just did it because it
was the right thing to do, and she
didn’t need that recognition.”
But she got it anyway, being
named the outstanding volunteer
of the year in 2011 by The Dalles
Area Chamber of Commerce.
Marlys and her late husband Art,
who died in 1995, moved to The
Dalles in 1950. Marlys worked for
17 years at JC Penney in the shoe
department and was known as the
“shoe lady.”
She was a ticket taker at baseball
games, becoming a familiar face to
athletes who played Hustler, Babe
Ruth and The Dalles High School
baseball.
Marlys also delivered Meals
on Wheels, volunteered at a
local nursing home, was active in
the American Legion Auxiliary,
chaired the Girls State program for
See SCHOLARSHIP, page A3
INSIDE
Supported by a live band, The Dalles High School’s drama department presents “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” during a dress rehearsal
Wednesday night. Performances began Thursday, Feb. 20, and continue next weekend. Below, Joseph ( Jacob Vallie), in back at left, runs into trouble in Egypt.
Mark B. Gibson photos
Technicolor Dreams
TDHS presents popular
musical ‘Joseph’
adults and students, $8 for senior
citizens and children 12 and under.
The performance is directed by
Lowry Browning, head of the high
school drama department, with
musical direction by Corin Parker,
By Mark Gibson
The Dalles Chronicle
music specialist at Chenowith
Elementary School.
The musical features a range of
The Dalles High School pres-
musical styles, classic to modern.
ents “Joseph and the Amazing
A children’s choir made up of
Technicolor Dreamcoat,” a
third through fifth graders from
musical comedy with music
Chenowith Elementary, will also be
composed by Sir Andrew Lloyd
Webber and lyrics written by Tim on stage for the performance.
The music is challenging, said
Rice. Performances are Thursday
and Friday, Feb. 20-21, at 7:30 p.m. Parker, but that isn’t a problem.
“They just learn it and go for it; I
and Saturday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m.
don’t give them another option,”
The show continues next week
with performances Thursday and she said. “If you don’t tell them it’s
Friday evening, Feb. 27-28, at 7:30 hard, they don’t know it’s hard.”
The play features almost no spo-
p.m. and Saturday afternoon, Feb.
29, at 2 p.m.
ken dialogue.
All performances are at The
Browning said production has
Dalles High School Auditorium
been underway since Dec. 2, with
(220 E. 10th St.) Tickets are $10 for well over 300 hours put in by the
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directors planning and organizing
the show, as well as working with
the students.
Costumes are by Kathy Vawter,
who said she spent about 600 hours
creating them.
The colorful, full-scale
production is an opportunity for
theater students to learn new skills,
work on their stage presence in an
ensemble, and for younger actors
to work with and learn from older
See DREAMS, page A2
Bonham takes on leadership role
Special session is his first
as caucus deputy leader
Bravo
■ By The Gabriel
Dalles Chronicle
The Oregon Legislature swung
back into action in February.
With Democrats holding
the majority of the House of
Representatives with 38 mem-
bers, Daniel Bonham, Republican
house caucus deputy leader and
59th district representative, is part
of the minority with 22 members.
Bonham was appointed as
the 59th district representative
in November 2017 and finished
former Rep. John Huffman’s term.
Bonham won re-election in 2018
and plans on running again this
year. Last September, he was
appointed as deputy leader of the
Oregon House Republican caucus.
Bonham said he was told he had
until December to figure out what
his job as deputy director con-
sisted of and January to acquaint
himself with it.
“Most of my focus as the dep-
uty leader is, I’m recruiting and
fundraising,” Bonham said. “My
primary job is to grow that group,
take us from 22 to say 25, hopefully
more than 30 someday, to where
we actually get to control a little
more of the policy process in the
building.”
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“The key is to surround yourself
with good people and have a
very loving and understanding
family.”
Rep. Daniel Bonham (R-The Dalles)
responsibility and as owner of
Maupin’s Stoves and Spas in The
Dalles, Bonham said he does feel
overwhelmed at times but knows
how to overcome that feeling.
“It’s a lot of work but it’s fun,”
Bonham said. “I didn’t realize how
much work it would be taking on
a role with the campaign arm on
top of the policy work that I do. I’m
still very active in doing constituent
work and trying to engage in policy
discussions. Being a state represen-
tative and owning a business is a lot
of work to begin with, and this other
layer can be overwhelming at times.
But the key is to surround yourself
with good people and have a very
loving and understanding family.”
Two policy initiatives that
Bonham is focusing on are House
Bill 4122, commonly known as
“Ezra’s Law,” and House Bill 1530,
also known as the carbon cap-and-
trade bill.
House Bill 4122 proposes a man-
datory 25-year sentence for abusers
who intentionally cause permanent
physical and/or cognitive injury to
their victim (Related story page A3.)
Such injuries were inflicted on
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Oregon’s 59th district representative and Republican party caucus’ deputy lead-
er, Daniel Bonham, speaks in the 2019 legislative sessions.
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a four-year-old Madras child in
November 2017. Josue Mendoza,
then boyfriend of Ezra Thomas’
mother, was watching him while
she was at work when Mendoza
severely beat the child. The injuries
Thomas sustained now have him in
a wheelchair, with a tracheal tube
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and limited mobility.
“I think, even though he survived
and thus it is not murder, you can
make an argument that his life has
been destroyed,” Bonham said.
“Where’s the consideration in that.
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