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Hours Music the Arts After
Series last
Wednesday
with Marcus night. Her trio,
piano) and Norvick (bass,
(drums) played Tim Ortlieb
songs off
upcoming
her
EP “Renais
sance.”
Coming up
March 25 it’s
Clemmons,
and on April Jess
local band
22 it’s
Freehug
ger with
guest pianist
Erik Haynie.
Doors open
ages event. at 5:30 p.m. All-
nation $10. Suggested do-
Columbia
for the Arts,
Center
Avenue, Hood 215 Cascade
River; 541-387
8877.
Jim Drake photo -
Oakenfir, more
at River City
It’s a night
March 7
March 7 with of Transcendent Rock
West Goats. local band Oakenfi Music on Saturday,
207 Cascad Music starts at 9 p.m. r and special guests The
e Ave., Hood
$5 cover. River
River; 541-387
City Saloon
,
-2583.
Gathering’
This casual
at HR Hobbi
es
session is a “Magic the Gathering”
great chance
trading card
and play Magic.
for kids, tweens
game
and teens to play
welcome. Friday, Learn deck buildin
learn
Registration/$5 March 6, 4-5 p.m. g and strategy—all levels
Street, Hood per session. Hood at Hood River Hobbie
River Hobbie
River; 541-386
s, 110 4th s.
-1223.
Stephanie Sweet
Live music
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Lyle’s own
30 March 6
in toe tapping JT Blue and the Rhythm
, groovy blues—
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Brews on Friday,
return
cializing
Reinerth (guitar) March 6, at 7 p.m. to Route 30 Bottles
and
The band
and Victor Roy
and Brews,
(drums). Route features Tom
317 E 2nd St,
The Dalles;
30 Bottles
541-993-3155.
‘Magic the
Wednesday,
After Hours
Mu
at Everybody’
s March 9
Tuesday,
Kenny Olsen March 10: Tuesday Taps
Zim’s Brau and Jose Maya, 7-9 p.m. & Tunes with Al Hare,
Haus, 604 E
Mondays at
March 9: Stephan
2nd St., The
Everybody’s,
Dalles; 541-296
ht announces
Local Irish-fo
March 16: Ursa ie Sweet (singer- music is from 6-8 p.m.:
-2368.
songwriter)
Miner (singer-
Farewell Tour lk band Barely Draugh ‘Farewell Tour’
‘West Side
March 23:
songwr
Story’ opens
13 at Solera with three Gorge shows: t announces its
Columb
Extra show Hawthorne Roots (sisters iter)
March 6
Friday, March
from Bozem
Freebridge Brewery in Parkdale;
Side Story at ia Gorge Orchestra Associa
Birddogs (folk Wednesday, March
Brewin
Saturd
the Wy’east
25: Laney Lou an)
beginning Friday,
Middle School tion Stages presents West at St. Peter’s Landm g in The Dalles and ay, March 14 at
March 30: rock)
and the
Saturday, March
Performing
March 6. Directo
for Music Matters ark Church in
14-piece orchest
Everybody’s Montgomery Rose (Folk)
Arts
). Music starts The Dalles (benefi 21,
and Jazz Collecti ra, culled from the r Mark Steighner will Center,
Wash; 509-637 Brewing, 177 E. Jewett
t concert
at 7 p.m.
lead a
ranks of
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ve ensembles,
Blvd., White
retelling of Shakesp
Entertainment
Salmon,
to bring the CGOA’s Sinfonietta
listings should
eare’s Romeo
classic musica
and can be
Stages actors
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and
l
Orville
Juliet story
d to jdrake@ be sent in by 5 p.m. Friday,
Grout (Tony)
the lead roles.
McDougall
thedalleschroni
and Lily Galvez to life. CGOA
West Side Story
at Rivertap
7 p.m. and March
cle.com.
Live music
(Maria) take
March 6
coming up
8, 15, and 22 runs March 6, 7, 13, 14,
CGOA membe
Friday, March
at Rivertap:
at 2 p.m. Tickets
20, 21
10. Tickets and rs), $5 youth ages 10-17
stomping Americ 6: McDougall, 6-9
are $20 ($15 at
more informa
for
p.m. (solo artist,
and
Sunday, March ana)
tion at gorgeor free for kids under
foot
8: Sunday Night
chestra.org.
Black Trio, 6:30-8:3
Jam featurin
Jessica Lynne
Rivertap, 703 0 p.m.
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Jessica Lynne
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nity Concert
Association
Kerry & Chic
March 10, at to The Dalles Civic Auditor
at White Buffal
ium on welcomes
in 2010, Lynne 7 p.m. After moving to
On Thursd
o March 5
the U.S. from Tuesday,
Keith Anders has opened for Diamon
Kerry William ay, March 5, from 6-8
Denmark
on and Trace
the Washington
unique arrange s and Chic Preston p.m., “impeccable
Adkins. She d Rio, Dustin Lynch,
has taken top
State Texaco
of fun.” White ments with vocal blend colorful origina pickers Nashville recordin
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honors
ls and ly
541-386-5534. Buffalo Wines, 4040 harmonies and a whole
on country radio. g Warning Label is Showdown. Her latest in
Westcliff Dr.,
now being played
lot
Tickets
Lines of Designs
Hood River;
national-
, online are available at Klindt’s Bookse
Dalles Civic
Auditorium, at www.mccca.info, or
llers,
‘Kenny & the
Fourth and Federal at the door. The
Jeffs’ at Zim’s
streets, The Dalles.
‘Feast of
Live music
March 7
coming up
The Hood Words’ features
Friday, March
at Zim’s:
6: Al & Nolan
annual Feast River County Library Rezurectors March
p.m.
Hare with Ben
Founda
of Words Gala
14
County Library
Saturday,
Tibbets, 7-10
and Fundra tion will host its
iser at the Hood
from The Rezure on Saturday, March
Jeff Carrell, March 7: Kenny & the
Jeff Minnick
cashed in as
Jeffs
14,
ctors,
at 6 p.m. Live River
with Kenny
and local libation
live and silent
a bonus winner
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Olsen,
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Vol. 229, Issue 19
March 14
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to pass their resolution and said the
cap and trade bills were “bad bills”
that lacked transparency.
“Remember, you guys work for
us. Not for Portland, Salem or other
governments,” Chaisson said. “We
want to know today where all three
of you stand.”
The Wasco County Board of
Steve Mounts, who said he “put out
Commissioners unanimously
more carbon than probably anyone
passed a resolution in opposition
to the passing of cap and trade bills in this town” during his career with
Portland General Electric, said he op-
during the Oregon legislature’s
short session on Thursday, Feb. 27
posed the commissioners’ resolution.
at the Wasco County Courthouse.
“There is a global glut of fossil
County Commissioner Scott Hege fuels right now,” Mounts said. “This
said the resolution was about the
is your last really good shot. Your
timing of these bills and was not
kids’ future is on the table.”
a resolution on climate change or
Bruce Schwartz said Wasco
environmental legislation in general. County residents are split on this
Around 100 people gathered
issue and said the commissioners
in the courtroom and more than
shouldn’t take a stand either way.
30 people addressed the board.
“What you decide has no effect on
The majority of those who spoke
the bill, but it certainly has an effect
supported the commissioners’
on us,” Schwartz said. “You guys need
opposition to cap and trade.
to be dealing with our parks and
The Dalles farmer Matthew
roads and the homeless.”
Chaisson asked the commissioners
Commissioner Steve Kramer
Timing, lack of
transparency cited
Sacon
■ By The Walker
Dalles Chronicle
Wasco County Commissioners Kathy Schwartz, Scott Hege and Steve Kramer prepare to begin a special session to consider
state legislation on cap and trade Feb. 27 at the Wasco County Courthouse. The commissioners unanimously passed a res-
olution in opposition to Oregon Senate Bill 1530, better known as the cap and trade bill.
Walker Sacon photo
said he had received 146 emails
about the issue, 137 of which were
opposed to cap and trade.
“We’re looking at this because
people asked us to after other coun-
ties have,” Hege said.
The board’s resolution made
Wasco County the eighth
individual county in Oregon to
join the 14-county Eastern Oregon
Counties Association in opposition
to cap and trade.
Honk! Jr. ahead
D21 picks
Chenowith
for dual
immersion
Cecil
■ By The Neita
Dalles Chronicle
A dual language immersion
program taught in Spanish and
English will start at Chenowith
Elementary in the fall, in one
kindergarten classroom, the D21
school board decided Feb. 27 in a
5-2 vote.
Moments earlier the board had
rejected, by a 5-2 vote, a proposal
by board vice chair Jose Aparicio
to start the program a year later, in
fall 2021.
Based on applause, that post-
ponement idea was popular with
the crowd at the North Wasco
County School District 21 board
meeting. About 50 people were in
attendance for that portion of the
meeting.
After the board voted to approve
the plan, some people left in
obvious disappointment, while a
Hispanic woman stood up in the
front row and said, “We really want
to thank you from the bottom of
our hearts.”
In dual immersion programs
students are taught classroom
content in two languages. One
study of a million students found
dual language students performed
well above the general student
population on standardized tests.
Proponents also said it is a way
to honor Spanish as a language
worth speaking and knowing, and
it was a sensible direction given
the large Hispanic student popula-
tion here.
High school Advanced
Placement teacher Mary Jo
Commerford, who speaks Spanish,
said having dual language
programs will bring in Hispanic
teachers who will be role models
for students. “Students will see
bilingualism as a coveted gift and
not a problem to get rid of,” she
said.
Voting to implement the plan
in the fall were board chair John
Nelson and board members
Rebecca Thistlethwaite, Dawn
Rasmussen, Michael Sullivan and
Solea Kabakov. Voting against
See D21, page A6
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The Dalles Civic Auditorium is bringing children’s theater to the community with “Honk! Jr.,” under the leadership and direction of Gail Farris and Nancy Moon.
Performance dates are March 13-14, 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 15, for a 2 p.m. matinee. Doors open a half hour before each show. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 seniors
and students 12 and under and free for children under three. Performances are in the theater at The Dalles Civic Auditorium, 323 East 4th Street, The Dalles. Tickets
will be available at the door or in advance at Klindt’s Booksellers, 315 East 2nd St., The Dalles.
Photo courtesy Nancy Moon
Urban Renewal Agency looks to future
Gibson
■ By The Mark
Dalles Chronicle
board want to go from here?’” said
Steven Harris, the city’s planning
director.
The discussion was sparked by
The Dalles Urban Renewal
Agency will continue its work, but recent questions from the board
regarding the agency’s options go-
will eschew building ownership
and redevelopment in favor of
ing forward, specifically in regards
planning and overseeing needed
to the impact it and the enterprise
and significant infrastructure proj- zones it oversees have had in re-
ects in the future.
ducing tax revenue for other taxing
That consensus was reached by districts in the county.
The agency receives the bulk of its
the board during a special meeting
Feb. 27 in the city hall council
funding from property taxes. It does
not levy its own taxes, but receives
chambers following presenta-
a portion of assessed taxes; as a
tions that explored the viability
result, funding received by other
of returning a portion of their tax
taxing districts is proportionately
funding to other districts or dis-
reduced to fund the urban renewal
banding the agency permanently
agency.
or temporarily.
In the 2018/19 fiscal year, the
“We are asking, ‘Where does the
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agency received
$1,894,373 in
revenue, $1,640,729
of which was tax
revenue.
As a result, Wasco
County saw a
$92,459,270 reduc-
tion in revenue; the Bob Delaney
City of The Dalles,
$278,811; and Mid-Columbia Fire
and Rescue, $194,201. Additional
districts saw a proportional de-
crease, except for Columbia Gorge
ESD and Northern Wasco County
School District 21, which were not
directly impacted as their funding
comes from the state.
Harris told the board the agency
could not be terminated with debt,
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so debt held by the agency would
have first have to be either paid
off or transferred to the city by
ordinance.
Temporarily disbanding was
also considered, but faced similar
restrictions. That possibility was
raised looking forward to 2022,
when the 15-year enterprise zone
agreement with Design, LLC, the
first Google data center built at Port
of The Dalles, expires. The current
agreement cannot be renewed, not-
ed Staci Coburn, a board member
representing the Port.
Wasco County Assessor and Tax
Collector Jill Amery said the facility
and its content is currently assessed
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