2A Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Appeal Tribune
Report: Salem hotels see
374% spike in revenue on
night before solar eclipse
and analytics Carter Wil-
son said.
Wilson said smaller
areas with limited hotel
supplies showed the big-
gest gains. Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, a city of about
32,000, showed the larg-
est increase in hotel reve-
nue per room of 1,644 per-
cent.
Bigger cities like
Nashville showed small-
er, but still substantial,
increases. Among the 15
largest cities in the path
of totality, Salem hotels
showed the fifth largest
increase.
Idaho Falls had the
highest average daily ho-
tel rate of $368.
Many hotel reserva-
tions in Salem and Ma-
dras were quickly gob-
bled up months — even
years — before the
eclipse.
For questions, com-
ments and news tips,
email reporter Whitney
Woodworth at wmwood-
wort@statesmanjournal.
com.
WHITNEY M.
WOODWORTH
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Of the 15 largest cities
in the path of totality, Sa-
lem hotels saw some of
the biggest spikes in rev-
enue per room.
According to a report
by analytics firm STR re-
leased Sept. 1, Salem ho-
tels reported a 374 per-
cent increase in revenue
per available room the
night before the Aug. 21
solar eclipse.
Almost 140,000 hotel
rooms lie in the path of to-
tality, according to STR.
Nationwide, hotels in the
path reported a 244 per-
cent increase in revenue
per room.
“There was simply no
modern comparison for
this event, so while per-
formance increases were
expected, we weren’t
sure what extent hotels
would capitalize on what
ended up being a two-
minute event,” STR vice-
president of consulting

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Keizer and Marion Coun-
ty. But about the time Ray
was prepared to taper off
his workload, his son
came back to tend the
task.
“When I was in my late
teens wanted to farm,”
Bryan recalled. “But af-
ter college, I got into po-
lice work. At that time we
were set up to do row
crops and wheat. We
weren’t set up to do grass
seed, the up-and-coming
crop.”
Five-plus decades ago
a fair portion of the land
was wooded, providing a
shady area for the farm
animals the family had at
the time.
“I remember even up
to junior high we’d go out
there and pick up sticks
as we were clearing the
property. We had cows
that would roam the
woods,” Bryan said.
In those days when
harvest time would roll
around,
Haslebacher
cousins and extended
family living elsewhere
would often come to the
farm to pitch in. Especial-
ly in the era of row crops,
labor was always a con-
cern, one among many
that often crop up in the
farming business.
“Farming has been a
good life, though it’s not
been easy. I remember
one year my dad was
counting on the last
beans, and we had an
early frost that took the
whole crop,” Bryan ex-
plained, further noting
that this year has been a
tough one for many onion
growers. “You just can’t
control the weather.”
What a farmer can
control, to some extent, is
the type of crop. Bryan
took a good look at the ha-
zelnut market – for which
Oregon is famous – the la-
bor and tools involved
and decided it was a good
fit. The family first
leased out land to grass-
seed farmers for a couple
of years, which interest-
ingly prepared the soil to
grow a hazelnut orchard.
“The grass seed pre-
pared the ground; it needs
the right humus, PH level
and right nutrient base,”
Bryan said. “A lot of (ha-
zelnut farming) is mecha-
nized and I have the ma-
chines for that.
“There’s a little spray
work, and pruning. The
harvest is pretty easy;
nuts fall on their own and
you use a machine like a
big sweeper into rows and
another machine comes
in and picks the winrow
up, blows out the chaff
and potted nut. Then you
send (the crop) to a pro-
cessor.”
The downside is that
the trees have to mature
before a crop is harvest-
ed. But after hanging on
for that period, the hazel-
nut decision has worked
out, and in doing so it also
nurtured the Haslebach-
er family farm tradition.
“It’s tough hanging on-
to a farm; making to that
century mark really is
quite a feat. I imagine
there was more than a
time when my grandfa-
ther had worries,” Bryan
said, noting that his
grandfather also built
barns and had a steam
harvester as side gigs.
But Bryan adds that
there are rewards to
farming that, perhaps,
extend beyond a budget
line:
“I remember that first
year I got these trees, I
was out on the tractor, the
sun was shining and I look
out (over the horizon) and
there’s Mt. Hood on a
beautiful day – I couldn’t
be happier.”
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of the Silver Spur RV
Park returned to the park,
shot an assistant man-
ager and opened fire out-
side. After Clarkson pre-
sented her findings in
Grand Jury, its members
unanimously decided the
officers who shot Hickey
had acted appropriately.
That’s not always the
case, though, and she’s
also occasionally prose-
cuted police officers for
misconduct.
She’s part of a work-
group dedicated to en-
couraging all Oregon dis-
trict attorneys to follow
best practices regarding
officers whose credibil-
ity as witnesses is ques-
tionable.
“We are constantly
holding police officers
accountable,” she said.
“They not only have to
follow the law, but they
are examples of the law.”
District attorneys, too,
are charged with obeying
the law, including Mea-
sure 11 and its mandatory
sentences for violent
crimes, she said.
Other crimes carry
more elastic sentencing
guidelines, but either
way, Clarkson said she
hopes voters see her deci-
sion-making as fair and
balanced.
“Prosecutors
have
some discretion, and it’s
right that they do,” she
said. “You want a prose-
cutor who has good sense
and a goal of fairness.”
“You’d think my job would make me a
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community view has
broadened to include the
pivotal role social ser-
vices play in getting help
for offenders outside the
courtroom.
“There are problems
in our community that
don’t need to be served by
the criminal justice sys-
tem,” she said.
An example of alter-
nate treatment is the di-
versionary trio of Drug
Court, Mental Health
Court
and
Veterans
Court, for those willing to
submit to intense ac-
countability rather than
the traditional court sys-
tem. Clarkson serves in
Veterans Court, and she’s
also part of an effort to
bring Seattle-style wrap-
around services to people
committing crimes be-
cause of homelessness,
unemployment and sub-
stance abuse.
“You’d think my job
would make me a harder
person, but it’s made me a
more compassionate per-
son,” she said. “People
make bad choices. It’s not
my job to judge, it’s to
hold people accountable
and to make the commu-
nity safer.”
Community safety is
dinner table conversation
at home because Clark-
son is married to a police
officer and United States
marine. At work, she
strives for “open lines of
communication” with the
various police depart-
ments in Marion County.
You never know which
department the DA’s 30-
attorney team might be
talking to next as they de-
cide which cases to take
to court and what charges
to file.
Four years ago, Clark-
son came to Silverton to
look into the fatal police
shooting of Jimmie Eu-
gene Hickey, after the 78-
year-old former resident
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