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SPORTS çèéêëì Tigers christen new courts íîïïîð ñò îó ôõö ðö÷ ●✁✁✂ ✂✄② ☎✁ ✁♦✆ ✝✄❛♦✞✂ ✟♦✠✟✡✆✐✠✞✆❚✞✆✆✞❛ ❡✆✁☛☞✄✌ ✁✍ ✎❛☛✐✌ WEDNESDAY ø ùúûüý þÿ ✥ ✶✾ ø $1.50 Cove City Council meeting draws large crowd and heated debate Conveying synergy and combined experience ❘ ➉❬❳❢❣❳❳❬❭❩ ➇❭❢❣❳❨❞ ❭❩ ❳❭❵➊❬❩❥ r ➋❭❩❬❩❥ ❬❳❳❣❨➌ r❩❞ ❨❳❜r➍❵❬❳❝❬❩❥ r ❩❨❦➌ ❵❭❦❨❪ ❳❴❨❨❞ ❵❬➄❬❜ ❇ ❆✏ ✆✟ ✑ ✆ ✒✓ ✂✝ ✔✕ ✞ ✑ ❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌ The unseen scars of the relationship be- tween a woman and her role as a mother; ✫✲✏ ✷✖✬✬✧✔✍✣ ✫✲✎✏✍✜ ✻✏✍✚✓✔✕ ✏✔✏✎✕✒★ life and all of nature together; the con- ✥✧✬✑✫✓✚✏ ✍✜✜✓✷✫✓✖✔ ✭✓✔✜✓✔✕ ✲✧✬✍✔✥ ✫✖ modern technology — these deep and ob- ✥✷✧✎✏ ✫✖✑✓✷✥ ✍✎✏ ✫✲✏ ✘✖✷✧✥ ✖✘ ✫✲✏ ✒✏✍✎✰✥ ✙✎✥✫ ✖✘ ✫✻✖ ✖ ✍✥✫✏✎✔ ✱✎✏✕✖✔ ✗ ✔✓✚✏✎✥✓✫✒ ✥✏✔✓✖✎ capstone exhibits. The exhibit, titled “Synergy,” opens ✍✫ ✖ ✱ ✗ ✰✥ ❀✓✕✲✫✓✔✕✍✣✏ ✘ ✍✣✣✏✎✒ ✖✔ ✢✑✎✓✣ ✿ and features artwork from undergrad- uate students Amanda Welch, Mary Edwards and Alexandra Tsiatsos. All three artists said they decided on the title “Synergy” because it accurately depicts the core of the message each ✥✖✧✕✲✫ ✫✖ ✷✖✔✚✏✒ ✫✲✎✖✧✕✲ ✲✏✎ ✍✎✫ ✑✓✏✷✏✥✹ ✽ ✙ ✏ ✻✏✎✏ ✎✏✍✣✣✒ ✜✎✍✻✔ ✫✖ ✚ ✥✒✔✏✎✕✒✰ because all of our work has underlying themes of connections,” said Welch, who suggested the name. Welch, a mother of four, enrolled at ✖ ✍✥✫✏✎✔ ✓✔ ✛✜ ✸✳ ✫✖ ✏✍✎✔ ✲✏✎ ✭✍✷✲✏✣✖✎✰✥ ✜✏✩ ✕✎✏✏ ✍✘✫✏✎ ✏✍✎✔✓✔✕ ✲✏✎ ✙✎✥✫ ✜✏✕✎✏✏★ ✍✔ ✍✥✩ ✥✖✷✓✍✫✏✰✥★ ✓✔ ✛✜✜ ✿✹ ✯✲✏ ✥✍✓✜ ✥✲✏ ✏✬✭✎✍✷✏✜ ✲✏✎ ✎✖✣✏ ✍✥ ✍ ✬✖✫✲✏✎ ✓✔ ✲✏✎ ✍✎✫✻✖✎✵ ✖✚✏✎ the duration of the three-term capstone program because it has been such an inte- ✕✎✍✣ ✑✍✎✫ ✖✘ ✲✏✎ ✣✓✘✏ ✖✚✏✎ ✫✲✏ ✑✍✥✫ ✸✳ ✒✏✍✎✥★ ✍✔✜ ✫✲✏✎✏✰✥ ✽✔✖ ✻✍✒ ✫✖ ✥✏✑✍✎✍✫✏ ✬✒ ✣✓✘✏ ✍✥ ✍ mom from my work.” For her part in the “Synergy” exhibit, Welch focused on portraying the unspo- ken and hidden facets of being a mom ✫✲✎✖✧✕✲ ✲✏✎ ✫✏✤✫✓✣✏ ✍✔✜ ✙✭✏✎✩✭✍✥✏✜ ✻✖✎✵✥ of art, which she mostly sewed by hand. ✱✘✫✏✔ ✫✓✬✏✥★ ✥✲✏ ✥✍✓✜★ ✑✏✖✑✣✏ ✷✲✖✖✥✏ ✫✖ ✓✕✩ nore the ugly underbelly of motherhood by focusing only on its bright side. But Welch ❇ ♠✕ ✆✟✄✂✝✄✆ ❇ ✓ ✟✂ ♥✓♣ ❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌ ✪✖✚✏ ✪✓✫✒ ✪✖✧✔✷✓✣✣✖✎✥ and citizens alike stayed late into the night during the monthly city council meeting Tuesday. ✛✍✥✫ ✬✖✔✫✲★ ✖✔✣✒ ✫✻✖ ✷✓✫✩ izens showed up to make a public comment, but there ✻✏✎✏ ✍✫ ✣✏✍✥✫ ✛ ✿ ✑✏✖✑✣✏ ✍✫ this meeting. Councilwom- an Nate Conrad told The ✱✭✥✏✎✚✏✎ ✫✲✏✎✏ ✓✥ ✲✍✎✜✣✒ ✏✚✏✎ ✥✧✷✲ ✍ ✭✓✕ ✍✧✜✓✏✔✷✏ at city council meetings. It was standing room only in ✫✲✏ ✥✬✍✣✣ ✪✖✚✏ ✪✓✫✒ ❁✍✣✣★ with at least three people watching through an open window. The meeting included a spirited discussion of a ✭✧✓✣✜✓✔✕ ✫✲✍✫ ✻✍✥ ✑✎✏✚✓✖✧✥✣✒ an auto garage for 30 years. The business closed last year and was sold to Craig Mahlar and Shaina Craft, who plan to turn the build- ✓✔✕ ✓✔✫✖ ✍ ✷✖✗✏✏ ✥✲✖✑ ✍✔✜ breakfast location. ✙ ✲✏✔ ✫✲✏✒ ✙✣✏✜ ✫✖ ✕✏✫ ✍ conditional use permit with the city, Mahlar and Craft found out the auto shop ✻✍✥✔✰✫ ✓✔ ✍ ✷✖✬✬✏✎✷✓✍✣ zone, nor did the original ✖✻✔✏✎ ✲✍✚✏ ✍ ✷✖✔✜✓✫✓✖✔✍✣ use permit, which meant it was illegal to put any busi- ness there. Because the building is located in the middle of a residential zone, q ✖✔✓✔✕ ✓✥ ✣✏✕✍✣✣✒ ✜✓ s ✷✧✣✫✹ ✪✓✫✓ q ✏✔✥ ✻✏✎✏ ✚✏✎✒ ✑✍✥✥✓✖✔✩ ate about the issue. “We were told we would be allowed to get a condi- tional use permit for the building, and then we were told we would need to get a complete zone change in order to use the building at all,” Craft said. ✪✖✚✏ ✎✏✥✓✜✏✔✫ ✉ ✍✔ ✛✍✔✜✍ said he had managed the See Cove / Page 5A ❘ ❙❯❱ ❳❨❩❬❭❪❳ ❨❫❴❵❭❪❨ ❪❨❵r❜❬❭❩❳❝❬❴❳ r❩❞ ❢❭❩❩❨❢❜❬❭❩❳ ❜❝❪❭❣❥❝ r❪❜❦❭❪❧ ❈✢✣✤t✦✧★ ✩✪✢t✢✧ ✫❖✬✭✮✯✰✱✲✰❲✳✴✵❤ ✷✸✹✳✹ ✺✻✼❤ ✸✱✳ ✸✽ ❤✳✿ ❤✰✱✲❀✹✳✺✱ ✰✿✼ ✷✻✳✵✳✹❁ ✺❤✻✵❤ ✺✻✴✴ ❂✳ ✸✱ ✲✻✹✷✴✰❃ ✰✼ ✼❤✳ ✳❄❤✻❂✻✼❅ ❇❖✫✫❖❉ ❊❋❍✫✭✮✴✳❄✰✱✲✿✰✫✹✻✰✼✹✸✹➆ ✷❤✸✼✸✹ ✳❄✷✴✸✿✳ ❤■✯✰✱✻✼❃➆✹ ✵✸✱✱✳✵✼✻✸✱ ✺✻✼❤ ✼✳✵❤✱✸✴✸❏❃❅ ❇❖✫✫❖❉ ❑▲▼◆✫✭ ❉✰✿❃ ❋✲✺✰✿✲✹ ✷✸✿✼✿✰❃✹ ✼❤✳ ✳✱✳✿❏✿❃ ✼❤✰✼ ❂✸✱✲✹ ✰✴✴ ✴✻✈✻✱❏ ✼❤✻✱❏✹ ✼❤✿✸■❏❤ P❀◗ ✯✳✲✻✰❅ See Synergy / Page 5A Turning a page ❘ ➁➂➃ ❜❨r➄ ❜❭ ❢❭➄❴❨❜❨ ❬❩ ❳❜r❜❨ ➅r❜❜❵❨ ❭➇ ❜❝❨ ➅❭❭❧❳ ❜❭❣❪❩❨➈ ❭❩ ➃r❜❣❪❞r➈ ❇ ✁✂✄❦ ☎✆✝✞✟ ❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌ Hundreds of hours of reading, many games of Jeopardy! and Monopoly plus a taste for donuts ✍✎✏ ✑✍✒✓✔✕ ✖✗ ✘✖✎ ✙✚✏ ✛✍ Grande Middle School students. The students, sixth- ✕✎✍✜✏✎ ✢✣✏✤✓✥ ✦✧✎✕✏✥✥★ ✥✏✚✩ enth-grader Alsea Morton and eighth-graders Kaylee ✪✍✎✑✏✔✫✏✎★ ✦✎✏✔✜✍✔ ✛✧✔✩ dell and Teagan Null, are ✬✏✬✭✏✎✥ ✖✘ ✛✮✯✰✥ ✱✎✏✕✖✔ Battle of the Books team, which is set to compete ✍✫ ✫✲✏ ✥✫✍✫✏ ✱✎✏✕✖✔ ✦✍✫✫✣✏ of the Books Tournament on Saturday in Salem in ✫✲✏ ✕✎✍✜✏ ✳✩✴ ✜✓✚✓✥✓✖✔ ✍✘✩ ter winning the regional ✱✦✱✦ ✫✓✫✣✏ ✓✔ ✦✍✵✏✎ ✪✓✫✒ ✓✔ March. “They are great readers,” ✥✍✓✜ ✛✮✯✰✥ ✣✓✭✎✍✎✓✍✔★ ✶✏✎✓ Myer, who annually helps ✎✧✔ ✲✏✎ ✥✷✲✖✖✣✰✥ ✱✦✱✦ competition. Each of the students has ➅♠➆➇➈ ➎⑥⑤❸❺⑦⑤⑤➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➐➎ ➎➂❸⑦➑⑤➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏⑩➒ ➓➔❾⑤⑤❸➑❸⑦➃➏➏➏➏➏➏➏⑧➎ ➓❹→❸❶⑤➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏⑩➎ read all or nearly all of the ✸✳ ✭✖✖✵✥ ✖✔ ✫✲✏ ✱✎✏✕✖✔ Battle of the Books reading ✣✓✥✫ ✘✖✎ ✫✲✏ ✕✎✍✜✏ ✳✩✴ ✜✓✚✓✩ ✥✓✖✔✹ ✺✏✍✬✥ ✻✓✣✣ ✙✏✣✜ ✼✧✏✥✩ tions about these books at the state tournament, just as they did at the regional competition. The books from which ✼✧✏✥✫✓✖✔✥ ✻✓✣✣ ✭✏ ✜✎✍✻✔ ✍✎✏ ✍✣✬✖✫ ✍✣✣ ✙✷✫✓✖✔✩ al works and include “Ghost” by Jason Reyn- ✖✣✜✥★ ✽✢✚✏✔✕✓✔✕ ✫✲✏ ✱✻✣✾ by Melissa Hart and “Re- start” by Gordon Korman. ✺✏✍✬✥ ✍✫ ✍✣✣ ✱✎✏✕✖✔ ✦✍✫✫✣✏ ✖✘ ✫✲✏ ✦✖✖✵✥ ✏✚✏✔✫✥ ✲✍✚✏ ✸✿ ✥✏✷✖✔✜✥ ✫✖ ✍✔✩ ✥✻✏✎ ✏✍✷✲ ✼✧✏✥✫✓✖✔ ✜✧✎✩ ing which time they will huddle and agree upon a ✎✏✥✑✖✔✥✏✹ ✺✲✏ ✸✿ ✥✏✷✖✔✜✥ ✑✍✥✥ ✼✧✓✷✵✣✒ ✖✎ ✥✣✖✻✣✒★ ✜✏✩ ✑✏✔✜✓✔✕ ✖✔ ✖✔✏✰✥ ✵✔✖✻✣✩ edge base, Myer said. “The time passes fast if you do not know the an- swer,” said Myer, who has helped put on the Battle of ✇①③④ ⑤⑥✧✢⑦⑧⑨⑩❶❷❸❹❶❺❻❶❺ ❊✰ ▼✿✰✱✲✳ ❉✻✲✲✴✳ ❼✵❤✸✸✴ ✹✼■✲✳✱✼✹❁ ✽✿✸✯ ✴✳✽✼❁ ❇✿✳✱✲✰✱ ❊■✱✲✳✴✴❁ ✮✴✳❄✻✹ ❇■✿❏✳✹✹❁ ✮✴✹✳✰ ❉✸✿✼✸✱ ✰✱✲ ❽✰❃✴✳✳ ❾✰✿✷✳✱✼✳✿❁ ✰✴✴ ✯✳✯❂✳✿✹ ✸✽ ✻✼✹ ❖✿✳❏✸✱ ❇✰✼✼✴✳ ✸✽ ✼❤✳ ❇✸✸❿✹ ✼✳✰✯❁ ✲✻✹✵■✹✹ ✼❤✳✻✿ ✷✿✳✷✰✿✰✼✻✸✱ ✽✸✿ ✼❤✳ ❖❇❖❇ ✹✼✰✼✳ ✼✸■✿✱✰✯✳✱✼ ✻✱ ❼✰✴✳✯ ✸✱ ❼✰✼■✿✲✰❃❅ ➀✸✼ ✹❤✸✺✱ ✻✹ ✼✳✰✯ ✯✳✯❂✳✿✫✳✰❏✰✱ ➀■✴✴❅ the Books competition for ✥✏✚✏✎✍✣ ✒✏✍✎✥✹ Glenn Null, one of the ✫✏✍✬✰✥ ✫✲✎✏✏ ✷✖✍✷✲✏✥★ stresses the importance of speaking in a manner that is easy to understand and ✷✖✔✚✏✒✥ ✷✖✔✙✜✏✔✷✏ ✻✲✏✔ announcing answers to judges. ➟➠➡➢➤➠➥ ➦➧➨➨ ➩➫➭➯➲➳➵➸ ➫➺ ➸➻➯ ➼➳➲➽ ➫➩ ➾ ➵➯➲➸➚➫➺ ➓➂❹⑤⑤➣❹➂➃➏➏➏➏➏↔➎ ➄❽❸❺❸❹❺➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏⑧➒ ↕⑦❾➂ ➒➙➙➛ ➏➏ ➐⑨➎ ➜⑦❶❹➂➃ ➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏⑩➒ ➀❹❷❷⑦➂➛➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏❼➒ ➝❽❹➂❷⑤ ➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➏➞➒ ➄➙❸❷⑥❾➂❸⑦⑤➏➏➏➏➏➏⑩➒ FRIDAY ➪➶➹➘➴➷➬ ➮➱ ✃❐❒ ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÛØÞßÜ ➪➷ÑÒÓÔÕÖ ❮❰Ï➮Ð àØÞáÛâØã ÙäØåâæÙ ❖●❂❈ ❃❖ ❄◆❱❂❙❃❄●❆❃❂ ❂❍❙ ❅❖❆❘❉ “Make sure you speak ✷✣✏✍✎✣✒ ✍✔✜ ✷✖✔✙✜✏✔✫✣✒★✾ ❀✧✣✣ ✫✏✣✣✥ ✫✲✏ ✛✮✯ ✥✫✧✜✏✔✫✥✹ ❁✏ ✥✍✓✜ ✥✏✚✏✎✍✣ ✒✏✍✎✥ ✍✕✖ ✍ ✥✫✧✜✏✔✫ ✕✍✚✏ ✍✔ answer at a tournament that was basically correct except for a technicality. ❀✧✣✣ ✭✏✣✓✏✚✏✥ ✫✲✍✫ ✭✏✷✍✧✥✏ the student did not pre- sent the answer with con- ✙✜✏✔✷✏★ ✲✓✥ ✫✏✍✬ ✜✓✜ ✔✖✫ get the number of points it ✜✏✥✏✎✚✏✜✹ Though students are encouraged to speak with ✚✖✣✧✬✏ ✻✲✏✔ ✍✔✔✖✧✔✷✓✔✕ their answers, they are ad- ✚✓✥✏✜ ✫✖ ✵✏✏✑ ✫✲✏✓✎ ✚✖✓✷✏✥ See Books / Page 5A ❥❧♠♦♣❥♦ qr ➉♣➊➇ ♣ r♦❧➋➌ ➅➆➇♣➍ st✉✇①②③✇③✉②✉ ④⑤⑤⑥⑦ ⑧⑨ ⑩ ⑤⑦❶❷❸❹❺⑤❻ ❼⑧ ❽❾❿⑦⑤ ➀❾ ➁➂❾❺➃⑦❻ ➄➂⑦❿❹❺ ❊❋■■ ❏❑▲ ▼P◗▲❯❲▲❯ ❳▲❨◗❯❩❩❬ ❋❭ ❪❫❴❵❛❜❝❵❝❴❜❴ ❩❯ ◗▲❳❞ ❋❳ ▲❬❋❡■ ❭❩ ❳▲❨◗♥■❋❢❯❋❳❞▲❩P◗▲❯❲▲❯❣✐❩❬❣ Online at lagrandeobserver.com