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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
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“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-
✚✓✥✏✜ ✫✖ ✵✏✏✑ ✫✲✏✓✎ ✚✖✓✷✏✥
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❥❧♠♦♣❥♦ qr
➉♣➊➇ ♣ r♦❧➋➌ ➅➆➇♣➍
st✉✇①②③✇③✉②✉
④⑤⑤⑥⑦ ⑧⑨
⑩ ⑤⑦❶❷❸❹❺⑤❻ ❼⑧ ❽❾❿⑦⑤
➀❾ ➁➂❾❺➃⑦❻ ➄➂⑦❿❹❺
❊❋■■ ❏❑▲ ▼P◗▲❯❲▲❯ ❳▲❨◗❯❩❩❬ ❋❭
❪❫❴❵❛❜❝❵❝❴❜❴ ❩❯ ◗▲❳❞ ❋❳ ▲❬❋❡■ ❭❩
❳▲❨◗♥■❋❢❯❋❳❞▲❩P◗▲❯❲▲❯❣✐❩❬❣
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