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❯✂✄☎✂ ✆☎✝✂✞✟
❙✠✡☛ ✆☎☞☞✝✂✄✞✄☛✌ ❘✍✎✏✑✒✍✓ ✔✕✖✏✕✍ ✗✒✘ ✙✒✒✚✑✘✛✛✒✔✜✕✙✗✖✖✢✣✤✥✦✧✍★✍✕✒✩✓✏✒✍✧✪✔✫
✬✭✮✯✰✱✲✳✱✯✴✵ ✯✰ ✲✭✶✷✯✲✭✸ ✱✴ ✳✹✹✴✺✺✴✸✳✱✭ ✹✻✯✼✸✹✳✲✭ ✳✵✸ ✲✭✽✲✭✰✻✺✭✵✱✰
✆☎✠❈✄✞✄☎✂
➞➟➠➠➟➡ ➢➤ ➟➥ ➦➧➨ ➡➨➩
➾➚➚➪ ➪➶➹ ➘➚ ➚➴➷ ➬➶➮➴➱➪ ✃➴❐✃❒➷❮❐➱➷ ❰➚Ï ➾➷➚✃✃ ➚Ð Ñ➶ ➾➷➶Ï➪➱
MONDAY ➫ ❏➭➯➲➳ ➵➸➺ ➻➼➵➽ ➫ $1.50
LG City
Council
officially
voices
opposition
to B2H
Veterans saluted at
Wyden town hall
➡ ➢➤➤➥➦➤ ➧➨➨➩➦➤➤➦➨ ➫➭➯➲➥➨➦➨ ➳➦➧➲➵➳ ➯➧➩➦➸
➺➻➵➫➭➼ ➧➭➨ ➫➭➽➩➧➤➵➩➥➯➵➥➩➦
❇✾ ✿❀❁❦ ❂❃❄❅❆
❚❤❉ ❊❋●❉❍✈❉❍
❬❭ ❪❱P◆P❫❖▼❫❴ ❑▼❲ ❵▼❖❑
❨❫ ❜❲P❱▼❝❨❫ ❞❨❴ ❖❑❨❖ ❑❨◆
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D- ❞❡❵❫ ❨❖ ❖❑P ❢❣✐❣ ❝❨❪▼❖❨❥ ▼❫
Portland) was not greeted
by groups or individuals
protesting his stances on
issues during a town hall
at the Union County Senior
Center Saturday evening.
Still, the town hall, the
935th Wyden has conducted
since being elected in 1996,
will not soon be forgotten by
the senator, who announced
it was being conducted in
honor of the veterans of
Union County.
■❏❑▼◆▼◆ ❖❑P◗❱◆❖❖▼❲P❳❑❨❩P
ever dedicated a town hall (to
a group or individual),” the
senator said.
Wyden took this step af-
ter saluting retiring Union
County Veterans Service
Director Byron Whipple
Washington, D.C. Whipple
▼◆ ❝❡❲❪❥P❖▼❫❴ ❑▼◆ ❧♠❖❑ ❨❫♥
◗❫❨❥ ❭P❨❱ ▼❫ ❖❑P ❪❡◆▼❖▼❡❫❣
❇✾ ✿❀❁❦ ❂❃❄❅❆
❚❤❉ ❊❋●❉❍✈❉❍
“He has just been incred-
ible,” Wyden said. “Byron is
a lifeline for the veterans of
Union County. He is always
The City of La Grande
is weighing in on the
❖❑P❱P ♦❡❱ ❖❑P❲❣♣
➾❡❨❱♥❲❨❫ ❖❡ tP❲▼❫❴②
Wyden, while speaking
❨❬❡q❖ ❩P❖P❱❨❫◆r ❲P❫❖▼❡❫P♥
⑥⑦⑧⑨ ⑩❶❷❸❹❺❻❼❽❾❿➀❽➁➂❽➁
his late father, who was Jew- ➃➄➅➄ ➅➆➇➄ ➈➉➇ ➊➋➌➆➇ ➍➆➎➌➏ ➎ ➐➍➑➒➓➐➆ ➐➉ ➍➆➐➑➍➑➇➔ ➃➇➑➉➇ →➉➓➇➐➋ ➣➆➐➆➍➎➇➏ ➅➆➍↔➑↕➆
▼◆❑ ❨❫♥ ❴❱P❵ q❪ ▼❫ sP❱❲❨❫❭❣ ➙➑➍➆↕➐➉➍ ➛➋➍➉➇ ➊➜➑➝➝➞➆➟ ➞➆➠➐➟ ➅➎➐➓➍➌➎➋➄
tP ❞P♥ ❖❡ ❖❑P ❢❫▼❖P♥ ✐❖❨❖P◆
❵▼❖❑ ❑▼◆ ♦❨❲▼❥❭ ▼❫ ❖❑P ❧✉✇♠◆ did so by writing propaganda Wyden said this is one of the
He said there are prob-
❖❡ P◆❝❨❪P ❖❑P ▼❲❪P❫♥▼❫❴ ❥P❨❞P❖◆ ❖❑❨❖ ❵P❱P ♥❱❡❪❪P♥ ❲❡◆❖ ▼❲❪❡❱❖❨❫❖ ▼◆◆qP◆ ♦❨❝▼❫❴ ❥P❲◆ q❪ ❨❫♥ ♥❡❵❫ ❖❑P ❪❱P②
Holocaust.
scription drug supply chain,
❡❩P❱ sP❱❲❨❫❭ ♥q❱▼❫❴ ①①❳❳❣ the United States.
■④❭ ❫q❲❬P❱ ❡❫P ❪❱▼❡❱▼❖❭ ▼❫❝❥q♥▼❫❴ ▼❫◆q❱❨❫❝P ❝❡❲❪❨②
Wyden recalled his father,
Following his presenta-
❵❑❡ ❬P❝❨❲P ❨❫ ❜❲P❱▼❝❨❫ tion to Whipple, the sena- is helping (bring) down the nies, which need to be ad-
citizen, eagerly enlisted in the ❖❡❱ ❬P❴❨❫ ◗P❥♥▼❫❴ ③qP◆❖▼❡❫◆ price of drugs,” Wyden said. dressed. He said steps such
❢❣✐❣❜❱❲❭♥q❱▼❫❴①❡❱❥♥①❨❱ ♦❱❡❲ ❖❑P ❨q♥▼P❫❝Pr ❨ ❫q❲❬P❱ “We need to stop the price ❨◆ ❴P❖❖▼❫❴ ❱▼♥ ❡♦ ❖❑P ❲▼♥♥❥P②
❳❳❣ tP ❵❨❫❖P♥ ❖❡ ❑P❥❪ ❖❑P ❜❥② of which concerned the ris- ❴❡q❴▼❫❴ ❬❭ ❪❑❨❱❲❨❝Pq❖▼❝❨❥ ❲❨❫ ❫PP♥ ❖❡ ❬P ❖❨⑤P❫ ❖❡❑P❥❪
See Wyden / Page 5A
lies defeat the Nazis, and he ▼❫❴ ❝❡◆❖ ❡♦ ❪❑❨❱❲❨❝Pq❖▼❝❨❥◆❣ ❝❡❲❪❨❫▼P◆❣♣
its opposition to the pro-
❪❡◆P♥ ✇♠♠②❲▼❥P ➾❡❨❱♥②
❲❨❫ ❖❡ tP❲▼❫❴❵❨❭
➚♠♠②⑤▼❥❡❩❡❥❖ ❖❱❨❫◆❲▼◆②
sion power line, which
would pass through
Union County and the
La Grande area.
■❳ ❨❲ ❩P❱❭ ❪❥P❨◆P♥ ❖❑❨❖
the city council is advocat-
ing for the citizens,” said
the Stop B2H Coalition
and resident of La Grande.
■➶❏❑P
❪❱❡❝❥❨❲❨❖▼❡❫➹
❲❨⑤P◆ ❖❑P ❝▼❖▼➘P❫◆ ♦PP❥ ❥▼⑤P
they are being listened to
by their representatives.”
❳♥❨❑❡ ➪❡❵P❱ ▼◆ ❥P❨♥②
▼❫❴ ❖❑P P➴❡❱❖ ❖❡ ❴P❖ ❖❑P
B2H line built with help
♦❱❡❲ ❪❨❱❖❫P❱◆ ➪❨❝▼◗②
❇✾ ➬➮❃❆❁❀❄❁❃ ❇➱❆❀✃➱❐
❚❤❉ ❊❋●❉❍✈❉❍
❫▼❖❭❣ Ï♦❖P❫ ❖▼❲P◆ ❵P ♥❡❫Ð❖
❱P❝❡❴❫▼➘P ❖❑P ❱P❨❥ ❬P❫P◗❖
La Grande’s Blue Moun- ❡♦ ◆❡❲P❡❫PÐ◆ ❥▼♦P ❨❫♥ ❵❑❨❖
Corp and the Bonneville
➪❡❵P❱ ❜♥❲▼❫▼◆❖❱❨❖▼❡❫❣
❳❖ ❵▼❥❥ ❝❡◆❖ ❨❬❡q❖ ➷❧ ❬▼❥②
❥▼❡❫❣ ❳♥❨❑❡ ➪❡❵P❱ ▼◆
they have given until they
❵❨◆ ❖❱❨❫◆♦❡❱❲P♥ ▼❫❖❡ ■❜ are gone. Dan Pokorney is
Night in Monte Carlo” ❡❫P ❡♦ ❖❑❡◆P ❲P❫r♣ ÏÐ❏❡❡❥P
❒❱▼♥❨❭ ♦❡❱ ❖❑P ❮♠❧✉ ❢❫▼❡❫ said. “He had a strong
❰❡q❫❖❭ ❰❑❨❲❬P❱ ❜❵❨❱♥◆ sense that part of his stew-
❬❨❫③qP❖❣ ❒❡❱❲P❱ ❰❑❨❲❬P❱ ardship to God was sharing
President Karrine Brogoit-
ti, who is also the regional
publisher at The Observer,
❪❱❡❝❥❨❲❨❖▼❡❫ ♥P❝❥❨❱▼❫❴
➪P❖P❱ ➾❨❱❱❭r ❨ ❲P❲❬P❱ ❡♦
Union County
Chamber awards
banquet honors
community members
tain Conference Center
way debate.
The La Grande City
Council has issued a
considering two routes
through La Grande, both
in the Morgan Lake area.
The Mill Creek route
See B2H / Page 5A
his leadership abilities in
❡q❱ ❝❡❲❲q❫▼❖❭❣♣
Pokorney’s children, Jason
❨❫♥ ❜◆❑❥P❭ ÏÐ❏❡❡❥Pr ❝❑❨❲② Pokorney and DaLyn Ander-
ÛÜ❶❹⑧⑦❷⑧❶ ÝÞ❹⑦ßÞà❺❻❼❽❾❿➀❽➁➂❽➁
❬P❱ ❬❡❨❱♥ ❲P❲❬P❱r ❑❡◆❖P♥ son, accepted the award on á➎➏➉➇ â➉ã➉➍➇➆➋ ➎➇➌ ➙➎ä➋➇ å➇➌➆➍➏➉➇ ➎↕↕➆➝➐ ➐➜➆ æ➎➇ ➉➠ ➐➜➆ç➆➎➍ åè➎➍➌ ➉➇ ➒➆➜➎➞➠ ➉➠
➐➜➆➑➍ ➠➎➐➜➆➍➟ ➠➉➍é➆➍ ä➎ ê➍➎➇➌➆ æ➎➋➉➍ ➙➎➇ â➉ã➉➍➇➆➋➟ ➎➐ ë➍➑➌➎➋ ➇➑➔➜➐ì➏ ➒➎➇í➓➆➐➄
❖❑P ❝❨◆▼❫❡②❖❑P❲P♥ P❩P② their father’s behalf.
❫▼❫❴r ❵❑▼❝❑ ❵❨◆ ◗❥❥P♥ ❵▼❖❑
“Our dad, Dan, was very
jokes, tears and heartfelt passionate about serving, ❫❡❵r ❨❫♥ ❳ ❵❡q❥♥ ❥▼⑤P ❖❡ La Grande School Dis- that were not enough,
◆❪PP❝❑P◆ ♦❱❡❲ ❬❡❖❑ ❖❑P P◆❪P❝▼❨❥❥❭ ▼❫ ❖❑▼◆ ❝❡❲② say thank you.”
❖❱▼❝❖Ð◆ ❬q♥❴P❖ ❝❡❲❲▼❖❖PP Mary Ann has taken on
❏❑P ①❡❲❨❫ ❡♦ ❖❑P ÕP❨❱ and the school board, the ❖❑P ❲❡❫q❲P❫❖❨❥ ❝❑❨❥❥P❫❴P
presenters and recipients ❲q❫▼❖❭r♣ Ó❨◆❡❫ ➪❡⑤❡❱❫P❭
◆❨▼♥❣ ■④❡❩▼❫❴ ♦❱❡❲ ÔP② award was given to Mary Urban Renewal Advisory of organizing the sixth an-
of awards.
❏❑P ❖▼❖❥P ❡♦ ■❲❨❫ ❡♦ ❖❑P braska to this little town Ann Miesner.
❝❡❲❲▼❖❖PPr ❖❑P Ò❨ s❱❨❫♥P nual Eastern Oregon Beer
year” was awarded posthu- ❡q❖ ▼❫ ❖❑P ❲▼♥♥❥P ❡♦ Ï❱②
“Mary Ann, who cur- ❪❥❨❫❫▼❫❴ ❝❡❲❲▼◆◆▼❡❫r ❖❑P Festival.
❲❡q◆❥❭ ❖❡ Ñ❨❫▼P❥ ➪❡⑤❡❱❫P❭r egon, they had no idea rently serves on the La Union County Mediation
“Believe it or not, this is
♦❡❱❲P❱ ❲❨❭❡❱ ❡♦ Ò❨ s❱❨❫♥P❣ ❵❑❨❖ ❵❨◆ ❖❡ ❝❡❲P ❡♦ ▼❖❣ Grande City Council, has Center, running the La Öq◆❖ ❵❑❨❖ ◗❥❥◆ ④❨❱❭ ❜❫❫Ð◆
“The Man of the Year He spent the rest of his ◆P❱❩P♥ ♦❡❱ ❲❨❫❭ ❡❖❑P❱ ❡❱② Grande Little League pro- ◆❪❨❱P ❖▼❲P❣♣
Miesner thanked the
❜❵❨❱♥ ▼◆ ❴▼❩P❫ ❖❡ ❲P❫ ❵❑❡ life here because he truly ganizations in the past. ❴❱❨❲ ❨❫♥ ❑P❥❪▼❫❴ ♦❡q❫♥
◆❑❡❵ ❝❡❲❲▼❖❲P❫❖ ❨❬❡❩P loved La Grande and this tP❱ ◆P❱❩▼❝P ❖❡ ❖❑P ❝❡❲② the La Grande Main Street ❝❑❨❲❬P❱ ❨❫♥ ❑P❱ ❑q◆❬❨❫♥❣
and beyond for the good ❩❨❥❥P❭❣ ❳ ⑤❫❡❵ ❖❑❨❖ ❑P ▼◆ ❲q❫▼❖❭ ▼❫❝❥q♥P◆ ◆P❱❩▼❫❴ Downtown organization,”
“This town is the easiest
❨❫♥ ❵P❥♦❨❱P ❡♦ ❡q❱ ❝❡❲❲q② proud of this award right on Central School’s PTA, Brogoitti said. “As if all
See Banquet / Page 5A
This year’s Arts for All event switches hands
& Recreation is hosting the annual Arts
April 27 at the Riveria School activity
center. Kids of all ages and their parents
❨❱P ❵P❥❝❡❲P ❖❡ P❫Ö❡❭ ❨ ♦q❫②◗❥❥P♥ ♥❨❭r
❝❱P❨❖▼❫❴ ❨❱❖ ▼❫ ❮♠ ♥▼➴P❱P❫❖ ❲P♥▼q❲◆❣
■❏❑▼◆ ▼◆ ❖❑P ◗❱◆❖ ❭P❨❱ ❳ ❑❨❩P ❬PP❫
involved with Arts for All since it is
❫❡❵ ❝❡❲▼❫❴ ❬❨❝⑤ ❖❡ ❖❑P ➪❨❱⑤◆ ô õP❝
♥P❪❨❱❖❲P❫❖ ♦❱❡❲ ❜❱❖ ❰P❫❖P❱ ö❨◆❖r♣
❜❇❝❞❡
☎✆✝✞✞✟✠✟✡☛✥✥✥✥✥✥✥ ✹☞
☎✌✍✟✎✞✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥ ✸☞
☎✌✍✍✏✑✟✒✓✥✥✥✽✔
☎✕✌✞✞✖✌✕☛✥✥✥✥✥ ✺☞
Riveria this year.”
Arts for All is an opportunity for chil-
The Oregon Rural
Action Health Care Re-
♦❡❱❲ ❜❝❖▼❡❫ ❏P❨❲ ❵▼❥❥
host a screening of the
♥❡❝q❲P❫❖❨❱❭ ■➾▼❴ ④❡❫②
P❭ ❜❴P❫♥❨× ÑP❲❡❝❱❨❝❭
dren with special needs, Arts for All is
❨❖ Ø×✇♠ ❪❣❲❣ ❜❪❱▼❥ ❧Ù ❨❖
❰❡❡⑤ ④P❲❡❱▼❨❥ Ò▼❬❱❨❱❭❣
The event is open to the
public, and there will be
a panel of speakers after
the screening.
Panelists will include
♥❡▼❫❴ ◆❡❲P❖❑▼❫❴ ❨ ❥▼❖❖❥P ♥▼➴P❱P❫❖ ❖❑▼◆
♥❱P❫ ❡♦ P❩P❱❭ ♥P❲❡❴❱❨❪❑▼❝ ❖❡ P÷❪P❱▼② ❭P❨❱r ♦❡❥❥❡❵▼❫❴ ❨ ◆▼❲▼❥❨❱ ▼❫❝❥q◆▼❡❫ ❲❡♥②
P❫❝P ❨❱❖ ▼❫ ❨ ◗❱◆❖②❑❨❫♥ ◆P❫◆Pr ◆❑P ◆❨▼♥❣ P❥ ❖❡ ❵❑❨❖ ◆❝❑❡❡❥◆ ❨❱P ❲❡❩▼❫❴ ❖❡❵❨❱♥❣
❳❖Ð◆ ♦❱PP ❖❡ ❖❑P ❪q❬❥▼❝r ❨❫♥ ❝❑▼❥♥❱P❫ ❡♦ ❨❥❥
“So if your child has auditory needs
❨❴P◆ ❨❱P ❵P❥❝❡❲P❣
where they can’t be around loud noises
■➶❏❑P P❩P❫❖ ◆❖❱▼❩P◆➹ ❖❡ ❲❨⑤P ▼❖ ◆❡ ❡❱ ❥❡❖◆ ❡♦ ◆❖▼❲q❥▼r ❵PÐ❱P❱P◆P❱❩▼❫❴ ❖❑P ❥❨◆❖
④❨❭❡❱ ✐❖P❩P ❰❥P❲P❫❖◆r
◆❪P❝▼◗❝❨❥❥❭r♣ Ô▼❖➘ ◆❨▼♥❣ ■①P ❵▼❥❥ ❬P q◆❑②
❥❡❱ Ó▼❲ ①❑▼❖❬P❝⑤ ❨❫♥
there are as few barriers as possible so
these children get to experience art,”
Nitz said. “Special education children
✗✡✝✕✔✘✘✓✥✥✥✥✥✽☞ ✚✘✟✒✏✝✕✟✡✞✥✥✥✥✥✥✸✔
❍✌✍✡✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✶☞ ✚✛✟✑✟✌✑✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✹✔
✙✌✒✒✡✕✓✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✷✔ ❙✛✌✕✒✞✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✻✔
❘✡✎✌✕☛✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✥✸✔
WEDNESDAY
❇✾ ➬➮❃❆❁❀❄❁❃ ❇➱❆❀✃➱❐
❚❤❉ ❊❋●❉❍✈❉❍
on the Brink” beginning
❇✾ î➮❀❄ïð➱➮ñ➱❄
said McKayla Nitz, city recreation and those with auditory needs are also
òó❍ ❚❤❉ ❊❋●❉❍✈❉❍
supervisor. “Last year it was at the ❵P❥❝❡❲P ❖❡ ❪❨❱❖▼❝▼❪❨❖P❣♣
❏❑P Ò❨ s❱❨❫♥P ÑP❪❨❱❖❲P❫❖ ❡♦ ➪❨❱⑤◆ ❨❱❲❡❱❭r ❬q❖ ❵PÐ❱P ❲❡❩▼❫❴ ▼❖ ❬❨❝⑤ ❖❡
❳❫◆❖P❨♥ ❡♦ ❨ ◆P❪❨❱❨❖P P❩P❫❖ ♦❡❱ ❝❑▼❥②
♦❡❱ ❜❥❥ P❩P❫❖ ♦❱❡❲ ✉ ❨❣❲❣ ❖❡ ❧❧×✇♠ ❨❣❲❣
Oregon
Rural
Action to
host film
screening
half hour of the event just for those kids
❦❧♠♦♣❧q r✉ss t✈✇①②③④⑤✈⑥⑤⑦①⑧③②⑨✈t⑩④①②⑤❶✈⑥
❷❸❹❺❻❼❽
❷➇➈➉➊➋➌
❾❿ ➀➁➂
➃➄➅❾➆
➍➎➏➐➑➒➓➔➒➏→➣↔
↕➏➓➙➛➜ ➝➛➏→↔➜
▲●❈❈ ❊❱■❊❲✁✂❯❉●❊❚✄❚❲❖ ❑✁❊✁✁■❖◆
See Arts / Page 5A
❅❆❇❋❏❅❋ ▼P
◗❳❨❩❬❭❪❩❪❨❭❨
❫✞✞✏✡ ✹✸
✷ ✞✡✎✒✟✌✑✞❴
✶✻ ✛✝❵✡✞
✙✝ ❛✕✝✑☛✡❴ ✚✕✡❵✌✑
Ú❱▼◆❖▼❫ Ï◆❖❱❡❲r ❪❱P◆▼②
dent of the local ORA
Blue Mountain Chap-
ter, as well as La Grande
La Grande City Council-
See ORA / Page 5A
❢❏❣❞ ❏ P❋❆❤✐ ❜❝❞❏❥
✜✢✣✣ ✤✦✧ ★✩✪✧✫✬✧✫ ✭✧✮✪✫✯✯✰ ✢✱
✲✳✴✵✼✾✿✵✿✴✾✴✯✫ ✪✧✭❀ ✢✭ ✧✰✢❁✣ ✱✯
✭✧✮✪♥✣✢❂✫✢✭❀✧✯✩✪✧✫✬✧✫❃❄✯✰❃
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