❲❡ ✁❡✂ ✄☎✱ ❆✆✝✞✟ ✠✡✱ ✠☛☞✌
❚✍❡ ✎✏✂❡✝✑❡✝ ✫ ✥✄✒❡✝ ✓✞✔☎ ✕❡✝✄✟
❙✖✗✘✘ ❇✙✚✛✜✢✚✚
✣ ✤❣ ❍✗✦✦✢✜✛✜❣✚
Important crop insurance
deadline nears
✧★✩✪✬✭✮ ✯ ✰✧✲✬➆s ✳✴s✵ ✶✷✸✹
✷❛✺✻✺✸✼ ✬❛✺✸✽✾ ✿✳✶✬❀ ❁✺✻✴✸❂s
✩❁✺❛❖✸❃ ✬❄✷s✵✷❃ ■❂✷❅❖ ✷✸❂ ❈✷s❅✴✸❛✹
✼❖✸ ✸t❁s✺❁✾ ❛❁❖❉✺❁s ✼❅✺ ❊✸✷❄ ❂✷✼✺
✼❖ ✷❋❋❄✾ ●❖❁ ✽❁❖❋ ✴✸st❁✷✸✽✺ ✽❖❏✺❁✷❛✺
✴s ✶✷✾ ②❑ ▲t❁❁✺✸✼ ❋❖❄✴✽✾❅❖❄❂✺❁s ❉❅❖
❉✴s❅ ✼❖ ✻✷✵✺ ✽❅✷✸❛✺s ✼❖ ✼❅✺✴❁ ✺❤✴s✼✹
✴✸❛ ✽❖❏✺❁✷❛✺ ✷❄s❖ ❅✷❏✺ t✸✼✴❄ ✼❅✺ ✶✷✾
② s✷❄✺s ✽❄❖s✴✸❛ ❂✷✼✺ ✼❖ ❂❖ s❖❑ ▼❁❖❉✹
✺❁s ✷❋❋❄✾✴✸❛ ●❖❁ ✼❅✺ ❊❁s✼ ✼✴✻✺ ✻✷✾
❋t❁✽❅✷s✺ ✽❖❏✺❁✷❛✺ ✷✼ ✷✸✾ ✼✴✻✺❑
▲❁❖❋ ✴✸st❁✷✸✽✺ ✴s ✽❁✴✼✴✽✷❄ ✼❖ ✼❅✺
●✷❁✻ s✷●✺✼✾ ✸✺✼❑ ■✼ ❋❁❖❏✴❂✺s ❋❁❖❂t✽✹
✺❁s ✷✸❂ ❖❉✸✺❁s ❏✷❁✴❖ts ✻✺✼❅❖❂s ✼❖
✻✴✼✴❛✷✼✺ ❋❁❖❂t✽✼✴❖✸ ✷✸❂ ❁✺❏✺✸t✺
❁✴s✵s ✷✸❂ ❅✺❄❋s ✼❖ ✻✷✴✸✼✷✴✸ ✷
❅✺✷❄✼❅✾ ❁t❁✷❄ ✺✽❖✸❖✻✾❑ ▼❁❖❉✺❁s ✷❁✺
✺✸✽❖t❁✷❛✺❂ ✼❖ ❏✴s✴✼ ✼❅✺✴❁ ✽❁❖❋ ✴✸st❁✹
✷✸✽✺ ✷❛✺✸✼s s❖❖✸ ✼❖ ❄✺✷❁✸ s❋✺✽✴❊✽
❂✺✼✷✴❄s ●❖❁ ✼❅✺ ❞◆②P ✽❁❖❋ ✾✺✷❁❑ ✬ ❄✴s✼
❖● ✽❁❖❋ ✴✸st❁✷✸✽✺ ✷❛✺✸✼s ✴s ✷❏✷✴❄✷✈❄✺
✷✼ ✷❄❄ ✰✧✲✬ ✧✺❁❏✴✽✺ ▲✺✸✼✺❁s❑ ▼❁❖❉✹
✺❁s ✽✷✸ ts✺ ✼❅✺ ✳✶✬ ✽❖s✼ ✺s✼✴✻✷✼❖❁
✼❖ ❛✺✼ ✷ ❋❁✺✻✴t✻ ✷✻❖t✸✼ ✺s✼✴✻✷✼✺
❖● ✼❅✺✴❁ ✴✸st❁✷✸✽✺ ✸✺✺❂s ✷✸❂ ❄✺✷❁✸
✻❖❁✺ ✷✈❖t✼ ✽❁❖❋ ✴✸st❁✷✸✽✺ ✷✸❂ ✼❅✺
✻❖❂✺❁✸ ●✷❁✻ s✷●✺✼✾ ✸✺✼ ✷✼ ❉❉❉❑
❁✻✷❑ts❂✷❑❛❖❏❑
Bank of Eastern Oregon adds
veteran bankers to Island
City staff
◗✮★★✭✮✳ ✯ ❘✮✩ ❘✷✸✽❖❁❋ ✷✸❂
✴✼s st✈s✴❂✴✷❁✾❃ ❘✷✸✵ ❖● ✮✷s✼✺❁✸
✩❁✺❛❖✸❃ ❅✷s ✷❂❂✺❂ s✼✷●● ✼❖ ✴✼s ■s❄✷✸❂
▲✴✼✾ ❯❖✷✸ ★❁❖❂t✽✼✴❖✸ ✩●❊✽✺❑ ✲✷❏✴❂
✧✼✴❁✺❉✷❄✼❃ ▲❁✷✴❛ ✭✴❛❅✼✴✸❛✷❄✺❃ ▲✷❁❄✾
✲✷❏✴s ✷✸❂ ❱✷✽✵ ❈❁✴❛❅✼ ❳❖✴✸ ✪❁✴s✼✾
✭✺❄s❖✸ ✷✼ ✼❅✺ ■s❄✷✸❂ ▲✴✼✾ ✈❁✷✸✽❅❃
②◆❞◆② ✭❑ ✶✽✬❄✴s✼✺❁ ✳❖✷❂❑ ❨❅✺ ✈✷✸✵
✷❄s❖ ❁✺✽✺✸✼❄✾ ❖❋✺✸✺❂ ✷ ❄❖✷❄ ❋❁❖❂t✽✹
✼✴❖✸ ❖●❊✽✺ ✴✸ ◗✺❁✻✴s❖✸ ✷✸❂ ❅✴❁✺
✷❂❂✴✼✴❖✸✷❄ ✈✷✸✵✺❁s ●❖❁ ✴✼s ★✺✸❂❄✺✼❖✸
✈❁✷✸✽❅❑
➇❨❅✺s✺ ✈✷✸✵✺❁s ✷❁✺ ❉✺❄❄ ❁✺s❋✺✽✼✺❂
✴✸ ✼❅✺ ✴✸❂ts✼❁✾ ✷✸❂ ✈❁✴✸❛ ✻✷✸✾
✾✺✷❁s ❖● ✈✷✸✵✴✸❛ ✺❤❋✺❁✴✺✸✽✺ ❉✴✼❅
✼❅✺✻ ✼❖ ❘✷✸✵ ❖● ✮✷s✼✺❁✸ ✩❁✺❛❖✸❑
❨❅✺✴❁ ✵✸❖❉❄✺❂❛✺ ❖● ✼❅✺ ❄❖✽✷❄ ✻✷❁✹
✵✺✼s ✷✸❂ ✷ ❄❖✾✷❄ ✽ts✼❖✻✺❁ ●❖❄❄❖❉✴✸❛
❉✴❄❄ s✺❁❏✺ ❖t❁ ✈✷✸✵ ❉✺❄❄❃➈ ✷✽✽❖❁❂✴✸❛
✼❖ ★❁✺s✴❂✺✸✼ ✷✸❂ ▲❅✴✺● ✮❤✺✽t✼✴❏✺
✩●❊✽✺❁ ❱✺●● ❘✷✴❄✺✾❑
❘✮✩ ❘✷✸✽❖❁❋ ✴s ✼❅✺ ❅❖❄❂✴✸❛ ✽❖✻✹
❋✷✸✾ ●❖❁ ❘✷✸✵ ❖● ✮✷s✼✺❁✸ ✩❁✺❛❖✸❃
❉❅✴✽❅ ❖❋✺❁✷✼✺s ②P ✈❁✷✸✽❅✺s ✷✸❂
s✺❏✺✸ ❄❖✷✸ ❋❁❖❂t✽✼✴❖✸ ❖●❊✽✺s ✴✸ ②❞
✮✷s✼✺❁✸ ✩❁✺❛❖✸ ✷✸❂ ❛✴❏✺ ✮✷s✼✺❁✸
❈✷s❅✴✸❛✼❖✸ ✽❖t✸✼✴✺s❑
❩❖❁ ●t❁✼❅✺❁ ✴✸●❖❁✻✷✼✴❖✸ ❖✸ ✼❅✺
✽❖✻❋✷✸✾ ❖❁ ✼❖ ✷✽✽✺ss ✴✸✼✺❁✸✺✼ ✈✷✸✵✹
✴✸❛❃ ❏✴s✴✼ ❉❉❉❑✈✺❖✈✷✸✵❑✽❖✻❑
2018 Farm Bill causes
changes in farm loan
programs
❈✬✧◗■✭▼❨✩✭❃ ✲❑▲❑ ✯ ❨❅✺ ❞◆②P
❩✷❁✻ ❘✴❄❄ ✴✸✽❁✺✷s✺❂ ✼❅✺ ✷✻❖t✸✼
❋❁❖❂t✽✺❁s ✽✷✸ ✈❖❁❁❖❉ ✼❅❁❖t❛❅
❂✴❁✺✽✼ ✷✸❂ ❛t✷❁✷✸✼✺✺❂ ❄❖✷✸s ✷❏✷✴❄✹
✷✈❄✺ ✼❅❁❖t❛❅ ✰✧✲✬➆s ❩✷❁✻ ✧✺❁❏✴✽✺
✬❛✺✸✽✾ ✷✸❂ ✻✷❂✺ ✽❅✷✸❛✺s ✼❖ ❖✼❅✺❁
❄❖✷✸s❃ st✽❅ ✷s ✻✴✽❁❖❄❖✷✸s ✷✸❂ ✺✻✺❁✹
❛✺✸✽✾ ❄❖✷✸s❑ ■✸✽❁✺✷s✴✸❛ ✼❅✺ ❄✴✻✴✼s ●❖❁
✰✧✲✬➆s ●✷❁✻ ❄❖✷✸s ❅✺❄❋s ✷❛❁✴✽t❄✼t❁✹
✷❄ ❋❁❖❂t✽✺❁s ❋t❁✽❅✷s✺ ●✷❁✻s ❖❁ ✽❖❏✺❁
❖❋✺❁✷✼✴✸❛ ✺❤❋✺✸s✺s❑ ❯❖✷✸ ❋❁❖❛❁✷✻s
✷●●✺✽✼✺❂ ✷❁✺ ✲✴❁✺✽✼
✩❋✺❁✷✼✴✸❛ ❯❖✷✸s❃ ▼t✷❁✷✸✼✺✺❂
✩❋✺❁✷✼✴✸❛ ❯❖✷✸s❃ ✲✴❁✺✽✼ ❩✷❁✻
✩❉✸✺❁s❅✴❋ ❯❖✷✸s❃ ▼t✷❁✷✸✼✺✺❂ ❩✷❁✻
✩❉✸✺❁s❅✴❋ ❯❖✷✸s❃ ❩✷❁✻ ✩❉✸✺❁s❅✴❋
✶✴✽❁❖❄❖✷✸s ✷✸❂ ✩❋✺❁✷✼✴✸❛
✶✴✽❁❖❄❖✷✸s❑ ■✸ ✷❂❂✴✼✴❖✸❃ ❋❁❖❂t✽✺❁s
❉❅❖ ❋❁✺❏✴❖ts❄✾ ❁✺✽✺✴❏✺❂ ❂✺✈✼ ●❖❁❛✴❏✺✹
✸✺ss ✷s ❋✷❁✼ ❖● ✷✸ ✷❋❋❁❖❏✺❂ ❩✧✬ ❁✺✹
s✼❁t✽✼t❁✴✸❛ ❋❄✷✸ ✷❁✺ ✸❖❉ ✺❄✴❛✴✈❄✺ ✼❖
✷❋❋❄✾ ●❖❁ ✺✻✺❁❛✺✸✽✾ ❄❖✷✸s❑ ❩❖❁ ✻❖❁✺
✴✸●❖❁✻✷✼✴❖✸ ❖✸ ❩✧✬ ●✷❁✻ ❄❖✷✸s❃ ❏✴s✴✼
❉❉❉❑●s✷❑ts❂✷❑❛❖❏ ❖❁ ✽❖✸✼✷✽✼ ✾❖t❁
❄❖✽✷❄ ✰✧✲✬ s✺❁❏✴✽✺ ✽✺✸✼✺❁❑
❬❭❪❫ ❴❵❪❜❝❢✐❜ ❥❪❝❦❝❝❫❧♠
Outdoors School offers
‘Packs 101’
❯✬ ▼✳✬✭✲✮ ✯ ❘❄t✺ ✶❖t✸✼✷✴✸
✩t✼❊✼✼✺❁s❃ ②②❞♥ ✬❂✷✻s ✬❏✺❑❃
❯✷ ▼❁✷✸❂✺❃ ✴s ❅❖s✼✴✸❛ ➇★✷✽✵s ②◆②➈
✬❋❁✴❄ ❞♦ ✷s ❋✷❁✼ ❖● ✴✼s ✩t✼❂❖❖❁s
✧✽❅❖❖❄ s✺❁✴✺s❑ ❩❁❖✻ r ❋❑✻❑ ✼❖ P ❋❑✻❑❃
❋✷❁✼✴✽✴❋✷✸✼s ❉✴❄❄ ❄✺✷❁✸ ❉❅✷✼ ✼❖
❋✷✽✵❃ ❅❖❉ ✼❖ ❋✷✽✵ ✴✼❃ ✷✸❂ ❉❅✷✼ ❋✷✽✵
✼❖ ts✺ ●❖❁ ✼❅✺ ✻❖s✼ ✽❖✻●❖❁✼✷✈❄✺ ✺❤✹
❋✺❁✴✺✸✽✺❑ ❨❅✺✾ ✷❁✺ ✷❄s❖ ❉✺❄✽❖✻✺ ✼❖
✈❁✴✸❛ ✴✸ ✼❅✺✴❁ ❋✷✽✵s ●❖❁ ❊✼✼✴✸❛ ✼✴❋s❑
❨❅✺ ✺❏✺✸✼ ❉✴❄❄ ✷❄s❖ ✴✸✽❄t❂✺ s✸✷✽✵s❃
✷ ❁✷●♣✺ ✷✸❂ s✷❄✺s❑
î➤➟ï➡ ð➟ñò➤➞
óô➫ õ➭➭➧➼➻ö÷➫ø ù➨➫➭➭
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho and Oregon
have reached an agreement on a hydro-
electric project on the Snake River that
requires an Idaho utility to spend about
$312 million on water quality and habi-
tat improvements.
Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little and
Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown in
separate news releases announced the
agreement Monday.
“This long-awaited agreement supplies
Öú➱❐❮❰ ❐Ñ➬➪û❐➷ú➱ ➱❮➱➪➶ü ➘➬➪ Ôû❐Ð➬❐❮✃❰
improves water quality, and provides
❐ûû➹➴➹➬❮❐ú ❒✃Ð ➘➬➪ ➪➱Ö➪➱❐➴➹➬❮❐ú ❐❮û ➴➪➹➷❐ú
ceremonial purposes,” Little said.
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nities of Eastern Oregon, since we know
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is good for people,” Brown said.
Idaho Power has been trying to obtain
a new 50-year license for its Hells Can-
yon Complex from the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission after the old one
expired in 2005, and it’s been operating
on annual licenses.
But the utility has been caught in
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the middle of a fight between the two
states. Oregon insisted on returning
federally protected salmon and steel-
head above the dams. Idaho officials
didn’t want the fish above the dams
because that could force expensive
restoration work in environmentally
degraded agricultural areas.
Idaho won, but Oregon appeared to
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New website promotes Wallowa County artisans
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A new e-commerce website,
Genuine Wallowa County, has
been launched. Founded by
Kristy Athens of Enterprise and
designed by Kristin Summers of
Red Bat Design in La Grande,
the shopping website showcases
gifts handmade by Wallowa
artisans.
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one-of-a-kind handcrafts and
a few commemorative items
from iconic local businesses,”
Athens said. “Each box includes
an insert to tell you more about
the people whose work you are
enjoying.”
Athens purchases the gifts,
arranges the boxes, posts them
on the website and ships them
to her customers either as a
single purchase or as a sub-
scription order, deliverable
monthly.
The contents of the subscrip-
tion boxes change monthly,
providing a nice surprise for
recipients. Athens has a good
selection of gift boxes available,
and she plans to launch more
gift boxes over Memorial Day
weekend. The price points vary
on the gift boxes, and orders
more than $100 ship free.
“I know so many amazing
local craftspeople and artists,”
Athens said, “and I saw a need
for an additional sales channel
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She currently has more than
40 vendors and more than 100
items that she chooses from
when creating the gift boxes.
“I didn’t launch with every-
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didn’t know what to expect,”
she said.
However, even at this early
stage of business, she is very
pleased with the feedback. “The
response is good,” she said.
“Most orders are from people
I know. I have people stopping
me on the street and telling
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me how much they like the gift
boxes.”
People are buying gift boxes
for themselves and as gifts for
other people. The subscription
box is always the same, $39,
and if a person buys a couple
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ODOT welcomes students for Construction and Utilities Career Day
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BAKER CITY — The Oregon
Department of Transportation
will host its bi-annual Construc-
tion and Utilities Career Day
for local high school students
on May 2 in Baker City. This
Career Day event is the only
one of its kind in all of Eastern
Oregon, serving high schools in
Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wal-
lowa, Baker, Malheur, Grant
and Harney counties. In 2017,
nearly 350 students learned
about the utilities and construc-
tion trades by participating in
hands-on activities. This Career
Day experience is invaluable in
helping students plan for their
future education and careers.
According to a press release,
ODOT’s goal is to share living
wage career opportunities and
impact lives.
Local utilities and construc-
tion companies are sought to
participate in the event, which
will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the ODOT Baker City Mainte-
nance Station. There are four
areas of participation planned:
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valuable information for
the students and educators.
Contractors, utilities, state
agencies, two- and four-year
colleges and trade apprentice-
ship programs will be among
the booth exhibitors.
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opportunities for students
to perform job-related skills
and functions in a controlled
environment, such as climbing
power poles, using surveying
equipment, hydraulic jack
hammering, underground
utilities inspection, etc.
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include static equipment with
operators available to explain
the nature of their job and
related industries. Students
will also be given the oppor-
tunity to operate some heavy
equipment in a controlled, safe
environment under skilled
direction.
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variety of equipment neces-
sary to perform daily main-
tenance, new construction or
emergency response that most
utility companies experience.
Students will climb utility
poles, experience utility truck
bucket use and learn the day-
to-day operation of a utility
company’s equipment.
For more information contact
Sandy Lowe 541-963-1901 or
Sandy.lowe@odot.state.or.us.
Businesses encouraged to sign up for Safety Break by May 3
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SALEM — On May 8, em-
ployers across the state are
invited to participate in Safety
Break for Oregon, an event
focused on raising aware-
ness and promoting the value
of keeping people safe and
healthy while on the job.
Now in its 16th year, Safety
Break encourages employers
to bolster workplace safety and
health with training, award
recognition gatherings or other
creative activities. Oregon
OSHA coordinates Safety
Break, which is voluntary for
employers. Businesses and
other employers can decide
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cial to their workforce.
“This stand-down provides
an opportunity for employers
and their workers to take the
time to remember the high
value they should place on
preventing injury and illness in
the workplace,” said Michael
Wood, Oregon OSHA admin-
istrator. “It’s an important
time to review past successes
— and the reasons for those
successes — while planning
ahead with a renewed dedica-
tion to analyzing and elimi-
nating hazards.”
Safety Break encourages
employees and managers to
and health concerns. The result
of this cooperation can lead
to fewer injuries and reduced
workers’ compensation costs
for employers.
Companies that participate
will be entered to win one of
three $100 checks, to be used
for a luncheon of their choice,
if they sign up by May 3 online
at http://osha.oregon.gov/
safetybreak/Pages/signup.
aspx. The prizes will be given
to participating companies
as part of a random drawing.
The Oregon SHARP Alliance
is sponsoring the contest. The
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by encouraging teamwork
among people, employers
and organizations to improve
workplace health and safety
for Oregon workers.
During the Safety Break
event, companies are encour-
aged to share their activities
on social media by tagging @
OregonOSHA on Facebook
and using #SafetyBreakDay on
Twitter.
For more information, ideas
on how to host an event, or to
download graphics, visit the
Safety Break for Oregon web-
site at http://osha.oregon.gov/
safetybreak/Pages/index.aspx.