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done (but) it got our team
out there, got us involved
and gave us an opportunity
to connect with people in the
community,” she added.
The players stopped to
visit with several residents
who were in the downstairs
lobby, some conversations
lasting a few minutes and
others much longer. At
one end of the lobby, play-
ers knelt down or sat next
to residents to ask them
about their lives and what
they used to do, and in turn
exchanged their own tales
or talk about the softball
team. Across the way, How-
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Co. for years. Because his
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ing class at LHS, he decided
to reach out to LHS and in-
vite the students in the class
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was planning to put on for a
group of about eight people
who were almost done with
➷➱➶➴ÿ ✂ ➶ÿ➷➴➹ ✂ ❮➷➴ ✝ ➘❒ ✍
“I wanted to make sure
they had the opportunity
to be legitimately quali-
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high school students.
Wood said she was ex-
cited the students were
getting the experience, and
she was excited to attend
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tually teaching this class
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ard sat down and started
playing the piano, with
players Hayden Robinson
and Presley Justice — and
eventually a larger group —
seemingly entranced by the
melody that came from the
piano keys.
Meanwhile, resident Joe
Kenny talked with, and
later placed a kiss on the
hands of, two players who
stopped to speak with him.
“It’s always good to see
(people from the commu-
nity),” Kenny said.
Later, several players
made additional social trips
through the building, includ-
ing getting a chance to view
the cartoon cutouts crafted
by Dan Kramer, a resident
so I’m really thankful for
this opportunity to come
out and learn with the
students,” she said.
Wood said the class was
started by Paul Anderes,
former LHS teacher and
current Union County
Commissioner, and she
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“I just hope I can con-
tinue this program as suc-
cessfully as he’s been run-
ning it,” she said.
The students seemed to
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and the time outside.
“It has been fun. We’ve
learned a lot,” said LHS
junior Dylan Warren.
Warren said he is tak-
ing the class because it
was recommended to him
by other students, and he
hopes to work as a wild-
➬❮➘➪ ➹ÿ➶➹ ✌ ➱➷➶ÿ ✍
who uses a bandsaw to cut
out images of iconic charac-
ters and then paints them.
“They were going to see
those residents who can’t
get out (of their rooms)
and visit them,” said Ac-
tivities Assistant Denise
Wheeler. “Some even went
back to say goodbye.”
The conversations inspired
sophomore Sophie Bell, who
said she would return to the
residence in the future. Bell
was one of the players who
ventured beyond the lobby.
“I went into one of the
resident’s rooms, her
name was Marilyn, and it
was really nice to see the
way her face lit up,” she
said. “It was really good
“I was told the class was
very fun and there was a
lot of learning to do,” he
said.
Wood and Tsiatsos
both said the students
would be ready to join
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ing the class and attend-
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Wood said certain crews
might require one or two
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ther way, it’s a good step
toward securing a job as a
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“They can be employed
through the state or
federal government or
through contractors like
myself,” Tsiatsos said.
Contact Francisca
Benitez at 541-963-3161
or email fbenitez@la
grandeobserver.com.
to talk to her, and I know
it made her feel better to
see us. (She was) saying, ‘I
don’t want you to leave.’”
Senior Lexee Gomes also
left feeling blessed by the
experience.
“I loved it,” she said. “It’s
fun to brighten up people’s
days when you know they
don’t have a lot of people to
talk to. They told us we made
their day several times.”
Gooderham said that
kind of outreach is some-
thing that should be done
more often and by every
sports team.
“It showed me we have a
lot to be thankful for, and
we should all try to take that
extra (time) to give back to
other people,” she said. “It
means more to them than
we can imagine.”
Gomes added this kind
of outreach is especially
important after the show
of support the team has
recently received.
“Since I’ve played softball
we haven’t done this much
fundraising, so when you
get this much money it’s im-
portant to give back to your
community and think of the
people who donated money,”
she said, listing other areas
the team has stepped up.
“Being involved in the Little
League parade (for exam-
ple), I don’t think our team
realizes how big an impact
that has on the little kids and
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Options the city council
has discussed at previous
meetings include convert-
ing the three houses into
vacation rentals; creating
a recreational vehicle park
at the site; and converting
the ranger station into a
community center with a
professional grade kitchen
that could host activities
like family reunions or
other gatherings.
The preparation of this
year’s proposed budget
has gone more smoothly
than in recent years in part
because of new account-
ing software the city pur-
chased.
“It has better report capa-
bility and gives us a better
picture of where we are at,”
the community.”
really good opportunity
for us to get out there to
people who can’t neces-
sarily reach out to us,” Bell
added. “It’s good that we
can reach out and have a
relationship with people
who have done nothing
but support us.”
The trip garnered even
more support for the play-
ers. Howard said in her in-
teractions with the young
women that she was able
to see how much of a fam-
ily atmosphere the team
carried, and several of the
residents, including How-
ard, are now hoping to
make it to La Grande’s re-
maining home games.
“I’m going to try,” she said.
Gomes even learned one
of the residents, who has
a granddaughter on the
team, has been attending
the games and was a soft-
ball player herself.
“It was super sweet to
know she comes to all our
home games,” Gomes said.
Both Bell and Gomes
said they were glad to go
as a team.
Bell, who called it a
humbling experience, said
she wants the residents to
know “we’re also here to
be a part of their lives, and
we’re thankful for them.
It was really good to show
them we care, too.”
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Wiggins said. “It makes it
much easier to see what is
going on.”
Union’s budget commit-
tee will likely vote later
this month on a budget
it will recommend to the
city council. The council
will then conduct a public
hearing on the budget up
for adoption before voting.
Wiggins said the council
may vote on adoption of
the 2019-20 budget at its
June 10 meeting.
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Company of Pendleton, will do paving
work on Fourth Street between the
high school and elementary school
campuses. This work is expected to
be done by June 14. At this time, all
construction will be completed.
“We will start moving in June 17,”
Dixon said.
The process of moving in will be a
slow and careful one. No more than
two classrooms will be moved at a
time from the old high school. All
teachers will be in their classrooms
by the time school starts Sept. 3,
Dixon said.
Dixon also said the project is com-
ing in under budget. Some of the ex-
tra money not spent on construction,
he said, will be used for the Fourth
Street paving work.
Project manager Joseph Hull, an
owner of McCormack Construction,
said a big reason the project is com-
ing in under budget is that the North
Powder School District used a con-
tract manager/general contractor
system to coordinate the work. Hull
said the system allowed his com-
pany to provide greater input to the
school district on construction plan-
ning and budgeting throughout the
building process.
➾➚➷ þ❮➪➶ ❮ ÿ➶þ❮ÿ✃❮ ➬➶ ➪➴ ✁ ➶ÿ -
ence,” Hull said. “It really is the way
to succeed.”
Dixon said the construction has gone
smoothly because McCormack Con-
struction has been excellent to work
with at every phase of the project.
“It has been a great process,” he
said.
Dixon said others who played key
roles in the success of the project in-
clude Scott Marshall of Straightline
Architects of Boise, Idaho, and John
Frieboes, the North Powder School
District’s facilities manager.
Hull said his company was aided
greatly by the mild early winter
weather the region experienced.
This allowed items like sidewalks
and underground utilities to be put
in during December and January be-
fore the ground froze in February.
Had harsh weather hit early in the
winter instead of late, it would have
been far from ideal.
“We would have had to stop (work
on ground-related projects),” Hull
said. “It would have shut down our
momentum.”
The new high school, about 100
feet west of the present one, is a one-
story structure that is connected to
the gym. Hull said this connection
is a plus because it allows the high
school and the gym to share an en-
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use of space.”
The new high school has 13 class-
rooms, including a science room
that will house lab space, an art
room that will have a kiln for making
pottery, and a home economics/life
skills room.
Most of the construction has been
funded with money from a $3 mil-
lion bond North Powder School Dis-
trict voters approved in May 2016
and a $3 million matching grant the
district received from the state.
The current facility was built more
than 100 years ago and is becoming
too costly to maintain. A decision on
what to do with the old high school
will be made by the school district
later.
School district plans call for the
present gym, built in the late 1930s,
to continue to be used after the new
one opens. Extensive seismic up-
grades, funded by a state grant, were
made in the gym in 2017.
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➍➎➏➐➑ ➐➒➓➔➑➐→ ➣↔↕➙➣↕➛➣➜➝➞ ➎➏➐➑ ➟➠➟➔➡➟➢➡➐ ➤➥ ➑➐→➔➦➐➧➤➔➟➡ ➨➩→➤➥➫➐➑→ ➭➯➥
➓➩➑➨➯➟→➐ ➟ ➧➐➭ ➓➐→➤➲➑➐➐➙↔➳ ➓➡➟➧ ➥➧ ➥➑ ➟➲➤➐➑ ➣➛↕➜➳↕➛➣➜➝ ➵➯➔→ ➥➏➐➑ ➦➥➐→ ➧➥➤
➟➓➓➡➸ ➤➥ ➨➥➫➫➐➑➨➔➟➡ ➓➐→➤ ➓➡➟➧→➞ ➵➯➐ ➺➳➣ ➦➔→➨➥➩➧➤ ➭➔➡➡ ➢➐ ➦➐➦➩➨➤➐➦ ➲➑➥➫
➤➯➐ ➔➧➔➤➔➟➡ →➐➑➠➔➨➐➞ ➻➟➧➧➥➤ ➢➐ ➨➥➫➢➔➧➐➦ ➭➔➤➯ ➟➧➸ ➥➤➯➐➑ ➥➏➐➑→➞
➎➏➐➑ ➦➐➤➟➔➡→ →➩➢➼➐➨➤ ➤➥ ➨➯➟➧➽➐➞
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had no objection to post-
poning the date that bail
would be set.
Hamilton and Robert
D. Lee were arrested af-
ter indictments issued by
a Union County Grand
Jury following an inves-
tigation by the Union
County Major Crimes
Team into the November
2018 murder of Loretta
Williams, of Cove.
Both
men
were
charged with murder
and conspiracy to com-
mit murder, although
Lee was arrested in late
February, about four
weeks before Hamilton.
The Observer report-
ed Williams called 911 at
approximately 1:40 a.m.
Nov. 17 to report a man
in her backyard. The
dispatchers heard her
confront the man and
then heard a loud noise.
Deputies and troop-
ers arrived within min-
utes and found Williams
dead of one or more ap-
parent gunshot wounds.
Lee and Williams were
married until July 2018,
according to court re-
cords. Lee is being held
without bail. Both men
will not again appear in
court until the June 25
plea hearing.
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