SPORTS
Blazers even
series with
Nuggets
FRIDAY-SUNDAY ✿ ▼❀② ❁❂❃❄ ❅❆❈❉ ✿ $1.50
LGCC
approves
parks fees
and LID
report
ÿ ❯❅❆ ✏✄✈✁✡ ✠✄
✁❇✠✁☎❛ ☛✞❈✁ ✠❉
❚✌✁✝✠ ✁ ❛✁✝❛✑✞☎✁
✇✞✠✌ ✓✝✈✁✝✠✡
❇ óô❛✂õ❛ ö✝☎✆÷røõ
❚❤✟ ✠✡☛✟☞✈✟☞
At its regular meet-
ing Wednesday night, the
La Grande City Council
amended an outdated park
facilities fees policy, ac-
✑✙✚✎✙★ ✎✏✙ ✔✣✢✛ û✪ ✼✽ ✓✎✤★✒
and report for the sidewalk
local improvement dis-
trict, and proclaimed May
2019 as Older Americans
✾ ✗✣✎✏✘
Stu Spence, La Grande
Parks & Recreation direc-
✎✗✖✱ ✢✖✭✤✙★ ✎✏✙ ✑✍✎✒✻✓ ✚✢✖✳
pavilion rental fees and
reservation methods must
✕✙ ✖✙✥✍✓✙★✱ ✢✓ ✎✏✙✒ ✏✢✥✙✣✻✎
✕✙✙✣ ✎✗✤✑✏✙★ ✓✍✣✑✙ û✪✪ ❀ ✘
✶✷✎✻✓ ✗✤✎ ✗✧ ★✢✎✙✘ ✷✎ ★✗✙✓✣✻✎
work for our systems any-
✜✗✖✙✘ ✷✎✻✓ ✖✙✢✛✛✒ ✎✗✤✭✏ ✗✣
✓✎✢✺✱ ✢✣★ ✌✙✻✥✙ ✖✙✢✛✍ ❁ ✙★
the customer experience is
✢✺✙✑✎✙★ ✢✓ ✌✙✛✛✱✹ ✏✙ ✓✢✍★ ✢✎
✎✏✙ ✜✙✙✎✍✣✭✘ ✶ ❂ ✓✓✙✣✎✍✢✛✛✒✱
✌✙✻✖✙ ✓✍✜✚✛✍✧✒✍✣✭ ✎✏✙ ✚✖✗✴
cess for the customer and
✧✗✖ ✎✏✙ ✓✎✢✺✱ ✢✣★ ✍✣ ✎✤✖✣
creating an easier process,
more revenue and less
✑✗✓✎✘✹
The amendment will
address several fee and
scheduling concerns for
Riverside Park Pavilion
and its kitchen, Pioneer
Park Rotary Pavilion,
Birnie Park Pavilion and
✾ ✢ ❃ ✼ý✤✢✖✙✘
According to a packet
✚✖✗✥✍★✙★ ✕✒ ✎✏✙ ✑✍✎✒✱ ✳✙✒
changes include: “drop-
ping the non-resident fees
to standardize rentals, add-
ing Birnie Park Pavilion as
a rental space, eliminating
the cleaning fee, and clear-
✛✒ ★✙✔✣✍✣✭ ✚✢✥✍✛✍✗✣ ✢✣★
✳✍✎✑✏✙✣ ✖✙✣✎✢✛ ✧✙✙✓✘✹
Spence said these revi-
sions will not take place
✤✣✎✍✛ ❄ ✗✥✘ ✼ ✢✓ ✎✗ ✏✗✣✗✖ ✎✏✙
price points for those who
See LGCC / Page 5A
➙➛➛➜ ➜➝➞ ➟➛ ➛➠➡ ➢➝➤➠➥➜ ➦➠➧➦➨➡➩➧➥➡ ➫➩➝➭➥ ➯➩➲➤➥➞ ➛➳ ➵➝ ➙➡➝➭➜➥
Fireworks
fundraising
propelled by UC
Commissioners
for getting the process
going to where we can
get that project opened
✤✚ ✢ ✛✗✎ ý✤✍✑✳✙✖✘✹
Risteen
explained
while the grant is split in
two, the application pro-
cess was a “joint venture”
✕✙✎✌✙✙✣ ✎✏✙ þ✤✎✣✢✜ ✢✣★
✎✏✙ ✰✍✕✙✖✎✒ ✕✙✑✢✤✓✙ ✎✏✙
✢★✸✢✑✙✣✎ ✕✤✍✛★✍✣✭✓ ✓✏✢✖✙
✓✙✌✙✖ ✢✣★ ✌✢✎✙✖ ✛✍✣✙✓✘
The total $200,000 will
❇ ❊ ☎✄ ❦ ❋ ❛✆ø✂
❚❤✟ ✠✡☛✟☞✈✟☞
The annual Union County
✔✖✙✌✗✖✳✓ ✓✏✗✌✱ ✓✙✎ ✎✗ ✜✢✳✙
an encore in Union two
months from now, was fur-
ther propelled toward its
✧✤✣★✖✢✍✓✍✣✭ ✭✗✢✛ ù✙★✣✙✓★✢✒✘
The Union County Board
of Commissioners voted to
✚✖✗✥✍★✙ ú ● ✱✩✪✪ ✎✗ ✎✏✙ ✔✖✙✴
✌✗✖✳✓ ✓✏✗✌✘ ✮✏✙ ★✗✣✢✎✍✗✣
was made at the request of
✵✗✤✭ ù✍✭✭✍✣✓✱ ❍ ✣✍✗✣✻✓ ✑✍✎✒
✢★✜✍✣✍✓✎✖✢✎✗✖✘
✮✏✙ ✔✖✙✌✗✖✳✓ ✓✏✗✌ ✣✗✌
✏✢✓ ✕✙✎✌✙✙✣ ú ✼❀ ✱✪✪✪ ✢✣★
úû✪✱✪✪✪ ✍✣ ✑✗✣✎✖✍✕✤✎✍✗✣✓✱ ✢✑✴
cording to Wiggins, a mem-
✕✙✖ ✗✧ ✎✏✙ ❍ ✣✍✗✣ ✯✗✤✣✎✒ ✬✍✖✙✴
✌✗✖✳✓ ✦✑✎✍✗✣ ✯✗✜✜✍✎✎✙✙✘
“Our goal is to raise
úûû✱✪✪✪✱✹ ù✍✭✭✍✣✓ ✓✢✍★✘
✮✏✙ ✬✗✤✖✎✏ ✗✧ ■ ✤✛✒ ✔✖✙✴
works show was conducted
in La Grande on the cam-
✚✤✓ ✗✧ ❂ ✢✓✎✙✖✣ ✲✖✙✭✗✣ ❍ ✣✍✴
versity for at least three de-
✑✢★✙✓ ✕✙✧✗✖✙ ✍✎ ✌✢✓ ✜✗✥✙★
See Grants / Page 5A
See County / Page 2A
➣↔↕➙➛↕➜✘➝✗✖✙✢➛➞➟➠➡ ➢➤➥➡➦➧➡➦
Liberty Theatre
gets a boost
ÿ ❖ ✁✂✄☎ ✆✝✞☎ ✟✠ ✁✁✠ ✝✇✝ ❛✡ ✠✇✄ ✂ ✝☎✠✡
❯✏✝✠✞✑✑✝✱ ✝☎❛ ✒✝✑✑✄✇✝ ✓✄✔☎✠✞✁✡
✕✖✗✘✙✚✘✙ ❡❧✘ ✛✜✢✣✢
▲✤✥✦✿ ✧★✩✩✪✫✬✭✮ ✩✯✩✰✯✲s ✩✯✯✭ ✳★✴✫✭★✴✫ ✭★ ✵✯✶✷
✯✰✲✸✭✯ ✭✹✯ ▲✬✰✯✲✭✮✦✹✯✸✭✲✯➆s ✶✸✭✯s✭ ✺✲✸✫✭ ✩★✫✯✮ s✪✵✵✯ss✻
❇ óô❛✂õ❛ ö✝☎✆÷røõ
❚❤✟ ✠✡☛✟☞✈✟☞
Northeast Oregon just
✖✙✑✙✍✥✙★ ✢ ✕✍✭ ✕✗✗✓✎ ✍✣
funding for projects that
✏✢✥✙ ✕✙✙✣ ✛✗✣✭ ✤✣★✙✖✌✢✒
in Baker, Umatilla, Union
✢✣★ ù✢✛✛✗✌✢ ✑✗✤✣✎✍✙✓✘
✷✣ ✰✢ ✾✖✢✣★✙✱ ✎✏✙ ✲✖✴
egon Main Street Revi-
talization grant program
awarded $100,000 to
✕✗✎✏ ✎✏✙ ✰✍✕✙✖✎✒ ✮✏✙✴
atre and Putnam Build-
gram where Oregon
Main Street lets every
local Main Street select
a project in town that
we decide is a great proj-
ect for the community,”
said Shawn Risteen,
La Grande Main Street
✵✗✌✣✎✗✌✣ ✽✗✢✖★ ✚✖✙✓✍✴
★✙✣✎✘ ✶✮✏✍✓ ✒✙✢✖✱ ✌✙ ✏✢✥✙
✓✙✛✙✑✎✙★ ✎✏✙ ✰✍✕✙✖✎✒ ✮✏✙✴
atre and Putnam Build-
✍✣✭ ✑✗✜✕✍✣✙★✘✘✘✘ ✷ ✎✏✍✣✳
✎✏✍✓ ✌✍✛✛ ✕✙ ✢ ✏✤✭✙ ✏✙✛✚
✠✄ ❛✄✇☎✠✄✇☎ ☛✝ ☞ ✝☎❛✁✱ ✄✠✌✁ ✡ ✞☎ ✍✝✎✁ ✱
ing projects, totaling
úû✪✪✱✪✪✪ ✧✗✖ ✎✏✙ ✑✍✎✒✻✓
★✗✌✣✎✗✌✣ ✢✖✙✢✘
Thursday
evening,
✜✙✜✕✙✖✓ ✗✧ ✎✏✙ ✰✢
Grande City Council,
La Grande Main Street
✵✗✌✣✎✗✌✣ ✽✗✢✖★ ✢✣★
✰✍✕✙✖✎✒ ✮✏✙✢✎✙✖ ✬✗✤✣✴
dation Board gathered
at the La Grande Main
✼✎✖✙✙✎ ✵✗✌✣✎✗✌✣ ✗ü✑✙
✎✗ ✑✙✛✙✕✖✢✎✙✘
✶✷✎ ✍✓ ✢ ✌✗✣★✙✖✧✤✛ ✚✖✗✴
A walk for
Gideon
Gabriel
SURVIVORS
EMPOWERED
ÿ ☛✄✓✝✑ ✟❆❅❚ ✓✄✝✑✞✠✞✄☎ ✌✁✑◗✡
✡✁❇✔✝✑ ✝✡✡✝✔✑✠ ✈✞✓✠✞✏✡ ✠✝✎✁ ✠ ✝✔✏✝
ÿ ✟✔☎❛✝❉ ✓❉✡✠✞✓
✓✝ ✁ ✞☎✠✄ ✠✌✁✞ ✄✇☎ ✌✝☎❛✡
➒✞❈ ✄✡✞✡ ✇✝✑✎ ✠✄ ❈✁☎✁➒✞✠
keeping infection down,
keeping him healthy, and
what his needs are,” Can-
★✢✑✙ ✓✢✍★✘
She also said the people
✢✎ ✼✍★✙ ✦ ✽✖✙✌✍✣✭ ✯✗✘ ✍✣ ✰✢
✾✖✢✣★✙✱ ✌✏✙✖✙ ✵✢✥✍★ ✌✗✖✳✓
in the kitchen, have gone
✢✕✗✥✙ ✢✣★ ✕✙✒✗✣★ ✎✗ ✓✤✚✴
✚✗✖✎ ✎✏✙✜✘
✶✵✢✥✍★ ✏✢✓ ✧✗✤✣★ ✓✤✑✏
an amazing family through
✼✍★✙ ✦✱✹ ✯✢✣★✢✑✙ ✓✢✍★✘ ✶✦✣✒
❇ óô❛✂õ❛ ö✝☎✆÷røõ
❚❤✟ ✠✡☛✟☞✈✟☞
✲✣✙ ✑✗✢✛✍✎✍✗✣ ✏✢✓ ✕✙✙✣ ✭✍✥✍✣✭ ✚✗✌✙✖ ✕✢✑✳ ✎✗
survivors of sexual assault in Union and Wal-
✛✗✌✢ ✑✗✤✣✎✍✙✓ ✓✍✣✑✙ û✪✪ ❏ ✘
The Sexual Assault Response
Team, otherwise known as SART,
was formed in the early 2000s to
provide a resource the area sorely
lacked — a network of victim advo-
cates, law enforcement represen-
❙❘❤❱❲❘❤❳❲❨❩ tatives and sexual assault nurse
✙ ❃ ✢✜✍✣✙✖✓ ❑ ✗✖ ✼✦ ❄❂ ✓ ✧✗✖ ✓✏✗✖✎ ▼
dedicated to helping survivors in whatever ca-
✚✢✑✍✎✒ ✢✓✳✙★ ✗✧ ✎✏✙✜✘
Providing a multi-disciplinary approach to
empowering victims, the SART coalition con-
sists of Shelter
From the Storm,
a Union County
❬❭ ❪❫①❴❵❜
organization pro-
❵❪❪❵❴❜❝❞ ❵❜❜ ❝❢❫
viding support for
♣❣✐❫❥ ❢❵❪ ♠❫❫❭
victims of domestic
❝❵♥❫❭ ❵✐❵♦
violence and sexual
q❥❣r ❝❢❫ t✉②❝✉r❞
assault, the Union
✯✗✤✣✎✒ ✵✍✓✎✖✍✑✎ ✦✎✴
❵❭③ ④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨ ✉❪
✎✗✖✣✙✒✻✓ ✲ü✑✙✱ ✰✢
⑩❴❪❝ ❣❴❥ ✐❵♦ ❣q
✾✖✢✣★✙ þ✗✛✍✑✙ ✵✙✴
♠❫✉❭❶ ❵♠❜❫ ❝❣
partment, Union
❶✉t❫ ♠❵②♥ ❪❣r❫
✼✏✙✖✍✺✻✓
✯✗✤✣✎✒
❣q ❝❢❵❝ ♣❣✐❫❥❷➈
✲ü✑✙✱ ❂ ✢✓✎✙✖✣ ✲✖✴
➋❸❹❱❺❻❲❺
egon
University
❙❘❤❱❲❘❤❳❲❨❩❼
and Grande Ronde
❽❲❘❳❲❾ ❹❿❿❲❿❳❹❨❘❺
◆ ✗✓✚✍✎✢✛✘
➀❻➁❩❻❹❾ ➂❲❻❺❘❳➁❻
According
to
P ✖✍✓✎✢ ❂ ✥✢✣✓✱ ✢ ✑✖✍✓✍✓ ✖✙✓✚✗✣✓✙ ✢★✥✗✑✢✎✙ ✢✎ ✼✏✙✛✴
ter From the Storm, SART services, which are of-
fered 24 hours a day for people ages 15 and older,
include advocacy, medical examinations and re-
✚✗✖✎✓ ✎✗ ✛✢✌ ✙✣✧✗✖✑✙✜✙✣✎✘
❂ ✥✢✣✓ ✓✢✍★ ✌✏✍✛✙ ✢ ✓✤✖✥✍✥✗✖ ✜✢✒ ✗✚✎ ✍✣✎✗ ✢✣✒
See Gideon / Page 2A
See SART / Page 5A
✑✄✓✝✑ ➓➔→✏✄☎✠✌→✄✑❛
❇ ✁r❛✂✄☎✆✄❛ ❇✝✂☎✞✝❡
❚❤✟ ✠✡☛✟☞✈✟☞
The parents of an
18-month-old La Grande
child are hoping a fundrais-
ing walk will make a dif-
ference for their son and
30,000 other Americans
✌✍✎✏ ✑✒✓✎✍✑ ✔✕✖✗✓✍✓✘
Candace Salim, mother
of Gideon Salim, organized
the May 5 fundraiser with
✎✏✙ ✏✗✚✙ ✍✎ ✌✍✛✛ ✕✙✑✗✜✙ ✢✣
✢✣✣✤✢✛ ✙✥✙✣✎✘ ✦✛✛ ✧✤✣★✓
raised during the walk will
✕✙ ✓✚✛✍✎ ✩✪✫✩✪ ✕✙✎✌✙✙✣
Gideon and the Cystic Fi-
✕✖✗✓✍✓ ✬✗✤✣★✢✎✍✗✣✘
According to the Mayo
Clinic, CF is an inherited
disorder that causes severe
damage to the lungs, diges-
tive system and other or-
✭✢✣✓ ✍✣ ✎✏✙ ✕✗★✒✘ ✮✏✙✖✙ ✍✓
✣✗ ✑✤✖✙ ✧✗✖ ✯✬✘
✰✢✓✎ ✒✙✢✖✱ ✮✏✙ ✲✕✓✙✖✥✙✖
told the story of Gideon
and his family, how they
✖✙✑✙✍✥✙★ ✎✏✙ ✔✖✓✎ ✌✗✖★ ✎✏✢✎
Gideon might have CF two
✌✙✙✳✓ ✢✧✎✙✖ ✏✍✓ ✕✍✖✎✏✘ ✮✏✙
family was struggling with
✎✏✙ ✛✍✧✙✴✑✏✢✣✭✍✣✭ ★✍✢✭✣✗✓✍✓✘
Candace said she and her
✏✤✓✕✢✣★✱ ✵✢✥✍★✱ ✣✙✙★✙★
time to accept the reality of
✎✏✙✍✖ ✓✍✎✤✢✎✍✗✣✘
✶✵✢✥✍★ ✢✣★ ✷ ✏✢★ ✢ ✛✗✎ ✗✧
✢★✸✤✓✎✜✙✣✎✱✹ ✓✏✙ ✓✢✍★✘
She said the support her
➃✢➄✙✣✘✗➅ ✛✜✢✣✢✗
➇✬✳✯★✫ ➇✸✰✲✬✯✶ ➉✬✵✹✸✯✶ ➊✸✶✬✩➌ ➍➎ ✩★✫✭✹s➌ ✹✸s ✵✮s✭✬✵
➏✰✲★s✬s➌ ✸✫ ✬✫✵✲✯✳✬✰✶✮ ✲✸✲✯ ✳✬s✯✸s✯✻ ➐✬s ✩★✭✹✯✲➌ ✧✸✫✳✸✵✯
➊✸✶✬✩➌ ✵✸✲✯s ➑★✲ ✹✬✩ ➑✪✶✶✷✭✬✩✯✻
family has received has made
✢✛✛ ✎✏✙ ★✍✺✙✖✙✣✑✙ ✧✗✖ ✎✏✙✜✘
✶✷✎✻✓ ✕✙✙✣ ✖✙✢✛✛✒ ✕✙✢✤✎✍✧✤✛
and an honor for so many
✚✙✗✚✛✙ ✎✗ ✑✢✖✙✱✹ ✓✏✙ ✓✢✍★✘
She explained with such a
rare disease, Gideon is the
only infant in Union County
with CF, making his care
✑✗✜✚✛✍✑✢✎✙★✘
✶✦✣✒ ✧✢✑✍✛✍✎✒ ✏✙✻✓ ✏✢★ ✎✗
use in Union County has
✭✗✣✙ ✢✕✗✥✙ ✢✣★ ✕✙✒✗✣★
to educate themselves on
→➅➣↔↕
◗❙❯❲❲❳❨❳❩❬❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❪❫ ✐❩❯❞ ❥❦❦❧ ❭❭❭♠♥❫ s✉❳✇❳❴✇❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❪❥
◗❴❵❳❜❲❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❝❫ ♦❴♣♣❩❞❧❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭q❥ st♣❬❴❴❞❲❭❭❭❭❭❭❭♠❫
◗❞❴❲❲❢❴❞❬❭❭❭❭❭❣❫ s❦❳♣t❯❞❳❩❲❭❭❭❭❭❭❝❥ ①✉❴❞♣❲ ❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭❭③❥
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