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➠➡➢➤➥➦ SPORTS Tigers dominate GOL meet ➧➨➩➩➨➫ ➭➯ ➨➲ ➳➵➸ ➫➸➺ ➷➬➬➮ ➮➱✃ ❐➬ ➬❒❮ ❰➱Ï❒Ð➮ Ñ❒ÒÑÓ❮ÔÒÐ❮ Õ➬ÒÐ❮❐➱ ➷❮ÐÐÖÏÐÐ➬× Ø➱ ➷❮➱Ö➮Ð MONDAY ➻ ➼➽➾ ➚➪➶ ➹➘➚➴ ➻ $1.50 Future first responders hone skills in emergency preparedness Increasing enrollment boosts Cove School District budget Ù ÚÛÜÝÞßßà áâãää Ûä åãæç èé êë ìæßåãæßíîßää ïîÛçÛãçÛðß ñò üýþÿ óôõö þ ÷øùúû þ ❤ ñò üýþÿ óôõö þ ÷øùúû þ ❤ The Cove School Dis- trict’s general fund budget for 2019-20 is set to jump substantially and create a splash on the athletic front. The Cove School Board is considering adopting a general fund budget of $6.66 million, which would be up $995,965 from the present year’s budget. The proposed budget was ap- proved by the district’s budget committee last week and forwarded to the school board, which will later vote on adopting it. The budget will allow the school district to main- tain all of its personnel and programs, said Cove School District Superin- tendent Earl Pettit. He said the increase is due to rising enrollment and to a boost ✁✈ ✁ Twelve Union County teenagers are short on life experience but long on heart, commu- nity spirit and a sense of adventure. They are the young people completing a new federally funded emergency preparedness class for youths age 13 to 19 now being taught in La Grande. The students are learning about every- thing from the dangers posed by air bags inside automobiles that have crashed to the science of doing cardio pulmonary resuscitation. The six-week class — which is part of the My Preparedness Initiative (MyPi), is an Oregon Youth Preparedness Initiative program coordinated by ✂✄☎✆✝✞ ✟✠✡✠☎ ☛✞☞✌☎✄✍☞✠✎ ✏ ☞✍ ☞✞ ☞✠✍ ✑✞✡✒ ✓☎☎✔✕ “(The students) are doing an awesome job,” said Robin Gerber, a longtime Union County 4-H leader who is co-teaching the course with her husband, Lou, who served as a medic in the National Guard for many years. ❹❺❻❼ ❽❾❿❽➀➁ ❿❽➂➃❼➄ ➃➅ ➆❼❾➇ ➇❼➅➇❾❼➈➉ ➋ ➊➌➍➎➏➐ ➊➑➒➒➌➓➔ →➣↔ ↕➒➑➙➓➛➌➐ The students’ knowledge base was expanded ✟✡✠✖✄✗✡✎ ✘✎ ✑✄☎✑✆✙✠☎✄✍ ✓☞✠✙ ✠✙☎ ✚✛✘✒☎✄ ✡✞✗ La Grande rural departments who provided hands-on experience in how to rescue some- one trapped in a car following an accident. The cutting into a vehicle can trigger the deploy- ment of airbags, which could break the necks and legs of rescuers. “The same thing that can save lives (of vehicle passengers) ✜✡✞ ✘☎ ✙✡✄✗ ✝✞ ✑✄☎✤ ✑✆✙✠☎✄✍✥✦ ✧✡✄✄✎ ✍✡☞✗✕ Barry was one of ✡✘✝✖✠ ✑✌☎ ✑✄☎✑✆✙✠✤ ers who participated in Saturday’s rescue demonstration. He was joined by Jon Louden, Josh Holbert and Tyrel Arant of the La Grande Rural Fire Department and Ken Patterson of the Imbler Rural Fire ❙❂❃❄❅❆❂❇ ❈❆ ❊❆ ❅❋❅●❍❅❆■❏ ❑●❅❑❊●❅❄❆❅❇❇ ■▲❊❇❇ ▲❅❊●❆❅❄ ❂❅■▼◆ ★☎✢✡✄✠✛☎✞✠✕ ❆❈♥❃❅❇ ❖●P❋ ◗●❅◗❍▼❂❅●❇ ❖P● ❇❊❖❅▲❏ ■❃❂❂❈❆❍ ❈❆❂P t❅▼❈■▲❅❇ ❊❂ ❊■◆ ✩✙☎ ✑✄☎✤ ✑✆✙✠☎✄✍ ✠✡✖✆✙✠ ✠✙☎ ✍✠✖✤ See Cove / Page 5A ❉✲✳❦ ✴✵✶✷✸✹✺✻✼ ✽✾✿✼❀❁✼❀ ■❈❄❅❆❂ ❇■❅❆❅❇ ❙❊❂❃●❄❊❏❘ dents how to dismantle a vehicle and provided an overview of how they work at and manage accident scenes. A key point was the importance of being or- ganized, as it is critical in the high-intensity environment at many accident scenes. “We try to bring order out of chaos,” Barry said. who have addressed the class. “Our guest speakers have been tremen- dous,” Lou Gerber said. Guest speakers on Saturday also included Bill Rautenstrauch, a former Observer reporter and retired National Guardsman who was an EMT ☞✠ ☞✍ ✠✝ ✑✄✍✠ ✍✙✖✠ ✗✝✓✞ ✡ ✌☎✙☞✜✒☎✣✍ ☎✒☎✜✠✄☞✜✡✒ ✍✎✍✠☎✛ ✪☞✄☎✑✆✙✠☎✄✍ ✫✄✝✛ ✠✙☎ ✚✛✘✒☎✄ ✡✞✗ ✬✡ ✭✄✡✞✗☎ ☞✞ ✮✡✒✒✝✓✡ ✯✝✖✞✠✎ ✫✝✄ ✰✰ ✎☎✡✄✍✕ ✱✍ ✡ ✑✄✍✠ ✄☎✤ and dismantle its entire airbag system. Imbler Fire Department Chief Mike Barry explained that ✄✖✄✡✒ ✑✄☎ ✗☎✢✡✄✠✛☎✞✠✍ ✙✡✌☎ ✘☎☎✞ ✡✛✝✞✆ ✛✡✞✎ ✜✖✄✄☎✞✠ ✡✞✗ ✫✝✄✛☎✄ ✑✄✍✠ ✄☎✍✢✝✞✗☎✄✍ sponder, he made hundreds of ambulance runs, ✎✝✖✠✙✍ ✓☎✄☎ ✍✙✝✓✞ ✙✝✓ ✑✄☎✑✆✙✠☎✄✍ ✜✖✠ ✠✙✄✝✖✆✙ vehicles with tools like hydraulically powered Jaws of Life to reach people quickly. Before they got to the cutting process, though, ✠✙☎ ✑✄☎✑✆✙✠☎✄✍ ✗☞✍✜✖✍✍☎✗ ☞✞ ✗☎✠✡☞✒ ✙✝✓ ☞✛✢✝✄✠✡✞✠ See Youth / Page 5A ❛❬ ❩ ❛ ❨ ❭ ❬ ❩ ❨ ➝ ➜ ➜ ❝ ➞➟➠ ➡ ➢ ➤ ✁✈➥➦ ✱ ✢✄☎✍✜✄☞✘☎✗ ✑✄☎ ✞☎✡✄ “We probably accom- plished about 50 percent of what we were hoping to get,” said Steve Hawkins, ❨ ❪ ✗☎✢✖✠✎ ✑✄☎ ✍✠✡❣ ✫✖☎✒✍ ✢✄✝✤ gram manager for the Wal- lowa-Whitman National Forest. “That’s pretty typi- cal of spring burning.” ❫❴ ❵ ❜❡ ❝❞ ❵ ❤ ✁✈ ✁ Solar energy is about to shine on Northeast Or- egon in an innovative way. Energy Trust of Oregon has awarded a $10,000 grant to Wallowa Re- sources Community So- lutions in partnership ñò þ øòùúû þ øõú þ ò þ ✓✡✍ ✛✝✄☎ ✑➧➧✒☎ ✠✙✡✞ ✫✖✄✎✕ Ù Ûî æãîçä æÛî æßîßÞã âß ßîßæ ë ãááßää çè âçÛÝéã Ûâë è äÛî åæè ßáç ñò þ øû þ ø ôù ú with Fleet Development üýþÿ for a pilot project that ❨ Smoke plumes outside Baker City Baker City produced an impressive plume of smoke Friday afternoon and eve- ning, but on parts of the 236-acre area the blaze Solar power comes to Wallowa County ❚❯❱❲❳❳❳ ✁✈ ✁ helps low- and moderate- income Oregonians ben- ☎✑✠ ✫✄✝✛ ✍✝✒✡✄ ✠☎✜✙✞✝✒✤ ✩✙☎ ✑✄☎ ☞✞ ✮✡✍✙☞✞✆✠✝✞ ogy. Project developers also expect to receive a $39,000 grant from the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program in the coming weeks. Fleet Development Presi- dent Ryan Sheehy said the project, dubbed Park Street Solar, will involve installing solar panels on top of an 11-unit apartment building at 603 NW Silver St. in En- terprise. Construction will begin in June or July. ✡✘✒☎ ✠✝ ✑✆✖✄☎ ✝✖✠ ✙✝✓ ✠✝ ment tenants having ac- cess to solar energy. “One is near term — the cost of energy the solar Gulch, about four miles west of town, was intended to burn piles of slash and other fuels left after a se- ries of commercial logging and noncommercial tree- thinning projects about a decade ago, Hawkins said. Another objective was to burn some of the young trees — mainly 6 feet or shorter — that have sprout- ed since the logging and thinning work, he said. Those small trees can serve as “ladder fuels” — a utilize that roof space and ✢✡✞☎✒ ✆☎✞☎✄✡✠☎✍ ☞✍ ✑❥☎✗✥ ✄✝✖✠☎ ✫✝✄ ➨✡✛☎✍ ✠✝ ✜✒☞✛✘ ✆☎✠ ✍✝✛☎ ✑✞✡✞✜☞✡✒ ✘☎✞☎✑✠ whereas (traditional) utilities go up 2% a year,” he said. “Then there’s net metering, which means whatever excess is pro- from the ground into the crowns of taller, mature trees, Hawkins said. See Solar / Page 5A See Fire / Page 5A ✧☎✠✍✎ ❢✡✖❣✛✡✞✥ ✠✙☎ renewable energy sec- tor lead at Energy Trust, said while Energy Trust awarded eight other grants to solar projects across the state, the Wal- lowa Resources and Fleet ❜❋❝❞❡ ❈✄ ❈☞✌✝ ☎✆✆✝ ✍ ✞ ✆✡ ✝✟ ✡ ✠✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✸☛ ✹☛ ❈☞✌✌✎✏✝✑✒ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡✻ ✽☛ ✓ ❉✟☎✔✓✕✕✒✡ ❧✷♠♦♣q✶r s✉✷♣✷ ✇▲❅❅❂ ①❅t❅▲P❑❋❅❆❂ ❈❆❇❂❊▲▲❅❄ ❂▼❅❇❅ ❇P▲❊● ❑❊❆❅▲❇ ❊❂ ❂▼❅ ②▲③▼P●❆ ④❈▲▲❊❍❅ ⑤❑❊●❂❋❅❆❂ ⑥❃❈▲❄❈❆❍ ❈❆ ⑦❊③❅● ⑧❈❂❏ ▲❊❇❂ ⑨■❂P⑥❅●❘⑩▼❅ ❶❊●③ ❙❂●❅❅❂ ❙P▲❊● ❑●P❷❅■❂ ❸❈▲▲ ▲PP③ ❇❈❋❈▲❊●❘ Development plan is nota- bly unique because it will bring the rewards of solar energy to people who may not traditionally have had access to it due to residing in multi-family housing. ✐✚✣✛ ☞✞✠☎✄☎✍✠☎✗ ✠✝ ✑✆✖✄☎ out how those families who aren’t in single-fami- ✒✎ ✙✝✛☎✍ ✜✡✞ ✘☎✞☎✑✠ ✫✄✝✛ ✖☞✌✟✡ ✗✟✑ ✗☞✑ ✑ ✑ ✟ ✟ ✔✆✡ ✔✒✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡✷ ✹ ✶☛ ✓ ✓ ❖✘✝ ✙✘☞✔✑ ✏✝☞ ✆ ✏✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡ ✡✹ ✼ ✓ ✓ ❖✕✝✑✎☎✔✝✟✆✡✡ ✡ ✡✸✓ WEDNESDAY solar,” she said. “Apart- ment buildings have a lot of roof space, and being to the people in the build- ing from the solar panels is really intriguing.” Sheehy said there are two advantages for apart- ❦❧♠♦♣❧q r✉ss t✈✇①②③④⑤✈⑥⑤⑦①⑧③②⑨✈t⑩④①②⑤❶✈⑥ ❷❸❹❺❻❼❽ ❷➈➉➊➋➌➍ ❾❿ ➀➁➂ ➃➄➅❾➇ ➎➏➐➑➒➓ ➔➒→➣↔➓ ↕→➙➛➜➣➝➜➞➟➝➛ ▼❆❨ ✥❙ ▲✁❊❘ ❆▼❊❘✥■❆◆➆❙ ▼ ◆✂❍ ❅❇❋●❏❅● ❑P ◗❯❱❲❳❩❬❲❬❱❩❱ ❭✆✆✎✟❪✻ ✝☞✏✆❫✶✽✘☎❴✟✆ ✷✆✟✍✑ ✗☎❵✔☎✏✠✟❫❖✔✟❴☞✏ ✪✄☞✗✡✎✣✍ ✑✄☎ ✘✖✄✞☎✗ ☞✞✠✝ some of those thickets of ❢❏❣❞❏ P●❇❤✐ ❜❝❞❏❥ ✚✛✜ ✜ ❚✢✣✤✦✧✣★✩✣★✪✣✫✧★✬✬✭✛✮ ✺✯✰✲✱✳✴✲✴✰✳✰✬★✧✣✪✵✛✪✣✭✛✾✜ ✮✬ ✪✣✫✧♥✜✛✿★✛✪✵✣✬✦✧✣★✩✣★❀❁✬✭❀ ❂✬★✣❁✬✪✮✛❁✮✾✪❃✬✬✪❄✛✿✣✯❛❀ Online at lagrandeobserver.com
