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SPORTS ➦➧➨➩➫➭ All-American hopefuls ➯➲➳➳➲➵ ➸➺ ➲➻ ➼➽➾ ➵➾➚ WEDNESDAY ➪ ➶➹➘ ➴➴➷ ➴➬➮➱ ➪ $1.50 ✃❐❐❒ ❒❮❰ Ï❐ ❐ÐÑ Ò❮ÓÐÔ❒ ÕÐÖÕ×ÑØÖÔÑ ÙÏ❮×❰ Ú❮ÑÒ❐ÕÛØ ❐Ü ÝÞÏÔÑßÑØÕÔ La Grande City Council reviews housing needs analysis ❇✘ ✙✚✛✜✢✛ ✣❡✤✥✦✧♦✢ ★❤✩ ✪✫✬✩✭✮✩✭ a member of the FCS Group Planning Division, tacked on To address these issues, housing needs analysis com- next 20 years by almost 1,400, meaning the city will need to add a range of 700 to nearly 1,000 housing units within city limits dur- ing this time span to accom- housing is taken up by peo- the needs and desires of the community, and assure that residents of La Grande for multi-family development the city meet this goal: increase housing capacity ■✵✻ ■✻✹❈✳✱ ✻✰ ✴✵✳ ✿✴❄✱❁❂ his own explanation of this the report outlines a new have the opportunity to live ❙ ❯✳❱✳✸✻✼ ✯❖✻✹✱✯❃✸✳ The La Grande City Coun- ❏❑✴▲✿ ✴✽✲✳ ✴✻ ✵✽✴ ✹✳✺✹✳✿✵❂▼ housing goal for the city, in safe and sanitary hous- housing ✴✹✽❀❈✸✳P✱✻■✰ ✴✵✳✻✹❁❂ cil met for a work session Based on this report, the ❙ ❲✰✵✯✰❀✳ ✴✵✳ ❀✻✰✱✽✴✽✻✰ “It’s like a snowball ef- which is “to encourage the ✽✰❅ ✯✴ ✯ ✹✳✯✿✻✰✯❃✸✳ ❀✻✿✴❂▼ Monday evening to review population of La Grande is ✺✳❀✴◗▼ ✵✳ ✿✯✽✱❂ ❏❘✵✳✰ ❁✻❄ ❅✳✴ development of a variety Five strategies were out- of existing housing stock ❙ ❳❄✼✼✻✹✴ ✲✳✯✿❄✹✳✿ ✴✵✯✴ ✯✰✱ ✯✲✳✰✱✴✵✳✷✰✯✸ ✱✹✯✺✴ ✻✺ ✯ expected to grow over the down to the lower end, that of housing types to meet lined in the report to help ✼✽✸✳✱ ✿✼✳❀✽✷❀✯✸✸❁ ✺✻✹ ✴✵✳ ❀✽✴❁❂ The analysis, which was ✱✹✯✺✴✳✱ ❃❁ ❀✻✰✿❄✸✴✽✰❅ ✷✹✲ FCS Group and the La Grande Planning Division, ✻❄✴✸✽✰✳✿ ❈✳❁ ✷✰✱✽✰❅✿ ✻✺ ✴✵✳ ✲✻✱✯✴✳ ✰✳■ ✹✳✿✽✱✳✰✴✿❂ current housing needs in the city and suggests solutions to these issues based on data ❨ ❩❬❭✇ ✇❪ ❫❴❵❪ ❫❭❛❜❝❬❞ ❝❜❜❛❪❜ ❫❪❢❪✐ ❥❛❦ ❨ ❴❧❜❭ ❜❪❪ s❭❜❜❝❥❝❧❝❦❝❪❜♠ ♥❝❦❫ ❦❫❪ ❢❝❞❫❦ ♣❪❵❪❧❭s❪❢❜ ❴❬♣ ❝❬q❪❬❦❝❵❪❜✐ ✇❪ r❝❞❫❦ ❥❪ ❴❥❧❪ ❦❭ s❛❧❧ ❦❫❝❜ ❦❭❞❪❦❫❪❢♠➈ ➋ t✉①②① ③④①⑤①⑥✉⑦⑧ ⑨⑩ ❶❷⑩⑥❸① ❹⑩❺❻❷ Most of the housing needs lie with low- to mid- dle-income populations who are looking for af- fordable rental units in the form of multi-family hous- ing, but the demand for high-income homes is also ✼✸✳ ■✵✻ ❀✯✰ ✯❖✻✹✱ ✲✻✹✳❂▼ ❙ ❑✰❀✹✳✯✿✳ ✻✼✼✻✹✴❄✰✽✴✽✳✿ See Housing / Page 5A Households by income: La Grande, Union County, Oregon 2017 Oregon Union County ✯ ✺✻❀✯✸ ✼✻✽✰✴ ✻✺ ✴✵✳ ✹✳✼✻✹✴❂ Tim Wood, another FCS Group member who helped to prepare the analysis, said addressing the need for high-income housing could free up space for low- to middle- La Grande 39.3% 19.9% 24.9% 15.9% ✽✰❀✻✲✳ ✹✳✿✽✱✳✰✴✿❂ “We’re seeing this in a 0% ❀✻✲✼✽✸✳✱ ✽✰ ❉❊❋●❂ ❍✵✳ ✲✻✿✴ lot of communities,” he recent housing needs analy- ✿✯✽✱❂ ❏◆✻✸❈✿ ✯✹✳ ❃❄❁✽✰❅ 25% $0 to $29,999 50% $30,000 to $49,999 75% $50,000 to $99,999 100% $100,00 or more sis was completed more less house than they could “The reason we’re doing this is to update your hous- ing plan,” said Todd Chase, Mike Boquist, community õö÷øù úû ùöüö ýþúÿ ✈ ùøù ✈ û ü ø ✁✂✶✾ ✄ ú ☎ ÷ ✈ û ✆ ✝ øøù÷ ❆ ûö ✞✟ ÷ ✈ ÷ ✠✟ ✡☛☞ ✌ þú ☎ ý öûù ü ø ✍ ö ✌ þöûùø ✎✞ öûû ✈ û ✆ ✏✈ ÿ ✈ ÷ ✈ úû ✑ ü ✈ ÷ development director and ✆ þöý ÷ ú ❣ ÷ ü ø ✒ ú ✓ ýöþ ✈ ÷úû ú ✔ ✈ û ✒ ú ✓ ø ýøþ ú ☎ ÷ø ú ✞ ù ✠ øü ❣ øøû ✍ ö ✌ þöûùø ✑ ✕ û ✈ úû ☛ ú ☎ ûü ✟ öûù ✖ þø ✆ úû ✗❚ ø öûö ✞✟ ÷ ✈ ÷ city planner of the La Grande þøýúþü÷ ✍ ö ✌ þöûùø ö÷ ö þø ✞ öü ✈ ÿø ✞✟ ✈✆ ÷ öþø ú ✔ ✞ ú ❣ ✈ û ✒ ú ✓ ø ú ☎ ÷ø ú ✞ ù÷ ✒ ú ✓ ýöþøù ❣✈ ü ✒ ú ☎ ûü ✟ öûù ÷üöüø ✗ ✴✵✯✰ ❉❊ ❁✳✯✹✿ ✯❅✻❂ ✯❖✻✹✱❂▼ àáâãäâ åæçèéêëäìíîï ðñòïóôïó Elgin School District Oregon joins effort to solve crimes against must trim $123,000 women from 2019-20 budget Native ❇✘ ❿✛✧✘ ➇➉✢❡➊➌ ❇✘ ❼✤❽❾ ❿✛✥♦✜ would be compensated for ★❤✩ ✪✫✬✩✭✮✩✭ by changing teaching as- ❍✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ❯✽✿✴✹✽❀✴ signments and combining needs to make $123,000 ❀✳✹✴✯✽✰ ❀✸✯✿✿✳✿❂ ➃✹✳✽✺ ✿✯✽✱ in cuts to balance its 2019- 20 budget due to a loss in ✿✴✯✴✳ ✺❄✰✱✽✰❅❂ The good news is this this means several classes that now have between 10 and 11 students would have a still manageable 20 ❀✯✰ ❃✳ ✱✻✰✳ ✼✯✽✰✸✳✿✿✸❁❂ ✼❄✼✽✸✿ ✽✰ ❉❊❋➄P❉❊❂ The superintendent said ❍✵✯✴ ✽✿ ✴✵✳ ✲✳✿✿✯❅✳ ❲✸P gin Superintendent Di- anne Greif had for her school district’s budget ➅✳➆✽❃✽✸✽✴❁ ✴✻ ✱✻ ✴✵✽✿ ❃✳P ❀✯❄✿✳ ✳✰✹✻✸✸✲✳✰✴ ✯✴ ❲✸❅✽✰ Greif said the cuts would creasing in recent years the school district has the ❀✻✲✲✽✴✴✳✳ ➀✻✰✱✯❁ ✰✽❅✵✴❂ High School has been de- ❃✳ ✲✯✱✳ ■✽✴✵✻❄✴ ✸✯❁✽✰❅ ✻❖ and the school has become ✿✴✯❖ ✻✹ ❀❄✴✴✽✰❅ ✼✹✻❅✹✯✲✿❂ ✻❱✳✹✿✴✯❖✳✱❂ She explained that this will be possible in part by ✰✻✴ ✷✸✸✽✰❅ ✴■✻ ✻✼✳✰✽✰❅✿ created by a retirement and a resignation that take Greif also said the school district would be able to avoid cutting high school classes by reassigning the course loads of some ✳❖✳❀✴ ✽✰ ➁❄✰✳❂ ➂✰✳ ✻✺ ✴✵✳ ✴✳✯❀✵✳✹✿❂ “I will be looking at certi- ✻✼✳✰ ✼✻✿✽✴✽✻✰✿ ✽✿ ✯✴ ❲✸❅✽✰ High School and the other ✷❀✯✴✽✻✰✿ ✴✻ ✿✳✳ ■✵✯✴ ✴✳✯❀✵P ✽✿ ✯✴ ❳✴✳✸✸✯ ➀✯❁✷✳✸✱ ❲✸P ers can and cannot teach,” ✳✲✳✰✴✯✹❁ ❳❀✵✻✻✸❂ ✴✵✳ ✿❄✼✳✹✽✰✴✳✰✱✳✰✴ ✿✯✽✱❂ At the high school, which serves students in grades 7 to 12, the loss The $123,000 in reduc- tions would also require ❀✵✯✰❅✳✿ ✯✴ ❳✴✳✸✸✯ ➀✯❁✷✳✸✱ ❲✸✳✲✳✰✴✯✹❁ ❳❀✵✻✻✸❂ ➃✹✳✽✺ is recommending that a classroom teaching assis- tant position, which will become open due to a re- ✴✽✹✳✲✳✰✴◗ ❃✳ ✷✸✸✳✱ ❃❁ ✲✻❱P ing a part-time elementa- ry school special education ✴✳✯❀✵✳✹ ✯✸✹✳✯✱❁ ✻✰ ✴✵✳ ✿✴✯❖ ✽✰✴✻ ✽✴❂ The school district’s full-time special education teacher would take on an added workload as a result ✻✺ ✴✵✳ ✲✻❱✳❂ Greif said her school dis- trict’s educators have been See Budget / Page 5A “As families, we simply ★❤✩ ➍✬✬➎➏➐➑➒✩➓ ➔✭✩✬✬ seek justice and healing of ❳→➣❲➀ ↔ ↕✯✴✽❱✳ →✲✳✹P the heart,” Whitefoot told ican women have gone missing or been killed at alarming rates, federal and private studies show, and there is growing con- cern that confusion by law enforcement over who has jurisdiction can lead to lax pursuit of cases After Brown signed the bill, Whitefoot told a re- porter her sister, Daisy Mae Heath Tallman, was 29 when she went miss- ✽✰❅❂ She was Whitefoot’s youngest sister and lived ✯✰✱ ✽✰✿❄➙❀✽✳✰✴ ✱✯✴✯❂ ➂✹✳❅✻✰◗ ✵✻✲✳ ✴✻ ✰✽✰✳ with her in Washington federally recognized ✿✴✯✴✳❂ ❳✵✳ ■✻❄✸✱ ❃✳ ❅✻✰✳ tribes or confederations ✺✻✹ ✸✻✰❅ ✼✳✹✽✻✱✿◗ ✷✿✵✽✰❅ of tribes, has now joined a movement to account for and solve more of the ❀✹✽✲✳✿❂ Patricia Whitefoot, whose sister disappeared in 1987 in an unsolved for salmon in traditional spots along the Columbia River that divides Wash- ✽✰❅✴✻✰ ✺✹✻✲ ➂✹✳❅✻✰ ✯✰✱ visiting relatives on the Warm Springs reserva- ✴✽✻✰ ✽✰ ➂✹✳❅✻✰❂ ❍✵✳✰◗ ✽✰ ❀✯✿✳◗ ■✯✴❀✵✳✱ ✯✿ ➃✻❱❂ the autumn of 1987, she Kate Brown signed a bill Thursday that directs the state police to study how to increase and improve criminal justice resources ✻✰ ✴✵✳✿✳ ❀✯✿✳✿❂ never returned to her home in White Swan, ❘✯✿✵✽✰❅✴✻✰❂ “She was just a very ✿✳✸✺P✹✳✸✽✯✰✴◗ ✿✳✸✺P✿❄➙❀✽✳✰✴ See Women / Page 5A àãäêæ ➛ ➜ æ ➝ è ➞➟ ìíîï ➠ òò ➡➢➤➥➦ ï ➧ ➨ óïòò ✎ öüþ ✈✒✈ ö ➩ ✈ üø ✔ úúü ✑ ö ✓ ø ✓✠ øþ ú ✔ ü ø ➫ ö ➭ ö ✓ ö üþ ✈✠ ø ✔ þú ✓ ➩ ✈ üø ☞❣ öû ✑➩ ö÷ ✈ û ✆ üúû ✑ üþöÿø ✞ øù üú ü ø ✖ þø ✆ úû ☛ öý ✈ üú ✞ ✞ ö÷ü ❣ øø ➭ ✔ úþ ✌ úÿ ✗ ➯ öüø õþú ❣ û ➲ ÷ ÷ ✈✆ û ✈ û ✆ ú ✔ ö ✠✈✞✞ ù ✈ þø ✒ ü ✈ û ✆ ✖ þø ✆ úû ☞ üöüø ✎ ú ✞✈✒ ø üú ÷ü ☎ ù ✟ ú ❣ üú ✈✓ ýþúÿø ✒ þ ✈✓✈ ûö ✞ ➳☎ ÷ü ✈✒ ø þø÷ú ☎ þ ✒ ø÷ üú ÷ú ✞ ÿø ✒ ö÷ø÷ ú ✔ ✝ öü ✈ ÿø ❆✓ øþ ✈✒ öû ❣ ú ✓ øû ❣ ú öÿø ✆ úûø ✓✈ ÷÷ ✈ û ✆ úþ ✠ øøû ➭✈✞✞ øù ✗➩ ✈ üø ✔ úúü ➲ ÷ ÷ ✈ ÷üøþ ✏ ö ✈ ÷ ✟ ù ✈ ÷öýýøöþøù ✈ û ✶✾➵➸✗ ❚ ø ✒ ö÷ø ❣ ö÷ ûøÿøþ ÷ú ✞ ÿøù ✗ Former mayor elected to Elgin School Board ❇✘ ❼✤❽❾ ❿✛✥♦✜ ★❤✩ ✪✫✬✩✭✮✩✭ ❍✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ➺✻✯✹✱ ■✽✸✸ ✿✻✻✰ ✵✯❱✳ ✯ ✰✳■ ❁✳✴ ✺✯✲✽✸✽✯✹ ✺✯❀✳❂ ➻✻✱ ❳✼✽❈✳✿◗ ✯ ✸✽✺✳✸✻✰❅ ❲✸❅✽✰ ✹✳✿✽P dent, defeated Kevin Smolkowski 269 to 134 in a race for Position 4 ✽✰ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ❯✽✿✴✹✽❀✴ ✺✻✹ ❉➽ Position 4, which is open to those years before retiring about 16 years ✸✽❱✽✰❅ ■✽✴✵✽✰ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❀✽✴❁ ✸✽✲✽✴✿◗ lic service, for he previously served Shelley Burgess, the Position years in the early 1990s, and was Smolkowski is a current member ✯❅✻❂ ❍✵✳❁ ✵✯❱✳ ✴■✻ ✿✻✰✿◗ ❃✻✴✵ ❲✸❅✽✰ was the only contested school board race in Union County in Tuesday’s ➼✽❅✵ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ❅✹✯✱❄✯✴✳✿❂ Rod Spikes is no stranger to pub- ✳✸✳❀✴✽✻✰❂ ✯✿ ✯ ✲✳✲❃✳✹ ✻✺ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ➾ ✽✰❀❄✲❃✳✰✴◗ ✱✽✱ ✰✻✴ ✷✸✳ ✺✻✹ ✹✳P ✻✰ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ❳❀✵✻✻✸ ➺✻✯✹✱ ❍❄✳✿✱✯❁ District Budget Committee for four ✳✸✳❀✴✽✻✰❂ ➺❄✹❅✳✿✿ ✵✯✿ ✿✳✹❱✳✱ ✻✰ ✴✵✳ ❁✳✯✹✿◗ ■✯✿ ✲✯❁✻✹ ✻✺ ❲✸❅✽✰ ✺✻✹ ✴■✻ ❃✻✯✹✱ ✺✻✹ ✯✴ ✸✳✯✿✴ ❋❊ ❁✳✯✹✿❂ ✽✰ ✯ ✲✯✽✸ ✳✸✳❀✴✽✻✰❂ “I want to serve the community ✯✰✱ ✲✯❈✳ ✯ ✱✽❖✳✹✳✰❀✳◗▼ ❳✼✽❈✳✿ ✿✯✽✱❂ ✯ ❱✻✸❄✰✴✳✳✹ ✷✹✳✷❅✵✴✳✹ ✺✻✹ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ of the school board as the Position ❳✼✽❈✳✿ ✵✯✿ ✿✴✹✻✰❅ ✴✽✳✿ ✴✻ ✴✵✳ ❲✸P ◆✽✹✳ ❯✳✼✯✹✴✲✳✰✴ ✺✻✹ ❉❊ ❁✳✯✹✿❂ ❉ ✽✰❀❄✲❃✳✰✴❂ ➚✻✿✽✴✽✻✰ ❉ ✽✿ ✺✻✹ ✴✵✻✿✳ gin School District but will be serv- Before retiring, Spikes worked ✸✽❱✽✰❅ ✻❄✴✿✽✱✳ ✴✵✳ ❲✸❅✽✰ ➪✽✴❁ ✸✽✲P ✽✰❅ ✻✰ ✽✴✿ ❃✻✯✹✱ ✺✻✹ ✴✵✳ ✷✹✿✴ ✴✽✲✳❂ for Boise Cascade for 44 years in a ✽✴✿ ❃❄✴ ■✽✴✵✽✰ ✴✵✳ ✿❀✵✻✻✸ ✱✽✿✴✹✽❀✴❂ See Board / Page 5A ➼✽✿ ■✽✺✳◗ ❲❱✳✸❁✰◗ ✴✯❄❅✵✴ ❲✰❅✸✽✿✵ ❱✯✹✽✳✴❁ ✻✺ ❀✯✼✯❀✽✴✽✳✿❂ ❭✰❪❫❴ ✈✇①②③✇④ ⑤⑥⑦⑦ ⑧⑨⑩❶❷❸❹❺ ⑨❻ ❺❼❶ ❽❸❷❾ ⑨⑧ ❿ ❹❶❷❺➀⑨❻ ❢❀✿❉❍❁✿✿ ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❤❢ ✐❳❋✿✿♦❋❳❩❣❣❣❣❣♣❢ ❬s❉❇❀P❳❉❁✿❣❣❣❣❣❣❄r ✐❥P✿✿❉❦❉❁❩❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❧❢ q❁P❳ rsst ❣❣ ❤❃❢ ❬▲❉❍❉❋❍❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❧r ✐❋♠❉❅✿❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❄❢ ❱❋❇❇❁❳t❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣ ❑r ✉▲❋❳❇✿ ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❂r FRIDAY lawmakers in written tes- ✴✽✲✻✰❁ 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