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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019
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Today is Friday, Nov. 1,
the 305th day of 2019. There
are 60 days left in the year.
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Nov. 1, 1936, in a
speech in Milan, Italy, Benito
Mussolini described the al-
liance between his country
and Nazi Germany as an
“axis” running between
Rome and Berlin.
ON THIS DATE
In 1604, William Shake-
speare’s tragedy “Othello”
was fi rst presented at White-
hall Palace in London.
In 1765, the Stamp
Act, passed by the British
Parliament, went into effect,
prompting stiff resistance
from American colonists.
In 1861, during the Civil
War, President Abraham
Lincoln named Maj. Gen.
George B. McClellan Gen-
eral-in-Chief of the Union
armies, succeeding Lt. Gen.
Winfi eld Scott.
In 1950, two Puerto Rican
nationalists tried to force
their way into Blair House
in Washington, D.C., in a
failed attempt to assassinate
President Harry S. Truman.
In 1952, the United States
exploded the fi rst hydrogen
bomb, code-named “Ivy
Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in
the Marshall Islands.
In 1989, East Germany
reopened its border with
Czechoslovakia, prompting
tens of thousands of refu-
gees to fl ee to the West.
In 1991, Clarence Thomas
took his place as the newest
justice on the Supreme
Court.
In 2003, Democratic presi-
dential candidate Howard
Dean stirred controversy
within his party by telling
the Des Moines Register he
wanted to be “the candidate
for guys with Confederate
fl ags in their pickup trucks.”
(The former Vermont
governor explained that he
intended to encourage the
return of Southern voters
who had abandoned the
Democrats for decades but
were disaffected with the
Republicans.)
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Hewitt, Tanner Willson, Erin Voss and Michelle Long.
Film Fest funds local works
■ Eastern Oregon Film
Festival Filmmaker
Support Project Fund helps
local artists realize projects
By Sabrina Thompson
The Observer
The Eastern Oregon Film Festi-
val works to help local artists gain
the exposure that is often needed to
further their careers — from choos-
ing local bands to play at the festival’s
after-parties to contributing to the
funding of projects created by fi lmmak-
ers who are in the area. This year’s
festival included a special screening
of “Hold onto the Moving Sky,” a work
that the EOFF Filmmaker Support
Project Fund helped create. The fi lm
was directed by Benjamin Morgan, co-
founder of EOFF. After the screening,
J.J. Hill and Liberty O’Dell introduced
their project, a documentary-styled
fi lm titled “Out of Character,” which
will be the next fi lm to be supported by
the fund.
Morgan’s movie is based on his wife,
La Grande native Jocelyn Berado, and
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native Ian Howarth as its
new regional director of
Baker and Union counties.
The college also announced
Howarth will lead BMCC’s
Baker County Center in
Baker City.
Howarth begins his role
Nov. 4. He succeeds Dan
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Bob’s
Koopman, who resigned
from BMCC earlier this
fall to take a position with
Southwestern Oregon Com-
munity College after four
years in the position.
Previously, Howarth has
served as the regional early
assessment support alliance
coordinator for the Center
for Human Development,
La Grande, and a mental
health counselor for New
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“People who bite the
hand that feeds them usu-
ally lick the boot that kicks
them.”
— Eric Hoffer, American
author and philosopher
EOFF Filmmaker Support Project
Fund will be a fantasy documentary
by La Grande locals Hill and O’Dell.
The movie will document an event
that never happened, according to
the fi lmmakers. Filmed as a psuedo-
doumentary, it showcases fi ve days
of a live action role play event and
follows six characters who are fi ght-
ing for a $10,000 reward. The fi lm will
take place in Eastern Oregon, and the
team is having an open call for extras
in November, with fi lming planned to
take place March through June.
“As new fi lmmakers we realized this
project was so much bigger than us,”
Hill said. “A driving force, other than
the story idea, was to showcase the
community of Eastern Oregon and the
talent in the area.”
The fi lm festival, along with personal
donations, will help with the $50,000
needed to fund the project. Though
most of the location logistics have been
sorted, the team is still looking for those
who would like to support their fi lm.
“The fi lm festival is the foundation
for the project,” Hill said. “We realized
that our goals lined up perfectly with
EOFF.”
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the journey she took in dealing with an
unexpected pregnancy and an apa-
thetic boyfriend. The fi lm, which does
not have any dialogue, depends on its
actors to tell the story with body lan-
guage and displayed emotions. When
Berado’s character decides to leave her
boyfriend to return home, she does so
without a word between the two.
“As we were talking through the
story we realized the moment when
they’re looking at each other down the
hall, the worst thing he could do in
that moment is say something,” Mor-
gan said. “It shows the power of apathy
and the power of self-love, which are
two things that don’t require dialogue.”
Jocelyn said playing the role of
herself was healing and gave her more
compassion and closure about the
situation. Berado and Morgan co-wrote
the piece and, through funding from
EOFF and a Kickstarter, were able to
collaborate on a project that is very
close to their hearts.
“Having that funding gave us a good
fi nancial backing,” Morgan said. “Lo-
gistically, it gave us a good structural
foundation.”
The next project to emerge from the
PENDLETON — The
Heppner Ranger District of
the Umatilla National Forest
is hosting a public workshop
on the West End Farm Bill
Categorical Exclusion project
on Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. at the Hep-
pner Ranger District offi ce.
The objective of the two-
hour workshop is to discuss
and receive feedback on the
proposed treatments in the
project area. The workshop
will also feature a presenta-
tion by entomologist Mike
Johnson from the Blue
Mountains Forest Insect and
Disease Service Center on
“The Infl uence of Drought
Stress on the Response of
Trees to Bark Beetle Attacks
in High Density Forest
Stands.”
The West End Project is
located west of Highway
207 approximately 28 miles
southwest of Heppner. The
purpose of the project is to
reduce the risk and extent
of an ongoing insect and
disease infestation.
The West End Project
proposes to treat up to 3,000
acres by removing trees
through mechanical treat-
ments including commercial
thinning, small diameter
thinning, pile burning and
prescribed fi re. Treatments
would remove insect- and
disease-infested trees and
reduce stocking levels to
decrease competition for
moisture, light and nutrients.
Proposed activities are de-
signed to improve the ability
of trees to ward off insects
and diseases and decrease
fuel buildup from dead and
dying trees, thus increasing
forest stand resilience.
The Forest Service is seek-
ing scoping comments to help
refi ne the proposed action
and identify ways to improve
project design. The comment
period is an opportunity for
the public to be involved
in the process and offer
thoughts on alternative ways
the Forest Service can accom-
plish the project purpose.
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