BUSINESS & AG LIFE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020
THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD — 3B
CELEBRATE
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career of 32 years as a
teacher.
He was feted many
times as an educator while
at LHS and about 15 years
ago was named Oregon’s
high school art teacher of
the year by the Oregon Art
Education Association.
The educator came
to La Grande High after
teaching 15 years at Nyssa
High School. Judy Jensen
recalled the interview team
at LHS did not deliberate
long after interviewing
him.
“I received a call from
LHS offering him the job
before he got home,” she
said, speaking of a time
when landlines ruled, not
cellphones.
Bob Jensen said his
stint at the high school was
the most enjoyable of his
education career because
he so liked working with
its students and faculty.
“Everything clicked,”
he said.
One of the most popular
programs the Jensens have
run at the Potter’s House
is a Christmas show that
was conducted annually
for 17 years through 2017
at their gallery and home,
which are connected. Each
room at their business and
this past week.
The fi rm concluded that
online shopping is likely
to retain much of the boost
it is enjoying during the
pandemic, and that for the
foreseeable future people
are likely to focus their
spending on essentials
given the enduring eco-
nomic uncertainty.
Oregon allowed many
WEDDINGS
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large or small, indoor
or outdoor, masks have
become a sticking point for
photos and video. Some
couples argue that masks
spoil their visuals and are
banning them altogether.
Others are making them
optional. Still more are
going the opposite route,
wearing bedazzled satin
and lace masks to match
their gowns.
“I get that this is not
how they want their wed-
dings to look,” Alvarez
said. “The big question
everyone needs to be
answering right now is
what’s the moral respon-
sibility, and also what’s
their liability in hosting an
event that potentially could
Van Eenennaam
aimed to use SRY, a gene
that instructs mamma-
lian embryos to develop
male traits. Her goal, she
said, was to use Crispr to
cut DNA and insert SRY
onto the X chromosome of
bovine embryos to increase
the likelihood of producing
a male herd.
For years, they avoided
inserting DNA from other
species, because that would
make the calves “trans-
genic,” and according to
FDA, genetically modi-
fi ed organisms, or GMOs.
In 2017, FDA classifi ed
any edited animal DNA as
though it were a new kind
of drug.
“To call an animal a
drug is a bit wonky,” said
Van Eenennaam.
The rule meant a geneti-
cally engineered calf could
never enter the food supply,
GMO or non-GMO. So,
because it made no dif-
ference, the researchers
inserted bioluminescent jel-
lyfi sh DNA into the calf
embryos. If the SRY inser-
tion worked, the embryo
would glow green under
ultraviolet light — making
the researchers’ job easier.
The scientists moved
the SRY gene and jellyfi sh
DNA to chromosome 17 of
200 embryos. Of those, 22
survived. Nine glimmered
green. Only one grew to
maturity.
Cosmo was named after
a glowing green character
from the animated Nick-
elodeon television series,
“The Fairly OddPar-
ents.” The show’s title also
seemed fi tting: Cosmo’s
dad was a Holstein named
Swordfi sh and his biological
mom was an ovary donor
from a processing plant.
Critics contend Crispr
has too many risks.
Other Crispr animals
have had odd side effects:
pigs with extra vertebrae,
cattle that die prematurely,
rabbits with huge tongues.
Lisa Moses, animal bio-
ethicist at Harvard Medical
School, told the Wall Street
Journal last year, “It’s really
hubris of us to assume that
we know what we’re doing
and that we can predict
what kinds of bad things
can happen.”
Van Eenennaam said
because of public sentiment,
Crispr challenges and FDA
rules, there likely won’t be a
U.S. market soon, if ever.
“If you’d told me 30
years ago this still wouldn’t
be allowed by U.S. reg-
ulators, I wouldn’t have
believed you — and I
would’ve for sure pursued a
different career,” she said.
Jim Reecy, researcher
in Iowa State’s Department
of Animal Science, said
he thinks regulatory agen-
cies should treat genetically
engineered or modifi ed ani-
mals no differently than
engineered plants.
“Genetically modifi ed
corn, tomatoes and other
vegetables are accepted by
a large portion of society,”
he said. “So why should an
animal be any different?”
Cosmo won’t become
steak, but the little calf has
work to do: get weaned,
grow up, and breed to see if
his offspring really are 75%
male.
“Time will tell,” said
Reecy.
portation industries.
• Expands a qualifying
project into a new area
based on a proven suc-
cessful model.
• Pilots a qualifying
project that has a high
likelihood of success
based on business need
with metrics.
• Serves as a model for
other Eastern Oregon areas
that have shown interest in
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Judy Jensen restores old furniture at the Potter’s Gift House & Gallery, La Grande. She
and her husband, Bob Jensen, have operated the business for 20 years.
house would be fi lled with
Christmas gift items for
weeks. The Jensens would
move out of their house
during this time to allow
its use for the show.
Visitors became so
accustomed to visiting the
Jensens’ home during this
time that some came to
think of it as a permanent
part of the Potter’s House.
Today, people occasion-
ally walk into the Jensens’
home expecting to fi nd a
continuation of the gallery.
The Potter House’s
20-year celebration started
Wednesday, Aug. 5, and
will continue through
Aug. 25. The Jensens have
not planned any big par-
ties during the celebration
because of the COVID-19
pandemic but are offering
special sales and drawings.
Sales during the cele-
bration will be monitored
in intervals of 20 and the
customers making every
20th sale will receive a
20% discount. There also
will be drawings for prizes
of $20.
A 25th anniversary cel-
ebration may be only fi ve
years away. Judy Jensen
said she cannot imagine a
time when she and her hus-
band will not be running
the Potter’s Gift House &
Gallery.
“It is what we do,”
she said, “and we do it
together.”
lead to an outbreak?”
She said that breaking
her contract for the indoor
wedding, where masks
would be optional, would
cost her $4,000. It’s her
fi rst job this year.
In a normal year, she
would be juggling 28
weddings from March to
September.
While the couple
trimmed their guest list
from 175 to help with
social distancing, “masks
are not a concession that
they’re willing to make,”
Alvarez said.
Alvarez plans other
safety measures, such as
spreading out tables and
offering wider-spaced
seating grouped by house-
holds, when possible. She
also suggested a tactic
used by other couples,
offering color-coded wrist-
bands for guests to declare
their comfort levels with
contact.
To avoid crowd issues,
some couples are holding
their ceremonies and
receptions with different
groups of guests invited at
staggered times.
“There’s just so much
emotional baggage that has
come with weddings this
year that the idea of masks
at their weddings is the last
straw,” Alvarez said. “But
of course there’s danger in
that.”
cally shared that this pan-
demic is not going to get
in the way of their wed-
ding plans and that there
will be no masks handed
out and no signs pro-
moting social distancing at
their wedding,” she said.
“The bride has said that
when she shows her chil-
dren her wedding video,
she doesn’t want it to be a
documentary of the 2020
pandemic.”
Most of Goldberg’s cou-
ples have rescheduled or
downsized, but “there’s
always someone who
doesn’t want to follow the
recommended path.”
Planning a wedding for
200 guests while social
distancing is challenging
but doable, Goldberg said,
but: “Asking 200 guests
to not wear masks is
crazy.”
Funds available
to advance
Eastern
Oregon’s
workforce
‘There’s always
someone’
Wedding planner Lynne
Goldberg has a December
wedding scheduled for
200 guests at the home of
the bride’s parents in New
York.
“They have emphati-
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LA GRANDE — The
Eastern Oregon Work-
force Board in a press
release Tuesday, Aug. 4,
announced it has $48,000
available to help launch
projects/programs that
support job advancement
and training.
The EOWB serves
Baker, Grant, Harney,
Malheur, Morrow, Uma-
tilla, Union and Wallowa
counties and invites busi-
nesses and organizations
in the area to apply for
these funds. An organiza-
tion may qualify for funds
if the project/program:
• Supports busi-
ness growth or job cre-
ation and/or advancement
opportunities.
• Supports advance-
ment of the health care,
manufacturing or trans-
sectors, notably manu-
facturing and construc-
tion, to continue operating
throughout the pandemic.
And thousands of offi ce
workers continue doing
their jobs from home.
But some sectors of the
economy simply won’t be
back until the virus is gone,
the Oregon Business Plan
concluded in a new report
on the state’s recovery. Lei-
sure and hospitality in par-
ticular may not have a clear
path forward.
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