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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2022
STAMPEDE
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Members of the Elgin High School band practice at Elgin High School on Thursday, April 21, 2022. The band, which includes students from
grades seven through 12, earned its fi rst-ever automatic qualifi er to the OSAA state competition in Corvallis.
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take more time to get the
rhythms down and stuff
like that, making sure they
sound good.”
Giff ord also noted that
the band members try to
stay as composed as pos-
sible on the day of an
important performance like
the district competition.
As a senior with the most
experience in the band, she
makes it a point of emphasis
that the band members
not over stress themselves
before going on stage.
At the 1A level, Elgin
will be competing against
eight teams from across
Oregon at the state com-
petition. Junior trumpet
player Andrew Buckley
stated that being around
other bands with diff erent
skill sets will be a good
learning experience for the
Elgin band.
“I’m defi nitely ner-
vous, but it’s going to be
really fun,” he said. “Hope-
fully we can bring home a
trophy.”
While each individual
band member must have
their instrument ready and
notes memorized, the band
is very much a team.
“Everybody works
together really well,”
Buckley said. “It’s nice
being able to play with a
band that is good at lis-
tening to each other, which
helps the sound of the
whole band.”
“It’s defi nitely very
important,” Giff ord said.
“We’re kind of like a small
family. We have to get
along and we all lean on
each other when it comes
to playing our instruments
well.”
In 2019, Elgin scored
high enough to qualify for
state but the band’s season
ended after a mix-up made
it ineligible for state qualifi -
cation. Giff ord is one of two
seniors who were a part of
that band, which has been
a big motivation during the
group’s strong showing this
year.
“We lost out on going
to state a couple years ago
and then COVID happened,
so this was really exciting
since it’s my senior year,”
always tell it was him by
his laugh.”
The fi rst Xtreme Bronc
Riding event will be held
during this year’s Elgin
Stampede, which is set
to run from Wednesday,
July 6, to Saturday, July,
9. The bronc riding event,
scheduled for July 7, is
formally titled the Elgin
Stampede Bucking in the
Blues Ty Hallgarth Memo-
rial Xtreme Bronc Riding.
Xtreme Bronc Riding is
sanctioned by the Profes-
sional Rodeo Cowboys
Association but it will be
separate from the Stam-
pede’s regular PRCA rodeo
on July 8-9.
Burgess said Hallgarth
liked everything about
rodeo and particularly
enjoyed watching bucking
horses, but helping people
and being with them is what
he liked most.
“He had a love for people
and was genuinely a great
guy,” Moore said. “He was
a genuine friend.”
Moore also recalled
Hallgarth’s humility, saying
he never sought recognition
for his contributions to the
Elgin Stampede.
“He did not want fame or
glory. He just did it because
he loved it,” Moore said.
A statement on the Elgin
Stampeders website fol-
lowing his death painted
a picture of the void Hall-
garth, who grew up in
Elgin, left behind.
“We lost our organiza-
tion’s president, but more
importantly, we lost a
Stampede family member
and an incredible friend,”
the statement reads. “A big
smile. A contagious laugh.
A work ethic and talent that
put all of us to shame. A
love for rodeo and for our
community. Our world is
diff erent without him, and
his absence will be felt for
years to come.”
Elgin Stampeders/Contributed Photo
Elgin Stampede president Ty Hallgarth, 53, rides in the Elgin
Stampede Grand Parade on Saturday, July 10, 2021.
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addiction and at or near the
bottom in access to treat-
ment in nationwide surveys
by the federal government
and mental health groups.
“We need to just fi nd
the beds,” Marshall told the
group, referring to residen-
tial treatment facilities.
One mother, who asked
to remain anonymous to
protect the identity of her
29-year-old son, told the
Capital Chronicle that her
son is living on the streets
of Portland. He’s been on
a waiting list for residen-
tial treatment twice — one
was a two-month wait and
the other for more than six
months — but he never
entered treatment because
he lost the desire.
On the platform, Mar-
shall stood in between two
signs with cellphone num-
bers: one of an unnamed
Oregon Health Authority
offi cial with responsibility
for addiction services and
a top health adviser to Gov.
Kate Brown. He told the
crowd to text those individ-
uals — “be nice,” he said —
to ask for immediate action.
Almost immediately,
people whipped out their
cellphones, punched in
the numbers and fi red off
messages.
Another speaker, Tony
Vezina, executive director
of 4th Dimension Recovery,
a Portland-based recovery
group, said the government
doesn’t need to create more
advisory groups. They are
not eff ective in managing
Lynne Terry/Oregon Capital Chronicle
Moms, dads and recovery advocates rally in front of the Oregon Health Authority building in northeast Portland on Saturday, April 23, 2022.
OREGON RECOVERS 12-STEP PLAN
• Create a coordinated response
• Make one person accountable
• Stop poisonings
• Warn public
• Rapidly build workforce
• Release funds
• Create immediate access to detox
the crisis, he said.
Oregon Recovers invited
a number of public offi -
cials to the rally, but none
showed up. Attorney Gen-
eral Ellen Rosenblum
emailed Marshall, saying
she was sorry she could
not be there, according to
an email that was read out
loud.
Rosenblum referred to
Oregon’s $97 million share
• Create seven-day respite centers
• Create immediate access to
treatment
• Create immediate access to
recovery housing
• Aggressively promote recovery
• Invest in prevention
tributed reasonably quickly
through the various mech-
anisms that have been set
up for the diff erent alloca-
tions. Throughout this set-
tlement process, we have
been guided by the urgency
of this moment. There is
no time to waste in saving
lives,” Rosenblum wrote.
Oregon Recovers has
crafted a 12-step plan for
tackling addiction in Oregon.
It includes putting one person
in charge and providing
immediate access to detox,
treatment and housing.
It also calls on the state
to invest in prevention.
Marshall said the state
needs to create an online
resource that’s similar to the
one on the Oregon Liquor
and Cannabis Commis-
sion’s website that allows
users to locate the nearest
liquor store that sells a cer-
tain product.
“We need that for treat-
ment,” Marshall said.
of a national settlement
with Purdue Pharma and
the Sackler family in the
email sent to Marshall that
was read and the Capital
Chronicle later obtained:
“I do hope — anticipate
— that we will start to see
the beginning of the fl ow
of opioid settlement funds
to Oregon in the very near
future. It is also my hope
that these funds can be dis-
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