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In 1609, the English ship Sea
Venture, commanded by Adm. Sir
George Somers, ran ashore on Ber-
muda, where the passengers and
crew founded a colony.
In 1914, World War I began as
Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia.
In 1932, federal troops forcibly
dispersed the so-called “Bonus
Army” of World War I veterans who
had gathered in Washington to
demand payments they weren’t
scheduled to receive until 1945.
In 1943, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt announced the end of
coffee rationing, which had lim-
ited people to one pound of coffee
every five weeks since it began in
Nov. 1942.
In 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified
the United Nations Charter by a
vote of 89-2. A U.S. Army bomber
crashed into the 79th floor of New
York’s Empire State Building, killing
14 people.
In 1965, President Lyndon
B. Johnson announced he was
increasing the number of Amer-
ican troops in South Vietnam
from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost
immediately.”
In 1976, an earthquake devas-
tated northern China, killing at
least 242,000 people, according to
an official estimate.
In 1984, the Los Angeles
Summer Olympics opened.
In 1995, a jury in Union, South
Carolina, rejected the death pen-
alty for Susan Smith, sentencing
her to life in prison for drowning
her two young sons (Smith will be
eligible for parole in 2024).
In 2015, it was announced that
Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S.
Naval intelligence analyst who
had spent nearly three decades
in prison for spying for Israel, had
been granted parole.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton accepted
the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation at the party’s convention in
Philadelphia, where she cast her-
self as a unifier for divided times
as well as an experienced leader
steeled for a volatile world while
aggressively challenging Repub-
lican Donald Trump’s ability to
lead.
In 2019, a gunman opened fire
at a popular garlic festival in Gilroy,
California, killing three people,
including a 6-year-old boy and a
13-year-old girl, and wounding 17
others before taking his own life.
In 2020, President Donald
Trump issued a stout defense of
the disproved use of a malaria
drug, hydroxychloroquine, to treat
COVID-19, hours after social media
companies took down videos
shared by Trump, his son and
others promoting its use; Trump
also retweeted several attacks on
the credibility of Dr. Anthony Fauci,
a leading member of the White
House coronavirus task force.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Darryl
Hickman is 91. Musical conductor
Riccardo Muti is 81. Former Senator
and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley
is 79. “Garfield” creator Jim Davis
is 77. Singer Jonathan Edwards
is 76. Actor Linda Kelsey is 76. TV
producer Dick Ebersol is 75. Actor
Sally Struthers is 75. Rock musi-
cian Simon Kirke (Bad Company)
is 73. Rock musician Steve Morse
(Deep Purple) is 68. Former CBS
anchorman Scott Pelley is 65. Alt-
country-rock musician Marc
Perlman is 61. Actor Michael
Hayden is 59. Actor Lori Loughlin
is 58. Jazz musician-producer Del-
feayo Marsalis is 57. Former hockey
player Garth Snow is 53. Actor
Elizabeth Berkley is 50. Singer
Afroman is 48. Rock singer Jacoby
Shaddix (Papa Roach) is 46. Actor
John David Washington is 38. Actor
Jon Michael Hill is 37. Actor Dustin
Milligan is 37. Actor Nolan Gerard
Funk is 36. Rapper Soulja Boy is 32.
Pop/rock singer Cher Lloyd (TV:
“The X Factor”) is 29. Golfer Nelly
Korda is 24.
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THuRSday, July 28, 2022
Children rewarded in LG for safe bicycle riding
Safe cyclists are
receiving coupons
for food and cotton
candy prizes
By DICK MASON
The Observer
LA GRANDE—
Young bicycle riders in
La Grande are receiving
tickets from La Grande
Police Department officers
— but these tickets can be
traded in for prizes
To encourage bicycle
safety, the La Grande
Police Department is
assisting the La Grande
Parks and Recreation
Department with its Safe
Routes to School bicycle
safety program.
La Grande Police
Department officers and
the staff at Cook Memo-
rial Library are rewarding
youths spotted wearing
helmets or obeying biking
laws while cycling in
town by presenting them
with coupons.
“It is a great way to
encourage children to
wear helmets, give turn
signals with their hands
and to ride safely,” said
Jessie Wilson, the director
of the La Grande Safe
Routes to School pro-
gram, which is coordi-
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Brooklynn Fowler, a La Grande School District elementary school
student, maneuvers her bike at La Grande’s Pioneer Park on
Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Young people riding bicycles safely in
La Grande are eligible to receive coupons for prizes from the La
Grande Police Department and Cook Memorial Library until the
end of July.
nating the coupon pro-
gram for safe bicyclists.
The coupons youths
are receiving are for free
meals at the La Grande
McDonald’s and free
cotton candy made by
Local Harvest eatery.
McDonald’s and Local
Harvest covered the cost
of the food and cotton
candy prizes. The safe
bicycle riding program
is also supported with
funding from a Safe
Routes to School educa-
tion grant the city of La
Grande received.
The coupons have been
given out by La Grande
Police and Cook Memo-
rial Library since Monday,
July 18, and will continue
to be given out through
the end of the month.
Gary Bell, chief of the
La Grande Police Depart-
ment, is a big fan of the
program.
“Any time we get a
chance to reinforce posi-
tive, safe behavior, espe-
cially with youths, we are
very excited to do it,” Bell
said.
The La Grande police
chief noted that the pro-
gram not only boosts
safe bicycling habits but
also lets children see law
enforcement officers in a
supportive light.
“When we have an
opportunity to connect
with kids in a positive
way that does not involved
enforcement, it goes a
long way toward building
positive relationships.
We don’t want kids to see
police as people who just
enforce rules,” Bell said.
16-year-old Union teen missing since July 8
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UNION — Oregon
child welfare officials
are asking the public to
help locate a missing
16-year-old boy from
Union, according to a
press release from the
Oregon Department of
Human Services.
“We are aware,” said
Sheriff Cody Bowen. “We
are looking, (and) depu-
ties are involved.”
Zane Averett, who is
in foster care, has been
missing since Friday, July
8, state officials said in
an alert issued July 27.
They believe Averett is
in danger and is asking
anyone who sees him to
call 911 or contact local
law enforcement.
Bowen said Averett,
who was reported to the
sheriff’s office on July
21 as a runaway, is a fre-
quent runaway and this
has been his behavior for
several years.
According to the press
release, Averett frequently
spends time in the cities
of Union and Elgin, and
there is also a chance he
is attempting to travel to
Idaho.
Averett is 5-foot-9 and
weighs 160 pounds. He
has brown or dark blond
hair and hazel-colored
eyes. He has an eyebrow
piercing and a tongue
piercing.
“We encourage any
community members with
knowledge of his where-
abouts to reach out to
the sheriff’s office,” said
Bowen.
LA GRANDE — A cel-
ebration of life ceremony
for Doug Trice will be con-
ducted on Saturday, July
30, at Pioneer Park.
The ceremony will start
at 1 p.m. and will include
a ribbon cutting ceremony
for the field named in his
honor last year by the La
Grande City Council.
Trice, an award-win-
ning Special Olympics
coach and a hall of fame
athlete, died in his sleep at
his La Grande residence
May 6, 2020, at age 68.
Trice’s contributions as
a Special Olympics coach
were far from overlooked
during his life.
He was named an assis-
tant coach for Team USA
at the World Games in
Shanghai, China, in 2007.
That same year he received
a Governor’s Gold Award
from then Gov. Ted Kulon-
Oregon department of Human Services/Contributed Photo
Zane Averett, 16, is missing and believed to be in danger, according
to an alert from Oregon child welfare workers. Averett spends
time in the cities of Union and Elgin. There is also a chance he is
attempting to travel to Idaho.
goski for his work in Spe-
cial Olympics. Four years
later, Trice was selected as
a Special Olympics coach
for Team USA in Athens,
Greece.
Six months before
his passing, Trice was
inducted into the La
Grande High School
Tiger Booster Hall of
Fame. He was recognized
for his Special Olym-
pics work and his athletic
accomplishments.
The Observer, File
Local humanitarian and Special
Olympics coach Doug Trice
died May 6, 2020, at the age
of 68. This 2006 photo shows
Trice when he was co-director
of Special Olympics in Union
County.
NEWS BRIEFS
Grande Ronde Hospital
names chief nursing officer
LA GRANDE — Karen Timm
is the new chief nursing officer of
Grande Ronde Hospital and Clinics,
the hospital announced in a press
release on Tuesday, July 26.
Timm comes to Union County
from the Midwest — most recently
Omaha, Nebraska, where she has
been working as an independent
health care consultant helping health
care organizations identify and navi-
gate significant strategic, operational
and regularity business risks and
opportunities.
Before that, Timm served 10 years
as a vice president for patient services
at a 79-bed, not-for-profit regional
hospital and nursing home in Car-
roll, Iowa; another four years as an
independent health care consultant
in Oskaloosa, Iowa; and as execu-
tive director of the Mahaska Health
Partnership, a more than 100-year old
health system in Oskaloosa.
Timm’s career also includes time
as a staff nurse, outpatient clinic
director and travel nurse.
Timm earned her master of sci-
ence in nursing with a concentra-
tion in nursing administration from
the University of Nebraska Medical
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
WALLOWA LAKE —
More than nine acres at
Wallowa Lake Lodge were
dedicated Thursday, July
21, as a conservation ease-
ment to the Nez Perce Tribe
“in perpetuity” to main-
tain the pristine quality of
the headwaters of the lake
around the lodge.
“The Nimiipuu have
always been stewards of
this land … and we’ve
always cared for that which
sustains us and our way
of life,” said Sam Penney,
chairman of the Nez Perce
Tribal Executive Com-
mittee. He used the name
of the Nez Perce people
— which means “the
people” — in the Nez Perce
language.
“I recall seeing a state-
ment from Chief Joseph,
who said, ‘Do not misun-
derstand me. … I never said
the land was mine to do
with as I choose. The only
one who has the right to
dispose of it is the one who
created it.’” Penney said.
He said the tribe has
been working to “respect
the land the best we know
how.”
The easement divides the
9.22 acres of lodge prop-
erty into three zones. Zone
A, to the immediate west
of the lodge, is designated
aquatic habitat and includes
part of the Wallowa River.
Zone B, north of the lodge,
is open ground, designated
as simply habitat for wild-
life. Zone C comes in two
portions: the lodge and
cabins and their immediate
grounds and another por-
tion on the northeast corner
of the property that includes
buildings.
Salmon recovery
Ceremony will remember the life of Doug Trice
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Lodge
property
dedicated ‘in
perpetuity’
Center, and her bachelor of science in
nursing with a minor in psychology
from Morningside College, a private,
four-year liberal arts college in Iowa.
Fires prohibited at Morgan
Lake beginning July 29
LA GRANDE — In accordance
with the Oregon Department of For-
estry, the La Grande Parks & Rec-
reation Department announces fire
restrictions at Morgan Lake will take
effect Friday, July 29.
Due to increasingly dry conditions
and growing fire danger, fire managers
are increasing the public use restric-
tions, also referred to as Regulated
Use Closure, on lands protected by
the Oregon Department of Forestry in
Northeastern Oregon. This declaration
is initiated in an effort to prevent or
minimize human-caused wildfires and
to protect natural resources and public
health and safety, according a press
release from the city.
As of July 29 at Morgan Lake, open
fires are prohibited, including camp-
fires, charcoal fires, cooking fires
and warming fires. Portable cooking
stoves using liquefied or bottled fuels
are allowed. The use of fireworks is
prohibited.
Call or email Stu Spence, Parks &
One of the tribe’s main
goals is to see the recovery
of sockeye salmon to
the lake. Penney said he
expects Nez Perce Tribal
Fisheries will take an active
part.
“There will be active
management to keep it pris-
tine,” he said. “We’d also
like to see the sockeye
salmon return in the next
few years. There’s a lot of
other work that we want to
see done.”
James Monteith, chair
of Eastern Oregon Legacy
Lands and executive pro-
ducer of Wallowology, said
it’s also his goal to see the
salmon recovery.
“Even though we have
a long way to go in salmon
recovery, we know now
what to do,” he said.
Although it wasn’t men-
tioned, the refurbished
Wallowa Lake Dam will
be instrumental in those
efforts. When work gets
going on the dam next year,
it will be required to have
some sort of passage to
allow fish migration.
Lodge history
Recreation director at 541-962-1348 or
sspence@cityoflagrande.org for more
information.
Road construction
scheduled in Wallowa Co.
BAKER CITY — The Wal-
lowa-Whitman National Forest is
bringing awareness to upcoming road
construction that will affect traffic.
On the Wallowa Mountains
Ranger District, 8.6 miles of Wella-
motkin Road (Forest Road 46) from
Oregon Highway 3 to Gould Gulch
in Wallowa County will be closed
from Aug. 1 through Aug. 10. Road
work includes the repair of a roadway
slump and pavement patching at
approximately 50 separate locations.
This week flaggers are present to
provide traffic control for work in
preparation for the repairs.
After the closure, a chip seal
and fog seal will be applied to the
roadway to help seal and preserve the
pavement. Flaggers and pilot cars will
be in operation and delays are likely.
For additional information about
the temporary closures, call the Wal-
lowa Mountains Ranger District
office at 541-426-5546.
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Monteith was instru-
mental in creating Lake
Wallowa Lodge LLC to
purchase the lodge in 2015.
He recounted much of the
lodge’s history, which also
is listed on its website.
The oldest portion of the
building will mark its 100th
anniversary next year.
When one of the pre-
vious owners died in 2015,
his partners put up the
lodge for auction. This
drew immediate attention
from large hotel chains and
ignited a passion for locals
and past patrons to “save
the lodge,” according to
the website. A passionate
team of locals put together
enough local investors to
purchase the lodge as a
community.
Today the lodge has over
100 investors and main-
tains plans to keep the his-
toric values that the lodge
has held for almost a cen-
tury, which has included the
tribe’s ties to the area.
Penney concluded with
a sentiment about what the
property means to him.