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10 CapitalPress.com March 10, 2017 Washington Rancher-photographer honored By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press Courtesy of Roseanna Sales A Moses Lake, Wash., rancher and photographer has been honored for her Facebook page advocating farm life. Sue Tebow, who owns the TBO Cattle Co. cow-calf op- eration with her husband, re- ceived the 2017 Charles Eastin Outstanding Service Award from the Agriculture Council of America. The award honors individuals who are advocates Moses Lake, Wash., rancher and photographer Sue Tebow. for accurate communications between rural and urban audi- ences. Tebow launched the “agri. CULTURE” page on Face- book in April 2016. A longtime “budding” photographer, she often took pictures of people and work on the farm. “It just came as an opportu- nity to me, or maybe a respon- sibility in a way, to tell other people about the hard-work- ing people in agriculture,” she said. Tebow sees her photos as telling the personal stories of farmers and ranchers. The page has more than 5,000 followers from around the world and has reached 27,000 people, according to the council. Tebow’s audience is divid- ed equally between rural and urban residents, she said. “I’ve had farm people fol- low along and leave me notes about how it brings them back to the roots of what they do,” she said. “I’ve had people who used to farm and now live in the city — these sto- ries get them to reminiscing about their childhood days.” Tebow first started taking pictures of friends and neigh- bors. Now she hears from people interested in getting involved. She’s offered several photo series, including 30 days of photos from a Hutterite col- ony; 30 days of little kids on the farm and 30 days of FFA members, including photos submitted by FFA members. Roughly 90 percent of the pho- tos on the page were taken by Tebow. For the month of May, she plans to have a series of pho- tos of farming moms on the page. The Moses Lake Muse- um and Arts Center recently exhibited “agri.CULTURE” photography for a month. Railroads on track for regulatory relief Bill passes House 97-1 By DON JENKINS Capital Press OLYMPIA — The House has passed a bill to pare back, but not eliminate, new state rules that threaten to make hauling vegetable oils unprof- itable for three small railroads in Eastern Washington. The Democratic-con- trolled chamber voted 97-1 on Wednesday to allow the railroads to adopt less elabo- rate spill-response plans than BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. House Bill 1136, introduced by Pomeroy Republican Mary Dye, now goes to the Republican-led Senate. The bill would amend a 2015 law that mandated rail- roads to hold twice-yearly drills and equip themselves to quickly clean up worst-case oil spills. Although the law was driv- en by an influx of crude oil Don Jenkins/Capital Press The Washington House has passed a bill that would pare back Department of Ecology rules that threaten to make transporting vegetable oils unprofitable for small railroads. rail tankers, Ecology applied the rules to short-line rail- roads that don’t carry crude oil, arguing that the state also should be vigilant about vege- table oil spills. Spill-response plans are due at the end of the month from the Central Washington Railroad, Columbia Basin Railroad and Great North- west Railroad. The compa- nies serve farmers and food processors by hauling canola, mineral and soybean oils, but do not move crude oil. The small railroads argue it’s absurd to equate vegetable oil with potentially explosive crude oil. They say that they already must meet feder- al safety standards and that complying with Ecology’s rules will cost more than they charge for hauling vegetable oils. Under HB 1136, small rail- roads would not have to retain clean-up equipment and crews on stand-by. Companies that haul fewer than 24 carloads of vegetable oils a year would not have to hold drills. If over that threshold, companies would have to drill once every three years. The railroads would have to submit a “basic contin- gency plan,” which would include a “field document” for responding to spills and identify the clean-up contractors the companies would use. Patrick Boss, a lobbyist for the small railroads, said he hoped the Senate will push up the threshold for holding drills, but said the House bill was “quite a few steps for- ward.” “I think the House recog- nized it was ridiculous to do a cookie-cutter approach to oil,” he said. House Environment Com- mittee Chairman Joe Fitzgib- bon, D-Burien, supported the bill, saying it balanced pre- paring for spills without im- posing financially damaging rules. Courtesy of Charles Lyall A long stick excavator scoops mud from the Wahluke irrigation canal south of Othello, Wash. About a half-mile of canal was filled with mud from Feb. 20 flash flood. Canal repairs delay irrigation start-up by several days By DAN WHEAT Capital Press PASCO, Wash. — The South Columbia Basin Irri- gation District will be seven days late providing water to growers this month as it fin- ishes repairing canals dam- aged by spring runoff. A Presidents Day warm- up with rain caused snowmelt and flash flooding that dam- aged fields and closed roads in Franklin County and dam- aged irrigation canals in sev- eral places, said Dave Solem, district manager. Kevin Moss, a grower near Eltopia, north of Pasco, post- ed a video on FaceBook of a large sink hole and waterfalls in his alfalfa field. He could not be reached for comment. Solem said the Feb. 20 flash flooding filled the Wah- luke branch of the district’s canal, south of Othello, with mud for half a mile and blew out about 20, 20-by-15-foot concrete panels from the sides of the 60-foot-wide, 15-foot- deep canal. The panels are 4 to 6 inches thick. It took three excavators 10 days to dig out the canal and new panels were to be poured the week of March 5, he said. “District employees have really stepped up to get the work done. We’ve had dam- age in springs past but not this much,” Solem said. About 1.5 miles of panels were damaged on the Eltopia branch and damage in other places is still being found, he said. “Normally at this time of year we’re doing normal maintenance for spring start- up. This is setting us back,” he said. The start of charging ca- nals with water has been de- layed from March 6 to 13 and first water will be available to growers on or around March 29 instead of the 22nd, he said. Charles Lyall, a district board member and Matta- wa grower, said a seven-day delay in water should not be too big a hardship this sea- son because it’s a cool, late spring, so far, with tree fruit buds developing slower than normal. “I’m sure growers will be ready to take water when we have it. If it warms up, they will want water,” Solem said. The South Columbia Basin Irrigation District is one of three large districts served by the U.S. Bureau of Reclama- tion’s Columbia Basin Irriga- tion Project fed by water from Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam. It is the largest water rec- lamation project in the U.S., using an average of 2.65 million acre-feet of water annually. The district irrigates 230,000 acres of farmland growing 70 crops but mostly alfalfa, potatoes, wheat, tree fruit, corn and grapes. LEGAL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MARION Probate Department IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Daniel R. McGowan, Deceased No. 17PB00512 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them to the undersigned Personal Representative in care of the undersigned attorney at: 319 Sixth Street SW, Albany, OR 97321 within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, as stated below, or such claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional infor- mation from the records of the Court, the Personal Rep- resentative, or the attorney for the Personal Represen- tative. DATED and first published March 3, 2017. Personal Representative: JOSHUA R. MCGOWAN 62020 Quail Run Place Bend, OR 97701 10-4\#04N Attorney: DAVID B. BECKHAM 319 Sixth Avenue SW Albany, OR 97321 legal-9-3-1/#4 ‘agri.CULTURE’ reaches rural, urban audiences with its stories of rural life
