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CapitalPress.com
May 12, 2017
Land Board votes to stop
sale of Elliott State Forest
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
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LEGAL
REQUESTS FOR
INFORMATION - RFI #167169
TO PROVIDE
Biosolids Storage
and Reuse Services
Closing Date:
June 2, 2017 at 4:00 PM
The City of Salem (“City”) is
seeking information of
potential opportunities to
partner with qualified agri-
cultural entities in a munici-
pal biosolids storage and
reuse program. The intent
of the program is to store
biosolids during the winter
wet
period,
October
through June, for sub-
sequent application as a
fertilizer and soil amend-
ment during the June
through October period.
The City would expect the
interested parties to pro-
vide storage facilities, appli-
cation services, and suitable
land for the program. The
City of Salem produces
Class B biosolids cake.
Questions or to request a
Request for Information
packet email:
sself@cityofsalem.net.
Shawna
Self,
CPPB,
Contracts & Procurement
Manager.
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Wright named COO of Capital Press parent company
Heidi Wright has been
named chief operating offi cer
of EO Media Group, which
owns the Capital Press. Wright
succeeds John S. Perry, who
is retiring after 44 years in the
newspaper industry, including
the last 12 with EO Media
Group.
LEGAL
The Oregon Orchardgrass
Seed Producers Commission
will hold a public hearing on
the Commission’s proposed
2017-18 budget on June 1,
2017, 7:30 a.m. at the Elmer’s
Restaurant, 2802 Santiam
Highway SE, Albany, Oregon.
Any person wishing to
comment on the budget is
welcome to do so either orally
or in writing. A copy of the
proposed budget is available
for public inspection during
normal business hours at the
commission office located at
6745 SW Hampton Street,
Suite 101, Portland, Oregon.
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Wright comes to EO Media
Group from Western Commu-
nications, owner of the Bend
Bulletin and other newspapers
in Oregon and California. She
is Wescom’s chief fi nancial of-
fi cer and human resources di-
rector. She will join EO Media
Group on June 1.
Steve Forrester, president
and CEO of EO Media Group,
announced Wright’s hiring:
“Our executive committee —
composed of Kathryn Brown,
Susan Forrester Rana and me
— is pleased to fi nd a succes-
sor to Perry with the leadership
capabilities to help our compa-
ny prosper in the digital age.
Her prior experience with fam-
ily-owned companies in our
region is especially relevant.”
Prior to joining Wescom,
Wright was publisher of the
Klamath Falls Herald and
News, owned by Pioneer
News Group.
She also worked
as a publisher
in Montana for
Lee Enterpris-
es. She has an
undergraduate
Heidi Wright degree and an
MBA from the
University of Montana.
“Heidi has a lifetime of ex-
perience in the West,” noted
Kathryn Brown. “Her experi-
ence at newspapers in Butte,
Klamath Falls and Bend make
her well-suited to understand
the communities that EO Me-
dia Group serves in rural Ore-
gon and Washington — as well
as the extraordinary reach of
the Capital Press, our agricul-
tural weekly.”
As chief operating offi cer,
Wright will direct the business
operations of EO Media Group
and supervise publishers and
corporate staff. The company’s
headquarters are in Salem.
“It’s an honor and privi-
lege to be joining EO Media
Group,” said Wright. “While I
will miss my friends and col-
leagues at Western Commu-
nications, I am excited to be-
come a part of the EO Media
Group family. My husband,
Richard Schuurman, and I are
looking forward to calling Sa-
lem home in the near future.”
EO Media Group publica-
tions include: Capital Press,
The Blue Mountain Eagle
of John Day, Cannon Beach
Gazette, Chinook Observer,
Coast River Business Journal,
The Daily Astorian, East Or-
egonian, Hermiston Herald,
Oregon Coast Today, Seaside
Signal and Wallowa County
Chieftain.
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LEGAL
NOTICE OF THE OREGON
HAZELNUT COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING
June 7, 2017
Notice is hereby given that a
public meeting will be held
pursuant to ORS Chapter
576.416(5), Oregon Laws 2003,
at the North Willamette Ex-
periment Station, 15210 NE
Miley Rd., Aurora, Oregon, on
June 7th, 2017 at 8 am. The
meeting will be held regarding
the proposed budget for the
operation of the Oregon
Hazelnut Commission during
the fiscal year July 1, 2017 to
June 30, 2018.
At this meeting any producer
of hazelnuts in Oregon has a
right to be heard with respect
to the proposed budget, a copy
of which is available for public
inspection at the industry office
at the right. Any producer
unable to attend the public
meeting may submit written
comments to Meredith Nagely
at the address below by June 7,
2017.
For further information contact:
Oregon Hazelnut Commission
25195-A Dolores Way NE
Aurora, OR 97002
Phone 503.678.6823
Fax 503.678.6825
email
meredith@oregonhazenuts.org
This meeting location is
accessible to persons with
disabilities. Please make any
requests for an interpreter for
the hearing impaired or for other
accommodation for persons with
disabilities at least 48 hours
before the meeting by contacting
staff at the location above.
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CHELAN, Wash. — Bor-
ton Fruit of Yakima will
merge its marketing division
with Chelan Fresh Marketing
in Chelan on Sept. 1 to pro-
vide greater combined vol-
ume and better year-round
fruit access for retailers.
Chelan Fresh Marketing
will remain the company
name and most of the fruit
will be sold under Trout and
Chelan Fresh labels with
some export markets still re-
ceiving Borton-labeled fruit,
said Mac Riggan, vice pres-
ident of marketing at Chelan
Fresh.
Borton sells about 7 mil-
lion boxes of apples, pears
and cherries annually and
Chelan Fresh sells 18 million,
so the combined total will be
about 25 million boxes, mak-
ing the company one of the
largest marketers of Washing-
ton fruit, Riggan said.
Fewer than half a dozen
other tree fruit companies in
the state are at similar volume
levels.
“It’s just formalizing
what’s been an informal
working arrangement the
last several years,” Riggan
said. “We’re doing it simply
for customers to have more
one-stop shopping. I hope it
makes us No. 1 in customer
service. That’s the goal.
“Most people didn’t see
this coming because we kept
it quiet. It’s a good deal for
us, and Borton and growers
benefi t, too. The Bortons are
great people to work with.
They have a great culture. It’s
exciting.”
His brother, Tom Riggan,
is president and CEO of Chel-
an Fresh.
With the merger, Chelan
Fresh will be a leading mar-
keter of Honeycrisp apples.
It’s member companies oper-
ate more than 13,000 acres of
young, high-density orchards
with modern trellis systems
and have recently invested
more than $235 million in
state-of-the-art packing fa-
cilities and technologies and
new storage and production
effi ciencies.
The Borton Fruit market-
ing staff will remain in Yaki-
ma under Chelan Fresh direc-
tion.
Established in 2004, Chel-
an Fresh is the marketing
company for Chelan Fruit
Cooperative, Chelan; Geb-
bers Farms, Brewster; Crane
& Crane, Brewster; and Apple
House, Pateros.
Borton Fruit was begun by
Byron S. Borton as a 20-acre
orchard in Yakima in 1912.
The company owns orchards
in Yakima, Grant, Benton,
Franklin and Walla Walla
counties.
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By DAN WHEAT
SALEM — The proposed
sale of an expanse of state
forest near the western Ore-
gon coast was halted unani-
mously Tuesday by the State
Land Board.
With Tuesday’s decision,
the governor, secretary of
state and treasurer rejected a
planned partnership between
a Native American tribe and
a Roseburg timber company
to purchase the Elliott State
Forest in Coos and Douglas
counties for $220.8 million.
That proposal had elicited
signifi cant opposition from The Elliott State Forest is a state trust land and constitutionally required to provide revenues for the
environmental groups, and in Common School Fund, which helps pay for public education.
the process raised questions
Jim Green, executive di-
about the state’s stewardship
Read last week announced
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of public lands.
a proposal that would build on rector of the association,
Florence
Area in
The offer from Lone Rock
the governor’s planned use of said after the meeting that
detail
Resources and the Cow Creek
bond funds and have Oregon his group would “continue to
Band of Umpqua Tribe of In-
State University pay the re- monitor these proposals very
er
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dians was rejected Tuesday
maining $120.8 million of the closely.”
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“Any solution has to pro-
in favor of continued public
forest’s assessed value to turn
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Forest
ownership, though the details
the land into a research forest. vide full value to the Com-
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of how that will work have yet
The idea is that foresters mon School Fund,” Green
Lakeside
to be determined.
at OSU would study the rela- said. “That is what we owe
The board initially consid-
tionship between active forest our kids.”
Richardson
suggested
ered selling the 82,500-acre
management and conserving
N. Bend oos
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swapping
the
Elliott
State
swath of coastal forest in 2015
endangered
species.
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because timber harvests that
Brown directed the depart- Forest for land owned by fed-
Coos Bay
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provided money for education
ment to consider Read’s re- eral agencies such as the U.S.
were declining after environ-
search forest proposal, as well Forest Service and the Bureau
Capital Press graphic
mental lawsuits challenged
as work with tribal govern- of Land Management.
During the meeting, Rich-
them.
ments to “explore ownership
The Elliott State Forest is of the woods yet: They now or additional forest manage- ardson indicated his displea-
sure with the fact that the
a state trust land and consti- need to fi nd a way to fi nance ment opportunities.”
tutionally required to provide public ownership of the forest
Doug Moore, executive state was backing away from
revenues for the Common and generate money for edu- director of the Oregon League the sale proposal, and said he
School Fund, which helps pay cation.
of Conservation Voters, called thought it was likely that the
for public education.
Gov. Kate Brown has pro- the decision “a huge win for state would face litigation, but
Oregon Secretary of State posed using $100 million in all and a reaffi rmation of Ore- said it was “obvious” that the
sale was not going to proceed.
Dennis Richardson and Trea- bonds to buy a portion of the gon values.”
The Department of State
surer Tobias Read, each of most ecologically sensitive
Although environmental
whom took offi ce this year, areas of the forest — some groups, along with Brown and Lands had begun talks with
initially supported moving estimates say that amount Read, struck a victorious tone Lone Rock Resources and the
forward with the sale at their could be used to pay for Tuesday, the Oregon School Cow Creek Band of Umpqua
fi rst land board meeting in about half of the total acre- Boards Association said last Tribe of Indians, which had
February. That changed Tues- age — and negotiating what’s week that its member school proposed forming a corpora-
day when they both opposed called a habitat conservation districts may sue the board tion to buy the forest. Now
it.
plan with federal land man- unless the full assessed val- that the board has ended the
The governor, secretary of agement agencies for the re- ue of the forest is paid to the sale, those negotiations will
cease.
state and treasurer are not out mainder.
Common School Fund.
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Chelan Fresh, Borton Fruit
combine marketing efforts
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From left, Eric Borton, Andy Birley, Bill Borton, Byron Borton and
John Borton in a company orchard on Oct. 12, 2015. Borton Fruit
is merging its marketing operations with Chelan Fresh Marketing.
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Courtesy of Borton Fruit