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Hood River News, Saturday, April 11, 2015
Look beyond ‘easy solutions’ on climate
In Wednesday talk,
former Federal
official says ‘what’s
really needed is
carbon pricing’
By PATRICK MULVIHILL
News staff writer
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
IDLEWILDE MARKET, Fourth and Cascade, will change hands May
1 and Logsdon will take over the space, according to owner Nina
Buckley.
County curbs Logsdon
brewery barn expansion
By PATRICK MULVIHILL
News staff writer
The Hood River County
Planning Commission voted
at a hearing Wednesday to
limit Logsdon Farmhouse
Ales’ public expansions. The
commission plans to bar the
rural Odell area brewery
from expanding its barn fa-
cility and conducting public
tours and beer tastings.
Dave Logsdon and Judith Bams
Brewery owner David
Logsdon requested to modify
the terms of his original
land use agreement in order
to expand his barn facility
and to allow public tours.
Hood River Planning Depart-
ment Executive Director
John Roberts said the com-
mission planned to allow the
recent minor expansions
Lo gsdon had made, but
would deny further expan-
sions or public and industry
tours.
“The (commission) wants
to curb the sort of retail and
industry aspects that are not
related to barn use,” said
Roberts. The brewery is lo-
cated on Neal Creek Road
about a mile east of Highway
35.
According to the planning
department’s staff report,
Logsdon had already con-
structed two minor building
expansions to the barn with-
out county authorization.
These two additions include
a covered open storage area
and a 16 foot by 16 foot stor-
age room that served as a
tasting room and merchan-
dise store.
The staf f has allowed
these two buildings because
they were “in keeping with
original design of the barn
and the general rural charac-
ter of the area.”
Logsdon was originally is-
sued a conditional use per-
mit by the commission in
2010 for a small organic
brewery, under the condition
that the brewery didn’t ex-
pand, that its hours were
limited to Monday through
Friday, its staff included
only the owner and one addi-
tional employee, and pro-
hibiting onsite retail sales of
beer or merchandise.
According to a staff re-
port, the planning depart-
ment was concerned that
Logsdon’s expansions would
cause the brewery to
“(morph) into more of an in-
dustrial use instead of re-
maining an incidental com-
ponent of the applicant’s
farm.”
The brewery produces less
than 100,000 gallons of beer
per year in keeping with its
and use agreement. Logs-
don’s non-brewing farm op-
erations are small: five head
of cattle, a small hop yard
and about 90 cherry trees.
The staff added the condi-
tion that further violations
would result in the planning
department revoking Logs-
don’s permit entirely.
“It’s one of these condi-
tions that goes without say-
ing,” said Eric Walker, Hood
River County Planning De-
partment Principal Planner.
The county first became
aware of the retail aspects of
the Logsdon operation when
an adjacent property owner
filed a complaint. At the
time, they had no full-time
staff member devoted to land
use code enforcement.
The county planning de-
partment has been without
an official code enforcement
officer for several months.
The planning department
first created a co-compliance
enforcement position last
October, but its former offi-
cer took another job in the
private industry several
months later, Walker said.
The planning department
will put its decision to limit
Logsdons’ land use into writ-
ing. During a 15-day period,
there will be time for ap-
peals, which could lead to
further county hearings.
Logsdon said he planned
to keep negotiating with the
county.
“I feel optimistic about it,”
said Logsdon. “Appeal op-
tions are possible.”
Logsdon is currently ex-
panding its public opera-
tions downtown instead of
the more restricted barn site.
In March, Dave Logsdon pur-
chased Knead Bakery with
potential plans to create a
tap house at that spot.
Hood River City Recorder
Jennifer Gray said the city
has received an application
for a second location of Logs-
don Brewery. The applica-
tion requests authorization
form the Oregon Liquor Con-
trol Commission to conduct
business at the for mer
Idlewild Market location.
The application will be pre-
sented to the Hood River City
Council Monday.
A crowd of about 60 gath-
ered at Springhouse Cellars to
hear former White House
staf fer
Dr.
Johannes
Loschnigg speak about cli-
mate change, common mis-
conceptions and steps resi-
dents can take to brace them-
selves for the global shift.
“Politics of Climate Change
in Washington D.C.” was
Loschnigg’s topic. The event
was a fundraiser by the Hood
River County Education
Foundation, with donations
requested at the door. Bring-
ing Loschnigg to speak in
21-24.
For details, contact
LisaAnn Kawachi at 541-490-
0338 or email lisakawa-
chi@yahoo.com.
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Students 7-14 are invited to
Sunday’s cheerleading clinic
at HRVHS, 1 to 4 p.m., taught
by two juniors on cheer
squad, for their Extended
Application project.
Cost is $10, with all funds
going to HRVHS cheerlead-
ing. Learn dance, chants,
clude subsidies to green ener-
gy initiatives such as wind or
solar, or giving tax breaks to
industries with sustainable
practices. However, Loschnigg
said the public will rarely
stand behind taxes on coal or
oil, which could make a bigger
impact on climate change.
“Actually what is really re-
quired is a price on carbon,”
Loschnigg said.
Loschnigg served as se-
nior policy analyst at the
White House Office of Sci-
ence and Technology Policy
from 2009 to 2013. As part of
the Environment and Ener-
gy Division, he helped devel-
op federal policy for renew-
able energy, climate change,
aerospace and earth satellite
observations.
Previously, he was staff di-
rector for the Subcommittee
on Space and Aeronautics of
the Committee on Science in
the U.S. House of Representa-
tives, overseeing NASA and
U.S. civil space programs.
Climate Action Network plans Earth Day events
Columbia Gorge Climate
Action Network (CGCAN)
is coordinating a series of
Earth Day events on Satur-
day, April 25 in Hood River
to celebrate and connect
Columbia Gorge residents
around Earth awareness.
The morning will start at
the Hood River Waterfront
Park near the playground
area at 9:30 a.m. with a wel-
come and gathering circle.
Following this will be a
riverside clean up along the
banks of the Hood River
under the direction of Co-
lumbia Riverkeeper from 10
a.m. to noon. All are invit-
ed to meet at the Hood
River Spit parking area
with gloves in hand.
At 11 a.m. at the Hood
River Waterfront Park play-
ground, the Mama Bears
( M a m a B e a r P ro j e c t . c o m )
will focus a Procession of
the Species in costume or
in the spirit of a being you
are drawn to represent.
This is an activity where
even younger children can
join everyone in the aware-
ness of our responsibility
to steward the planet for all
beings. This will transition
to a parade lead by the
Hood River Valley High
School Climate Club at
noon that will journey from
t h e p l ay g r o u n d a r e a
through Hood River to the
Riverside United Church of
Christ at 4th and State
Streets. All are welcome to
join in.
Lunch will be served for
participants at 12:30 p.m. at
the church, and materials
from Earth centered busi-
nesses and organizations
will be available to connect
people with ongoing ways
to be involved in our local
community.
At 2 p.m., photographer
and naturalist Darryl Lloyd
will share a remarkable col-
lection of photos and sto-
ries about climate effects
on Mt. Adams and Mt.
H o o d . Fo l l o w i n g t h i s ,
wildlife biologist Bill Weil-
er will present “Global
Warming in the Gorge: Po-
tential Impacts to Fish and
Wildlife, and Hopeful Solu-
tions.” Earth inspired ac-
tivities for children will be
provided by Generation
Earth during these after-
noon programs.
Local committee to develop four year plan
for improving dental health of children
A committee of community
members will be meeting over
the next six months to create a
four year plan to improve chil-
dren’s dental health in Hood
River and Wasco counties. A
key component of the plan
will be a school-based dental
health program for under-
served elementary and middle
school children.
One Community Health is
leading the effort, thanks to a
planning grant provided by
the Children’s Dental Health
Initiative Fund of the Oregon
Community Foundation.
Other contributors include A-
dec, Kaiser Per manente,
Meyer Memorial Trust,
Northwest Health Foundation
and Providence Health and
Services. The Children’s Den-
tal Health Initiative is funding
school-based children’s dental
health programs throughout
Oregon over the next five
years.
Once the committee final-
izes its plan, One Community
Health and its partners will be
eligible to apply for four years
of funding to implement it.
One Community Health is a
non-profit, community and
migrant health center. OCH’s
mission is to “advance health
and social justice for all mem-
bers of our community.”
“This is an exciting oppor-
tunity to improve the dental
health of children in Hood
River and Wasco counties,”
said Dave Edwards, One Com-
munity Health CEO. “Too
many local children are not
receiving proper dental care.
Tooth decay is the most com-
mon chronic disease of
school-age children, and at
OCH we regularly see chil-
dren with complicated,
painful dental problems that
could have been easily pre-
vented with proper, timely
dental care.
“We invite any local com-
munity members — particu-
larly educators and dental
health professionals — who
are interested in helping with
this planning effort to get in
touch,” Edwards said.
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Those interested in partici-
pating or learning more may
contact Ronda Snyder at 541-
386-6380.
‘Pair it Forward’: local youth collect used shoes
Attention anyone with a
closet: Those shoes you no
longer want are desperately
needed to help fight global
poverty.
That’s the message being
delivered by Hood River Val-
ley Leos Club, which has
launched a drive to help
Soles4Souls reach their goal of
collecting one million pairs of
shoes in their Pair It Forward
campaign.
(Note: at least one set of
local parents is looking for-
ward to having their garage
back after the steady pile-up
of donated shoes courtesy of
their daughter, a Leos mem-
ber.)
The campaign is aimed at
diverting used shoes away
from landfills and toward cre-
ating a source of revenue for
micro-entrepreneurs in devel-
oping nations. Used and new
shoes can be dropped off at se-
lect locations listed below any-
HRVHS Cheerleading program holds
mandatory tryout meeting April 16
Anyone interested in try-
ing out for cheerleading at
HRVHS for the 2015-16 sea-
son is required to attend an
infor mational meeting
Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m.
in the HRVHS library.
Anyone hoping to cheer in
the fall and/or winter must
attend this meeting with one
of their parents in order to
be eligible to tryout, includ-
ing current eighth graders.
Tryouts will be held the
following week from April
Hood River was a combined their carbon footprint.
effort of the foundation and
“It’s extremely likely that
environmental groups Mt. human influence has been the
Hood Meadows, Go! Gorge dominate cause of the ob-
Owned and Friends of the Co- served warming since the
lumbia Gorge.
mid-20th century,” said
Despite the figurative and Loschnigg, summarizing an
literal heat of the topic
array of studies he
of climate change, the
showed on a projector.
audience at Spring-
Loschnigg said over
house Cellars was
the last two decades
calm and attentive
Americans have be-
during Loschnigg’s
come more concerned
speech. The former na-
about the climate
tional policy advisor
shift. According to a
sipped a craft beer and
New York Times sur-
joked about the Netflix
vey published in Janu-
Johannes
series “House of
ary 2015, 83 percent of
Loschnigg
Cards” inaccurately
Americans, including
portraying Congress
61 percent of Republi-
before diving into his talk.
cans and 86 percent of inde-
Loschnigg’s essential argu- pendents, say that if nothing
ment was that national con- is done to reduce emissions,
versations about climate global warming will be a very
change have been murky and or somewhat serious problem
misguided, more focused on in the future.
confusion over the scientific
Loschnigg said government
veracity of global warming action to combat climate
than on the actions U.S. citi- change is only popular for
zens can take to best reduce “easily solutions.” These in-
motions, jumps and crowd-
working tips.
For details call Kelsey at
541-399-6634 or Skylar at 490-
7441. The camp is recom-
mended for any eighth-grad-
er planning to try out for fall
squad.
9th Annual
GORGE
ARTISTS
time between April 1 and
April 14. The shoes collected
will be delivered to
Soles4Souls, an international
anti-poverty organization that
monetizes used shoes to cre-
ate sustainable jobs and fund
direct relief efforts.
Bring your donations of
used shoes to Westside and
May Street elementary
schools, Wy’east and Hood
River middle schools, Mosier
Community School, Bright
Beginnings, HRVHS, Doug’s,
Columbia River Insurance,
Shortt Supply, and The Next
Door.
“Our Leos club is support-
ing Soles4Souls because it is
the definition of a social en-
terprise where solid business
practices are used to create
positive change in people’s
lives,” said Leo Claire Davies.
“We hope to take a big step in
providing the organization
with shoes they require to
Mother’s Day
Brunch
on the Patio!!
Three Courses including
Lobster & Memosas
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Dinner at 3 p.m.
Happy Hour nightly 5-6 p.m.
Stonehedge Gardens
541-386-3940
O P E N S T UDIOS
Free Tour • Visit 38 Artists
April 10, 11, 12, 2015
10am-6pm
gorgeartists.org
keep making a difference for
people in need.”
Soles4Souls – which holds
the highest rating from non-
profit watchdog Charity Navi-
gator – contributes to environ-
mental sustainability. Ameri-
cans alone throw away 3.8 bil-
lion pounds of unnecessary
waste per year. The EPA esti-
mates that only 15 percent is
said to be donated or recycled.
Soles4Souls diverts new and
gently used shoes and cloth-
ing away from landfills and re-
purposes them.
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The Leos’ club’s best-known
community project is the bot-
tle and can collection events
each month on the first Satur-
day, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the west
side of Rosauers parking on
the Heights in Hood River.
Bring your clean containers
and youths and other volun-
teers will sort them for recy-
cling. They then turn over the
revenues from the container
deposits to a different local
charity each month. The pro-
gram is now in its sixth year.
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