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Hood River News, Saturday, April 25, 2015
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Free Veterans seminar offered April 30 at Parkhurst Place
Join the Hood River
County Veterans Service
Office (HRCVSO), in part-
nership with Parkhurst
Place, on April 30 at from
1:30-3:30 p.m. for a free Vet-
erans Benefit Seminar.
Several speakers will be
featured from the Portland
VA, including a Choice
Preference Card Champi-
on, explaining how to use
the white preference choice
card that was mailed to Vet-
erans. Other speakers in-
clude
a
dieti-
cian/nutritionist, who will
be discussing healthy meal
portions and choices, dia-
betes, tips and tricks to help
smokers quit, and the im-
portance of moving your
body.
Other speakers include
the local chapter of Pets-
for-Vets, presenting infor-
mation on connecting dis-
abled veterans with service
animals; those interested in
the new chapter or in a ser-
vice or emotionally sup-
portive animal won’t want
to miss this. An exciting
group of hunters and fish-
ers will attend to discuss
their Outdoor Adventures
with Military Heroes pro-
gram.
This program’s goal is to
connect Combat Disabled
Veterans with hunting,
fishing and outdoor adven-
tures — if you’re interested
in the outdoors, they are
here to help.
Closing the Forum will
be the American Legion,
Post 22 and the Veterans
Service Office. Both groups
will discuss how they serve
Veterans within our com-
munity and how important
P ORT
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“Able-bodied people will be
able to walk up the drive
from the road section to the
(Naito) sidewalk, but for dis-
abled people the end of your
trail is really the end of the
line,” said Staten.
Staten cited “poor plan-
ning” as the cause of the gap.
In a letter to the Port, she
said the Port’s architects,
Walker-Macy, did not consult
sufficiently with Naito’s re-
spective architects when
planning the trail.
McElwee hopes the Port
and Naito can reach a swift
agreement. “I think we need
to identify a likely, preferred
solution within three to four
weeks,” said McElwee.
Local property develop-
ment leaders met at the
Nichols Basin site Thursday
morning to discuss options.
The impromptu meeting in-
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
L EFEVRE A WARD W INNERS
These are the winners of the Tod J. LeFevre Sustainability Awards, announced Wednesday at
Columbia Center for the Arts, by Gorge Owned Network. With board president Lindsey Miller,
right, are Business winner Suzanne Baumhackl of Solstice Wood Fire Café, (who won with her
husband, Aaron) and her son, Rune; Student winner Charley Boonstra of HRVHS Climate Ac-
tion Club; and Individual Award winner Susan Hess of Envirogorge (who won with her hus-
band, Jurgen). The awards honor the memory of the late Tod J. LeFevre, founder of Common
Energy and an avid proponent of sustainable energy.
T YSON
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helping carry large auction
items to cars when the
evening is over.
It’s a fun — and maybe
slightly daunting — project
that enjoys widespread com-
munity support.
“It’s fun to come even if
you’re not buying anything,”
Miller said.
■
Nita Bozarth, one of three
FFA advisors at HRVHS, said
the funds raised Saturday go
directly back into the pro-
gram, sending kids to career
development events, putting
on the annual Touch and See
Day for elementary students,
hosting shop skills and flori-
culture contests, and even
food and activities for
monthly meetings.
FFA is “inter-curricular
with high school agriculture
classes,” Bozarth said. “Stu-
dents must be in an ag class
to participate in FFA. Stu-
dents learn skills in class
and practice them in FFA ca-
reer development events.”
Students can join FFA start-
ing in eighth grade.
It’s a separate program
from 4H, although students
can participate in both.
Miller was a 4H member for
six years, until this year,
when he decided to pursue
just FFA.
“They’re similar in just a
few ways, (like) the fact that
anyone can join, and the ac-
tivities at fair,” Miller said.
While Miller raises goats
and ducks for fair (more on
his goat breeding program in
a moment), he also takes
photography classes. FFA
isn’t just about traditional
agriculture, he said — the
program covers wood and
metal shop, photography, and
speaking, too.
Back to goat breeding: It’s
a year-long endeavor, where-
as ducks have a shorter time
commitment because “they
mature much faster,” Miller
said. He has two female
goats, which he sends to an-
other farm for breeding. Five
months later, after they’ve
given birth, “I get to raise the
babies and the moms togeth-
er,” he said, at home. “Dur-
ing fair, there are special
classes where I show against
other people who are also
taking their breeding goats.
This year, I had five babies
born, and they are all doing
great.
“Goats have fun personali-
ties,” he added.
Next school year, he’ll take
on even more responsibility
— he was recently elected as
FFA secretary for the 2015-
2016 school year.
“I thought it would be a
fun experience, being one of
the leaders,” he said.
To be eligible for election,
he had to complete a process
Register now for Founders Cup
T he
16th
Annual
Founder’s Cup Golf Tourna-
ment, presented by Colum-
bia State Bank and Columbia
Gorge Community College
Foundation, will be held at
Indian Creek Golf Course in
Hood River on Saturday, Aug.
1. This tournament is a golf-
filled day that brings togeth-
er fun, friends, great food,
and prizes. This year, the
tournament will benefit stu-
dent scholarships.
Sponsorship opportunities
and four-person team entries
are available. To sponsor the
tournament, or to register a
team at either the gold ($600)
or silver ($500) team level,
please contact Stephanie
Hoppe, shoppe@cgcc.edu or
541-506-6113.
that included filling out an
application, being inter-
viewed by advisors and, fi-
nally, being voted in by his
peers. He joins new presi-
dent Jackie SantaCruz, vice
president Mayra Cordova,
treasurer Courtney Castane-
da, reporter Gaby SantaCruz
and sentinel Gloria Garcia.
“Tyson has a wide open fu-
ture in front of him,”
Bozarth said. “He is willing
to get involved and is a moti-
vated FFA member … (He)
has already shown leader-
ship potential in our chapter.
We are very excited for what
next year brings.”
While he hasn’t decided if
he wants to pursue a career
in agriculture, he’s enjoying
being involved in FFA.
“I like it all,” Miller said.
“Probably my favorite is
meeting new people — you
meet people from all over the
state.
“Even classes — the agri-
cultural classes — the whole
thing is fun in general.”
T RAIN
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date on the buildable lands
inventory and housing
analysis study, two connect-
ed projects now in their third
month. Code changes and
other administrative mea-
sures are expected to emerge
from the studies.
City mana g er Steve
Wheeler will give an oil train
safety update, and discuss an
upcoming emergency train-
ing exercise for local agen-
cies. Wheeler will also dis-
cuss plans to go to a revised
year-round parking system
at the city’s Fourth-and Cas-
cade lot.
standing up to be counted
is.
The forum will be held at
Parkhurst Place, 2450 May
Street. Call the HRCVSO,
Les Logsdon, at 541-386-1080
for questions.
■
HRCVSO will be launch-
ing our Veterans Walking
Group, which will begin on
May 5 and continue every
Tuesday and Thursday
throughout the summer
season. The group will
meet at Parkhurst Place,
and upon our return will
enjoy refreshments and so-
cialization.
The walking group will
be tailored to the physical
capabilities of the Veterans
participating and will be an
excellent opportunity to ex-
ercise and socialize.
cluded McElwee, Naito De-
velopment LLC head Bob
Naito, Hood River City Plan-
ning director Cindy Wal-
bridge and City Engineering
project manager Gary Linde-
meyer.
McElwee described the
meeting as “very construc-
tive.” The waterfront plan-
ners honed in on two options
for solving the incline deba-
cle.
The first option would curl
the trail path through the
basin’s riparian in order to
ease the incline. The chal-
lenge is that environmental
and property easements
limit any paved work in that
protected area—unless the
developers re-define their
permits, the modifications
would be made in gravel.
The second plan would
stay more strictly within
legal boundaries, but would
require juggling of current
riverfront barriers as well as
constructing a ramp up to
Naito’s sidewalk.
McElwee said the parties
were unable to assign a “ball-
park cost.” That was one of
the next assignments the
leaders gave themselves.
Budget committee meets
A public meeting of the
Budget Committee of Colum-
bia Gorge Community Col-
lege, to discuss the 2015-16
budget, happens in the Board
Room 1.162, Building One,
400 East Scenic Drive, The
Dalles. The meeting will take
place on April 28 and May 5,
at 6 p.m. or if continued, May
7. The purpose of the meet-
ing is to receive the budget
message and to receive com-
ment from the public on the
budget. A copy of the budget
document may be inspected
or obtained at the Business
Of fice
or
online
at
cgcc.edu/budget.
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