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M IDWEEK E DITION
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Vol. 109, No. 40
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Official Newspaper, City of Hood River and Hood River County
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015
75 cents
2 Sections, 24 Pages
www.hoodrivernews.com
Friends sue USDOT over oil train safety rules
By PATRICK MULVIHILL
News staff writer
Seven U.S. environmental
groups, including Friends of the
Columbia River Gorge, filed a law-
suit challenging the U.S. Depart-
ment of Transportation’s new
crude-by-rail safety rules, calling
them too “weak” to prevent fiery
derailments.
The coalition launched their
legal challenge Friday at the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
in San Francisco. The groups hired
Earthjustice, an environmental law
organization based in San Francis-
co, to challenge the federal trans-
portation department on their be-
half, calling for a revision of train
safety rules USDOT released on
May 1.
Under the rules, tank cars built
before 2011, known as DOT-111, will
be phased out within three years.
Tank cars without reinforced hulls
built after 2011, known as CPC-1232
will be phased out by 2020 — not
soon enough for some conservation
groups.
“We’re suing the administration
“It’s causing Gorge
communities to work
together for a common goal,
and that goal is safety.”
MICHAEL LANG
because these rules won’t protect
the 25 million Americans living in
the oil train blast zone,” said Todd
Paglia, exectutive director of
ForestEthics, one of the seven
groups petitioning. “Ten years is
too long to wait for improved tank
cars, and emergency responders
need to know where and when
these dangerous trains are running
by our homes and schools.”
The petitioners include the
Friends of the Columbia Gorge — a
conservation group with offices in
Hood River and Portland — and six
other environmental g roups
around the nation including
ForestEthics, Sierra Club, Water-
keeper Alliance, Washington Envi-
ronmental Council, Spokane River-
keeper and the Center for Biologi-
cal Diversity.
Michael Lang, Friends of the
Gorge Conservation Director, said
the Friends first became involved
in the political charge in response
to an increase in oil trains rolling
through the gorge and the proposed
Tesoro oil terminal in Vancouver.
According to Lang, roughly 19
crude oil trains enter the gorge per
day.
“It’s causing gorge communities
to work together for a common
goal, and that goal is safety,” said
Lang.
See TRAINS, Page A5
‘Women are
Veterans, Too’
A R OYAL
R OUNDUP
Photo by Mark B. Gibson
MARGIE ANDERSON displays the PSYOP (Psy-
chological Operations) patch that she earned
during a 2006-08 deployment to Iraq with a mil-
itary police company based in Germany.
By RAELYNN RICARTE
The Dalles Chronicle
Photo by Patrick Mulvihill
Knights and maidens from the Society for Creative Anachronism took over the Hood River County Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon. It was the first time
the Columbia Gorge shire hosted the event. Roughly 600 members of the Northwest kingdom, An Tir, traveled from as far as British Columbia and
Southern Oregon over the weekend. More details in the Saturday edition.
Margie Anderson wears a bracelet that
says “Women are Veterans Too” and is
proud to have been part of the minority pop-
ulation in the military.
She is also grateful, as an Army veteran
with a service-connected disability, to now
be able to help others who have worn the
uniform.
Anderson recently joined U.S. Rep. Greg
Walden’s staff and will provide assistance
to veterans in the Second Congressional
District, which includes Wasco, Hood River,
Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler counties.
“I think she’s already brought to the of-
fice exactly the kind of experience that will
be beneficial to our veterans,” said Walden.
“Margie is somebody who will understand
their issues because she has also been in
harm’s way. She will be a tenacious fighter
to get our veterans what they have earned
See ANDERSON, Page A2
Dalbey is new HRCSD human resources director
Catherine Dalbey has been se-
lected as the next Human Re-
sources Director for the Hood River
County School District beginning
July. Her selection was approved by
the School Board on April 22. Dal-
bey will be re placing Kevin
Noreen, who has resigned the posi-
tion effective June 30 to take a posi-
tion with Forest Grove School
Board.
Dalbey’s move to the District Of-
fice is the third change in princi-
pals announced this spring. Cas-
cade Locks principal Kim Vogel
will retire in June, and Kim Yasui
was named principal of Mid Valley
in March, to succeed Dennis Mc-
Cauley, who will also retire in June.
Vogel began her career at the dis-
trict in August 1990 as a fourth
grade teacher at Cascade Locks and
taught there for twelve years. In
SCHOOL CHANGES
Sarah Braman-Smith will succeed
Dalbey as Wy’east principal.
Braman-Smith has spent the last
nine years as an administrator at
Madras High School. District
retirees were honored Monday
at HRVHS; details in the
Saturday edition.
June 2002, Kim Vogel left the dis-
trict to take a position as the mid-
dle school principal at Howard
Street Charter School in the Salem
Keizer School District. She worked
there until 2006, when she returned
to the Hood River County School
District to be the principal at Park-
dale Elementary while also serving
as the Project PM Coordinator (an
afterschool program in the dis-
trict).
From August 2010 until this
school year, Vogel had been serving
as principal for both Parkdale Ele-
mentary and Cascade Locks. This
year, she has served half-time as
the principal for Cascade Locks El-
ementary School.
“Catherine Dalbey has demon-
strated excellence in every position
she’s held in our school district,
from elementary school teacher
through her 11 years of adminis-
trative leadership at Wy’east Mid-
dle School. In every position,
Catherine has been dedicated to
student success, to our school dis-
trict’s vision, to all educators’
growth and success, and to our
community partnerships. She has
earned the trust of staff and com-
See DALBEY, Page A5
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
WY’EAST principal Catherine Dalbey stands in the hallway of the District Office,
where she will work as human resources director.
Four To Go
Roald Dahl Literary
Challenge May 29
HRVHS reunion concert May 23
Lauren Hegemann, on lad-
der, and Max Cordell of the
Library Teen Council deco-
rate the library for the May 29
Roald Dahl Trivia Challenge,
5:30 p.m. Youth with a knowl-
edge of the author of the
Willie Wonka tales and other
children’s books are invited to
participate.
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Outgoing director Mark Steighner will lead
the May 23 HRVHS reunion concert at 7 p.m.
at Bowe Theater at HRVHS.
The concert is free, and donations are ac-
cepted to support music education at the high
school.
Expect music from the reunion choir, some
solos, a mini-reunion performance by Auro-
ra, and some anecdotes and testimonials.
Rehearsals are Friday night and Saturday
morning and afternoon. About 80 alums have
signed up to sing, dating back to 1990. Con-
tact Steighner at msteighner@gmail.com if
you want a PDF of the music.
Marbach and Cook
unveil book May 27
Election results
posted on-line
Join photographer Peter Mar-
bach and author Janet Cook for
the unveiling of their new book
on May 27, “Columbia River
Gorge National Scenic Area,”
printed in Hood River by Colum-
bia Gorge Press.
The event will be at the Colum-
bia Center for the Arts, Third and
Cascade, as part of the public
program “Wild at Heart in the Co-
lumbia River Gorge” at 7 p.m.
Book signing starts at 6:30 p.m.
Voting for the Special Dis-
tricts election in Hood River
County ends May 19 at 8 p.m.
Take your ballot before that
time to either the county
building at Sixth and State or
to Cascade Locks City Hall.
For results (too late for
press time) go to
www.co.hood-
river.or.us/elections
For CGCC results, go to
www.co.wasco.or.us/elections