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Hood River News, Saturday, June 27, 2015
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staff is irreplaceable and of
immense value.”
Technically Ailene has
been retired from the News
since 1994 — she began here
in 1972, proofreading copy
and “pasting up” the paper,
and in her spare moments,
she’d “come back to
archive,” a job she inherited
from a previous News em-
ployee at the urging of then
publisher Dick Nafsinger.
Her files used to take up two
filing cabinets; now, obituar-
ies alone total around 15,000
files, and she has cabinets
spread around the newsroom
and in the basement.
“We need more — but I
don’t know where to put
them. I’m trying to make
room for more files, especial-
ly obits,” Ailene said.
After her retirement, then
publisher Jim Kelly asked
her to come back part time
and focus on the archives.
“I said OK, for a while. It’s
been a long while,” she
smiled.
She has a filing system
that’s all her own — which is
why we’re technically not al-
lowed to put files back after
we take them out.
“That’s why I have to go
through them once in a while
and check everything,” she
said. “It’s a chore.”
Ailene’s day at the News
starts at 7:30 a.m., and the
first thing she does is see if
the paper is off the press. If
it’s a Tuesday, chances are
the B section is already run-
ning. If it’s a Friday, she’s
looking for the classifieds.
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times, the area is to be
cleared of flammable vegeta-
tion and the following fire
equipment is required: one
axe, one shovel, and one op-
erational 2 and a half pound
or larger fire extinguisher in
good working order.
■ Use of motor vehicles,
including motorcycles and
all-terrain vehicles, is pro-
hibited, except on improved
roads and except for vehicle
use by a landowner and em-
ployees of the landowner
upon their own land while
conducting activities associ-
ated with their livelihood.
■ Possession of the follow-
ing firefighting equipment is
required while traveling in a
motorized vehicle, except on
federal and state highways,
county roads and driveways:
one shovel and one gallon of
water or one operational 2
and a half pound or larger
fire extinguisher, except all-
terrain vehicles and motor-
cycles which must be
equipped with an approved
spark arrestor in good work-
ing condition.
■ Mowing of dried grass
with power driven equip-
ment is prohibited between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 8
p.m., except for the commer-
cial culture and harvest of
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Once the paper is off the
press, she takes 50 copies
back to her work area.
She files 25 copies of each
paper, which she keeps for a
year. Then, she cuts out the
advertising pages as directed
by ad staff and looks through
the articles in search of pic-
tures, names and places. She
cuts out each article and
piles them by category, each
with a date stamp; next, she
goes through her drawers
and cabinets to locate the en-
velopes needed to file them.
Some will already have an
envelope, and some will need
a new one made. She labels
each one clearly on her type-
writer and files them away
accordingly.
“I’m always looking for
new envelopes,” she said
(and by “new,” she means
“any” — a lot of recycling
goes on in the archives).
“Sometimes they’re not per-
fect, but they work. Some-
times I get a box from some-
body in the (print shop) with-
out writing on it, but not
often.”
She also keeps each by-
lined story and files them in
the reporters’ or columnists’
envelopes. After a year, “I
stick ‘em in the basement
with everything else,” she
said.
While she sees her job as
“just filing,” the News staff
benefits from her careful col-
lecting every day.
“I love seeing Ailene’s
smiling face each Tuesday
and F riday,” said Jody
Thompson, Hood River News
advertising manager. “I don’t
know what we would do
without her help with tear
sheets and clip files. It makes
our job so much easier, hav-
ing the weekly tear sheets
available that we can refer-
ence all year.
“For example, if we speak
to a customer who missed an
article in the paper about a
certain person, business or
event, we can use the handy
clip files that are archived to
find that article and make a
copy for the customer. If the
clip file is not available, we
can always use the weekly
tear sheets that Ailene pro-
vides us that we keep on
hand for the entire year.”
Editor Kirby Neumann-
Rea said the value of the files
are the history they contain.
“Ailene’s files means peo-
ple are remembered,” he
said. “We go to them all the
time to learn about our com-
munity, and what has gone
before us. The clip file, as I
like to call it, is an invaluable
resource and we frequently
draw from that deep well. Be
it a business, organization,
or individual, we can dip
into the files and find what
we need.
“The section devoted to
obits — an eight foot cabinet
three rows deep — is particu-
larly helpful when we want
to learn about people from
the past, their family past or
alive, or how a business or
agricultural crops.
Use of fireworks is prohib-
ited.
West Side Fire District has
been patrolling from
Mitchell Point to Reed Road,
updating information for its
Wildfire Response Plan, not-
ing conditions such as ac-
cess, water supply, fire
breaks, hazards, and fuel
loading, according to fire
marshal Jim Trammell.
“Fire season is upon us
and we want to have the most
up to date information, he
said.
With temperatures likely
to reach 100 degrees and po-
tential for muggy conditions,
it is important to be cautious
during this abnormally early
heat wave, according to au-
thorities.
“While enjoying the week-
end, we need to make sure we
take heat warnings serious-
ly,” said Oregon Office of
Emergency Management Di-
rector Andrew Phelps. “It is
important to keep an eye on
those who are most vulnera-
ble to the effects of extreme
heat, like infants and young
children, our elderly family
members and neighbors, and
those with chronic medical
conditions.”
Pacific Power wants to re-
mind customers to stay safe
and use these tips to beat the
heat, use less energy and
save money.
Be air conditioner smart
■ Set your thermostat at 78
degrees. This will keep you
comfortable and cooling
your house below that tem-
perature can increase your
air conditioning bill as much
as 8 percent.
■ Don’t turn off the air
conditioner when you’re
gone; instead set it higher, at
85 degrees. That setting al-
lows your air conditioner to
use less electricity to cool the
house than if the air condi-
tioning has been off all day,
but doesn’t shut down alto-
gether.
■ Use an air conditioner
timer or programmable ther-
mostat; set it to start bring-
ing your home’s temperature
from 85 degrees down to 78
degrees no more than 30 min-
utes before you get home.
■ Lamps, televisions or
any other appliance that cre-
ates heat needs to be kept
away from the thermostat;
they will impact its accuracy.
■ Your air conditioner will
operate most efficiently if
you trim nearby foliage to
allow adequate air flow
around the unit.
■ Don’t block inside distri-
bution vents with furniture
or other objects.
Don’t let the sun shine in
■ On warm days, close
blinds and drapes, especially
in south-facing windows
which allow in the most heat.
■ Open windows in the
evening and circulate cool
air.
■ Open windows in
evening and early morning
to let in cool air. Be aware,
however, of any safety or se-
curity issues.
■ Use fans to bring in and
circulate cool air. Ceiling and
window fans use less elec-
tricity than an air condition-
er when the compressor is
engaged. Running an air con-
ditioner in fan-only mode
can also be effective as out-
side temperatures drop.
Reduce the heat inside
■ Use heat-producing ap-
pliances like ovens, dish-
washers and dryers in the
early mor ning or late
evening when temperatures
are cooler.
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AILENE HIBBARD stores a recent Hood River News story into one of her many clip files. When a file doesn’t get properly returned to its
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after winning a chamber of
commerce writing contest,
where she proofread, and an
equally short stint in Flori-
da, where she took a break
from newspapers to work in
a library, and later at her fa-
ther’s dress shop. On a camp-
ing trip in Oregon, she fell in
love with the Hood River Val-
ley and put her name in at
the News. She was eventual-
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thinks the cartoon cards she
sent weekly telling him how
much she wanted to become
an Oregonian finally wore
him down — and she’s been
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today got its start. Ailene’s
work serves as a history of
the community, but it is not
just about history. It is about
what is happening around us
today.”
As a little side note, the
News isn’t Ailene’s first
newspaper, but it is where
she’s worked the longest. She
began at the Victorville
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a proofreader — she also
pasted up pages — and later
worked a similar position in
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paper in South Lake Tahoe
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