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A8 Wednesday, January 15, 2020 HOOD RIVER NEWS | Hood River, Ore. Hood River Rotary hosts annual Ski Night Jan. 20 BREWERIES IN THE GORGE $25 the day of the event. Season passholders, 10- time passholders and other pre-scheduled passes will also be valid, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. A $20 donation from passholders is appreciated, but not required, said a press release. arships. Th is fundraiser requires spe- cial Rotary Night lift tickets be purchased in order to ride the lifts after the normal 4 p.m. Th e annual Hood River Ro- operating schedule. Tickets are $20 when pur- tary Ski Night at Mt. Hood Meadows takes place Monday, chased online at skihood.com Jan. 20 from 3-9 p.m. Th e event (click the Rotary Night box that raises money for student schol- appears on the Home page), or Proceeds help scholarships Walker Sacon joins Gorge news team Western Washington Uni- versity senior and Underwood, Wash., native Walker Sacon started a 10-week newsroom in- ternship with Th e Dalles Chron- icle this week. Sacon will be covering news and features, and may provide some sports coverage as well, and his byline will also appear in the Hood River News. Sacon (pronounced say-con) is interested in stories involving the arts and the outdoors as well as agriculture, forestry and ergy for storytelling is instantly apparent and inspiring. I look forward to seeing him explore Th e Dalles and Gorge as a jour- nalist,” Mark Gibson, editor of Th e Dalles Chronicle, said. On his off days, Sacon ex- plores the Giff ord Pinchot Na- tional Forest with his dogs or records music. He spent the fall building a cabin and is al- ways excited to talk shop with craftspeople and artisans of all varieties. other local in- dustries. Sacon looks for ward to reconnect- ing with go- ings-on in the Gorge ahead Walker Sacon of his expect- ed March 2020 graduation. Having grown up farther west, he said he is excited to hear some of the stories of Th e Dalles. “Sacon’s enthusiasm and en- hoodrivernews.com Fourth annual Holiday Hangover beer festival set for Jan. 25 at Th e Ruins Billed as “An Intimate Festival By Beer Lovers For Beer Lovers,” the fourth an- nual Breweries in the Gorge (BIG) Holiday Hangover Beer Festival returns Jan. 25 at a new location. The festival will feature more than 20 craft beers, in- cluding a rotating specialty pour by each of 11 brewer- ies. New for 2020, this year’s event will take place at a The Ruins in Hood River, from 1-7 p.m. Guests can meet and cel- ebrate with BIG members and sample a variety of brews from the Columbia River Gorge region. The event features a dy- namic lineup of regional live bands, kicking off at 1:30 p.m. with the Night Farmers. The Greenneck Daredevils will take the stage at 3:30 p.m. followed by Hillstomp at 5:30 p.m. Culinary creations will be available for purchase by regional food vendors Four & Twenty Blackbirds and Pa- co’s Tacos. “If you’re into night-farm- ing, green-necking, hill-stomping good times, drinking the best beer on the planet, join us for our annu- al Holiday Hangover at the Ruins! We picked the bands, we picked the beers, and we pick you to come party with us,” Double Mountain Owner and BIG President Matt Swihart said. Free park- ing and shuttle service will be available by MountNBar- rel. Guests can park at Lot 1 at the Hood River Waterfront and catch a ride on The HOP to and from the event. Admission includes a col- lectable pint glass and eight taster tickets. Additional tastings and Springhouse Cellars wine will also be available for pur- chase. This is a 21 and over event. Advance tickets are $20 and $25 at the door. For tick- ets, visit www.beerfests.com. State Department of Ed seeks Teacher of the Year nominations Time is running out to nom- inate teachers for the 2021 Oregon Teacher of the Year, as those nominations close Fri- day, Jan. 31. Each year, exceptional teachers are honored in up to 19 regions across the state, with Oregon’s Teacher of the Year selected from among positive impact in the commu- nities in which they live. Th e award celebrates knowledge, dedication, innovation and leadership. Th anks to the Ore- gon Department of Education’s partnership with the Oregon Lottery, the Oregon Teacher of the Year receives a gift award of $5,000 as well as a special those regional fi nalists. (Dave Case, from Hood River Valley High School, was the 2018 Northeast Oregon re- gional teacher of the year.) Th e Teacher of the Year pro- gram was created to recognize exemplary public-school edu- cators — Oregon teachers who inspire students and make a fund to cover all travel costs for the year. In addition, a matching gift of $5,000 goes to the Teacher of the Year’s school. Know a great teacher? Fill out the nomination form at oregonlotteryteacheroftheyear. org to share what makes them exceptional. SAIF hosts farmworker safety seminars in Hood River, The Dalles SAIF is offering 29 free ag safety seminars in 17 cities across Oregon, continuing through March. Nine of the seminars will be presented entirely in Spanish, inlcuding in Hood River and The Dalles. Th is article corrects dates for Spanish-language seminars published in an article earlier this month. This year’s seminars will focus on four topics: Respi- ratory personal protective and health — they don’t have to be insured by SAIF. English seminars will be Jan. 22 at The Fort Dalles Readiness Center and Feb. 12 at Hood River County Fair- grounds. Spanish seminars will be Feb. 13 in Hood River, and Jan. 23 in The Dalles. All will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided. Employers with small ag businesses who attend the equipment, working at ele- vation, safety leadership for anyone, and incident analysis — a structured process for identifying what happened and reducing recurrence of injuries moving forward. In March, SAIF will also offer webinars online in English and, new this year, Spanish. The seminars are designed primarily for people working in agriculture but are open to anyone interested in ag safety seminar, or watch the webi- nars, will meet OSHA’s in- structional requirement — one of four requirements that exempt small agricultural op- erations from random OSHA inspections. Three hours of technical and one hour of business continuing education credits will be offered if approved by the Landscape Contractors Board. More information at www.saif.com/agseminars. Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea S UET D UET Bird at left does a split-second tail-over-head flip to get at fresh suet while another bird munches away, upright, amid windy sleet Monday. Oregon AG forms Labor Traffi cking Task Force Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, in commem- oration of Human Traffi cking Awareness Day, announced Monday the creation of a new Labor Traffi cking Task Force. The task force was formed between legislative sessions to study labor traffi cking across the state and identify ways the Oregon legislature and other leaders can tackle the issue, according to a press release. Oregon Criminal Justice Com- mission reports that there have been no prosecutions of labor traffi cking, under the relevant crime of Involuntary Servitude, anywhere in the state. The task force is co-con- vened by Oregon Senator Kath- leen Taylor and includes im- Labor trafficking may in- clude using threats of violence and coercion to force a per- son to work against their will, sometimes with no or little pay or inhumane conditions. Common industries that may engage in labor trafficking include domestic servants, farmworkers, factory workers and other day laborers. The members of the task force include: ■ Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum ■ Senator Kathleen Taylor, Senate District 21 ■ Aaron Knott, Legislative Director, Oregon Attorney General’s Offi ce ■ Kate Denison, Policy Ana- migration attorneys, organized labor groups, law enforcement, district attorneys, representa- tives from the Mexican Consul- ate, and other state agencies. “Human traffi cking includes both sex traffi cking and labor traffi cking, but almost all of our public awareness focuses on sex trafficking. What we hear so far is that labor traf- fi cking is very real, and it is happening under the radar in all corners of the state,” said Attorney General Rosenblum. “I want this task force to dig into this terrible crime. All sources suggest we lack the tools to identify, investigate and prosecute labor traffi cking in our communities. We need to change that.” lyst, Oregon Attorney General’s Offi ce ■ Melissa Contreras, Mexi- can Consulate ■ Renee Cummings, Ore- gon Immigration Group ■ John Haroldson, Benton County District Attorney ■ Officer Natasha Haunsperger, Portland Police Department ■ Amanda Kraus, Oregon Senate Democrat Caucus Of- fi ce ■ John Marandas, Maran- das Sinlapasai Garcia, LLC ■ Beatriz Navarro, Consul in Charge, Consulate of Mexico in Portland ■ Sarah Purce, Catholic Charities Legal Services ■ Sonia Ramirez, Wage and Hour Administrator, Oregon Labor and Industries ■ Chanpone Sinlapasai, Marandas Sinlapasai Garcia, LLC ■ Amanda Swanson, Traf- ficking Intervention Coordi- nator, Oregon Department of Justice ■ Matt Swanson, NW Car- penters Union “I’m proud to partner with the Attorney General and oth- ers to stop human and labor trafficking in our state. This critical issue disproportionate- ly impacts women and people of color and must be addressed with a trauma-informed ap- proach. Our agency’s job is to defend Oregonians’ civil rights and prevent exploitation, and issues of trafficking are in- timately connected to that,” said Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle. The Attorney General an- nounced the new task force at the Oregon DOJ’s second annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day event honoring community members and state partners who are working to stop trafficking and support victims. The Task Force will meet throughout 2020 and will make recommendations for consid- eration by the Oregon legisla- ture in the 2021 session. Th e Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) is led by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, and serves as the state’s law fi rm. 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