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HOOD RIVER NEWS | Hood River, Ore.
COMMUNITY
City manager: 2020 Work Plan
prioritizes safety, infrastructure,
and communication
By EMILY FITZGERALD
ongoing community conversa-
tion,” Fuller said.
Aging infrastructure is caus-
ing problems in the city’s water
and sewer lines, as old clay
pipes start to break down. “The
city council has prioritized this
effort on the 2020 workplan and
this will be a long-term project,”
Fuller said. She added that
the city successfully got $1.7
million to help repair a broken
stormwater line on the water-
front, but generally, federal and
state funding for infrastructure
projects is declining, making it
harder for cities and developers
to fund infrastructure projects.
Other projects going into
2020 include developing a long-
term plan to become more en-
ergy efficient, a communication
and community engagement
study, and developing afford-
able and attainable housing on
a seven-acre property the City
of Hood River has purchased
on Rand Road. Rotary members
asked the most questions on
this project following Fuller’s
presentation; and Fuller said
that the city is still working
through the details of what the
News staff writer
File photo
W YDEN V ISITS O N S AT.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden will hold a town hall in The Dalles on
Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. at Fort Dalles Readiness Center, 402 E.
Scenic Drive. This is the Portland Democrat’s fulfillment of
his pledge to hold at least one town hall each year in each of
the state’s 36 counties. “Open-to-all town halls in every nook
and cranny of our state are essential to the ‘Oregon Way’ of
civil discussions about important issues,” Wyden said. “I look
forward very much to hearing Oregonians’ ideas, concerns,
questions and priorities in these upcoming town halls.”
Community safety, commu-
nity infrastructure and commu-
nity identity continue to be the
City of Hood River’s priorities
going into 2020.
For the second year, the City
of Hood River organized their
project goals for the upcoming
year as a comprehensive work
plan, and City Manager Rachael
Fuller presented highlights of
that plan to Hood River Rotary
during the club’s Feb. 6 meet-
ing.
“All the services that we do,
they generally fall into these
three buckets,” said Fuller.
“Community safety, that’s going
to be of your insurance policy,
the people who show up when
things aren’t looking good;
community infrastructure,
that’s the database services that
really allow us to live in close
proximity with each other; and
then community identity —
who we are, what’s important,
and what we’d like our built
environment to look like.”
The city is working on ad-
Photo by Emily Fitzgerald
CITY Manager Rachael Fuller
presents at Hood River Rotary’s
Feb. 6 meeting.
dressing the “enormous pres-
sures” put on police and fire
services by growing tourism,
and adapting those services
to meet additional challenges
such as wildfire response and
homelessness rates. “I think the
challenge is to adapt to meet
these needs within existing
resources and this will be an
project will look like, but fund-
ing — including state money
reallocated from the Morrison
Park project — has been set
aside.
Regarding community iden-
tity, Fuller referenced tensions
that have “played out in some
very divisive ways over the last
few years,” partially due to the
fact that Oregon’s land use
system prioritizes productive
farm and forest land, and how
that comes into play with a
city’s task to provide sufficient
housing and jobs within a com-
munity. “How cities do this is
where there can be a conflict,
because these conversations
elicit questions about who we
are as a community and who we
want to be,” said Fuller. “So we’ll
need to navigate these con-
versations together, and that’s
hard work, because these con-
versations are ultimately about
deeply-held values, about how
people want to live their lives.”
The full 2020 work plan is
available online at cityofho-
odriver.gov/administration/
city-council/hood-river-city-
council-goals.
Gorge Sings II concert will raise
voices at Wy’east Arts Center
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
‘ WAGON W EDNESDAY’
Hood River resident Aparna Ramachandran enjoys a “mock-
tail” at the Jan. 29 “On the Wagon Wednesday” at Slopeswell
Cidery, while enjoying the music of Megan Alder.
‘UPLIFT, UNFILTERED’
Women’s network
event debuts Feb. 20
the Columbia Gorge Commu-
nity College.
One of the highlights of the
concert is the world premiere
of a new choral piece written
by Joan Szymko. Based on a
text by Wendell Berry, “Circle
of Lovers” was commissioned
for the Voci choir by CGOA,
as part of its annual MacMil-
lan Prize for female choral
New ensembles
Canticum,
GALS, CGCC
join CGOA on
Feb. 21 and 23
In the past few decades,
there has been an explosion
of interest in the physical
and mental health benefits
of singing with others. Study
after study has reinforced
what singers already know:
that joining with others in
song makes people feel hap-
pier, less stressed and less
alone. The result has been a
proliferation of community
choral groups all over the
world.
Here in the Gorge, cho-
ral singing remains a pop-
ular pastime and so once
again, the Columbia Gorge
Orchestra Association has
invited a number of choirs to
come together for The Gorge
Sings II. On the programs
are the CGOA Voci Choir
(now in its 15th year), Can-
ticum (a new small ensem-
ble), the award-winning HRV
Chamber Singers, the CGOA
Youth Choir and GALS, which
stands for the Gorge A Cap-
pella Lady Singers. Also on
the program will be the newly
formed Choral Union from
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location at 13th and Wasco
streets, on Feb. 20 at 5 p.m.
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Thursday, February 20, 6-8PM
Port of Hood River Conference Room
1000 E. Port Marina Drive, Hood River
The Port of Hood River will host a drop-in style open house
to receive public comment to inform the Port Commission on
community needs, sentiment, and priorities for the development of
its 2020-2026 Strategic Business Plan, the guiding policy document
for the Port. There will be a brief presentation about the project, then
attendees will have multiple opportunities to share information, ask
questions, and provide feedback on project choices.
For more information please visit
portofhoodriver.com.
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The Gorge Sings II concerts
are Feb. 21 (7:30 p.m.) and
23 (2 p.m.) at Wy’east Middle
School Performing Arts Center.
The concerts are free with do-
nations accepted.
Tickets are available at gor-
georchestra.org .
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Szymko is one of America’s
most respected and often per-
formed choral writers, accord-
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Steighner.
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performances the audience
will get to join the choirs for an
extended singalong. Last year’s
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