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SCHOOL: All 12 Republicans voted against it LINES: SB873 would adhere to the state’s
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East Oregonian
lic hearings in March were delega-
tions from Portland Public Schools,
Monroe also said the budget pro- which enroll the most students in
vides $220 million in state funding Oregon, and the Forest Grove and
for full-day kindergarten, which North Clackamas districts.
lawmakers made mandatory in
All 12 Republicans joined those
2011 and starts this fall.
critics and voted against it.
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton,
“We can do better,” said Sen.
said this budget makes good on the Alan Olsen, R-Canby.
Legislature’s promise to support
The bill contains a provision that
full-day kindergarten back then.
earmarks for the school fund 40
“It was not the popular thing to percent of any additional tax collec-
do, but it was right,” said Hass, who tions projected in the May 14 rev-
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billion — $245 million more than is boards can plan on as they draw up
proposed. Among the groups at pub- their own budgets for the 2015-16
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goal of prioritizing high-value agriculture
school year.
It would be the earliest legis-
lative action on the state school
fund since 2011, when lawmakers
cleared a budget on April 11.
Republicans proposed several
motions to send the fund back to
the budget committee, and others to
raise more money for it by reducing
government regulation of business
or selling the Elliott State Forest and
reinvesting the proceeds. All failed
on party-line votes.
“The K-12 students of Oregon
will be the losers,”said Senate Mi-
nority Leader Ted Ferrioli, R-John
Day.
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Mathews. “The contestants spend
most of their pageant time in their
traditional native clothing, demon-
strating pride and diversity among
the native/indigenous people of
North America, and sometimes,
South/Central America.”
The pageant is part of the world’s
largest powwow, the Gathering of
Nations. The 32-year-old gathering
of indigenous people brings about
112,000 visitors to Albuquerque
each year.
Pete, 24, brings plenty of dance
experience to the competition.
Most every weekend, she points her
Mercury Sable in the direction of
a powwow and drives. Often, she
goes alone to revel in the dancing
and camaraderie.
“My mom started taking me to
powwows before I could walk,”
Pete said.
She stopped for a while in her
teens to try rodeo (roping) instead,
but returned to powwow dancing at
age 18. She favors a women’s tradi-
tional Plateau high-step, a style that
requires fast footwork.
The Miss Indian World competi-
tion will end with dancing. The tal-
ent portion, which comes earlier, re-
quires each competitor to perform a
culturally related skill. Past contes-
tants have done such things as pre-
pare tribal foods, show beadwork,
tell tribal stories, sing and dance.
“I will be explaining our tradi-
tional Plateau horse regalia, where
it comes from, how we got it, how
it’s different from other tribes, and
showing the different pieces that go
on the horse,” Pete said. “I’ll be tak-
ing my Indian saddle and complete
horse regalia to the pageant with
me.”
Instead of an actual horse, Pete
will use a saddle stand set at center
stage.
During the public speaking por-
tion of the pageant, she will don a
black wool shell dress with blue,
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ribbons.” She will answer a ques-
tion earlier that day testing knowl-
edge of her tribal culture.
Pete practices speaking at pow-
wows after having the emcee an-
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tickets for the Miss Indian World
pageant. People generally crowd
around the dancer asking questions
and give her a chance to rehearse
her speaking skills.
“Public speaking isn’t really
my forté,” said the former Happy
Canyon princess. “However, I’d
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Association for helping me get over
my fear.”
The woman crowned Miss Indi-
an World will spend the next year as
an ambassador making appearanc-
es at powwows, festivals and other
events. Last year’s victor, Taylor
Thomas, rode in the 2014 West-
ward Ho! Parade in Pendleton.
“Miss Indian World spends her
year as an ambassador to all native
and non-native people sharing her
culture and speaking on issues that
affect Native America, and promot-
ing education, cultural preservation
and demonstrating a strong sense
of individuality in being a young
native woman living in a multi-
cultural world and maintaining her
traditional beliefs and practices,”
Mathews said.
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$2.50 each. Proceeds go to the Miss
Indian World pageant committee
and Pete will receive 10 percent of
overall ticket sales as an honorari-
um. Prizes include turquoise jewel-
ry, a buckskin hide, a beaded purse
and other items. For tickets, call
Pete at 541-215-2901 or Celeste
Reves at 541-969-2109.
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Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@
eastoregonian.com or call 541-
966-0810.
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high-value farmland, it would be
up to the developer to show there
was no better alternative. Cook said
that is in line with land use laws for
all other non-farm uses.
But so far, the legislature hasn’t
taken up the issue. The bill was re-
ferred to the Senate Committee on
Environment and Natural Resourc-
es, and has not received a hearing.
Bills have until Friday to see some
forward-moving action, or they
will likely die before making it
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Hansell, who serves on the Senate
Environment and Natural Resources
Committee, said he has already been
told by the committee’s chairman,
Sen. Chris Edwards, D-Eugene, that
he will not do anything with the bill.
“The conversations are continu-
ing, but the feeling is this won’t be
a bill that moves forward this ses-
sion,” Hansell said.
In a statement from Idaho Pow-
er, spokesman Brad Bowlin said
the company does not support leg-
islation that would make it more
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“By setting a higher bar for
transmission lines, SB873 could re-
sult in a policy that would impede
the development of much-needed
critical transmission infrastruc-
ture,” Bowlin said.
Cook said he isn’t ready to give
up on the bill yet. Private landown-
ers are being forced to rely on a
process that offers them few pro-
tections, he said, and SB873 would
adhere to the state’s goal of priori-
tizing high-value agriculture.
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Contact George Plaven at
gplaven@eastoregonian.com or
541-564-4547.
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hancements,” said NTSB Chairman
Christopher Hart. “Otherwise, we
continue to put our communities at
risk.”
The recommendations come as
the Department of Transportation
considers new rules to bolster tank
car safety in response to oil and eth-
anol train crashes that stirred wide-
spread worry in the U.S. and Can-
ada, where 47 people were killed
when an oil train crashed in Quebec
two years ago.
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measure, the NTSB said in its rec-
ommendations.
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adopted rules requiring sturdier tank
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such as oil and ethanol. But cars
built to the new standard split open
in at least four accidents during the
past year, including oil trains that
derailed and burned in West Virginia
in February and Illinois last month.
A spokesman for the Railway
Supply Institute, which represents
tank car users and manufacturers,
said he could not immediately
comment on the NTSB recommen-
dations.
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uids transported by rail has risen
dramatically over the past decade,
driven largely by the oil shale boom
in North Dakota and Montana. Each
can holds 30,000 gallons of fuel.
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and West coasts and the Gulf
of Mexico, oil shipments travel
through more than 400 counties,
including major metropolitan areas
such as Philadelphia, Seattle, Chi-
cago, Newark and dozens of other
cities.
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have seen at least 23 oil-train acci-
dents and 33 ethanol train accidents
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reviewed by the AP.
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