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Plane crash in La Grande
sends student pilot to hospital
LA GRANDE (AP) — A single-engine
airplane crash at the La Grande/Union County
Airport is currently under investigation.
The La Grande Observer reports Captain Craig
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the plane crashed Saturday after a pilot instructor
and their student had trouble landing. Ward
declined to name the pilot and the student, but
said they were both from the area.
Ward said the student had been practicing
landing when the engine stopped and the pilot had
to take over.
The pilot didn’t want to land on the runway, so
he ended up landing upright at the south end of
the runway.
The student was transported to the Grande
Ronde Hospital with minor injuries. The pilot was
uninjured.
around the little plane.
“It’s alive!” Powers said in
response, emerging from the
aircraft, where he had been
steering from the backseat in
the tandem plane.
Powers quickly called over
Geoff Carson to share in the
moment of success. Carson
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who checked Powers’ plane at
each new step along the way.
Carson came out early
Friday morning before the
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checked over the plane more
than once and found that there
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wrong with the airplane.
Colin Powers lands his restored 1945 Piper L-4J on the
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runway at the Sunriver Airport June 19. Powers, of said Carson had given him a
La Pine, flew the plane for the first time after spending hard time about making an
approximately three years restoring it.
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Nervous, Powers’ wife asked felt a sense of relief as her run since 1968 — he thought
that was slightly ambitious.
the airport staff if that was all husband buzzed by safely.
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right.
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said, laughing. “I can’t run have a little fun. He tipped the with people around,”’ Powers
fast enough!”
wings back and forth, letting said. But Powers had faith in
Just a few minutes later, the plane lean left, then right. the aircraft he built, and in
Powers appeared above in the
“Oh don’t do that!” having Carson’s approval.
L-4J, taking everyone back to Powers’ wife said as he pulled “He’s a good guy, we’ve
a different time.
the simple trick, scolding become friends.”
Powers plans for the plane
“Oh my goodness!” June him good-naturedly far from
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head.
that tells me everything is museum so more people can
enjoy it.
“There he is,” said a man OK.”
“Right now it’s pristine,”
standing next to her, in awe.
When Powers landed, there
“Gives me goose pimples,” was applause and whoops of Powers said. “It’s in as good
of condition as it will ever be.”
said another woman in the excitement.
That’s the way he’d like to
crowd.
“Way to go, Ace!” someone
It was clear June Powers said from the group gathered keep it.
By KAILEY FISICARO
The Bulletin
SUNRIVER
—
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the edge of the tarmac at
Sunriver Airport on Friday
morning, Colin Powers’ wife,
June, anxiously awaited her
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rebuilt World War II airplane.
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dozen people gathered to see
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made sure everyone knew
they were welcome to the
coffee and doughnuts she
had brought. Some of the
people there were friends
of the couple; others were
simply interested in seeing a
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Powers bought the plane
in 2012, and since then has
worked to restore it in his
home garage in La Pine.
Many pieces he replaced on
the plane are new, but they’re
all authentic to when the plane
was originally built in 1945.
Powers made sure of that.
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a month and a half ago but
waited until he had a new copy
of the plane’s airworthiness
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Friday, his take-off point
was out of sight, so as the time
came near, the antsy crowd
began slowly spreading across
the tarmac to get what they
thought might be a better look.
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park in Eastern Oregon
VALE (AP) — Crews are trying to contain a
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Natural Area in Eastern Oregon.
The Bureau of Land Management said
Monday the 175-acre blaze was spotted the night
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Idaho.
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determined and there’s no estimate for when it
might be contained.
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controlled burning operation to make progress on
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the next several days, and people in the Illinois
and Rogue valleys who are sensitive to smoke
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SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government
has agreed to pay for an analysis of sewer
samples to determine levels of marijuana use in
Washington state.
The University of Puget Sound said Monday
the National Institutes of Health is chipping in
$120,000 so Dan Burgard, an associate chemistry
professor, can conduct a three-year study that
will look at how per-capita pot use changed after
legalization.
The university says Burgard has adapted a
method developed in Italy for retrieving and
analyzing wastewater. He and his students plan
to test 110 random, one-liter samples taken from
two wastewater treatment plants in Western
Washington each year.
The research is being done in collaboration
with Caleb Banta-Green, a senior scientist at the
University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Institute.
Sales tax could yield more revenue, cheaper pot
and Colorado, which impose
higher taxes at multiple points
in the production process.
Oregon lawmakers want
SALEM — An economist
for the Oregon Legislature to replace the weight-based
offered two tempting reasons excise tax the state would
on Thursday for lawmakers to charge growers under Measure
pick a sales tax on marijuana 91, the initiative voters passed
instead of a harvest tax: in November to legalize mari-
cheaper pot, and more tax juana, with a sales tax that
would raise the same amount
revenue.
Mazen Malik, a senior of revenue.
Malik said that retail
economist in the Legislative
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percent sales tax in legislation would be lower with a sales
that lawmakers are consid- tax when compared with a
ering would still result in harvest tax, because a harvest
lower prices for recreational tax would increase the markup
marijuana in Oregon as cost of cannabis before it
compared to Washington reaches consumers. Malik
estimated the change would
lower the cost of retail recre-
ational marijuana in Oregon
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ounce, to $277 per ounce.
As for the amount of
revenue the proposed sales tax
would raise, Malik estimated
it would eventually be more
than the state would receive
if it maintains the harvest
tax. However, Malik told
lawmakers that anticipated
delays in licensing pot
retailers would also mean less
tax revenue for the state in the
early years.
For the budget year starting
in July 2016, the Legislative
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By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
17 percent sales tax would
generate a net total of $4.6
million, after start-up and
administrative costs for the
legal pot system. That is
based on retailers opening in
January 2017. Oregon might
not fully launch its retail
pot system until late 2016,
although adults age 21 and
older can legally possess the
drug starting July 1. Pot sales
tax revenue could increase to
a net total of $61.4 million for
the two-year budget starting
July 2017.
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