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OFF PAGE ONE CAMP: 'RQDWLRQVJUDQWVNHHSWKHFDPSIUHHIRUWHHQV Page 8A East Oregonian Continued from 1A DPSOL¿HUVDGUXPNLWDQGD soundboard. Peter Walters, the program’s founder, welcomes the expansion. When it started out, “we had NLGV SOD\LQJ LQ HYHU\ QRRN and cranny of this thing,” he said of the Center for the Arts building. Years ago, the 5RFN 5ROO FDPS HQWHUHG into an agreement with First Christian Church across the VWUHHW²DQGQRZWKH\KDYH a third building in which to play. 7KH5RFN5ROOFDPS¶V ¿UVW \HDU VDZ DURXQG campers attend, according to Walters. A decade later, that number has more than doubled to 80, according to a count by Bonnie Day with the Center for the Arts. Walters attributes the success of the camp to the fact that enthusiasm of FDPSHUV JHWV ³DPSOL¿HG´ (surely no pun intended) by adults in the community. He estimates thousands of dollars in donations and JUDQWV EULQJ WKH FDPS DOLYH DQGNHHSLWIUHHIRUFDPSHUV ³, QHYHU WKRXJKW LW¶G EH free for 10 years,” he said. 2YHU WKH \HDUV SHRSOH KDYH GURSSHG RII JHDU IRU campers to learn on. Now WKH\ VHHP WR EH ZRUNLQJ with a surplus of equipment. Because counselors don’t KDYH WR ZRUU\ DERXW VFUDP- bling around for instruments anymore, they can focus on instruction, said Walters. 7HHQV RI YDULRXV VNLOO OHYHOV DWWHQG WKH ZHHNORQJ camp that ends with a concert on Main Street on Friday. Walters said some campers DUH ³YLUWXRVRV´ RWKHUV DUH ³FRPSOHWH QRYLFHV´ Veterans come to the camp with more experience and patience, he said. $IWHU WHHQDJHUV KDYH attended the camp for a couple years “they’re more mature than we are,” Walters VDLGMRNLQJO\ Malcolm Luis noodles RQ WKH QHFN RI D )HQGHU 7HOHFDVWHU LQ WKH PDNHVKLIW Staff photo by E.J. Harris Twins Nicole, 18, and Melissa Hood, 18, from Stanfield work on a design for a concert poster on Wednesday during Rock & Roll Camp X in Pendleton. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Councilor Levi Cecil of Portland sets up a microphone to record a song by Sophie Arnold, 15, of Vancouver, Wash., during a studio production class Wednesday at Rock & Roll Camp X in Pendleton. recording studio during lunch Wednesday. Luis, 15, is here for his fourth year and he comes all the way from Portland to attend. Luis, who plays in bands often, notes the difference EHWZHHQWKH6FKRRORI5RFN in Portland and the Pendleton FDPS 7KH 6FKRRO RI 5RFN focuses mostly on teaching VWXGHQWV WR FRYHU VRQJV RU UHSURGXFH WKH ZRUN RI RWKHUDUWLVWV$W5RFN5ROO Camp “it’s all about creating \RXURZQVWXIIZKLFK,WKLQN is fun,” he said. Arnold comes for a ZHHN HDFK VXPPHU DQG KDV DWWHQGHG WKH 5RFN 5ROO camp for three years. From out-of-state, she KDVDJUDQGPRWKHUZKROLYHV LQ 3HQGOHWRQ DQG YLVLWV IRU D ZHHN LQ WKH VXPPHU$QG $UQROGLVDTXLFNVWXG\6KH VDLG VKH MXVW SLFNHG XS WKH guitar recently — and wrote her song the night before. A new event center Roger Bisnett, who owns the Christian Science building and Bisnett Insur- ance, said he, Walters and 5LDQ %HDFK KDYH EXVLQHVV SODQVLQWKHZRUNVWRUHRSHQ LWDVDQHYHQWFHQWHU “It was coincidental that RQFH DJDLQ WKH URFN FDPS came up,” he said of letting camp organizers use the VSDFHIRUWKHZHHN He said he guesses the QHZ YHQXH PD\ EH RSHQ within the next 60 days, though contractors need WR GR VRPH ZRUN WR EULQJ the space up to standards. Longterm, he said, he would OLNH SUR¿WV IURP HYHQWV DW the old church to go toward FKDULWLHV OLNH 6KULQHUV Hospitals for Children. The building was erected in the early 1920s. Bisnett purchased the building in DQG XVHG LW DV RI¿FH space, then as a practice YHQXH IRU WKH 2UHJRQ (DVW Symphony. He said has KDG VHYHUDO UHTXHVWV IRU repurposing the space, but %HDFK¶V DQG:DOWHUV¶ YLVLRQ aligned with his. “We want them to succeed in this,” he said. ——— Contact Jonathan Bach at jbach@eastoregonian. com or 541-966-0809. each layer with salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion SRZGHU:UDSEDFRQRYHU WRS%DNHDWGHJUHHV for two to three hours until potatoes are soft. Slice and VHUYH Continued from 1A Mike’s Tri-tip Ingredients: tri-tip, Spade /5DQFK%HHI0DULQDGH Seasoning. Trim fat from tri-tip. Rub ZLWKVHDVRQLQJ6PRNHDW 225 degrees for two hours. Grilled Lamb Meatballs Ingredients: one pound ground lamb, two tablespoons dry bulgur, WZRFORYHVPLQFHGJDUOLF one small onion grated and drained, one tablespoon NRVKHUVDOWRQHKDOI teaspoon pepper, one egg beaten, one teaspoon cumin, RQHWHDVSRRQSDSULND two tablespoons chopped parsley, two tablespoons ROLYHRLO 0L[HYHU\WKLQJEXWROLYH RLO0DNHLQWRSDWWLHVDQG FRDWZLWKROLYHRLO*ULOORQ PHGLXPKLJK¿YHPLQXWHV per side. 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L UNDQUIST , M.D. Family Practice I am moving my medical office on Oct. 1 st , 2015 where I will continue to see my established patients at my new location: Gifford Medical 1050 W Elm Ave., Suite 110 Hermiston, Oregon All medical records for patient care will be available at Gifford Medical. Please continue to call our office at 541-276-0852 to schedule appointments at our current and future location. After October 1st, please call 541-567-2995 to schedule appointments or request records. I look forward to continuing to meet your health care needs. While other ratios were VXJJHVWHGWKHFRXQFLOHYHQ- tually settled on the 70-30 number. Although some coun- cilors proposed a larger percentage for bad streets, 3XEOLF :RUNV 'LUHFWRU %RE Patterson said spending less money to maintain the city’s JRRG URDGV ZRXOG HYHQWX- ally cause their deterioration and exacerbate the current problem. Under the city’s plan, good neighborhood roads ZRXOGEHLGHQWL¿HGWKURXJK WKH 6WUHHW 6DYHU SURJUDP which the city already uses to prioritize Pendleton road funding. 6HYHQW\ SHUFHQW RI WKH gas tax and the utility fee would generate a combined $722,000 for those roads. 7KDW ZRXOG OHDYH VSHFL¿FDOO\ IRU URDGV WKDW are rated 50 or below on the SDYHPHQW FRQGLWLRQ LQGH[ Among those poorly rated roads, staff will target streets WKH\ FDQ RYHUOD\ LQVWHDG RI roads that require complete reconstruction. According WR 3DWWHUVRQ WKH DYHUDJH FLW\ EORFN UHTXLUHV WR RYHUOD\ DQG WR reconstruct. Although the council has agreed upon a funding VSOLWIRUQHZVWUHHWUHYHQXHV there are still questions that need to be answered ahead of a campaign for the gas tax. Among those is a priori- WL]DWLRQOLVWRIVSHFL¿FURDGV WKDW FRXOG EH ¿[HG WKURXJK the new street funding. While some councilors bandied about a 10-year list, Patterson said it might not be feasible to project out that far. ³7KLV LV D YHU\ OLTXLG list,” he said. “If we’re held accountable to what we publish in its entirety, we also QHHGWREHDEOHWRFRQYH\WR the public that the list can FKDQJH RYHU WLPH:H KDYH yet to get our underground infrastructure as a part of the discussion. So I, as public ZRUNV GLUHFWRU KDYH D YHU\ hard time with anything beyond two years out in front.” 3DWWHUVRQ DOVR UHYHDOHG that any new street funding wouldn’t be implemented until 2017, which would JLYHVWDIIWLPHWRFROOHFWWKH WD[ UHYHQXH DQG FUHDWH WKH necessary engineering plans. -D\QH&ODUNHD3HQGOHWRQ resident and the co-owner of Pioneer Construction, said the public might want WKHLUWD[GROODUVWRPDNHDQ immediate impact. ³,NQRZWKHUH¶VQRSRWRI gold, but you need to at least KDYHWKDWPHVVDJHRXWWKHUH because the expectation is, ‘I pass the gas tax and some- thing is going to happen,’” she said. 0D\RU3KLOOLS+RXNVDLG the problem with starting street projects sooner is that it would require the city to WDNHRXWDORDQZKLFKZRXOG accrue interest. After the meeting, Patterson said the council would need to formally DSSURYHWKHIXQGLQJUDWLRWR put it into effect. Pendleton city council ZLOODJDLQPHHWWRWDONDERXW streets on August 25 at 7 p.m. at city hall. ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian. com or 541-966-0836. WILDFIRES: &RQVXPHGRYHU KDOIRI)RUHVW6HUYLFH¶VEXGJHW Continued from 1A colleagues don’t necessarily KDYH WKH VDPH ZRUOG YLHZ Fire has always been part of the landscape out West and ZH¶OO DOZD\V KDYH WR GHDO with it.” &UDSRDFNQRZOHGJHGWKDW prior attempts to get similar ELOOVWKURXJK&RQJUHVVKDYH stalled, but he says this year VXSSRUWHUVKDYHWKHEDFNLQJ RI NH\ FRQJUHVVLRQDO committee leaders to help PRYHLWWKURXJK The bill has also been deemed budget-neutral from the Congressional %XGJHW 2I¿FH ZKLFK KDV helped ease fears that it ZRXOG FUHDWH D ³EODQN FKHFN´DSSURDFKWR¿JKWLQJ ZLOG¿UHV&UDSRVDLG “It is an emergency, but it is an emergency we can VROYH´&UDSRVDLG According to the legis- ODWLRQ ¿UH¿JKWLQJ DJHQFLHV could use federal natural GLVDVWHU IXQGV IRU ZLOG¿UH suppression, but only if QDWLRQZLGH ¿UH¿JKWLQJ costs reached 70 percent of WKH\HDUDYHUDJH 7KLV ZRXOG SUHYHQW ¿UH¿JKWLQJ DJHQFLHV OLNH the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Forest 6HUYLFH IURP ERUURZLQJ funds that pay for projects WKDW KHOS UHGXFH ¿UHSURQH regions. This would include UHPRYLQJ WUHHV FOHDULQJ underbrush and clearing out RYHUJURZQIRUHVWV /DZPDNHUV DW :HGQHV- day’s news conference noted that while natural GLVDVWHUV OLNH KXUULFDQHV DQGHDUWKTXDNHVTXDOLI\IRU emergency federal funds, LW¶V XS WR ¿UH¿JKWLQJ DJHQ- cies to pay for battling the big blazes from their own budgets. $QG DV ZLOG¿UHV KDYH grown in size and frequency, IHGHUDO DJHQFLHV KDYH been spending more than HYHU WR WU\ WR NHHS XS )RU H[DPSOH LQ ZLOG¿UH costs were just 16 percent RIWKH86)RUHVW6HUYLFH¶V EXGJHW ,Q ZLOG¿UH costs consumed more than KDOI RI WKH RYHUDOO EXGJHW and by 2025, the agency SUHGLFWV LW¶OO WDNH XS QHDUO\ 70 percent.
