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FAIR: Music ¿lled the afternoon at the county fair
East Oregonian
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Kara MacKenzie, who teaches first grade in Echo,
stands in line at the faux hospital employment de-
partment and learns her employment status from HR
person, played by Dr. Phil Mills, of the InterMountain
Education Service District.
POVERTY: Day
added perspective
Continued from 1A
shoes.”
According to the latest
U.S. Census Bureau data
from 2013, 16.5 percent of
Umatilla County residents
live in poverty. Students
who experience economic
hardship without technically
being below the poverty level
are reÀected by the percentage
that receives free or reduced-
price meals at school, which
are offered to students whose
families earn less than 185
percent of the poverty level.
According to the Oregon
Department of Education,
63.4 percent of students in
Umatilla County Tuali¿ed
in the 2014-15 school year,
including 49.4 percent in the
Pendleton School District,
65.6 in the Hermiston School
District, 70.8 percent in the
Stan¿eld School District and
80 percent in the Umatilla
School District.
Any way you slice it, a
good percentage of students in
any class in Umatilla County
have ¿nancial challenges
outside the classroom.
“There are certain strat-
egies and things that we do
that really don’t help (students
in poverty),” Liscom said.
“Part of it is because I think
we don’t really understand
what that feels like, what that
means. The idea is, by having
this simulation, we have a
better understanding.”
Beamer said the simu-
lation was based on actual
experiences of people in
poverty. The participants were
assigned speci¿c family roles
and incomes and tried to ful¿ll
their basic needs over the
course of a simulated month.
The exercise took about an
hour. Through interactions
with people representing
social service agencies,
schools, mortgage companies,
homeless shelters, police,
businesses and other orga-
nizations, some of the staff
members in the simulation
experienced poverty for the
¿rst time.
“I thought it was good to
let us see the perspective of
people in poverty, the things
they have to deal with on a
regular basis,” Stan¿eld High
School social studies teacher
Brad Rogers said. “I guess
I kind of understood some
of the things that they went
through, but I’ve never really
thought to the extent of how
dif¿cult it is.”
Rogers said he plans to
be more empathetic this
year when students request
additional time to complete an
assignment when they had to
care for siblings while parents
were working.
Laura Eddy, who teaches
fourth and ¿fth grades at Stan-
¿eld Elementary School, said
she doesn’t often think about
poverty. After the simulation,
however, she said she could
pinpoint students who were in
her class last year that strug-
gled because of economic
issues. She said she plans to
evaluate her classroom struc-
ture and homework policies.
“Last year, I had a lot of
students who didn’t turn in
homework,” she said. “Is there
any way that I can do home-
work that’ll meet the needs of
those students who that isn’t a
priority for because they just
want to get through? How can
I ¿nd a way to compromise
with them so they’re getting
this skill while recognizing
that there is a challenge?”
she was three years old and
as a small child won the
Oregon State Fair talent
show with dance partner
Liam Moore. She said she
came to the Morrow County
Fair because she wants a
shot at another title, and
because she loves a chance
to tap dance onstage.
“I like the noise it makes,”
she said.
The girls weren’t the
only ones to utilize the
Morrow County Fair stage
on Thursday. A performance
from a group of ¿ddle players
kicked off the morning.
Bob Stevens of Hardman
said the unnamed set of nine
musicians jamming on a
variety of string instruments
was a loose-knit group from
around Eastern Oregon that
share a love of music and
perform together in a variety
of settings.
“When you need a group
of people you start working
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Ireland Martin, 11, belts out “Heart of Dixie” with
Briget Wizner on Thursday during a talent show at
the Morrow County Fair.
the phones and see who you
can get,” he said.
Since they hail from
everywhere from Pendleton
to John Day they don’t really
get together to practice, he
said, but they’re good at
winging it. On Thursday the
players took turns choosing
songs to lead, rolling out
renditions of “You Are My
Sunshine,” “Blue Suede
Shoes,” “Tom Dooley” and
a variety of other songs.
Stevens said he taught
himself to play various
stringed instruments, starting
with the old ¿ddle his uncle
gave him when he was 10
years old.
“I don’t read music. Most
of us don’t,” he said. “We
just have fun.”
Fiddle player Bill Myers
of Hermiston agreed about
having fun.
“It’s a great social atmo-
sphere,” he said. ”Music is
therapeutic. Music is fun.
Did you notice everyone
joking and smiling and
teasing one another?”
Emma Miller, Oregon’s
state dairy princess, handed
out Tillamook ice cream
later in the afternoon.
Miller, who is originally
from Independence, has
been in Morrow County for
events before and said she
hopes some of the girls she
spoke with at the fair consider
applying to be a dairy princess.
“Morrow
County
produces the most milk in
all of Oregon,” she said.
“We thought it would be
great to have a princess from
Morrow County.”
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ODOR: Implications
in Pendleton unclear
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subjecting others to a “physi-
cally offensive condition.”
After the of¿cer found
graf¿ti supplies in his apart-
ment, Lang was charged
with four counts of criminal
mischief and was eventually
convicted of three counts in
Benton County Circuit Court.
Lang appealed his case to
the Court of Appeals, which
sided with Lang and reversed
the circuit court decision.
In the written ruling, a
panel of judges delved into
the minutia of how a smell
could be considered “physi-
cally offensive.”
“Physical offensiveness
is not established by the fact
that the odor may be associ-
ated with substance abuse or
criminal activity,” it states.
“Although a person could be
offended as a result of those
associations, that offense
is moral or intellectual in
nature, not physical.”
The ruling states that while
some smells are objectively
offensive — like rotten eggs
and raw sewage — other
scents are more subjective.
Where the odor is experi-
enced and its intensity were
also factors that needed to be
considered, the court wrote.
In a key passage, the court
refused to declare marijuana
odor inherently offensive.
While acknowledging that
the odor entering the homes
of Lang’s neighbors weighed
in favor of concluding that
the odor was offensive, the
panel wrote that the af¿davit
the of¿cer presented to the
court didn’t establish whether
the odor was intense and
persistent.
It is unclear whether the
Court of Appeal’s ruling
will invalidate Pendleton’s
marijuana odor ordinance or
reTuire signi¿cant changes to
its language.
Police
Chief
Stuart
Roberts and City Attorney
Nancy Kerns were unavail-
able for comment. City
Manager Robb Corbett
declined to comment because
he was unfamiliar with the
ruling.
There are some differ-
ences between the particulars
of the Lang case and the city
ordinance.
The Philomath case dealt
with the interpretation of a
criminal statute, while Pend-
leton’s law is a noncriminal
ordinance imposed by the
city and not the state.
Additionally, the intent
of the ordinance was to
prohibit odors that arise
from the drying of marijuana
plants, although the text of
the ordinance doesn’t distin-
guish between odors that
are derived from marijuana
drying and marijuana smoke.
The odor ordinance was
passed by the Pendleton
City Council May 19 after
Roberts reported that several
residents who were growing
medical marijuana were
drawing odor complaints
from their neighbors.
One of those complaints
was
from
Southwest
Marshall Avenue resident
Mike Arbogast, who said the
marijuana scent emanating
from his neighbor’s house
was permeating his house
and car.
At the time, Roberts said
marijuana pungency was in
the nose of the beholder.
“I’m not going to talk
about the intensity,” he
said. “It’s a very subjective
standard in terms of whether
people are offended by it or
not.”
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