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Page 10A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Tuesday, September 1, 2015 COOKS: High School lunches must be between 750-850 calories Continued from 1A to help the cooks provide nutritious meals to students. “We know when kids eat meals at schools — breakfast or lunch or even an after school snack or if there’s a dinner program too — that they eat better on average because the school meals follow a particular pattern,” she said. “They’re serving whole grains. They’re serving a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables. They’re serving dairy foods and lean proteins. This kind of training gives the cooks the skills to prepare all of those foods.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture requirements differ by grade level and meal. The lunch meal pattern requirements for a high school student include one cup of fruit, one cup of vegetables, two ounces of grains, two ounces of meats or alternates and one cup of milk each meal, which must contain 750-850 calories, less than 10 percent satu- rated fat and less than 1,420 milligrams of sodium. The requirements further specify amounts of different types of vegetables that must be served each week. Umatilla School District Child Nutrition Director Rikkilynn Larsen said the workshop was wonderful. “We got lots of ideas and some new recipes that we’d like to try in the school district and just some Staff photo by E.J. Harris Principal Lori Hale read a clue for a group of kinder- gartners that were on a scavenger hunt during their first day of school Monday at the Hawthorne Early Learning Center in Pendleton. HAWTHORNE: Soft start will end after this week Nutrition specialist Garrett Berdan, right, with the Oregon Department of Educa- tion, gives menu instructions to a group of participants in a culinary workshop on Friday in Umatilla. “We got lots of ideas and some new recipes that we’d like to try in the school district.” — Rikkilynn Larsen, Umatilla School District Child Nutrition Director reminders too,” she said. “You just get into bad habits like holding the knife the wrong way.” The participants learned about the federal require- ments, culinary techniques, weights and measurements and worked on a variety of recipes. Jessica Visinsky, a child nutrition specialist for the Oregon Department of Education, said the work- shops help the cooks learn new methods. Many of the recipes are made from scratch, she said, and the cooks get to experiment with hands-on sessions. She said, based on feedback received, many of the cooks are incor- porating the lessons they learned into the programs in their districts. “It gives (the cooks) WKH FRQ¿GHQFH WR WKLQN outside the box and try new things and maybe increase the participation in their programs by doing that,” she said. “All the recipes that we’re doing meet the requirements for the federal child nutrition programs and provide vitamins, minerals, JUHDW¿EHUDQGDORWRIQXWUL- ents that will really help (the students) to study or to have energy or focus throughout the day, and that’s our biggest role.” PAINT: Doherty will paint 50 windows this season Doherty stocked up on razor blades. cartoonist would not give up Gradually, the cartoonist any of her panes. If she quits, perfected her technique, she said, he could have them. building up a customer base But not before. and a reputation. During Doherty feels most alive KHU PRVW SUROL¿F \HDU VKH with a paintbrush in her hand. painted 300 windows in The cartoonist has painted the three weeks before windows during the weeks Round-Up. Doherty, 68, said preceding the Round-Up for she’s slowed down. She’ll 45 straight years. She admits paint 50 this season, 15 of she was something of a them at the Wildhorse Resort greenhorn in her early days, & Casino. Her low year was but eventually her talent three after a car accident caught up with her resolve. when she painted from a She caught the bug wheelchair. by watching “Big Tom” These days, Doherty rises Simonton create scenes on early to paint — sometimes windows around town. She as early as 3:30 a.m. — and watched his technique and heads to her next window then tried a few windows painting job. Sunday on her own. Some of her morning found Doherty early efforts, she admits, got sliding her brush deftly washed off by unhappy shop down the glassed front of owners. But she persisted. Michael’s Fine Jewelry. People who stopped to The scene looked as though watch sometimes offered a rainbow had exploded. tips. One intoxicated voyeur Many moons of painting startled her with boozy had spattered her coat, pants advice about how to improve and drop cloths with layers the look of her caricatures’ of the color palette. Orange skin, which came out as paint dotted her nose. The “fresh stones” instead of windows, however, looked ÀHVK WRQHV %XW WKH DGYLFH pristine, every drop of paint was sound: “Start with white in its correct location. paint and a little orange and It was a colorful scene add browns and yellows in from the multi-hued window minute amounts to vary the WR 'RKHUW\¶V ÀRUHVFHQW skin tones and match the yellow socks that peeked out caricature’s heritage.” from beneath her sandals. One day, as she struggled Nearby on a narrow folding WR¿[DPLVWDNHZLWKDELWRI table were paint sticks, paper water, managing to smear a towels, levels and brushes wider area, a 10-year-old boy of varied sizes, shapes and said he’d seen Tom down materials from sable to foam. WKHVWUHHW¿[LQJKLVEOXQGHUV Styrofoam cups contained an without water. assortment of paint colors. “He makes mistakes?” 6KH¿QLVKHGWKHZLQGRZDQG Doherty marveled. bent over to sign her name “You bet. Lots of them,” ZLWKDÀRXULVK she remembers the boy Doherty thinks of her saying, “but he also has lots painting as a form of therapy. of razor blades.” She’s battled depression most Continued from 1A of her life and dealt with multiple hospitalizations and suicide attempts, though not recently. Painting, she said, gives her focus and purpose like nothing else in her life. The window artist worries that hers is a dying art. Her favorite paint — a special blend that comes off only with water and ammonia — is no longer in production, she said. She bought as much DVVKHFRXOG¿QGDQGWKLQNV her cache will last a couple of years. She hopes to outlast her paint. “My goal is to paint ¿YH PRUH \HDUV´ VKH VDLG “Painting is my passion. The rhythm of the paint embed- ding itself into the substrate gives me ah-ha moments I feel deep down in my soul.” Doherty is watching Crosby with interest as he revs up his own window painting career. “He’s got a heck of a good start,” she said. “He has talent, drive and ambition to get better and that’s what it takes.” 7KLV LV &URVE\¶V ¿UVW JR at window painting to turn a SUR¿W 7KH UHFHQW 3HQGOHWRQ High graduate said Doherty gives him advice as far as how to run a business, plus ways in which to paint better letters and character designs. Crosby has dabbled in cartoons since childhood, citing Walt Disney as an inspiration. He said he likes that Disney productions give human personalities to animals, which appears to EHUHÀHFWHGLQ&URVE\¶VRZQ work: As the GeoEngineers ¿VKHUPDQLVSLFWXUHGKDXOLQJ in a dud log, a seemingly bored horse looks on and thinks via a bubble, “Wow, it’s the catch of the day.” Jim Webster, a GeoEngi- QHHUV RI¿FH PDQDJHU JDYH Crosby a cool $65 commis- sion for the fresh window paint. GeoEngineers deals mostly with water resources DQG ¿VKHULHV VR WKH WZR worked together to come up with what Crosby would do for the downtown business. Crosby approached Webster, because GeoEngineers was on a list of businesses Crosby had acquired from Margie Brown, a Round-Up season painter he said he is taking over for. Webster saw the young artist’s work at Pendleton Pupcakes at the corner of Main Street and Southeast Court Avenue, and could tell LWZDVRQHRIKLV¿UVWSLHFHV %XW WKH RI¿FH PDQDJHU VDLG he trusted Crosby would LPSURYH$V IRU WKH ¿QLVKHG ¿VKHUPDQ³,ZDVUHDOKDSS\ with the end product,” he said. Of any competition between Crosby and Doherty, the younger cartoonist said both of them have customer bases. “It’s not like we’re enemies,” Crosby said. Looking forward, he said he wants to obtain a proper business license. He said he doesn’t see any reason to move away from Pendleton, the city where he grew up. Crosby said he may even expand the artist gig into cities around the region like Walla Walla — after he gets his driver’s license, that is. ——— Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@eastoregonian.com or call 541-966-0810, and Jonathan Bach at jbach@ eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0809. RaLQ aQG ULVLQg KXPLGLW\ KeOS ¿Ue¿gKWeUV LQ WeVW SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rain and cooler temperatures Monday helped ¿UH¿JKWHUV EDWWOLQJ D VHULHV of big blazes in north-central Washington and other states in the West. In Washington, the North 6WDU &RPSOH[ RI ZLOG¿UHV stood at 313 square miles and was about 22 percent contained. A small amount of rain that fell Sunday didn’t even reach WKHÀRRURIWKHEXUQLQJIRUHVWV but raised humidity levels, ZKLFKKHOSHG¿UH¿JKWHUV¿UH spokesman Donnie Davis said. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s on Monday morning LQKLELWHG JURZWK RI WKH ¿UH which was burning east of Omak and north of Nespelem, Davis said. Meanwhile, the Okanogan &RPSOH[RIZLOG¿UHVVWRRGDW about 30 percent containment on Monday. Spokesman Bernie Pineda said rain and asked me, ‘Is this really happening?’” Hale said. who were clad in baseball Children were intro- tees that read “Team Kinder- duced to the school’s garten” on the front. custodians and librarian Superintendent Jon during their search, which Peterson said the idea for a FXOPLQDWHGLQ+DOH¶VRI¿FH soft start came from teachers with gingerbread cookies who had heard it was used as their reward. at other school districts While the soft start transitioning to full-day will end after this week, kindergarten full-day kindergarten will Classes with only four remain in effect perma- RU ¿YH VWXGHQWV PHDQW nently. teachers could spend more The kindergarten staff time helping students learn said a full day of teaching basic school procedures, like alleviated the pressure of getting lunch at the cafeteria, KDYLQJ WR ¿W WKHLU FXUULF- while still being able to ulum into a half day. introduce other classroom Knowing that some activities. students would tire by the Smaller class sizes end of the day, teachers also allowed faculty to get focused on academics in creative in the way they the morning while sched- introduced the rest of the uling special activities like school’s staff. physical education and art After reading the story in the afternoon. of The Gingerbread Man, $GD\LQWRWKH¿UVW\HDU students were sent on a with a soft start, the center’s guided scavenger hunt to teachers are already asking ¿QGKLP administrators to continue “One of the kids the practice next year. Continued from 1A Staff photo by E.J. Harris The Okanogan Complex EHFDPH WKH ODUJHVW ZLOG¿UH in state history last week, covering more than 470 square miles. %XW¿UHPDQDJHUVVSOLWWKH Tunk Block Fire out of the Okanogan Complex and gave management of that blaze to 1RUWK6WDU¿UHRI¿FLDOV'DYLV said. That’s because the two ¿UHVZHUHRQO\DERXWPLOHV apart and were expected to merge, Davis said. ,Q ,GDKR D ZLOG¿UH jumped the Salmon River, AP Photo/Ted S. Warren prompting evacuation notices An airplane used to fight wildfires flies past the sun, and forcing more than 100 which appears orange due to heavy smoke in the air rafters to cut their trip short while battling a blaze that flared up in the late after- and be shuttled out of the noon last Thursday near Omak, Wash. backcountry. Authorities said breezes cleared the smoky air. DJR $ IRXUWK ¿UH¿JKWHU WKH ¿UH JUHZ WR VTXDUH “You can see the 25-year-old Daniel Lyon, miles on Monday and threat- surrounding foothills,” Pineda sustained burns on more than ened the town of Riggins. Fire said. 60 percent of his body. He spokesman Jose Acosta said 7KUHH ¿UH¿JKWHUV GLHG underwent his third successful crews tried to use the river as when their truck crashed and burn surgery at Harborview D ¿UH EUHDN EXW JXVW\ ZLQGV ZDVRYHUUXQE\ÀDPHVZKLOH Medical Center in Seattle over the weekend caused the they tried to escape the Okan- on Monday and remained in ¿UH¿JKWHUV WR DEDQGRQ WKH RJDQ ZLOG¿UHV WZR ZHHNV serious condition. area for safety reasons. CAMPING: Already has ordinance prohibiting living in RVs outside of an RV park Continued from 1A the way to school. He said the city already has an ordinance prohib- iting people from living in RVs outside of an RV park. “If someone is trying to live in a tent long term that would fall into the category of someone living in an RV in the driveway,” he said. The city is in communi- cation with the Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the land along the river, to work out an intergovern- mental agreement to allow the city to help the Corps enforce its no-camping rule on the property. Ward said law enforce- ment would be expected to use discretion in enforcing the ordinance. “The police aren’t going to descend on your property if you have kids setting up a tent in the back yard,” he said. “That’s not what the intent of the ordinance is.” ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4536. Mayor of small town arrested for meth possession WUDI¿FYLRODWLRQLQ-HIIHUVRQ Sunday night. He declined WR QDPH WKH VSHFL¿F WUDI¿F violation. Deputies allege they JEFFERSON, Ore. found “what appeared to be (AP) — The Marion County methamphetamine” on both 6KHULII¶V RI¿FH VD\V WKH men. 68-year-old mayor of the Baldridge says Moore small town of Idanha has was driving without been arrested for possession insurance and his car was of methamphetamine. towed. The drug was found Lt. Chris Baldridge during a subsequent search said Monday that Cletus of the car. According to Moore and his passenger, WKH VKHULII¶V RI¿FH WKH 39-year-old Christopher men admitted to driving to Kosack, were stopped for a Jefferson to buy meth. BREASTFEEDING CLASSES One class covers breastfeeding benefits, pumping and much more. Come to this FREE class taught by a certified lactation consultant, and learn techniques that make for a successful experience. Free, but please pre-register. September 2 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm GSMC Conference Center 3 & 4 HEALTHY FRIDAYS Free health screenings: blood pressure checks, weigh ins, body mass index, cholesterol and glucose. Second Friday of every month September 11 • 2:00 - 4:00 pm GS Conference Rooms 5 & 6 (by the cafeteria) BABYSITTING BASICS 101 For babysitters ages 10-15. Learn childcare techniques, children's developmental ages and what to expect, basic first aid and infant and child CPR. Sept. 12 • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm GSMC Conference Room $30 - includes lunch & all class materials. Must pre-register & pre-pay. For information or to register for a class, call (541) 667-3509 or email healthinfo@gshealth.org
