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said. “Overall this is certainly
a good thing.”
Rural
Oregon
loses
population during the “root
setting” years of ages 25 to
By ERIC MORTENSON
such as Portland, state econ- 34, when young adults are
Capital Press
omists Mark McMullen and establishing careers, starting
families and buying homes,
Joshua Lehner wrote.
“In
general,
these the report said. Unlike most
SALEM — The “Timber
Belt” running from Northern incoming migrants are of rural America, however,
California
up
through different than the households Oregon is offsetting those
Oregon and into Washington moving out,” the analysts losses with older migrants.
But for the young adults
sustained an economic wrote. “Much of the time
collapse and population loss they are older and relocate to who stay in rural Oregon,
similar to the “Rust Belt” and rural Oregon as they retire or McMullen and Lehner said
statistics show children
“Corn Belt” of the Midwest, reduce their work hours.”
The new residents of raised in rural Oregon, espe-
but its recovery has been
entirely different, according rural Oregon bring a “life- cially Eastern Oregon, have
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wealth, “often in the form in life.
Economic Analysis.
Harvard
University’s
In a new report on demo- of California home equity,”
graphic and economic trends McMullen and Lehner Equality of Opportunity
Project found that a rural
unfolding in rural Oregon, wrote.
“Figuring out how best Oregon child born at the
state analysts detail pockets
of resurgence, surprisingly to exploit the Timber Belt’s bottom income level had a
hopeful statistics and unan- VWURQJ LQÀX[ RI UHWLUHHV strong probability of reaching
swered questions of what should be a top priority given the top level as an adult,
such individuals are voting the authors said. Among
comes next.
“All along the Timber with their feet, in essence, more than 700 communities
Belt, people keep moving in” saying they want to live in nationwide, the Oregon
at a pace just as strong as the the area and be a part of the towns of Burns, Condon,
migration to urban centers community,” the analysts Enterprise, John Day and
Lakeview were among
the top third in fostering
such success, according to
McMullen and Lehner.
Bruce Weber, director of
the Rural Studies Program
at Oregon State University,
said the state analysis is
“insightful.”
If the “boom and bust”
nature of rural economies
“creates an environment in
which children grow up with
different expectations and
different levels of investment
in education, these could also
reduce upward mobility,”
Weber said in an email.
Meanwhile,
economic
recovery in Oregon has
pockets of success and stag-
nation.
While Portland and its
suburbs are popping again,
most of rural Oregon has
not recovered the jobs lost
in the recession, the authors
said. An exception is the
Columbia River Gorge,
which the analysts said has
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trends.
Hermiston rode out recession
better than much of rural Oregon
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to discuss homeless ‘travelers’
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— A Prineville man died
after he was thrown from
a bull and stepped on
at the Paulina Amateur
Rodeo.
The Crook County
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58-year-old contestant
Richard Wayne Perry
was competing in front
of family and friends
Saturday afternoon when
the incident occurred.
Rager Emergency
Services and sheriff’s
deputies responded to
the scene and attempted
life-saving measures for
45 minutes.
The rodeo was shut
down for more than an
hour.
KTVZ-TV reported
that Perry’s daughter
Bailey posted on the
news organization’s
Facebook page.
She said the day was
hard for many and a
shock for her, but that her
dad died doing what he
loved, which not many
people get to do.
EUGENE (AP) — Eugene Mayor Kitty
Piercy says she wants the city to have a
conversation about young vagabonds occu-
pying public spaces downtown.
The mayor sent an email to the city
manager and councilors saying she doesn’t
want so-called “travelers” taking over
public spaces. She said she’s not judging
people by their looks or lifestyle but wants
public spaces to be for everyone to use.
“I don’t want travelers actually
controlling, living on our corners, our
plazas, our public spaces,” she wrote.
“I welcome them to use them as I would
expect everyone else to do. And I want
benches and inviting places for all the
public to freely use.”
Piercy tells The Register-Guard that the
travelers have chosen a lifestyle of moving
from place to place. She says they’re different
than a traditional homeless population.
Piercy said she wrote the message to
prompt discussion among council and city
staff about the topic, which could lead to a
conversation with the public.
It’s unclear what Eugene could do to
prevent people from sitting in public places.
Local ordinances prohibit people from
blocking sidewalks, but courts have ruled as
unconstitutional local laws that ban loitering,
panhandling and other behaviors common
among homeless people and travelers.
Downtown for decades has been a
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magnet for transients, generating complaints
from store owners and others. Civic leaders
hoped redevelopment of the city center
would bring more activity and residents to
the area, shrinking the portion of city-center
occupants who were transients.
To discourage loitering on sidewalks and
plazas, the city has removed public benches
and walls that transients formerly sat or slept
on, she said.
Downtown is “very different than it was
before,” she said. “But we still have the issue
of travelers in our communities, people who
go up and down the I-5 corridor” and stop in
Eugene and other cities.
“While I agree with the mayor that the
issues of loitering downtown and homeless-
ness are important ones, there are others of
much higher priority that merit the kind of
council attention and community focus she
is suggesting,” Councilor Mike Clark said.
“Helping to create more high paying jobs
would top my list.”
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tive property of marijuana.
Kit Doyle, another partner
in Orhemco, said it’s high in
protein and that’s likely why
the deer went on a binge.
The land is owned by
Josephine County Commis-
sioner Cherryl Walker and
her husband, Martin Hill.
Fellow county Commis-
sioner Simon Hare also is a
partner.
Only some of the crop
is protected by the very tall
fencing needed to thwart
deer. Doyle said a reason
some crops were left vulner-
able was because of the
uncertainty surrounding the
program. A bill in the Oregon
Legislature would have put
Orhempco out of business
had it passed the Senate.
“We wanted to hurry and
get in the ground and we
didn’t want to spend a lot of
money,” Doyle said.
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MURPHY (AP) — Deer
got the munchies at an indus-
trial hemp crop in southern
Oregon.
The deer got by barbed-
wire fencing a couple weeks
ago and went through the
hemp plants like high-pow-
ered mowers, the Grants
Pass Daily Courier reported.
“Generally, I don’t think
they like cannabis. They
liked ours, though,” said
Cliff Thomason, a real estate
agent who is the steward
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crop in Oregon, which was
planted near Murphy by
Thomason and his partners
with Orhempco.
The company planted
roughly 1,000 plants in the
section the deer got into, and
Thomason said there are only
about 40 left.
Industrial hemp has a low
level of THC, the psychoac-
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In Hermiston’s case, a
strong agricultural sector
is a stabilizing base for the
economy, City Manager
Byron Smith said.
“However you want to
phrase it, people still need
to have food,” he said. “A
lot of our economy is based
on that, either the actual
production or the processing
of agricultural products.”
Hermiston farmers grow
potatoes, onions, melons
and multiple types of other
irrigated vegetables. The area
has several food processing
plants, and attracted a
DuPont Pioneer corn seed
research station.
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its economy through growth
in the transportation and
logistics sector. Wal-Mart
has a distribution center in
Hermiston, and FedEx and
UPS also have facilities in
the area.
“That’s another piece of
the economy that does well
for us,” Smith said.
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actually controlling, living
on our corners, our plazas,
our public spaces.”
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First, agriculture remains
strong, mainly fruit, and
higher commodity prices
helped
local
farmers.
Second, wind farm construc-
tion provided investment
and jobs from 2007 to 2011,
which included the depth
of the recession. Last, the
unmanned aerial vehicle
industry — drones — has
grown dramatically over the
past decade. Insitu, a major
drone manufacturer, is head-
quartered in Bingen, Wash-
ington, across the Columbia
from Hood River.
“A large portion of such
jobs are on the Washington
side of the Columbia River,
however the economic
and population base in the
gorge is on the Oregon side,
where much of the consumer
spending occurs,” McMullen
and Lehner wrote.
Although not cited by
name in the state report,
Hermiston, in Umatilla
County, rode out the reces-
sion to become the biggest
and fastest growing city in
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