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ART: Monothon started in 2007 as a fundraiser for New Zealand trip
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said she’s been taking the
same printmaking class at
Clatsop Community College
for 10 years as a way to keep
practicing the art form.
In that time, she’s become
a huge evangelist for the
medium, motivated to teach
children printmaking in the
face of the rising popularity
of digital art.
One of the reasons
Lippold came to the Mono-
thon is to report back to a
group of people interested
in staging a similar event
in Oregon’s north coast,
a region where the tourist
industry is so lucrative that
local artists say art needs to
be able to ¿t into a suitcase.
Ironically, many of the
artists have more personal
experience with the Mono-
thon than some of the Crow’s
Shadow staff members.
Crow’s Shadow Exec-
utive Director Karl Davis
moved to Pendleton with
his wife, Nika Blasser, who
was recently hired as the
institute’s marketing and
administrative assistant.
In her new role, Blasser
has been hitting social
media hard, adding updates
must ¿nd a way to balance
“rights and responsibility,”
¿nding a sweet spot between
protecting citizens’ second
amendment rights while also
closing loopholes like straw
purchases.
Irrigon resident Sue
Oliver asked Wyden about
the federal government’s ban
on funding for gun violence
research.
Wyden said the law
was introduced by former
Arkansas Republican Rep.
Jay Dickey, who recently
told the +uf¿ngton Post
that he has since regretted
pushing the law after mass
shootings like the one at
UCC.
Despite early discussion
focusing on gun control,
questions from the audience
WOLVES: Two were found
within 50 yards of each other
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
More than 100 monotypes are up on display and for sale after this weekend’s
Monothon at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in Mission. Fifty-eight artists
from all over the Northwest participated in the three-day event.
to the event on Facebook
and Instagram.
“There’s a lot of people
in Pendleton that don’t
know we’re out here,” she
said.
Davis said the Monothon
started in 2007 as a fund-
raiser for Crow’s Shadow
staff and artists to take a
trip and share art in New
Zealand. Although New
Zealand is no longer the
goal, the Monothon has
remained one of Crow’s
Shadow’s biggest fund-
raisers.
Davis said the institute
was stepping up its fund-
raising efforts to try to
expand Crow’s Shadow’s
reach, including more
printing sessions, increased
residencies and a full-time
assistant to master printer
Frank Janzen.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
soon veered into questions
and comments about mental
health.
Wyden
asked
for
comments from George
Shimer, a school resources
of¿cer for the Boardman
Police Department and the
husband of Riverside High
School Principal Marie
Shimer.
Shimer said he would
like better integration of
the police force and mental
health organizations to give
him more latitude in dealing
with people who are suffering
with mental illnesses.
Wyden said there needed
to be a better warning system
for potentially dangerous
people with mental illnesses
to prevent violent incidents.
Many in the audience
pointed the ¿nger at the lack
of mental health facilities in
Eastern Oregon.
Morrow County Sheriff
Ken Matlack said there
haven’t been any adequate
facilities in close vicinity
to the county since the state
closed the Blue Mountain
Recovery Center and Eastern
Oregon Training Center,
with one of the closest facil-
ities being the Juniper Ridge
Acute Care Center in John
Day.
“They broke something
on purpose and had no ¿x at
all,” he said. “That’s what’s
frustrating.”
Morrow County Court
Judge Terry Tallman said
increasing mental health
opportunities was one of the
county’s top priorities.
The audience requested
answers for other hot
topics, like the Congress’
recent investigation into
Planned Parenthood after a
anti-abortion group accused
the organization of illegally
selling fetal tissue.
Wyden said he supported
a woman’s right to abortion
but also supported alterna-
tives like family planning,
foster care and adoption.
A local
physician’s
assistant said the federal
government should direct
its family planning dollars
to clinics that provide those
services without doing
abortions instead of Planned
Parenthood.
Wyden countered with the
fact that none of the federal
government money that goes
to Planned Parenthood pays
for abortions.
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asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
happened.
The
environmental
group Oregon Wild has
called the deaths “suspi-
cious” because wolves
have been killed illegally
in Oregon previously
and “there is a very vocal
minority that enthusiasti-
cally encourages it.”
ODFW con¿rmed the
Sled Springs Pair killed
a calf in June. Coggins,
who works out of OSP’s
Enterprise outpost, down-
played the possibility that
the wolves were killed by
ranchers or others in retal-
iation. Cattle have been
attacked by wolves many
times in Wallowa County,
and no one has shot wolves
in response, he said.
Oregon law de¿nes
probable cause as a
“substantial
objective
basis” for believing a crime
has been committed and
a person to be arrested is
responsible for it.
Northeast
Oregon
Wolves are protected
under the state Endangered
Species Act and killing
them is a crime. But their
presence is controversial,
especially among cattle
and sheep producers who
bear the cost and stress
of livestock losses and
of non-lethal defensive
measures.
The investigation began
the week of Aug. 24 after a
tracking collar worn by the
female of the pair, OR-21,
emitted a mortality signal.
State police and Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife searched the
area, north of the town of
Wallowa, and found the
female dead. Coggins said
he went to the area the
following day and found
the male wolf dead as
well. Police have said the
wolves’ bodies were within
50 yards of each other.
State police and ODFW
did not announce the
deaths until Sept. 16. OSP
spokesman Lt. Bill Fugate
said at the time that inves-
tigators delayed disclosing
the information because
they did not want to tip
their hand.
The pair had pups that
would have been about ¿ve
months old when the adult
wolves died. A ODFW
spokeswoman said the
pups have not been seen,
but they should be weaned
at this point and are most
likely “free-ranging” and
able to fend for themselves.
UCC: Some students skipped
class to avoid reporters
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The campus was closed
to the media for much of
the day. Despite that, many
students skipped class
Monday because they didn’t
want to confront reporters,
Cavin said.
“We’re hoping they
understand this level of
press activity is going to
diminish really quickly, and
it will feel safer to come
back,” Cavin said. “Some of
them are just holding back
and waiting for the campus
to look like the campus they
left.”
Supporters started lining
the street before dawn.
Workers from AAA Sweep,
a Roseburg parking-lot
sweeping company, arrived
at 5:30 a.m., even though
some of them didn’t get off
work until 2 a.m.
“UCC touches every-
body in this community
in some way,” company
owner Carl Bird told The
Register-Guard newspaper.
“You’ve got displaced
workers that come here,
you’ve got kids out of high
school coming here, I’ve
hired people from here.”
“And they all put back in
the community when they
graduate,” he said. “So it’s
just something that I felt we
should support.”