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BUSINESS Saturday, November 21, 2015 East Oregonian HERMISTON Page 11A BRIEFLY Irrigon restaurant gives back IRRIGON — Low income residents are invited to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner celebra- tion at Sub Zero Restaurant & Lounge Sub Zero Gives Back is Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. at 100 W. Highway 730, Irrigon. A tradi- WLRQDO7KDQNVJLYLQJPHDOZLWKDOOWKH¿[LQJVZLOO be served, while supplies last. There is no charge for the food and evening of fellowship. In addition, sign-ups for the Christmas gift program begin at the dinner. For more information, call 541-922-4374. Pendleton KOA receives awards Staff photo by Jade McDowell Workers at Marlette Oregon Homebuilding’s Hermiston facility build cabinets. Marlette Oregon Homebuilding improving environmental impact By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian As Marlette Oregon Home- building celebrates 50 years LQ +HUPLVWRQ QH[W PRQWK WKH manufactured home production facility will also be celebrating a new environmentally friendly FHUWL¿FDWLRQ The Hermiston facility EHFDPHWKH¿IWKLQWKH&OD\WRQ Homebuilding group to achieve WKH ,62 FHUWL¿FDWLRQ an international standard to reduce waste and lower energy consumption during the home manufacturing process. Production manager Tom Shimp said the some changes had already been made in RUGHU WR PHHW WKH FHUWL¿FDWLRQ standards, while others will be phased in over time. “Our goals go out about a year and a half,” he said. “At every stage we’ll evaluate if we KLW PRUH RU OHVV DQG ¿JXUH RXW why.” Many of the measures revolve around reducing the amount of dust and debris created by cutting all of the various mate- rials used in building a home. A QHZ ³EXOOHW WRRO´ IRU H[DPSOH now allows workers to cut 12 pieces of siding at a time without creating any dust. The company will also install a sophisticated vacuum system, using hoses attached to saws and other power tools to instantly suck up the dust created by cutting into the different mate- rials used to build a home. The facility has always met OSHA standards, Shimp said, but the new measures brought on by the FHUWL¿FDWLRQSURFHVVDUHPDNLQJ the work environment safer and healthier than ever for workers. He said there will also be a recycling center onsite. Cut stock left over from cabinet making and other activities will be sent to the center, where the materials will be sized, marked and sent back to be used to make smaller items. “The goal is to use less, to put less in the dumpster,” Shimp said. Homes are built from start WR ¿QLVK LQ WZR EXLOGLQJV DW the Hermiston facility, and employees make everything from cabinets to doors onsite. Shimp said when he started in the industry more than 20 years DJRDERXW¿YHSHUFHQWRIKRPHV that Marlette built were custom- ized; now about 95 percent are. The facility currently employs 180 people and produces 10 homes a week that are shipped all over the western United States. The average employee tenure is eight years. Cal Davis, spokesman for Clayton Homes, said the company plans to get all of its facilities across the country FHUWL¿HGLQWKHQH[W\HDU “Our goal as a home builder is not only to build a great product, but also to take care of the envi- ronment we’re working in and to take care of the worker,” he said. Facility general manager Glen Alessandri said in a state- ment that the new designation was making environmental awareness a “way of life” at Marlette Homebuilding. ““From my perspective, the WHDP LV H[FLWHG DERXW ZKDW ZH have learned and been able to accomplish,” he said. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4536. PENDLETON — The Pendleton KOA Journey recently earned the 2016 KOA President’s and Founder’s Awards from Kampgrounds of America Inc. The awards were presented Nov. 18 at KOA’s annual Convention in Daytona Beach, Florida. KOA is celebrating its 53rd anniversary in 2015. The founder award is named in honor of Dave Drum, who founded KOA on the banks of the Yellowstone River in Billings, Montana, in 1962. It is given to those KOA campgrounds that attained the very top scores in both customer service and the KOA Quality Review. The KOA President’s Awards are presented annually to campgrounds that receive high scores in customer service and the quality review. “It’s an honor to recognize these great KOA owners for their efforts,” said Pat Hittmeier, KOA president. For more information about the Pendleton KOA and other sites in U.S. and Canada, visit www.KOA.com. Hermiston business lunch features school update HERMISTON — A State of our Schools presentation is planned at the upcoming Hermiston Business2Business Luncheon. Superintendent Fred Maiocco and Wade Smith, deputy superintendent, will make the presentation Tuesday at the no-host event, which begins with networking at 11:45 a.m. at the Hermiston Conference Center, 415 S. Highway 395. The meal is $10 for members and $13 for non-members. Also, sleeping bags will be collected at the event. Those who bring a new sleeping bag, which will be given to Agape House for distribution, will receive $2 off the cost of lunch. For more information or to RSVP, contact 541-567-6151 or kelly@hermistonchamber.com. Burn off the Thanksgiving bird at Hermiston gym HERMISTON — The public is invited for a free boot camp-style workout at Higher Power Fitness Studio. The After Turkey Worky Workout is Friday at 9 a.m. at 1055 S. Highway 395, Suite 202, +HUPLVWRQ7KHH[HUFLVHLVVXLWDEOHIRUDOO¿WQHVV levels. For more information, contact 541-289-5483 RULQIR#KLJKHUSRZHU¿WQHVVOOFFRP 2+$RI¿FLDOVD\VPHGLFDOSRWFRQWUROV inadequate to dissuade black market marijuana tracking system. Lawmakers opted for a looser tracking system for SALEM — A deputy medical marijuana involving director with the Oregon growers largely self-re- Health Authority warned porting the number of plants lawmakers Nov. 17 that they’re cultivating. “Obviously, seed-to-sale H[LVWLQJ FRQWUROV RYHU WKH state’s medical marijuana is kind of the gold standard LQGXVWU\PLJKWEHLQVXI¿FLHQW for keeping the system to keep the drug out of the closed, so any time you have a weaker regulatory struc- illicit market. Priscilla Lewis, deputy ture, the potential is higher” director for Oregon Public for leakage into the illicit Health Division, stopped market, said Senate Majority short of asking lawmakers Leader Ginny Burdick, to institute a seed-to-sale D-Portland, who sits on the tracking system for medical joint legislative marijuana cannabis. That system legalization committee. “This was basically involves labeling every plant and tracking it with a tiny a political compromise computer chip similar to because the medical program is almost 20 years old now, WKRVHXVHGWR¿QGORVWSHWV “We are not asking for so there was a lot of concern that, but we see the wisdom from growers about being in that,” Lewis said. “It is subject to OLCC,” Burdick very challenging without said. Naysayers of seed-to-sale seed-to-sale. Without it, there are opportunities for have said stringent tracking dirty product to come back and other onerous regulation into the system and also for would hurt low-income patients’ access to medical diversion.” The Oregon Liquor cannabis by making the Control Commission SURGXFWPRUHH[SHQVLYH A temporary sales already has authority to track recreational marijuana program that started Oct. 1 with a seed-to-sale system. allows medical dispensaries The commission inked a to sell recreational pot until $1.7 million contract in Dec. 31, 2016. Starting in September with Franwell 2017, dispensaries that sell to provide the tracking medical marijuana may no system. Franwell also is the longer sell recreational pot. There is some momentum contractor for Colorado’s By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau to change the law to continue allowing medical and recreational marijuana to be sold out of the same location, Burdick said. If that were to happen, there may be interest in requiring that medical marijuana undergo the same scrutiny and tracking as recreational, the senator said. “As we went down the road, I think more people got comfortable with more tracking as long as they could sell both recreationally and medically,” Burdick said. Lawmakers on the joint legislative committee on marijuana legalization are considering a housekeeping bill on marijuana legalization in 2016. It’s unclear yet whether that could include provisions to allow all medical and recreational sales from one location and more stringent requirements for tracking medical mari- juana. Doing one without the other is unlikely to gain political traction, Burdick said. Rob Patridge, chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, has estimated up to 75 percent of cannabis grown under the medical program leaks into the illegal market. That estimate was based on his conversations with unnamed growers, said an OLCC spokesman. s a m t s i r h C t n e m a n r O g n i t a r o c e D C o nte st Help us decorate the East Oregonian’s Christmas tree and win a prize! 3 Categories: Ages 2-6, 7-10 & 11-14 Deadline December 11, 2015 Winner announced December 19, 2015 Bring us an ornament decorated by your child by December 11 th , the form below with your signature and your child for a photo. The winner will be announced Dec. 19th in the East Oregonian. For more information, call Paula at 1-800-522-0255 EPA says VW cheating software is on more vehicles WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal widened Friday after the U.S. Envi- ronmental Protection Agency said the German automaker used software to cheat on pollution tests on more VL[F\OLQGHU GLHVHO YHKLFOHV than originally thought. Volkswagen told the EPA and the California Air Resources Board the software is on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3-liter engines going back to the 2009 model year. Earlier this month the regulators accused VW of installing the so-called “defeat device” software on about 10,000 cars from the 2014 through 2016 model years, in violation of the Clean Air Act. The regulators said in a statement they will inves- tigate and take appropriate action on the software, which they claim allowed the VL[F\OLQGHU GLHVHOV WR HPLW fewer pollutants during tests than in real-world driving. VW made the disclosure on Thursday, a day before it submitted plans to the EPA to ¿[DPXFKODUJHUSUREOHP² emissions-cheating software on 482,000 four-cylinder diesel cars. The EPA said in a state- ment Friday night that VW had turned in its proposed ¿[EXWWKHDJHQF\ZRXOGQ¶W give details. The EPA and CARB now will review the proposal, the statement said. 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