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Banned books given voices
Group reads
excerpts from
challenged literature
allowed to do so.
Mattie
LeDay,
for
example, read from “And
Tango Makes Three,” a
children’s book in which
two male penguins hatch and
raise a baby penguin.
“The whole premise of
this book is to teach kids the
basics of a homosexual rela-
tionship through a family of
penguins,” LeDay said. “The
reason it was banned was for
its whole purpose.”
Other children’s books
read included Shel Silver-
stein’s “A Light in the
Attic” — banned for being
disrespectful toward parents
and showing talking animals
— and Maurice Sendak’s
“Where the Wild Things
Are,” banned for being too
scary for the age group and
showing a child going to bed
without dinner.
Andrea Simpson chose to
read from “Charlotte’s Web”
and said she loved the idea of
a banned books reading.
“It’s interesting to ¿nd
out why books that I grew up
with have been banned,” she
said. “Some of them were
made into movies that my
grandchildren have seen. It’s
sad.”
By JENNIFER COLTON
East Oregonian
“We need not to be let
alone. We need to be really
bothered once in a while.
How long is it since you
were really bothered? About
something important, about
something real?” — Ray
Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451”
The
controversial,
uncomfortable and censor-
ship of ideas took center
stage at the Eastern Oregon
Higher Education Center
on Wednesday as about 20
people gathered for a Banned
Book Reading with the
Smoke & Mirrors Literary
Group.
Alison Timmons, English
and writing instructor for
Blue Mountain Community
College, facilitated the event.
“Books are very powerful,
but because they’re so
powerful, there are times
when someone has decided
you don’t get to read that
book,” Timmons said. “Even
if things are controversial and
Staff Photo by Jennifer Colton
Andrea Simpson reads from “Charlotte’s Web” during
a banned book reading at the Eastern Oregon Higher
Education Center on Wednesday.
even if there are things we
don’t agree with, we should
have the option to read it.
Anyone can walk away, but
they should have that option.”
Recently, members of the
Smoke & Mirrors Literary
Group and a creative writing
class were asked to research
a book that had been chal-
lenged or banned. Students
could choose any book
that had been banned from
a library or school in any
country. For the American
Library Association, a group
that publishes annual lists of
the most banned and chal-
lenged books, a challenge is
“a formal, written complaint,
¿led with a library or school
requesting that materials be
removed because of content
or appropriateness.” In
2015, the ALA recorded 275
challenges, down from 311 in
2014.
Wednesday, any book that
had been banned or chal-
lenged was fair game for the
reading, a part of BMCC’s
Arts & Culture Festival.
The event was also open to
community members, and
anyone interested in reading
an excerpt from a book was
Lawsuit
over wolf
delisting
ruled
‘moot’
Even Ray Bradbury’s
“Fahrenheit 451,” a novel
about censorship and the
burning of books, has been
banned and challenged and
was read during the event.
Other readings featured
Anne Frank’s “The Diary
of a Young Girl,” “Son of
Hamas” by Mosab Hassan
Yousef and Ron Brackin,
Anthony Burgess’ “A Clock-
work Orange” and Harper
Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking-
bird.”
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
is No. 4 on the ALA’s list of
banned and challenged clas-
sics, falling only behind “The
Great Gatsby,” “The Catcher
in the Rye” and “The Grapes
of Wrath.” According to the
ALA’s Of¿ce for Intellectual
Freedom, 46 of the Radcliffe
Top 100 Novels of the 20th
Century have been banned or
challenged.
Before and in between
readings, the group discussed
the process of banning books.
“It’s ultimately counter-
productive,” said Jacelyn
Keys, of Eastern Oregon
University. “If we don’t own
those and understand where
we came from, then we will
repeat them.”
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — An environ-
mentalist legal challenge
against Oregon’s decision
to remove wolves from the
state’s endangered species
list has been dismissed due to
legislation passed earlier this
year.
Wolves were delisted by
state wildlife regulators last
year, but three environmental
groups — Cascadia Wild-
lands, Center for Biological
Diversity and Oregon Wild
— asked the Oregon Court
of Appeals to reverse that
decision, claiming it wasn’t
based on sound science.
Earlier
this
year,
lawmakers passed House
Bill 4040, which held that the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife had followed
the law in delisting wolves.
Opponents of the bill
claimed it would deny the
environmentalists their day
in court. Supporters, on
the other hand, argued the
lawsuit was ¿led to pressure
wildlife regulators while
Oregon’s wolf recovery plan
is updated.
Gov. Kate Brown signed
the bill despite environ-
mentalist calls for a veto in
March, stating in a signing
letter that the “trajectory of
wolf populations in Oregon
remains strong.”
The legislation was
expected to nullify the legal
challenge, which proved
correct — on April 22, the
Oregon Court of Appeals
held that HB 4040 rendered
the environmentalist petition
moot.
Travel Pendleton turning hipsters into ‘tripsters’
Commissioners, said millennials
— born between 1977 and 2000 —
remain the target audience because
they make up 25 percent of the
country’s population and account
for 21 percent of discretionary
spending. And 80 percent of them
took four or more “get-away trips”
last year.
Social media — namely Face-
book and Instagram — remains the
main tool Travel Pendleton uses to
bring attention to the Round-Up
City. The marketing effort at the
end of 2015 reached 33,000 people
with a post or video on Facebook,
Beard told the board, and more than
5,000 people “took an action,” such
as sharing a video or commenting.
Those people, he said, are the most
likely to visit Pendleton.
Beard on Friday said larger
numbers of visitors are showing up
in Pendleton from the Portland area.
That makes sense, given Interstate
84 is a direct route between the two
cities and Pendleton already has
some name recognition. An increase
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Travel 3endleton is re¿ning its
marketing messages from hipsters
to tripsters.
The committee of the Pendleton
Chamber of Commerce launched
a marketing campaign last year
using $10,000 in Umatilla County
economic funds to advertise to
millennials in certain Seattle neigh-
borhoods. At the time, Pat Beard,
head of Travel Pendleton, dubbed it
“the hipster project.”
Now the campaign is shifting
from Seattle to Portland, Beard said,
and aiming for “tripsters.” He said
those are the sort of folks who are
keen for an authentic experience
they cannot have right in their
own back yard. Eastern Oregon
offers craft beer, scenic road trips
and a real sense of Americana, he
said — “things that would appeal to
millennials.”
Beard, during a recent update
to the Umatilla County Board of
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available within two weeks, and
SeaPort would advertise it.
Umatilla County had 800,000
overnight visitors in 2013,
according to Travel Oregon, the
state’s tourism promotion depart-
ment, and overnight and day visitors
spent $134 million. It takes $62,086
in visitor spending to support one
job, according to the report. Beard
said local shopping and restaurants
survive because of those tourism
dollars.
That money could grow this
year. The Pendleton Cattle Baron’s
Weekend in the second weekend
of May has become an established
annual event. Pendleton Bike Week
is returning for a second year. Beard
told commissioners the motor-
cycle-themed event last summer
brought 5,800 visitors to Pendleton
and already 12,000 people registered
for this year. And tickets now are on
sale for the new Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest in July.
Pendleton, Beard said, is ripe for
events like these.
in visitors helped account for about
a 20 percent increase in Pendleton’s
tourism promotion assessment
charge, he said, the per-night fee
for staying in hotel rooms and using
mobile home or trailer park spaces
that funds Travel Pendleton and
capital improvements for the city’s
convention center.
Last year’s campaign used videos
featuring a trio of young travelers
sampling Pendleton. Beard said the
story of those travelers continues in
photos and videos 15-60 seconds
long available on Travel Pendleton’s
Facebook page. He said those
snippets in 2015 piqued the interest
of more than 19,000 people who
reacted to them in some way on
Facebook.
SeaPort Airlines and a couple of
local hotels also are trying to get in
on the get-away trips, Beard said.
The lone air service provider to the
Eastern Oregon Regional Airport,
Pendleton, is working to come
up with a package for a three-day
weekend. He said that could be
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