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BOARDMAN
PGE ponders new
resources at Carty
Possibilities include
gas plant, solar farm
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
FREEZE
FRAME
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Tia, a four-year-old German Shepherd and Belgian Mali-
nois mix, leaps into the air to catch a fl ying disc for her
owner Connie Macomber of Beaverton on Friday in Pend-
leton. Macomber used to live in Pendleton before moving
west and is in the process of moving back into town.
Portland General Electric is chasing
permits to build new power facilities in
Boardman by 2020, the year the existing
Boardman Coal Plant is slated to close.
Options on the table include a 315-acre
solar farm near Carty Reservoir, or additional
natural gas units at the recently completed
Carty Generating Station on Tower Road.
The proposals are included in PGE’s
2016 Integrated Resource Plan, fi led Nov. 15
with the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
The plan is essentially a roadmap for how
PGE will satisfy future demand, and calls
for increases in energy effi ciency, renewable
energy and “fl exible capacity resources,”
like natural gas, that can be ramped up and
down quickly.
Steve Corson, PGE spokesman, said
the utility is in the process of obtaining site
certifi cates and air quality permits for two
new units at the Carty gas plant — one that
would generate up to 530 megawatts, and
another that would add up to 330 megawatts.
Just because they have permits in hand
doesn’t necessarily mean the projects
would move forward, Corson said. Still,
See PGE/12A
PENDLETON
Biz partners
ready to try
out city’s
process for
pot shops
Angie
Treadwell,
second
from right,
with the
Oregon
State
University
Extension
Offi ce,
helps
students
measure
ingredients
for a
pumpkin
breakfast
cookie
recipe
Tuesday
during the
Cooking
Matters for
Families
cooking
class in
Umatilla.
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Pendleton history could be
made at a non-descript strip
mall on Court Avenue.
Brandon Krenzler, a
marijuana advocate who
lives in Pendleton, said he
and a business partner with
experience running a bar are
in the process of opening a
recreational marijuana shop at
1733 S.W. Court Ave.
If the owners of the store
— Kind Leaf Pendleton —
pass through both the state
and city regulatory processes,
their facility would be the
See MARIJUANA/11A
SHIRLEY MEADOWS
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Kin in the kitchen
OF PENDLETON
Visit the Pendleton Chamber
of Commerce for a free
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Class teaches families about cooking and nutrition
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Turkey tacos were on the menu
for dinner Tuesday night as Jasmine
Martinez and Alexia Martinez sat
side by side chopping tomatoes.
“Don’t squish the tomato,”
Jasmine told her eight-year-old
daughter, demonstrating the light
grip she had on hers.
Next to the Martinez duo, other
mothers and daughters grated
cheese and shredded lettuce. At a
nearby table children scooped balls
of pumpkin raisin breakfast cookie
dough onto a cookie sheet, while
their mothers worked on frying
the ground turkey for the tacos.
Another group made homemade
granola and scooped out pome-
granates in preparation for making
yogurt parfaits.
The food was all provided by
Cooking Matters for Families, a free
six-week course offered at McNary
Heights Elementary School through
a partnership between Umatilla
School District, Umatilla Morrow
County Head Start and the Oregon
State University Extension.
“My daughter wants to learn
how to cook,” Jasmine said. “I’m
See COOKING/12A
PENDLETON
Six-year-old gets
snowmen surprise
Strangers respond to mother’s
online plea to cheer up son
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Billy Larsen, 6, knocks fresh snow off the hat of one of two snowmen in
his front yard Friday in Pendleton.
A dozen-or-so strangers braved
the cold Thursday night to build
snowmen in Billy Larsen’s front
yard.
Thursday evening had been
tough for six-year-old Billy, who
has autism. He learned that school
was canceled the next morning
because of weather and that meant
his Christmas party at Sherwood
Heights Elementary School
wouldn’t happen either. Change
is often diffi cult for children with
autism and the fi rst-grader took it
hard.
After her son and husband
went to bed, Holli Larsen tried to
think of ways to cheer up her son.
See SNOWMEN/12A