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Thursday, January 5, 2017
East Oregonian
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BOARDMAN
STANFIELD
KidWind Challenge coming to Riverside
New downtown
codes become law
Workshop for educators
to be held Saturday
Sets standards
for paint colors,
awnings and more
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The city of Stanfield is
hoping for a more cohesive,
attractive downtown after
the city council voted a new
set of development codes
into law on Tuesday night.
The codes include
standards for paint colors,
awnings for pedestrians,
HVAC systems screened
from view, prominent
windows
and
other
elements that city manager
Blair Larsen said were
meant to create a “more
walkable downtown.”
“If you plan it, hopefully
they will come,” he said.
The new standards will
apply to new developments
and changes to current
developments. If a down-
town businesses wants to
repaint their building, for
example, they would have
to check with city hall to
make sure the color fits in
with the city’s chosen color
palette for downtown.
The approved palette
isn’t meant to turn all of
Stanfield’s buildings into
the same color, Larsen said,
but rather to control for
very bright, loud colors that
don’t fit with Stanfield’s
historic buildings.
“We have a pretty
big palette of colors, so
it wouldn’t be hard for
someone to find a color
they like,” he said.
Larsen said the new
standards are not something
the city wants to “ram down
people’s throats,” but rather
work with them to help
their property fit into a
more aesthetically pleasing,
pedestrian-friendly down-
town.
The city has a facade
grant program for down-
town buildings that Larsen
said would apply to new
paint, awnings, and other
improvements suggested
by the code. The deadline
for this year’s grants, which
provide up to a 50 percent
match, is January 31.
Grant applications and
the new development codes
can be found online at
www.cityofstanfield.com
or at city hall, 160 S. Main
St.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
BRIEFLY
CDA to meet
Friday in Umatilla
UMATILLA — The
Columbia Development
Authority will meet Friday
in Umatilla to discuss the
newly completed water deal
with the Oregon National
Guard and the remaining
steps toward local control
of the former Umatilla
Chemical Depot.
The meeting is 1
p.m. Jan. 6 at the Port
of Umatilla office, 505
Willamette St., in Umatilla.
It will be the board’s
first meeting since the U.S.
Army sent a letter to the
CDA agreeing to a deal
that would give the CDA
water rights for 73 percent
of the water available, with
the remaining controlled
by the Oregon National
Guard. The months-long
negotiations over water
were one of the last major
hurdles to the transfer of the
land from the Army to the
CDA.
Also on the agenda will
be an update on the cultural
resource/archaeological
study that still needs to
be completed, results
of a cheatgrass bacteria
field trial, a wastewater
exception with the city
of Umatilla, a draft of a
memorandum agreement
with the Army’s Base
Realignment and Closure
office, an executive session
and a discussion titled
“Where do we go from
here?”
The board will welcome
new administrative assistant
Joleen Horning and new
board chair Don Russell.
Petsense opens
January 19
HERMISTON —
Petsense is opening its
doors in Hermiston on Jan.
19.
The pet supply store
will hold a grand opening
celebration, including raffle
drawing, on Jan. 21 at 9
a.m.
Petsense is a national
retailer that carries a wide
variety of supplies for
household pets including
dogs, cats, fish, reptiles
and birds. It also provides
grooming services, training
services and vet clinics.
The Hermiston
location at 1930 N. First St.
(constructed next to Big 5)
is 5,400 square feet. The
store, managed by Nikki
Johnson, plans to employ
about eight associates
including groomers.
Applications for sales
associates, groomers and
trainers can be filled out
online at petsensellc.com.
West coast market
manager Nikki Cordray
said in an email that
Petsense is a “place for
pet lovers” that works
to promote responsible
pet ownership through
community involvement
and education.
“Our mission is to
operate stores that are
exciting and fun, staffed
with friendly, knowledge-
able associates passionate
about making the pet
lover’s shopping a world
class experience,” she said.
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
A national program dedi-
cated to teaching kids about
the benefits and mechanics
of wind energy is coming to
Boardman.
The KidWind Challenge,
where students design,
build and demonstrate
their own functioning wind
turbines, will hold a compe-
tition March 18 at Riverside
Junior-Senior High School.
Challenges are also slated for
Portland, Seattle, Medford
and Ellensburg, Washington
across the Pacific Northwest.
Jon Roschke, regional
director for the KidWind
Project, will lead a work-
shop for teachers Saturday
at Riverside to provide
materials and develop lesson
plans.
“It’s just really fun,
hands-on learning for the
kids,” Roschke said.
The teacher workshop is
scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. It is sponsored by EDP
Renewables, which operates
two wind farms in Eastern
Oregon — one in Arlington,
and one in Union.
Roschke, who lives in
Portland, also has ties to the
wind energy industry. He
spent two and a half years
working for a wind manu-
facturer in Newberg, and
started his own renewable
Photo contributed by KidWind Project
The KidWind Challenge, where students design, build and test their own function-
ing wind turbines, is coming March 18 to Boardman.
energy consulting company
in 2011.
In
2013,
Roschke
received a $30,000 grant
from Facebook to hold four
KidWind workshops around
the state, including one in
Pendleton, which he said
was highly successful.
“I’ve been trying to find
more ways to fund activities
in Eastern Oregon,” Roschke
said. “I love to be in an area
where wind is a big issue.”
KidWind was founded in
2002, based in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. Approximately
11,000 students, from sixth
through 12th grade, have
EOU professor pieces together art exhibit
Opens with Jan. 12 reception at Feves gallery
Contributed image
Collage art by Cory Peeke, director of the Nightingale
Gallery in La Grande, opens Jan. 12 at the Betty Feves
Memorial Gallery in Pendleton.
Grand Geiser
hosts winemaker
dinner
BAKER CITY — A
special winemaker dinner
showcases Lodmell Cellars
of Walla Walla.
Winemaker Kristie
Lodmell will be on hand
during the event, which
features a five-course
dinner with selected wine
pairings. In addition, a
special barrel sample of
Lodmell Cellars Late
Harvest Port-style Syrah/
Merlot will be available.
As part of a fourth
generation Walla Walla
family, Lodmell left a
corporate career in the
sciences that took her
across the globe. She
returned to her roots on the
family farm and vineyard
where she served as an
assistant winemaker since
2007. She took over as
head winemaker this past
summer.
Limited seating is
available for the event,
which is Saturday at 7 p.m.
at the historic Geiser Grand
Hotel, 1996 Main St.,
Baker City. The cost is $75.
For more information or
reservations, call 541-523-
1889.
come, Roschke said, and
the KidWind Challenge is
something that can get their
creative juices flowing.
“Learning doesn’t just
have to be by reading a
book,” he said. “You can
actually be building some-
thing.”
For more information
about the KidWind Chal-
lenge, contact Roschke at
503-989-6824. Registration
ends Friday for Saturday’s
teacher workshop.
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Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0825.
PENDLETON
Spin-In celebrates
St. Distaff’s Day
PENDLETON —
Drawing on a 500-year-old
tradition that marks the end
of the Christmas break,
Pendleton Center for the
Arts will celebrate St.
Distaff’s Day.
During medieval times,
the day would mark the
time when women would
resume their normal
household chores, which
included spinning fiber for
use in making garments. A
distaff is a tool used to wrap
fiber around to keep it out
of the way while spinning.
Spinners around the world
celebrate by gathering to
spin fiber and enjoy each
others’ company.
The event is being held
in conjunction with the
regular monthly Saturday
Spin-In from 1-4 p.m.
at the arts center, 214 N.
Main St., Pendleton. Fiber
enthusiasts are invited to
gather around the fireplace
to knit, crochet, spin and
visit. Everyone is welcome,
whether working on a
project or not.
For more information,
call 541-278-9201.
competed in the KidWind
Challenge, including 1,334
during the 2015-16 school
year.
The goal of the program,
Roschke said, is to teach the
importance of wind energy
through affordable, available
resources.
“I like to just answer some
of the myths and miscon-
ceptions of wind,” he said.
“There’s a lot of pros and
cons to every energy source.
To have that conversation is
something I love.”
Renewable energy is
something that will impact
students’ lives for years to
Contributed image
Collage art by Cory Peeke, director of the Nightingale
Gallery in La Grande, opens Jan. 12 at the Betty Feves
Memorial Gallery in Pendleton.
Heppner gears up
for St. Patrick’s Day
HEPPNER — The
leprechauns are getting
ready for this year’s Wee Bit
O’Irleand festival in Heppner.
Heppner chamber execute
director Sheryll Bates is
seeking input on when to
schedule the first meeting
— dates to choose from are
Jan. 11, 12, 18 or 25. The
gathering would start at 6 p.m.
at Heppner City Hall, 111 N.
Main St. Pizza and beverages
will be provided.
For more information,
contact Bates at 541-676-
5536 or heppnerchamber@
centurytel.net.
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Email press releases to
news@eastoregonian.com
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
Trained as a painter
during
undergraduate
studies, Cory Peeke took a
few years off from school
and began dabbling in
collage art while living in
San Francisco.
“It was an expensive
place to live,” he said. “I
couldn’t always afford
art supplies, so I
started collecting
things I could find
and incorporating
it into my work.”
The La Grande
man said he enjoys
the art form for
much the same
reason he enjoys
curating — he
loves
images. Peeke
Peeke has been
the director of Nightingale
Gallery at Eastern Oregon
University — where he also
teaches art — since 2003.
With his tongue seem-
ingly firmly planted in his
cheek, Peeke states in his
biography, “I stick stuff to
other stuff ... and kid myself
about the rest.” Some of his
collage work — the word
collage is derived from
the French word “coller,”
which means “to glue” — is
featured in an upcoming
exhibit at the Betty Feves
Memorial Gallery at Blue
Mountain
Community
College.
Titled “this page inten-
tionally left blank,” the
show opens with an artist’s
reception Thursday, Jan. 12
from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the
Pioneer Hall gallery at 2411
N.W. Carden Ave., Pend-
leton. There is no admission
charge.
Peeke describes collage
art as a technique where
a variety of images are
combined and assembled to
create one new image. The
artist collects old books and
catalogs, often from estate
sales and thrift stores.
“You will find stuff
people throw away,” he
said, and then laughed. “I
do some dumpster diving on
occasion.”
Peeke admits he has
stacks and stacks of mate-
rials. Although, he said, it’s
not very well organized.
“That’s part of the fun of
it,” he said. “I start digging
for something and I end up
finding things that spark
another idea. It’s kind of like
a treasure hunt.”
Creating a project, Peeke
said, is more of an organic
process. He used to concep-
tualize an idea in his mind.
However, he recognized the
end product was
rarely what he had
envisioned when
he started.
“Now I sit
down with things
... and kind of go
from there without
a clear agenda
of what I want
to do with it,” he
explained.
The art form,
Peeke said, has gone through
a sort of reinvigoration. He
has done some writing for
Kolaj, a magazine published
in Canada that’s dedicated
to artists working in the
medium of collage.
He said the publication
includes an international
circulation, which suggests
there’s definitely an interest
in collage as an art form.
In addition, there are many
collage groups on social
media. Peeke has done
collaborative work with
other collage artists after
meeting electronically.
“Considering
we’re
analog people, we depend
on the digital world to
connect,” he said.
The exhibit runs through
Thursday, Feb. 9. Betty
Feves Memorial Gallery
is open Monday through
Thursdays from 9:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. and by appoint-
ment by calling 541-278-
5952.
For more information
about the gallery, visit www.
bluecc.edu/community/
feves-art-gallery. For more
information about Peeke,
visit www.facebook.com/
corywpeeke
or
www.
corypeeke.com/home.html.
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Contact
Community
Editor Tammy Malgesini at
tmalgesini@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4539
You Never Know What You’ll Find At
A Collectors West Gun & Knife Show!
January 7 th & 8 th
Hermiston
Conference Center
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