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bility, Humane Oregon and
Oregon Rural Action.
In response, te Velde
said the permit “reflects the
toughest and most stringent
environmental safety stan-
dards applicable to a dairy
in Oregon.” Lost Valley is
required to install 11 ground-
water monitoring wells,
which is seven more than
usual, and will be subject to
a minimum of three annual
inspections, versus one every
10 months.
Beyond state and federal
regulations, te Velde said the
dairy feeds its cows “a unique
blend of food that includes
high-quality starch and addi-
tives” to lower emissions,
and has built a state-of-the-art
lagoon system that rotates
water and reduces ammonia
emissions.
“I believe that a well-run
dairy not only provides for
contented cows and produces
quality milk, but also proac-
tively implements environ-
mental emissions,” te Velde
wrote in a declaration filed
June 4 with ODA and DEQ.
For the past 15 years, te
Velde has operated his dairy
in Oregon on land leased
from nearby Threemile
Canyon Farms. He decided
to relocate in order to expand
and increase the amount of
milk he sells to Tillamook
Cheese, which runs a cheese-
making plant at the Port of
Morrow.
Lost Valley currently has
17,500 animals, including
8,500 milking cows. The
dairy plans to build up to its
full 30,000 herd over the next
three years. It took several
weeks and cost more than
$200,000 to get the cows
moved, te Velde said, and the
idea of staying his permit is
causing him to worry.
For starters, te Velde said
dairy cows need to be milked
twice a day or they will be in
pain. Since he does not have
anywhere else to go with the
animals, te Velde said a stay
means he would have to find
another dairy to take on the
cows, or else they would need
to be sold for slaughter.
“In addition, even if any
milking cows could be sold,
the stress of transferring them
to yet another new environ-
ment would take its toll, and I
would anticipate a significant
mortality rate,” te Velde said.
Te Velde said he has
invested
roughly
$100
million into his Oregon dairy
business, and leveraged his
dairy operations in California
to support Lost Valley. If the
permit is pulled, he said he
would likely face foreclosure.
“The ripple effects of a
stay would be significant and
devastating,” he said.
Along with his own
declaration, te Velde included
letters from the Morrow
County Board of Commis-
sioners and United Farm
Workers, both of which
expressed support for the
dairy. At full buildout, the
dairy is expected to employ
somewhere between 125 and
150 people.
Wym Matthews, CAFO
program manager for the
Department of Agricul-
ture, said the agencies are
reviewing the matter and
should have a decision about
the coalition’s request to stay
the permit by the end of the
month.
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center, where he remained
today.
College Place Police
Chief Troy Tomaras said
the attack was reported at
1:44 p.m. Thursday after the
suspects entered the middle
school lobby and forced their
way into a locked adminis-
trative office by using a long
metal spear to break through
reinforced glass in a door.
One of the suspects was also
armed with a wooden staff,
according to the police report.
Tomaras said in a news
release this morning that the
brothers attended College
Place High School, which
shares a common campus
with the middle school.
Neither of the brothers
was in attendance at the
schools before the attack,
Tomaras said.
“It is still unknown why
they chose to attack the
middle school and (we) are
uncertain why they targeted
the administrative office,”
Tomaras said.
According to the College
Place police report, the
brothers went to the middle
school administration to ask
to see their sister.
A woman in the office
reported
that
Lamont
Oakhurst stuck a spear
through an open window,
hitting her in the chest
but causing no injury. The
woman closed the window
and the brothers moved to a
door to the main office area,
according to the report, and
Lamont Oakhurst broke the
door’s safety glass window
with the spear and entered
the office.
They
were
then
confronted by middle school
Principal Dale Stopperan.
The brothers assaulted Stop-
peran with the spear and the
staff, according to the report,
but other staff members,
several armed with small
baseball bats, came to the
principal’s aid and drove
the two students out of the
building just as police offi-
cers arrived on scene.
“I was very impressed the
school staff took the fight to
the suspects,” Tomaras said
today. “The rule is ‘run, hide,
fight’ and sometimes you
have to fight.”
According to the police
report, Stopperan suffered
a cut to his head and was
struck on the elbow and a
knee during the attack. He
was taken by ambulance to
Providence St. Mary Medical
Center where he was treated
and released. The principal
was “at home resting” today,
the school district reported
on its website.
As they left the building,
the two students were
confronted
by
police.
They reported one brother
was arrested after being
shot in the torso with a
non-lethal beanbag round
when he would not respond
to commands. The other
brother was apprehended
after he ran around the back
of the school and encoun-
tered officers responding to
the scene. The report was
unclear which brother was
shot with the bean bag.
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off their work during an
open house of Fieldstone
#3, the house on Angus
Court they’ve worked all
year to complete. There
was a thank-you lunch for
the student workers and
the contractors who’ve
mentored them, followed
by a viewing time for
community members. The
house’s real estate agent,
Shirley Parsons, was on
hand as well.
The
four-bedroom,
two-and-a-half bathroom
house is 2,466 square feet
and has lots of amenities
including
an
outdoor
kitchen, a security system,
surround sound speaker
system and a central
vacuum system. It is listed
for $379,000.
The program, aimed at
involving students in all
aspects of homebuilding,
has been successful so far.
“The first one we sold,
I think people thought
they were going to fall
down,” said Curt Berger,
the director of the student
home-building
program.
“But they walked in and
thought, ‘Oh, my God.
They’re amazing.’”
Berger said each year a
few dozen students from
Hermiston, Umatilla and
Stanfield high schools plan
and help build the house,
including landscaping and
computer-aided
design
classes. There are some
aspects of the house
students are not involved
in, such as roofing and elec-
trical wiring, but they get a
pretty comprehensive view
of what it takes to build a
home.
“What they don’t do,
they see,” Berger said.
“This is a working class.
They put their hard hats on
and they just work.”
Berger said this year’s
crew had slightly less time
than usual because of the
especially rough winter.
“You can’t really put a
nail into a board when it’s
frozen,” he said. “So now
our contractors are abso-
lutely swamped.”
Berger said in a couple of
weeks, the landscaping will
be complete, and the house
Staff photo by Jayati Ramakrishnan
The living room of Tim and Linda Turner’s home,
the first student-built home by the Columbia Basin
Student Home Building program.
will be ready for someone
to move in.
Parsons said she thinks
buyers like that students
helped construct the home.
“I think it’s a selling
point,” she said. “I
think people want to be
supportive of the school
and the community. The
students are very proud
of what they’ve done, and
rightly so.”
The
neighborhood
behind Armand Larive
Middle School, called
Fieldstone Crossing, will
eventually have 11 student-
built homes.
Student Work
Lanita Halladay and
Deven Hofbauer were busy
outside the house, raking
dirt and laying rocks around
the perimeter of the grass
as visitors walked around,
admiring the work.
“It’s starting to run a bit
smoother now,” Hofbauer
said. “We worked on it all
of second semester.”
The two juniors are part
of the landscaping class at
the high school. Students
have to take some classes
on horticulture and plant
propagation prior to the
landscaping class.
Inside the house, Luis
Vallejo was adjusting a
piece on one of the door-
ways. Vallejo, who just
graduated from Umatilla
High School, was in the
program for two years.
He said his favorite
part of the job was doing
detailed work to finish the
house, such as putting up
rock and laying the floor.
There were some tough
parts, as well.
“Every student will tell
you that it’s too hot to be
working outside during the
framing part,” he said with
a laugh.
But
that
didn’t
discourage
him
from
wanting to continue with
construction.
“I plan to go to BMCC
for construction manage-
ment,” he said.
Thomas Wall, a junior
at Hermiston High School,
said he’s interested in
finding a job that lets him
work with his hands.
“The class practically
shows you how to build
a house from scratch,” he
said.
The Turners said they’ve
been completely happy with
the work the students did on
the house.
“We watched how
professionally the contrac-
tors worked with the kids,”
Linda said. “We knew it
was going to be extremely
well-built.”
“I’m a retired science
teacher,” Tim said. “The
thing that impressed me the
most was the energy-effi-
ciency of the house. We’ve
been very pleased with
that.”
The Turners, who both
taught in the district, have
lived in Hermiston for over
40 years. They said they’re
happy to be part of such a
unique community — even
if they will only get one
neighbor a year.
“I like neighborhoods,”
Linda said. “But I also like
the openness of not having a
lot of houses around.”
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