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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Pet therapy event at Oregon Capitol highlights stress of policymaking Paris Achen/Capital Bureau Cris Cloyd, chief of staff for Rep. Jeff Reardon, D-Port- land, snuggles “Sully,” an eight-week-old kitten up for adoption at the Oregon Humane Society, during a “Snuggle Express” at the Oregon Capitol in Salem Monday. The event was meant to reduce stress in the waning days of the legislative session. tension mounting in the waning two weeks of this year’s legislative session. Lawmakers are squab- bling over new taxes and the components of a transporta- tion package, and emotions can rise and sink with the fate of each bill in front of them. “One of the things I noticed is when we have school children (in the House chamber), the dynamic changes,” Bynum said. She mentioned her obser- vation to Mandi McGowan, administrative assistant in the Chief Clerk’s Office, and suggested bringing babies into the Capitol to calm Alaska Air offers charter flight for solar eclipse viewing Bynum said she knew people at the Capitol needed stress relief, but she was surprised there was “a lineup like a rock concert” for the event. The Oregon Humane Society provided the event for free at the Capitol. The program costs businesses a $1,000 donation fee during the Christmas season, but off-season the organization will provide the service without the fee in certain cases, sad David Lytle, a spokesman for the humane society. Participants were asked to give a donation to help homeless animals during Monday’s event. A final tally of how much was raised for the organization was unavailable Monday afternoon, Lytle said. Many animals find their new homes during the Snuggle Express, he said. The humane society main- tains a web site with photos of all of the pets available for adoption. Buzz about the event spread to the Senate wing of the Capitol, where at least one senator and his staff member expressed jealousy that the Senate wasn’t invited, Bynum said. “It’s all in good fun,” Bynum said. “We have some big decisions to make before the end of the session.” By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Cris Cloyd, chief of staff for Rep. Jeff Reardon of Portland, said she came to the Capitol for work Monday morning feeling tired and stressed. Holding a kitten melted the tension away for a few minutes, Cloyd said. “It has a calming effect,” another staffer chimed in. State lawmakers and their staffers lined up in the House of Representatives office suite to participate in the “Snuggle Express” Monday at the Capitol. The Oregon Humane Society brought in puppies and kittens for legislators and staff members to snuggle during the lunch hour. “This is just so exciting,” said Naomi Zhao, an intern in Rep. Ann Lininger’s office, as she waited in a line that wrapped around a wall into a hallway, to hold a puppy. When volunteers with the humane society arrived with the animals in pet carriers, people in line gasped with delight. “This is my favorite event of the entire session,” another staff member gushed. Rep. Janelle Bynum, a freshman lawmaker from Clackamas, organized the event after she noticed BRIEFLY legislators. McGowan told Bynum that the Oregon Humane Society sometimes brings cats and dogs into work- places during the stressful Christmas season and pitched the idea of doing the same at the statehouse. “Who doesn’t love puppies and kittens?” McGowan said. “A lot of people get cocktails after work to relieve stress.” Holding a puppy or kitten can provide the same soothing effect, she said. “And hopefully, the animals find homes. Everyone benefits,” she said. PORTLAND (AP) — Alaska Airlines said Monday it will charter a flight over the Pacific Ocean this Aug. 21 so select passengers can view the astronomical event from the sky. The flight will take off at 7:30 a.m. Pacific from Portland, Oregon and is by invitation-only for about 50 astronomers and serious eclipse chasers. The airline is also holding an online contest starting July 21 for the general public with a prize of two seats on the flight. The total solar eclipse is the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse to hit the continental U.S. in 99 years. A total eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, blocking the sun’s light. The path of totality -- the area of complete darkness where the moon’s shadow completely obscures the sun -- begins in the U.S. on the Oregon coast before traveling east across the U.S. The idea behind the flight began last year, when a group of avid eclipse chasers booked tickets on an Anchor- age-to-Honolulu flight during an eclipse that could be seen over the Pacific Ocean. They successfully lobbied Alaska Airlines to adjust the flight path so they could see the event from the air, said Halley Knigge, an airline spokeswoman. The carrier is now reaching out to those same people for this flight, as well as other astronomers, she said. The trip in the Boeing Standoff defendant gets home detention PORTLAND (AP) — A military veteran who performed guard duty during the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention. Geoff Stanek, 27, of Lafayette, Oregon, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in June 2016, three months before the high-profile trial in which occupation leader Ammon Bundy and six others were found not guilty. Stanek’s early acceptance of responsi- bility was one reason federal prosecutor Craig Gabriel recommended a sentence that did not include prison time. Stanek was among the more than two dozen men and women who answered Bundy’s January 2016 call to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a protest against federal control of Western lands and the impris- onment of two ranchers convicted of setting fires. “You’re free to think what you choose, but your conduct crossed the line,” U.S. District Judge Anna Brown said Monday. Another occupier, Eric Lee Flores, was scheduled to be sentenced Monday, but got mixed up on the date and never arrived from his home in Tulalip, Washington. Brown said the hearing will be rescheduled. Stanek arrived at the refuge Jan. 7 after learning about the occupation through Facebook. He stayed until Jan. 26, the day Bundy and other occupation leaders were arrested in a traffic stop that included the fatal shooting by police of protest spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. Though Gabriel described Stanek as one of the least culpable defendants, the judge noted that he arrived at the bird sanctuary with an AR-15, body armor and medic supplies. “You were prepared for a bloodbath,” she said. Stanek declined to make a statement when given a chance. In response to questions from the judge, Stanek vowed to provide for his young daughter and not violate any conditions during a two-year term of probation. 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