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SNOW: Landscaping KRUPP: Was a volunteer at the World Cup for skiing
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businesses often turn
to snow removal
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“I can sit at home and
twiddle my thumbs or I can
go out and do something,” he
said.
Foust said he gives price
quotes depending on diffi-
culty — an empty driveway
at a residence is easy, while
a vehicle-filled car dealership
can take quite a while to clear.
“I like doing it at nighttime,
when there are fewer people
around ... I work all night long
when it snows,” he said.
He said many people he
knows who do snow removal
own landscaping businesses
and have to come up with
something else to do when
snow covers the grass and
foliage around town.
In Pendleton, Kline Land-
scape & Irrigation Inc. already
has enough residential and
commercial snow-removal
customers to keep them from
taking on any more right now.
“Our people were out for
12 hours,” Lana Kline said
of the most recent snowfall.
“They started at one in the
morning and didn’t finish
until the afternoon.”
She said the company
clears parking lots and keeps
sidewalks shoveled during
the winter, which can be
time-consuming and require
getting up before dawn to
finish before the businesses
open. Deeper snow means
harder work, and if snow
falls over multiple days or
melts and then re-freezes they
end up returning to the same
business multiple times.
“It burns out our employees
because you’re putting in
long hours, you’re up at
weird times and even though
they’re used to working
outside they’re using different
muscles,” Kline said.
When the landscaping
companies are overbooked,
some people turn to Facebook
and word of mouth to find
individuals offering snow
removal.
Paul McDonough of
Hermiston started using a
small red Kubota tractor with
front loader and rear blade to
clear the parking lot where
his wife works, and soon had
other businesses and a few
churches asking if they could
pay him to clear snow from
their parking lots. The rest of
the year McDonough uses the
tractor for work on a handful
of acres of land he owns.
“This is my second year
doing it, I just got the tractor
a year ago so it’s still new,” he
wrote in a Facebook message,
adding, “Good way to offset
the cost of the tractor.”
He said if people want
their driveways and parking
lots cleared, it’s best to make
the call when snow has first
fallen instead of waiting until
it has been compacted by
vehicles and in some places
turned to ice.
Naomi Sanchez said her
husband Ildefonso Zuniga
cleared snow for several
businesses on 11th Street in
Hermiston using his tractor
during the last week. During
most of the year he makes
money growing vegetables
and strawberries, but winter is
slow for him.
“This year he hasn’t done
very many but last year he did
a lot,” she said of the snow
removal.
Not everyone charges for
their services. In Pilot Rock,
Mike Lankford and a fellow
snowplower who said he
would like to remain “low
key” and anonymous, rigged
blades to their ATVs and
cleared surfaces in town that
don’t get finished by munic-
ipal vehicles.
“I just do it do help people
out,” Lankford said. “I’m on
crutches, I’ve been on them
most of my life. I’ve had six
different hips, so I know what
it’s like to get around.”
He said they try to hit
sidewalks and parking lots
and other places that don’t get
cleared by larger plows, so
that people can have a clearer
walk all the way from their
car to the grocery store or
other businesses.
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As Krupp walks around the Calpine
facility on Simplot Road in Stanfield
he explains various facets of power
generation.
“That big jet engine sucks in air,
kind of like what an airplane would
do,” he said.
The exhaust, which reaches about
1,100 degrees, goes through a steam
generator. Steam is run through a
turbine to make electricity.
Once they get power onto the grid,
it is sent via a transmission line to
the switchyard at the McNary Dam,
from which it is distributed across the
state, or to Washington or California.
The facility is one of two natural gas
plants in the Hermiston area, with the
Hermiston Generating Project about
three miles to its west.
Krupp has an adventurous streak,
counting skiing and water sports among
his hobbies. In his spare time, he has
purchased an old house in Hermiston
and is busy remodeling it.
This winter, he had a unique skiing
experience. He traveled to Lake Louise
in Canada, where he was a volunteer
worker at the World Cup, an Olym-
Staff photo by Jayati Ramakrishnan
Jeff Krupp has held several positions within Calpine, a power genera-
tion company.
pic-qualifying event for skiers.
He was there for over a week, with
a few other people from Hermiston,
building and maintaining the courses,
and providing support wherever it was
necessary.
Krupp said he applied to volunteer
at the event and is eager to do it again.
“You’re on the course, so you have
some of the best views of the races,” he
said. “And the people doing this — the
volunteers — are really neat people.
They’re from all over the world ... just
an incredible array of people.”
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In this Feb. 5, 2013, photo, Melissa Klein, co-owner of
Sweet Cakes by Melissa, in Gresham, tells a customer
that the bakery has sold out of baked goods for the day.
An appellate court Thursday upheld a penalty against
the bakery owners who refused to make a cake for a
same-sex wedding almost five years ago.
BAKERY: Court of Appeals
decision was unanimous
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discriminate based on sexual
orientation, as well as the
associated damages.
“For the past 10 years,
the Oregon Equality Act
of 2007 has protected
Oregonians from unlawful
discrimination in housing,
employment and public
places,” Avakian said in a
statement. “Today’s ruling
sends a strong signal that
Oregon remains open to all.
“Within Oregon’s public
accommodations law is the
basic principle of human
decency that every person,
regardless of their sexual
orientation or gender iden-
tity, has the freedom to fully
participate in society.”
The court found that “the
record of the complainants’
emotional distress from
the denial of service was
adequate to support the
damages award and that the
award was not inconsistent
with awards in other BOLI
enforcement actions.”
The court overturned
Avakian’s conclusion that
there was sufficient evidence
to show the Kleins planned
to continue the discrimina-
tion, but the commissioner
had awarded no damages for
that specific violation.
The Kleins had appealed
the BOLI commissioner’s
decision, arguing that it
violated their constitutional
right to free expression.
It was unclear Thursday
morning whether the Kleins
plan to appeal the decision to
the Oregon Supreme Court.
The unanimous decision
of the Court of Appeals
was written by Judge Chris
Garrett and joined by Judges
Joel DeVore and Bronson
James.
The First Liberty Insti-
tute, which wrote a brief in
support of the Kleins, was
disappointed by the ruling.
“Freedom of expression
for ourselves should require
freedom of expression for
others. Today, the Oregon
Court of Appeals decided
that Aaron and Melissa
Klein are not entitled to the
Constitution’s promises of
religious liberty and free
speech,” Kelly Shackelford,
President and CEO of First
Liberty Institute, says. “In
a diverse and pluralistic
society, people of good will
should be able to peace-
fully coexist with different
beliefs. We are disappointed
that the court ruled against
the Kleins.”
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