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Pendleton Lions Club announces Peace Poster contest winner
By BEN LONERGAN
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Viviana
Martinez, 13, gleamed with
joy as she accepted her fi rst
place award in the 2019 Pend-
leton Lions Club Peace Poster
Contest at the Pendleton Cen-
ter for the Arts on Tuesday
night.
Martinez, an eighth-grade
student at Sunridge Middle
School, had been in this posi-
tion before; last year she took
home fi rst place in the Pend-
leton competition with her
poster. Martinez said that her
win last year inspired her to
work even harder to live up
to the expectations she set for
herself for this year’s contest.
“I was so nervous last year
that I played it safe on the
poster,” said Martinez. “This
year I went all out.”
Martinez said her poster
was inspired by a series of
themes that her art class were
discussing prior to the contest.
She said the idea for the ribbon
came from a discussion about
fi nding a “road to peace,”
while the remainder of the art
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Viviana Martinez poses with her winning poster during the awards ceremony for the 2019
Pendleton Lions Peace Poster Contest at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on Tuesday night.
piece came from ideas she had
about what symbolizes peace.
“I wanted to use a ribbon
of fl ags to symbolize peace,”
said Martinez. “I took that
and I wanted hands to hold
the ribbon to symbolize all of
the people working towards
peace.”
Martinez’s mother, Glo-
ria Corona, said she was very
proud of her daughter for the
back-to-back wins.
“She is very detailed and
meticulous person and I know
she puts a lot of time and
energy into making her art
perfect,” said Corona.
For her winning poster,
Martinez will take home a
$300 prize and her poster
will advance to the next level
of judging. Kacie Atkinson,
13, took home the $200 sec-
ond-place prize while the $100
third-place prize went to Drew
Hathaway.
In addition to their prize
money, the winning students
were invited to the Lions meet-
ing next Thursday for a free
meal for themselves and a fam-
ily member, and the chance to
share their art with additional
members of the club.
Martinez’s winning poster
will advance to the district
contest where it will be judged
against others from through-
out the region. While all of the
posters were on display at the
Pendleton Center for the Arts
for several days leading up to
Tuesday night’s event, a repro-
duction of Martinez’s poster,
as well as a selection of addi-
tional posters, will be on dis-
play at Blue Mountain Com-
munity College in the coming
weeks.
More than 100 Sunridge
Middle School students sub-
mitted posters for this year’s
contest after working on them
during class. The Pendle-
ton contest, which is a part of
the International Lions Peace
Poster Contest, was open to
students ages 11-13 and spon-
sored by the local Lions Club.
While the poster con-
test revolves around a dif-
ferent theme each year, Sun-
ridge Middle School art
teacher Michelle Sickels said
this year’s theme, “Journey of
Peace,” was particularly easy
for her students to grasp.
“There are a lot of very
great posters this year and
the kids worked very hard
on them,” said Sickels. “This
year’s theme was right on their
level and proved easy for them
to grasp.”
Brian Purnell, an art
instructor at Pendleton Cen-
ter for the Arts and one of this
year’s contest judges, said he
was impressed with the cre-
ativity and originality of the
posters. He said that in judging
he looked for the posters that
communicated the theme most
simply and clearly.
“No two were even
remotely alike and that orig-
inality is something I try to
foster in my own students,”
said Purnell. “I was really
impressed with the work that
I saw.”
Higher temps mean fi ner wines Warming Station needs volunteers
By JESSICA POLLARD
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
Columbia Valley region is
nestled between Bordeaux,
France, and Napa Valley,
California, according to Dr.
Kevin Pogue, professor of
geology at Whitman College
and grape farmer consultant.
Not actually, but in terms
of grape growing and wine
production. And according to
Pogue, just a 2-degree tem-
perature increase could have
the Columbia Valley wine
region in Oregon and Wash-
ington producing the same
quality of Cabernet Sauvi-
gnon that put Napa Valley on
the map.
Not to say that Califor-
nia’s famous wine country
will stop producing wines
altogether.
“Farmers are not dumb,”
Pogue said. “They will
adjust, and grape growers
will adjust.”
And they have. In Cali-
fornia, some wineries have
equipment that “de-alcohol-
izes” wine from grapes that
have soaked up too much sun
and produced lots of alco-
hol-forming sugars. Some
wineries add water or acidify
their wines to cope with the
effects of a changing climate
as well.
Pogue spoke last week
during a fundraiser for the
Eastern Oregon Climate
Change Coalition, where he
shared research about the
future of Eastern Oregon and
Washington wines in the face
of climate change.
And, while according to
a study published in 2016 by
the European Geosciences
Union, a global temperature
increase of just 2 degrees
could mean less fresh water;
the destruction of coral reefs
and the lengthening of heat-
waves; it could also mean
an increase in the amount of
wine produced in the area,
and at other more high-eleva-
tion locations like Spokane,
Washington.
“A little bit of global
warming, and you’re going to
have a viticulture zone right
here in (Pendleton),” Pogue
joked last week.
In
Milton-Freewater,
he said, orchards are being
replaced with vines, which
take less water to produce.
So what’s making the area
so great for growing grapes?
The Columbia Valley region,
which has an area of 11 mil-
lion acres in Washington
and part of Oregon, has a
10-month, frost-free growing
season, which accommodates
more grape varieties than a
short season would. Accord-
ing to the Oregon Wine
Board, hot days and cool
nights ensure grapes preserve
their acidity.
Watermill Winery in Mil-
ton-Freewater takes advan-
tage of the extended growing
season to produce grapes for
Syrah and Cabernet wines.
“We have a nice long
growing season,” said Leon-
ard Brown, the vineyard
manager at Watermill Winer-
ies in Milton-Freewater. “We
get the ample heat we need
for ripening, we also have
some good soils around here,
adaptable for wine grapes.
Probably the worst thing we
have here is our cold winters.”
And those cold win-
ter temperatures started
early this year, according to
Brown. Last month was the
coldest October on record
since 1905, which can be dev-
astating for some grapes.
“Grapes can’t tolerate cold
temperatures,” Brown said.
But as for increasing tem-
peratures, Brown hasn’t
noticed much of a difference.
In some vineyards, he said,
they’ve laid down sod to cool
off the soil.
“It hasn’t concerned
us,” he said. “As far as cli-
mate change goes, it’s defi -
nitely warming up. But it’s
also more drastic weather
extremes and storms.”
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
—
Despite
temperatures
already dropping below
freezing, the Hermiston
Warming Station won’t be
opening any time soon if
more volunteers don’t sign
up.
Teesie Hill, chairwoman
of the nonprofi t’s board,
said she needs about 200
volunteers before they can
start taking guests in need
of emergency shelter.
So far she has about 30
ready to go.
“Last year, we trained
200 people. We had about
165 actually volunteer
for a shift, 145 return for
another, but only about 90
volunteers who volunteered
consistently,” she said.
The station has three
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BMCC saves
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PENDLETON — As a
part of its quest to reduce
textbook costs, Blue Moun-
tain Community College
announced tit has saved stu-
dents $1.1 million since 2015.
According to a college
press release, BMCC was
able to do this by encourag-
ing faculty to use open edu-
cational resources, or OERs.
OERs are learning mate-
rial in the public domain or
under open licensing agree-
ments that instructors can
assemble to offer low-cost
or no-cost options for their
students.
BMCC has used OERs
since 2012, but the institution
has increased its use as the
Oregon Legislature passed
bills requiring public colleges
and universities to desig-
nate courses with low-cost or
ket those materials in their
textbook affordability plans.
“Open textbooks can help
alleviate the burden of text-
book costs for students and
provide faculty with content
that can be utilized for their
courses,” BMCC e-Learning
coordinator Bruce Kauss said
in a statement. “Open text-
books are full, real textbooks,
used by many faculty across
the country, and licensed to
be freely used, edited and
distributed.”
A quarter of all courses
at Blue Mountain now use
OERs, the press release
states.
Kauss said textbook costs
are rising at four times the
rate of infl ation, a fact that
causes many students to wait
until they receive fi nancial
aid to buy textbooks.
Kauss is offering a work-
shop to faculty interested
in incorporating OERs into
their courses on Nov. 15.
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volunteers can work from
midnight to 4 a.m., or man-
age the kitchen or check-
outs from 4-6:30 a.m.
Volunteers
working
with guests must be over
18, but volunteers younger
than 18 can come during
the day to assist with tasks,
such as cleaning or sorting
donations.
The Warming Station’s
season has been set to go
from Nov. 25 through Feb-
ruary, but Hill said they
will start later than the 25th
if they don’t have more
volunteers.
For people interested in
donating items, she said
their biggest need is cases
of bottled water and pack-
ages of hot chocolate mix.
For more information,
call 541-289-2150 or visit
the Hermiston Warming
Station Facebook page.
volunteer training sessions
left: Thursday at 9 a.m.,
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and
Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m.
All training sessions
are at the warming station,
a house at 1075 S. High-
way 395 across from Tower
Apartments. Interested vol-
unteers don’t need to sign
up in advance.
Returning volunteers
won’t need to go through
training or background
checks again, Hill said —
they just need to drop by
and sign some updated
paperwork to be approved
for another year.
Volunteers can sign up
online for whatever shifts
or days they would like.
Check-in shifts are from
7-9:30 p.m.
Operations
manager and kitchen man-
ager shifts are from 7 p.m.
to midnight. Overnight
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