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East Oregonian
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Friday, March 13, 2020
Repair cafe event brings people together
Cove High School provides chance to
get a wide variety of items repaired
by community volunteers at no cost
of her family reunions at a
farm in Missouri, where her
relatives put their assort-
ment of abilities to use by
fi xing items.
“We pitch in with the
skills that we have,” Daven-
port said.
The reunions, like repair
cafes, bring people together.
“They are about commu-
nity,” Davenport said.
An educator, Davenport
took on tasks, including
reattaching latches to horse
blankets at the repair cafe.
Davenport also gave peo-
ple advice on sewing, a skill
she said can serve you well
throughout your life.
April Curtis, a retired
Eastern Oregon University
theater professor, also did
sewing work at the repair
cafe. Curtis said she sewed
so many costumes during
her career she grew tired of
it and stopped doing it for
several years, but now she is
back at it.
Sandy Coulson of Cove
said Curtis’ skills were most
welcome.
“It would be a tragedy if
she (Curtis) stopped sew-
ing,” Coulson said.
Coulson brought in
By DICK MASON
EO Media Group
COVE — No tips were
left on the tables of this
dusty cafe Tuesday, still the
service could not be beat.
A repair cafe debuted
to rave reviews late Tues-
day afternoon, by provid-
ing not sandwiches and
coffee but heaping serv-
ings of repair assistance
that had visitors percolating
with excitement. The repair
cafe was an event in Cove
High School’s wood and
metal shop that provided an
opportunity for people to
get a wide variety of items
repaired by community vol-
unteers at no cost.
All people had to do
was bring items in need of
repair, and then confer with
someone with the exper-
tise needed to fi x them.
Items brought in included
a water heater, horse blan-
kets, a smartphone, a micro-
wave oven, knives, shovels,
clothes, a retractable leash
and toys.
Ruthi Davenport of
La Grande, who did sew-
ing work at the repair cafe,
said the event reminded her
EO Media Group Photo/Dick Mason
Cove School District teacher Erich Dressen helps Angel Shields-Marrs with a project at Tues-
day’s repair cafe.
about three items for repair
— a heater for farm ani-
mal water, a hatchet and a
shovel. She said she was
delighted with the help she
received.
Heidi Van Schoonhoven
of Cove also brought in a
variety of items, includ-
ing a microwave oven and
a retractable leash. She also
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did knife and hatchet sharp-
ening. Felley said anyone
can learn to sharpen knives
and hatchets, all it takes is
practice.
“You just have to do it,”
Felley said. “You can’t just
read about it (and expect to
be able to do it).”
Cove School District
teachers Russel Olmsted
Warm Springs will be the
fi rst census count in Oregon
EO Media Group
WARM SPRINGS —
The Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs will be the
fi rst community counted in
Oregon for the 2020 census,
the offi cial count of every
person in the United States
conducted every decade.
The tribal community
kicked off the census in
Oregon on Thursday, the
fi rst day the census can be
completed.
George Aguilar Sr., a
Wasco elder and lifelong
resident of Warm Springs,
will be the fi rst person to
c omplete the census in
the state. Aguilar, 90, is a
Korean War veteran, who
has worked as a laborer,
fi sherman, logger, con-
struction manager and
author.
After Aguilar com-
pletes the census, a 2020
census kickoff event will
be held from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. Thursday in the
Agency Longhouse at 1253
Kot-Num Road in Warm
Springs. Attendees will be
able to meet Aguilar, watch
a Warm Springs early
childhood education mini
powwow and have a com-
munity meal while fi lling
out the census.
Starting
Thursday,
everyone in Oregon will
be asked to respond online,
by phone or by mail to
the census.
The U.S. Census Bureau
is working to ensure an
accurate county of every-
body in the nation. The
bureau is trying to reach
more tribal members after
nearly 5% of Native Ameri-
cans were never counted in
the 2010 census.
Accurate census data
affects how the federal gov-
ernment allocates more
than $675 billion every
year for programs and ser-
vices for tribal commu-
nities, such as Medicaid,
social services, housing,
public safety, veterans ser-
vices, emergency prepared-
ness, education and school
lunches.
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brought in a smartphone she
needed advice for operating.
“I’m getting great tech
support. I’m very excited,”
Van Schoonhoven said.
Everyone working at the
repair cafe also had advice
so those they were helping
can later do their own repair
or upgrade work. They
included Dave Felley, who
and Erich Dressen volun-
teered at the repair cafe.
They teach shop classes.
Olmsted said it was a delight
to work with the people who
came to the repair cafe.
“We had a fun group of
characters show up,” he
said.
Donna Rainboth, an
EOU education professor
who helped organize the
repair cafe, was struck with
how generous many people
were with their time.
“It is amazing, you just
ask people and they step up
and help,” Rainboth said.
She said it was so suc-
cessful that a second repair
cafe may be conducted later
in La Grande. Rainboth said
one of the objectives of the
event was to help people
extend the life of items they
own.
“We want to keep items
out of landfi lls, to teach
people to fi x items so they
do not throw them away,”
Rainboth said.
Van
Schoonhoven
echoed this sentiment, mak-
ing reference to “planned
obsolescence,” a term refer-
ring to the production of
consumer goods that are
designed to rapidly become
obsolete, necessitating that
they be replaced.
“We want to circumvent
planned obsolescence,” Van
Schoonhoven said.
Police name three Bend
offi cers involved in shooting
BEND — The Bend Police Department
released Wednesday the names of three
offi cers involved in a pursuit and attempted
arrest Monday that led to the shooting and
serious wounding of a Bend woman on
U.S. Highway 20 east of the city.
Police said Monday that Danielle Bower,
29, was acting in an erratic manner and
had blood on her when she encountered
police near the St. Charles Bend emer-
gency department, then drove recklessly
away, prompting a pursuit on Highway 20.
They said her van left the highway near
milepost 39 and came to a stop. The offi -
cers who tried to arrest Bower then fi red
their weapons.
The three police offi cers were identi-
fi ed as Sgt. Thomas Russell, Offi cer Tim
Williams and Offi cer Victor Umnitz,
KTVZ-TV reported. All are on leaving
during an investigation.
Inslee orders all greater
Seattle area schools to close
OLYMPIA, Wash. — As the death toll
from the new coronavirus reached at least
31 in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee on
Thursday ordered that all public and private
K-12 schools in King, Pierce and Snohom-
ish counties be closed for six weeks.
Inslee’s directive affects about 600,000
students. The schools must close by March
17 and remain shuttered through April 24.
“We have reached a tipping point where
the spread of this virus demands that we
take action,” Inslee said at a news confer-
ence. “We do not expect this to slow down
and it will not slow down unless we take
action. Closing schools will slow the trans-
mission of this virus.”
Several school districts already
announced they will close due to the out-
break. Seattle Public Schools with 53,000
students, closed beginning Thursday.
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