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OSU appoints new leader for statewide outreach, extension
local counties and commu- 11 agricultural research and
nity partners throughout the experiment stations, strate-
state,” Lyles said in a state- gically located in different
ment.
growing regions around the
OSU’s Division of Exten- state.
sion and Engage-
Ly l e s c o m e s
ment includes the
to OSU from the
University of Neva-
Extension Service
and Office of Profes-
da-Reno, where he
sional and Continu-
had been the associ-
ate dean for engage-
i ng Educat ion,
serving all 36 Oregon
ment and director
counties and the
of extension since
Confederated Tribes
Lyles
2017. He oversaw
of Warm Springs
about 300 employees
Reservation.
and a budget of $40
The division’s
million.
programs are built
Previously, Lyles
was a professor,
around seven focus
dean and di rec-
areas, including
tor of land grant
4-H youth devel-
opment, agricul-
programs at Alcorn
ture and natural
Rondon
State University in
resources, including
Lor man, Missis-
the Small Farms and Master sippi, and led the coopera-
Gardener programs, family tive extension program at
and community health and Tennessee State Univer-
Oregon Sea Grant.
sity in Nashville — both of
The university also runs which are historically Black
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
CORVALLIS — Oregon
St at e Un ive r sit y h a s
appointed a new leader to
oversee statewide outreach
and extension programs.
Ivory Lyles was named
vice provost for University
Extension and Engagement
and director of OSU Exten-
sion Service, effective Sept.
30.
He takes over for Anita
Azarenko, who served for
more than two years in an
interim role following the
retirement of Scott Reed in
2019. Azarenko now is retir-
ing after nearly 35 years at
OSU.
“I am very pleased to join
OSU and I look forward to
helping support the needs
of Oregonians and commu-
nities statewide by working
with university colleagues,
the Oregon Legislature,
Sheriff: Hundreds of guns seized from home
cache of illegal weapons
seized in late July included
machine guns, thousands of
rounds of ammunition and
high-capacity magazines,
KGW reported.
Sheriff’s officials said
it’s believed to be the larg-
est weapons seizure in the
agency’s history. Clacka-
mas County is on Portland’s
southeast border.
Associated Press
OREGON CITY —
Deputies seized 337 fire-
arms from a Clackamas
County home in late July
and arrests in connec-
tion with the seizure are
expected, authorities said.
The Multnomah County
Sheriff’s Office reported
Tuesday, Aug. 10, that the
Law enforcement did not
report the exact location of
the home where deputies
served a search warrant as
part of an ongoing criminal
investigation. Deputies also
found meth during the raid,
officials said.
The seizure comes after
deputies recovered 44
firearms at a Gresham
home in June.
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colleges and universities.
Lyles has also served as
associate vice president for
agriculture and director of
the cooperative extension
service at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock, and
held extension leadership
roles at Ohio State University
and University of Tennessee.
He is a member of the
National Association of
County Agriculture Agents,
National Association of
Extension 4-H Agents and
national 4-H Diversity
Design team, and serves
as program committee
chairman for the national
Extension Committee on
Organization and Policy.
“Dr. Lyles has a long
history of outstanding leader-
ship in extension and engage-
ment positions in universities
in multiple states, and he is a
national leader in this domain
as well,” said Edward Feser,
OSU’s provost and executive
vice president. “I’m delighted
he is joining OSU’s leader-
ship team.”
Lyles has a doctorate
in agricultural education,
community and rural devel-
opment from Ohio State.
Rondon named
interim HAREC
director
OSU also appointed a new
interim director at the Herm-
iston Agricultural Research
and Extension Center.
Silvia Rondon, a longtime
professor and entomologist at
the station, will take over the
position previously held by
Clive Kaiser, who recently
stepped down to join the
faculty at Lincoln University
in New Zealand.
K a i se r wa s n a me d
interim HAREC director
in September 2019 after
former director Phil Hamm
retired. A national search
will begin this fall to fill the
job permanently.
HAREC serves 500,000
acres of irrigated agriculture
in Oregon and Washing-
ton’s Columbia Basin, where
farmers produce more than
200 different crops.
The station’s research
primarily focuses on finding
ways to make growers more
efficient and profitable. This
includes identifying new
crops and growing practices
tailored for the region; breed-
ing and evaluating new plant
varieties; management of
pests and diseases; and other
environmental issues, such as
water quality.
For Rondon, it is her
second promotion this year.
She was appointed direc-
tor of OSU’s Integrated Pest
Management Center in May.
Though the center is based
in Corvallis, Rondon has
remained in Hermiston and
continues to oversee the ento-
mology program at HAREC.
U.S. labor secretary gets earful
on Oregon farmworker conditions
Walsh said he planned to
look into several problems
discussed at the roundtable,
such as changing coronavi-
rus restrictions and growing
safety threats from heat and
By MATEUSZ
wildfire smoke.
PERKOWSKI
“The last 18 months have
Capital Press
been completely devastat-
ing,” he said.
EUGENE — As the
The lack of higher over-
former mayor of a major time wages and the power-
American city, U.S. Labor ful role of labor contractors
Secretary Marty Walsh are also unique to the farm
admits he faces a steep learn- industry, he said.
ing curve regarding farm-
“Rules that apply to the
worker regulations.
40-hour worker don’t apply
“This area is
to the farmworker,”
Walsh said.
kind of new to me.
There
are
They don’t have
cu r rently i m m i-
farms in Boston,”
g r at ion prop os -
Walsh said Tuesday,
als floating around
Aug. 10, during a
roundtable on farm-
Washington, D.C.,
worker protections in
that are specific to
Eugene.
Walsh
“essential work-
However, Walsh
ers” and people who
said he appreciates the hard arrived in the U.S. as chil-
work that goes into agricul- dren, but Walsh said he’d
ture, as both his parents grew prefer more comprehensive
up on farms in Ireland before legislation to be introduced.
immigrating to the U.S. in
“I think we actually need
the 1950s.
to go bigger than that,” he
“I know that food did not said.
just appear on my plate,” he
Roundtable panelists said
said. “I know it came from a the coronavirus pandemic
has aggravated problems that
worker’s hands.”
After hearing from farm- existed before in the farm
worker representatives, industry, such as workers
Marty Walsh
attends roundtable
in Eugene
fearing to report labor viola-
tions due to potential retal-
iation.
The possibility of losing
a job doesn’t seem worth-
while when employers
would only receive nomi-
nal fines for violating safety
protocols, said Valentin
Sanchez, senior community
educator with the Oregon
Law Center.
Oregon’s Occupational
Safety and Health adminis-
tration is influenced by the
federal OSHA, but that agen-
cy’s standards are outdated,
he said.
“We are setting the bar so
low,” Sanchez said.
Sanchez urged more fund-
ing for on-site inspections as
well as recognition that many
farmers speak indigenous
languages, not Spanish.
“We need to develop
educational materials in
these different languages,”
he said.
Farmers are increasingly
reliant on labor contractors
for hiring, which effectively
makes them less responsi-
ble for worker safety, said
Jennifer Martinez-Medina,
a doctoral candidate at Port-
land State University who
facilitated a study on coro-
navirus impacts.
IN BRIEF
Brown declares emergency
due to forecasted heat
to provide any assistance requested by OEM
to support response efforts.
SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
declared a state of emergency Tuesday, Aug.
10, in Oregon to ensure additional resources
are available to respond to forecasted exces-
sively high temperatures, according to a
release from the governor’s office.
The emergency declaration was triggered
by the need for state agencies to assist local
and tribal jurisdictions in providing for the
health and safety of their residents, the release
said. Multiple days of extreme heat with little
or no cooling overnight may also impact criti-
cal infrastructure, causing utility outages and
transportation disruptions.
“Oregon is facing yet another extreme
heat wave, and it is critical that every level
of government has the resources they need
to help keep Oregonians safe and healthy,”
Brown said. “I encourage Oregonians to take
proactive steps to keep themselves and their
families safe, including drinking plenty of
fluids, taking advantage of cooling centers,
and checking in on neighbors, friends, and
loved ones.”
Brown has directed the Office of Emer-
gency Management to activate the state’s
Emergency Coordination Center to coor-
dinate essential protective measures, the
release said. She also directed state agencies
Officials: 10 fully vaccinated
Oregonians died in July
SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority
reported Monday, Aug. 9, that 10 of the 55
Oregonians who died from COVID-19 in July
were fully vaccinated.
The report corrected information the
agency previously issued, which originally
reported only five fully vaccinated Orego-
nians died from COVID-19 last month.
Health officials said epidemiologists found
that five deaths among fully vaccinated
people had incorrectly been counted as deaths
of unvaccinated individuals. The new data
means 18% of the state’s COVID-19 deaths
in July were among fully vaccinated people.
Dr. Melissa Sutton, medical director for
respiratory viral pathogens at the Oregon
Health Authority, said it is too early to tell if
the new information represents a trend.
“The overall numbers still show that
people who are unvaccinated remain at far
greater risk from COVID-19 illness,” Sutton
said, “especially from the delta variant that
is now being found in most cases in Oregon.”
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