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wallowa.com
January 25, 2017
Wallowa County Chieftain
PREP ROUNDUP
Legislative
leaders seek Outlaws put scare in
compromise top-ranked Panthers
on tax reform
Other hoop teams
split in weekend
action; wrestlers show
well in Idaho tourney
By Paris Achen
Capital Bureau
By Steve Tool
The heads of the Oregon
House and Senate said Mon-
day they still have not brought
together two opposing sides
over how to fi x the state’s
unstable revenue system and
a $1.8 billion shortfall in the
next two years.
House Speaker Tina Kotek,
D-Portland, and Senate Presi-
dent Peter Courtney, D-Salem,
have been leading an effort
to negotiate a compromise
between public unions and
business leaders. But they are
making slow progress with
just a week before the 160-day
legislative session.
“I’m very discouraged right
now,” Courtney said. “We do
not have them in the room to-
gether.”
The two groups last year
waged the most expensive po-
litical battle in the state’s histo-
ry over a $6 billion corporate
sales tax measure. Voters over-
whelmingly defeated Measure
97 on the November ballot.
Since then, victorious busi-
ness leaders have acknowl-
edged the state needs more
revenue stability. The state’s
system is overly dependent
on income tax revenue, which
fl uctuates drastically with eco-
nomic spikes and dips. How-
ever, business leaders say they
won’t support new business
taxes until lawmakers curtail
rising costs associated with the
Public Employees Retirement
System.
Courtney said he spurred
the Legislature’s budget writ-
ers last week to release a bud-
get without any new revenue
to give lawmakers a reality
check on what they’re facing
in terms of cuts. Budget writ-
ers unveiled a plan that would
entail kicking more than
350,000 people off Medicaid,
larger class sizes, university
tuition hikes and cuts in child
welfare workers.
Beyond having informal
meetings with business and la-
bor leaders, Gov. Kate Brown
has largely distanced herself
from the push for revenue re-
form since the failure of Mea-
sure 97, which she endorsed.
In her proposed budget last
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Enterprise Outlaws boys
played the game of the year in losing a
heart-stopping 47-46 stunner to No.1
ranked Imbler on Jan. 21.
The Outlaws looked to fold early as
Imbler built a 19-5 lead in the fi rst quar-
ter with the Outlaws having diffi culty
fi nding the basket. The second quarter
saw the tide slowly changing as both
teams scored 10 with the score 29-15 at
the half.
The second half saw the Outlaws
creeping closer as they began to pene-
trate Imbler’s zone defense with Brett
Greenshields leading the way. Green-
shields dominated underneath the basket
on both ends of the court. The end of the
third quarter saw the Outlaws whittling
away at the Panthers lead with Imbler up
after three quarters, 32-28.
The fourth quarter opened with the
Outlaws getting right down to business,
eventually surpassing the Panthers with
6 minutes left, 34-32. The Outlaws built
on the lead, ahead 41-38 with only 3:49
remaining and 46-44 with less than a
minute remaining.
The Panthers sank a three-pointer to
put them in the lead for good. Brycen
Locke sank a shot with 40 seconds on
the clock and the Outlaws got the ball
back, feeding it to Greenshields in the
key, whose turnaround jumper hung tan-
talizingly on the rim before dropping off
with only a few seconds left.
Still, a herculean effort and a game of
which Greenshields and the other Out-
laws should be proud. Game stats were
not made available to the Chieftain.
The boys also lost their Jan. 20 game
against Union, 50-42. The weekend left
the boys 1-2 in league play and 8-8 over-
all.
Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press
The heads of the Oregon
House and Senate said
Monday they still have
not brought together two
opposing sides over how
to fix the state’s unstable
revenue system and a $1.8
billion shortfall in the next
two years.
month, Brown laid out sev-
eral new taxes to address the
state’s revenue shortfall but
excluded any that would raise
business taxes.
“She has seven taxes we’re
supposed to vote on individu-
ally, but basically, long-term
she’s thinking 2018,” Court-
ney said. “This also compli-
cates this long-term perfect
fi x” that some lawmakers are
pursuing.
In an email to the Pam-
plin Media Group/EO Media
Group Capital Bureau, Chris
Pair, a spokesman for Brown,
did not address the governor’s
preference for timing in reve-
nue reform.
“The cuts proposed put into
human terms the devastating
consequences families face
with a tax system that is un-
stable, inadequate, and funda-
mentally out of balance to meet
Oregon’s essential needs,” Pair
wrote in the email. “While Gov.
Brown will continue working
hard to make sure state govern-
ment does more with less, she
maintains that we must work to
develop a long-term solution
that doesn’t put Oregonians at
risk every two yearss”
Enterprise Girls
The Outlaws girls went 1-1 over the
weekend defeating Union, 38-24, on Fri-
day but losing, 44-34, to Imbler the fol-
lowing evening.
The Outlaws are 2-1 in league play
and 12-3 overall.
Joseph boys
The Joseph Eagles boys went 1-1 for
the weekend, losing a tough one to Nixy-
aawii, 57-52, on Friday.
“We had a really bad fi rst quarter and
a really bad fourth quarter, and it cost us
against Nixy. We’ll beat them next time
though,” said coach Olan Fulfer.
He pointed to Caevan Murray as a
highlight, Murray led the scoring in both
Steve Tool/Chieftain
Enterprise Outlaws junior Brett Greenshields shoots for two in the waning
moments of Saturday’s heart-stopping 47-46 loss to the top-ranked Imbler
Panthers. Greenshields contibuted 12 points for the Outlaws.
weekend games and rebounding as well.
“He and Tyler Homan have been
stepping up like crazy the last month,”
Fulfer added.
Saturday’s home game against Cove
saw the Eagles prevailing, 56-33. Fulfer
said Cove played tough in the fi rst quar-
ter, leading 20-16 before the Eagles’
hammer fell, leaving Cove in a shambles
during the remaining three quarters.
The weekend left the boys with a 6-2
league record and 12-4 overall.
Joseph girls
The lady Eagles also came away from
the weekend 1-1, losing at Nixyaawii,
64-35, while handily defeating Cove at
home, 51-30.
“We came out extremely fl at with
no emotion or drive,” said coach Lance
Homan. He added that after a 26-2 fi rst
quarter drubbing, the Eagles played con-
sistently.
“It was nice to see our young kids
come in and play well against one of the
top teams in the state. I was very im-
pressed,” Homan said.
After the Cove game, Homan was
worried about the Eagles lack of energy.
It was apparently an aberration.
“It was awesome to see how our girls
responded after the Nixy game and the
late night. We weren’t perfect by any
means, but we played harder and with
more energy than Cove. The total team
effort was impressive,” Homan said.
The weekend left the lady Eagles 5-3
in league play and 11-4 overall.
Enterprise wrestling
The Enterprise wrestling team trav-
eled to Idaho for the Clearwater Invita-
tional over the weekend.
Competing against much larger
schools, Enterprise saw Shane Lund and
Cole Farwell at the top of the 113 lbs.
and 120 lbs., respectively. Jonny Sar-
bacher placed second at 182 lbs.
Coach Troy Farwell mentioned
145-pounder Jake Coggins came away
with two confi dence-building wins in his
bracket.
“It was exciting for some of the
younger kids to get some matches in.
Seeing Jonny (Sarbacher), a sophomore
getting second at 182 pounds was really
big,” Farwell said.
He added that the team was looking
good for the district meet coming up in
four weeks.
The team is traveling to John Day for
a dual meet on Friday and driving over
to New Plymouth, Idaho, the following
day.
Gillnetters get continued access to main Columbia channel
Decision puts
Oregon at odds
with Washington
By Eric Mortenson
Capital Bureau
SALEM — By a tight 4-3
vote, the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife Com-
mission veered away from an
outright ban on gillnetting in
the main channel of the low-
er Columbia River and set the
state at odds with neighboring
Washington on how to manage
protected salmon and steel-
head.
The commission heard
more than six hours of staff
reports and strikingly discor-
dant testimony from commer-
cial gillnetters and recreational
anglers, who have argued for
years over who gets to catch
how much of seasonal salmon
runs, and what methods they
may use.
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Steve Fick, foreground, owner of Fishhawk Fisheries in
Astoria, said gillnetters have bent over backwards to make
Columbia River salmon fishing reforms work.
On Friday, the commercial
fi shery won the day, their case
made by a parade of gritty As-
toria gillnetters who spoke of
generational ties, community
businesses and family fortunes
at risk if they were no longer
able to make a living.
The ODFW commission
had previously appeared more
likely to continue phasing out
gillnets in the river’s main
channel, a move long favored
by the sports fl eet, the rec-
reational anglers and guides
who hit the river with line and
hook. Washington and Oregon
agreed to such a plan, set in
motion in 2012 by then Gov.
John Kitzhaber.
Instead, the commissioners
approved an “enhanced” re-
balancing plan, one of six op-
tions analyzed by ODFW staff.
Highlights of the plan include:
• Recreational anglers are
allowed to account for 80 per-
cent of the spring and summer
Chinook, the wild fi sh protect-
ed under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act. Commercial anglers
will get 20 percent of what is
called the “ESA impact” and
will be allowed to fi sh the
main stem with tangle nets.
• The harvest of fall Chi-
nook would be split 66 per-
cent recreational, 34 percent
commercial, with main stem
gillnetting allowed in Zones 4
and 5 and Coho tangle nets in
Zones 1,2 and 3.
• Anglers can use barbed
hooks in the Willamette River.
• The Youngs Bay control
zone will continue to be closed
to sports fi shing.
Gillnetters had offered their
own plan that would have
given them a greater share of
salmon. Steve Fick, owner of
Fishhawk Fisheries in Astoria,
said he wasn’t disappointed in
the commission’s action.
“When everybody’s a little
unhappy, it’s probably a rea-
sonable decision,” he said.
Recreational anglers main-
tain that gillnetting takes fi sh
indiscriminately, with no way
to differentiate between wild
fi sh and hatchery fi sh, for ex-
ample. They argue that gillnet-
ting should be relegated to the
river’s side channels and say
the sports fl eet has a much big-
ger economic impact.
“We fi ll the hotels to burst-
ing in Astoria,” said Liz Ham-
ilton, executive director of the
Northwest Sportsfi shing In-
dustry Association.
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During Friday’s hearing,
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mission shouldn’t vary from
the path set by Kitzhaber and
the “concurrent management”
agreement between Oregon
and Washington. “A deal is a
deal,” one man testifi ed.
Earlier this month, the
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife Commission
voted to remove gillnetting
from the main channel in two
years and increasing recre-
ational anglers’ share of fall,
spring and summer chinook.
The Washington commis-
sion also directed the wildlife
department to “aggressively
pursue” a buyback program
for commercial gill net licens-
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