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NEWS Wallowa.com Wednesday, March 27, 2019 A9 Supermoon: Rare event won’t occur again for more than a decade Continued from Page A1 Photos by Ellen Morris Bishop Gabriel Nobels lets fl y with a jumper over opposing Joseph players. Wallowa fourth Grader Karlee Wentz charges towards the basket, trailed by team-mate and fourth grader Hanley Brodcamp, with Joseph players in hot pursuit. Madness: March Madness strikes Wallowa County Continued from Page A1 learning to play as a team in the couple of weeks they played,” he said. “But just as they were really getting started, the games ended. It would be great to have a lon- ger season.” The Wallowa boys teams, coached by Eastern Oregon University’s electrician Dar- ryl Nobels, included third, fourth, fi fth and sixth grad- ers, and totaled 18 play- ers. “Most years there’s a third grader that sneaks in, and always a fourth grader or two.” The older team of 6th grade boys went 3-1, not quite equaling the girl’s unbeaten record. The younger teams are still learning the game. Sometimes in the excitement they toss the ball into the wrong basket, in which case it’s not counted. Sometimes they get the ball and just hold onto it. “It’s a little like watching T Ball,” Nobels said. “That’s what makes them so cute. They swarm to the ball. It’s their fi rst expe- rience with organized bas- ketball.” Cute or not, the kids play with a sometimes ferocious intensity. Refs and coaches often explain to puzzled players why a foul or violation was called, and how to avoid it in the future. “We want to cheer and coach the other kids on the other team as well because we want them to develop skills, that they’ll use later on,” Nobels said. Like Hull, Nobels teaches his young players more than just basketball skills. “We focus a lot on skills they can use later on in life,” he said. “Commu- nication skills is one of the biggest things I’d like them to learn, along with treat- ing others like we would like to be treated. I’m try- ing to raise them as young men and on the second- ary side teach them about basketball.” Both Hull and Nobels would like to expand their schedule next year, perhaps including games with Elgin, Imbler, Cove, and perhaps Union Elementary School teams. “I think it’s a great pro- gram. It’s one of those good programs that we need to keep going,” Nobles said. “Who cares whether you can dribble a ball or shoot. There are some greater things that are coming in life where you can use what you’ve learned on the court.” This was also last — and most distant — of an unusual “three-in-a-row” supermoons in January, February and March 2019. The January supermoon was 222,274 miles away. February was 221,734 miles. On March 21, the moon was 224,173 miles from our door-steps, which doesn’t really seem all that close. Because the moon is rel- atively close to Earth, super- moons are usually accom- panied by higher than usual oceanic tides. The increased lunar pull also strains the Earth’s crust a little more. A 2016 study by Satoshi Ide and colleagues at the Uni- versity of Tokyo suggested that several major sub- duction zone earthquakes, including the 2004 Suma- tran and 2011 “Fukushima” Japan events were trig- gered partly by full moon or supermoon stress. Here, we have only the Wallowa fault – which is not a subduction zone--to be worried about The moon looks espe- cially large in this photo- graph due to both an opti- cal illusion, known as the “moon illusion,” and the lens used to make the pho- tograph. To our eyes, the moon on the horizon, next to familiar objects, simply appears to be larger than the same — and same sized — moon higher in the sky. To compound the illusion, this image was shot with a relatively long telephoto lens. (For photo buffs: 500 mm at 1/640th sec, f8 at ISO 160.) The longer the lens, the greater tendency for more distant objects to look larger, and foreground images to look relatively small. The opposite effect — foreground objects loom large, distant objects seem smaller — is provided by a wide-angle lens. The moon would have appeared much bigger if the image was made from farther away (the top of He Devil?) with a much longer lens. This year’s spring sol- stice, the time when the sun crosses the celestial equa- tor, occurred on March 20. That is the earliest date of the event since 1896. Next year’s solstice will be a more “normal” March 21. Ancient peoples celebrated the solstice far more elab- orately than we do. Struc- tures built to gauge and honor the precise time that daylight and nighttime are equal include Britian’s Stonehenge, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, and the Cas- tle at Hovenweep, a Native American settlement on the Colorado-Utah border that was abandoned about 1100 AD. But regardless whether or not you celebrate the spring solstice, it’s nice to know that spring is fi nally, offi cially, here. Hull: Gifted performer and her band wow the OK Theatre with a stunning set Continued from Page A1 have time to tour the Wal- lowa Valley, she remembered it well from her fi rst appear- ance and spoke of coffee at the Red Horse in Joseph and the beauty of Wallowa Lake. Although she started play- ing mandolin young, she did children’s activities such as school sports or watching car- toons on TV, but her priority was music. Her parents did not discourage her. “Music was the thing I became most passionate about,” she said. “Music was always the thing I wanted to invest my time into over the weekends. I pretty much knew I wanted to do this for a living from the time I picked up the instrument.” She stated she learned mandolin on her father’s instrument and her mother’s singing and the music at church also infl u- enced her. “I heard Allison Krauss when I was nine, and peo- ple like Tony Rice or all these bands, and I would stare at their album covers and think, ‘Man, this is what i want to do,’ and I was really fortunate to have parents that would encourage that.” At the age of nine, she became aware of legend Ali- son Krauss, the fi rst musician she idolized. Hull sent a copy of her fi rst album to Krauss’s guitar and banjo player, which resulted in the young artist realizing one of her dreams. “I was 11 when she called me to come play the Grand Ole Opry,” Hull said. “She knew I was a big fan. It was such a big risk, I think, for her to call and do something like ‘I’VE TRIED TO MAKE AN EFFORT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO TRY TO SURROUND MYSELF WITH MUSICIANS THAT INSPIRE ME.’ Sierra Hull Christian Ambroson Sierra Hull belts out a tune while amazing the crowd with her instrumental pyrotechnics at the OK Theatre on March 21. that — it was on national tele- vision and never having heard me play in person. What a generous offer to make to a young person.” Hull and Krauss forged a strong bond with the elder musician becoming a family friend. The two play together on occasion, and Hull consid- ers Krauss a mentor. Hull said she’s never considered any other career. “Thankfully, I’ve never had to.” Hull’s eventual foray into other genres of music helped propel her to add the non-tra- ditional instruments to her band. “As I branched out and started writing music that wasn’t exactly traditional bluegrass, it left open pos- sibilities of what instrument might fi t,” she said. “I’ve tried to make an effort over the last couple of years to try to sur- round myself with musicians that inspire me — not by the instrument they play, but the way in which they play them. These guys have an under- standing, and they’re con- nected to the world I come from.” The artist also had advice for young people thinking of learning a musical instrument: “In order to become good at anything, sports or art, you have to put in the work and the Call Today! 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