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Wallowa County Chieftain
WHAT’S HAPPENING
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19
National Hard Candy Day
KICKBOXING
FITNESS
CLASS: 5:15 a.m. The Vault in
Enterprise. Hurricane Point
Fitness. No experience nec-
essary. Certifi ed instructors.
541-398-2131.
HOSPITAL
AUXILIARY
CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE: 8 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. Wallowa Memo-
rial Hospital lobby. Wonder-
ful yummies, plus See’s candy
wrapped in Christmas paper,
all ready for gifting.
PILATES IN WALLOWA:
9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wallowa
Senior Center. Sponsored by
Community Connection.
LIBRARY STORY TIMES:
10:30 a.m. Enterprise City
Library. Parents and children
0-5. Circle time, story-time and
activity at the Library.
ROTARY CLUB OF WAL-
LOWA COUNTY: Noon, St.
Katherine Catholic Church,
301 E. Garfi eld St., Enterprise.
Public is invited.
ADULT CERAMICS CLASS:
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Josephy Cen-
ter. $20 includes materials.
WALLOWA COUNTY CHESS
CLUB: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jose-
phy Center, Joseph. Free. Tour-
ists and players of all levels are
welcome.
OPEN MIC NIGHT: 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. Josephy Center in
Joseph. Bring some food to
share, a little courage, and pre-
pare to have fun!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20
National Ugly Sweater Day
ZUMBA: 6:30 a.m. The
Place, Joseph. No experience
needed. Instructor: Tammi
Chapman.
PARENT/CHILD
PLAY-
GROUP: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Building Healthy Families,
Enterprise. Songs, stories,
snacks and activities focusing
on developing kindergarten
readiness skills. For parents
and children 0-5.
RESTORATIVE
YOGA:
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Above
the Lostine Tavern in Lostine.
A gentle style of yoga. Instruc-
tor: Esther Petrocine. saluta-
tionsstudio.com
FOOD
GIVEAWAY:
11:30 a.m. Wallowa Senior
Center in Wallowa, 11 a.m.
Enterprise Senior Center and
noon at The Place in Joseph.
Sponsored by Wallowa Fresh
Food Alliance. Perishable food
available.
SOUTHFORK
GRANGE
CHRISTMAS DINNER: 5:30 p.m.
to 7 p.m. Southfork Grange,
Rosewell St., Lostine. Turkey
provided, diners are asked to
bring a side dish. Also, bring
a wrapped gift for your child
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OBITUARIES
SEE THE EXPANDED ONLINE CALENDAR AT
EASTERNOREGONEVENTS.COM
and it will be put under the
tree for Santa to hand out.
OPEN MIC NIGHT: 7 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Terminal Gravity,
Enterprise.
PRESENTATION: ADVEN-
TURES WITH AFRICAN WILD-
LIFE: 7 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall,
105 NE 1st., Enterprise. Stan-
lynn Daugherty shares her
recent experiences at a wild-
life sanctuary in Namibia. Free,
donations welcome.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21
National Flashlight Day
ZUMBA GOLD: 9 a.m. 30
minute seated class; 9:30 a.m.
standing class. Enterprise
Senior Center. A fi tness class
for seniors that combines
Latin dance music with fi t-
ness moves. A doctor’s note
releasing you to participate
in Zumba Gold is required.
Call Becky McAuliff e for info at
541-263-0224.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22
National Date Nut Bread
Day
BINGO: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
VFW Hall, Enterprise.
HOLIDAY CONCERT: 2 p.m.
Josephy Center, 403 N. Main,
Joseph. Presented by Wallowa
Valley Music Alliance and the
Josephy Center. Variety of hol-
iday music by local musicians.
Loretta Hoard
Holiday treats will be served.
Admission is a suggested
donation of $10.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23
National Forefathers Day
ZUMBA: 6:30 a.m. The
Place, Joseph. No experience
needed. Instructor: Tammi
Chapman.
KICKBOXING
FITNESS
CLASS: 6:15 p.m. Oddfellows
Hall in Enterprise. No expe-
rience necessary. Certifi ed
instructors. 541-398-2131.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24
National Eggnog Day
PILATES IN WALLOWA:
9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wallowa
Senior Center.
QUILTING GROUP: 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Wallowa Senior Cen-
ter, 204 E. 2nd St., Wallowa.
Sponsored by Community
Connection.
ADULT CERAMICS CLASS:
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Josephy Cen-
ter. $20 includes materials.
GENTLE YOGA: 4:15 p.m. to
5:45 p.m. Ideal for beginners,
people with injuries, pregnant
women, new mothers or any-
one seeking a calming, ther-
apeutic practice. The Place,
Joseph. Esther Petrocine.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25
Merry Christmas!
New carbon cap and trade bill takes shape
By Claire Withycombe
Oregon Capital Bureau
SALEM — The environ-
mental plan that launched a
thousand logging trucks is
getting a makeover in the
Oregon Senate.
Private
negotiations
among state senators have
led to a new legislative con-
cept. It’s the skeleton of
what could be a new system
to gradually clamp down on
greenhouse gas emissions
from Oregon companies.
The Senate president’s
offi ce has been solicit-
ing feedback from inter-
est groups in recent days.
The Oregon Capital Bureau
obtained the concept, dated
Dec. 11.
A previous effort to con-
trol emissions and impose
signifi cant fees collapsed in
the 2019 Legislature.
That proposal, which
set up a market system to
encourage businesses to
reduce their carbon emis-
sions and would have con-
nected Oregon to cap and
trade systems in Canada
and California, passed in
the House.
But it prompted ire from
Senate Republicans, who
eventually fl ed the Capi-
tol to prevent a vote on the
bill. They maintained the
proposal would hurt their
largely rural districts.
House Bill 2020 also
sparked a protest from tim-
ber companies and logging
truck drivers, who spent a
day in June encircling the
Capitol, blowing horns to
exhibit their discontent.
The timber industry would
have been exempt from
regulation under the plan,
however.
But Democrats are ada-
mant they’ll get a policy
through next year to address
the growing threat of cli-
mate change.
Sen. Michael Dembrow,
D-Portland, a leading advo-
cate for a climate policy,
stressed on Friday that the
concept is “extremely pre-
liminary,” and that he hopes
another, updated version
will become public in about
a week.
“It’s very much a work in
progress,” Dembrow said.
The new proposal cre-
ates a staggered system to
reduce carbon emissions.
It provides most polluters
with emissions allowances.
The allowances would scale
back over a matter of years.
The allowances can be
traded among those busi-
nesses covered by the policy
so that fi rms who don’t use
all their allowances could
sell the excess to those that
don’t have enough.
Unlike the earlier pro-
posal, Oregon would be fl y-
ing solo, rather than con-
necting to cap and trade
programs in other places.
“The limit, broadly
speaking, is on our state
emissions, and it’s got to
come down each year grad-
ually in order to get to where
we need to be in the future,”
Dembrow said. “And indus-
tries or sectors that can’t be
below that amount will have
to purchase allowances to
continue to emit above that
amount.”
The earlier proposal
would have created a new
state bureaucracy to man-
age the program. The cur-
rent concept, instead, puts
the oversight role under
the Department of Environ-
mental Quality, Dembrow
said.
It also takes a different
approach to a major point
of contention last year: its
impact on prices at the gas
pump. Republicans argued
rural Oregonians would feel
the effects of a carbon pol-
icy more acutely because
of the longer distances they
must drive to get to work,
school and to other duties of
everyday life. Fuel suppli-
ers would have faced added
costs under the original pro-
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posal that would have been
passed on to consumers.
The new proposal would
instead mean that compa-
nies importing gas into the
state would only adhere to
the emissions system in the
Portland area at fi rst, start-
ing in 2022, and then, three
years later, metro areas with
populations of 30,000 or
more.
“That’s a big change,”
Dembrow said.
While the details aren’t
“quite there yet,” he added,
it’s generally an idea he
supports.
“I think it really does
address a lot of the con-
cerns that we heard that
the bill would put inordi-
nate costs on our rural res-
idents,” Dembrow said, “So
delaying the implementa-
tion for the most rural parts
of the state is an acknowl-
edgement that we’re trying
to address those concerns.”
Dembrow said the cur-
rent concept doesn’t include
what he feels are import-
ant aspects of last year’s
proposal, such as worker
retraining for those who
could be impacted by eco-
nomic changes wrought by
a new climate policy.
The Oregon AFL-CIO,
a federation of unions rep-
resenting about 300,000
Oregon workers, issued a
rejoinder to the draft on
Friday.
Graham Trainer, Oregon
AFL-CIO president, said
the current draft doesn’t
help workers whose indus-
tries could be affected by a
climate policy and doesn’t
direct proceeds from the
policy to creating “family
wage, quality jobs.”
“We
have
always
believed that workers must
be at the center of policy
when debating how their
work could be impacted,
and especially in a cap and
invest program that has the
potential to produce major
shifts in Oregon’s econ-
omy,” Trainor said in a writ-
ten statement Friday.
“Any climate action that
leaves behind workers and
communities
dispropor-
tionately impacted by the
effects of climate change is
a policy and a process that
should be rejected,”
Trainor said.
Sen. Fred Girod, R-Stay-
ton, considered to be a point
person for Senate Republi-
cans as they negotiate a new
climate policy, couldn’t be
reached for comment Fri-
day afternoon.
Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, who is resigning to
run for Congress in early
January, has taken a step
back from his previously
front-and-center role in car-
bon policy for Republicans,
and said when reached Fri-
day that he hadn’t seen the
latest proposal.
Senate
Republican
Leader Herman Baertsch-
iger, Jr., of Grants Pass, said
he hasn’t been involved in
the discussions over the pol-
icy, and said he hadn’t got-
ten very far into reading the
60-page proposal Friday.
But he said that it was
“madness” to consider
sweeping climate legisla-
tion during the fi ve-week
legislative session. The ses-
sion starts Feb. 3.
“We think that trying
to run these huge policies
that’ll affect every Orego-
nian in fi ve weeks is crazi-
ness,” Baertschiger said.
Brad Reed, a spokes-
man for Renew Oregon, a
coalition of businesses and
nonprofi ts pushing for state
policy to address climate
change, emphasized the
concept is an early “starting
point.”
But Reed said the con-
cept is missing “key com-
ponents” that the group
pushed for last session,
and doesn’t go far enough
to make all major pollut-
ers pay or invest in moving
the state to a clean energy
economy.
“I want to stress that we
consider this as where they
will start negotiating,” Reed
said. “This is not a piece of
legislation that the Renew
Oregon coalition would be
able to support.”
Reporter Claire Withy-
combe:
cwithycombe@
eomediagroup.com
or
971-304-4148.
Merry
Christmas
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July 11, 1939-December 3, 2019
Loretta Hoard passed
away peacefully on dec.
3, 2019, at the age of 80.
She made her way into
the arms of her
Savior
whom
she looked for-
ward to seeing as
well as all who
went before her.
Loretta was born
in salmon, Idaho
July 11, 1939
to Ray and Ora
(Babe) McDon-
ald. She was the
oldest of seven children.
She graduated from
Sandy Union High School
in 1958 along with her sis-
ter Evelyn Proctor. When
Loretta was in primary
school, her family moved
so much that she had to
start fi rst grade over, and so
she went all through school
with her younger sister,
Evelyn. Folks thought they
were twins.
Loretta went to school
to be an LPN and worked
at the old Rest Harbor care
Home.She met Clarence
Hoard, jr. and they were
married Aug. 31, 1968.
They relocated to Enter-
prise in 1983 and bought
their place in Lostine in
1985.
Loretta worked at A
Country Place on Pete’s
Pond Restaurant as a
preparer and cook. She
enjoyed the hard work and
the many locals who came
to dine. She later went to
work for Ace Hardware
in enterprise in 1993, and
retired from there. Loretta
was preceded in death
by Ray and Ora (babe)
McDonald,larry McDon-
ald,
Evelyn
Proctor as well
as her husband,
Clarence Hoard,
Jr., her broth-
er-in-law Willie
Proctor and sis-
ter-in-lawMon-
tell McDonald.
She
leaves
behind
gary
(Ellen) McDon-
ald of Vancouver, WA,
Richard McDonald of Irri-
gon, OR, Dolores (Wayne)
Morrison of Sandy, and
donna McDonald of Sandy.
She also leaves behind
many nieces and neph-
ews. Her stepchildren are
Wayne Hoard of Junction
City, david Hoard of Brush
Prairie, WA, Carl Hoard of
Rainier, WA, Jane Conway
of Newborn, and Donna
Haggstrom of Sandy. She
also leaves behind her
beloved pets Mishka and
Honey buns as well as her
kitten Rainy. Loretta will
be missed as she was not
only our sister, but also our
historian and go-to person.
We wish to thank Mt
Hood Hospice for their
guidance, care, and com-
passion. Bollman Funeral
Home in Enterprise is han-
dling the arrangements.
Service to be Friday Dec
20th 11:00 am at the Boll-
man Funeral Home with
Private Vault Interment at
Lostine Cemetery
DEATH NOTICE
Edith F. Estes
Edith F. Estes, formerly of Enterprise, Oregon passed
away December 13, 2019 at Milton-Freewater Health and
Rehabilitation Center in Milton-Freewater, Oregon at the
age of 87 years. She was born on Dec. 29, 1931. Mun-
selle-Rhodes Funeral Home of Milton-Freewater is in
charge of arrangements.
CIVIC MEETINGS
meeting: Dec. 17
City, county, and other
public civic meetings
Wallowa County Commission
Meetings 9 a.m. fi rst and
third Mondays. Next meet-
ing: Jan. 20
School boards
• Joseph: 5:30 p.m. sec-
ond Monday. Next meeting:
Jan. 6
• Enterprise: 7:30 p.m.
fi rst Monday. Next meeting:
Jan. 6.
• Wallowa: 7 p.m. usually
the second Monday. Next
meeting: Jan. 13
City Councils
• Joseph: 7 p.m. fi rst
Thursday, in the Joseph
Community Center. Next
meeting Jan. 2.
• Enterprise: 6:30 p.m.
second Monday, in City Hall.
Next meeting: Jan 13
• Lostine: 7:30 p.m. fi rst
Wednesday, in City Hall.
Next meeting: Jan 2????
• Wallowa: 7 p.m. third
Tuesday. In City Hall. Next
Planning commissions
• Wallowa County: 7 p.m.
last Tuesday. Next meeting:
7 p.m. Jan. 28, courthouse
• Enterprise: 7 p.m. fi rst
Tuesday. Next meeting: Jan.
7.
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