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Expressions Salon & Spa hosts
‘re-grand opening’ today
LA GRANDE — From 5:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. this evening, La Grande’s Expressions
Salon & Spa is throwing a Re-Grand Opening
at 1011 Adams Ave. The business wants the
public to see the changes it has been gradu-
ally making, rearranging things to make the
space even more welcoming and comfy for
its clients, and there is a “something BIG” to
be shared at the event. There will also be re-
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come to stop by.
Women business owners invited
to mentoring gathering
LA GRANDE — IGNITE Entrepreneur-
ial Center and Coworking encourages all
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“Monthly Mentoring” gathering at noon Feb.
21. IGNITE is located at 104 Depot St., in La
Grande. For more information go to Ignite-
mybusiness.org.
Oregon Farm Bureau releases
statement on Hammonds
SALEM — The Oregon Farm Bureau re-
leased a statement Feb. 15 on the Ham-
monds grazing permit reissuance: “On Feb.
14, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management
revoked the grazing permit of Hammond
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on Feb. 13, 2019, BLM signed documents
that reissued the permit, allowing the Ham-
mond family to get back to the business of
raising cattle in Eastern Oregon.
“This reissued grazing permit signals that
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family. While nobody can restore what the
Hammonds have lost to years of prosecuto-
rial overreach and bureaucratic vendetta, we
are grateful that this awful chapter is closed.
“Oregon Farm Bureau was proud to play a
role in advocating on the Hammonds’ behalf,
including gathering over 25,000 online sig-
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so the family can return to doing what they
love and keep a proud heritage of ranching
alive.”
Community Bank reaches asset
milestone in 2018
JOSEPH — Community Bank, the locally
owned and operated full-service commer-
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history that the bank completed an operating
year with assets greater than $400 million.
Bauer Financial, a bank rating agency, has
assigned Community Bank its highest star
safety rating of 5 (Superior). The bank is cur-
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tered in Eastern Oregon recommended by
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least 4 stars.
Regarding the bank’s recent performance,
Community Bank CEO Tom Moran stated,
“With total assets north of $420 million,
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at year end. We can directly attribute this suc-
cess to the dedication of our bankers, and the
continued support of our customers, who un-
derstand the importance of banking with a lo-
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in Community Bank are redeployed directly
into our local markets in the form of loans,
investments, sponsorships, and donations.”
Founded in 1955 by a group of Joseph busi-
ness leaders as the Bank of Wallowa County,
Community Bank operates 14 full-service
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USDA acreage reporting deadline
for perennial forage changes to
July 15
WASHINGTON, D.C. — USDA Farm Ser-
vice Agency has established a new acreage
reporting deadline for perennial forage for
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in the fall, the new deadline is July 15 for all
states, except for Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Timely and accurate acreage reports for all
crops and land uses, including prevented
planting or failed acreage, are the founda-
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ing disaster programs for livestock own-
ers. Producers must report their acreage to
maintain program eligibility.
Producers who have coverage for perennial
forage under the Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program must report their crop
acreage by the earlier of any of the following:
the established acreage reporting date (July
15); 15 calendar days before the onset of har-
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ing reported; or the established normal har-
vest date for the end of the coverage period.
Payless
ShoeSource
files for
bankruptcy
Grazing
conference
targets
land and
livestock
practices
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Pay-
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for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection and is shuttering
its remaining stores in North
America.
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rancher from North Dakota who Friday. She is widely known for
PENDLETON — The biennial
Roots of Resilience Conference
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Pendleton Convention Center,
1601 Westgate —
will feature two
nationally known
speakers, Temple
Grandin and Gabe
Brown. Those who
øùúûüù attend the grazing
conference, “Resil-
ience for Land & Livestock,” will
learn more about the innova-
tive practices in cattle behavior
of Dr. Grandin, a Professor of
Animal Science at Colorado State
University. She has designed hu-
mane livestock handling facili-
ties all over the world. Brown, a
is a leader in soil health and ho-
listic management, will share his
successful, sustainable approach
to grazing and pasture recovery.
This two-day conference runs 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
On Thursday, Brown will be
the keynote speaker. A panel will
discuss individual experiences on
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Northwest. The panel members
will be Stephen Machado, Doug
Poole, Dan Cavadini, Leslie Mi-
chel and Drew Leitch. Also, Chad
Krueger, director of Washington
State University’s Center for Sus-
taining Agriculture & Natural Re-
sources, will speak on regenera-
tive agriculture.
Dr. Grandin will speak on
her writings on the principles
of grazing animal behavior that
help reduce stress. Grandin’s life
story was the subject of a popular
HBO movie. The program will
include a live demonstration on
low-stress livestock handling by
Chris Schachtschneider, OSU Ex-
tension livestock and rangeland
specialist. Dr. Grandin will pro-
vide comments on the principles
involved in the demonstration.
Pre-registration is necessary.
Early registration, which has been
extended to March 11, is $299 and
covers the cost of lunch and re-
freshments both days. Additional
attendees from the same family,
ranch or organization can regis-
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Anderson Perry’s unique fish passage
project earns top honors in Oregon’s
Engineering Excellence Awards
ì The passage solved a decades-old problem that negatively affected migratory
fish populations in the area.
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migrate up and down the Bea-
ver Creek dam.
The dam, which was con-
structed to provide water for
La Grande, had been a prob-
reiterated that stores will
remain open until at least
the end of March and the
majority will remain open
until May.
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fect its franchise operations
or its Latin American stores,
which remain open for busi-
ness as usual, it said.
The debt-burdened chain
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time in April 2017, closing
hundreds of stores as part of
its reorganization.
“The challenges facing
retailers today are well
documented, and unfor-
tunately, Payless emerged
from its prior reorganization
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today’s retail environment,”
said Stephen Marotta,
Payless ShoeSource’s chief
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He noted that the prior
Chapter 11 proceedings left
the company with too much
debt and with too many
stores.
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its construction in 1915. It is
located inside a protected wa-
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steelhead, trout and salmon.
There needed to be a solu-
tion that would withstand the
test of time without electric-
ity and without much mainte-
nance. There was also an issue
of constructing the project, as
the site is nearly inaccessible
in snowy weather, according
to an Anderson Perry press
release.
Anderson Perry’s design
team, led by Brett Moore, P.E.,
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tion to the problem, according
to the release. They created
the passage in pieces which
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site and joined together like
legos on-site. There were 59
pieces in total. Each piece is a
27,000-pound concrete weir
that had to be transported and
precisely placed.
The passage is expected to
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US
automakers
to Trump:
Don’t slap
tariffs on
imported cars
Anderson Perry, a civil engi-
neering company founded in
La Grande, has been awarded
a grand award in Oregon’s
2019 Engineering Excellence
Awards for its Beaver Creek
Fish Passage Project.
The project, completed in
cording to the release.
The project was so success-
ful that the design will be used
as a model by the Oregon De-
partment of Transportation in
other sites where the terrain
accessibility is an issue.
came a day after the shoe
chain began holding going-
out-of-business sales at its
North American stores.
The company, based in
Topeka, Kansas, updated the
number of stores it is closing
to 2,500, up from the 2,100
it cited on Friday when it
Anderson Perry has received
for their projects. Last year
Anderson Perry received
project of the year for Prinev-
ille’s Crooked River Wetlands
Project. Since 2004, Ander-
son Perry has received eight
engineering excellence grand
awards, according to the re-
lease.
Contact Francisca Benitez
at frankiebenitez4@gmail.
com.
DETROIT — America’s
auto industry is bracing for
a potential escalation in
President Donald Trump’s
tariff war with the world,
one that could weaken the
global auto industry and
economy, inflate car prices
and trigger a backlash in
Congress.
Late Sunday, the Com-
merce Department sent
the White House a report
on the results of an inves-
tigation Trump had or-
dered of whether imported
vehicles and parts pose a
threat to U.S. national se-
curity. Commerce hasn’t
made its recommenda-
tions public, and the White
House has so far declined
to comment. If Commerce
did find that auto imports
imperil national security,
Trump would have 90 days
to decide whether to im-
pose those import taxes.
Trump has repeatedly
invoked his duty as presi-
dent to safeguard national
security in justifying pre-
vious rounds of tariffs. An
obscure provision in trade
law authorizes a president
to impose unlimited tar-
iffs on particular imports
if his Commerce Depart-
ment concludes that those
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