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professional midwife, state
licensure as a licensed
direct-entry midwife and
certifi cation as an inter-
nationally board-certifi ed
lactation consultant.
She said she thinks
she’s the only licensed
midwife in Northeast
Oregon.
Although she gets calls
from all over Eastern
Oregon, she only serves
Wallowa and Union coun-
ties, working closely
with Wallowa Memo-
rial Hospital and Grande
Ronde Hospital and their
practitioners.
She said she generally
charges $4,000 for the
package of her services,
which includes prenatal
care, birth and postpartum
care. She said that is less
than a mother would pay
for a hospital delivery.
is the norm in midwifery
care in this international
model.”
In addition to mid-
wifery care, Hawkins also
off ers various services
as a lactation consultant,
often to clients who were
not in her midwifery care.
These include prenatal
breastfeeding classes,
nutritional support and
personalized care plans to
address common and not
so common breastfeeding
issues.
Overall, Hawkins is a
strong proponent of home
delivery for normal births.
“If someone becomes
high risk and they don’t
have a normal, routine,
low-risk pregnancy, I
would refer them to a
hospital and a doctor,”
she said. “If they don’t
develop any kind of high
risks or complications,
then they stay with me,
I deliver their babies at
home.”
Water from data centers reused for agriculture
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
UMATILLA — The
tiny city of Umatilla and the
internet giant Amazon have
come up with a unique use
for the cooling water from
the company’s massive
server farms.
They are using it irrigate
the region’s other farms —
the kind that grow crops.
Perched along the
Columbia River in north-
east Oregon, Umatilla is a
haven for irrigated agricul-
ture where farmers grow
everything from hay and
wheat to high-value pota-
toes, onions, carrots and
melons.
In 2009, Amazon broke
ground on its fi rst campus
of data centers in Umatilla.
Data centers are large ware-
houses fi lled with computer
servers. All the information
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Umatilla and Amazon have built a system for using cooling water
from the internet giant’s server farms to irrigate the region’s farms.
gathered by websites like
Amazon and Facebook is
stored in the server farms.
Amazon was attracted to
the Columbia Basin, in part,
by the availability of clean
water that could be used
in cooling systems for all
those servers. A single data
center consumes between
250,000 and 1 million gal-
lons of water per day in the
warmer summer months,
Postpartum care
when outside temperatures
can top 100 degrees.
That water is still mostly
clean once it comes out
the other end, said Uma-
tilla city manager Dave
Stockdale.
With two data center
campuses now online and
another two being built,
Stockdale said it didn’t
make sense, nor was there
capacity, to treat all that
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La Grande’s
Hawkins said one way
her midwifery practice
diff ers from a general
practitioner is in the post-
partum care.
“After the (home) birth,
we stay, we clean up, we
make sure everyone’s
breastfeeding and stable
and not bleeding and the
baby’s transitioned well,”
she said. “Then I come
back the next day and
at three days and after a
week and two weeks and
four weeks and six weeks.
… I’m seeing moms a lot
more in postpartum, but it
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mostly clean water at the
city’s sewer plant.
Both the city and
Amazon began pondering
ways they could reuse the
water, adding benefi t for the
community.
The answer, they
decided, was to deliver the
water to the same farmers
that have powered Umatil-
la’s economy for decades.
“To take this new age
technology and sort of
marry it to our traditional
roots, especially in Uma-
tilla which has always been
an agricultural community
... in reality, they actually
worked out in a great sym-
biotic relationship,” Stock-
dale said.
The cooling water from
Amazon is piped to an irri-
gation canal run by the
West Extension Irriga-
tion District, which serves
10,400 acres of farmland.
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YOUR BIRTHDAY by Stella Wilder
Born today, you are no stranger to hardship,
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