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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2021
STUDENTS
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“Some kiddos have
a diffi cult time learning
and staying focused in
the traditional class-
room,” she said. “But if
you get them out in the
garden and hand them a
handful of seeds, you see
how individually laser-fo-
cused they get in planting
those seeds in a perfect
row.”
National studies, pub-
lished in the Society for
Public Health Education,
Childhood Obesity and
Journal of Nutrition and
Behavior, have also found
that students who partic-
ipate in farm-to-school
and school garden pro-
grams are more likely to
consume fresh produce.
Many farmers, too,
say being part of a farm-
to-school program is
meaningful.
“I mean, I just feel like
it is such an important
program,” said Amber
Fry, a Southern Oregon
farmer who supplies caf-
eterias and hosts fi eld
trips. “The more that
people move away from
having their own gar-
dens and from farming, I
just think it becomes that
much more important to
keep kids in touch and
give them the opportunity
to learn about where their
food comes from.”
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Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
New windows and a stack of expensive plywood wait to be installed at a new house under construction on
Mill Street in Joseph on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.
BUILDERS
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“Chris has stayed busy
during the pandemic,”
she said. “He hasn’t had
issue getting or retaining
workers.
She said the company is
booked through 2022 with
houses to construct.
But materials often pro-
duce a challenge.
“His issue was cost
of materials and produc-
tion times that slowed him
down,” she said. “During
the pandemic, construc-
tion materials have taken
quite a hit in term of cost.
It’s risen four times since
fi rst of the year. Truss pro-
duction has been delayed
16-18 weeks. That really
aff ects a contractor’s
building schedule when he
can’t get a product.”
Other specifi c materials
also have been a problem.
“Windows and the cost
of metal have gone up,”
she said. “We just got
another notice that it’s
going up fi rst of month.”
Wood, too, particu-
larly plywood, is expen-
sive. She said one sheet of
plywood was $20 at the
end of 2020. Now it’s up
to $75.
“It’s started to come
back down, but it did slow
the construction industry
when prices shot up.”
The Kissingers agreed.
“It’s all over the place;
it’s been up and down. It’s
really volatile right now,”
Charlie Kissinger said of
materials costs.
He’s heard diff erent
reasons for the expense of
windows.
“They say it’s because
of the glass, but I don’t
know the answer to that,”
he said.
Josh Kissinger said
materials such as plywood
with glue or resin are up
considerably. He said such
materials can be up 50%
to 300%, but it diff ers.
“It’s not like every
building material went
up ‘X’ amount,” he said.
“That’s kind of a tough
one (to calculate).”
But all the contrac-
tors interviewed said
they’re keeping busy. The
Kissingers currently are in
various stages with three
diff erent projects, and
Wellens is winding up a
variety of two-year con-
tracts around the region.
“People seem willing
to build even with the cost
of materials being outra-
geous right now,” Charlie
Kissinger said. “There are
a lot of people wanting to
build.”
INCOME
Continued from Page B1
It’s unclear, at this
point, if Lehner will ever
know the answer. And the
question could even be
moot, given the social and
economic upheaval from
the pandemic.
To complicate things
even more, the data
Lehner used to track
Capital Press, File
Students who have visited a farm are more likely to eat fresh fruits
and vegetables, a survey found.
income growth through
2019 won’t be available
for 2020.
The data are part of
the American Commu-
nity Survey, a detailed
questionnaire the U.S.
Census Bureau adminis-
ters to a sample of Amer-
icans throughout the year.
In 2020, far fewer
people fi lled out the
surveys than normal,
meaning the federal gov-
ernment most likely won’t
be releasing reliable data
for that year, ever.
That means that when
it comes to detailed
information on poverty,
jobs and incomes, neither
Lehner nor other econ-
omists have much to go
on.
“We’ve got nothing
on 2020,” Lehner said.
“We don’t know what
happened.”
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