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Brown fl oats $200M package aimed
at diversifying the state’s workforce
LATHER
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and herbs that I then infuse
oils with, and then I make
my products from those
oils,” she said.
Infusion is the pro-
cess of pouring an oil over
plant matter and waiting
anywhere from four to six
weeks to a year for the oil
to soak up the essence.
“The oil will smell like
that plant matter,” she said.
“If I infuse olive oil with
lavender, that olive oil will
smell like lavender.”
She also adds cocoa
butter and shea butter she
gets from a company in
Northern Ghana that uses
the proceeds to help women
and children.
“Those are wonderful
butters to have in soap,”
she said. “They’re very
moisturizing.”
Soaps with heart
Much of Snyder’s busi-
ness is online, although
she does off er her wares at
various outlets in Wallowa
By SAM STITES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Terra Snyder, of Peak Fusion Studio, shows some of the soaps — and
other products her Imnaha-based business makes and sells — at the
Jingle Thru Joseph Holiday Bazaar on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021.
County and she recently
was at the Holiday Bazaar
at the Joseph Community
Events Center.
She said that right now,
she’s making about 30 bars
of soap a day, fi ve days a
week. Fall and spring are
the busy seasons for pro-
duction, while she devotes
winter and summer to sales.
Beyond Wallowa
County, Snyder said she has
customers from New York
to Los Angeles.
But it’s not all about
making money, she said,
adding that 10% of her pro-
ceeds go for “indigenous
reparations,” which is a
refl ection of her love for the
original inhabitants of the
county.
“I have very much a
heart for the indigenous
community,” she said.
WATER
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The delay between the
authorization for the proj-
ects and the time money
will be available has raised
questions about poten-
tial cost overruns in light
of infl ation and supply
shortages.
“That is something we
hear from time to time
from grantees experi-
encing especially in recent
times increasing costs,”
said Becky Williams, grant
program manager for the
Oregon Water Resources
Department, which over-
sees the program, at the
commission’s Dec. 3
meeting.
Though the agency does
have a process for project
managers to request addi-
tional grant funds, such an
increase would still require
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021
SALEM — Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown announced
she’s pushing a $200 mil-
lion economic recovery
package in the upcoming
short legislative session
that will put racial jus-
tice at the forefront of the
state’s eff orts to bolster its
workforce.
Speaking in front of
hundreds of attendees at
the Oregon Business Plan
Leadership Summit 2021
at the Oregon Conven-
tion Center in Portland on
Monday, Dec. 6, Brown
said that she’s working with
some of the state’s business
leaders on proposed legisla-
tion for the February 2022
session.
The goal, Brown said, is
to remove barriers to Ore-
gon’s workforce for histor-
ically underserved com-
munities including those
reentering the workforce
following incarceration and
young people who aren’t
connected to job programs.
“I think it’s absolutely
imperative that we keep
racial justice at the forefront
of our recovery eff orts,” she
said. “That particularly is
around workforce training.”
According to Brown,
throughout the state’s jobs
sector.
Brown said that cli-
mate change will also play
a role in the road ahead
for Oregon, praising the
work of companies such
as Daimler Trucks North
America for the work it
has done in promoting
vehicle electrifi cation
through building charging
infrastructure.
The governor also gave a
quick pitch to attendees on
the upcoming special ses-
sion to address the state’s
ailing rent assistance pro-
gram and prevention of a
mass eviction crisis.
Brown said she’s proud
of the “bipartisan” work the
Legislature has done so far
around housing and hopes
to see more progress in the
near future toward solving
the state’s housing crisis.
“I’m optimistic around
a package for next week
that will enable us to keep
Oregonians in their homes,
but this is a huge challenge
for Oregon,” she said. “We
have to continue to make
these signifi cant invest-
ments. We have to make
sure that the policies that
we’ve implemented are
working, and if they’re not,
we have to change them
and move quickly.”
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Regulators have approved $7.5 million in grant funding for six
Oregon water projects, though much of the funds won’t become
available until next spring.
another authorization from
the commission, Williams
said.
Staff at OWRD have
been telling applicants to
consider the possibility of
infl ation during their bud-
the state’s Racial Justice
Council — chaired by
Marin Arreola, president of
Advanced Economic Solu-
tions, Inc., and Patsy Rich-
ards, director at Long-Term
CareWorks and a senior
staff member at RISE Part-
nerships — is taking a
leading role in developing
that legislation.
Brown called upon the
state’s business community
to get behind the package
and have their voices heard
by local representatives in
Salem.
Speaking for only about
12 minutes at Monday’s
summit, Brown didn’t
reveal many specifi cs about
the program but did divulge
that one of the three pil-
lars comprising the package
would focus on opportuni-
ties to diversify Oregon’s
health care workforce.
Brown responded to a
question regarding what
she envisions for Oregon in
2030.
She circled back to racial
justice, saying it should
remain at the forefront
of discussions regarding
where Oregon is headed.
Brown said those conversa-
tions should grow beyond
diversity, equity and inclu-
sion work toward trans-
formative culture change
get-setting process, said
Kim Fritz-Ogren, OWRD’s
manager of planning, col-
laboration and investments.
“We have been really
emphasizing and giving that
advice to folks,” she said.
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