A6 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Pipeline
DEAR ABBY
— Stuck Student in North Carolina
Dear Student: Of course
you do. When your mother
becomes frustrated while try-
ing to assist with your home-
work, the reason may be she
is stressed about something
else after a hard day at work,
or she doesn’t know the solu-
tion. Please take that into
consideration, because I have
no doubt you are smart and
want to please her.
When you get stuck, ask
your teacher for help if he or
she is available. If that isn’t
workable, another solution
to your problem may be as
simple as your mom find-
ing someone who can tutor
you in areas you are weak in.
High school and college stu-
dents do this (online for now)
for extra money. You may
public entity. Farmers formed
the East Improvement District,
starting from scratch.
Meanwhile, the pipeline itself
posed a multitude of logistical
and regulatory hurdles. The
pump station was previously
owned by JSH Farms, which
donated its federal Columbia
River easement allowing crews
to upgrade the system.
The station, about 12
miles northeast of Hermis-
ton, was retrofitted with nine,
2,000-horsepower pumps ca-
pable of drawing 90,000 gal-
lons of water per minute.
From there, the pipeline
crosses underneath a state
highway, a Union Pacific rail
line and up a sheer basalt cliff
to reach farmland stretching
roughly 9 miles to the south.
Carl St. Hilaire, chairman of
the East Improvement District
and president of JSH Farms,
said it was “truly a monumen-
tal effort in terms of engineer-
ing, funding, state and federal
coordination and local admin-
Many experts agree that
granny flats and in-law suites
will go only a small way toward
easing America’s affordable
housing crisis, mostly because
they are built at an individ-
ual level rather than on a large
scale. In a way that’s an ad-
vantage — their small impact
doesn’t alter neighborhood
character or add a bunch of
new cars to the roads. The flip
side is they’re more of a small
tool in the box than a full-scale
solution to affordability prob-
lems.
“There is so much promise
and potential with ADUs, and
yet the devil is in the details,”
said Sarah Brennan, a senior
vice president managing Self-
Help Federal Credit Union’s
market presence in Southern
California. “Most homeown-
ers don’t have the experience
necessary with architects, with
managing a general contractor,
with going to city hall to get
permits.”
Banks are often unfamiliar
with accessory dwelling units
and thus reluctant to lend at fa-
vorable interest rates.
Ebonée Green understands
both sides of the accessory
dwelling units issue. She lives
in Chicago and is an organizer
with groups including Black
Youth Project 100.
Green rents a garden unit,
an attached accessory dwell-
ing unit connected to a main
dwelling, that sits partially un-
derground, in the South Shore
neighborhood. She describes
it as a clean, well-decorated
place where anyone would
want to live.
But a decade ago, she was
forced due to the recession to
move to a less-than-desirable
accessory dwelling unit in the
Uptown area. She eventually
discovered a leak in the foun-
dation that caused the place
to mildew and had trouble
getting the landlord to fix it.
The experience left her more
cautious about why accessory
dwelling units are affordable.
“My concern about ADUs
is that they seem like such a
great idea — and I work with
affordable housing so any-
thing that increases housing
stock is great — but we have
to be careful because a lot of
ADUs are affordable because
they’re not exactly legal,” she
said. “For every one you find
that is nice like the one I’m
in now, you’ll find one that’s
really just a basement with a
bathroom.”
Green’s roommate Reggie
Tucker added: “There defi-
nitely needs to be oversight
(of the accessory dwelling
unit landlords). If there’s no
oversight it would be the wild,
Wild West, and that brings its
own set of problems.”
Accessory dwelling unit
advocates counter that allow-
ing the units can help bring
them up to code since more
will be built legally. Green isn’t
against them, but she wants to
be sure any accessory dwelling
unit regulations are built with
the tenant in mind as well as
the owner.
“It’s exciting because we
get to open up housing stock,
but what housing stock are
we opening up?” Green said.
“It still doesn’t absolve the
city from the protections they
need to keep for renters.”
going to states would be dis-
tributed based on their share
of unemployed workers na-
tionally.
Republican Gov. Asa
Hutchinson of Arkansas said
he objected to the plan’s $1.9
trillion price tag and the strat-
egy of using jobs figures to
guide the flow of money to
state and local governments.
“That’s really a disincentive
for economic growth and peo-
ple working,” Hutchinson told
The Associated Press. “I said
the only fair way to do it is to
distribute money to the states
on a per capita basis. That’s fair,
it’s undisputable and I think, by
and large, most governors un-
derstand that and want that.”
Local governments would
get $130.2 billion, and tribal
governments would get $20
billion.
Congress provided $150 bil-
lion in direct assistance to state
and local governments in an
earlier relief package signed
into law in March.
Continued from A5
Write to Dear Abby online at dearabby.com
or by mail at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Dear Abby: My mom is
mad at me. I have been a lit-
tle bad, but I always do the
dishes, sweep, clear the ta-
ble and take out the trash.
Every day when school is
finished, I wait for Mom to
get off work so she can help
me with my homework, but
when I do, she gets upset,
mad and frustrated and stops
talking to me. She tells me to
do it myself, but I don’t know
how to do some. She says I’m
smart, but I don’t know if I
am. Please help me because I
want my mom happy.
istration.”
“To see so many private
landowners work together to
ensure that this project did not
fail when it could have so many
times is truly a testament to the
commitment of this basin to
help each other and help pre-
pare our future generations for
success,” St. Hilaire said.
With the East Project fin-
ished, just one pipeline re-
mains to be built.
The Ordnance Project, for-
merly named the Central Proj-
ect, was recently purchased by
Umatilla County, which plans
to supply water to farms and
potential industrial develop-
ments at the former Umatilla
Chemical Depot.
Cook said total investment
in the projects over the last six
years has exceeded $116 mil-
lion, including $11 million in
state funding and $105 million
from local landowners and
food processors that will bene-
fit from increased agricultural
production.
“The region has put signif-
icant skin in the game to fix
the state of Oregon’s over-ap-
propriation issues and build
a pathway to long-term envi-
ronmental improvement and
economic sustainability,” Cook
said.
find help online with Khan
Academy or other nonprofit
educational organizations.
Dear Abby: A couple of
our family members habitu-
ally come late to gatherings,
making the grand entrance.
They attended a wedding
shower several years ago.
They arrived late, ate the food
and socialized minimally.
Just as the gifts were being
opened, the two of them got
up, smiled and walked out.
The rest of us were shocked.
Fifteen months later, the
two attended a baby shower
for the same relative. Again,
they arrived late and barely
interacted with anyone.
When the meal was served,
they ate and, just as the pres-
ents were about to be opened,
they got up and left.
How do you deal with rela-
tives who feel this is acceptable
behavior? We were brought up
to believe that if you attend an
event, you stay for the event,
rather than eat and run. If you
can’t stay, don’t come. Are we
older folk out of step with to-
day’s society?
Members of the Northeast
Oregon Water Association
conceived three large pipe-
lines to deliver Columbia River
water, which would be tem-
porarily offset by transferring
existing municipal water rights
in-stream for up to 30 years.
J.R. Cook, the water asso-
ciation’s founder and direc-
tor, said the goal is to eventu-
ally transition basin farms off
groundwater entirely, instead
using the aquifers as a “savings
account” for drought.
“Now we have the infra-
structure in the ground to be
able to prove that we can do
what we said we can do for the
last 15 years,” Cook said.
The West Project was the
first to cross the finish line in
2020. It begins at a pump sta-
tion on the Columbia River
next to the Port of Morrow
near Boardman. Water then
flows through 8 miles of 72-
inch fiberglass pipe into an
open irrigation canal owned
by the Columbia Improvement
District.
The East Project was an even
bigger challenge, Cook said. To
meet state grant requirements,
the project must be owned by a
Northeast Oregon Water Association
J.R. Cook, director of the Northeast Oregon Water Association, with a
section of 68-inch East Project mainline pipe.
— Hates Rudeness in California
Dear Hates Rudeness: The
way to deal with this kind of
rudeness is to point out to the
offenders that what they are
doing is disrespectful. And if
it happens after the warning,
omit them from the guest list.
YOUR HOROSCOPE
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 13, 2021: Magnetic,
brave and hardworking, you9re a powerhouse of energy. You hit the ball
out of the park when young. This year, you9re called upon to give your most
yet. You succeed tremendously. If single, emotionally volatile as you are, it9s
difficult to stay in a relationship. This year, efficiency, clarity and propriety
allow you to meet The One. If attached, individuality is still always essential.
SCORPIO can figure you out.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
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deep rapport with wild creatures and the spirit of wilderness areas prevails.
Tonight: You feel like not talking or being alone.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
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concerning your wishes and goals. Friends are interested and want to help. A
whole group might want to help as well. Romantic attachments can deepen
into true love. Tonight: Online communications and networking.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Housing
Continued from A5
Freddie Mac released a re-
search report in July that at-
tempted to identify how many
accessory dwelling units there
are, legal or not, by text-min-
ing 600 million multiple listing
service transactions from 1997
through 2019 and searching
for the various terms used to
describe ADUs.
The research found striking
growth in accessory dwelling
units, jumping from less than
2,000 listings per month in
1997 to more than 12,000 in
2018. Between 2009 and 2019,
the number of first-time acces-
sory dwelling unit listings av-
eraged 8.6% in year-over-year
growth. Those figures could
also be set to jump as cities and
states change codes in favor of
accessory units.
As a percentage, accessory
dwelling units remain a very
small part of the overall hous-
ing stock. At its peak in 2019,
the share of active for-sale list-
ings with accessory dwelling
units reached just 6.8%.
õõõõõ Today highlights your sector of fame and fortune. You will yearn for
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or brainstorming sessions with respected associates are all significant factors
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of all kinds. Others will communicate their needs and make suggestions. Lis-
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
COVID-19
Continued from A5
“Our residents got a fraction
of the help that they needed,”
Suarez said at the White House
briefing, adding that the city
is ”going to put the money to
good use.”
Under the relief package
being crafted in House com-
mittees this week, every state
and the District of Columbia
would get at least $500 mil-
lion, but most of the money
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a Moon calendar to determine which Moon signs mark times when you feel
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sibling can contact you with a valuable invitation or suggestion. A favor is
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
In loving memory.
Robbie Dianne
Glass-Barlow
of La Pine, OR
May 10, 1948 - Feb 09,
2021
Arrangements:
Baird Memorial Chapel
of La Pine is honored to
serve the Glass-Barlow
family. Please visit our
website, www.bairdfh.com,
to share condolences and
sign the online guestbook.
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in business. Tonight: It is completely up to you.
Deon Lee Murray
February 7, 1941 - January 24, 2021
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Deon passed away av er two weeks in the
hospital in Las Vegas.
He is survived by his wife Lynne, daughter
Michele, grandsons Nathan, Casey, Gabrial,
and Jacob and three great-grand children
Kaylee, Bentley and Kayden. With Lynne9s four
grandchildren Rex Andrew, Catalina, Carson,
and Caden they had a total of 8 grandchildren.
Deon was born in Carbondale, IL but lived in
several states. He liked to tell the story of him
being an emancipated minor. When he married
Lynne they lived in Crescent Oregon and
became snowbirds in the winter.
Deon was a member of the Seventh Day
Adven} st Church where for two years he
organized a Gospel Jubilee. He founded the
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