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C2 THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2022 TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press It’s Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2022. There are 132 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites; scores of Blacks were killed in retribution in the after- math of the rebellion. (Turner was later captured and executed.) In 1858, the first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial con- tenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place. In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting was recovered two years later in Italy. In 1944, the United States, Brit- ain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations. The talks con- cluded on Oct. 7. In 1959, President Dwight D. Ei- senhower signed an executive or- der making Hawaii the 50th state. In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Bo- ris N. Yeltsin. In 1992, an 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shot- guns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed. In 1993, in a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer space- craft as it was about to reach the red planet on a $980 million mission. In 2000, rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear sub- marine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sail- ors had survived. In 2010, Iranian and Russian en- gineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow promised to safe- guard to prevent material at the site from being used in any po- tential weapons production. Ten years ago: An insurgent rocket attack damaged the plane of the top U.S. general as it sat parked at a coalition base in Af- ghanistan; U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was unhurt. Five years ago: Americans wit- nessed their first full-blown coast- to-coast solar eclipse since World War I, with eclipse-watchers gathering along a path of totality extending 2,600 miles across the continent from Oregon to South Carolina. In a national address, President Donald Trump reversed his past calls for a speedy exit from Afghanistan and recom- mitted the United States to the 16-year-old conflict, saying U.S. troops must “fight to win.” One year ago: Don Everly, one- half of the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll Everly Brothers, died at his home in Nashville at 84. Today’s Birthdays: Rock-and- roll musician James Burton is 83. Singer Jackie DeShannon is 81. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Willie Lanier is 77. Actor Patty McCormack is 77. Pop sing- er-musician Carl Giammarese is 75. Actor Loretta Devine is 73. NBC newsman Harry Smith is 71. Singer Glenn Hughes is 70. Actor Kim Cattrall is 66. College Foot- ball Hall of Famer and former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is 63. Actor Cleo King is 60. Rock singer Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 55. Actor Carrie-Anne Moss is 52. Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell is 52. Rock musi- cian Liam Howlett (Prodigy) is 51. Actor Alicia Witt is 47. Singer Kelis is 43. TV personality Brody Jenner is 39. Singer Melissa Schuman is 38. Retired Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt is 36. Actor Carlos Pratts is 36. Actor-come- dian Brooks Wheelan is 36. Actor Cody Kasch is 35. Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 34. Actor Hayden Panettiere is 33. Actor RJ Mitte is 30. Actor Maxim Knight is 23. Breweries get creative with plastic BY JOSH NOEL Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — You know those hard plastic beer can holders? I have 147 of them. I counted. They’re an array of colors — black, brown, silver, red, purple, yellow, pink, blue, three shades of green — and in mostly four-pack sizes, but also as six- packs. Why do I have a rainbow collection of 147 plastic beer top holders? Churn- ing through a fair amount of beer is one reason, but another is that I haven’t wanted to toss them in the garbage, for obvious reasons, or in recycling bins for less obvious reasons: Even when tossed in with milk jugs, newspapers and aluminum cans, they rarely wind up recycled. So they’ve stacked up for years on the back porch, no actual plan in place. I’ve just been waiting for a solution. The solution has arrived. And I even got a free beer for my troubles. Alex Parker gets most of the credit. Parker, a former Chicago Tribune edi- tor who works in communications for Molson Coors, helped launch Craft Yozamp Continued from C1 Yozamp saw an opportunity to beat the competition with a better product at lower prices. “I took a hard look at the industry and I thought I could do this better by offering more selection, better pricing and better service. And that is what I did,” said Yozamp, a na- tive of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Portable solar panels Solar panels were relatively new for Yozamp, but he was no stranger to technology, having studied engineering briefly at Portland State Uni- versity. Yozamp had also served in the U.S. Air Force, where he was responsible for the upkeep of F-16 fighter jets. He worked on radar, weapons delivery technology, and pre-GPS nav- igation systems for the jets Work-ready Continued from C1 1. Attendance Someone who can show up to work on time consistently has an edge. It starts in school, where students who are on time and attend their classes tend to use this same skill set at the workplace and quickly outperform their peers. 2. Being welcoming, interactive and self-aware Employers, particularly in service industries or with cus- tomer-facing functions rely on employees who comfortably introduce themselves to some- one whom they meet in per- son at a business, professional or social setting. “I hear from Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune via TNS Recyclable plastic can holders made by Eu- gene’s PakTech are being reused through a program by Chicago-area breweries. For Climate, his personal effort to help stave off climate change. The effort is rooted in Parker attend- ing a Climate Reality Project seminar in 2019, where a simple question was posed: “What is the highest lever you can pull to educate people about cli- mate change?” Beer came to mind. Even before joining his current em- ployer — not involved in the effort, but supportive, Parker said — he was a beer lover. The intersection of beer and climate seemed a natural place to start. “I always thought other people with while serving in Utah and South Korea. Yozamp shared his portable solar panel ideas with Steve Nelson, a business acquain- tance, and financial specialist. Nelson saw potential in the product and together the pair started Zamp Solar. They first marketed their products on eBay, but RV dealerships soon became their primary market. In those heady, startup days, Nelson described Yozamp as “high energy” and found it a chal- lenge to keep up with his part- ner’s plans. “He was always coming up with ideas, you can see his mind was always spinning. He’s very smart, creative. He has an engineering brain, a self-taught engineer,” said Nelson. Zamp Solar soon became one of the country’s best- known brands for power op- tions in the recreational vehi- some employers that the skill of simply knowing how to ac- knowledge a prospective cus- tomer and taking the initiative to interact in person or on the phone is a skill that often is lacking,” says Ertle. 3. Ask questions, clarify and discover Creative discovery skills are essential in many industry sectors. It drives product and idea advancement, customer experience, service, and better sales. The ability and comfort of consistently asking ques- tions to trouble shoot, under- stand and create can advance careers and the business alike. Let’s consider how these skills transfer in a workplace. For example, the biotechnol- ogy industry is a highly reg- NOW’S THE TIME TO PLAN AHEAD WITH LIFE INSURANCE more power were taking care of it and seems that wasn’t the case,” said Parker, 42. “I felt I needed to do something. l didn’t know what.” In October 2021, he launched Craft For Climate, which had a mission, but no real plan. Parker considered staging a craft beer festival with a climate edu- cation thrust, but wasn’t sure that would result in meaningful change. Then he learned of Ecofriendly Beer Drinker, a New England operation that recy- cles plastic beer tops in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The pro- gram estimates 88% of plastic tops put in recycling bins never wind up recycled. The program “seemed replicable in Chicago,” Parker said. “And something people should be doing.” Oregon company’s packaging The plastic tops, manufactured from high-density polyethylene by Pak- Tech of Eugene, have become a pop- ular means for packaging craft beer in recent years. Though the plastic is recyclable and used in an array of other products, the vast majority wind up not recycled. Many are thrown cle space. Yozamp and Nelson produced a number of prod- ucts, and in 2015 brought the production of the panels to Bend from overseas factories. away and even those put in recycling bins wind up in landfills by slipping through the recycling sorting ma- chines or else being contaminated by other recyclables, such as glass. Chi- cago has a particularly abysmal recy- cling rate, stuck at less than 10%, the city said last year. Parker contacted Rob Vandenabeele, founder of Ecofriendly Beer Drinker, for guidance, and learned Adam Dickens, an Elmhurst candle maker, was also in- terested in replicating the project here. Craft for Climate has recruited more than 40 Chicago breweries and beer shops to collect the PakTech holders and take them to four larger collections hubs: Half Acre and Temperance breweries, environmental education nonprofit SCARCE in Addison and Heartland Beverage beer distributor in St. Charles. Finally, the Resource Center, a 47-year- old composting and recycling nonprofit on Chicago’s South Side, picks them up and ensures they’re recycled. “By keeping them together and get- ting them to an end buyer, we know it doesn’t end up in the landfill,” Parker said. XPON and has a market cap of $25.5 million. Reflecting on his business career, Yozamp said a reason for his success was knowing when to leave certain tasks to experts in their field. “I was smart enough to surround myself with people smarter than me,” Yozamp said. “Peo- ple that can assist me with de- velopment, so I reached out to the right people to make a vision a reality.” The switch to lithium Solar panels had become a hot commodity, but there was another part of the power business that seemed to offer greater market growth: the lithium battery pack. Yozamp decided that part of the mar- ket needed his full attention. With lithium batteries his new focus, Yozamp sold his share of the company to Nel- son in 2016. He soon launched a new company, Expion360, which specializes in building battery packs. Expion360 went public earlier this year on the NASDAQ exchange, opening the door to financing the com- pany’s next big projects, in- cluding a lithium cell plant. It trades under the ticker symbol Employee options He hopes the expanding business operations will lead to increased benefits for his employees, including stock options and matching 401k plans. Down the line, he wants to open a day care center for his employees with small chil- dren. Yozamp plans to em- ploy 300 people at his lithium plant, a number that would make it the fifth largest em- ulated industry which drives the conditions on which re- search and production is con- ducted. It requires precision, interaction, and creativity. Ertle points out that when a biotech employee begins their entry level position their job may involve sanitizing equip- ment. This includes metic- ulous attention to detail and the ability to utilize a chain of command to sign off on pro- cedures to ensure there is no contamination. This requires attendance, the ability to inter- act well, follow directions pre- cisely and to ask questions and clarify. These skills get progres- sively more important as their work becomes more technical. The better someone is at these skills, the more prepared they are to move ahead in a highly regulated environment. As we look at more new candidates struggle with some of these skills, you can’t blame ployer in Redmond. The product line beyond the RV and marine space will also expand. Yozamp sees a day when Expion360 batteries are in homes and businesses, filling in power gaps when the electricity goes out or so- lar battery storage is needed. A focus on green technology and a phasing out of dated power systems such as lead acid batteries are other bene- fits, he said. As for his sleep apnea ma- chine, it’s still plugged in on a nightly basis at home or when camping by Oregon’s lakes. But his silent solar power and lithium battery inventions have been game changers since that fateful night by Lit- tle Lava Lake — those mid- dle-of-the-night disruptions from neighbors are a thing of the past. █ Reporter: 541-617-7818, mkohn@bendbulletin.com the younger generation. These are not innate skills -they must be taught, and we’ve clearly been slacking off. Mentors, training and integrating soft skill development into educa- tion are needed early on to de- velop muscle memory to pre- pare those who are next in line for the workforce. █ Katy Brooks is the executive director of the Bend Chamber of Commerce. She can be reached at Katy@ bendchamber.org WE WANT TO SEE YOUR FAVORITE HUNTING AND FISHING PHOTOS! ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN $100! 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