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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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Brown: Oregon will continue
taking Syrian refugees
By Carl Sampson
By PARIS ACHEN
Blue Mountain Eagle
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Gov. Kate
Brown announced on Twitter
Tuesday that Oregon will con-
tinue to accept refugees after
a suspect in the Paris attacks
was found to possess a Syrian
passport.
The governor had declined
to comment Monday on her
position on accepting refugees
from the war-torn Middle East-
ern country, where ISIS has
taken a foothold.
“Clearly, Oregon will
continue to accept refugees,”
Carl Sampson/The Eagle
Al Frye, an operator-supervisor for Wildish Standard Paving, oversees the
paving work underway Saturday afternoon as Highway 395 was opened to
traffic. The main highway between John Day and Burns was blocked 10 days
while crews replaced culverts that run underneath the roadway.
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concrete, and the other, at
Vance Creek at milepost
11 is a 20-foot diameter
metal culvert. The bottoms
of both were covered with
gravel and rocks to emulate
a stream bed and aid fish
passage, Frye said.
Iron Triangle and Tide-
water of John Day were
subcontractors for Wild-
ish, along with other
companies.
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the month for September
at Long Creek School.
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Courtesy photo
Culvert sections are lowered into the trench at
the Vance Creek construction site, milepost 11 of
Highway 395, on Nov. 7. The old 5-foot round culvert
is to the right of the new trench. The new culvert is
20 feet in diameter.
not capable of handling it,”
Strandberg said. “We want-
ed to take care of it before
it washed out the road.”
Engineers feared debris
would block the culverts,
back up the creeks and
cause the highway to wash
out.
One culvert at mile-
post 6.1 is a rectangular
box design constructed of
Many thanks to all the
staff at Hospice.
A special thank you to
Michelle, Richard and
Melanie for all your help.
Sincerely,
The Family of Paul
Fortenberry
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Highway 395, the main
north-south artery through
Grant County, reopened to
traffic Saturday afternoon,
bringing to a close a 10-day
race to dig out two large
sections of the roadway, in-
stall huge new culverts and
rebuild them.
Crews — some working
around the clock in 12-hour
shifts — raced the calen-
dar and unpredictable fall
weather to complete the
project, said Al Frye, an
operator-supervisor for Eu-
gene-based Wildish Stan-
dard Paving, the prime con-
tractor.
He estimated that be-
tween 20 and 30 people
worked on the job.
“The weather cooperat-
ed,” he said, noting the lack
of freezing temperatures
and precipitation as his
crew prepared to open the
highway to traffic Saturday
afternoon.
By later in the day the
main roadway was com-
pleted and ready for traffic.
Portions of the highway will
still be one-lane and require
flaggers until guardrails are
installed and other work is
completed.
By Friday, Nov. 20, all
work should be done, and
cleanup will be completed
before Thanksgiving, he
said.
The reopening of the
highway reduces by sever-
al hundred miles the detour
route between John Day and
Burns, said Tom Strand-
berg, Oregon Department
of Transportation Region
5 spokesman. Some driv-
ers have used county and
other roads as shortcuts, he
said, but the official state
highway detour sent traffic
through Vale.
Work began Nov. 4 to
replace two culverts that
ran under the highway. The
U.S. Forest Service had
warned ODOT that, because
of the massive wildfires
that struck the area during
the summer, the amount of
debris and runoff could in-
crease by 100 to 650 percent
this winter, he said. The
tributaries empty into Can-
yon Creek.
“Those culverts were
Brown tweeted. “They seek
safe haven, and we will contin-
ue to open the doors of oppor-
tunity to them. The words of
the Statue of Liberty apply in
Oregon just as they do in every
other state.”
Brown’s position contrasts
with that of at least 27 gover-
nors, mostly Republicans, who
say they want to block more
Syrian refugees from entering
their states, according to sev-
eral media reports. Governors
have no authority to reject Syr-
ian refugees but could seek to
reduce state services provided
to the newcomers.
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