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A10 News Blue Mountain Eagle LINO Around the world with Carl Lino Continued from Page A1 One trip that stands out to him was his journey to Antarctica. “Antarctica is really a unique place, a little nippy,” he said, adding the temperature wasn’t too cold but the 70 to 90 mile per hour “breeze” cooled things off. Traveling isn’t always easy for Lino, though. He struggles to breathe because of his COPD and has to carry an oxygen tank. He said the his worst experience traveling was when he went to Santia- go, Chile, in February and his nebulizer — a device that adminis- ters medications to the lungs — broke. Lack of oxygen, a language barrier and a three-day fl ight plan Carl Lino that took him on an accidental tour of the country during a snowstorm made for a rough trip. “I was really hurting,” he said. His favorite trip was to China, where he visited the Terracotta Army and Tienanmen Square. When visiting the facility that housed the terracotta sculptures, he was blown away by how large it was. “All of John Day would fi t inside,” he said. Likewise, he was amazed by the square, which had 1.2 million people in it when he visited during former chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong’s birthday. Despite all this travel, Lino always returns to John Day. It’s because of the LIST Continued from Page A1 Others reportedly being considered are: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Lu- cas Oil co-founder Forrest Lu- cas and former Colorado Rep. Bob Beauprez. McMorris Rodgers rep- resents Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District, which contains large sections of land owned and managed by the federal government. She has been a longtime advo- cate of increased use of fed- eral land, including expand- ed timber harvests and more drilling for oil and gas. She’s a co-sponsor of the Emergency Wildfi re and For- est Management Act, which would streamline the envi- ronmental impact studies for federal forest lands, making it easier for lumber compa- Wednesday, December 14, 2016 EUROPE: While visiting Europe, Lino played golf on one of the oldest courses in the world, St. Andrews. The course regularly hosts the British Open. NORTH AMERICA: “John Day isn’t a place; it’s a way of life,” he said. “That’s what brings us back.” NORTH AMERICA EUROPE AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA: Lino has been all over the South American continent, but what stood out to him the most was the upbeat dancing and nightlife in Buenos Aires. AFRICA: Lino went from Gibraltar into Morocco where he enjoyed the window shopping and local wares and clothing. ANTARCTICA: “Antarctica is really a unique place, a little nippy,” he said, adding the tem- perature wasn’t too cold, it was just the 70 to 90 mile an hour “breeze” that cooled things off at the southern Palmer Station. AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA: While visiting Australia, Lino was impressed with the architecture of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor. support of the community that comes together when someone needs them most, he said. They came together when his wife died fi ve years ago and when his daughter was run over by a nies to thin them and harder for opponents to block those sales. Earlier this year, she sidestepped the debate over whether the catastrophic wildfi res Washington and other Western states have ex- perienced in recent years can be linked to climate change. Appearing in Spokane a day after Democratic Gov. Jay In- slee had linked fi res over the last three summers to hotter, drier summers from climate change and carbon emissions, McMorris Rodgers instead said the federal government should focus on better forest management. “Clearly, we have a lot of trees that are dead, diseased, bug infested, and that needs to be addressed,” she said. Asked whether man-made climate change was a threat, and whether she would sup- port laws limiting greenhouse gas production, McMorris Rodgers didn’t directly an- For The Holidays car, breaking 37 bones. “John Day isn’t a place; it’s a way of life,” he said. “That’s what brings us back.” Lino said he will keep traveling swer the question. She said policies promoting clean ener- gy should be weighed against their economic impact, but didn’t address climate change in her answer. The conservative Wash- ington Policy Center said she would be a good choice be- cause of her years of work on land issues. “She has seen fi rsthand the environmental damage that comes from neglect of federal lands and will be a great stew- ard of our parks and federal lands,” said Todd Myers, the director of that group’s Envi- ronmental Policy Center. News media reports that a McMorris Rodgers ap- pointment could be imminent prompted sharp criticism from environmental groups. The congresswoman sup- ports “selling off our public lands to the highest bidder and opening them to drilling, min- ing and logging,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a prepared state- ment. “It’s clear that McMorris Rodgers would jeopardize the future of our public lands if ap- pointed as interior secretary.” Brian Sweeney of the West- ern Environmental Law Center said she “represents a threat to public lands, endangered spe- cies and our clean energy fu- ture.” Kate Colwell, for Friends of the Earth, contended she would “wield a rubber stamp for the fossil fuel industry” be- cause of past support of greater drilling. Also quick to issue state- ments of opposition were the Environmental Defense Fund, the Center for Western Pri- orities, American Rivers, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Back Country Hunt- ers and Anglers, EarthJustice, and Fuse Washington, a coa- lition of progressive organiza- tions. Representatives of re- sourced-based industries were supportive. Luke Popovich, of the Na- tional Mining Association, said McMorris Rodgers has a “deep knowledge of public lands issues” and the experi- ence of working on them in Congress, which is rare for an interior secretary. The min- ing industry hopes she would be able to focus on multiple uses of federal lands and bet- ter balance the needs to protect resources and the economic costs of doing that. “She understands the nit- ty-gritty of the laws that ap- ply,” Popovich said. Ducks Unlimited support- ed the nomination, with Chief Executive Offi cer Dale Hall, a former director of the Fish Call to make an appointment first. www.RMLS.com ATE TIFIC ms R E C GIFT er B loo s tt e B G arde C n ity & John { & rairie 20-3329 een P Betw ay • 541-8 ____ D ____ ____ ____ _ _ ____ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ t For: ____ A Gif ____ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ :____ ____ From __ ____ ____ unt:_ ____ Amo ____ Value ____ _ _ : ture p.m. a n 30 ig 5: S - at. a.m. We’d like to deliver our sincere best wishes to your door this holiday. May the season bring much happiness, health and good fortune to you and your loved ones. If you’re looking for a home for the holidays and beyond, please keep us in mind. 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Cathy McMorris Rodgers kicks off a meeting with farmers and industry members about falling number concerns Sept. 2 in Colfax, Washington. Association, said the group welcomes the prospect that she would use her knowledge to bring responsible stewardship to public lands: “That foun- dation is critical to future pol- icy that impacts our member companies that manufacture the forest and paper products Americans use every day.” The Center for Responsive Politics said McMorris Rodg- ers was the sixth largest recipi- ent of money from the Forestry and Forest Products Industry in 2016, with a total of $83,950 in contributions. That’s more than Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., received. The Interior Department has about 70,000 employees and a budget of more than $20 billion. It oversees a wide range of agencies, including the bureaus of Indian Affairs, Land Management, Reclama- tion and Safety and Environ- mental Enforcement, as well as the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the Geological Survey. McMorris Rodgers, 47, has been in government since grad- uating from Pensacola (Flori- da) Christian College in 1990. She started as a legislative aide to state Rep. Bob Morton after running his re-election cam- paign in Northeast Washing- ton’s 7th Legislative District, and was appointed to his state House seat in 1994 when Mor- ton was appointed to the state Senate. She rose to the rank of House minority leader and in 2004 won the hotly contested race for an open seat in the 5th Congressional District. S : 9:00 losed Hours - Fri. • C Sun. 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