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NEWS Blue Mountain Eagle A18 Program Continued from Page A1 chat system will be set up at the Elks Lodge called TeleHealth, connecting vets with a Boise VA Hospital staff and other VA hospital facilities. Hoffman has arranged for a free haircut day for veterans this month and is organizing a women’s luncheon for March. On Monday, Feb. 11, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hair It Is hair- stylists Kimberly McManus (owner) and Miranda Hood- enpyl will offer free haircuts for veterans at their 342 W. Main location. To set up an appointment, call the salon at 541-575-0311. New window screen signs in John Day at Hoffman’s offi ce at 530 E. Main St., Suite 5, and Bill Continued from Page A1 That would include munic- ipal transportation systems, affordable housing near pub- lic transit, electric vehicle charging stations, solar pan- els, energy-effi cient windows and furnaces and insulation for homes. Nearly every Orego- nian could be affected by the ambitious proposal. The proposal last year ded- icated some funds to low-in- come communities, rural at the Squeeze In Restaurant offer encour- agement with a suicide prevention message. Katee Part of Hoff man the signs read “Buddy Check 22 — Are you OK?” which is a familiar saying to military service members. It’s a reminder to call a vet- eran and check on how they’re doing to hopefully turn around the statistic that 22 veterans and one active duty service member commit suicide each day. A confi dential suicide pre- vention lifeline number is listed: 1-800-273-TALK (8255), then press 1. Vets can also chat at vet- eranscrisisline.net or text to 838255. The signs, which have a message on one side and are see-through on the other, are designed by Eloise Boren of ER Printing and Graphics in Dayville. Boren has a son and daugh- ter who are both veterans, and restaurant owner Shawn Dun- can’s father and daughter are also veterans. Duncan said she was “thrilled” when Hoffman asked if she would be interested in displaying the window screen at her restaurant. “We love supporting our veterans whenever we can,” Duncan said. “I don’t know if everyone knows this, but we give a 10 percent discount to them every day.” Hoffman said she plans to have the same window screen added to her vehicle. She said suicides among veterans and active duty sol- diers is an epidemic. For various reasons, both men and women may feel abandoned and betrayed, she said, adding suicides among female vets are on the rise. Family members who have a loved one affected by post-traumatic stress disorder often don’t know how to help them, she said. “I want people to be more aware of what’s happening in our military and VA commu- nity,” Hoffman said. “We have a lot of vets in Grant County ... They’re changed when they come back. They don’t know what’s available, and a lot of them don’t know the VA can help them.” She said some veterans who don’t want to talk about mental health issues say there are oth- ers “more broken” than they are. “It’s hard to transition from military to civilian life,” she said. “There’s no structure, unless they have an exit plan when they get out. Most don’t.” Other challenges can crop up, for example, when a hospi- tal charge is billed incorrectly. Hoffman said she can work with individuals and their fam- ily members or partners to assist them and help navigate the system. One of the many ways Hoffman can help is assist- ing veterans in signing up for a Choice Card, which is a Vet- erans Choice Program bene- fi t that allows vets who live in rural areas, far from a VA hos- pital, to see a community pro- vider rather than waiting for a VA appointment or traveling to a VA facility. She said she can identify with the veterans she visits with, since she’s a veteran her- self and a cancer survivor. “I don’t want our veterans to be frustrated,” she said. For more information, con- tact Hoffman at 541-575-1631 or her work cellphone, 541- 620-8057. Her offi ce hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays — she’s in Monument on Wednesdays. “If the fl ag is out, I’m there,” she said. A quote on the window screens, which also thanks vet- erans for their service, reads: “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the sol- dier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” — Douglas MacArthur communities, tribes and com- munities of color. Under the new proposal, those communi- ties would have priority claim to the new state funds — but not certain access, Reed said. Critics have said one of the prime impacts of the effort to control air emissions would be higher gas prices. To counter that, oil companies could blend gas with less carbon-emitting fuel to pay less in allowances, Reed said. That and other mit- igation measures could impact how much of the cost is passed to the consumer. Dembrow said he wanted to be wary of who pays the costs of the environmental legislation. “As we’re putting a price on carbon, we want to make sure it doesn’t fall too heavily on the backs of people who are least able to afford it,” said Dem- brow, who chairs a committee of representatives and senators focused on carbon reduction. The program would autho- rize lawmakers to consider ways to cut down on people’s energy costs through home weatherization and energy effi - ciency projects, and to help people with jobs in the fos- sil fuel industry — such as gas station attendants — train for new jobs in renewable energy. Lawmakers could do more to help residents of rural Ore- gon become more energy effi - cient and rely less on fossil fuels, Dembrow said. He wants the policy to not only cut down on carbon, but benefi t the state’s economy and become a model for other states. “We know that in the near term, there’s not going to be federal action on this, so it’s going to be up to the states, individually or together, to get a serious commitment to cli- mate action,” Dembrow said. Oregon would link with California and Quebec in a marketplace to trade allow- ances so companies who have excess credits because they polluted less could cash them in. New Mexico could fol- low, as its governor signed an executive order this week outlining efforts to bolster the renewable energy sector. Dembrow noted that the pro- posal unveiled Thursday faces changes despite the Demo- cratic drive behind it. Starting a little after 3 p.m., the Capitol halls started buzz- ing as lobbyists started ask- ing who had seen the bill. The interest didn’t dissipate. Hours later, people stood in hud- dles chatting about the bill’s mere existence as the building slowly emptied. Lawmakers were in the same boat as most everyone else. Republicans, by and large, have been opposed to the idea of a carbon cap. This week, those tensions boiled over as several accused Democratic leaders of crafting the bill in a back room. On Thursday, fears weren’t assuaged or solidifi ed, as they had yet to read it. Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-On- tario, and Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis, R-Albany, were two of the more vocal critics of the perceived secrecy surround- ing the bill, but neither had a chance to look it over before the workday ended. Boshart Davis said she remains worried about increasing fuel prices and how this could impact the agricul- tural sector that ships food out of state or the country. Rep. Lynn Findley said in a statement that regulating car- bon would have unintended consequences. Ash Grove Cement in Baker County has diffi culty passing through car- bon costs because of com- petition with China, he said. Because of weaker envi- ronmental and labor laws in China, Findley said, the pol- icy could lead to an increase in global carbon emissions — as well as the loss of 600 East- ern Oregon jobs connected to the plant. “Every time one ton of Chi- nese cement is used in Ore- gon instead of Oregon-made cement, the global environ- ment will see roughly 760 pounds of carbon that would not occur if that ton of cement were made in Oregon,” he said. “If the manufacturing capacity at the Durkee, Oregon, plant is lost to Chinese competition because of the proposed car- bon law, global emissions of carbon will increase by more than 417,000 tons per year.” Fish berm at the site, and boulders had been removed from the channel in 2010. The objec- tives in 2018 were to increase channel capacity, remove the berm and increase material transport through the project area. Engineers faced a number of problems in the project area — a steep, eroding slope above the creek, a power transmis- sion line, a curved roadway on county right-of-way through Bureau of Land Management land, a naturally occurring asbestos outcrop and a hand- dug historic Chinese mining ditch. Addressing the steep slope was an expensive option and constant maintenance was not a satisfactory solution, so ODOT chose to reconstruct about 600 feet of channel. ODOT con- tracted with Suulutaaq Inc., an Alaskan construction company with an offi ce in Eugene, for the project. A large-diameter plastic pipe was installed to tempo- rarily contain Canyon Creek while the stream bed was de-watered. A diversion dam was constructed using plastic sheeting, and a pumping sys- tem backed up the main pipe. Fish salvage work continued as the creek bed was de-watered. ODOT provided two back- pack-style electroshockers, and ODFW brought in one more, ODFW assistant district fi sh biologist Brent Smith told the Eagle. Fish salvage work is common when replacing cul- verts for fi sh passage or in other fi sh habitat restoration projects, he said. Salvage crews placed sal- vaged fi sh, crayfi sh and mus- sels in buckets and walked them upstream to the head of the project, Smith said. Mus- sels were placed back in the substrate of the creek bed. Both sides of the channel in the project area were riprapped with boulders, and the banks were planted, Kennington said. Fish salvage accounted for a large portion of the $1.45 million total cost of the bridge and channel projects, Kenning- ton said. The scoping estimate had been $2 million. A more elaborate fi x was abandoned after the estimate came in at over $3 million. 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