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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
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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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