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BUSINESS MyEagleNews.com Raschio law firm adds two new associates By Rudy Diaz Blue Mountain Eagle 1809 First Street • Baker City • (541)523-5439 BARGAIN MATINEE IN ( ) Adults $7 ALL FILMS $6 ON TIGHTWAD TUESDAY $9 Adult, $7 Senior (60+), Youth S171195-1 MOVIE SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 7–13 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (PG) After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it. FRIDAY (4:20) 7:20 SAT & SUN (1:20) (4:20) 7:20 MON-THURS 7:20 BIRDS OF PREY (R) After split- ting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord. FRIDAY (4:10) 7:10 SAT & SUN (1:10) (4:10) 7:10 MON-THURS 7:10 PARASITE (R) Winner of the 2020 Academy Award for Best Picture. FRIDAY (4:00) 7:00 SAT & SUN (1:00) (4:00) 7:00 MON-THURS 7:00 A3 Dark Horse Rentals grows in year of new ownership By Rudy Diaz Blue Mountain Eagle The Eagle/Rudy Diaz Kati Dunn talks about items on her wall in the office. The Eagle/Rudy Diaz Greg Goebel talks about the bar and the frame he got for his law certificate. more about the people he works with. “I like working with peo- ple, and working here you learn about what will help people moving forward and protect their constitutional rights,” Goebel said. “It’s fun being on the defense side and looking for holes in the other side’s argument.” The transition to the legal defense has been a learn- ing experience, but Goebel has dedicated his efforts to learning the language and procedures involved in the new position. Call 541-575-5750 or email office@rrlaw.biz for more information. Dark Horse Rentals saw a year full of changes and growth in 2019, thanks to the work and effort of the newest co-owner, Lynn Osborne. On Oct. 23, 2018, she partnered with her father to buy the business. The previous owner faced medical issues and problems that limited her ability to maintain the busi- ness, she said. Osborne started by overhauling the business by cleaning, remodeling, tearing down walls, painting and more. “This carpet was black (in the main lobby), and everybody said, ‘Did you get a new carpet?’ and no, I just cleaned it,” she said. “The whole store is nothing like it used to be, and it’s bigger than before.” Dark Horse Rentals rents spaces out to vendors, and vendors come in to deco- rate and present their prod- ucts for sale in their space. The amount of variety in the vendors makes it seem like almost anything can be found, except for food, Osborne said. “You’ve got a variety of everything from mate- rial for crafts, housing, pic- ture frames, tools, antiques, jewelry, clothing, hand- crafted wood work — it’s just randomly everything,” Osborne said. The amount of ven- dors selling from the Dark Horse has doubled since Osborne started, and customers now have 40 vendors to choose from. People also bring The Eagle/Rudy Diaz Lynn Osborne, left, talks with Cynthia Harris, a vendor at Dark Horse Rentals, about some of the merchandise available at the business. in consignment items to sell. There are also about 40 vendors on the waiting list to rent out space who are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, she said. Vendors interested in renting out space have four different options for sizes to rent, from $20-60 a month. Osborne does not charge a commission fee for the items sold unless they are put on consignment. There is a 20% fee for items put on consignment, and she will accept items based on how much space the prod- uct needs. She is willing to take a few things from everyone but not an abun- dant amount of merchan- dise from one person. A majority of the money the store makes goes back into the store and future improvements. Along with a vari- ety of items to buy, Dark Horse Rentals provides a chance for a cup of coffee or tea and a conversation, Osborne said. “There’s no strang- ers that walk through that door, and we have quite the conversations here,” she said. “This last year has been amazing, and I appreciate everyone’s business, more than they will ever know, and I plan on being here for many more years.” Dark Horse Rentals is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays at 600 S. Can- yon St. in John Day. For more information, call 541-620-5808. RECYCLING AWARENESS WEEK Grant County has designated February 17- 23 as “Recycling Awareness Week.” It’s a good time for all of us to start making the most of new opportunities to recycle. Recycling bins for plastic containers, tin cans, newspaper, magazines, and cardboard are located at Clark’s Transfer station, 26431 Luce Creek Road, John Day OR. Routine recycling makes a real difference and contributes to towards waste prevention. “Recycling” redirects many discards away from disposal and back into commerce, which allows materials to be transformed for use as new products. “Waste prevention” is about not making waste in the first place as we change what makes the real difference. Some important questions for each of us to ask are – Is the item really needed or can money be spent more productively? Can the item be borrowed or rented rather than bought new? Is the item made to last, or can it be repaired if it breaks? Is it recyclable? Does it have excessive packaging? If people practice making sustainable purchases, we could save a tremendous amount of resources and help prevent products form being discarded. We all can make it a daily practice to recycle, reuse, and compost. Grant County promotes recycling and waste reduction within the Grant watershed as required by OAR 340-090-0030 and 340-090-0040. For more information, Contact Grant County at 541-575-0059 S171193-1 S167561-1 John Lamborn for Circuit Court Judge 24th Judicial District The right choice beyond a reasonable doubt! Paid for by John Lamborn for Judge, 191 West A St, Burns OR 97720 Sue Weathers, Treasurer S167330-1 The Law Office of Rob Raschio has gained two new associates that are ready to defend people in legal predicaments. Gregory Goebel, the for- mer county deputy district attorney, and Kati Dunn, who has been practicing law for the past 22 years, recently joined the firm and shared their experiences in the legal field. Dunn moved to Prai- rie City in November from Portland and has embraced the beauty that nature pro- vides in Grant County. For the past 20 years, Dunn lived in Portland and worked at Metropol- itan Public Defender. She worked as a staff attorney on misdemeanors, and then moved on to felonies before becoming the top attorney for major felonies in 2007. She became the Multnomah County director in 2012. “I had a lot of man- agement and leadership and training and supervis- ing duties, but it took me away from clients, which I missed,” Dunn said. Dunn looks forward to helping people with their legal issues and being a resource to solve their prob- lems. Civil work that deals with family law, estate planning and wills are some of the cases that she looks forward to tackling. When it comes to clients, Dunn wants people to know she is there to help them, not to judge them. “Whatever they think is bad or wrong in them, or if they have done or said something bad, I have seen worse, and I have lit- erally seen it all in my 20 plus year career in pub- lic defending, and I don’t judge anybody,” Dunn said. “Oftentimes people who are charged with serious crimes just had the worst moment of their life, and you can’t take the worst moment of a person’s life and judge them. I am there to lawfully fight for them.” When reviewing long- term options in the county, Goebel decided to work at the the firm to learn from Dunn and Raschio and tackle the other areas of law. Once a month, Goebel also works at the Judge Advocate General’s office in Salem. Goebel is a second lieu- tenant for the Oregon National Guard and hopes to go through the JAG course at the University of Virginia and learn what it means to be a JAG officer and eventually become a captain. “I like working with sol- diers in general and pre- paring documents for them when they are preparing to go oversees, and I have had a lot of positive interac- tions with people as a JAG looking out for them and making sure they are OK,” Goebel said. Dependency cases and representing families who are in the Department of Human Services sys- tem are areas he has been working with since join- ing the firm. His goal is to make sure their voices are heard in court and rights are protected. Getting to work with people is a change from the district attorney’s office that Goebel has liked. The change allows him to learn Wednesday, February 12, 2020
