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Raschio law firm adds
two new associates
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
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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.
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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