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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
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‘Go Outside’ campaign kicks off with yoga, movie
Every Wednesday
and Friday through
August will feature
events
WEEKLY EVENTS
PLANNED
Yoga in the Park
When: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesdays through
August
The smell of fresh pop-
corn permeated Friday as
the sun went down at the
John Day City Park for
Movie Night in the Park.
The event, free and open
to the public, will show
movies throughout July and
August at 9 p.m. Fridays at
the park, according to Parks
and Rec board member Lisa
Weigum.
About 40 moviego-
ers rolled out their blan-
kets on the grass on Friday
for “Harry and the Hender-
sons.” Weigum proudly said
the 1980s fantasy comedy
about a suburban family
that accidentally and unwit-
tingly brings home a Big-
foot was her pick.
Where: John Day City
Park
Movie Night in the Park
When: 9 p.m. Fridays
through August
Where: John Day City
Park
‘Go Outside
Campaign’
Contributed photo
Weigum said Movie
Night in the Park is one of
the various activities from
the “Go Outside” campaign.
She said the campaign is
a community health initia-
tive designed to encourage
people to get outside and
manage their mental, emo-
tional and physical health
by participating in commu-
nity events outdoors.
The campaign kicked
off Wednesday with the
first Yoga in the Park ses-
sion, according to Weigum.
She said Ashley Stevick
of Green Yoga Commu-
nity taught the session at
the John Day Park. The
classes will continue from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednes-
days through July and
August.
Sponsored by the Grant
County Community Health
Improvement
Coalition,
Yoga instructor Ashley Stevick.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Families settled in for Movie Night in the Park on Friday at the John Day City Park.
Blue Mountain Hospital
and Community Counsel-
ing Solutions, Weigum said
the goal is to give people
the opportunity to be a part
of the community and feel
connected, especially after
more than a year of pan-
demic restrictions.
Weigum said, while
local health officials have
worked on similar strate-
gies over the last couple of
years, COVID-19 acceler-
ated the development of the
“Go Outside” campaign.
She said the campaign
was also born out of the
hospital’s
Community
Health Needs Assessment.
The assessment, a com-
ponent of the Affordable
Care Act, requires Blue
Mountain Hospital to sur-
vey the community every
three years and identify
health needs within the
overall population.
“So it was really born
out of collaborative, brain-
storming sessions between
community partners around
how to serve our commu-
nity better,” she said. “And
how to identify these gaps
that we’ve all recognized.”
During these sessions,
she said one of the goals was
to encourage outdoor recre-
ation and reduce substance
abuse and dependency.
She said the group col-
lectively asked, “What if
we encouraged people to
go outside, and what if we
offered fun, free things and
we offered some incentives
to get people outside?”
Weigum said anyone
who attends an event spon-
sored by the “Go Outside”
campaign would automat-
ically be entered into a
raffle.
She said they would
pick three different win-
ners at the end of each
month. Prizes include out-
door items that range from
a Traeger Grill to an inflat-
able paddleboard and other
gear.
Weigum said this week’s
Wednesday event will also
have live music from 7:30
to 8:30 p.m., and Tim-
bers Bistro will cater
the event.
Oregon’s unusually hot summer political season
Summer is normally a rel-
atively quiet time in Oregon
politics.
But 2021 has been about
as abnormal as a year can be.
The Legislature adjourned
June 26, a day before Salem
recorded a record-shatter-
ing high temperature of 117
degrees.
Politics remains broiling
as well, with a special ses-
sion in September to decide
Oregon’s political map for
the next decade, electioneer-
ing for 2022 gearing up and
the reopening of the Oregon
Capitol to the public.
Some of the front-burner
issues in the weeks ahead:
Clock running on gun
initiative: A gun control bill
approved by the Legislature
this year becomes law 91
days after the adjournment
— Sept. 25. A proposed bal-
lot measure to overturn the
restrictions needs to gather
74,680 signatures by Sept. 24
to put the law on hold until
a vote in the November 2022
general election.
Veto deadline: The
adjournment of the House
and Senate also started the
countdown on how long
Gov. Kate Brown has to veto
bills or line-item veto spe-
cifi c appropriations in fi scal
legislation. Under the Ore-
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school
district
must
be
tested
before
the
15th
of
August
prior
to
participation.
assessment testing by calling Grant ESD, 541-575-1349 on or before, July 24, 2019. Testing
begins promptly at 8:30 Thursday and Friday morning.
Sincerely, Your Friend
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to 2:00pm
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any questions Jo you
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user friendly for a while, with
major renovations going on
through December 2022.
The public has been kept
out of the Capitol since
March 2020, when Sen-
ate President Peter Court-
ney, D-Salem, and House
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Brown’s offi ce confi rmed
Friday that the deadline is
Aug. 6.
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Gun control bill becomes law unless enough
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