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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Outbreaks reported at Humbolt, Long Creek and Prairie City schools
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
CANYON CITY — Hum-
bolt Elementary School and the
Prairie City and Long Creek
School Districts are all expe-
riencing active COVID-19
outbreaks.
According to Grant County
Health Department Clinic
Manager Jessica Winegar,
Grant Union High School is
likely to join that list when
the Oregon Health Authority’s
weekly outbreak report comes
out on Wednesday, Sept. 29.
State health offi cials defi ne
COVID-19 outbreaks at kin-
dergarten through 12th-grade
schools as instances where
there are two or more coronavi-
rus cases and evidence of trans-
mission at the school. Out-
breaks are declared resolved
when there have been no new
cases for 28 days. The state
reports the number of positive
cases involving students, staff
and volunteers at a school.
According to OHA’s Sept.
22 outbreak report, eight stu-
dents at Humbolt and one
staff er tested positive for the
virus.
At this point, Winegar said,
the case counts at Grant County
schools are low, which shows
that the schools’ mitigation
eff orts appear to be working.
Janine Attlesperger, Hum-
bolt’s principal, told the Eagle
that roughly 14 students were
put on quarantine after being
exposed to the virus at a soc-
cer game or soccer party on
Aug. 30. She said all students
and staff were back from the
outbreak as of Monday Sept.
27.
However, Attlesperger told
the Eagle a staff er had been
exposed to the virus by a stu-
dent. In an unrelated event,
she said another Humbolt stu-
dent was exposed from a small
outbreak at Grant Union High
School.
As of Monday, Sept. 27,
Attlesperger said there had
been no evidence of any stu-
dent-to-student exposure on
Humbolt’s campus.
“We are just trying to be as
cautious as we possibly can,”
Attlesperger said. “If we feel
there may be a close contact,
there will be a quarantine for
10 to 14 days.”
Attlesperger said the infor-
mation comes from the health
department in a daily report.
“We just share the infor-
mation (with the parents),”
she said, “and they (the health
department) determine the
quarantine. I think we did a
really good job to make sure
that it didn’t spread within the
school.”
Long Creek
Jennifer Garinger, offi ce
manager with Long Creek’s
school district, told the Eagle
that while their outbreak was
resolved, an entire group of
students on quarantine con-
tracted the virus the week-
end before returning to school.
Those students, according to
Garinger, were expected to
return to in-person classes on
Tuesday, Sept. 28.
She declined to give the
number of students in the
group or how many were pre-
viously placed into quarantine
to protect their privacy due to
the small population in Long
Creek.
What happens when a
student is quarantined?
Attlesperger told the Eagle
that teachers off er their time
virtually or over the phone to
help students with their work
when they are in quarantine.
Attlesperger said educators
learned that digital distance
learning is not the best for kids.
With that, she said that teachers
are compiling the work that the
students would do in class and
are sending home textbooks
and paper packets for students
to complete at home.
Prairie City Superintendent
Casey Hallgarth did not imme-
diatly respond to the Eagle’s
request for comment.
Oregon regulators fi ne California winery National forests off er
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
SALEM — The Oregon
Liquor and Cannabis Com-
mission has fi ned a California
winery $50,000 for mislabel-
ing wines that improperly ref-
erenced specifi c geographic
regions in Oregon.
It is one of the largest
alcohol fi nes ever issued by
OLCC, stemming from pre-
cise rules about what can and
cannot be included on a wine’s
label.
Copper Cane LLC, based in
Rutherford, Calif., purchases
winegrapes from approxi-
mately 40 Oregon vineyards
to make Pinot noir and rosé
under the brand name Elouan.
The fruit is then trucked in dry
ice back to California where
the wine is produced.
Oregon
winemakers
and consumers began rais-
ing alarm in 2018 when they
noticed boxes of Elouan men-
tion the Willamette, Rogue and
Umpqua basins — regions
that are federally designated as
American Viticultural Areas,
or AVAs, for their unique wine
growing characteristics.
Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press File
Wine grapes ripen in a vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Under Oregon’s label-
ing laws, wines must contain
95% of grapes from a particu-
lar AVA and be “fully fi nished”
in that region to include its
name on the label or marketing
materials.
Though Elouan wines are
made from Oregon grapes,
they are technically produced
in California and thus would
not qualify to claim an Ore-
gon AVA as its appellation of
origin.
OLCC initially recom-
mended revoking Copper
Cane’s certifi cate of approval
Kelly O’Dell Haskins
August 13, 1960 ~ September 10, 2021
Kelly O'Dell Haskins, 61, of Prairie City
passed away September 10, 2021 at St.
Charles Hospital in Bend Oregon. A celebra-
tion of life will be determined at a later date.
He was born to Thomas Haskins and Twi-
la Darlene (Schreckhise) Haskins on August
13,1960 in Prairie City Oregon. Kelly married
his late wife Faye Suzanne (Curts) Haskins on
September 23, 1979, and together they had
three children. Kelly proudly served in the
United States Army where he had commen-
dations for his skill in sharpshooting, grenades, and weapons, he
served his country until he was injured and became disabled.
During the earlier years of his life Kelly followed in his parents'
footsteps and worked in the logging industry, spent long hours on
the road as a truck driver and was the owner of KOH Construction.
Kelly was saved in his Christian faith in 1996 at Assembly of God
church in Prairie City. In 1999, he moved to Prineville, Oregon
where he and his first wife, Faye, headed up a Bible Way Church in
Prineville, where he also led a radio ministry on KRCO.
Kelly married his long-time childhood friend Wilma Sue Bull-
ock on May 20, 2004 and together they led a tent revival ministry
for about a year shortly after their wedding. Kelly and Sue held
pastoring positions with the Church of Acts, in 2004-2005 at the
Methodist Church building in Prairie City, and also in La Grande
from 2006-2007, at the Bible Way Community Church in John Day,
Oregon and led the Church of Acts ministry from their home until
Kelly's health did not allow him to continue.
His favorite pastimes included hunting, fishing, mining, read-
ing his bible and spending time with his animals. Last year in 2020
Kelly killed an elk with one shot on a hunting trip with his son.
Kelly was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas Haskins
and Twila (Schreckhise) Hammack; his late wife, Faye Suzanne
(Curts) Haskins; his infant daughter, Amber Dawn Haskins; three
brothers Thomas, Rocky and Tony Haskins and nephew Thomas
Kennedy.
Kelly is survived by his wife, Wilma Sue (Bullock) Haskins;
daughter, Christina Wilson (Jonathan); son, Joshua Haskins;
grandchildren, Elizabeth Wilson, Jonathan Wilson Jr.(Nathan),
Christopher Wilson, Noah Wilson, Hannah Wilson, Erin Wilson,
Haylie Haskins, Hunter Haskins, Abigail Haskins and Mia Haskins;
sister, Twila Daniels; great-grandson, Liam Wilson; nieces, Tonya
Kennedy, Holly Jisa, Ashley Smith and Taylor Kennedy; nephews,
Jeff Curts, Kyle Curts, Trevor Curts, and Byron Curts as well as
other several other great-nieces and nephews.
To leave an online condolence for the family please visit, www.
driskillmemorialchapel.com.
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Paid for by the family of Kelly Haskins.
to sell wine to Oregon whole-
salers, though the agency and
winery instead agreed to a
settlement.
In addition to the fi ne, Cop-
per Cane agreed to abide by all
wine labeling standards going
forward.
Steve Marks, OLCC exec-
utive director, said in a state-
ment that alcohol regulators
and the wine industry collec-
tively must continue to ensure
that the unique locations where
winegrapes are grown and pro-
duced are protected in the mar-
ket, so consumers can be con-
Read to run for governor
second term as the state’s top
fi nancial offi cial. His term
expires in 2024.
State Treasurer Tobias
As treasurer, Read has
Read has offi cially entered earned a reputation of being
Oregon’s gubernato-
“business-friendly.”
rial race.
He also oversees
Early Monday
the Oregon College
morning, Sept. 27,
Savings Plan, which
the former Bea-
helps tens of thou-
verton
lawmaker
sands of students
announced his bid
save for post-high
in a campaign video
school education.
highlighting his per- Tobias Read
Read’s campaign
sonal stake in the
website also touts his
COVID-19 pandemic as not contributions as treasurer in
only a politician but a father. helping place environmen-
“I’m tired of adults who tal advocates on boards of
think their version of freedom major energy companies to
allows them to endanger chil- move them away from fos-
dren,” Read said, referring to sil fuels.
opponents of public health
Before he was treasurer,
orders intended to slow down Read represented much of
viral transmission.
Beaverton and surrounding
Read
joins
House parts of Washington County
Speaker Tina Kotek, Yam- from 2007 to 2017 as a state
hill County Commissioner representative.
Casey Kulla and former
In 2015, he sponsored
Independent gubernatorial the Oregon Retirement Sav-
candidate Patrick Starnes ings Plan, which would
in the 2022 as other major later become Oregon’s
names in the Democratic pri- fi rst state-sponsored retire-
mary race.
ment program in 2017. The
In
his
campaign program has since helped
announcement, Read pre- 100,000 Oregonians fund
scribes “steady leadership” their retirement accounts.
and prioritizing children as
Read notes in his cam-
the cure for getting past the paign website that if elected,
pandemic.
he intends to make pre-kin-
“We need to stop lurching dergarten available to every
from one crisis to the next Oregon child, as well as
and lay out a vision for where extend the school year so
to take Oregon, not just next kids can have year-round
year, but for the next genera- educational opportunities.
tion,” he said. “My approach He also wants to bolster
is simple: I’ll measure Ore- apprenticeships and voca-
gon’s progress by how well tional training, as well as
our kids are doing.”
bring down the costs of col-
The Democrat is in his lege tuition.
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fi dent they are purchasing a
bottle of wine from where it
actually came from.
“In this case we used the
agency’s limited regulatory
tools to protect Oregon’s brand,
in the same way we would
respect the brands from other
wine growing regions,” Marks
said.
As part of the settlement,
Copper Cane did not admit to
any wrongdoing. The com-
pany has argued it used labels
that were previously approved
by the federal Alcohol and
Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
It later voluntarily surrendered
nine labels amid complaints.
A representative for Copper
Cane could not immediately be
reached for comment.
While the OLCC dispute
is now resolved, Copper Cane
remains embroiled in a class
action lawsuit fi led by consum-
ers over the alleged misrepre-
sentation of its Elouan wines.
A federal judge recently
declined to dismiss the case,
which claims the winery vio-
lated state laws on false adver-
tising, unfair competition and
unjust enrichment, among
others.
free fi rewood program
Blue Mountain Eagle
National forests in Oregon
and Washington will allow peo-
ple to gather and cut fi rewood
for personal use under a new
free permit program, the Forest
Service announced in a press
release.
The free permits only cover
fi rewood gathered for personal
use, not for resale. The mini-
mum charge for commercial
fi rewood cutting permits will
remain $5 per cord.
“We are pleased to be able
to off er free personal use fi re-
wood across the national for-
ests in Oregon and Washing-
ton,” Regional Forester Glenn
Casamassa said in the news
release. “This change will bene-
fi t people who rely on fi rewood
as their primary heat source and
allow us to dispose of material
that otherwise would have a
cost to burn or remove.”
The program will go into
eff ect no later than Jan. 1 in
the Malheur, Deschutes, Fre-
mont-Winema, Giff ord Pinchot,
Ochoco, Okanogan-Wenatchee,
Umatilla and Wallowa-Whit-
man national forests.
For more information on
the free use fi rewood program,
contact Mike Spisak, assis-
tant regional director of natural
resources for the Forest Service,
at michael.spisak@usda.gov.
OBITUARIES
Kristine Lynn Shull
Kristine Lynn Shull
Sept. 6, 1961 — Aug. 29, 2021
Kristine Lynn Shull, age 59, of Prairie City passed away Aug.
29 at home after an 11-year battle with can-
cer. She was laid to rest with her motorcy-
cle helmet at a private burial at the Prairie
City Cemetery on Sept. 12.
Kristine was born Sept. 6, 1961, in
Brawley, California, to Hollis and Elsie
Button Shull. She graduated from high
school in Morris, Minnesota, attended the
University of Washington at Pullman and
graduated from the University of South
Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in wild-
life biology. She worked as a wildlife biol-
ogist for the U.S. Forest Service in Prairie
City and as an administrative assistant for the National Park Ser-
vice in Walla Walla, Washington. Kristine also had the advantage
to work in New York with a team from the USFS and was wel-
comed along with her team to work administratively with Hurri-
cane Katrina victims.
She was a member of the Prairie City Cruisers and a former
member of the city planning commission. Kristine learned to play
the piano at a very early age and fulfi lled her desire to visit the Gala-
pagos Islands.
Kristine had been married and later divorced. She and her sister
Pat enjoyed motorcycle trips around the Northwest. She liked bird-
ing, especially ducks, and her cats. She also enjoyed camping, mak-
ing new recipes, small woodworking projects, and spending time
with her family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Hollis and Elsie Shull.
Survivors include her sisters, June and Pat Shull of Prairie City,
Oregon; a sister, Cheryl Lower of San Diego, California; and a
niece, Cindy Walsh of San Diego, California.
Memorial contributions in her name can be made to a charity
of one’s choice through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon
Blvd., John Day, Oregon 97845. To leave an online condolence for
the family please visit www.driskillmemeorialchapel.com.
Susan Kay Komning
Susan Kay Komning, age 66, of Mt. Vernon passed away
Sept. 24 at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.
A graveside service will be held Friday, Oct. 1, at 1 p.m. at Mill
Creek Cemetery in Prineville. A celebration of life will be held
Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 at the Mt. Vernon Community Center
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Grant County
4-H Program through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon
Blvd., John Day, OR 97845.
To leave an online condolence for the family, visit www.
driskillmemorialchapel.com.
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