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Cutting weight
were weighed during each
session. They also listened
to and discussed presenta-
tions on a range of top-
ics, from healthy eating
to stress management to
exercise. They were also
encouraged to exercise
for at least 150 minutes
during the week and turn
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in their weekly meal plans
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documenting what they
Twelve area residents planned to eat that week.
are 53 percent less likely
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portion of a diabetes pre- the group will now attend
vention study for the Cen- monthly classes.
ters for Disease Control
The goal for the study,
through Good Shepherd GSMC registered dietitian
Medical Center.
Nancy Gummer said, is
A total of 19 people for those people to lose 7
signed up for the Nation- percent of their body fat
al Diabetes Prevention by the end of the year-long
Program Lifestyle Inter- program, which would de-
vention study at GSMC, crease their chances of
which began in October. developing diabetes by 53
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to have a body mass index however, they have nearly
of at least 24 and could reached their goal. Of the
not have developed full- 12 individuals remain-
blown diabetes.
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Healthy eating and exercise have allowed 12 individuals in
a diabetes study through Good Shepherd Medical Center to
meet an earlier deadline of losing 7 percent of their body fat,
which decreases their chance of getting type 2 diabetes by 53
percent.
dra Zabel said. “Of those
participating in the pro-
gram, 100 percent of them
lost weight.”
Zabel said, even though
the program required 150
minutes of exercise, orga-
nizers discovered partici-
pants have gone above and
beyond that, recording an
average of 179 minutes
of physical activity per
week.
Gummer said she feels
the program is so success-
ful because it allows peo-
ple to decide what kind of
exercise and eating choic-
es work best for them.
She said the program
encouraged any physical
activity, rather than pre-
scribing a certain kind.
The same went for meal
planning.
Zabel said not only are
the participants feeling
healthier, they are being
encouraged to maintain
their health routine.
“This helps keep them
motivated,” she said.
“Most of them didn’t re-
alize how much of an im-
pact their lifestyle made
on their health.”
Gummer said some
of the participants made
large changes that, in re-
turn, had large impacts on
their health. Others, she
said, made small changes
that made large differenc-
es as well.
“They were able to ex-
plore and find out what
worked best for them,”
she said. “For many, it
worked really well.”
Gummer said partici-
pants’ choices in exercise
ranged from walking daily
to lifting weights to con-
ducting extra chores at
home, with the goal of add-
ing exercise to their day.
“Some people really
started enjoying exercis-
ing, while others still do it
because they need to,” she
said. “The program allows
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es that work for them that
will last. That has made
the biggest impact.”
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weeks, Zabel and Gum-
mer have submitted their
results from the study to
the Centers for Disease
Control, which they will
continue to do for the rest
of the year-long study.
The CDC will then use
the results to demonstrate
how prevention through
lifestyle changes is more
important than treatment
after an person has al-
ready been diagnosed
with type 2 diabetes. The
overarching goal, Gum-
mer said, is to get health
insurance companies to
place more of an empha-
sis on prevention.
“There was a huge
study done that compared
lifestyle to medication,”
she said. “What they
found is that a person’s
lifestyle is more effective
than medication in pre-
vention.”
Gummer said the GSMC
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the state, and possibly even
in the nation, to be conduct-
ed in a rural area.
“It has been better than
what we expected,” Zabel
said. “Our hope was that
people would lose weight
and cut their chances of
getting diabetes. By week
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goal. It really works.”
Recently, other stud-
ies have started up for
the effort and are running
concurrently with the
GSMC study that began
in October, including an
additional study at Good
Shepherd. People inter-
ested in participating in
a future study should vis-
it http://www.ccno.org.
The website lists program
start dates for areas in
which the study will take
place.
Proposed commercial zone changes complete
Ward: Strip club
regulations may
‘pique the interest
of the ACLU’
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
In response to resident
outcry for further strip
club regulations last sum-
mer, the Umatilla Planning
Commission has complet-
ed recommendations for
an overhaul of commercial
zoning codes to address the
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sure whether the proposed
changes would withstand a
legal challenge.
At the commission
meeting Tuesday, members
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dation to revise the zones
after months of work. A
public hearing on the pro-
posal is scheduled at the
next Planning Commis-
sion meeting in April, after
which the recommendation
will be forwarded to the
City Council for approval.
The proposal would pro-
hibit adult entertainment
businesses, such as strip
clubs, in the neighborhood
commercial,
downtown
commercial and downtown
transitional zones and al-
low them in the general
commercial and highway
commercial zones with
added stipulations that they
must be 1,000 feet away
from schools, public librar-
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feet away from other simi-
lar businesses. City Planner
Bill Searles said previous-
ly that a city attorney was
more comfortable the zone
restrictions would with-
stand a legal challenge than
the proximity restrictions.
When the City Council
considered imposing a tem-
porary moratorium on new
adult entertainment busi-
nesses in August to provide
time to develop regulations,
American Civil Liberties
Union of Oregon Legisla-
tive Director Becky Straus
sent a letter urging the
council against it, stating it
could expose the city to a
legal challenge. The coun-
cil ultimately approved a
120-day moratorium in
September, which was ex-
tended for an additional six
months, while the Planning
Commission tried to devel-
op regulations that were le-
gally defensible.
In her letter, Straus cited
a case where the Oregon
Supreme Court concluded
nude dancing was protected
by the Oregon Constitution
as a form of free expression
but noted that other regula-
tions were authorized.
“Under current Oregon
law, cities and counties
have the authority to reg-
ulate the locations of all
businesses,” she said in the
letter. “In fact, cities and
counties can impose all
sorts of regulations through
zoning, such as curbing
nighttime hours near a res-
idential zone, for example,
or other similar types of
content-neutral regulations.
If a local government seeks
to regulate the location of
a business, however, based
only on the content of what
it displays or sells, then that
regulation is a violation of
the business’ right to free
expression under the Ore-
gon Constitution. Article I,
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government shall pass no
law ‘restraining the free ex-
pression of opinion, or re-
stricting the right to speak,
write, or print freely on any
subject whatever.’”
Rather than regulating
strip clubs alone, the Plan-
ning Commission com-
pleted a broader effort that
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ness permissible in each
of the city’s commercial
zones.
Searles said previously
that the current zoning lan-
guage is similar for each of
the zones, and the proposed
changes would differenti-
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to better plan the layout of
business types throughout
the city.
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categories — along with a
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tainment businesses, which
were not included in the
list — the commissioners
selected where the uses
would be allowed. Many
businesses, including strip
clubs, were restricted to
the general commercial
and highway commercial
zones.
“I think we took the best
approach that was available
to us,” Searles said after
Tuesday’s meeting. “We
chose not to focus on one
or two uses and just looked
at them in relation to all the
other uses in trying to shape
each of the zones and the
areas of the community to
allow only those uses that
we felt meet the purpose
and intent of the zone.”
Commission Chairman
Boyd Sharp said, although
the process began as a way
to regulate strip clubs, that
became secondary to re-
shaping the community
with better zoning regula-
tions for all businesses. He
said the commission did
“a wonderful job” and did
not believe the regulations
would be challenged.
“I know that people are
worried that we will get
challenged, but I don’t
think it will,” he said. “We
have a lot of other things we
will only allow in general
commercial and highway
commercial. For instance,
a veterinarian can only do
large animals, horses and
cows, in general commer-
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“In any case, I think the
council needs to have a
back-up plan for what will
happen should we get that
phone call from the ACLU,
and I don’t think that we’re
going to go to the mat on
defending what we’ve
done here.”
Ward said other Ore-
gon cities, such as Keizer,
have proximity regula-
tions that have never been
challenged in court, but he
could not guarantee a simi-
lar outcome.
“Whether or not we
would have to litigate that
when other communities
have not, I don’t know if
that would be the case,” he
said. “There certainly does
appear to be some scrutiny
on Umatilla that these oth-
er communities have not
suffered.”
Sharp said he believed
the commission chose the
best regulations available,
and they could be changed
if and when they are chal-
lenged.
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them with it,” he said. “To
my thinking, we should
leave it in, and then, if they
challenge it, all we’ve got
to do is say, ‘OK, you win,’
and then take it out, and we
haven’t lost anything.”
A public hearing about
the proposed changes to
the commercial zones will
take place at 7 p.m. April
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cial. They can’t do them in
downtown, transitional or
neighborhood commercial.
We’re not outlawing (strip
clubs), just like we’re not
outlawing veterinarian ser-
vices for horses and cows.
We’re just saying this is
where they need to be.”
Although many types
of businesses are restrict-
ed to certain zones in the
proposal, only marijuana
and adult entertainment
businesses are subject to
the additional regulations
regarding proximity in
the general commercial
and highway commercial
zones.
City Manager Bob Ward
said the Planning Com-
mission has been “under a
lot of pressure” to further
regulate strip clubs from
community
members,
many of whom would pre-
fer to ban them entirely. He
said, however, he believed
the proximity regulations
would be most likely “to
pique the interest of the
ACLU,” and he was unsure
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would be approved by the
City Council.
“I think the Planning
Commission is doing what
the community asked them
to do, and we will just see
how the council responds
to that — and then we’ll
see how the ACLU re-
sponds to that,” he said.
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