October 14, 2009 03:10 pm
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It’s official. The H1N1 virus has reached Union County.
The state confirmed Monday that a patient admitted to Grande Ronde Hospital suffered from the H1N1 virus.
It is not known when the person was admitted to the hospital. No
other information about the case or the individual is available.
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October 13, 2009 03:24 pm
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 Sydney Craven, left, and Ashley Nichols, both students at the ODS College of Dental Sciences in La Grande, will visit Liberia later this month with a Destination Africa Dental Team to provide dental care for poor children. Craven and Nichols are shown with a portable dental chair their team is bringing and some of the more than 1,500 toothbrushes it is also taking to Liberia. - The Observer/DICK MASON These manual toothbrushes unlike many electronic models, have no bells and whistles.
The toothbrushes, though, will soon have children in Liberia whistling with excitement and wonder.
The new toothbrushes will be given to about 1,500 children in Monrovia, Liberia, by a team from the ODS College of Dental Sciences in La Grande later this month.
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October 12, 2009 02:26 pm
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Community members are invited to join Greenwood Elementary School
staff and students for a fundraiser, Harvest Dessert Auction and
Greenwood Idol Season 2, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the
gymnasium.
“We will be auctioning off homemade, decorated cakes made by staff,
parents and students,” PTS President Judy Lucius said. “We will also
sell cupcakes.”
In addition, the evening will include performances by the Greenwood
staff. Staff will impersonate The Village People, Nancy Sinatra &
Friends, The Supremes and Sonny & Cher.
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October 12, 2009 02:24 pm
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 GIFTED TEACHER: Michael Geisen, the 2008 National Teacher of the Year, gives a presentation at La Grande Middle School Friday. Geisen is a science teacher at Crook County Middle School in Prineville. The Observer/DICK MASON Kindergarten can be a magical experience, educationally speaking.
With more kindergarten, school dropout rates would plummet and student achievement would rise.
Need to be convinced?
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October 09, 2009 03:39 pm
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Have you ever wandered around the fruit trees on your own piece of
land and spotted a pear that hadn’t been picked until it had reached
its prime of sweetness?
I did a while back and plucked just such a pear, bit into it and
savored it as the juice ran down my chin. With an outside faucet handy,
I was able to clean up a mite, dry on my shirt-tail, then proceed to
mosey on down to the barn for a casual look around. It was one of those
rare days when nothing else was pressing and I could take time to “just
be.”
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October 09, 2009 02:59 pm
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The city of La Grande Planning Commission will decide next Tuesday
whether to grant a Pendleton company permission to build a
communications structure in east La Grande.
Juniper Hill Properties, through a Pendleton-based Internet company
called Wtechlink, Inc., wants to build a 70-foot tower next to the
Morrow County Educational Service District building at 2708 Adams
Avenue.
The structure will provide dedicated Internet access to the Cove
School District, and other school districts, according to a report
submitted by the applicants. Application for the CUP was made Sept. 16,
with the city’s staff report finished Tuesday.
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October 09, 2009 02:58 pm
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 Larry Burns of Summerville poses with his banana squash bounty. Photo/TRISH YERGES SUMMERVILLE — Larry Burns, a native of Summerville for the past 29 years, has always had a fertile garden.
But this fall it produced its first banana squash, weighing in at a
little over 32 pounds, 36 inches long with a 10-inch diameter.
The oblong-shaped squash has a creamy yellow skin and a golden fine
textured inner flesh, great for soups, sauces, bread and pies.
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October 09, 2009 02:54 pm
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 Entrance to shooting scene: The shooting occurred at the Boundary Campground, seven miles from Wallowa on the Bear Creek Road. Photo/KATY NESBITT The Wallowa County District Attorney’s Office confirmed today that a
man was shot dead by Sheriff’s deputies in a confrontation Wednesday
afternoon on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
The deceased suspect is identified as Roy S. Bass, 52. An autopsy is pending by the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office.
The shooting happened at Boundary Campground south of Wallowa along Bear Creek.
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October 08, 2009 03:19 pm
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Historian Eugene Smith needed just one camera to produce his latest DVD — a camera that helped him bring one of La Grande’s most heated recent controversies into sharper focus.
Smith has produced a 72-minute DVD about the fire storm in La Grande last winter and spring ignited by the Steve Martin play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.’’
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October 08, 2009 03:17 pm
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WALLOWA — Wallowa County law enforcement authorities declined to give any details this morning on a shooting incident that occurred about 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Wallowa area.
The Wallowa County Sheriff’s Office refused to comment, saying District Attorney Mona Williams planned to release some information later in the day.
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