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In the news today:
USO Swing and Dance
Riverside Has Gone To The Dogs
Get Out and GO
Sport Spotlight
Around The Mountain in 90 Seconds
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Swing With Us The USO Dance is swinging into La Grande this weekend! And what’s the USO dance? Well…
Who doesn’t like jazz and swing? All the members of the La Grande High School jazz band certainly like it. And two of the members told me what, exactly, it is about jazz that’s got them so jazzed.
Now, if you don’t know how to swing, that’s okay. The high school dance club will be doing lessons 30 minutes before the actual dance to give people a rundown of basic swing moves.
But why go this weekend? Why is it important? Well, all proceeds of this dance go directly to buy band uniforms for the LGHS kids. And that’s important because why?
The dance starts this Saturday at 7:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Dress nicely and make sure to bring your dancing shoes.
Riverside Dogs As of several weeks ago, the Riverside has gone to the dogs. A brand-new entirely-enclosed dog park has been installed by La Grande Parks and Rec. And now dogs of every shape and size can get their runs and plays with their fellow doggies. The park is located on the far side of riverside and has two distinct sections: one for big dogs, and one for small, timid dogs who have a little bit of social anxiety. I bet some people wish all society was organized that way. Both sections are equipped with water spigots and poop bags. And according to Stu Spence, director of LG Parks and Rec, the park is perfect for people with energetic puppies who need somewhere to let them get their energy out after work.
Stu said that the dog park fits in with the overall goal of Parks and Rec by getting people out and about being active and involved in the city. He said the park is nice because people with dogs who don’t do well off-leash elsewhere can now play off-leash in an enclosed space. He also said that the parks and rec department has plans to install benches for people to sit on and, ultimately, to make the park into an even better place for owners and pets to get out together and enjoy La Grande’s parks.
For more information about the dog park, grab your dog and go visit it! It’s open dawn to dusk and the busiest times are about 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
Get Out and GO! And here’s your local events in Get Out and Go with Emily Adair!
Sports Spotlight Last week La Grande high school tigers football team had a huge win in Phoenix, Oregon all the way across the state. Winning 25-15, the team has for the first time in many years advanced well into the playoffs and, this weekend, will play Marshfield for their opportunity to stay in the running. If they win, they advance. If they lose, good season guys. But either way, the season is coming to a close here soon. And as such this week I got the opportunity on a cold, windy day to head up to their practice and ask some of the players about their favorite memories of the season.
La Grande Alive will be traveling to Marshfield and streaming the game live so be sure to check it out!
And here’s the rest of your local sports with Ronald Bond from the Observer Newspaper!
ATM And here’s your EOU sports with Iain and Chris from EOU Athletics!
SCIENCE GIRLS, LOCAL SALES, AND SIMPLE SHAKES – Weekly Newsish Roundup: NOVEMBER 1ST – 7TH, 2017
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Fun In Science
Loving Local
Simple Shakes
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CHEAP TELEVISION AND NATURAL MEDICINE – Weekly Newsish Roundup: October 25TH – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2017
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Cheap, Local, TV
Let Nature Be Thy Medicine
Sports Spotlight
Around the Mountain
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A spaceship flies by and shoots my head and the beeping and waves stop. Sound effect “MICHAEL BAYSPLOSIONS!”
Cheap. Local. Television. How much do you pay for television? 90 bucks a month? 100 bucks a month? 120? What if I told you that there was a television option available for as little as one hundred bucks a year? And, what’s better, that each channel in the package was hand-picked to best suit Eastern Oregonians? Well dunk me like a duck, toss me in an asylum and call me crazy, this TV package really exists! And it’s called the Blue Mountain Translator District.
The Blue Mountain Translator District is a TV Translator. Here’s the scoop: every channel that is broadcast in Portland and Boise can’t reach here without amplification and translation. We’re too remote. And that’s where the district comes in. The district takes well-known channels like Fox and OPB and translates them to us, all pretty much for free! The only cost is a hundred bucks per year to help them service their towers and keep the pistons running.
And what’s even better about the district is that the channel listings are all hand-picked to be the best selection they can get for us here in eastern Oregon.
But the trouble is that the translator district is in a little bit of a pickle. Recently T-Mobile purchased a broad spectrum of channels from the US government as part of a massive nation-wide network expansion. And some of those channels were being used by the district. And while it may seem like a simple process to move a channel from one number to the next, It’s actually complicated and expensive. Now, the district volunteers assured me that this moving won’t affect the average viewer except maybe having to watch their content on a slightly different channels. But bottom line, they need new subscribers to help them get through this time and you might be one of them.
If the district can get through this time, they hope to continue hand-picking channels to best suit Eastern Oregon and providing a low-cost alternative to Dish and Cable TV. The board has high hopes for the future and, with how expensive television is these days, they hope to continue to provide a local option for television.
Naturopathy Let nature be thy medicine. This is a slightly-shifted adage of a great doctor of the Greeks. And it’s an adage I think applies to the new naturopathic movement in medicine, at least as I got the chance to learn more about it from a new naturopathic doctor recently moved back to the area. Kate Spangler is a La Grande native. She moved away to study medicine and now she’s back to La Grande to help people learn about how to be healthy, naturally.
Naturopathic medicine uses what’s called a holistic approach. That means seeing people as not just a body, but as a person that includes a body, mind, spirit, that exists in an environment. Health, she said, requires looking at all these elements in a person’s life. Instead of just treating a physical condition, holistic medicine tries to understand the person and their circumstances to be able to understand why, exactly, they’re having health problems in the first place.
Once the doctor understands their patient, they can then begin treatment. Kate has what’s called her “Foundations of Health”, things that every person needs to stay healthy. And oftentimes her treatment starts there.
Now, all that philosophical mumbo jumbo is great and all, but what do I do to feel and be healthier? Well, I asked Kate that in my interview, and one thing she said everyone can do, in addition to paying attention to her foundations of health, is as simple as changing the temperature in the shower.
Overall the conversation was a quick but informative soiree into the otherwise unknown world of Naturopathic medicine here in La Grande. Kate is starting a practice here in La Grande, and is doing house calls to begin helping people to get healthier. If you’re interested in her services you can find her business page on Facebook which is where the rest of this interview is also located, only available via LaGrandeAlive.tv.
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Addams Family in La Grandde And speaking of the Addams family, they’re here in La Grande! Everyone’s favorite crazy, kooky, spooky family is at the Elgin Opera House. And last week I got the opportunity to sit down with the cast and crew and talk to them about the show.
Looks fun right? But the show isn’t all fun and dancing. The show actually has some very powerful moral lessons about love, marriage, and being a teenager. In the play, Wednesday Addams has fallen in love. With a normal person. Go figure. But when the normal family comes to visit, the Addams family quickly learns that they’re not the happy white nuclear family they seem to be. They’ve got issues too, and actually the “weird” Addams family is able to, through the play, help the “normal” family to learn exactly how to love.
The play is showing the next two weekends out at the Opera House until Halloween. Tickets can be purchased at the doors on online at the Opera House website.
A Home For Film The Eastern Oregon Film Festival is a beloved annual event here in La Grande. Every year dozens of half-hippie film and beer loving people from La Grande and all Eastern Oregon mecca to our town to enjoy three days of films, live music, and other shenanigans. And people love it.
Every year, the festival centers around the films: a happy medley of independent art, narrative, and documentary films all brought to La Grande by the hard work of Ian Clark, an EOU graduate, local filmmaker and co-founder of the event.
But while Ian is the content coordinator, much of the on-the-ground work in La Grande is done by Chris Jennings including, this year, the purchase and preparation of the film festival’s new home on Depot Street.
Chris has been a member of the festival board since very early, and he says one of his favorite elements about what the festival brings to La Grande is the diversity.
This year many of the films for the festival will be hosted at HQ including the first feature, this Thursday at 7pm, called Everything Beautiful Is Far Away. The rest of the festival schedule for this weekend can be found online on this their website. Festival passes will be available for pickup or purchase Thursday at noon at the new home HQ off Depot Street.
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Will makes a final high note *ding!*
The Piano Gallery Plus Can you play the piano? I can’t, that’s apparent by the intro. But Joyce Hoke can! Very well, actually. And now her and her husband are opening up shop for their piano teaching, tuning, sales and more right down off the main Island City strip and you should check it out!
A big part of the Hoke’s lives is pianos: Joyce is the piano teacher. For years now she’s been teaching kids and adults alike the wonder of playing!
You can definitely tell through her interview that she gets a lot of creative satisfaction through playing the piano.
Lloyd, her husband, doesn’t play. Instead, he tunes. But after many years of driving all over Eastern Oregon to tune pianos, he’s ready to settle down in La Grande and make a business with a hard brick-and-mortar store! But he wants it to be more than just pianos, he said.
Lloyd’s vision for the store is to be a comfortable place where you can buy everything to make your home tasteful and comfortable as an old-time a piano parlor. Lloyd is actually a pretty-handy furniture repurpose guy. When I stepped into the Joyful Sounds store off Island Avenue, I was blown away by the creativity and vision behind some of his repurposing ventures! Old pianos, old desks and tables, old lamps, pretty much anything old he can get his hands on he takes from old and makes to new. Sometimes he takes apart a piano and makes it into a bunch of things! Piano lamps, piano desks, piano bookshelves. It’s pretty cool.
Now, the deeper aspect of these two’s business is that they both see God is what they’re doing. Joyce feels that music is a God-given gift she has, and that it’s her calling to teach others the wonder of what playing the piano can be! Lloyd is a carpenter like Jesus was. And he actually sees the process of repurposing and refurbishing to be a parallel to the Gospel he believes in.
The Joyful Sounds Store and Gallery is grand opening is this weekend, Friday and Saturday, and there’s going to be fun, merriments, and special deals for people who attend. Also, if you’re interested in hosting your art in their store, contact Lloyd or Joyce at this number. And be sure to stay tuned to La Grande Alive! We’re going to do a little bit more about Joyful Sounds in the future so keep your eyes peeled!
Behind the Streams Do you have old VHS tapes you need converted? Well, if you do, our employee Jonathan Marvel has got you covered!
Jonathan Marvel has been working at Anything2Digital for about two years now. He’s a young man who has grown up in La Grande and several years ago he began his internship-turned-job here at Brent Clapp Media Services. He’s the guy who transfers all your old media to DVDs!
And last week he and Brent, the boss around here, hopped in a car and drove all the way to Hood River for the “Working in the Gorge event, an employment recognition event to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Over a hundred people attended this event at which Brent and John got to present about John’s experience working for Brent Clapp Media Services.
Jonathan is a wonderful young man and, though sometimes his disability causes him to struggle, he shows up every day with a smile ready to do his job. He loves Marvel movies and he always tells me, the vegetarian, when he’s eaten his vegetables for the weekend. Jonathan is proof that, though disabilities may hinder people from achieving the same efficiency as the non-disabled, they’re not insurmountable. Jonathan never complains and always does his work. The biggest tragedy of his employment is that we don’t have more work for him.
Big shout out to you John!
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And one other quick event-related notice! Rehearsals are starting for this year’s Handel’s Messiah! The first rehearsal will be October 15th, 2017 and will bbe 6pm every Sunday after that. LGA will have more on this special annual event as the performance gets closer.
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In the news today:
Hunt Hall Falls
Caffeinated Christ
Get Out and Go!
Sports Spotlight
Around the Mountain
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union county, demolition, building, hunt hall, eastern oregon university, coffee, Christianity
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Hunt Hall Falls And speaking of demolitions, Hunt Hall has fallen! After decades of talking about the forthcoming demolition, earlier this summer, EOU finally pulled the trigger and
No more Hunt Hall. Now, since the inception of the idea to demo Hunt it has been controversial. I was a resident assistant at EOU when Hunt was still standing and, let me tell you, lots of ex-students have very fond memories of that building. I remember the time someone stole the big-screen television in the main lobby. Everyone in the building had to end up paying for it, but it was those kind of weird little things that made old, dilapidated hunt hall what it was: a fun, social hall of a bunch of people who loved to stay up late, play video games, and procrastinate their homework together until the last possible minute. And the decision to demo was even more complicated, said Luke Aldrich, the EOU capital projects manager, who I got to sit down with and talk to about the project this week. He said that there were many obstacles to choosing what to do with the site.
According to EOU’s website, Hunt Hall has four wings which were constructed between 1930 and 1960. Betty White was only 8 years old back then! And over the years, the building has dilapidated slowly posing some serious safety concerns which, ultimately, led to the decision to tear it down.
That being said, the cost of renovation was over 30 million, Aldrich said. So without a donor they couldn’t rebuild it. Also, the hilltop has an old pioneer cemetery there, making doing any excavation pretty much a no-no without a lot of hoops to jump through. So ultimately, Aldrich said, they decided to demo the building and just make it a pretty, parking-lot-and-path-filled area.
But the project is only at the demolition phase. Ripping down takes time just like building up. And so this winter, he said, it may look a little bit unfinished.
La Grande Alive will have more on this story coming soon. We’ll follow it until it’s complete. Also, Luke’s interview will be available in-full on La Grande Alive so check it out.
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Caffeinated Christ What do caffeine and Jesus Christ have in common? Well, they’re both served at Rattle Tail Coffee in Union, Oregon! And this week I got the great opportunity to ascend to Union and chat with Randy, the owner, about his new Christ-centered coffee shop.
Randy worked as an auto mechanic for over 30 years. And over the last two years, Randy and his wife have moved to Eastern Oregon to be with family and decided coffee sounded like the business they’d like to be in. Randy likes coffee because it makes people happy, and every day he gets to see people come in and walk out just a little bit more joyful because of the tasty caffeinated drinks he serves them.
Faith is a big part of the Rattle Tail business. Now, you’re not going to walk in and get a cup full of proselytization on the side of your caramel mocha. That’s not Randy’s game. Instead, he wants Rattle Tail to be a bastion of warmth and love, a place, he said, that people can come and feel the Spirit even if he never says the word Jesus Christ to them. He wants people who do business with him to feel that he cares genuinely because, in a small town, you can’t fake it.
Randy’s full interview will be available on our Facebook page. And be sure to pop out and get your coffee and caffeinated Christ at Rattle Tail Coffee in Union Oregon. Nothing to pick you up like a little caffeine buzz served with some old-fashioned Christ-like love that, like coffee, makes your insides feel all warm when it’s cold outside.
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Who doesn’t like jazz and swing? All the members of the La Grande High School jazz band certainly like it. And two of the members told me what, exactly, it is about jazz that’s got them so jazzed.
As of several weeks ago, the Riverside has gone to the dogs. A brand-new entirely-enclosed dog park has been installed by La Grande Parks and Rec. And now dogs of every shape and size can get their runs and plays with their fellow doggies. The park is located on the far side of riverside and has two distinct sections: one for big dogs, and one for small, timid dogs who have a little bit of social anxiety. I bet some people wish all society was organized that way. Both sections are equipped with water spigots and poop bags. And according to Stu Spence, director of LG Parks and Rec, the park is perfect for people with energetic puppies who need somewhere to let them get their energy out after work.
Last week La Grande high school tigers football team had a huge win in Phoenix, Oregon all the way across the state. Winning 25-15, the team has for the first time in many years advanced well into the playoffs and, this weekend, will play Marshfield for their opportunity to stay in the running. If they win, they advance. If they lose, good season guys. But either way, the season is coming to a close here soon. And as such this week I got the opportunity on a cold, windy day to head up to their practice and ask some of the players about their favorite memories of the season.
How much do you pay for television? 90 bucks a month? 100 bucks a month? 120? What if I told you that there was a television option available for as little as one hundred bucks a year? And, what’s better, that each channel in the package was hand-picked to best suit Eastern Oregonians? Well dunk me like a duck, toss me in an asylum and call me crazy, this TV package really exists! And it’s called the Blue Mountain Translator District.
Let nature be thy medicine. This is a slightly-shifted adage of a great doctor of the Greeks. And it’s an adage I think applies to the new naturopathic movement in medicine, at least as I got the chance to learn more about it from a new naturopathic doctor recently moved back to the area. Kate Spangler is a La Grande native. She moved away to study medicine and now she’s back to La Grande to help people learn about how to be healthy, naturally.
The Eastern Oregon Film Festival is a beloved annual event here in La Grande. Every year dozens of half-hippie film and beer loving people from La Grande and all Eastern Oregon mecca to our town to enjoy three days of films, live music, and other shenanigans. And people love it.
Can you play the piano? I can’t, that’s apparent by the intro. But Joyce Hoke can! Very well, actually. And now her and her husband are opening up shop for their piano teaching, tuning, sales and more right down off the main Island City strip and you should check it out!
Do you have old VHS tapes you need converted? Well, if you do, our employee Jonathan Marvel has got you covered!
And last week he and Brent, the boss around here, hopped in a car and drove all the way to Hood River for the “Working in the Gorge event, an employment recognition event to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Over a hundred people attended this event at which Brent and John got to present about John’s experience working for Brent Clapp Media Services.
And speaking of demolitions, Hunt Hall has fallen! After decades of talking about the forthcoming demolition, earlier this summer, EOU finally pulled the trigger and
What do caffeine and Jesus Christ have in common? Well, they’re both served at Rattle Tail Coffee in Union, Oregon! And this week I got the great opportunity to ascend to Union and chat with Randy, the owner, about his new Christ-centered coffee shop.
