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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.
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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!
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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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In Farmers We Trust The La Grande Farmer’s Market opened its doors last Saturday! Now if you haven’t been to the Farmer’s Market, it’s a blast of fun, fruit, and local musicians available for the whole family to enjoy. There’s handcrafted jewelry, clothing, and even hand-made soap for you to peruse, buy, and use. And this week I got the opportunity to sit down with several members of the Farmer’s Market planning committee and chat with them about why you should head down to the market and buy local.
Now, the Farmer’s Market is open Saturdays from 9 am to noon and Tuesdays 3:30 pm to 6 pm. If you’re interested in knowing more about the market, they can be visited on this website. So gird your loins and break out your baskets, everyone, farmer’s market is open for the season!
Coffee With Will and Dale Mamman Have you ever wondered how to get things done effectively? I know as a recent-post-graduate the whole “adulting” thing can be a struggle sometime, especially in the area of getting things done successfully and effectively. But that’s okay because this week Dale Mammen, local entrepreneur and Liberty THeater foundation lead, sat down with me and talked about his four P’s of project development.
And Dale’s applying the 4ps in a big way to his current project, the Liberty Theater. The liberty theater is a old-as-dust historical theater in La Grande that Dale and his fellows are planning to restore. Recently they asked for some money in the form of budget allocation from the city of La Grande. But they got DENIED because, well, you’d have to ask the city council on that one. But that’s okay, said Dale, because patience and politics are two of this 4 ps. And the Liberty Theater is important enough, he said, to keep pushing which, hey, is another P!
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A couple other events coming up. A millionaire has been murdered! And it’s your job to figure out whodunit! Le Bebe Cakes will be hosting a murder mystery night Saturday May 27, 5-7 or 8-10 pm. There will be dinner, and and it will be the goal of the dinner party to figure out who, exactly, killed master big bucks! Ticks are 19.95 for general admission and must be reserved before the event at Le Bebe Cakes.
Also, the Grande Ronde Symphony will host its last concert of the season next Wednesday, May 31, at EOU! The theme of the concert will be “Showstoppers” and will feature several eye-turning musicians including Concerto-Aria Lauren Guthridge, soprano Shahayla Ononaiye, and Hermiston High School Junior Sidney Tovey. Tickets are 12 bucks for general admission with discounts for students, seniors, and military. They can be purchased online or at Direct Music Source.
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Challenging Walden Michael Byrne is a stonemason. He was born in the Dalles and is a long-time resident of Hood River. He’s been a local ski instructor, a teacher, a coach, a Catholic Church member and a long time elected member of the Hood River PTA. Before Obamacare, he never had healthcare. When he was sick, he paid with cash. He dresses in a simple blazer with a cotton undershirt and from his slight frame you wouldn’t guess he carries, breaks, and crafts massive stones all day for a living. He’s a human being, just like you and me, an everyman. But what may or may not make him different than you is that he’s irately frustrated and fed up with Greg Walden, our local District 2 Politician who’s never, ever here and doesn’t represent our interests, he said.
There’s certain people you can tell are brimming with passion at any given moment. It’s in the eyes. And Michael is one of those people. And though La Grande Alive doesn’t necessarily agree with his opinions about Walden and otherwise, his interview was full of passion and care for the people of his small district in Eastern Oregon. And so, he’s running for office. He’s not a long-time politician, though, he’s just like you and me. And he’s fed up with the money and power saturating the public system. It takes the voice away from everyday folks, especially the underprivileged, he said.
Now, Byrne is running against Greg Walden for US Congress District 2. And when I asked, he said he didn’t quite know how he was going to get there. But ultimately he said that, if he won, all his votes would go toward giving people equal opportunity.
If you’d like to know more about Michael and his stance, you can visit his website. The entirety of his interview will be available on La Grande Alive for you to watch. And by the way, Greg Walden, if you’re out there, we’d love to have you into the studio to chat about why think you do represent us here in Eastern Oregon.
Big Buxton Is Watching! Did you know that there are companies that analyze your credit card data and debit card spending records? Now, hold on shotgun, put away your slugs. It’s not the government or someone trying to sell you some cheap kitchen appliance. You don’t need to shoot anyone. Actually it’s companies dedicated to helping our community better do business by seeing where we’re spending money. And Buxton is one of those companies. And several years ago the City of La Grande Hired Buxton to find out what kind of items people were are buying locally, what kind of items people are traveling out of town to buy, and what people from other travel to our area to buy.
That was Christine Jarsky. She’s the Union County representative for the Buxton Study the city did several years ago and Brent sat down with her on Brent Chats this week to talk to her about Buxton. Now, most of the information the study gives us is pretty general. What economic areas we spend, what kinds of food we eat, those kinds of things. But some of it is very detailed: did you know we can tell what kind of mascara brand women buy within a 20 mile radius? And the trend information can be helpful. It can tell us, for instance, how Eastern Oregon differs from the national average on spen ding. Did you know that, in Eastern Oregon, were 20% higher than the national average in hunting sales? We’re also 20% lower in buying yoga supplies. Seems pretty straightforward, I know, but ultimately it’s very helpful for new and outside businesses to know if their store would succeed in our valley, including, restaurants.
Now, it’s a lot of data. And it takes some training to be able to decipher it. But, if you’re a current or possible local business owner and would like to know what this study says about your business, Christine said she’d be happy to sit down with you for free. The rest of this interview will be available on La Grande Alive in full.
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In this episode of Brent Chats, Christine Jarski sits down and talks with Brent about the Buxton study and how it can help the economy in La Grande.
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In this episode of Coffee with Will, local film festival coordinator and arts lover Chris Jennings talks about his current project of passion and why it’s important to get involved locally.
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SCHOOLS, COWGIRLS, AND ARMCHAIR PILLOWS – Weekly Newsish Roundup:
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In the news today:
Central School Goes Global
Superintendent Swap
Cloverhaven Cowgirls – Boots and Lace
Get Out and Go!
Sports Spotlight
Around the Mountain
La Grande Amateur Golf Tournament
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Central School Goes Global
Back in my day, we had projectors in schools. We had transparencies. We had big old computers that looked like a bloated apples colored like the teletubbies. And now look at kids. They have screens. They have Chromebooks. They have giant wide screen televisions in every classroom so that they can watch what they’re writing on their iPads real-time! What ever happened to colored pencils? That’s what I want to know!
But you know what you can’t do with colored pencils? Work on collaborative projects with people across the globe. And truth be told that’s the world we live in. And those of us who think that kids may be a little bit spoiled these days have to come to terms with the fact that, if our kids are going to survive in the work world, they need to learn how to operate work with someone in another state or even another country. Global collaboration. And that’s the idea behind Central School’s new high-tech collaboration-stressed design. A place where kids can learn to live in the new tech-saturated world and work with other people instead of just doing things on their own.
The new central school building came about through a process of planning that is several years old. Originally, the administrators were considering just updating the old Central school to keep it running. But it wasn’t safe. So ultimately they decided to design and build a new high-tech school to bring kids into the modern world.
The school operates on what’s called the “Pod” method. Every grade has a “pod”. All the classrooms for that grade are in that pod. Then each pod has a “breakout room” into which kids from all classes can join together to collaborate. That way kids are learning to work with others outside their classroom.
The rest of Suzy Mayes interview will be available on La Grande Alive for you to watch. And be sure to poke your head into the Central School to see the screens, big, open halls, and the kids. I’m sure Suzie would be eager to show you around.
Superintendent Swap
There’s two new dudes in superintendent positions around the valley. Mr. George Mendoza has taken the position of superintendent in La Grande, and Mr. Earl *** is the new superintendent of the Cove school district. And this week I got to sit down with both of them and get introductions.
Now, these two men’s personalities are as far apart as Penn and Teller. Earl, Cove’s new superintendent, is ex-military. He’s brunt, confident, and to the point. All his sentences end with a period. George, La Grande’s new superintendent, on the other hand, is softer spoken, gentler. He smiles a lot and before my interview he polished his shoes, if that tells you anything about his attention to detail and style. He’s soft like a armchair pillow: he makes you very comfortable to be sitting and talking to him. But ironically, though these two men put side by side would seem like completely different people, their leadership philosophies are actually quite similar.
Both of these interviews will be available in full on La Grande Alive. Both will be more active on La Grande Alive in coming times.
Boots and Lace and Horse
Okay, so I’ve done a lot about horses recently. I promise I’m almost done. But when I went out several weeks ago to cover Cloverhaven, I wanted to put together a longer piece about what’s so special about horses and why you should head out this weekend to their Boots and Lace fundraiser this weekend.
The fund-raiser is this Saturday out near Union. For more information about Cloverhaven, visit their website.
Get Out and Go!
And speaking of upcoming events, here’s Get Out and Go! With Emily Adair from GO! Magazine.
Sports Spotlight
And here’s your local sports in your weekly sports spotlight with Ronald Bond from the Observer Newspaper!
Around the Mountain
And here’s your EOU sports in Around the Mountain in 90 seconds!
Sports
And one other quick sports highlight! Last week the Grande Ronde Open golf tournament was hosted out at the La Grande Country Club by the Grande Ronde Hospital foundation. And what’s the GRH foundation? Well, here’s Patrick Flynn telling you.
Now some of you may be asking, why Golf? Well I asked Patrick the same question and he had this to say.
Now, this tournament has been going for about 20 years annually. This year 69 golfers came together to play. The Amateur features 36 holes of individual stroke-play golf spread over three days, followed by a Sole Survivor competition on Sunday afternoon. The champions of the event were Jeff Neher of Walla Walla, who shot a gross 149, and Beccy Kramer of Imbler, who shot a gross 155.
In this episode of Coffee With Will, Alice Trindle, a local horsemanship trainer and director of the Eastern Oregon Visitors Association, stopped into the studio to talk to me about horses, symphonies, and what’s she loves about Eastern Oregon.
Big thanks to Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Anything2Digital.com, EONI, Grande Ronde Hospital, SeaBrite Dental P.C., Country Financial and Valley Realty.
In this episode, Will sits down with Denise Wheeler, professor of theater at Eastern Oregon University and award winning costumer, to discuss the upcoming Elgin Opera House show: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Big thanks to our sponsors Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Grande Ronde Hospital, Anything2Digital.com, EONI and SeaBrite Dental P.C.!
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Kickoff! Alright! It’s a special almost-all-sports edition of the Newsish Roundup! Why? Well, this friday the La Grande High School Tigers kick off their football season with a super special game against Pendleton in Pendleton. Now, this is a special occasion. La Grande plays Pendleton every year but La Grande hasn’t played Pendleton in Pendleton since the coaches can’t remember. Every year the first pendleton games conflict with the Pendleton roundup. But since last year, the team has a new field. And this year the Tigers are traveling for their first game in P-Town in a lot of years, according to the coaches. And this week I had them into the studio to chat about the upcoming season and they said this game, because of how special it is, is all about attitude.
But it’s not all about attitude. Some of it’s about good, solid practice. And the coaches said that to prepare for this year’s season, they’ve also been putting the kids through some good-old-fashioned drills and repetitions.
The LGHS football team has 8 regular season games scheduled for this year against such notorious opponents as Pendelton, Baker, Sunnyside, Ontario, The Dalles, and McLoughlin. And the coaches said, if you can, you should attend all of them.
But, that being said, if you can’t some or even any of the games, that’s okay, we here at La Grande Alive have you covered! As we do every year, we’re going to be live-streaming all the games to our website and Facebook page every week. We’ll have scores, times, instant replays, the works. So be sure to tune in to LaGrandeAlive for all your LGHS football games, only on LaGrandeAlive.tv!
All Star Season! Most of you all have probably heard by this point, the La Grande All Stars had a stellar season this summer. Making it all the way through local and state to the regionals competition, after an early loss to Walla Walla, the team came back two games in the regional championship winning 3-2 against Montana and 8-4 Washington. The team was ecstatic. But they just couldn’t bring it home, matching up again with Walla Walla for the regional championship, again, they lost 4-3 by a single run they just couldn’t come back from in the final inning. It was devastating. Here’s several pictures of the kids after the loss courtesy of the observer.
But everything isn’t lost. This week I got a chance to sit down with assistant coach Mitch Williams and listen to him talk very passionately about the memories of the season and, despite the loss, how proud of his boys he is.
And I think his pride in his sons is probably replicated for all the parents of this team.
Get Out and Go! And here’s your upcoming events with Emily Adair in Get Out and Go!
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MEDQUESTING NEOAHEC is a company up at Eastern Oregon University that focuses on bringing health professionals to rural towns in Oregon. Here’s a quick clip from a local doctor about what NEOAHEC is and why it’s important.
Now, here’s the scoop: in June NEOAHEC is having what’s called their Med-Quest Camp. MedQuest is a week-long camp which invites kids and youths to come up, stay at EOU in the dorms, and job-shadow health professionals already practicing in their local towns. Here’s a quick video snippet they put together about the camp.
The event is open to all high school students completing grades 9-12 who are a interested in careers in healthcare. There is a cost to the camp, but there’s scholarships for those people who aren’t quite rich enough to afford it. But here’s the dealio: the deadline is march 16th so if you’re interested in signing up be sure to get ahold of them. They can be reached at their website or by phone at this here number.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY And by the way, this title story was brought to you by Direct Music Source! Grande Ronde Hospital, Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Anything2Digital.com and Direct Music Source.
GRANDE FILM REVIEWS – OSCARS And now, here’s this week’s Grande Film Reviews with Jeanie, Josh, and Bridger!
UPCOMING EVENTS So, what’s going on this week in the Valley? Well, Art Center East is hosting the upcoming exhibit called “So It Begins.” For some of Eastern Oregon University’s junior art students, this will be their first time in a gallery setting. The show includes paintings, ceramics and mixed media projects, and it will be held at, like I said, Art Center East.
This is the last weekend of Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat at the Elgin Opera House and, let me tell you, it’s fantastic. Unless you’re a stuffy religious person who can’t handle when Bible stories aren’t told in KJV Old English direct translated from the Septuagint. Then don’t go. You’ll hate it, just like you hate everything else fun in life. For tickets, call the Elgin Opera House or visit their website.
If there’s one thing Anthony Lakes is good at having, it’s fun. And Anthony Lakes is having a Snow Blast celebration this Saturday that will include a dummy downhill race, a big air contest, potato sack race, BBQ, live music and more! So throw on your snow pants and winter tires and drive up to Anthony Lakes this weekend for a food, tunes, and an overall good time!
SPORTS In sports, the La Grande Tigers girl’s basketball season came to a close to moving on last Saturday but, for the first time since 2009, the lady Tigers won’t be dancing in March for the 4a OSAA playoffs. No. 3 seed North Bend used a huge third period to defeat La Grande 53-49 in the 4a state play-in game. Leading the way was Larissa Jensen who tallied 13 points.
The La Grande boy’s basketball team, on the other hand, earned the No. 1 seed into the OSAA 4a boys playoff two weeks ago when they defeated Ontario 69-53, winning the Greater Oregon League district title as well as the regular season title. La Grande is set to face 15th seeded Tillamook on Friday March 3rd (tomorrow) with tip scheduled for 6 pm.
AROUND THE MOUNT And here’s Evan and Chris, here to bring you Around the Mount in 90 Seconds!
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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.
A couple other events coming up. A millionaire has been murdered! And it’s your job to figure out whodunit! Le Bebe Cakes will be hosting a murder mystery night Saturday May 27, 5-7 or 8-10 pm. There will be dinner, and and it will be the goal of the dinner party to figure out who, exactly, killed master big bucks! Ticks are 19.95 for general admission and must be reserved before the event at Le Bebe Cakes.
Michael Byrne is a stonemason. He was born in the Dalles and is a long-time resident of Hood River. He’s been a local ski instructor, a teacher, a coach, a Catholic Church member and a long time elected member of the Hood River PTA. Before Obamacare, he never had healthcare. When he was sick, he paid with cash. He dresses in a simple blazer with a cotton undershirt and from his slight frame you wouldn’t guess he carries, breaks, and crafts massive stones all day for a living. He’s a human being, just like you and me, an everyman. But what may or may not make him different than you is that he’s irately frustrated and fed up with Greg Walden, our local District 2 Politician who’s never, ever here and doesn’t represent our interests, he said.
Did you know that there are companies that analyze your credit card data and debit card spending records? Now, hold on shotgun, put away your slugs. It’s not the government or someone trying to sell you some cheap kitchen appliance. You don’t need to shoot anyone. Actually it’s companies dedicated to helping our community better do business by seeing where we’re spending money. And Buxton is one of those companies. And several years ago the City of La Grande Hired Buxton to find out what kind of items people were are buying locally, what kind of items people are traveling out of town to buy, and what people from other travel to our area to buy.
That was Christine Jarsky. She’s the Union County representative for the Buxton Study the city did several years ago and Brent sat down with her on Brent Chats this week to talk to her about Buxton. Now, most of the information the study gives us is pretty general. What economic areas we spend, what kinds of food we eat, those kinds of things. But some of it is very detailed: did you know we can tell what kind of mascara brand women buy within a 20 mile radius? And the trend information can be helpful. It can tell us, for instance, how Eastern Oregon differs from the national average on spen ding. Did you know that, in Eastern Oregon, were 20% higher than the national average in hunting sales? We’re also 20% lower in buying yoga supplies. Seems pretty straightforward, I know, but ultimately it’s very helpful for new and outside businesses to know if their store would succeed in our valley, including, restaurants.
Back in my day, we had projectors in schools. We had transparencies. We had big old computers that looked like a bloated apples colored like the teletubbies. And now look at kids. They have screens. They have Chromebooks. They have giant wide screen televisions in every classroom so that they can watch what they’re writing on their 
There’s two new dudes in superintendent positions around the valley. Mr. George Mendoza has taken the position of superintendent in La Grande, and Mr. Earl *** is the new superintendent of the Cove school district. And this week I got to sit down with 
superintendent, on the other hand, is softer spoken, gentler. He smiles a lot and before my interview he polished his shoes, if that tells you anything about his attention to detail and style. He’s soft like a armchair pillow: he makes you very comfortable to be sitting and talking to him. But ironically, though these two men put side by side would seem like completely different people, their leadership philosophies are actually quite similar.
Big thanks to our sponsors Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Grande Ronde Hospital, Anything2Digital.com, EONI and SeaBrite Dental P.C.!
Alright! It’s a special almost-all-sports edition of the Newsish Roundup! Why? Well, this friday the La Grande High School Tigers kick off their football season with a super special game against Pendleton in Pendleton. Now, this is a special occasion. La Grande plays Pendleton every year but La Grande hasn’t played Pendleton in Pendleton since the coaches can’t remember. Every year the first pendleton games conflict with the Pendleton roundup. But since last year, the team has a new field. And this year the Tigers are traveling for their first game in P-Town in a lot of years, according to the coaches. And this week I had them into the studio to chat about the upcoming season and they said this game, because of how special it is, is all about attitude.
The LGHS football team has 8 regular season games scheduled for this year against such notorious opponents as Pendelton, Baker, Sunnyside, Ontario, The Dalles, and McLoughlin. And the coaches said, if you can, you should attend all of them.
