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Herald and News Afternoon showers 56/28 Page B4 T HURSDAY Nov. 7, 2013 $20 for $40 Towards Services and Vaccinations heraldandnews.com/superfly empowering the community ❘ www.heraldandnews.com — Klamath Falls, Oregon — 75 cents New store hires 28 employees Sports Authority will open in Klamath Falls Saturday, Nov. 16 Laura Pendergraft, 89 — See page A4 Annie’s Mailbox..........................B4 Obituary ......................................A4 City/Region................................A2 Classified................................D1-5 Comics, crossword.........................D6 Forum.........................................A6 Law enforcement.......................A7 Lotteries.....................................B3 Sports.....................................B1-3 DAILY BRIEFING ONLINE INDEX OBITUARY Like our Facebook page and leave us a comment at facebook.com/HandN. Follow us on Twitter for breaking news updates at twitter.com/HandN_news. Klamath altitude good for young strawberries Thousands of seedling straw- berry plants are started in the cool soil of the Klamath Basin, then uprooted and sent to Cali- fornia farms to produce fruit by Mother’s Day. See page A8. Triad students, staff give salute to veterans A pair of local veterans, one who served in Afghanistan and the other a prisoner during the Vietnam War, were honored with songs and speeches at Triad Wednesday. See page A2. Vol. No. 23,459 On heraldandnews.com: For breaking news updates, go to www.heraldandnews.com Community Partners Seeking Better Health HEALTHY Klamath Why is this important? High blood pressure is the number one modifiable risk factor for stroke. In addition to stroke, high blood pressure also contributes to heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure, and atherosclerosis. The higher your blood pressure, the greater your risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease. The Community Partners Seeking Better Health want to improve this number. To learn more, go to: www.healthyklamath.org or scan the QR code. 29.4% of Klamath County residents have been told by their health care provider that they have high blood pressure. Scan the QR code to learn more Did You Know? By HOLLY DILLEMUTH H&N Staff Reporter Klamath Falls will be home to one of the new- est Sports Authority branches in the Northwest. Store manager Steve Lindholm checked on freight arriving Wednesday morning behind the store located in the Jefferson Square Mall. He and 27 other employees are gearing up to kickoff the grand opening of the store at 8 a.m. on Satur- day, Nov. 16. Trainees listened to instructions near the foot- wear department as other employees swept the aisles, prepping to serve customers at the new Klamath Falls branch, 2870 South Sixth St. “We’re super excited,” Lindholm said of the upcoming opening. “This is going to be an awe- some addition to the community.” See STORE, page A3 Oregon has nation’s priciest child care Oregon Public Broadcasting A national study released Tuesday says Oregon has the least affordable child care in the country. A report from Child Care Aware of America finds that Oregon parents pay an average of $10,000 a year to care for four-year-olds. It’s $13,000 for infant care. Those figures rival higher-income states like New York, Minnesota and Massachusetts. The combination of high costs and relatively low incomes in Oregon means child care here is less affordable than in any other state. Oregon couples pay an average of 14 percent of their income to pay for child care for a pre- schooler. For infants, the average climbs to more than 18.5 percent. Oregon created an Early Learning Council two years ago to consolidate supervision of pro- grams for young children. Expanding the availability of affordable child care is one of the council’s goals. Washington voters reject GMO labeling Oregon Public Broadcasting Washington voters have rejected an initiative to require labels for foods with genetically modified ingre- dients. Initiative 522 failed by a 55 to 45 percent vote. Early in the vote tally, supporters of the initiative remained upbeat at a cam- paign event in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. But the co-chairs of the campaign took the stage to tamp down expectations for campaign supporters. In fact, one of the co- chairs quipped that if nothing else, after this election at least most Washingtonians now know what the letters GMO stands for. Initiative 522 results ■ Yes: 445,535 45.16% ■ No: 540,995 54.84% See GMO, page A4 National champions Dakota Massey, Luke Plass, Wayne Will and Julio Villasenor made up the Tulelake FFA agricultural mechanics team that took first place at the National FFA Conven- tion and Expo in Louisville, Ky., last week. Submitted photo by Darrell Hirschler Tulelake FFA mechanics team wins By SAMANTHA TIPLER H&N Staff Reporter TULELAKE — When the four- man Tulelake High School agri- cultural mechanics team arrived in Louisville, Ky., to compete in the National FFA Convention & Expo., they had a message from their home town of 1,000 people: Go get ’em boys. And they did. Luke Plass, Wayne Will, Dako- ta Massey and Julio Villasenor took first place in the national competition, beating out teams from 44 other states. In individual competition Will took third place, Plass took fourth and Massey took 11th. The team earned a gold emblem award, Massey and Will earned individual gold emblems and Vil- lasenor earned an individual silver emblem. This was the team’s first time at national competi- tion. They won the California state competition last spring. Villasenor and Plass graduated from Tulelake High School last spring and are attending Reed- ley College in Fresno. Will and Massey are seniors at Tulelake. Massey and Will said they are still getting used to the idea of being national champions. They were happily surprised by the reaction they got when they arrived home on Sunday. “In a big city if we had taken this I don’t think it would have gone as noticed,” Massey said. “Living here is wonderful. We came home and there’s our names on the supermarket. Everybody’s congratulating us. Everywhere we’ve gone people know what we did. You don’t get that kind of appreciation in a big city.” “I was just hoping to go back and represent the community well after all the good support they gave us,” Will said. Preparing for competition The team started preparing for the national competition as soon as the state competition was done. They all had summer jobs and worked around those jobs to get their studying and practice in. “After work we’d be in here for a few hours so it’d be dark by the time we got out — 8:30, 9 o’clock,” Massey said. When fall arrived Plass and Villasenor went to college and Will and Massey started back up at Tulelake High School. Town celebrates its four achievers, coach Hirschler See CHAMPIONS, page A3 Limelighter The Klamath Basin celebrates those who have served this Veterans Day See page C1 Cross country stars OIT seniors Kirby Garlitz and Scott Minor make a run for the Cascade Collegiate Conference crown See page B1
Transcript of Herald News - TownNewsbloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/heraldandnews.com/conten… · For...
Herald and NewsAfternoon showers
56/28Page B4
ThursdayNov. 7, 2013
$20 for $40Towards Servicesand Vaccinations
heraldandnews.com/superfly
empowering the community ❘ www.heraldandnews.com — Klamath Falls, Oregon — 75 cents
New store hires 28 employeesSports Authority will open in Klamath Falls Saturday, Nov. 16
Laura Pendergraft, 89— See page A4
Annie’s Mailbox..........................B4Obituary......................................A4City/Region........................... .....A2Classified................................D1-5 Comics, crossword.........................D6 Forum.........................................A6Law enforcement.......................A7Lotteries.....................................B3Sports.....................................B1-3
DAILY BRIEFING ONLINE INDEX OBITUARYLike our Facebook page and leave us a comment at facebook.com/HandN.
Follow us on Twitter for breaking news updates at twitter.com/HandN_news.
Klamath altitude good for young strawberries
Thousands of seedling straw-berry plants are started in the cool soil of the Klamath Basin, then uprooted and sent to Cali-fornia farms to produce fruit by Mother’s Day. See page A8.
Triad students, staff give salute to veterans
A pair of local veterans, one who served in Afghanistan and the other a prisoner during the Vietnam War, were honored with songs and speeches at Triad Wednesday. See page A2.
Vol. No. 23,459
On heraldandnews.com: For breaking news updates, go to www.heraldandnews.com
Community Partners Seeking Better Health
HEALTHY KlamathWhy is this important?High blood pressure is the number one modifiable risk factor for stroke. In addition to stroke, high blood pressure also contributes to heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure, and atherosclerosis. The higher your blood pressure, the greater your risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease.
The Community Partners Seeking Better Health want to improve this number.To learn more, go to: www.healthyklamath.org or scan the QR code.
29.4% of Klamath County residents have been told by their health care provider that they have high blood pressure.
Scan the QR codeto learn more
Did You Know?
By HOLLY DILLEMUTHH&N Staff Reporter
Klamath Falls will be home to one of the new-est Sports Authority branches in the Northwest.
Store manager Steve Lindholm checked on freight arriving Wednesday morning behind the store located in the Jefferson Square Mall. He and 27 other employees are gearing up to kickoff the grand opening of the store at 8 a.m. on Satur-day, Nov. 16.
Trainees listened to instructions near the foot-wear department as other employees swept the aisles, prepping to serve customers at the new Klamath Falls branch, 2870 South Sixth St.
“We’re super excited,” Lindholm said of the upcoming opening. “This is going to be an awe-some addition to the community.”
See STORE, page A3
Oregon has nation’s priciest child careOregon Public Broadcasting
A national study released Tuesday says Oregon has the least affordable child care in the country.
A report from Child Care Aware of America finds that Oregon parents pay an average of $10,000 a year to care for four-year-olds. It’s $13,000 for infant care.
Those figures rival higher-income states like New York, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
The combination of high costs and relatively low incomes in Oregon means child care here is less affordable than in any other state.
Oregon couples pay an average of 14 percent of their income to pay for child care for a pre-schooler. For infants, the average climbs to more than 18.5 percent.
Oregon created an Early Learning Council two years ago to consolidate supervision of pro-grams for young children.
Expanding the availability of affordable child care is one of the council’s goals.
Washington voters reject GMO labelingOregon Public Broadcasting
Washington voters have rejected an initiative to require labels for foods with genetically modified ingre-dients.
Initiative 522 failed by a 55 to 45 percent vote.
Early in the vote tally, supporters of the initiative remained upbeat at a cam-paign event in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. But the co-chairs of the campaign took the stage to tamp down expectations for campaign supporters.
In fact, one of the co-chairs quipped that if nothing else, after this election at least most Washingtonians now know what the letters GMO stands for.
Initiative 522 results■ Yes: 445,535
45.16%
■ No: 540,995 54.84%See GMO, page A4
National championsDakota Massey, Luke Plass, Wayne Will and Julio Villasenor made up the Tulelake FFA agricultural mechanics team that took first place at the National FFA Conven-tion and Expo in Louisville, Ky., last week.
Submitted photo by Darrell Hirschler
Tulelake FFA mechanics team wins
By SAMANTHA TIPLERH&N Staff Reporter
TULELAKE — When the four-man Tulelake High School agri-cultural mechanics team arrived in Louisville, Ky., to compete in the National FFA Convention & Expo., they had a message from their home town of 1,000 people: Go get ’em boys.
And they did. Luke Plass, Wayne Will, Dako-
ta Massey and Julio Villasenor took first place in the national competition, beating out teams from 44 other states.
In individual competition Will took third place, Plass took fourth and Massey took 11th. The team earned a gold emblem award, Massey and Will earned
individual gold emblems and Vil-lasenor earned an individual silver emblem.
This was the team’s first time at national competi-tion. They won the California state competition last spring.
Villasenor and Plass graduated from Tulelake High School last spring and are attending Reed-ley College in Fresno. Will and Massey are seniors at Tulelake.
Massey and Will said they are still getting used to the idea of being national champions. They were happily surprised by the reaction they got when they arrived home on Sunday.
“In a big city if we had taken this I don’t think it would have gone as noticed,” Massey said. “Living here is wonderful. We came home and there’s our names
on the supermarket. Everybody’s congratulating us. Everywhere we’ve gone people know what we did. You don’t get that kind of appreciation in a big city.”
“I was just hoping to go back and represent the community well after all the good support they gave us,” Will said.
Preparing for competitionThe team started preparing
for the national competition as soon as the state competition was done. They all had summer jobs and worked around those jobs to get their studying and practice in.
“After work we’d be in here for a few hours so it’d be dark by the time we got out — 8:30, 9 o’clock,” Massey said.
When fall arrived Plass and Villasenor went to college and Will and Massey started back up at Tulelake High School.
Town celebrates its four achievers, coach
Hirschler
See CHAMPIONS, page A3
LimelighterThe Klamath Basin celebrates those who have served this Veterans Day
See page C1
Cross country starsOIT seniors Kirby Garlitz and Scott Minor make a run for the Cascade Collegiate Conference crown
See page B1
