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Fifty years is a long time,and when taken in thecontext of an anniver-

sary of any sorts, it’s causefor celebration and even areason to give thanks. Such is the case with theSnake River ValleyFirefighters, an organizationwhose workers have sacri-

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way and who, on May 30,2013, celebrated 50 years ofservice to the communityand the nation. The SRV Firefighters cele-brated its 50th year with alive mariachi band, plenty ofhome-cooked Mexican foodand barbecue that filled theair with its intoxicating scent,and several guest speakersspoke about the organization’simpressive history.In 1963, after the localarea was hit by a viciousstring of wildfires, the SRVFirefighters was developedin Vale by the Bureau ofLand Management. Now,the SRV Fire Program hasproduced the largest trainedgroup of Type II firefightersin the nation. “Type II firefighters areour initial attack crews,which usually consist of 20people and make up the bulkof our crews,” said JasonSimmons, assistant fire man-agement officer over fuels.“They’re kind of the back-bone of our force.” The firefighters

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This includes the Long Draw Fire,which, at 558,198 acres, is Oregon’slargest wildfire since the Civil War. Ittook eight days to contain this massive

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Dunden, who added windsand percussion, from 1996to 1998 and Iran Schmidtuntil 1999. In 1999 Armstrong re-sumed duties, expandingthe orchestra to fifty playersand renaming it theTreasure Valley Symphony.Sharing conducting respon-sibilities with ArturoChavez in 2009, Armstrongcontinued conducting thesymphony for twelve years.Denison assumed the posi-tion of Director ofInstrumental Music atTVCC when Armstrong re-tired after 23 years in 2012.The Treasure ValleySymphony has annually per-formed a “pops” style con-cert since 1999. In 2000 itbegan a Young People’s

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The Oregon Cattlemen’sAssociation is celebrating its100th anniversary this year and

some of the issues that brought the or-ganization into being are still faced bycattle producers today. According to a his-tory of the OCA,written by GaryEisler in 1982and updatedthis year, 51cattlemen metin Baker city inMay 1913 towork on commonproblems. They formedthe Oregon Cattle and HorseRaisers Association, later changed tothe Oregon Cattlemen’s Association.The first president was WilliamPullman, who was a cattlemanbanker.

The cattlemen said their purposewas to make improvements in theirgrowing industry to make it possibleto sell enough animals at such a pricethey could make a profit. One of their major issues at thetime was cattle theft, which threat-ened to put producers out of busi-

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When the cattlemen met forthe first time in 1913, theyfaced an old system of countybrand recoding that allowedfor many duplicates in thenearly 3,000 brands recordedat that time. The old BrandBoard sorted out the brands,prioritized conflicting claimsand handling complaints, butmore stringent measures be-cause law enforcement stillhad difficulty in identifying

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brands across Oregon. Another big program facingcattlemen in 1913 was gettingtheir cattle to market. Railservice had come to CentralOregon in 1911, but roadswere still rare in cattle coun-try and many producers drovetheir livestock long distancesto get to a railhead. Oncethere, freight rates were asource of contention.Fixed charges, such as taxesand freight rates were aheavy burden, and the associ-ation succeeded in reducingrates after a protracted ratecase. They won what wascalled the Cattle and HorseRaisers Scale and cattle pro-ducers throughout theNorthwest benefitted bywhat was accomplished. Anaverage $5 per railcar of live-

stock was saved. However, it was land, publicand private, that was and con-tinues to be a prime problemfacing cattlemen. In 1913,most of the productive landhad already been homestead-ed and newcomers were stillcoming in, claiming theirshare of the public domain.Established ranches were be-ing purchased and subdivid-ed. The public land was beingover grazed by transient bandsof livestock feeding uncon-trolled on free grass. Theabuse of rangeland by opera-tors who had no home basethreatened to destroy the re-sources needed by responsible,established producers. The land came to a head inthe 1930’s. As early as 1921,the Oregon Legislature

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passed the Grazing Law thatpermitted county courts andcounty brand inspectors toform grazing boards, whichrequired licenses for stock-men to use the range.Through these actions, the as-sociation leads the way inrange resource conservationand improvement. The Taylor Grazing Act of1934 brought stability to themanagement of public landsand is still an example ofgood resource management.At that time, 173 millionacres of unappropriated pub-lic lands in the western stateawaited disposition. This billauthorized the Secretary ofInterior to divide the landinto grazing districts, estab-lish the rules by which thegrazing districts were used,

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Past OCA presidentsand others were hon-ored at the anniversarycelebration including,from left, Sam Dement,whose family holdsOregon’s first regis-tered brand, BillMoore, Unity; BobSkinner, Jordan Valley;John Hays, Bill Hoyt,Sharon Livingston,Coy Cowart, RaymondFrenchCharles Chandler, ofChandler Herefords inBaker City, Fred Otley,Dalton Straus, pastOregon Beef CouncilChairman, MackBirkmaier and SharonBeck.

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home base of land.Cattle prices have alwayshad their ups and downs.World War I served to boostprices for its duration, butthey promptly fell afterwards.After cattle prices rose to apost-war high in 1928, caughtup in the speculation fever,cattle producers faced hardeconomic times during the de-pression, plus had to dealwith drought.In 1953, OCA members re-jected price supports by a10-to-1 margin. The planwas suggested because of de-clining cattle prices due toexpanded herds. The federalgovernment offered to buysurplus livestock to reduceherd size and bolster prices,but cattle producers op-posed government regula-

tion and interference in thefree market system.Instead the associationmoved toward a greater pro-motion of beef to increaseconsumption and theCowBelles and the OregonBeef Council were establishedover the next several years.In the late 1960’s, importedbeef accounted for 10 per-cent of the Oregon marketand was costing cattlemenmillions of dollars in lostsales. Then Gov. Tom McCalljoined producers in declaringwar on imports, urging resi-dents, stores and restaurantsto buy domestic beef. Juntura rancher, and futurestate legislator Denney Joneswas elected as OCA presi-dent in 1967 and servedthrough 1969. Other presi-

dents from Malheur Countyinclude Bill Ross, Robert H.Skinner and later his son,Robert M. Skinner, all ofJordan Valley, and related tothem was Bill Moore, ofUnity, who has also served aterm as OCA president.Environmental issues beganto build during the 1980sand 1990s, and the OCAtook a number of steps to ad-dress accusations by environ-mental groups. OCS led thecreations of AG-PAC, a politi-cal action committee for allagriculture in Oregon. TheEco-System Management

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ing the college. The following May, votersapproved a $134,000 general fund budg-et, allowing the school to begin inearnest.When classes began the following fall,20 of them were offered to about 200students. The students enrolled rangedin age from 17 to 67.In 1965, TVCC finished its first offi-cial construction project—the vocationaltechnical building. That same year, theadministration building was constructedand day classes were added to TVCC’sschedule.In the 50 years since the first gradu-ating class completed what was called a“new era of higher education inOregon” by Dr. Frank B. Bennett, pres-ident of Eastern Oregon State College,the campus has continued to grow,marking its 50-year anniversary withthe addition of the Laura MooreCunningham Science Center and a ballgala that raised $50,000 for student

scholarships.Robin Jackson, a professor in the artdepartment and former dean, is current-ly TVCC’s longest-standing faculty mem-ber. In his 34 years as a full-time employ-ee at TVCC, Jackson has seen theschools ups and downs and its steady

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tion. We’ve had themover the years and they’vealways been reasonablysupportive.”Jackson teaches in theoldest building on cam-pus—what used to be theclubhouse when thecampus grounds were agolf course. The build-ing has also housed the

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business, has grown and evolved as muchas the town has.“It was just a group of businesses down-town that worked together to bring inmore business. They were kind of an eco-nomic development group if you will,”said Chamber of Commerce CEO JohnBreidenbach.

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here,” Breidenbach said, not-ing that the Chamber hasworked closely with severaleconomic developmentgroups over the years and es-pecially recently. While thedevelopment groups providefinancial information, hesaid, the Chamber is thereas well to present demo-graphics statistics and toshare relocation packetswith valuable informationabout the area.But what the Chamber hasreally become, Breidenbachsaid, is the face of Ontarioto visitors and outside busi-nesses.“What we really market isthe quality of life to live inthis area,” he said.In order to do that, theChamber puts on several

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Idaho Power’s Langley Gulch powerplant was built to balance out thesteadily increasing electricity needs

of its customers, especially during thehot summer months.The power plant, visible off Interstate84 near the New Plymouth exit, cele-brated its one-year anniversary in Juneand according to Brad Bowlin, commu-nications specialist for Idaho Power,Langley Gulch has produced 800,000megawatt hours since it opened.

The power plant has had 95 percentavailability and 98 percent reliabilityover the past 12 months, Bowlin said.“In general, the plant has performedwell,” Bowlin said via email. “With anynew plant or system, there are bugs towork out of it, but the plant team hasdone a good job facing the challenges ofthe plant.”Langley Gulch employs 19 people, in-cluding maintenance and other staff. During the winter months, the plantfaced some freezing conditions, Bowlinsaid. That cold snap challenged theplant equipment and personnel work-ing outdoors.“We discovered a few heat trace sys-

tems that needed to be upgraded,”Bowlin said. “We also had some issueswith the freezing fog collecting on ourair inlet housing that we had to reduceload until we could remove the ice andsnow from our filters.”Langley Gulch was built on 140 acresjust off the interstate. It takes up ap-proximately 12 acres of that.The project began in 2008 with IdahoPower planning the power facility. Ittook two years to complete the projectand 150 to 200 local workers to buildit, Ryan Adelman, Project Leader forLangley Gulch, said in a previous inter-view.The facility was Idaho Power’s first

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F4 combined combustionplant and is one of three natu-ral gas-fired plants that IdahoPower owns.“It uses two turbines to gen-erate electricity — one withnatural gas, the other steam,”Adelman said. “The exhaust

heat from the combustion ofnatural gas is used to makesteam, which drives the steamturbine.”The power plant uses 1,300cubic units of water perminute that it takes from theSnake River. It stores 1.5 mil-

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lion gallons of water on-site.Before the water is used in the system,it will go through a high-tech water treat-ment system that de-mineralizes it.Langley Gulch was needed beginningin 2004. Idaho Power projected “peak-hour loads would see a deficit of 28megawatts in July 2012, 169 megawattsin July 2013 and 224 megawatts in July2014. The availability of the new plantwill significantly reduce the company’sreliance on purchased power.” Idaho Power services nearly 500,000customers in southern Idaho and easternOregon.It can power an average of 208,500homes.The total cost for the project was$401.4 million. In June 2012 the IdahoPublic Utilities Commission issued anorder allowing $389.4 million in baserates. More than $7 million was includ-ed in rates during the 2011 generalrates and another $3 million was in-

curred after June. According to the IPUC, the impact theproject had on customers was the aver-age rates increased by almost 7 percent.For an Idaho Power customer who uses1,020 kilowatt per hour per month, themonthly bill will increase by nearly $5. Gas-fired plants, like Langley Gulch,

are based on aircraft engine technolo-gy. Like coal-fired plants, the naturalgas fuel is burned. But instead ofsteam, the hot compressed exhaust gases expand through a turbine to generate electricity.The carbon footprint is half of whatthe coal plant’s is.

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Atax service district passed by Malheur County resi-dents last year now funds a quarter of the MalheurExperiment Station’s operating budget, said station

director Clint Shock.“The station wouldn’t survive without the tax service dis-trict paid by people of Malheur County,” said Shock, whohas been the director of the station since 1984.The Hatch Act of 1887, which gave federal funds to stateland-grant colleges in order to create a series of agriculturalexperiment stations, led to the creation of Malheur’s sta-tion. However, on average, Hatch Act funds constitute 10percent of total funding for each experiment station, ac-cording to the 2005 CRS Report for Congress. Thus, a taxinitiative was imperative to keeping the Malheur station

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alive.“None of us like to pay moretaxes, but it’s important thatthose be paid in order to keepthis community viablethrough agriculture,” saidTom Phillips, who is on theadvisory committee for theMalheur Experiment Station. The Malheur ExperimentStation is a branch of theOregon AgriculturalExperiment Station, a part ofOregon State University’sCollege of AgriculturalSciences, according to the sta-tion’s website. It is located on117 acres of row crop land in

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Clint Shock in sulphur-flowered buckwheat. It is oneof the native wildflowersthat the BLM and forestservice would like to beable plant for revegetation followingfires. The station isdeveloping culturalpractices to grow 33 varieties of native wildflowers for seed.

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periment stations underOregon State Universitythroughout the state thatwork on different agricul-tural issues.“The whole idea was toinvolve the UnitedStates in agricultureresearch and develop-ment,” Shock said.“It has been a reallyeffective model.”While operationcosts and employ-ees’ salaries arefunded by OregonState Universityand through the taxservice district,Shock said the moneyfor specific experi-ments is provided bygrowers associations, agen-cies, seed companies andherbicide companies. “We do not do researchfor the sake of research,but research for servingthe community,” Shocksaid. “Problems tend todrive the research.”In example, Shock saidthe hot summers of 1984

and 1985 caused potatoesto expose dark-end syn-drome when they werefried, thus the product did-n’t meet consumers’ expec-tations. Through experi-mentation, the station wasable to reduce stress on po-tato plants and stop darkends, providing betterquality French fries.“Without agriculture, thiscommunity wouldn’t sur-vive,” Phillips said. “Thestation is instrumental inproviding information ondrip irrigation in this area,which is now being usedconsiderably here.”Work done at the stationon onions, such as how tobattle thrips, is funded bythe Idaho-Eastern OregonOnion Committee, Shocksaid. Current native wild-flower seed production re-search is being supportedby the U.S. Forest Serviceand the Bureau of LandManagement.The station releases itsexperiment results to thepublic through reports

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posted on the web.“What we’re about is keep-ing agriculture competitive,from having the best varietiesavailable to controlling weedsand other pests, to using wa-ter and nutrients efficiently,”Shock said.Shock highlighted the bene-fits to Malheur county thatare a result of the station’s re-search.“If you have the opportunityto use things right away whenthey become available, that of-fers economic advantages,”

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Below: Students record daily water meter readings so that growerswill have information on the proper irrigation of crops.

Left: Corn lily is a potential anti-cancer crop that has been studied bythe Malheur Experiment Station. Workers measure plants outside ofMcCall that have been treated to enhance flowering.

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The one-year an-niversary is quite amilestone for any

business owner, but forJulie Clark and theOutdoorsman, it feelsmore like just anotherday at the office. “This place (TheOutdoorsman) is such aninstitution in the area,and I’ve been managingthe day in, day out opera-tions here for so long thatthe ownership transitionwas very seamless andsmooth,” Clark said.

For Clark, ownershipin the company was notsomething she originallyset out; however, as theyears added up, the pos-sibility became moreand more of a potentialreality. “I had already been run-ning the day to day opera-tions of the store forquite some time, and theothers involved in owner-ship did not work here atthe store. When youwork at a place for 30years, it was already agreat fit and it was a pret-ty logical decision,” Clarksaid of her purchase of

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the company, which she hadbeen investing in for a periodof almost 15 years. “My relationship with ourcustomers is something elsethat made it an easy decision “Clark said. “You get to knowpeopleovertheyears,what theylike and whatthey’re lookingfor. The relation-ships you build oftentimesevolve past the normal cus-tomer-store relationship.”The Outdoorsman itself hasalso had several transforma-tions over the years. The storehas moved to four locationssince its opening nearly 60years ago.

“We used to have a major fo-cus on more athletic basedsports, winter sports such asskiing, and we also had to sella lot of boating equipment,”Clark said. “I can’t reallypoint to a specific point whenwe started focusing solely onoutdoor sports and activi-

ties. It wasmore of an evolu-tionary processthan anything.” In the yearsince Clarkacquired

full ownershipin the store,TheOutdoorsman has extendedits extensive list of milestonesand accomplishments.

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“We’re involved with andvolunteer with just aboutevery outdoor association youcan think of, including DucksUnlimited and ElksUnlimited, we offer classes onsafety and training and we al-so volunteer at many differentorganizational banquets,” shesaid. “We really try our hard-est to be involved with asmuch as we can.” In terms of future mile-stones and developments,Clark said they are workingon increasing their onlinepresence, especially when it

comes to their gun marketingand sales. “We already have a numberof people that call in and re-quest our products via mail,and we always get peoplepassing through the areathat are very impressed withour staff and selection,”Clark said. “Branching outinto more online businesswill make it easier for thosepeople to purchase our prod-ucts without having to travelor hassle as much with themailing process.”

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Though many in the area have heard ofNunhems, knowing exactly what they domay be a little less clear.

Nunhems is a vegetable seed company thatmakes hybrids for a variety of plants.Located in Parma, its best-selling seeds in theTreasure Valley are onions, carrots, tomatoesand watermelons. Nunhems opened in the 1970s, said TysonSmith, Regional Head of Finance andAdministration.

Above: Some small bitsof the plant travel withthe onion seed, shown inthis photo. The machinewill separate the seed in-to three different bins- abin with only the onionseed, another bin wherethe onion seed still hassome remnants of theplant, and a third where itis mostly remnants andwill be thrown out. Thesecond bin will gothrough the machinesagain.

Smith shows how small an onion seed is. The final prod-uct, meaning ready-to-ship, will have just the onionseed without any remnants from the original crop.

Smith said the good bin will be jet black in color because itcontains only the onion seed.

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The Parma location wasnot opened until later buthad originally been locatedon more than 100 acres.Throughout the years, theacreage of the land has beensold and repurchased but thelocation has stayed the same.The other U.S. Nunhemslocations are in Californiaand Oregon, but 45 percentof the seeds sold come fromthe Treasure Valley locationwhich is why it is also the lo-cation for the Nunhems U.S.headquarters.The scientists that pro-duce the hybrid seeds focuson a variety of different is-sues presented to the farm-ers and consumers.A disease that takes out the

plant can be scientifically al-tered to safeguard the plant.The size, color, storabilityand more can all be alteredusing generations of cross-breeding with different vari-eties of plants.If a tomato is particularlyprone to die of a certain dis-ease in the area, the scien-tists would make a tomatoplant that is resistant to thedisease, Smith explained. Ittakes many generations oftomato plants, and only afew of those generations aresuccessful and move on tothe next crossbreeding,which takes time to growand produce to get the finalsuccessful outcome. For tomatoes, the scientists

can get three generations ofplants a year. A hybridtomato plant that is resist-ant to a certain disease cantake up to six years to final-ly obtain the end result.For onions, it producesone generation every twoyears. It can take 12 to 16years to produce what thescientists at Nunhems weretrying to create, Smith said.The farmers and con-sumers are always kept inmind but the final productthe scientists want becomesa type of balancing act be-tween the two parties. A farmer could want aseed that stores longer andthe investment it takes toproduce the crop has to stay

After the seeds havebeen successfullyseparated and are

almost ready to pack andship, they are stored in anair conditioned room toawait packaging.

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looking for, Smith said.The breeding stations are all over theworld. The seed must be able to grow indifferent climates and the breeding mustbe close to the market it is being sold to.However, the seed is tested all over tomake sure it can produce a crop in vari-ous places around the world and is not re-gion-specific.The biggest threat in the PacificNorthwest facing Nunhems at the mo-ment is the change in regulations. New regulations from the FDA are re-quiring farmers to test for E Coli as part ofthe Food Safety Modernization Act.If a farmer’s well water is beyond thestated threshold then the produce willnot pass the test and the farmer cannotsell the crop.For the Pacific Northwest, onions are be-ing threatened because of this. The irriga-tion canals would never be able to get to aplace where they can pass the FDA’s watertests, Smith said.“This could kill the onion industry,” hesaid.Additionally, the farmers are required totest the water every week, and the testscost $40 each. A farmer can’t afford to dothat.

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As Top Air’s customerscontinued to request“bigger, better and

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Treasure Valleyonions are harvest-ed and bound forstorage in a fieldnear Adrian in 2007.

pany’s name comes from itspatented method of toppingonions by using air. Top Air,which was founded in 1990as Specialized ManufacturingCo., was purchased by Kido in2004, and the company adopt-ed its current name.The company of 20 employ-ees moved from three build-ings with a total of 8,000square feet of productionspace across RoswellBoulevard in Parma to one20,000-square-foot buildingwith an office. Top Air movedinto the new facility, whichwas built by ArriagaConstruction of Caldwell, inFebruary.“The biggest advantage ishaving more room and nicer

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Top Air exports theirequipment to Australia, NewZealand, China, SouthAfrica, Brazil, Asia, andEurope.Kido said the company’snew facility is divided intotwo segments: fabricationand assembly. Raw materialsare cut to length andprocessed on the fabricationside. In the assembly seg-ment, pieces are painted, sub-assembled into groups andeach one of those sub-assem-blies is put together for the fi-nal machine.Kido grew up on a farm inParma and received a degreein agricultural economicsfrom the University of Idahoin 1974. He farmed inWilder for 16 years beforejoining Top Air.

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