The Dalles City Council, acting in its capacity as the Columbia Gateway Urban Renewal Agency, approved an installment plan for Discover Development to make a $100,000 payment to the Urban Renewal Agency for the Sunshine Mill property that was due on May 15 over the next nine months.  In documents included in the Urban Renewal Agency meeting packet for Monday night, the company had indicated an unanticipated supply chain failure had put the business behind in the filling of orders for about five weeks, but the company has found a different supplier and is working to fill those orders.  The monthly payments will be range from $10,000-to-$15,000, and City Manager Julie Krueger indicated to the board that the company had made the first payment.  A $350,000 installment payment remains due next May.  Board members agreed to the move, noting it was a good solution to a cash flow problem.

The Hood River Valley Eagles won the Oregon Class 5-A boys high school track and field championship, holding off Marist by four points at Hayward Field in Eugene.  Parker Kennedy won the pole vault and finished second in the 300 meter hurdles, while Sebastian Barajas won the shot put and finished second in the discus to lead the Eagles to their first-ever state championship.  Parker Irusta earned three placing finishes, and Justin Crosswhite and Tyrone Stintzi had two apiece.  Marist had a chance to snatch the title from the Eagles with a win in the final event of the meet, the four by 400 meter relay, but finished fourth.  It is the Eagles first ever boys’ track and field state title.

Track and Field Oregon Class 1A Championships at Hayward Field Ellis Rager of South Wasco and Keith Blake of Dufur finished one-two in the boys’ shot put to highlight the Mid-Columbia effort in day one of the meet in Eugene.  Rager won the event with a toss of 47 feet, three inches.  There were four third place finishes from area athletes:  Jony Nelson of Horizon Christian in the 3,000 meters, Sherman’s Maverick Winslow in the boys’ pole vault and Isaiah Coles in the boys’ long jump, and Paulina Finn of Horizon Christian in the girls’ high jump.  Most event finals are today.   Southwest Washington Class 1A District Championships at Tumwater The Columbia girls tied for fourth and the boys tied for sixth, while Stevenson finished 11^th in both.  Two individual event winners from the area, as Alondra Casarez-Garcia of Columbia won the girls’ 100 meter hurdles, and Luke Nichols of Stevenson won the boys’ pole vault.   Tennis Oregon Class 5A Girls Tennis Tournament at the Portland Tennis Center Johanna Wilson and Kiana Pielli of The Dalles won their first round match, topping Ellie Cross and Nithya Vaikuntam of Marist 6-2, 6-3.  The Riverhawk duo will face a pair from Crescent Valley in the quarterfinals today.   Girls Lacrosse Oregon State Playoffs Navy Bracket Hood River Valley 9, Sherwood 8:  Abby Bortles scored four goals as the Eagles advance to play Lincoln on Monday at 8 p.m. at Wilsonville in the bracket semi-finals.   Hood River Valley High School has named new varsity basketball coaches.  Former Eagle Christopher Dirks will become the boys’ head coach after serving as freshman coach last year, while current track and field head coach Donnie Herneisen takes over the lead of the girls’ basketball program.

Now that voters have approved the Hood River County School District’s 57 million dollar bond measure, the next step for district officials is to begin to plan for the various projects the money will be used for.  Superintendent Dan Goldman says the first task is to prepare for the sale of the bonds.  He expects next year to be busy with identifying project specifications and going out to bid, with most construction to start in the summer of 2017.  Goldman did say critical needs like replacement of the boiler at Hood River Middle School will be expedited.  For bigger projects like the new May Street Elementary School and the STEM facility at Wy’east Middle School, there will be a community engagement effort while working on design of the buildings.

The Wasco County cherry crop is looking solid as an early harvest season looms.  Wasco County Oregon State University Extension Agent Lynn Long says in The Dalles area the fruit set looks good for most varieties.  Long said he will be examining cherries in the Mosier area on Friday.  He says harvest will begin around the first of June, about ten days ahead of normal.  The big variable is rain, with forecasts bringing the possibility of precipitation over the next few days.

The White Salmon City Council received a cost range for a proposed new municipal swimming pool, and will put out a request for proposals to submit designs.  The cost range given was between $2,500,000 and $6,000,000, and Mayor David Poucher says the City is looking toward the lower cost option.  Poucher says the RFP’s should provide a more specific price tag.  Poucher thinks they should have some proposals in hand by the end of June.  He notes they have $500,000 to put towards construction of a new pool, and fundraising efforts have not begun in earnest.

The annual Children’s Fair will take place on Saturday at City Park in The Dalles.  A number of area organizations that work with children will take part in the event.  Nancey Patton of Columbia Gorge Community College Child Care Partners says all of the activities at the event will be free.  There will be face painting, carnival style games, and arts and crafts.  The Children’s Fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at The Dalles City Park.

Baseball Jesuit 9, Hood River Valley 7:  A six-run second inning propelled the third-ranked in Class 6A Crusaders to the non-league win over the number two team in 5A as both squads get ready for their state tournaments next week.  Montana Kurahara drove in three runs while Connor Coerper pitched four solid innings in relief as the Eagles came back late in the game.  HRV had seven doubles in the contest.   Southwest Washington Class 1A District Softball Tournament Hoquiam 14, Stevenson 2 Elma 5, Stevenson 3  

Anglers will get another three days of Columbia River Chinook salmon fishing starting Friday, under rules adopted during a joint state hearing of fish and wildlife officials from Oregon and Washington.  The season opens Friday and continues through Sunday.  The open area is from Tongue Point approximately 19 miles upstream from the river mouth, to Beacon Rock, located approximately four miles below Bonneville Dam.  Only bank angling is allowed from Beacon Rock upstream to Bonneville Dam.  This is the second time in the past two weeks that fishery managers have reopened the spring Chinook season on the Columbia, with the catch during last weekend’s reopening lower than expected.  The size of this year’s Chinook run will be updated again when fishery managers meet again on Tuesday.  

Wasco County Commissioner Steve Kramer is planning to work with the Association of Oregon Counties on a subcommittee dealing with recycling issues.  He says they need to figure out how to make recycling in rural areas cost-effective.  Kramer notes the western portion of the state has the population base and money to make it work, but recycling from the eastern half of Oregon has to be transported to the west.  Kramer says there have been preliminary discussions with the Association of Oregon Recyclers to find solutions, and the Department of Environmental Quality has been invited to take part as well.