Boys Basketball
Cascade 67, The Dalles 54
Stevenson 61, Goldendale 51
Sherman 79, Gilchrest 33
Condon 52, Lyle-Wishram 12
Mannahouse Academy 69, Horizon Christian 25
South Wasco 86, Stanfield 70
Girls Basketball
Condon 57, Lyle-Wishram 16
Mannahouse Academy 23, Horizon Christian 17
Stanfield 69, South Wasco 39
Wrestling
Rainier 42, Columbia 24
Riverside 48, Columbia 28
The Dalles City Council gave its consensus for Public Works to pursue a new 15-year contract with Operations Management International to continue to manage the municipal wastewater treatment plant under the same formula for determining the management fee as in previous contracts. OMI gave the City the option to move from the current system of determining the management fee on an annual basis based upon a formula using the Consumer Price Index to a “cost plus” contract under which the management would be a fixed 18.5 percent of the direct cost each year. City Public Works Director Dave Anderson recommended staying with the current format, noting not all direct cost increases lead to a proportionate jump in management cost. Anderson says they will negotiate the contract with the intent of bringing it back to the Council in February or March. OMI has managed the plant for the past 30 years.
Washington Gorge Action Programs is considering its options after learning a key supplier to its food bank program has is discontinuing service to food assistance programs across rural communities in Washington. WAGAP executive director Leslie Naramore says the Washington State Department of Agriculture notified her of the decision by the group Second Harvest without further explanation, leaving WAGAP scrambling to minimize the impact on their clients. WAGAP Nutrition Programs director Janeal Booren said the biggest impact to their clients will be access to healthy fresh foods and protein items. WAGAP officials say talks are underway with Clark County Food Bank to see if it can provide surplus items to WAGAP and act as a subcontractor to supplement fresh and frozen foods. The proposed arrangement could serve as a stop-gap measure to temporarily bridge WAGAP’s supply chain through March. Those who would like to donate to WAGAP’s nutrition program can go to wagap.org.
North Central Public Health District will be hosting a vaccine clinic this week in The Dalles. The clinic runs this Thursday through Saturday 523 E. 3rd St., at the former Griffith Motors building. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. No appointment, insurance, or ID is needed. The clinic will have three COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna, and the newer Novavax vaccine, with both primary and the updated booster dose, available. The updated booster can be given two months after your last dose. And while this clinic will have the regular-dose flu shot available, it will not have the shot formulated for seniors. The JYNNEOS vaccine against monkeypox is also available.
Boys Basketball
Hood River Valley 66, Estacada 47: Zak Poole scored 18 points while Sawyer Clemett tallied 16 and Isaiah Poole 13 to pace the Eagles to their first win of the season.
Columbia 55, Corbett 35
Girls Basketball
Hood River Valley 54, Estacada 42: Marina Castaneda notched 20 points and Abby Schrankel 15 as the Eagles evened their record at 2-2.
Corbett 64, Columbia 39
Kalama 43, Stevenson 27
A suspect was taken into custody early Saturday morning after The Dalles Police received a call reporting shots fire at Kelly Viewpoint. According to the police department, the call came in at 11:50 p.m. Friday night. Officers contacted a group of young adults, and several witnesses were able to provide video of a vehicle driving recklessly in a parking lot prior to the shots being fired from that vehicle, and officers found multiple shell casings. Law enforcement was able to read the license plate on the vehicle from the video obtained, and found the vehicle in a parking lot on West 6th. Officers were able to arrest the suspect, and a handgun was found inside the vehicle that was later determined to be stolen. The suspect was lodged at NORCOR on multiple felony charges. The Oregon State Police, Wasco County Sheriff’s Office, and Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Police were all involved in the investigation.
Four people were injured when a van went down an embankment on Monday morning at the junctions of Highways 141 and 141A in Klickitat County. According to the Washington State Patrol, the van was northbound on Highway 141 at about 8:30 Monday morning when it hit black ice, went off the roadway and down an embankment, coming to rest on its side. The WSP says the four men from Portland, ranging in age from 27 to 35, were taken to area hospitals with undisclosed injuries. The WSP indicated only one of the four was wearing a seatbelt. The van was totaled. The WSP says no drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident.
Hood River County has been informed it will be protected under terms of the recently approved Private Forest Accord between private landowners and environmental groups. County Commission Chair Mike Oates says the accord calls for changing forest practice rules in a way that expands protections for fish and amphibians, and protect private forest land owners from lawsuits. But the accord rules were going to apply to county and state-owned lands without the lawsuit protections. Oates says they were told last week Hood River County will be able to opt-in to the protections as well. Oates notes the regulations under the accord won’t have a large impact on the County’s forest practices, but it does put minimums in where the County would always evaluate each site individually.
Klickitat PUD will be holding a 2023 budget and electric rate hearing Tuesday, with staff presenting a proposal for electric rate increases designed to increase rate revenues by 4.5% effective with the start of the New Year. These increases will vary by rate class, with residential and small general service rate revenues to increase by 2.5%. Klickitat PUD has not increased electric rates since 2019. The PUD says customers are using more power than is available from our McNary hydro-electric project, and from BPA at BPA’s lowest preference rate. The utility purchases the additional power needed at prices heavily influenced by the wholesale power market, and those market prices are increasing, a trend expected to continue. The hearing will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the PUD office in Goldendale. The proposal details are available at klickitatpud.com.
Tonight’s scheduled Hood River City Council meeting has been pushed back a week. It will now be held next Monday night, December 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Hood River City Hall. It will be the only meeting of the month, with the second cancelled due to the Christmas holiday. The Dalles City Council will meet at 6 p.m. this evening in their chambers in The Dalles City Hall.
