The Dalles has been selected to be one of the three latest Blue Zones Project Demonstration Communities in Oregon, which is intended to bring a community-led cross-sector approach to make it easier for people to make local choices.  Oregon Healthiest State, a privately led partnership supported by Cambia Health Foundation, announced The Dalles, Grants Pass, and Roseburg were chosen to join Klamath Falls in the three-year program.  Lauren Kraemer of Oregon State University Extension is part of the stakeholder group that developed the Blue Zone application, and she says the next step includes a discovery process to bring community partners to the table to determine the health issues they want to tackle first, and hiring four people to work on the project.  Total operational cost for the Blue Zone Community is $2,500,000 over the next three years, and the local group will need to provide one-third of that.  Kraemer says they have some commitments from OSU and other funders, and they will be looking for grant monies and local business partnerships.