Boys Basketball

Hood River Valley 61, Mac-Hi 36:  The Eagles cruise to the win in Milton-Freewater in a tuneup for a key Intermountain Conference game at home against Redmond on Friday night.

LaCenter 74, Stevenson 63:  The Bulldogs fall into a tie for third in the Trico League with Seton Catholic.

 

Girls Basketball

King’s Way Christian 49, Columbia 31:  The Knights scored 34 second half points to propel themselves to the victory.

LaCenter 39, Stevenson 37:  LaCenter comes back from seven points down at halftime to grab the win.  Stevenson and Columbia are tied for third in the Trico.

 

Tuesday evening The Dalles will learn if has won last week’s Internet vote to be featured in season five of the “Small Business Revolution” program.  Fredonia, New York had led every update issued on the program’s Facebook page with The Dalles second.  Main Street The Dalles led a massive voting push featuring its lovethedalles.com website and establishing a number of locations where people could vote multiple times per day on a number of different devices.  The program’s producers will announce the selected city in a streamed presentation Tuesday at 5 p.m., with program co-host and Deluxe Corporation Chief Brand and Communications Officer Amanda Brinkman appearing on stage in the winning city.  A watch party is planned for The Dalles Civic Auditorium Tuesday, with doors opening at 3:30 p.m., and video presentations beginning around 3:45.  The “Small Business Revolution” program and Deluxe Corporation will invest $500,000 in The Dalles to improve six small businesses over eight episodes during the fifth season of the program, which is distributed on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

 

Hood River City Manager Rachel Fuller says last week’s water line break and boil water advisory exposed some weaknesses in the City’s public communication process.  Fuller said on Bicoastal Media’s Mid-Columbia Today program on Monday that they understand it was an unnerving situation for some residents, and some of their communication plans did not go as expected.  She says many of those have been resolved, but there is more work to do.  Many of the issues involved the technology the City uses to put out emergency messages did not work as expected.  Fuller adds a City-wide review of all of their emergency operations plans has been initiated, and that they need to learn from the experience.

Klickitat County Commissioners are receiving requests from communities to allow ATV’s to be driven on public roads under certain parameters.  The Dallesport Community Council will make a presentation to the Commission at their Tuesday meeting, and Bickleton has also made a request.  The County allowed ATV’s on roads in the Glenwood area as a pilot project a few years ago, and Commissioner Rex Johnston says so far it seems to have worked out.  The County can authorize ATV use on roads with speed limits up to 35 miles per hour.

Boys Basketball

Redmond 65, The Dalles 45

LaCenter 75, Columbia 31

Stevenson 58, Castle Rock 55

Dufur 49, Perrydale 48

Mitchell-Spray 61, Dufur 59

Ione 66, Horizon Christian 41

South Wasco 83, Mitchell-Spray 51

Sunnyside Christian 67, Trout Lake 39

Yakama Tribal 78, Klickitat-Glenwood 15

Tri-Cities Prep 67, Lyle-Wishram 17

Mabton 73, Lyle-Wishram 21

Bickleton 60, Trout Lake 43

Cle Elum-Roslyn 72, Goldendale 63

 

Girls Basketball

Ridgeview 61, Hood River Valley 19

The Dalles 52, Redmond 43

Columbia 61, Stevenson 59

Perrydale 50, Dufur 21

Dufur 59, Mitchell-Spray 20

South Wasco 56, Mitchell-Spray 26

Damascus Christian 49, South Wasco 35

Sunnyside Christian 45, Trout Lake 41

Tri-Cities Prep 66, Lyle-Wishram 25

Mabton 81, Lyle-Wishram 40

Sherman 51, Klickitat-Glenwood 35

Cle Elum-Roslyn 54, Goldendale 45

 

Wrestling

Hood River Valley was fifth and The Dalles 11^th in the Hood River Invitational.  Hood River Valley’s Chad Muenzer won the 138 pound division and Dusty Dodge of The Dalles took first at 170.  In the girls’ portion of the tourney HRV was 11^th and The Dalles 26^th. 

 

Hood River Valley 51, Bend 28

 

Girls Wrestling

Bend 53, Hood River Valley 3

 

Swimming

The Dalles won both the boys and girls titles at the Madras Invitational.  The girls won by 51 points over second place Corbett, while the girls nipped the host White Buffaloes by eight points.

 

Nordic Skiing

Hood River Valley boys and girls both finished sixth in the Cross Country Oregon Invitational at Mt. Bachelor.  The Eagles’ Frances Dickinson finished 13^th in the girls’ individual 5K.

A portion of East Scenic Drive in The Dalles will be closed for about 14 days as work on the second phase of a stabilization project takes place.  Work begins Monday at 7 a.m. on East Scenic Drive between East 16th and Jefferson streets.  Local access will be provided to residents.  Detour routes to get to Columbia Gorge Community College and Sorosis Park will be marked from Dry Hollow Road to 19th Street, then on 18th Street to Jefferson Street.  The project is scheduled to end on approximately February 12.

It’s been a busy time for the Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation.  Foundation director Stephanie Hoppe reports a number of major donations in recent weeks.  She says a pair of dedicated scholarships in the school’s new education program to train new teachers in partnership with Oregon State University have been established.  General Pacific, a wholesale distributor to public utilities based in Fairview, has donated a drone that Hoppe says will help CGCC’s unmanned aerial vehicle flight training program.  And Hoppe adds Caithness Energy has committed to supporting CGCC’s renewable energy program with $25,000 per year for the next ten years.

Girls Basketball

Trout Lake 43, Hood River Valley 36

Columbia 78, Castle Rock 49

Stevenson 49, Seton Catholic 38

The City of Hood River’s boil water advisory has been lifted.

City officials said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that test results confirmed no evidence of harmful bacteria in the municipal water system due to a water line break on Sunday in the downtown area, and the City’s water is safe for drinking.

Hood River City water customers are advised to flush all household plumbing prior to consuming water as a precaution.

Some customers may experience air in their water lines in the form of spitting or burping at the faucet or cloudiness in the water that rapidly dissipates as it settles, which is normal and not a cause for concern.

Sediment scoured from water lines may be observed due to higher than normal velocities in the pipes, and that can be resolved by flushing household plumbing until it is removed.

Hood River County Environmental Health is advising city water users who use ice machines to discard the ice and thoroughly sanitize the machine, water filters should be replaced, and any other appliances that use water should be sanitized.

Any food prepared or washed after Sunday night using raw water should be discarded.

Those with questions or concerns can call the City of Hood River water department at 541-387-5216.

 

The Hood River County Commission has settled on a rate of 78 cents per thousand dollars of assessed property value for a five-year public safety levy that will be put before voters on the May ballot.  County Commissioners had been somewhat split on a rate between 78 and 83 cents during recent worksessions, trying to balance the desire to allow the Sheriff’s Department to be able to staff 24-hour coverage with concerns about asking for too high a rate from voters as the County desperately tries to dig out of a budget shortfall.  Commission Chair Mike Oates indicated a week ago he wanted the 83 cent rate, but decided to move to 78 cents, saying passage is more important than the exact number.  He added the final decision was unanimous.  Oates said the 78 cent rate would allow for two additional deputies to be added in the Sheriff’s Department over the life of the levy.  Commissioners will hold a worksession on Monday, February 3 at 1 p.m. in the County Administration Building to work on the final wording for the ballot measure, which will be the subject of a public hearing on February 18 during the Commissioners’ regular meeting at 6 p.m.