Boys Golf

The Dalles’ Aidan Telles finished in a tie for third and teammate Tyler Vassar tied for eighth at the Oregon Class 5A Boys’ Golf Tournament at Trysting Tree in Corvallis.  Telles shot a 76 in the final round on Tuesday, while Vassar fired a 75.  Issac Buerger of Ridgeview won the title with a four-under 67 on the final day to clear the field by eight shots.  Hood River Valley finished seventh in the team standings, with Crescent Valley taking the championship.

Girls Golf

The Dalles’ Samantha Stansbury shot a 98 in the final round to finish in a tie for thirteenth at the Oregon Class 5A Girls’ Golf Tournament at Quail Valley in Banks.  Hood River Valley’s Victoria Ervin finished in 27^th.

Baseball

Hood River Valley 8, The Dalles 0:  Harrison Howell pitched a one-hitter as the Eagles finished Intermountain Conference play with their fourth straight win.  Ben Nelson led off for the Riverhawks with an infield single, but Howell retired the remaining 21 batters he faced, walking no one and striking out ten.  Howell, Caden Leiblien, and Jeremiah Brittle had two hits apiece to lead the HRV offense.

Dufur sweeps Weston-McEwen 10-0 and 15-2:  The sweep lifts the Rangers into a tie for second in Class 2A/1A Special District 7, qualifying them for the state playoffs.

Softball

Hood River Valley 6, The Dalles 0:  Lauren Decker pitched a five-hit shutout as HRV won for the sixth straight time to close out its IMC schedule.  Makenzie Chambers drove in two runs as the Eagles never looked back after scoring three runs in the first inning.

The Dalles City Council approved an ordinance to give local police more tools in dealing with recreational and oversized vehicles parked on public streets.  The ordinance would allow people to get a five-day permit to park such vehicles on a street adjacent to an occupied single-family dwelling at no cost, with an annual limit of six permits per property.  RVs which are found to be parked upon a public street without a permit would be subject to issuance of a citation and impoundment within 24 hours of the issuance of the citation, with similar regulations for trailers.  City officials say in some cases, the RVs are abandoned, and in other cases they are being used for long term residential use.  Police Chief Pat Ashmore says they hope to use education to eliminate the problem rather than resorting to towing the vehicle away.

The Hood River County School District budget committee is sending a budget to the district board for the 2019-20 school year that includes an additional 18.4 full-time equivalent employees, lowers class sizes, adds electives, and expands preschool and increase counseling, mental health and behavioral support in schools, while reducing next year’s tax rate on the district’s local option levy by four percent and maintaining a 13 percent reserve.  District Superintendent Dan Goldman says a number of factors are allowing the district to make the moves, including existence of the local option and operational changes over the last few years, adding he believes it is a sustainable budget through the end of the current biennium.  Goldman says they used the Governor’s state K-12 budget proposal to develop their plans.  The district board will hold a budget hearing on June 12.

Wasco County continues to prepare for taking over building code services on July 1.  The Commission is scheduled to pass the second reading of the ordinances to establish the services at their meeting on Wednesday morning.  Commissioner Scott Hege says they are on track for the July 1 startup date.  The County decided to take over the building codes services after the state indicated it would probably not have a local office to provide them in the wake of the dissolution of the Mid-Columbia Council of Governments.

The White Salmon City Council and the White Salmon Valley Pool Metropolitan Park District reached consensus during a joint meeting not to try to reopen the existing aging swimming pool this summer, but instead focus on constructing a new facility.  The City was informed by inspectors last month the current pool would need $50,000 worth of repairs to be safe to open, and it would probably take until mid-July to get the work done.  Combined with previous commitments to the White Salmon Valley School District to decommission the pool after the 2020 season, City officials reaffirmed their decision not to expend the funds for the repairs.  The City will continue to look to purchase pool passes to a facility elsewhere for this summer, while the pool district continues its work to build a new aquatic facility.

Boys Golf

Aidan Telles of The Dalles is just one shot off the lead heading into today’s final round of the Oregon Class 5A high school boys’ golf championships at Trysting Tree in Corvallis.  Telles shot a one-over-par 72 on Monday, good for a tie for second with Michael Gray of Crescent Valley, trailing only Issac Buerger of Ridgeview.  The Riverhawks’ Tyler Vassar is tied for eighth at six-over.  Hood River Valley is tied for sixth in the team standings with Churchill, 41 shots back of leader Crescent Valley.  The Eagles’ Ren Tappert is tied for 24^th at 13-over, while Chad Klaas is 15-over.

Girls Golf

The Dalles’ Samantha Stansbury is in 13^th at the Oregon Class 5A girls’ golf tournament at Quail Valley in Banks.  Stansbury shot 29-over-par, 21 behind leader Megan George of Pendleton.  Hood River Valley’s Victoria Ervin is tied for 20^th at 34-over.

Tennis

Kelli and Kristin Bighorn of Goldendale won the girls’ doubles championship at the SCAC West sub-district tournament.  The Bighorns defeated Reese Vetsch and Courtney Standley of LaSalle 7-5, 6-2 in the final.  They move on to the SCAC district tournament in Connell on Friday and Saturday.  The Timberwolves’ Aidan Bothamely also qualified for district with a fourth place finish in boys’ singles.

Girls Lacrosse

Hood River Valley 17, Lakeridge 5:  Kathryn Koenig scored five goals for HRV, while Brynne Holman added four.

A project to improve safety at Nobi’s Corner on Hood River’s Tucker Road appears to be back on.  Hood River County Commission Chair Mike Oates says he was informed by Oregon Department Of Transportation Region 1 manager Rian Windsheimer that the state should be able to pick up the tab for the work to make changes to the corner that is difficult for large trucks to get through.  Oates says funds originally planned for placing sidewalks on AGA Road in Odell will be used for the Nobi’s Corner work.  Oates said ODOT had found during preliminary study for the sidewalk project that costs were going to escalate substantially to deal with a number of obstacles to the effort.

As spring progresses, there is a lot of activity going on at the Port of The Dalles.  Port Marketing Director Kathy Ursprung says temporary fencing has been put up around new grass at Kiwanis Cove Park in the Port area to help protect it from geese.  The Port and the North Wasco County Parks and Recreation District have been partnering on that project.  In addition, a mixed commercial and residential use building is being constructed, a new veterinary clinic is about to be completed, and plans are in the works for building on a couple of more lots.  Ursprung says the Port still has some land available for development.

Those interested in running for various local boards in Washington can file to run for election this week.  Auditor’s offices in Klickitat and Skamania counties will be taking candidate filings through Friday.  All filings must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday.  Information on how to file and the offices open for election are available at the websites of Klickitat and Skamania counties.

Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue Crews were able to quickly extinguish a deck fire Sunday afternoon on East 9th Street in The Dalles.  No injuries were reported and the home is still livable.  According to MCFR officials, improperly disposed smoking materials caused the fire.  They remind people to dispose of smoking materials in a safe manner, recommending that cigarette butts are placed in a can with sand or water inside and a lid.  Also, avoid putting out cigarettes in potted plants as the dirt in the pots may have a high percentage of combustible material that can smolder and eventually cause a fire.