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Nov. 3rd Fall Back NOVEMBER 2019 Published by Precision Mail Services www.thecommunitybreeze.com terryonitsway@aol. com North Lake School Annual Veterans Day Program North Lake School will host their annual Veterans Day program on November seventh beginning with a breakfast for Veterans and family at 8am. (Please RSVP for breakfast.) The breakfast will be followed by the public program which will take place in the gym at 9am. If you have never attended this event, please try to take time out to experience this moving presentation honoring our local veterans. We have many who live here, both young and old. Their service should be recognized in our hearts daily - and especially in observance of Veteran’s Day. History of Veterans Day World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied Brilliant Fall Sunset by Gari Merrifield nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.” PUBLIC NOTICE In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, Obsidian Solar Cente the reflections of Armistice Day will be Complete Application for Site Certificate and Public Informational Meeting filled with solemn pride in the heroism Community Thanksgiving Page 2 of those who died in the country’s Celebration service and with gratitude for the All Are Welcome victory, both Fry Bread & Coffee Life Revitalizing Goes because of the thing from which it has Beginning at 10 AM Paisley freed us and because of the opportunity Thanksgiving Meal at 1pm On CHRISTMAS VALLEY .............. it By Gloria Heglar has given America to show her sympathy COMMUNITY HALL Page 3 By Toni Bailie Page 4 with peace and justice in the councils This Wonderful Gift of the nations…”The original concept is given to the community by Ductober and The Bees for the celebration was for a day Praise the Lord Fellowship Bee-cuzz You Asked ob-served with parades and public along with many Friends, Volunteers & Helpers By Gary Brain meetings and a brief suspension of Page 6 business beginning at 11:00 a.m. Tips for Winter Care of Pets and Horses - Page 7 Willows West Knitting & Flowers & More 86426 Christmas Valley Hwy Christmas Valley, OR 97641 Seasonal HOLIDAY HOURS: 541-576-2117 Conditions From November 29 to December 24 Page 10 Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday - 11am-3pm 10 am to 5 pm - Tues thru Sat North Lake both stores Fireworks Fund Laura Parks Page 12 owner EDDM RETAIL EDDM W illows Antiques & Vintage & Gifts Postal Customer Postal PAID The US Postage US ECRWSS **** ECRWSS**** **** 87531 Christmas Valley Hwy | Christmas Valley, OR 97641 | 541-576-2199 PRSRT STD PRSRT NOVEMBER 2019 The Community Breeze Page 2 Comings and Goings PUBLIC NOTICE By Terry Crawford Obsidian Solar Center Well here we are approaching winter. Most of the trees have given Complete Application for Site Certificate and Public Informational Meeting up their leafs and the days are getting shorter. Add to that, daylight Summary: savings time ends on November 3rd so remember to set your clocks Date Notice Issued: October 30, 2019 back one hour on Saturday, the 2nd before going to bed. This is not my Proposal: Photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation facility providing a nominal favorite time of year - I don’t like dark arriving in the late afternoon. generating capacity of approximately 400 megawatts. The facility may also include potential battery energy storage. Oh well, just have to deal with it. Location: North Lake County, approximately eight miles northwest of Christmas Valley The month of October was, for me, really busy. I had two special and seven miles southeast of Fort Rock. transportation trips to bend that fell in-between some other adventures. Introduction: The Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), staff to the Energy Facility Siting Council On the morning of the 10th I took off for Colorado with my friend (EFSC), received an Application for Site Certificate from Obsidian Solar Center LLC, Carol. We took her truck and my trailer and one very cute show pony a subsidiary of Obsidian Renewables LLC, to construct and operate the Obsidian Solar named Paris. Pairs is a diva and very, very bossy. She was ruling the Center. The proposed solar facility would be a photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation facility on approximately 3,921 acres, providing a nominal generating capacity of roost at home to the point of distraction for her pasture mates. So off to approximately 400 megawatts plus potential addition of battery energy storage. Under Oregon her new home. law, the applicant must obtain a site certificate from EFSC before constructing and operating the Our journey took us to Nevada and into Utah through the Rockies proposed facility. The applicant submitted a complete application on October 17, 2019. and along the Canon Lands and then up through more of the Rockies A vicinity map of the proposed facility is included at the end of this notice. Specific locational past Denver and finally to our destination which was about an hour maps can be found in Exhibit C of the application at: and a half beyond https://www.oregon.gov/energy/facilities-safety/facilities/Pages/OSC.aspx Denver. Were often and on ODOE’s online mapping tool at: https://tinyurl.com/EFSCmap followed the mean- Public Informational Meeting: ders of the Colorado Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019 river through the Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Location: North Lake School Gymnasium Rockies, and I being 57566 Fort Rock Road slightly educated Silver Lake, OR 97638 in geology found ODOE will hold a public informational meeting with the applicant to provide information about the amazing rock the proposed facility and the Energy Facility Siting Council review process. The informational strata, up-lifts and meeting will include a presentation starting at 6 p.m. ODOE and applicant representatives will distortions caused by natures slow steady forces fascinating as well as be available before and after the presentation to answer specific questions. remarkably beautiful. The public informational meeting is not a public hearing and will not include public testimony The weather was or on-the-record public comments. Opportunity for written or oral testimony will be provided at clear and crisp with a later date – during the draft proposed order (DPO) public comment period and public hearing no snow, or rain and – following issuance of the DPO, as described below. only occasional areas Description of Proposed Facility: of strong winds. ‘The The proposed solar photovoltaic energy facility would occupy up to 3,921 acres and provide journey’s only draw- a nominal generating capacity of approximately 400 megawatts. The facility may also include battery energy storage capabilities. back was that there was no time for side The applicant is also seeking EFSC review and approval of related or supporting facilities associated trips into nearby sites with the energy facility, including: 34.5-kilovolt (kV) collection system, up to four collector substations approximately one acre each, approximately two miles of 115-kV gen-tie transmission along the way. Oh line, one 115/500-kV step-up substation and transformer, up to two operations and maintenance well, maybe I will just buildings, access and service roads and gates, temporary staging areas, and an approximately 18- have to make time to mile perimeter fence. Related or supporting facilities associated with the proposed battery storage do a road trip with son Stephen and granddaughter Karrah if she can facilities would include steel-frame enclosures for batteries, cell stacks (where battery charge and discharge occurs), and Balance of Plant, which includes large polymer tanks, contained within get the time off. See Comings and Goings, Page Eight. the storage containers. EFSC Review Process: The site certificate process is a consolidated, comprehensive siting process. The applicant must The Community Breeze demonstrate that the proposed facility meets EFSC Standards established under Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 469.501 and set forth in Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) Chapters 345, Division 22 and 24, as well as all other applicable Oregon statutes, rules and standards. ODOE serves as Is published monthly and mailed to all deliverable addresses in Oregon’s northern staff to EFSC and conducts the application review process. Lake County’s communities. The Publisher is Precision Mail Services. Our mailing address is 85450 Christmas Valley Hwy., Silver Lake, Oregon 97638. The proposed Obsidian Solar Center is an energy facility subject to EFSC jurisdiction under the definition in ORS 469.300(11)(a)(D)(iii). As such, the proposed facility must receive a site Readers may also read the Breeze on line by going to certificate from EFSC before construction can begin. thecommunitybreeze.com Upcoming Review Phases: Editor: Terry Crawford 541-480-0753 - terryonitsway@aol. com ODOE is currently preparing the draft proposed order (DPO), which will include staff’s analysis of the application, based on ODOE’s review of the application as well as comments received from Deadline: The 20th the month state agencies, Tribal governments, and the Lake County government. If the DPO recommends approval of the facility, the DPO would include recommended conditions of approval for EFSC’s Women, Men consideration. Following issuance of the DPO, ODOE will open a public comment period and EFSC will conduct & Children Letters to the Editor and Editorial Policy a public hearing in the vicinity of the proposed facility.