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M onday
N ovem ber 14, 2005 Seahawks
W ALLA W ALLA
UNION-BULLETIN in driver’s
Bringing the valley home to you since 1869.
seat in West
50 cents
admits
Northern Santa Fe has director of the Washington Potato for up to 40 percent of their sales. make a trip.
Com m ission, told the Yak im a BN SF spokesman Gus Melonas
backtracked on promised Herald- Republic. said there is no agreement for
“ If you’re a perishable shipper,
you don’t want to take a chance of
expansion of rail service. Since leaving the commission last scheduled, or dedicated, service. the train stopping and starting and
spring, Boss has been working on The company is working on serving sitting around,” Boss said.
YA KIM A (AP) — Produce ship behalf of the Central Washington the shippers but declined to elabor
pers say Burlington Northern Santa Alliance for Rail Freight Transpor ate on the dispute. Boss said the company told him it
bomb
Fe has gone back on a promise to tation, based in Moses Lake. Boss According to Boss, BN SF has lacks locomotives and other equip
expand rail service to the ports of said BN SF had promised shippers mentioned providing other types of ment necessary for the service due
Seattle and Tacoma this fall, leaving regularly scheduled service on re rail service that wouldn’t be regu to heavy demand elsewhere. He has
them scrambling to find alternative frigerated containers to the ports. larly scheduled, but that’s not ac asked Sen. Patty Murray, D- Wash.,
transportation for their potatoes, But two weeks ago, “ they pulled ceptable. Shippers don’t want their and Gov. Christine Gregoire to in
onions and fruit. the rug out from under us,” he said, cargo sitting around in a rail yard tervene.
for home
old television shows includ ing
“ Welcom e Back Kotter” w ill be
available online and free of charge
under a deal between Am erica
Online Inc. and Warner Bros., the
companies announced.
Straw bales — and plenty In the latest alternative to tra
ditional viewing, a new broadband
of assistance from others network, called In2TV, w ill be
— help raise a home launched in early 2006 by AOL and
Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Dis
outside Walla Walla. tribution, the companies said today.
Besides the TV shows, In2TV will
By FARRIS EMILIE SANDERS include games, polls and other
for the Union-Bulletin
U-B photos by MATT ZIMMERMAN interactive features.
“ I ’m so tired of Three Little Matt Schroeder of Hem lock, Wash., (top photo) works with a crew of around 50 people at a straw bale workshop
“ Welcom e Back Kotter,” “ Sis
Pigs jokes,” Skip Pritchard said, put on by IronStraw to help assem ble Skip Pritchard’s new straw bale house near Walla Walla. “ The great thing is ters” and “ Growing Pains” are
shaking his head and smiling. just community. We have people here from all over," says Pritchard. Above, left to right, Melissa Warner, Lina among the 30 series to be offered
Pritchard, wife Renne and fam Menard and Jo se Puebla work in the foreground to cut hay bales to shape. initially. In2TV plans to offer more
ily are building a straw bale than 100 TV series and at least 300
home. And, certainly, when you off of Mill Creek Road outside of library in the country known to of t h in k in g ... Everyo n e says episodes per month in the first year,
build your house out of straw a Walla Walla. They are being be made of straw bales. wood is a renewable resource, the companies said.
few jokes based on a children’s helped by The IronStraw Group, Straw is becoming more popu but every year wood is diminish The shows w ill be delivered
tale will be directed at you. an Oakland, Ore.- based nonprofit lar, partially because it is a re ing,” he said. through AOL Video on Demand,
But the ending to this story will dedicated to promoting straw as newable resource. That is the AOL Video Search and AOL Tele
Then he talks about how using vision. At the time of launch, the
be different: This home won’t be a building material. main reason Pritchard chose to
straw is a natural choice in this programs will be available exclus
blown down by a big, bad wolf, The IronStraw Group has been use straw.
area, as his finger points to a ively on AOL and will not be in
or even a strong wind. involved with several projects, “ I’m not super up to snuff on hillside on the Palouse Prairie
including the public library in what is environm entally friendly, syndication on TV, AOL officials
The Pritchards’ new house is
going up on their 3.4 acres, just Mattawa, Wash, the first public but I think we’re stuck in a way Please see ^ INSULATION, A9 said.
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