Herald and News: Walden to honor stick bomb record
Herald and News: Walden to honor stick bomb record
When Rep. Greg Walden visits Lakeview Saturday, it won’t just be business as usual.
Before Saturday’s Town Hall meeting, set for 11:30 a.m. at the Daly Middle School Auditorium, Walden will honor the achievements of the team that set the Guinness World Record for
Largest Stick Bomb as part of the 2014 Teen Summer Reading Program at Lake County Libraries.
A stick bomb is a kinetic experiment built by weaving craft sticks in a very precise manner so the energy is stored until “detonation.” Detonation sets off an “explosion” of sticks that jump 1 to 2 feet in the air.
The stick bomb was activated Aug. 23, and 17,822 sticks snapped into the air, beating the record of 13,274 held by Pallacanestro Vigodarzere- De Nicolao Stefano of Italy. A video of the detonation can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6B5648Gb_o, along with videos of the build and clean-up.
Participants in the World Record Largest Stick Bomb effort include Rebecca Banks, Eduardo Botello, Sarah Bowersox, Elizabeth Christley, Tim Fort, AKA the “Kinetic King,” Amy Hutchinson, Alora Isham, Stacie Jones, Forest Pearson, Kamaryn Schneider, Danielle Thames, Jose Villalobos and Addie Wampler.
“Twenty-six local businesses and organizations supported us and made this possible,” said Elizabeth Christley, Lake County Libraries youth library assistant who organized the stick bomb effort. “We hope the community comes out to celebrate what Lake County accomplished by working together.”
Christley said the stick bomb team is now waiting until September to see if the Lake County Libraries Summer Reading Program Guinness World Record will be one of the records featured in the 2016 Guinness Book of World Records.
Along with celebrating the team, Walden, R-Hood River, will give an update on bipartisan legislation to grow the economy and create jobs in America, including bipartisan bills passed by the House that he said will “reduce burdens on American workers and small businesses.” He also will discuss efforts to “rein in federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Saturday’s Town Hall session will be Walden’s 18th in the Second District this year. In 2014, he held 25 Town Hall meetings, with at least one in all 20 counties of Oregon’s Second District. He has held 89 district meetings since 2012.
“These Town Hall meetings are another way I keep in close touch with the concerns of Oregonians, along with regular telephone town halls, via Facebook, Twitter, and, of course, mail and email,” Walden said. “They help me develop my ‘to do’ list to take back to Washington, D.C., each week. I look forward to answering questions from the public and giving an update on local and national issues, including growing jobs in Oregon’s rural communities, increasing access to quality health care, and standing up for America’s veterans.”