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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
East Oregonian
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PENDLETON
PENDLETON
Fire damages duplex, cats perish
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Flaming oil in a Pend-
leton kitchen led to the
blaze Saturday that heavily
damaged a home and killed
at least three house cats.
Pendleton
Fire
and
Ambulance Service received
a call-out Saturday at 5:36
p.m. for a fire at 4010 N.E.
Riverside Ave., a duplex.
Pendleton fire chief Mike
Ciraulo said one person was
home frying chicken on the
stove when the oil became
too hot and flamed up.
The occupant ran outside
to get a garden hose to
extinguish the fire, Ciraulo
said, and that was the wrong
move. The water hit the oil,
spattering the fiery liquid
on kitchen cabinets and
spreading the flames.
Ciraulo said the occupant
got out unhurt, but seven cats
also lived in the home. One
badly injured cat ran away,
he said, and the crew found
the remains of three more.
Firefighters also rescued one
cat, he said.
The Red Cross reported
two people lived in the
home and the local chapter
responded to help them.
Ciraulo said the unit with
the fire sustained heavy
damage, while the adjacent
unit sustained smoke damage.
During the response a
Pendleton fire engine driver
received a written warning
for a collision outside the
city’s main station at South-
west Court Avenue and 10th
Street.
The big rig was bound
for the emergency when it
struck a Hyundai Sonata.
Ciraulo said that delayed the
team for a few minutes while
Photo contributed by Eric Adkins
Country musician Gary Allan is the headliner for the
Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon kick-off con-
cert. Tickets go on sale May 1 for the Sept. 9 event.
Gary Allan to headline
Round-Up concert
Tickets on sale May 1 had a gritty, gravelly edge
Photo contributed by Pendleton Fire Department
Firefighters provide aid to a cat they rescued from a house fire Saturday.
Photo contributed by Pendleton Fire Department
A Pendleton firefighter sprays a house fire Saturday in
Pendleton.
police showed up and staff
exchanged information with
the car’s driver. While no
one was harmed and the fire
engine had minor damage,
Ciraulo said the car had
moderate damage.
Oregon State Police
responded to the crash and
a trooper issued a written
warning to the fire engine
driver for illegal operation of
an emergency vehicle.
Ciraulo said the first
engine to arrive at the burning
home came from the station
on Southgate/Highway 395,
and the other engine arrived
soon after. Still, he said, to
the people involved, the
delay felt like a long time.
The fire chief also said this
speaks to why the department
needs to move to a proposed
new station at the old St.
Anthony property, 1601 S.E.
Court Ave. From there, he
said, the response time would
have been far shorter.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0833.
HERMISTON
Event gets participants plowing the pioneer way
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
April means
spring cleaning
for Boardman
Staff photo by Tammy Malgesini
Duane Van Dyke of Yamhill guides Andy and Baby Claire, a pair of Shire
horses, Saturday during CC Plowing at the Eastern Oregon Trade and
Event Center in Hermiston.
started with his grandfather from the
time he was a kid. You don’t have that
anymore — they all use tractors.”
Carlson also was thrilled to see Lydia
Wahls work with a team. The Echo
woman works for Madison Ranches.
“She plowed about two hours
yesterday,” Carlson said. “It’s the first
time she ever had a plow in her hand.”
Wahls said she enjoys learning new
things and everyone was friendly and
helpful in providing tips.
Also on hand was Carlson’s grandson,
Clayton Carlson. Now living in Canby,
the 17-year-old enjoyed riding a late-
1800s sulky plow. He, too, appreciated
the old-school style of plowing.
“It’s tradition,” he said. “And it’s fun
to do it.”
A working farmer, Van Dyke enjoys
the camaraderie of going to competitions.
His grandfather urged him to enter his
first contest at the age of 12. However,
there’s a bigger draw for Van Dyke.
“What I really love,” he said, “is
being with the horses.”
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BOARDMAN — Get
ready for spring cleaning in
Boardman.
The city will sponsor its
annual community-wide
cleanup event during the
month of April, with garbage
vouchers available at both
Finley Butte Landfill and
the North Morrow Transfer
Station.
The voucher program is
meant to encourage residents
to clean up their homes and
yards of clutter. There is a
$50 limit on vouchers at
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Residents can pick
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County donating
dumpster for area
cleanup
HERMISTON — The
Hermiston Kiwanis Club
will tackle a major task this
Wednesday: cleaning up the
vacant property on Theater
Lane. The club is looking
for more volunteers to help
with the cleanup. Volunteers
will gather at noon at 8th
Street and Theater Lane, and
hope to work for an hour
or two cleaning up debris.
Trash bags and water will be
provided, but volunteers are
asked to bring gloves and
wear appropriate clothing in
case of rain.
The area has become an
unauthorized dump site, but
Kiwanis Club members are
hoping to clean it all up this
week. The county donated
a 29 cubic-foot dumpster,
which the club hopes to
completely fill with trash.
“People use it as a
dump site, but that’s
actually the projected site
for a new school,” said
Blaine Hendrickson of the
Hermiston Kiwanis Club.
“I’ve been a resident of the
area for six years, and every
time I drive by I try to pick
up some trash, but it’s gotten
so bad recently.”
One of the proper places
to dump trash, Hendrickson
said, is the transfer station at
81144 North Highway 395.
Volunteers who have
trucks are asked to bring
them, as some items are
heavy and will need to be
moved.
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Known for hit No. 1
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Allan will take the
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Allan’s latest album,
“Set You Free,” features
the hit single “Every
Storm Runs Out of Rain.”
While Allan has always
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more command, authority
and pliability than he
has in years. The album,
sequenced with a storyline
in which a man breaks the
restraints of a failed rela-
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loneliness of its aftermath,
is the result of Allan’s own
journey as a man and as an
artist.
Happy Canyon Presi-
dent Corey Neistadt said
he is excited to bring Allan
to Pendleton and for fans
to have an opportunity to
see the star in the Happy
Canyon Arena.
“Having Gary Allan
hit the stage is a fantastic
way to kick off Round-Up
week,” Neistadt said. “We
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the intimate setting of the
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BRIEFLY
An international champion and a
novice were among the participants in
Saturday’s CC Plowing event at Eastern
Oregon Trade and Event Center in
Hermiston.
Organizer Lee Carlson was excited
to have nearly a dozen teams of horses
in the field during the event, which high-
lights the pioneer plowing technique and
features draft horses and mules.
“This is getting to be a lost art,”
Carlson said. “I’m 75 and about done
with it. We want to get the young people
to do this.”
Among those hitching up a team was
Duane Van Dyke of One Mile Shires. In
2015, the Yamhill farmer placed first in
the 74th annual International Plowing
Match at Lynden, Washington — the
first time an Oregon man came home
with the big trophy.
Van Dyke said the key is having a
good team, a good plow and to move
slow and steady.
His team featured Andy and Baby
Claire, half-sibling Shire horses. He
outbid a gal about a dozen years ago
at an auction sale to get a circa 1930s
Oliver Plow.
“All she wanted it for was a yard
decoration,” Van Dyke said with a laugh.
A simple piece of equipment, it
features curved steel blades that are
mounted on a frame. Van Dyke’s skillful
hands then guide the nearly two tons of
horsepower as the blades cut through the
dirt like a knife through butter.
“You look at his rows and you see
how straight they are,” Carlson said. “He
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