Student remains center stage [
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(AP) Brandon
Powers hopes
dial his wheel
( hair won't inter
fere with an acting earner
" Then' have been tunes when
I've really ixten disi on raged and
wanted to give itp and ali that,
hut I won't,” said the 17-year
old drama student
Powers was pnraly/ed from
the waist down last August
w hen he c rashed Ills pickup
trui k. throwing him into n dilr.it
and snapping nerves in his low
er spinal cord.
"After I got the trio k started.
! was on the wav to get some
new wheels and tires put on it
1 was i omiiig down the hill, tak
ing the road as I usually do a
little too fast probably.” Powers
said
"Then somebody ' ame out of
my blind spot I pulled over to
miss them and hit the gravel,
and ut\ rear end swung around
on me I remember going into
the dili h. but evidently 1 hit my
head Oil the steering wheel I
don't remember being thrown
nut of the trie k Powers said
)iiii Mcf .orntai k had been
i hanging irrigation pipe when
he heard the at i ideal lie ran to
the scene and found Powers
‘For the long term,
I believe he can do
things In the
theater/
Jennifer Holmes.
Enterprise High School
drama adviser
lying only about fiv«• feet from
tilt! truck. which had hurst into
flames
"I knew he was hurt had."
Mi dorrnack said I didn't know
if I should move him or not. but
he would have hurni'd up if I
hadn't
Powers said McCormack
made the right dm ision "Doc
tor* hove told me that the dam
age to my Inn k and spine was
already done," lie said
Now he is adjusting to life hi a
w heelt hair
"There have been a few limi
tations. whit h I don’t really like,
but there's not unit h I i an do
aliout it," Powers said
• "I've always tried to he as
independent as I i an be I |ust
don't like to have to depend on
people for things
One plat t> where he feels that
he t an be independent is on the
stage, an ambition encouraged
bv Enterprise High School dra
ma adviser Jennifer Holmes.
“I'm not any easier on him,"
Holmes said "He is so talented,
and I expect a lot of him And I
know he doesn't want people to
lie condescending He's been
fairly pragmotb about tin* acci
dent."
Holmes said that, with time
and effort, Powers can succeed.
"He has to re-learn and figure
out (list what he tan do For the
long term. I believe he can do
things in the theater." Holmes
said
Powers began acting in junior
high school hast summer he
had a lead role ut the melodra
ma. Heaven Will Protect the
Working Girl, produced by the
Wallowa Valley Players in
Joseph, whii h had a sjas ini hen
efit perforrnatu o after ills acci
dent to raise about S.'S00 toward
his medical expenses
"The theater is something I
will most likely try to get into —
il not acting, then something
having to do with theater or
movies, whether it lie set design
or spec ial effet Is or direr ting or
something like that I'd just like
to lie in the business
"1 know it's ,i hard business to
get into," Powers said.
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