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online school,” she said.
“I talked with my parents
and we were like it’s not
worth it. I’d rather enjoy
the time.”
She has filled a lot of
that time with working
out, cooking, being out-
side when possible and
watching television and
movies.
“I have been watching a
lot of Star Wars,” she said.
Chamberlain, who
next fall plans to attend
Linn Benton Commu-
nity College, Albany,
also is enjoying spending
more time with her family
during the pandemic.
She said the situation has
a silver lining: the La
Grande High seniors will
get a graduation like no
other.
“We’re driving down
a road and getting a
diploma,” she said. “I
think that’s pretty freaking
cool.”
Submitted photo
“If people let it, I think it can
change them for the better.
If people become ignorant
of (the pandemic), then we
won’t learn anything from
it.”
— Roper Bingham, North
Powder
Roper Bingham,
North Powder
Ashlyn Gray,
Enterprise
even home for a couple of
weeks.”
Gray works as a wait-
ress at R & R Drive-In,
Joseph, which she said
has been hopping. And
without a mandate to
attend school because
she had a passing grade,
she had time to do some
crafts.
“I have a hobby of
making bracelets,” Gray
said. “I make bracelets and
I’ve been painting some
things.”
The painting included
the top of corn hole boards
that Enterprise High stu-
dents made in a wood shop
class. Perhaps an irony
of the pandemic for Gray
is she now misses a facet
of life she didn’t enjoy
— school.
“The one big thing for
me I’ve realized is I’ve
never liked school, but
now I miss school,” she
said. “I miss my teachers
and my class. When it’s
gone, you realize how
much you want it.”
Gray always has been
busy with athletics,
playing volleyball and bas-
ketball and being a part
of last year’s champion-
ship girls track team. She
said she has been working
out on her own, but misses
being on the court.
“I seriously feel like I
lost somebody because I
can’t have my sports,” she
said.
Gray, who plans to
attend cosmetology school
in Portland, said several of
the senior girls are talking
about taking a road trip
after restrictions ease up
to fill the void from the
events they won’t get back
— including senior prom.
“I feel like for every
girl that’s a big thing,”
she said. “We don’t get
the opportunity to dress
up like that and feel that
way, act that way (and) have
fancy dinners.”
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“Not being able to have
my last year of softball has
been heartbreaking. That
was one of my favorite
things to do, and I felt like
it was going to be a good
year for us.”
— Brianna Kohr, Union
Brianna Kohr, Union
Brianna Kohr always is
doing something, which
is part of what has made
life challenging for the
Union senior during the
shutdown.
“Not having a regular
team (to play on) and doing
the activities I’ve always
done has been different for
me,” she said.
Kohr has played volley-
ball, basketball and soft-
ball for the Bobcats, but
saw her senior softball
season end before it even
began.
“Not being able to have
my last year of softball has
been heartbreaking,” she
said. “That was one of my
favorite things to do, and I
felt like it was going to be
a good year for us. That’s
had to find different mate-
rial to fill the pages that
would have been adorned
with spring activities, such
as sports.
“I’ve been editor for
two years now. This one
is probably one of my
favorite (yearbooks) even
though we won’t have
everything we are used to
(in it),” she said.
Kohr plans to study
criminal justice at Blue
Mountain Community
College, Pendleton. She
said she has been able to
spend more time with her
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man-Johansen, is a Union
teacher and coach, and her
sister, Delanie, has been at
college in Washington.
“It’s been good to have
it like old times again,” she
said.
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Enterprise senior Ashlyn
Gray was unable to stay
at home during the early
stages of the pandemic.
“My sister (Riley)
came home from a mis-
sion in Brazil,” she said,
noting Riley and their
mother stayed home while
the rest of the family took
up residence with her
grandparents.
“We were in quar-
antine at my grandma’s
house,” she said. “I wasn’t
Submitted photo
“We were in quarantine
at my grandma’s house.
I wasn’t even home for
a couple of weeks.”
— Ashlyn Gray, Enterprise
disappointing, but you
can’t change it.”
She also is involved
with FFA and has a hog
that she won’t be able to
auction in-person at the
Eastern Oregon Livestock
Show, which was canceled
for the first time ever. Still,
she said she plans to par-
ticipate in the show’s vir-
tual auction.
Still, some positives
have emerged. As an edi-
tors of the student year-
book, she said she is
pleased with how it turned
out, even though the staff
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North Powder senior
Roper Bingham’s spring
usually consists of a track
uniform, running shoes
and, if he’s in a relay, a
baton.
This spring, he’s had a
lot more time in a cowboy
hat and boots while on a
horse working almost daily
on his family’s ranch.
“I’m not doing any
sports or going to school,
and with living on a ranch
it (has) felt like a really
long weekend,” he said.
He said he gets on a
computer once or twice a
week for an English class
in which he is earning dual
college credit. The others
classes, he said, “I basi-
cally got a passing grade
for.”
In addition to helping
with building fence, he’s
worked on irrigation and
branding cattle.
Human interactions also
have changed for him.
“When I do associate
with people, it doesn’t
feel as natural to talk to
(them),” he said. “Before,
you talked to different
people every day.”
Bingham’s trip to visit
Utah State University in
the spring — where he
intends to study agribusi-
ness with a farm and ranch
focus — was canceled just
days before he was set to
take off. He said he hopes
to still check it out before
he moves there.
Bingham said he
believes commerce needs
to be opened back up soon,
and that when a sense of
normalcy does resume,
humanity needs to change.
“If people let it, I think
it can change them for the
better,” he said. “If people
become ignorant of (the
pandemic), then we won’t
learn anything from it.”
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