2A — THE OBSERVER
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2020
LOCAL
DAILY Search continues for runaway La Grande teen
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TODAY
Today is Tuesday, June 30,
the 182nd day of 2020. There
are 184 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On June 30, 1971, the Su-
preme Court ruled, 6-3, that
the government could not
prevent The New York Times
or The Washington Post from
publishing the Pentagon
Papers.
ON THIS DATE
In 1865, eight people, in-
cluding Mary Surratt and Dr.
Samuel Mudd, were convict-
ed by a military commission
of conspiring with John Wil-
kes Booth, the assassin of
President Abraham Lincoln.
(Four defendants, including
Surratt, were executed;
Mudd was sentenced to life
in prison, but was pardoned
by President Andrew John-
son in 1869.)
In 1918, labor activist and
socialist Eugene V. Debs
was arrested in Cleve-
land, charged under the
Espionage Act of 1917 for
a speech he’d made two
weeks earlier denouncing
U.S. involvement in World
War I. (Debs was sentenced
to prison and disenfran-
chised for life.)
In 1934, Adolf Hitler
launched his “blood purge”
of political and military rivals
in Germany in what came to
be known as “The Night of
the Long Knives.”
In 1958, the U.S. Senate
passed the Alaska statehood
bill by a vote of 64-20.
In 1963, Pope Paul VI was
crowned the 262nd head of
the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1971, a Soviet space
mission ended in tragedy
when three cosmonauts
aboard Soyuz 11 were found
dead of asphyxiation inside
their capsule after it had
returned to Earth.
In 1982, the proposed
Equal Rights Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution
expired, having failed to
receive the required number
of ratifi cations for its adop-
tion, despite having its sev-
en-year deadline extended
by three years.
In 1986, the Supreme
Court, in Bowers v. Hard-
wick, ruled 5-4 that states
could outlaw homosexual
acts between consenting
adults (however, the nation’s
highest court effectively re-
versed this decision in 2003
in Lawrence v. Texas).
In 1994, the U.S. Fig-
ure Skating Association
stripped Tonya Harding of
the national championship
and banned her for life for
her role in the attack on rival
Nancy Kerrigan.
In 1997, the Union Jack
was lowered for the last time
over Government House
in Hong Kong as Britain
prepared to hand the colony
back to China at midnight
after ruling it for 156 years.
In 2009, American soldier
Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl went
missing from his base in
eastern Afghanistan, and
was later confi rmed to
have been captured by
insurgents. (Bergdahl was
released on May 31, 2014
in exchange for fi ve Taliban
detainees.)
In 2013, 19 elite fi refi ght-
ers known as members
of the Granite Mountain
Hotshots were killed battling
a wildfi re northwest of
Phoenix after a change in
wind direction pushed the
fl ames back toward their
position.
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By Sabrina Thompson
The Observer
LA GRANDE — Jarek
Parker remains missing
as of Monday morning,
according to Lt. Jason Hays
of the La Grande Police
Department. There is no
evidence of foul play, he
said, and the police depart-
ment and Union County
Search and Rescue are con-
tinuing their search for the
missing 13 year old.
Parker weighs 130
pounds and is 5 feet 4
inches tall with light brown
hair and hazel
eyes. When he
went missing
his family
reported
Jarek
he took a
Parker
backpack,
a teal-col-
ored fanny pack, camping
supplies, food and water
with him. An initial siting
reported Parker was on
Interstate 84 heading West
near Perry, but a search
of the area during the
weekend turned up no signs
of the teen.
Jarek’s mother, Emily
Parker, said without
any leads since the ini-
tial sighting there is not
much of a direction to send
people at this time. She
said dozens of commu-
nity members have been
searching for him on ATVs,
on foot and on the Grande
Ronde River from La
Grande to Perry and Hil-
gard alongside search and
rescue volunteers and the
police department.
The reasons for Parker’s
disappearance are private,
and Emily Parker said she
and the family just want his
safe return.
“He is not in trouble,”
Emily Parker said. “We
just want him to come
home, and know he is
okay.”
Hays said Jarek’s age
makes the case more dif-
fi cult than other missing
person cases because of the
lack of records from cell-
phone, social media, credit
cards or bank accounts.
Hays also said Parker is
not related to or connected
with Jesse or James Parker
of the Lighthouse Pente-
costal Church.
Anyone with informa-
tion to assist the police
in locating Parker can
contact Detective Ryan
Miller with the La Grande
Police Department at
541-963-1017.
“The La Grande Police
Department knows that
every hour that goes by
where Jarek is missing is
another hour of anguish
Jarek’s family is experi-
encing,” Hays said.
New network helping to address EOU to start theater
hunger during pandemic
renovations soon
By Dick Mason
By Dick Mason
The Observer
The Observer
LA GRANDE — A new
Eastern Oregon organiza-
tion is extending a helping
hand to individuals who
want to assist others with
food issues during the coro-
navirus pandemic.
The Eastern Oregon
Mutual Aid Network
encourages people who
want to volunteer but are
not sure how to do so. The
network puts volunteers in
touch with the right people.
“It (working through the
network) is a way to bring
together local support,”
said Meghan Chancey,
program coordinator for
Eastern Oregon Mutual
Aid Network, part of the
Eastern Oregon Healthy
Living Alliance, which
has its headquarters in
Lakeview.
The EO Mutual Aid
Network has been in place
just three months, but the
Eastern Oregon Healthy
Living Alliance has been in
existence since 2014. The
Mutual Aid Network was
started to help the Eastern
Oregon region deal with
pandemic-related issues.
The Mutual Aid Net-
work has helped local
organizations, such as
Community Connec-
tion of Northeast Oregon,
which operates a food
bank serving pantries in
Union, Wallowa, Baker and
Grant counties. Commu-
nity Connection has had
an increased need for vol-
unteers to assist at the pan-
tries it serves since the pan-
demic hit. The Mutual Aid
Network has helped Com-
munity Connection address
this need by directing vol-
LA GRANDE —
McKenzie and Schwarz
theatres abruptly went
dark at Eastern Oregon
University in mid-March.
The theaters at the La
Grande campus closed
like other schools in
Oregon due to the corona-
virus pandemic.
The curtains of the the-
aters will someday rise
again, and when they do,
audiences will applaud
outstanding student per-
formances and what will
have almost disappeared
— obstacles for people
who have mobility issues.
McKenzie and Schwarz
theatres soon will be much
easier for those with infi r-
mities to move about in
thanks to major renovation
work set to start July 13.
The state-funded work
will be part of a $5.5 mil-
lion remodeling of Loso
Hall, which houses
McKenzie and Schwarz
theatres. Upgrading of
Loso Hall’s heating, air
conditioning and ventila-
tion systems also are part
of this renovation.
The renovation will be
among the most exten-
Staff photo by Dick Mason
Lloyd Anthoney, who works at the Union County Senior
Center, examines some of the food there which is provid-
ed free to the public via its Harvest Share program.
unteers to it, Chancey said.
“People are needed
to assist during the food
crisis,” she said.
Volunteers also are
needed to pick up groceries
for the homebound. These
include seniors who do not
want to leave home during
the pandemic because they
are at higher risk of being
hospitalized if they contract
COVID-19. These are often
people who are relatively
easy to help.
“Delivering groceries
one day a week or once
a month to someone can
make a tremendous differ-
ence,” Chancey said.
The Eastern Oregon
Mutual Aid Network
received a big boost
three months ago when
it received funding from
a grant from the Oregon
Community Foundation,
one the Eastern Oregon
Healthy Living Alliance
applied for.
“That really helped us
develop our program,”
said Chancey, who lives in
Baker City.
The EO Mutual Aid
Network had conducted a
survey in Eastern Oregon
before receiving the grant
funding. It indicated that
food issues were one of
the biggest challenges the
region was facing because
of the pandemic. This put
the Mutual Aid Network on
its present course.
In addition to urging
people to volunteer, the
Mutual Aid Network is
encouraging people to
donate to food pantries.
Chancy said people are
also encouraged to donate
personal hygiene items
including soap, shampoo
and toothpaste.
For more informa-
tion about how to request
support or offer support
via the Eastern Oregon
Mutual Aid Network, visit
its website at http://eohla.
org/easternoregonmutu-
alaid or call Chancey at
907-712-7595.
sive work Loso Hall has
received since it opened in
1990.
“We need to take care
of the building. It is one
of the key buildings on
campus. It is a great edu-
cational facility,” said
Tim Seydel, EOU’s vice
president for university
advancement.
The work at McKenzie
Theatre will be perhaps
the most dramatic in Loso
Hall. It will include the
installation of a lift on the
outside of its north-cen-
tral exterior. The lift will
carry people with mobility
issues to the top of the
fi rst tier of McKenzie The-
atre’s seating, where hand-
icapped accessible seating
will be available, Seydel
said.
Another McKenzie
addition will be bridges
leading to the stage at
the two fi rst-fl oor side
entrances. The bridges
will make it easier for
people with mobility
issues to get to the stage .
The seating in
McKenzie Theatre will
be reduced from 446 to
420 to create space for the
new disabled accessibility
features.
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The Observer
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