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OREGON A8 — THE OBSERVER STATE BRIEFS Crash injures two Round-Up contestants, kills one UMATILLA COUNTY — A crash Thursday night, Sept. 16, injured two Pend- leton Round-Up contestants and killed another. Oregon State Police reported the crash occurred at 8:15 p.m. on the east- bound side of Interstate 84 near milepost 193 where a Volkswagen Jetta ran into the rear of a potato truck. Jate Frost, 20 of Randlett, Utah, was driving the Jetta east with passen- gers Richard Schleicher, 24, of Stockton, Oklahoma, and Jesse Hopper, 21, of Magnum, Oklahoma. Edi- berto Ramirez Carrillo, 31, of Hermiston, was driving the commercial vehicle hauling potatoes. The Jetta rear ended the truck, and Frost suff ered serious injuries. An emer- gency helicopter fl ew him to Kadlec Regional Med- ical Center in Richland, Washington. Hopper was in the rear seat and also suf- fered serious injuries. He was transported to Oregon Health & Science Univer- sity Hospital, Portland. OSP reported Schleicher was in the front passenger seat and suff ered fatal injuries. Carrillo was not injured. All three occupants of the Jetta were contestants at the Pendleton Round-Up, according to Oregon State Police. Wolves injure one calf, kill another in Umatilla County UMATILLA COUNTY — The Oregon Depart- ment of Fish and Wild- life reported wolves in late August in Umatilla County injured one calf and killed another. While checking cows, a livestock producer found an injured calf the evening of Aug. 28 in a large pri- vate forested pasture in the Horseshoe Ridge area. The calf was 4 months old, weighed around 400 pounds and was intact. The calf was injured that evening, according to the ODFW report. The morning of Aug. 29, several cow/calf pairs returned to the livestock producer’s camp and one calf had an open wound above the right hock. This calf was 3 months old and weighed around 300 pounds. During the investiga- tion that day, the producer was unable to restrain the calf for close examination. On Aug. 31, the calf was restrained and examined, and ODFW estimated the injury occurred six days prior. “These two separate depredation events are attributed to the OR30 Wolves,” ODFW reported. Hundreds protest vaccine, mask mandates in Salem SALEM — At Oregon’s Capitol hundreds gath- ered to protest Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 vac- cine and mask mandates. The Statesman Journal reported that on Saturday, Sept. 18, people at the rally lined both sides of Court Street in front of the Cap- itol building, and fi lled the fi rst block of the mall during about two hours of speeches, then marched through downtown Salem during the peaceful event. Protesters identifi ed themselves as health care workers, teachers, emer- gency services workers and state employees. Gov. Kate Brown has ordered those groups to be vaccinated by Oct. 18. She ordered a statewide outdoor mask mandate on Aug. 24. The rally was orga- nized by Oregonians for Medical Freedom, a polit- ical action committee that works to protect vaccine exemptions. — EO Media Group and The Associated Press TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 Survey: Politics a leading indicator of vaccination rates One in five Oregonians not planning to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to new survey By ALEXANDRA SKORES The Oregonian PORTLAND — One in fi ve Oregon adults say they are not planning to get vac- cinated against COVID-19, according to a new survey of Oregonians by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center. This population tends to be under the age of 55, socially and ideologically conservative, with no col- lege degree and living in rural or rural-to-suburban parts of the state. The survey underscores how politics has become one of the leading indica- tors of vaccination rates in a highly polarized environ- ment. Just one in 25 regis- tered Democrats reported that the vaccine was “not for me,” according to the survey of 1,154 Oregon adults, versus more than one in three Republi- cans and more than one in four independent or other voters. The Oregon Values and Belief Center, an indepen- dent, nonprofi t research fi rm, conducted the polling Aug. 9-17, before full approval to the Pfi zer-Bi- oNTech vaccine and Gov. Kate Brown’s outdoor masking requirement. The survey found that the most- trusted source of infor- mation no matter political affi liation was scientists and doctors. “We hope that it will help inform Oregonians about how other people that live in their state feel, but that most of them are not so diff erent from you and have a lot of the same thoughts, feelings and con- cerns that you do,” Amaury Vogel, associate execu- tive director of the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center, said of the survey. “It’s helpful for Orego- nians to know what else other people are thinking too, because sometimes the loudest voices are the ones that dominate the conversa- tion,” Vogel added. Few Oregonians expressed initial hesi- tancy with wanting to get the vaccine, with 62% of respondents saying they got vaccinated as soon they could. An additional 17% said they were initially skeptical but have or will soon get vaccinated, while 21% said vaccination was not for them. Oregon respondents younger than 45 are the most likely to report warming to vaccinations, alongside people of color, social moderates and people with a high school Alex Wittwer/The Observer, File Shannon White, regional testing liason for Grand Ronde Hospital gives directions to Doug Ross for a self-administered COVID-19 test in the Bi-Mart parking lot in La Grande on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. degree or less. A majority of Oregon adults support employers being able to require vacci- nations among employees. Fully 70% of respon- dents said they think med- ical facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities, should be allowed to require employee vaccinations. For all employers, the rate of support for allowing required employee vacci- nations was slightly lower, at 66%. COVID-19 vaccinations are not yet available for children 11 and younger, but 56% of surveyed par- ents with kids in that age group said they would have their child inoculated if a federally approved vac- cine was available today. One third of respondents said they would not. Par- ents with college degrees were far more likely to say they would vaccinate their children. The survey also looked at where Oregonians get vital information about things such as COVID-19. The No. 1 trusted source? The frontline workers relaying the information. Some 80% of respon- dents said they trusted sci- entists and doctors, far higher than the 60% rate for science agencies. Below scientists and agencies, media organi- HEALTH NOTIFICATION! zations came into play for varying demographics of respondents. Roughly half of college-educated respon- dents trusted National Public Radio or similar programing, while roughly half of people with high school educations or less trusted family and friends. 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