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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-
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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.
Meanwhile, respondents
were asked to categorize
COVID-19 as a fact, belief,
concept or fi ction. Fully
6% of respondents said it
was fi ction, with nearly all
of those people lacking a
college degree.
Five out of six Orego-
nians have experienced
negative physical or emo-
tional impacts of COVID-
19. Fully 40% said those
impacts were slight, 27%
said they were signifi cant
and 17% said they were
dramatic.
Compared to problems
of the day — such as cli-
mate change, racial dis-
crimination and forest fi res
— respondents expressed
optimism that humans will
solve communicable dis-
eases such as COVID-19.
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