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TODAY
In 1777, American forces won
the Battle of Bennington in what
was considered a turning point of
the Revolutionary War.
In 1812, Detroit fell to British and
Native American forces in the War
of 1812.
In 1861, President Abraham
Lincoln issued Proclamation 86,
which prohibited the states of the
Union from engaging in commer-
cial trade with states that were in
rebellion — i.e., the Confederacy.
In 1948, baseball legend Babe
Ruth died in New York at age 53.
In 1962, the Beatles fired their
original drummer, Pete Best,
replacing him with Ringo Starr.
In 1977, Elvis Presley died at his
Graceland estate in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, at age 42.
In 1978, James Earl Ray, con-
victed assassin of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., told a Capitol Hill hearing
he did not commit the crime,
saying he’d been set up by a mys-
terious man called “Raoul.”
In 1987, people worldwide
began a two-day celebration of
the “harmonic convergence,”
which heralded what believers
called the start of a new, purer age
of humankind.
In 2002, terrorist mastermind
Abu Nidal reportedly was found
shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq; he
was 65.
In 2003, Idi Amin, the former
dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah,
Saudi Arabia; he was believed to
have been about 80.
In 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon
declared a state of emergency
and imposed a curfew in the St.
Louis suburb of Ferguson, where
police and protesters repeatedly
clashed in the week since a Black
18-year-old, Michael Brown, was
shot to death by a white police
officer.
In 2018, Aretha Franklin, the
undisputed “Queen of Soul,” died
of pancreatic cancer at the age
of 76.
In 2020, California’s Death Valley
recorded a temperature of 130
degrees amid a blistering heat
wave, the third-highest tempera-
ture ever measured.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Ann
Blyth is 94. Actor Gary Clarke is 89.
Actor Julie Newmar is 89. Actor-
singer Ketty Lester is 88. Actor
John Standing is 88. Actor Anita
Gillette is 86. Movie director Bruce
Beresford is 82. Actor Bob Bal-
aban is 77. Ballerina Suzanne Far-
rell is 77. Actor Lesley Ann Warren
is 76. Rock singer-musician Joey
Spampinato is 74. Actor Marshall
Manesh is 72. Actor Reginald Vel-
Johnson is 70. Former TV host
Kathie Lee Gifford is 69. R&B singer
J.T. Taylor is 69. Movie director
James Cameron is 68. Actor Jeff
Perry is 67. Rock musician Tim Far-
riss (INXS) is 65. Actor Laura Innes
is 65. Singer Madonna is 64. Actor
Angela Bassett is 64. Actor Timothy
Hutton is 62. Actor Steve Carell is
60. Former tennis player Jimmy
Arias is 58. Actor-singer Donovan
Leitch is 55. Actor Andy Milder
is 54. Actor Seth Peterson is 52.
Country singer Emily Strayer (The
Chicks) is 50. Actor George Stults
is 47. Singer Vanessa Carlton is 42.
Actor Cam Gigandet is 40. Actor
Agnes Bruckner is 37. Singer-musi-
cian Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) is 37.
Actor Cristin Milioti is 37. San Diego
Padres pitcher Yu Darvish is 36.
Actor Shawn Pyfrom is 36. Country
singer Ashton Shepherd is 36.
Actor Okieriete Onaodowan is 35.
Country singer Dan Smyers (Dan
& Shay) is 35. NHL goalie Carey
Price is 35. Actor Kevin G. Schmidt
is 34. Actor Rumer Willis is 34.
Actor Parker Young is 34. Rapper
Young Thug is 31. Actor Cameron
Monaghan is 29.
CORRECTIONS
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TuESday, auguST 16, 2022
Sunscreen stations prove popular
Stations installed at Candy Cane, Birnie,
Riverside parks and trailhead of
MERA’s Red Apple area
By DICK MASON
The Observer
LA GRANDE — Amy
Yielding, a mathematics
professor at Eastern
Oregon University, wishes
that everyone could have
known her sister, Rose,
who lived in Arizona and
died of skin cancer in
2018.
“She was always vol-
unteering and involved in
outreach,” said Yielding,
who described Rose as the
most generous of her 10
brothers and sisters.
Few people in La
Grande knew Rose,
who was a microbiol-
ogist at Phoenix Chil-
dren’s Hospital, but today
her presence is being felt
throughout La Grande.
Rose’s story is
touching the lives of
others thanks to Yielding,
who is installing sun-
screen dispensary stations
throughout La Grande in
memory of her sister.
“I feel like I am
planting little Rosies,”
said Yielding, noting that
doing this is helping ease
her sense of loss.
To date, Yielding and
her husband, Jason, and
daughter, Josephine, have
installed sunscreen sta-
tions at Candy Cane,
Birnie and Riverside parks
and the trailhead of the
Mount Emily Recreation
Area’s Red Apple area.
The sunscreen stations at
Birnie and Riverside parks
were installed in May and
the other two were put in
during 2021.
Yielding has installed
all of them to make it
easier for people to protect
themselves from the sun’s
damaging rays so they
and their loved ones do
not experience what her
family did.
“Rose died six months
after she was diagnosed.
It was devastating,’’ she
said.
Yielding believes that
her sister, who was 35,
developed skin cancer
because of too much
unprotected sun exposure
when she was growing up
in Arizona.
The project has been
funded with help from
Grande Ronde Hospital
through a small commu-
nity events and projects
donation account that is
managed by the hospital
and its public relations
department. The account
helps support, through
small, one-time donations,
those unique and local
community efforts that
otherwise may not have
access to a traditional
funding stream or subsidy
source.
Yielding credits Casey
Nichols, a dermatology
board certified nurse prac-
titioner at the hospital,
with providing guidance
on the project.
“(Nichols) hooked me
up with the right people at
Grande Ronde Hospital,”
she said.
Yielding also said Stu
Spence, director of the La
Grande Parks and Rec-
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The La Grande area now has four sunscreen stations, including
this one at Birnie Park, shown on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.
reation Department, and
Sean Chambers, who ear-
lier served as the director
of MERA, also provided
major help in securing the
city and county approval
needed to install the sun-
screen stations.
“Stu and Sean are
amazing,” she said.
Yielding noted that the
sunscreen all the stations
use is eco friendly.
The sunscreen stations
have been well received
over the past two years.
Yielding said that in 2021
people pressed the dispen-
sary buttons of the sta-
tions at Candy Cane Park
and MERA about 2,000
times. Each pump of a
button at the stations pro-
vides at least a teaspoon
worth of sunscreen.
Yielding hopes that
the stations not only
result in more people
using sunscreen but also
that the hospital signs
inspire more people to
get checked regularly by
a dermatologist for skin
cancer.
The response to the
stations had been so good
that Yielding hopes to
later install more stations
at other parks around the
city and at MERA, after
receiving city and county
approval. She is also
hoping to create a mobile
sunscreen station that
could be set up for local
outdoor events.
Wallowa County comes together to
help community battered by storm
People step up in
wake of storm that
rolled through
Wallowa
Wallowa County Chieftain
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Randy Frash dumps a load of leaves he just picked up from a yard Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Wallowa.
Leaves and branches were strewn all over town after a hail and wind storm passed through Wallowa
on Thursday, Aug. 11, and residents quickly began repairing the damage.
who were in Wallowa
doing work for the Oregon
Department of Trans-
portation, jumped in and
helped residents and busi-
nesses board up windows.
M Crow of Lostine
sent pizza to feed first
responders at the triage
unit set up at the Wallowa
Fire Hall.
A meal site also had
been set up at the Wallowa
Senior Center, said Paul
Karvoski, county emer-
gency services director.
On Aug. 12, residents
were active all over town
cleaning up the mess the
storm created. Leaves and
branches littered yards
and streets and people
were just trying to get
back to normal.
“I just came in and
mowed this yard yesterday
and it looked pretty good,”
resident Randy Frash said.
“Look at it now.”
Fish and Mayor Gary
Hulse confirmed Aug. 12
that only four minor inju-
ries were suffered when
people were struck by
the hail, which reports
said ranged from the
size of ping pong balls to
baseballs.
Hulse declared a state
of emergency Aug. 12 for
the city, which will start
the process of obtaining
federal or state aid. He
said the city attorney
was working on the
declaration.
Roberts said that
although the county
doesn’t “have a pile of
cash” sitting there waiting
for such emergencies, the
county will help.
“We’ll help out any
way we can,” she said.
Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown and the Oregon
Office of Emergency Man-
agement are aware of the
storm damage.
“The state has not
received a request for a
state declaration from
Wallowa at this time,”
Brown spokesman Charles
Boyle said Saturday,
Aug. 13.
ATV rollover near Ukiah requires search and rescue
East Oregonian
UKIAH — An all-ter-
rain vehicle crash Friday,
Aug. 12, near Ukiah
resulted in one person suf-
fering serious injuries and
requiring an emergency
helicopter flight.
The Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office reported
the county dispatch center
that day at 9 a.m. received
an emergency notification
through Garmin Inreach
of an ATV rollover with
La Grande police
identify victim
of hit-and-run
LA GRANDE — A La
Grande man was killed in a
hit-and-run collision on 16th
Street during the night of Aug.
12, according to a press release
from the La Grande Police
Department.
Maison Andrew, 24, was
identified as the victim during
the course of the investigation.
“We all have heartfelt
sorrow for Maison Andrew’s
family and friends,” said Lieu-
tenant Jason Hays in a state-
ment released to the media.
The investigation began
after La Grande police
responded to a report at
5:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, of
a dead male on the side of 16th
Street. La Grande police offi-
cers responded and immedi-
ately confirmed the individual
had died.
The investigation revealed
that a vehicle traveling south
on 16th Street struck Andrew
as he was walking on the street
sometime during the night,
according to Hays. The driver
fled the scene without con-
tacting emergency services.
The area where Andrew
was found was immediately
secured and La Grande Police
Department investigators were
dispatched to the scene. Over
the course of the day, 20 per-
sonnel were assigned to the
case, which also included
volunteers.
More than 60 items of evi-
dence were collected at the
scene and will be sent to the
Oregon State Police Forensic
Laboratory for analysis,
according to Hays. Residents
were interviewed and individ-
uals came forward with infor-
mation. Investigators are fol-
lowing up on leads and are
working to identify the vehicle
and driver.
The La Grande Police
Department received assis-
tance from the Oregon State
Police, the Union County Sher-
iff’s Office and the Union
County District Attorney’s
Office. Additional logistical
support was provided by Union
County Search and Rescue and
La Grande Fire Department.
Investigators were supported
by local residents, who brought
refreshments to the crew.
The investigation is still
ongoing and La Grande police
urge anyone with information
to contact Sgt. Ryan Miller at
541-963-1017.
Oregon’s Alpenfest
seeks volunteers, food
& craft vendors
By BILL BRADSHAW
WALLOWA — When
disaster strikes, Wallowa
County comes together.
That’s what happened
during and after the hail
and wind storm that
struck Thursday, Aug. 11.
“That’s one good
thing we still have in this
country,” said Wallowa
County Commissioner
Susan Roberts, who grew
up on a ranch near Wal-
lowa. “We have a lot of
people who come together
to help.”
Sheriff Joel Fish said
numerous individuals and
businesses turned out to
help their neighbors.
“People jumped in and
stepped up to the plate last
night to help people who
couldn’t board up win-
dows,” Fish said Friday,
Aug. 12. “There were
so many people helping,
I can’t tell you who all
helped and did things.”
He did mention 1917
Lumber in Joseph sent
sheets of plywood for res-
idents and businesses to
board up their windows.
Also, the M.J. Hughes
Construction Co. workers,
IN BRIEF
injuries in an area near
Ukiah.
Two passengers were
injured, the sheriff’s office
reported, one with minor
injuries and the other was
a woman who suffered
serious injuries to her legs
and hips.
Umatilla County Search
and Rescue responded and
located the woman on the
Frazier Creek Trail within
the Winom Fraizer OHV
Recreation Area, Ukiah.
Rescuers placed her
in a litter and carried her
out by hand on a narrow
ATV trail for a little more
than half a mile. A six-
person team rotated in the
effort and placed her in the
back seat of a U.S. Forest
Service engine that had
backed up a very narrow
old logging spur that inter-
sected with the ATV trail.
The Forest Service
vehicle took her to the
helicopter landing zone,
which flew her out.
The sheriff’s office
reported it worked with
several agencies and indi-
viduals in this effort,
including U.S. Forest Ser-
vice crews and Forest Ser-
vice law enforcement,
Pendleton Fire & Ambu-
lance Service and indepen-
dent ATV operators.
For more information
on the volunteer Umatilla
County Search and Rescue
Foundation, including how
to join and/or donate, visit
www.umasarfoundation.
org.
JOSEPH — Back after
two pandemic years, Oregon’s
Alpenfest is looking for volun-
teers and asking for food and
craft vendors to apply to sell at
the West’s only Swiss-Bavarian
cultural festival Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
Alpenfest, which is held in
Joseph at the Joseph Rodeo
Grounds, is asking for volun-
teers to pour beer and wine,
provide kitchen and meal
service and perform var-
ious logistical and safety
duties. Each volunteer gets
a free admission ticket and a
bratwurst sandwich.
The 42nd edition of the fes-
tival will feature The Polk-
atones dance band, the Tiro-
lean Dancers of Oregon, Swiss
yodeler Shelby Imholt, accor-
dionist Toby Hanson and
alphorns.
To inquire, contact Chuck
Anderson at alpenmeister@
mail2oregon.com or call 541-
398-1096. Food and craft ven-
dors may apply to Lynn Wolf
at lakesidelynn@eoni.com or
503-692-5050.
Gubernatorial
candidate Christine
Drazan to visit Baker
BAKER CITY — Christine
Drazan, the Republican candi-
date for Oregon governor, will
be in Baker City for a meet and
greet event on Tuesday, Aug. 16
at 6 p.m. at the Baker County
Events Center, 2600 East St.
Drazan, who won the
Republican nomination in
the May 17 primary, is run-
ning against Democrat Tina
Kotek and independent Betsy
Johnson. Drazan is seeking to
become the first Republican
elected as Oregon governor in
40 years. Victor Atiyeh was
elected in 1982 to the second
of his four-year terms.
— EO Media Group