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REGION Friday, March 13, 2015 Deadline looms for candidates, 66 seats open at least one new face will seek a seat on the Pendleton Umatilla County Elec- School Board. Former Pendleton High tions Division announced that with just a week until School wrestling coach Dale WKH ¿OLQJ GHDGOLQH WKHUH DUH )UHHPDQ ¿OHG IRU 3RVLWLRQ plenty of openings for dis- 3 on the board. Incumbent WULFWERDUGVWREH¿OOHGE\WKH *UHJ*DOORZD\KDVQRW¿OHG Position 2 on the Mil- May 15 special election. As of Wednesday, there ton-Freewater School Board are 75 candidates running in is the only other competitive 138 races across the coun- race in the county ahead of ty, although 66 seats remain next week’s deadline. Tina Kain, an engineer for open without any candidates. Despite this fact, some the city’s electric department, local races are already com- will face incumbent McKen- zie Marly in that race. petitive. Candidates have until Position 1 on the Hermis- ton School Board has drawn 0DUFKDWSPWR¿OHIRU two men with previous polit- positions on school boards, ¿UHGLVWULFWVDQGPRUH,I\RX ical ambition. Retiree James Leitch ran DUH LQWHUHVWHG LQ ¿OLQJ IRU D unsuccessfully for Hermiston position, call the elections City Council last year while division at 541-278-6254, or his opponent, insurance agent go to www.umatillacounty. Joshua Goller, lost to board net/elections. There you can Vice Chair Ginny Holthus in ¿QG HOHFWLRQ RSHQLQJV DQG 2011. Incumbent Greg Harris VHH ZKR KDV ¿OHG$QG \RX can click the link “Election KDVQRW¿OHG Position 2 will also be Manuals and Filing Forms” contested, with Robert Lovett WR KDYH DFFHVV WR ¿OLQJ IRU running against incumbent SEL 190 for district candi- dates. Dave Smith. 7KHUHDOVRLVD¿OLQJ Although no races in Pendleton are contested yet, fee. East Oregonian Page 3A HERMISTON East Oregonian BRIEFLY Craigen heading to more trials Concert engages students in classical music By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Staff photo by Jade McDowell Kayden Kendrick plays the trumpet at the Willow Creek Symphony’s educational concert for students on Thursday at the Hermiston Conference Center. tions from students, Friese started the concert that in- cluded crowd-pleasers like “Cowboy Rhapsody” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” He also paused to teach students the dif- ference between rehearsed pieces played from sheet music and improvisation, which a trio of musicians demonstrated. Afterward Ben Vander- stelt, a 12-year-old home school student from Herm- iston, said he was glad he N E AL S W O N More than 500 students got an education in classical music on Thursday when the Willow Creek Sym- phony hosted a concert in Hermiston. The concert, sponsored by Inland Northwest Mu- sicians, was aimed at ex- posing Eastern Oregon stu- dents in third through sixth grade to a different type of compositions than the pop music they hear on the ra- dio. “Some of these folks have been playing for a lot of years, others only a year or a year and a half,” con- ductor Lee Friese told the students. He introduced each sec- tion of the ensemble, ask- ing the musicians to hold up their instrument and demonstrate its sound. The tuba, he pointed out, weighs 40 pounds, while the French horn is “one of the most beautiful instruments in the orchestra.” After answering ques- got to see the symphony. “It was cool because they had so many instruments all playing at once,” he said. Trumpet player Kayden Kendrick of Irrigon said he enjoyed performing for the students. “I love playing for kids because they always have such good questions and are willing to sit quietly and listen, because a lot of times it’s something they haven’t heard before,” he said. The Willow Creek Sym- phony is a 30-musician en- semble that is part of the Inland Northwest Musi- cians. The group rehearses in Irrigon once a week and its next performance is a public concert on Sunday, March 15 at 4 p.m. at Irri- gon Jr./Sr. High School. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4536. O PENLDETON — Convicted murderer George West Craigen is back in Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, getting ready to face new criminal trials. His three day trial on ¿YHFRXQWVRISRVVHVVLRQ of explosive devices begins March 16 at the Umatilla County Courthouse, Pendleton. The case stems from police discovering the explosives during a manhunt for Craigen after he shot and killed Rob Carter of Milton- Freewater in 2011. His defense attorney is Will Perkinson of Pendleton, who told the court in a hearing Monday he still needed an explosives expert. Craigen also pleaded not guilty in 2013 to a contraband charge for possessing a hand-held weapon while he was in jail awaiting the murder trial. He faces trial in that case April 21-23. A jury in November 2014 reached a unanimous verdict LQ¿QGLQJ&UDLJHQJXLOW\RI Carter’s murder. Craigen was sentenced to life in prison and has appealed the case. Day. On Feb. 18, children in Oregon with no LPPXQL]DWLRQVRQ¿OH were sent home from schools, preschools, Head Start programs and child care facilities. In Umatilla County, 117 students were excluded for having incomplete vaccinations and six had no records at all. The 123 sent home totaled 0.8 percent of the 15,335 students in Umatilla County. Unvaccinated children with exemptions weren’t affected. In Oregon, parents may obtain exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons. The exemption rate in Umatilla County is 1.4 percent. ——— Briefs are compiled from staff and wire reports and press releases. Email news@ eastoregonian.com Staff photo by Jade McDowell Kyle Ketchersid of Hermiston plays the bassoon at the Willow Creek Symphony’s educational concert Thurs- day at the Hermiston Conference Center. House passes bill to fund child abuse prevention center SALEM — The Oregon House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to fund Oregon’s 21 community-based child abuse intervention centers, which includes the Mt. Emily Safe Center, La Grande, and Guardian Care Center, Pendleton. Oregon law does not currently cover reimbursement of the centers for certain services and treatment. Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunriver, who sponsored the bill, explained in a written statement House Bill 2234 would require the Oregon Health Authority and insurers to adopt billing and payment mechanisms to ensure the centers are reimbursed for services, including for medical and mental health treatment and forensic interviews of children. Nearly 11,000 children ZHUHFRQ¿UPHGYLFWLPV of child abuse in Oregon in 2013, according to the Oregon Network of Child Abuse Intervention Centers, and many more abuse FDVHVZHUHXQFRQ¿UPHGRU unreported. 123 unvaccinated children sent home PENDLETON – The Umatilla County Public Health Department this week released the number of children sent home on last month’s School Exclusion AUGUST 11-15, 2015 Tues. Aug. 11 • 9pm DUSTIN LYNCH Wed. 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