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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
East Oregonian
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BOARDMAN
Man jailed after slashing family members
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Boardman police arrested
one man early Saturday after
he slashed family members.
Daniel Salinas, 26, faces two
counts of attempted murder
and more.
Boardman Police Chief
Rick Stokoe said police Sgt.
Phil Morris received a call
Friday at about 11:20 p.m.
about a disturbance at Wilson
Salinas
Road Mobile Home Park,
600 Wilson Road Southwest,
Boardman. A female and
two males met the sergeant
and said their brother caused
their injuries. Stokoe said two
of them suffered cuts, and
while their wounds were not
life-threatening they required
medical help.
An ambulance took one
victim to Good Shepherd
Medical Center, Hermiston,
where he received treatment,
and Morrow County Emer-
gency Medical Services
treated the other victim at the
scene.
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where the quarrel occurred,
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checked his trailer, but he
was not there, either. Stokoe
said Morrow County sheriff’s
deputies and Oregon State
Police troopers responded to
help, and Hermiston police
talked to the victim at the
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support through MS Walk
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
Emily Nash recalls the
precise moment her life
changed forever.
The La Grande woman
had experienced vision loss
and eventually ended up at
Oregon Health & Science
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medical testing, a physician
told Nash at 10:45 a.m. on
July 11, 2012, that she had
multiple sclerosis.
Although life-changing,
the diagnosis was a bit of a
relief. Initially, Nash said,
medical professionals thought
she might have brain cancer.
“They did a ton of tests,”
Nash said. “I was happy I
didn’t have cancer.”
Fast
forward
nearly
three years later and Nash is
captain of Team Em Dogg,
a name that fell in her lap
after a friend was listening to
music by the rapper Snoop
Dogg. Among Nash’s team
members during Saturday’s
Eastern Oregon MS Walk
was Kelsey Hasenbank. The
Pendleton woman joined
more than two dozen other
friends and family members
in supporting Nash during the
fundraiser in Heppner.
“I never knew I had so
many people in my life that
Staff photo by Tammy Malgesini
People welcome participants at the finish of Saturday´s Eastern Oregon MS Walk
in Heppner.
cared,” Nash said. “It’s pretty
phenomenal.”
Nash has participated in
the Eastern Oregon MS Walk
each year since her diagnosis.
She said networking at
the event and through the
National Multiple Sclerosis
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itself.”
Multiple sclerosis is an
unpredictable, often disabling
disease of the central nervous
system. Symptoms range
from numbness and tingling
to blindness and paralysis.
Merilee McDowell, who
spearheaded the fundraising
walk in Heppner 17 years
ago, is thrilled people are still
committed in the effort to help
eradicate multiple sclerosis.
She said it’s important to raise
money for research and to
provide support to others. In
addition, McDowell said the
walk provides an opportunity
to catch up with others in the
community.
“I get to see people here
that have MS and are still
doing good,” said McDowell,
who was diagnosed with the
disease in 1977.
Despite the wind and
some sprinkles, 64 people
participated in the walk.
The group’s goal is to raise
$14,000. Donations can still
be made at www.walkms.org
by scrolling to Oregon and
clicking on the Heppner event.
For more information, contact
McDowell at 541-571-5853
or meri0120@gmail.com.
For more about multiple
sclerosis,
visit
www.
defeatMS.com.
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Contact
Community
Editor Tammy Malgesini at
tmalgesini@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4539
Eppenbachs named outstanding Irrigon citizens
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Irrigon
residents
came together Friday
to celebrate some of
the community’s most
outstanding volunteers,
students and business
leaders
during
the
Chamber of Commerce’s Don Eppenbach Eppenbach
annual “Time to Shine”
without the help we get.”
awards banquet at Stokes
Isabel
Orozco,
18,
Landing Senior Center.
received the award for Youth
“It takes a team to run of the Year for her accom-
a village,” said chamber plishments both in and out
president Phyllis Danielson. of the classroom. A senior at
“This is to remind everyone Irrigon Junior-Senior High,
in our community that the Orozco has amassed 41
level of volunteerism is college credits and served
absolutely vital.”
as a member of the National
The award for outstanding Honor Society. Principal
citizens was presented to Craig Benson described her
Don and Donna Eppenbach “as academically sound as
for their countless hours of they come,” and “an asset to
volunteer work, even after any classroom.”
retirement. The couple, both
Orozco has also helped
79, spends much of their volunteer blood drives for
time cooking and cleaning the American Red Cross and
dishes at the senior center, served as Key Club pres-
as well as lending a helping ident. She plans to attend
hand to the chamber, emer- Oregon State University
gency assistance center and where she will major in
Multicultural Arts Center.
pharmacy.
Don is a former mayor
Benson also presented the
and city administrator, award for Educator of the
while Donna worked as Year, which went to music
postmaster and has lived teacher Jeff Searles. Searles
in Irrigon almost her entire is credited for essentially
life.
building the music program
“I haven’t found another at Irrigon Junior-Senior
place I’d rather go,” she said. High, and recently took
“We couldn’t do any of this band students from Irrigon,
unlawful use of a weapon
and felon in possession of a
weapon. Police also arrested
him on two Umatilla County
warrants.
The arrest included a
burglary charge, but Stokoe
said police dropped that
because Salinas was a family
member with legal access to
the residence.
Salinas remains in the
Umatilla County Jail, Pend-
leton. His bond is $239,500.
PENDLETON
Happy Canyon
honors dealer, actor
though he once had to deal
with a player who quickly
added to his pile of chips
The Happy Canyon after throwing a winning
Board of Directors honored roll with the dice.
“I refused to pay the
two longtime volunteers
Monday at its annual larger bet,” Reynolds said.
appreciation dinner at the “He was going to come
Pendleton
Convention around the table to get
me.”
Center.
Security escorted the
Those
who
visit
man out of the
Goldie’s Saloon
building.
after the Happy
Volunteer T.C.
Canyon
Indian
Conner offered
Pageant and Wild
his services as an
West Show will
actor in the Wild
recognize Bruce
West show. He
Reynolds, who
started as a young
has volunteered
boy,
playing
as a craps dealer
the part of “boy
there for about 45
dancer.” He grad-
years.
Reynolds
uated to war party
“He’s
been
member, scout
dealing
craps
and an Indian
there as long as
who is shot, falls
I’ve been alive,”
backward
over
said
Happy
some
scenery,
Canyon Director
gets caught up
Corey Neistadt.
and hangs upside
“He’s trained so
down.
Conner
many others.”
continues to act in
His decades-
the annual produc-
long run started
tion, which runs
almost
acci- Conner
for four days.
dentally
when
Jason Hill, president of
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charity casino. When his the Happy Canyon board,
dealer had some trouble presented the awards to
remembering how to do Reynolds and Conner.
“We are very proud to
payoffs, Reynolds offered
some advice. The dealer have two individuals like
invited him to come around T.C. and Bruce volunteer
the table and help him out. year after year to make our
“He asked permission event a memorable time
and I went around, put on for the people that come
a red vest and worked the hoping to have an enjoy-
rest of the week,” Reyn- able evening,” Hill said.
olds recalled. “I have been “We are very lucky to have
working the craps table them.”
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ever since.”
Contact Kathy Aney at
Most of his hours spent
running the craps table kaney@eastoregonian.com
went smoothly, he said, or 541-966-0810.
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL
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Orozco
Searles
Boardman,
Ione
and
Arlington to Disneyland for
a performance.
“He’s worked to turn
that program into one of the
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Benson said.
Business of the Year
was presented to Citlali
Mendoza on behalf of the
Irrigon branch of the Bank
of Eastern Oregon, for their
work in local schools and
contributions to the chamber
and other community orga-
nizations.
Volunteer of the Year
Angela
Schneider-Lepez
was not present to accept her
award, but was recognized
by Danielson for her years
working with the local Boy
Scouts, Watermelon Festival
and the North Morrow
Community Foundation.
“I’ll tell her about your
applause, and I’ll really lay
on the guilt,” said Danielson
to laughs from the crowd.
Finally, Irrigon Fire Chief
Larry Burns ran down a list
of volunteers with the district
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multiple people, Stokoe said,
but Salinas remained in the
wind until he returned to his
trailer Saturday at about 4:30
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arrested him.
Stokoe said Salinas faces
the following charges: two
counts of attempted murder,
two counts of second-degree
assault, three counts of
menacing, two counts of
Mendoza
and their years of service —
some spanning decades. He
said his crew is outstanding,
and commendable for what
they do.
“These are volunteers.
They don’t get paid,” Burns
said. “They get up at 2 a.m.
and do what they need to do.
And they do a good job.”
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at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4547.
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