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Students win World Series of Reading
The sixth grade classes at Sandstone
Middle School livened up their learning
with a friendly competition between
each other with a “Take Me Out To the
Ballgame” theme, including the World
Series of Reading .
“We made this a healthy and fun
competition and used the full length
of our sixth grade hallway to line out
a score board with our teams’ names,”
said Shari Wick, reading/language arts
teacher.
Students earned a baseball for every
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with hundreds of baseballs. Students
had no idea the challenge would end
with a surprise visit from Dusty, the
Tri-Cities Dust Devils mascot.
Dusty presented baseball tickets
to the top winning readers from each
(team) class. The following earned
two tickets for any game of the season:
Shawn Conant of Team Utter; Pagie
Counsell of Team Tew; Michael Garza
of Team Wick and Brandon Rivera of
Team Tew. And highest point reader
was David Alatorre of Team Wick.
First year teacher Daniel Tew’s
fourth period block team crept up on
Team Wick’s total of 567 with a whop-
ping 587 points and also earned a pair of
tickets to any game this season.
To celebrate all of the reading and
hard work, the World Series ended May
28 with a ballpark barbecue of hot dogs,
Photo contributed by Shari Wick
Daniel Tew´s fourth period block team won a reading competition at
Sandstone Middle School. The Tri-Cities Dust Devils mascot, Dusty, pre-
sented tickets for a game to Tew, as well as several students involved in
the contest.
popcorn and licorice.
The Tri-Cities Dust Devils, who are
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and Dusty awarded Sandstone Middle
School with a Baseball Night scheduled
for Wednesday, June 24. The school
will receive a $1 for each person who
comes to the game.
The gates open at 6:15 p.m. as the
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Dusty will be signing autographs.
Hermiston students join
National Honor Society
More than two dozen students from Hermiston
High School were inducted as new members of
the National Honor Society.
A ceremony was held May 26 and an alternate
induction May 28 for a pair unable to attend the
earlier event. The members were selected by the
chapter’s faculty council for meeting high standards
of scholarship, service, leadership and character.
Students inducted were:
Jujuan Aguayo, Salma Anguiano, Taylor
Betz, Beau Blake, Jasmin Chen, Robert
Coleman, Elina Cross, Frederick Gonzalez,
Magdalena Ibarra, Shasta Jundt, Dallas Kile,
Brady Linnell, Makayla Loper, Ashley Love,
Emily Marvin, Lindsey McAllister, Maria
Meza, Reed Middleton, Kody Moss, Alexis
Myers, Tanna Osmin, Wyatt Paschal, Jessie
Pollard, Trystin Seavert and Hannah Walker.
“We are very proud to recognize these
outstanding members of our student body.
National Honor Society members are chosen for
and then expected to continue their exemplary
contributions to the school and community,” said
Chris Demianew, chapter adviser.
Beginning in 1921 and with chapters in more
than 16,000 high schools, the National Honor
Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious
national organizations for high school students. The
Hermiston High School chapter has been active
since 1949. Each year the chapter sponsors several
service projects for the school and community.
For more information, call Demianew at
541-667-6100.
THANK YOUS
Pregnancy Care
Services thanks
community
Pregnancy Care Services
would like to recognize
the local businesses of
Hermiston and Pendleton
for their generous contri-
butions making our 2015
Walk/Run for Life and
Mayfest a success. Over
100 people came out to
participate in these events
and collected over $5,550
to help us continue offering
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communities. Thank you for
being difference-makers!
Abby’s Legendary Pizza,
Barhyte Specialty Foods,
Big John’s Hometown
Pizza, Buckin’ Bean Coffee
Roasters, DG Gifts, Diana’s
GF Bakery, Dickey’s
Barbecue Pit, Double J
Drive Thru, Dr. Neal, Eden’s
Kitchen, Grocery Outlet, Les
Schwab Tire Center, ISU-The
Stratton Agency, Pediatric
Specialists, Pendleton Art
and Frame, Pendleton Dairy
Queen, Pepsi, Perfect Nails,
Roundup Athletic Club, Short
Stop, Sorbenots Coffee, St.
Anthony Hospital, Starbucks,
Sunshine Gourmet Shoppe,
Thimbles Fabric-N-More,
Wal-Mart, and Western
Auto. Fiesta Foods, Greg’s
Sleep Center, Desert Lanes,
Dominos, Pizza Hut, Yo
Country Frozen Yogurt,
60-Minute Photo, USA Subs,
Ace Hardware, Hermiston
Drug, Rollerink.
Debbie Cissna, director
Pregnancy Care Services
Supporters made
Me and My Prince
Ball a success
Contributed photo
Marty Ward, left, and Terry Becktold, right, of the Blue Moun-
tain Chapter of the National Association of Insurance and
Financial Advisors, presented a donation to Guardian Care
Center to Executive Director Marisa Remington and Board
Chairman Dennis Burke.
NAIFA donates to Guardian Care Center
The National Association of
Insurance and Financial Advi-
sors-Blue Mountain Chapter
recently made a donation to
Guardian Care Center.
Executive Director Marisa
Remington and Dennis Burke,
chairman of the board of
directors, accepted the $5,000
check May 20. The money will
help pay for assessments by
specially trained interviewers
who create a safe environment
for children who may be
victims of abuse.
NAIFA/Blue Mountain has
generously donated to Guardian
Care Center for several years.
The center is Umatilla County’s
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ment center.
For more information, visit
www.guardiancarecenter.org or
call 541-276-6774.
Round-Up gets new ride
Photo contributed by Jamie Lacey
Ginny Koehne, Sonya Smith and Joanna Hales of the
Presbyterian Preschool in Pendleton pose for a photo
with Addison Lacey.
Mother thanks outbound teachers
Jamie Lacey said a trio
of women who have worked
many years at the Presbyterian
Preschool deserve recognition.
Ginny Koehne, who has
been at the school for 20
years, and Sonya Smith and
Joanna Hales, who have
both been at the preschool
for nine years, are all leaving,
Lacey said.
Lacey said her daughter,
Addison Lacey, is heading
Saturday, June 13, 2015
to kindergarten in the fall and
spent the past two years at the
Presbyterian Preschool. She
said the teachers have been
absolutely wonderful, caring
and understanding, including
Roberta Tullis, who will
return in the fall.
“My daughter learned so
much and had an amazing
time,” Lacey said. “She
loves, loves, loves school
because of them.”
Crop
Production
Services of Athena
recently donated a 1978
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truck to the Pendleton
Round-Up Foundation
for use by the Pendleton
Round-Up.
Dean
Parker,
manager of the Athena
and Pendleton branches
of Crop Production
Services, said since the
truck was no longer
needed, he was looking
for a good home for it.
Bill
Quesenberry,
president
of
the
Round-Up Association,
said the efforts of Bob
Rosselle,
grounds
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the arrangement.
“The kind of commu-
nity support demon-
strated by Crop Produc-
tion Services is what
Round-Up is all about,”
Quesenberry said. “The
truck will be put to good
use throughout the year
for the maintenance and
use of our grounds.”
The Round-Up main-
tenance effort includes
keeping everything ready
for the annual one-week
event and keeping the
facilities in working
order for community
and individual uses
throughout the year.
The volunteer members
of the Me and My Prince
Ball Committee would like
to take this opportunity to
express our deep gratitude
for the unprecedented
support we received from
our community this year. We
had the most sponsors we
have ever had for the ball —
21 in all — and more than
half of them were for the top
two levels of sponsorship!
It is because of all of our
sponsors that we are able
to keep the ticket prices the
same in our 11th year of the
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Some of the sponsors even
donated their complementary
tickets to our family
assistance fund, so that
those who are experiencing
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to the dance.
We would also like to
thank the businesses and
individuals who donated
items that were given as door
prizes. Moreover, we would
like to extend a huge thank
you to 60 Minute Photo for
taking hundreds of portraits
of our guests, Serenity
Sisters for working diligently
to provide refreshments for
everyone, and 60 Minute
Photo and the Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce for
selling the tickets.
We are grateful for the
Girl Scouts, volunteers
and friends, the Umatilla
High School Key Club and
Umatilla Robotics Team for
helping us set up before, host
during and clean up after the
dance, as well. All of their
support helped to provide an
elegant evening for girls of all
ages in our community and
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Finally, we would like to
show our appreciation to the
men who brought their girls
to the ball this year. We were
amazed when our tickets sold
out nine days before the big
event! It is very touching to
see the beaming faces of both
the young ladies and their
“dates” as they walk in the
door, and watch as the men
give their undivided attention
to their special “little girls”
for an entire evening.
We hope you took away
many wonderful memories
of the evening that you will
forever hold dear. On behalf
of the Girl Scouts of Oregon
and Southwest Washington,
Service Unit 22, thank you.
Michelle Kane
Me and My Prince Ball
Committee member
Thanks for help on
BMCC bond
On behalf of the Blue
Mountain Community College
Board of Education, I would
like to express our sincere
gratitude and appreciation to
the communities of Umatilla
and Morrow counties for their
support of the BMCC bond,
which passed during the May
19 election.
A lot of hard work,
planning, tenacity and miles
were put into this bond in
an effort to make sure it was
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communities expect from
their community college.
We’re very excited to see
the bond come to fruition
as projects commence,
and even more so, we
look forward to seeing the
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and the local region will
encounter thanks to these
improvements and additions.
Bond projects are
expected to begin as early
as this summer, and will
continue over the next two
years. BMCC will enlist a
Bond Oversight Committee
of community members
and stakeholders to hold the
college accountable to its
commitment to taxpayers.
The Board of Education
and college administration
look forward to keeping the
community up to speed on
the progress of our bond
projects as we forge ahead.
BMCC looks forward
to continuing to provide an
affordable education that
leads to family wage jobs in
our region.
Ed Taber, chair
BMCC Board of Education
Pendleton
Generously
Sponsored by:
BIRTHS
St. Anthony Hospital, Pendleton
JUNE 2, 2015
THOREN — Emily Thoren and Chris
M. Thoren of Heppner; a girl, Josie-Leigh
Mae Thoren.
JUNE 3, 2015
BAROS — McKenzie L. Baros and
Logan R.S. Baros of Hermiston; a girl,
Oaklie Larena Spencer Baros.
JUNE 4, 2015
EASLEY — Brittany R. Taylor and
Stephen B. Winebarger of Pendleton; a girl,
Lilly-ann Augusta Easley.
AMEZOLA NAVARRO — Gladis
Navarro Hernandez and Jose R. Amezola
Vazquez of Boardman; a boy, Jayden
Roberto Amezola Navarro.
JUNE 7, 2015
HA — Hang Nguyyet Thi Le and Lam
Thanh Ha of Pendleton; a boy, Haven Ha.
JUNE 8, 2015
MABEN — Katie M. Maben and Casey
W. Maben of Heppner; a boy, Liam Wallace
Maben.
SMITH — Melisa M. Smith and Kevin J.
Smith of Pendleton; a girl, Brooklyn Marie
Smith.
WALKER — Sarah N. Walker and
Timothy T. Walker of Pendleton; a girl,
Avery Olive Walker.
JUNE 9, 2015
HAMM — Amanda L. Hamm and Guy
Harrison Hamm of Pendleton; a girl, Arya
Elizabeth Hamm.
Good Shepherd Medical Center,
Hermiston
JUNE 3, 2015
DEARDORFF — Sarah Deardorff and
Brandon Deardorff of Hermiston; a boy,
Dane Dennis Deardorff.
JUNE 4, 2015
OTTMAR — Kiya D. Ottmar and Chalen
J. Ottmar of Hermiston; a boy, Roczen
Wayne Ottmar.
JUNE 7, 2015
JAIMES — TIffani L. Wilson and Noe M.
Jaimes of Umatilla; a boy, Luis Rene Jaimes.
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