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REGION Tuesday, July 21, 2015 OSP Fish & Wildlife named team of the year East Oregonian $ si[-member team of state ¿sh and game troopers receiYed top honors for 2014 efforts that led to catching 60 people for Yiolating ¿sh and wildlife laws. The Oregon State Police Fish and :ildlife DiYision recognized the group as the 2014 “Team of the Year.” The team receiYed the award at a recent gathering at the La *rande $rea Command Of¿ce. This is the ninth presentation of the award since the diYision imple- mented a program to celebrate and recognize outstanding teamwork of ¿sh and wildlife troopers. Sgt. Chris Hawkins heads up the team that works out of La *rande and Enterprise. He and senior troopers Kreg Coggins, Kris DaYis, Mark Knapp, Marcus McDowell and Brian Miller are a tight- knit unit, according to state police, that uses eYerything from pickups to rafts to horses in coYering a Yast landscape of wilderness that includes the deep canyons of the *rande Ronde and Snake riYers. Some of the 2014 high- lights for the Enterprise/La *rande Team include: $ three-month inYestiga- tion into two indiYiduals for using traps and dogs to poach bobcats in the Enterprise area. One indiYidual faced 28 wild- life offenses and the second faced eight offenses. $ four-month inYestiga- tion into the poaching of a Rocky Mountain bull elk that scored more oYer 319 Boone and Crocket points from the Chesnimnus Unit. The state charged the indiYidual with unlawful take of elk without a Yalid tag and second-degree criminal trespass. $nd an inYestigation of the shooting of a buck deer in a La *rande cemetery led to charges against two people. “The cemetery had secu- rity cameras and caught the whole incident on camera,” according to the statement, including the two indiYiduals returning to the scene after- wards with cleaner to try and to conceal their crime. The state charged one offender with hunting a game mammal in a prohibited area, failure to Yalidate a big game tag and tampering with eYidence. The state charged the other person with conspiracy and aiding in a wildlife offense. The team in 2014 caught 60 people for Yiolating ¿sh and wildlife laws, according to state police, seized 30 unlawfully taken wildlife and issued multiple citations for ¿sh and wildlife Yiolations. BRIEFLY Hero celebration caps summer reading program IONE — The Ione Public Library will cap its summer reading program with a Hero Celebration today at 1 p.m. at Ione City Park. The celebration begins with a puppet show at 1 p.m., followed by root beer Àoats for eYeryone. $ll ages are welcome. For more information, call 541-422-0803. County to discuss earthquake plans HERMISTON — Umatilla County Emergency Manager Jack Remillard will discuss the county’s plans and preparations for a major earthquake off the Oregon Coast during a meeting Thursday in Hermiston. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in Room 134 of the Blue Mountain Community College Hermiston campus, located at 980 S.E. Columbia 'riYe. Interest in a potentially destructiYe Northwest earth- quake is running high after the issue was spotlighted in a New Yorker magazine article which details the possibility of a high-magnitude quake under the Cascadia subduc- tion zone. Thursday’s meeting is sponsored by the Tour of Knowledge, a grassroots enYironment and natural resources education organi- zation based in Hermiston. For more information, contact Eileen Laramore at 541-656-5895 or email hermistonleo@yahoo.com. Nature conservancy plans work party JOHN '$Y — $n opportunity to spend the weekend on the Middle Fork John 'ay RiYer proYiding Yolunteer labor is aYailable through the Nature ConserYancy of Oregon. Organizers inYite people interested in maintaining 'unstan Homestead PreserYe to attend a Yolunteer work party on Saturday, July 25 Sidewalk Sales Friday and Saturday Up to 70% off and Sunday, July 26. The preserYe is located near john Day. Registration is required. Help is needed with mowing and cutting teasel with machetes and building protectiYe caging for natiYe Yegetation. Participants should bring food, water, camping supplies and appropriate clothing and footwear for the weather. $ potluck dinner is planned Saturday eYening. Registration is required. For more information, including directions, contact 503-802-8100 or orcommunications@tnc.org. Arlington revs up for car show $RLIN*TON — From antique and collectible to electric cars and motorcycles, Yehicles of all ages are featured in the $rlington Show N Shine Car Show. The eYent, which includes food and fun for all ages, is Saturday with registration beginning at 9 a.m. at Earl Snell Park in $rlington. Trophies in nearly two dozen categories will be awarded at 3:15 p.m. The St. Francis Mission Catholic Church barbecue lunch begins at 11 a.m. $lso, strawberry shortcake, proYided by the $rlington United Methodist Church ladies, will be serYed throughout the afternoon. The eYent also features hula hoop contests and the annual Rubber Duck Regatta. Rubber ducks can be purchased at the $rlington Hardware for a buck a duck. In addition, the $rlington Community Chamber of Commerce is proYiding Àoaties and water play toys for the kids and a licensed lifeguard will be on duty in the lagoon. For more information, contact 541-626-3426 or info@Yisitarlingtonoregon. com. Have you heard about the Wednesdays in the Park concert series starting July 29? www.pendleton parksandrec.com 207 & 217 SE Court, Pendleton Providing the Most Advanced Digital Hearing Technology A family run business for over 50 Years 541-276-3155 1-800-678-3155 29 SW Dorion Pendleton 236 E Newport Hermiston www.ruhearing.com East Oregonian Page 3A HERMSITON Man missing for over a month By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian $ Hermiston man’s family is stepping up their search for him after passing the one-month anniYersary of his disappearance. Marcus D. Wise, 27, was last seen by his family on the afternoon of June 18, when he told his father he was taking his dog for a walk. $udrey Harshman, who isn’t related by blood to Wise but considers him a brother, said later that day someone found his dog, a large reddish-brown mi[ed breed, wandering around the west side of town. Wise, howeYer, was nowhere to be found. “We haYe a hard time seeing him just leaYe his dog,” Harshman said. “It’s out of character.” His parents Wise called the police and ¿led a missing persons report. Someone reported seeing Wise and his dog at RiYerfront Park on the 18th, but police haYen’t made much headway since. “They followed up on some leads in the beginning but there hasn’t been much to go on,” Harshman said. It has been hard on his friends and family, she said, especially when his birthday came and went and he wasn’t there to celebrate with them. Wise left his phone at home, so there is no way to contact him, and Harshman said the family is completely bafÀed as to where he might be. They spent the weekend printing up Àiers and spreading them across Umatilla County, the Tri-Cities and rest stops on the way to Portland. The Àiers note Wise was last seen wearing a red tank top and shorts, and ask that anyone with any information call Wise’s father Tony Wise at 541-312-5749 or Harshman at 541-561-7639. She said if Wise is hiding out somewhere for some reason, she would tell him that all his family and friends ask for is a phone call. “We just want to know he’s OK,” she said. “Just contact someone. We’re scared to death this could be something bad.” PENDLETON *etting on board with Yoga Roundup By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Stuart McCusker stood atop a paddleboard and breathed deep. $ppearing not to notice the splashing and playful chatter around him in the Pendleton $quatic Center lap pool, he laid down his paddle and got to work. The paddleboard was McCusker’s Àoating yoga mat. He and other partici- pants at last weekend’s Yoga Roundup attempted poses, once performed safely on solid ground, now on the water. This was the Pend- leton man’s ¿rst attempt. He faced to the front, right knee forward and bent, left leg back, arms out. His legs shook as he struggled to balance, but held the pose. Warrior 2, check. Someone on another board toppled and fell. McCusker segued to a plank, a cobra, before pushing up into a downward dog. Then into the water he went. McCusker was one of about 250 people who partic- ipated at the four-day Yoga Round-up. Participants mari- nated in yoga, meditation, stress reduction and tourism breaks. Sessions took place inside the Pendleton ConYen- tion Center, outside on the Round-Up *rounds, at the aquatic center and at McKay ReserYoir. Paddleboard yoga was the only actiYity where falling was the likely eYen- tual outcome. $mie Di*ennaro, of The Dalles, led the pool class and led trips to the McKay ReserYoir where she taught her students how to master paddleboard yoga. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Emile Yost of Yakima watches as Amie DiGennaro performs a headstand while on a paddleboard Friday during a swim party for the Yoga Round-Up in Pendleton. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Stuart McCusker of Pendleton does a warrior pose on Friday while practicing paddleboard yoga at the Pendleton Family Aquatic Center. Di*ennaro originally tried Àoating yoga after her husband showed her a photo. “It was a picture of a woman doing a ¿sh pose on a Àoating mat,” she said. “I said, µHoly cow, I’Ye got to try that.” She took a board out onto the Columbia, put down an anchor bag and tried some poses. “I fell in a bunch of times, absolutely,” she said. “But I thought, µI loYe this.’ Two of my faYorite things are yoga and the water.” On Friday at the aquatic center, she smiled as her students attempted poses. Some wobbled as they fought to balance on the 33-inch- wide boards, while others remained more controlled. Yoga teacher Tania Wildbill, who founded the Yoga Roundup seYen years ago with her husband Cedric, knelt down, placed her head on the board and lifted into a headstand to loud applause. Di*ennaro said people learn to ¿ne-tune their balance by adjusting the left and right sides of their bodies. $ll the muscles engage as they join the effort. “Holding a posture on the board is challenging,” she said. McCusker, who practices buti yoga at the Pendleton Yoga Studio, agreed, but wore a grin. “Heck, yeah,” he said. “That was a lot of fun.”
