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.
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East Oregonian
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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.”