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SCHIMMEL INSPIRES ON THE RESERVATION Charges unlikely for sender of odd letters NORTHWEST/2A SPORTS/1B 102/66 THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015 139th Year, No. 205 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar UMATILLA Waiting game in face of disorder 6chool can Ee dif¿ cult for students whose families move for agricultural work. One student moved to the Umatilla School District halfway through the ¿ rst Tuarter of last school year and then moved back to Arizona for three months while his mother was working there. The student later returned to Umatilla and then left again, only to return for the last two weeks of the school year. To help students w h o s e education has been inter- Sipe rupted, the InterMountain Education Service District provides summer school in Umatilla and Milton-Freewater for migrant students whose fami- lies moved within the last three years for agricultural work. Umatilla School District Superintendent Heidi Sipe said 102 migrant students are enrolled in the summer program at McNary Heights Elementary School. “Summer school is an opportunity to ensure that, while parents are working, (students) are able to obtain some consistent schooling throughout the summer to hopefully make up those gaps in learning that can occur during freTuent moves,´ she said. McNary Heights ESL teacher and summer school site adminis- trator Nicole Taylor said the addi- tional time in school is bene¿ cial for migrant students, as is extra practice in English. Staff photo by Kathy Aney “We do have a few monolingual kids here right now, and they are Third-grade teacher Sara Liebe helps Jayden Hansen and Rubi Munoz-Mendoza during her coming and they are doing a great summer school class Wednesday at McNary Heights Elementary School in Umatilla. Mob,´ she said. “They are getting exposure to the language. They are getting an opportunity to continue with language programs they were working on during the school year to target their learning of English. By SEAN HART It¶s a great intervention.´ East Oregonian The summer school program bene¿ ts other students as well. No child should have to go hungry, and a Sipe said the district supplements program in Umatilla ensures children there are the migrant program with Title well fed. I and 21st Century Community Through the school district’s summer feeding Learning Center funds to allow program, children ages 1 to 18 can eat breakfast, all students in Umatilla to attend lunch and dinner for free each weekday. for free. On average, 180 students The meals are funded through the U.S. Staff photo by Kathy Aney have been attending the pre-kin- Department of Agriculture Summer Food Yamilex Madrigal-Armenta, Darlyne Munoz-Men- dergarten through eighth-grade and Erika Aguirre-Luna eat lunch Wednes- Service Program and are growing in popularity. program at McNary Heights each doza “It’s been a great year for all of the summer day at McNary Heights Elementary School in day, while an additional 40 have Umatilla. The Summer Feeding Program provides feeding programs,´ Superintendent Heidi been participating at the high breakfast, lunch and dinner free to youth aged Sipe said. “One of the things we ¿ nd is that it school. one through 18. Adults can eat for one or two See SUMMER/8A See MEALS/8A dollars, depending on the meal. Woman’s health worsens as she waits for drug’s approval School’s in for summer More than half of students are children of migrant workers By SEAN HART East Oregonian Meals program grows in popularity By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Susie Arroyo knows she is an anomaly. The 25-year-old Pendleton woman has a genetic mutation called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a muscle-killing disorder that overwhelmingly affects boys. A female has a one in 50,000,000 chance of having the muta- tion, compared to a male’s one in 3,500. Getting hit by lightning (with odds of about 1 in 280,000) is much more likely. Arroyo Literature about the disorder often mentions only boys. Her muscles started weakening in childhood. Her heart steadily deterio- rated. Five years ago, she started using a wheelchair full-time. Arroyo tried to join a drug trial limited to males but was rejected. She’s got her eye on one drug, Eteplirsen, which has been in the ¿ nal stage of trials for more than three years. “This medication would be a game changer,´ she said. “All of the people in the trial have maintained their health and some have improved. A boy back east regained the use of his arms. Another was able to get out of his See DISORDER/8A Plane debris may lead to missing jet WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a “high degree of con¿ dence´ that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing compo- nent uniTue to the Boeing , the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. of¿ cial said Wednesday. Air safety investigators — one of them a Boeing investigator —have identi¿ ed the component as a “À ap- eron´ from the trailing edge of a wing, the U.S. of¿ cial said. A French of¿ cial close to an investiga- tion of the debris con¿ rmed Wednesday that French law enforcement is on site to examine a piece of airplane wing found on the French island of Reunion, in the western Indian Ocean. Oregon Secretary of State probing energy tax credits By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — The Oregon Secre- tary of State’s of¿ ce has launched an inTuiry into the Oregon Depart- ment of Energy’s handling of tax credit sales. The extent of the investigation is unclear, but a senior auditor from the Secretary of State’s of¿ ce recently reTuested more than 0 pages of records on privately brokered sales of Oregon business energy tax credits from 2013. The state awarded the tax credits to owners of renewable energy and ef¿ ciency projects, such as a cellulosic ethanol plant and public transit districts across the state. The owners could use the credits to offset their taxes, or sell them at a discount to raise cash. The Department of Energy traditionally helped project owners ¿ nd buyers for their tax credits as part of the state program, but private brokers started to negotiate the deals as early as 2009. The department does not verify the sale prices of credits sold in private deals, and energy of¿ cials Tuietly stopped enforcing pricing rules for the sales in 2009, the EO Media Group/Pamplin Media Group Capital Bureau reported back in June. The agency is now in the process of retroactively changing See TAX CREDIT/8A Parks & Rock Staff photo by E.J. Harris James Kindle plays the guitar Wednesday while performing with James Dean Kindle & the Eastern Oregon Playboys at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. The show was the fi rst of fi ve shows in the parks and recreation’s “Wednesdays In The Park” series.
