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BULLDOGS HOLD OFF VIKINGS Rough Echo railroad crossing scheduled for fi x REGION/3A SOCCER/1B 79/57 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 139th Year, No. 228 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar PENDLETON Soft start gets solid praise Parents get tour of newly remodeled facility By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian In its inaugural year as a full-day kindergarten, the Pendleton Early Learning Center has made a commitment to starting soft. While Monday was nominally the ¿ rst day of school for the Pendleton School District, the center will have ¿ ve ¿ rst days as a part of its new soft start schedule. As a part of the schedule, each of the center’s roughly 220 kindergarten students were assigned one day of the week to start school. The logic behind the schedule was to better acclimate students to a full-length day without being immediately ushered into a class with more than 20 other children. The soft start was also used to give parents a tour of the newly remodeled facility and give them information about the new bus routes that will take effect next week as a result of centralized kindergarten. Principal Lori Hale said she hasn’t received any complaints from parents about the reduction in ¿ rst week and class time and early reviews from the school’s 10-teacher staff were good. “It makes the children feel much more secure,” teacher Jan Levy said to the agreement of her fellow staff members, See HAWTHORNE/10A Staff photo by E.J. Harris A group of kindergartners listen to P.E. teacher Josh Linehan while on a tour of their new school on Monday at the Hawthorne Early Learning Center in Pendleton. UMATILLA Camping ban considered to move homeless Camps, brush cleared from woods sends homeless onto private property By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Courtney Hines, left, of Portland and Juli Brinker of Milton-Freewater pour seasoned chips onto the top of a dish called chilaquiles while participating in a culinary workshop Friday in Umatilla. Culinary classroom Workshop helps school cooks meet federal meal guidelines By SEAN HART East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Stephenie Grogan, a cook with Stanfi eld Elementary School, stirs a marinated Greek salad during a culinary workshop Friday in Umatilla. Cooking nutritious meals for students requires more than a dash of this and a pinch of that. Federal regulations require school cooks to provide certain amounts of various food catego- ries on a daily and weekly basis while adhering to calorie, fat and sodium guidelines. To help school nutrition specialists gain con¿ dence and learn new ideas to meet the requirements, the Oregon Dairy Council and the Oregon Department of Education have teamed up for the last six years to provide regional culinary workshops throughout the state. In one of ¿ ve trainings planned this year, cooks from the local area and as far away as Salem spent Thursday afternoon and Friday refreshing their culinary skills and learning 15 recipes that may end up on school menus this year. Oregon Dairy Council Nutrition Affairs Director Anne Goetze said cooks from every county in the state have partic- ipated in these trainings through the years. The workshops are free, she said, and the goal is See COOKS/10A The Umatilla City Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday to ban camping outside of established campgrounds in response to what city staff say is a growing problem with homeless camps around the city. The ordinance would ban all camping on public property, with the exception of youth groups in parks given prior permission for an activity by the city “The police manager. It would also ban camping aren’t going to on private property without the permis- descend on your sion of the owner or property if you “with the intention of establishing a living have kids set- quarters.” ting up a tent in City Manager Bob Ward said the city the back yard. has always had issues with homeless camps That’s not what in the woods along the Umatilla River. the intent of the But since volunteers ordinance is.” cleaned out the — Bob Ward, camps and brush along the river during Umatilla city manager the city’s community cleanup effort in April, he said there have been more problems with homeless people camping out on private property, often without permission from the owners. “If there is a vacant property sometimes they will just set up on the lawn,” he said. Ward said city staff have become concerned with the health and safety hazards that spring from those situations and worked with the police department to draft an ordinance that would give the department more enforcement tools against the camps. Not only are camps like that often unsanitary, Ward said, they tend to play host to illegal activities like drug deals. He said one particularly concerning camp was east of the high school football ¿ eld, where Ward said students had to skirt the camp on See CAMPING/10A PENDLETON Picassos on the window By JONATHAN BACH and KATHY ANEY East Oregonian As autumn leaves turn from green to gold, a timeworn Pendleton Round-Up tradition is transforming local business windows from clear to colorful. On a recent morning, Laurie Doherty painted a speckled bull onto a Rainbow Café windowpane. Cartoonists have taken to Pendleton windows in the lead-up to Round-Up for decades. And just down the sidewalk at GeoEngineers, Doherty’s Staff photo by Kathy Aney Staff photo by Jonathan Bach Veteran window painter Laurie Doherty puts the fi nishing touches on a cartoon gracing the windows of Michael’s Fine Jewelry on Main Street. Kyle Crosby, 18, paints a fi sherman onto the win- dow of GeoEngineer Thursday. This is Crosby’s fi rst year as a window painter for Round-Up season. new pupil, Kyle Crosby, tried his hand at a cowboy-hat-and-plaid-clad ¿ sherman. Crosby may be just out of high school, but he’s already following in the footsteps of seasoned Round-Up painters like Doherty, Margie Brown and the late Tom Simonton. Doherty decided to take the 18-year-old under her painted-splattered wings — at least, to a degree. While she said she would show him tips and tricks for window painting, the veteran See PAINT/10A
