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Saturday, October 10, 2015
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
PILOT ROCK
Food truck tailgating
Police chief
candidate dies,
search restarts
Leadership club hosts
parking lot cuisine
before Friday’s game
Diagnosed with
terminal cancer days
after accepting job
By SEAN HART
East Oregonian
The pre-game atmosphere at
Kennison Field was a little different
Friday night.
The Hermiston High School Asso-
ciated Student Body Leadership Club
hosted its ¿rst Food Truck Friday before
the football game against Sandy.
Yo Country Frozen Yogurt, Tacos
Xavi and the 395 Quick Stop Crew set up
shop in the high school parking lot near
the ¿eld and offered attendees a variety
of snacking options.
New leadership advisor Dave
Rohrman said the club is trying to raise
funds to participate in a polar plunge
bene¿ting Special Olympics at an
Oregon Association of Student Councils
leadership conference in November.
“We wanted to provide a fun activity
and also encourage businesses to
come and do things at Hermiston High
School,” he said. “We didn’t charge (the
food trucks) a fee or anything, but if they
do well, they can donate what they want.
Anything we get out of it, even if it’s just
a promise that they will come back and
do this again, that’s a win for us. If we get
some donations out of it because they’re
successful, that’s a bonus.”
Rohrman said the club may try to host
similar events in the future, even beyond
football season, if there is interest.
Javier Diaz, owner of Tacos Xavi, said
business was going well for the ¿rst Food
Truck Friday and that he would probably
be willing to participate in future events.
“We try to support the team and the
community, you know, with different
things,” he said. “It’s a good idea.”
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Pilot Rock is again
looking for a new police
chief.
Rodney
Enevoldsen,
a former police chief in
Alaska, accepted the job on
Sept. 18, but died days later
at the age of 49.
Pilot Rock Mayor
Virginia Carnes said it was
terrible news, and now the
city is starting from scratch
to ¿nd a police chief.
“Who would ever have
thought it would take us 10
months to ¿nd a Tuali¿ed
candidate?” she said.
Pilot Rock City Council
voted Sept. 8 to offer the
job to Enevoldsen, who
headed up the police
department in Bristol Bay
Borough, Alaska, for eight
years until he left in May.
He was living in Canby
with his parents when he
took the Pilot Rock job.
Carnes said Enevoldsen
came out Sept. 18, and
signed a contract.
“He mentioned at the
time he was having terrible
allergies,” she said, and
complained of back pain
that morning. Carnes said
Staff photo by Sean Hart
People wait in line at Tacos Xavi during the Hermiston High School As-
sociated Student Body Leadership Club’s first Food Truck Friday outside
Kennison Field before the football game against Sandy. The event was
a fundraiser so the club can participate in a polar plunge benefiting the
Special Olympics at a leadership conference in November. The club may
host similar events in the future, even beyond football season, if there is
interest.
Hermiston fan Kristina Mick, who
was ordering food from the taco truck,
said she wished the food trucks were
there more often.
“I think it’s cool,” she said. “We’re
usually scrambling to go somewhere else
to get food, so it’s nice that it’s here.”
Sophomore Kennedy Keith, who
was working in her father’s Yo Country
truck, said the food trucks enhanced the
atmosphere before the game. She said
she thought it was a good idea and that
Yo Country tries to attend as many events
as possible.
Lillie Wheeler, a junior at the high
school and a member of the Leadership
Club, said everyone in the club thought
food trucks would be a good idea.
“Our Leadership (Club) is trying to
get as much involvement throughout
our student body (as possible),” she said.
“(Food Truck Friday is) just another
fundraiser to boost our Leadership and
get money to have more activities that
we can do for our students.”
The club plans homecoming, prom,
assemblies, night activities and spirit
week, she said, and other events to make
the “student body better.”
Wheeler said participating in the
Leadership Club has helped her meet new
people, including other club members
her own age that she never knew were
from Hermiston.
“It helps me understand where people
come from,” she said. “It de¿nitely has
made me open my eyes to a lot more
goals in life, and it has helped me come a
long ways. It helps keep me involved in
the school too.”
Capt. Johnson completes school
of police staff and command
Replacement judge could be up to council
The Hermiston city council
will consider a process
Monday to select a pro tem
judge to ¿ll in when the city’s
elected municipal judge has a
conÀict of interest with a case.
City voters rejected an
amendment to the city’s
charter in 2014 that would
have allowed the city council
to appoint the municipal judge
instead of having one elected.
However, the new charter that
was adopted did state that the
council was allowed to select
a temporary judge to ¿ll in
when the municipal judge
has a conÀict of interest or
otherwise cannot preside over
a case.
A memo from city
manager Byron Smith stated
that currently Judge Thomas
Creasing selects his own
replacement for the handful
of times each year that he
needs one. Smith suggested
adopting a public hiring
process that would result
in an of¿cial pro tem judge
being put in place by the end
of November.
In other city business, the
council will consider an inter-
governmental agreement with
the Oregon Department of
Transportation for a planned
repaving
project
along
Highway 395 from Southeast
Fourth Street to Highway 730
during 2016 that will include
placing medians at the inter-
section of Highway 395 and
Elm Avenue. The $6.3 million
project will mostly be paid
for by ODOT, but the city is
responsible for an estimated
$23,850 to make adjustments
to the city’s utilities located in
ODOT’s right of way.
The council also will be
asked to initiate a text amend-
ment to the city’s zoning
code to change the de¿nition
of multi-family residence to
include multiple duplexes on
the same lot.
Smith also plans to ask the
council to consider increasing
the freTuency of its work
sessions from once a month,
or to include more discussions
in its regular meetings. He
said in a memo to the council
that workshop discussions
generated helpful feedback
but the list of items he wanted
to discuss — currently ranging
from the Eastern Oregon
Trade and Event Center to the
city’s project to start its own
natural gas utility — was too
she encouraged him to
check out the Westward
Ho! Parade that Saturday
in Pendleton.
She said she followed
up with a phone call on
Monday, Sept. 21, and
Enevoldsen told her he
spent the whole Round-Up
weekend sick in bed at the
Red Lion Inn, Pendleton,
and was so ill he barely
could drive back to Canby.
Several days passed,
she said, and they heard
nothing. So city recorder
Teri Porter called him.
Enevoldsen revealed he
found out he had terminal
cancer. Carnes said two
days later he died.
An online tribute shows
Enevoldsen died Sept. 28.
Carnes said Pilot Rock
has no candidates for the
job and is advertising
for it again. Pilot Rock
in the meantime has an
agreement to pay $4,000 a
month to Pendleton police
to provide administrative
oversight for the smaller
city’s police department.
And Carnes said the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Of¿ce and Oregon State
Police have been sending
their patrols through the
city.
———
Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
HERMISTON
HERMISTON
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
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extensive to cover with only
one work session a month.
After its regular meeting
the council will convene
as the Hermiston Urban
Renewal Agency to discuss
a facade grant reTuest by the
Hermiston Herald.
The city council meeting
will be Monday at 7 p.m. at
city hall, 160 N.E. Second St.
in Hermiston.
The city announced that a
public hearing concerning its
proposed ban on commercial
marijuana activity in the city
is scheduled for the city coun-
cil’s Oct. 26 meeting.
The ¿rst meeting of the
city’s Community Livability
Asset Oversight Committee
is scheduled for Monday
from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the
Umatilla Electric Cooperative
at 750 W. Elm Avenue.
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Capt.
Darryl Johnson from Herm-
iston Police Department
recently graduated from
Northwestern University’s
School of Police Staff and
Command.
Chief Jason Edmiston
said in a press release he
anticipates a variety of
bene¿ts from Johnson’s
attendance in the program.
“As a 2007 graduate,
I know how much time
and energy the program
takes,” Edmiston said
in the release. “I was
fortunate enough to attend
the 11-week program in
2007, but I was completely
removed from the police
department and my duties
during that summer. Darryl
attended the online course
while still juggling his
responsibilities here at
work.”
The program, which
was implemented by the
Center for Public Safety in
1983, has graduated more
than 15,000 students. The
school provides upper-
level college instruction.
Major topics of study
include leadership, human
resources,
employee
relations,
organizational
behavior, applied statistics,
planning and policy devel-
opment, budgeting and
resource allocation.
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