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PARIS
UNDER
FIRE
120 dead in worst
violence in ‘City of
Light’ since WWII
By LORI HINNANT and GREG KELLER
Associated Press
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pastor Mark and Karen Woolbright brace themselves as the youth of Helix Community Church take turns spraying them with
whipping cream and layering that with cereal. The “Plaster the Pastor” event was a reward for fi nishing a certain number of
days of scripture study. The Woolbrights are part of a ministry that revives country churches that are struggling.
Mission of salvation
Helix Sastor and wife face dwindling church attendance head on
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Pastor 0ark :oolbright grins when
he thinks back to a career aStitude test
he took in high school. When the teen
oSened the results, he looked dumb
founded at the suggested Srofession.
0inister.
“I was sitting in class with some of
my drinking buddies and they asked
what I¶d gotten,´ Woolbright said. “I
couldn¶t wad it uS Tuick enough.´
Being a Sastor was not yet on Wool
bright’s radar. Instead he worked for 37
years as a farmer with a Sauvie Island
agricultural oSeration that Sroduced
Seaches, berries, SumSkins and other
croSs. He attended church, but admits “I
warmed a Sew.´
Then something inside him changed.
“I was convicted to do more,´ Wool
bright said. “I told God whatever you
want me to do, I’m going to do it.´
God doesn’t generally ignore such
Sromises, he said, grinning again, and
oSSortunities to learn and lead seemed
“Before Mark and Karen
came, we were not sure
we were going to be able
to keep the doors open.”
— Sharilyn Newtson,
church member
to À ow his way. (ventually, he and his
wife .aren both attended a Bible college
and SreSared to enter the ministry.
———
Three hundred miles east, Helix
Community Church was fading away.
The tiny church struggled to ¿ nd a
Sastor and the congregation was dwin
dling. 0ember Sharilyn Newtson and
others worried. She said they reTuested
Srayer from an organi]ation called
9illage 0issions, which sSeciali]es
in reviving country churches that are
the only one left in town. Instead of
letting these churches disaSSear, the
Faith among Oregon adults
Belief in God
Absolutely certain
Fairly certain
Not at all certain
Don’t know
Do not believe
Attendance at services
Once a week
Few times a y year
Seldom/never
Don’t know
Frequency of prayer
At least daily
Weekly
Monthly
Seldom/never
Don’t know
See CHURCH/12A
2007
2014
63 %
19%
5%
4%
9%
57 %
19%
7%
4%
13%
2007
2014
32%
27%
40%
1%
29%
33%
37%
1%
2007
2014
48%
18%
6%
27%
1%
45%
14%
7%
33%
<1%
Source: Pew Research Center
IRRIGON
Library a literary labor of love
Dream becomes
reality after 17 years
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Barb Huwe could barely contain
her excitement Friday as she
greeted friends, neighbors and city
of¿ cials during the grand oSening
of the new Irrigon Public Library.
³:e ¿ nally did it,´ Huwe said
with a wide, friendly grin.
It was Huwe who formed the
Friends of the Irrigon Library 17
years ago; who went door to door
collecting signatures to join the
Oregon Trail Library District;
who served 13 years on the OTLD
Board of Directors seeing the
Sroject through to fruition.
So it only made sense Huwe
would be asked to cut the ribbon in
front of the crowd gathered around
the library entrance.
³This is what we were after,´
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Mrs. Eastern Oregon, Lori McNeil of Baker, reads the book “Red
Leaf, Yellow Leaf” to a group of children Friday during the open-
ing ceremony of the Irrigon Public Library
Huwe said. “Now we just have to
use it and enjoy it.´
Irrigon¶s library has of¿ cially
been oSen since 0arch, but ¿ nally
got around to celebrating Friday
afternoon with visits from State
Librarian 0ary.ay Dahlgreen,
0rs. (astern Oregon Lori 0cNeil
See LIBRARY/12A
PA5IS — A series of attacks targeting
young concertgoers, soccer fans and
Parisians enjoying a Friday night out
at SoSular nightsSots killed at least 120
SeoSle in the deadliest violence to strike
France since World War II. President Fran
cois Hollande condemned it as terrorism
and Sledged that France would stand ¿ rm
against its foes.
The worst carnage was at a concert hall
hosting an American rock band, where
scores of SeoSle were held hostage and
attackers ended the standoff by detonating
exSlosive belts. Police who stormed the
building encountered a bloody scene of
horror inside.
Paris Prosecutor Francois 0olins said
as many as ¿ ve attackers were killed,
though it was not clear how many there
were altogether and how many, if any,
were still at large. Other of¿ cials said
seven attackers had been killed and that
Solice were searching for other Sossible
accomSlices.
Authorities said the death toll could
exceed 120 for at least six sites, including
the national stadium and a tight circle of
SoSular nightsSots.
Hollande declared a state of emergency
and announced that he was closing the
country’s borders, although of¿ cials later
said they were just reimSosing border
checks that had been removed after (uroSe
created its freetravel ]one in the 10s.
0etro lines shut down and streets
emStied on the mild fall evening as fear
sSread through the city, still aching from
the horrors of the Charlie Hebdo attack
just 10 months ago.
The attack unfolded with two suicide
bombings and an exSlosion outside the
national stadium during a soccer match
See PARIS/10A
8P Slans to hike
oil shiSments
through Gorge
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Press
S$L(0 — 8nion Paci¿ c 5ailroad
Slans to increase shiSments of oil from
North Dakota’s Bakken formation through
the Columbia 5iver Gorge, according to
the Oregon DeSartment of TransSortation.
The notice, which ODOT 5ail and
Public Transit Division Administrator Hal
Gard said the state received on Thursday,
means the railway could increase shiS
ments through the Gorge by as much as 3
million gallons or more Ser month.
Gard told the Oregon TransSortation
Commission during a brie¿ ng session
Thursday that the state had just received
notice that morning that 8nion Paci¿ c
Slanned to haul uS to three train loads of
Bakken oil Ser month through the corridor.
8nder a 2014 order by the 8.S. DeSartment
of TransSortation, railways must notify state
emergency of¿ cials of estimated weekly
Bakken oilbyrail shiSments that are 1
million gallons or larger, the eTuivalent of
aSSroximately 35 tank cars. 5ailways only
¿ le the reSorts when the volume increases
See OIL/12A