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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
IRRIGON
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Authorities search Youth get animated one frame at a time
for missing man
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Grant aims to grow
rural entrepreneurs
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
A new state grant could
help foster more innovation in
rural Oregon’s economy.
Business Oregon will use
the Rural Entrepreneurship
'evelopment Grant to invest
$250,000 in helping public
agencies and nonpro¿ts
in rural Oregon expand
programs that are designed to
increase entrepreneurship in
their communities.
Governor .ate Brown
announced the new grant
Monday.
“Oregon doesn’t thrive
unless all communities have
access to expanded economic
opportunity,” she said in
a statement. “Seeding the
talented entrepreneurs of rural
Oregon is a smart develop-
ment tool that ensures every
corner of the state can take
part in our growing economy.”
The grant is part of Busi-
ness Oregon’s “Grow Our
Own” campaign. Heather
Stafford, assistant director for
innovation and entrepreneur-
ship, said the strategy is based
on the fact that more than 70
percent of new job creation
comes from companies
already based in Oregon.
Stafford said the state
has found that many of its
strategies for increasing
entrepreneurship in the urban
areas doesn’t translate well to
the rural areas, which is why
Business Oregon is turning its
attention to the less populated
counties.
“There are a lot of activities
going on out in the rural areas
that are really interesting but
are underfunded,” she said.
The Rural Entrepreneur-
ship 'evelopment Grant
will not go to the entrepre-
neurs directly, but rather to
programs to help them. Those
services can include helping
¿nd investors, establishing
a mentor program, re¿ning
investor presentations and
hosting trainings and other
educational events.
Stafford said the $250,000
available for 2016 will likely
be split between three or four
entities. The goal isn’t to start
something from scratch and
sustain it, but to ¿nd some-
thing that works well, test it
out on a more ¿nancially-sup-
ported scale, and then base
grants for the 2017 cycle on
implementing that successful
strategy across the state.
“We’re looking for orga-
nizations that have some trac-
tion, that are already supported
by the community,” she said.
According to the grant
application materials, “This
economic gardening strategy,
which seeks to promote
economic opportunity and
achieve widely shared pros-
perity among all residents
of the state of Oregon, will
guide the state’s economic
development investments and
strategic initiatives over the
next biennium and beyond.”
Stafford said Business
Oregon knows the state
government doesn’t have all
the answers, especially when
it comes to the rural parts of
the state.
“We’re really looking for
some creative solutions, and
that really comes from the
¿eld,” she said.
To share those solutions,
participation in the grant will
include a “ rural entrepreneur
showcase” in which the
nonpro¿ts and government
agencies receiving the grant
will be highlighted, along
with the entrepreneurs they
have assisted.
Business Oregon de¿nes
an entrepreneur as a business
that is less than two years old,
has fewer than 10 employees
and creates or adds value to a
product that has the potential
for national or international
competition.
Grant applications are
due 'ec. 18 at noon. The
maximum award is $150,000.
Materials for the grant can
be found online at www.
oregon4biz.com/Innovate-&-
Create/RE'-Grant.
Elsa Rogers of Pendleton
molded clay around an
aluminum armature she
wrought to resemble a doll.
The 10-year-old girl already
gave the puppet a face and
long, thick rows of hair and
a back story:
“She’s a huntress-warrior
lady,” Elsa said.
Elsa with nine other girls
and nine boys — ages 8
to mid-teens — all crafted
simple puppets Saturday
at a stop motion anima-
tion workshop at Crow’s
Shadow Institute for the
Arts on the Umatilla Indian
Reservation. A team from
Laika Entertainmet Inc., the
Hillsboro-based stop-motion
animation studio with three
feature ¿lms under its belt —
“Coraline” in 2009, “Para-
Norman” in 2012 and “The
Boxtrolls” in 2014 — taught
the hands-on experience that
included the youth getting
to make their own brief
stop-motion movies.
Stop-motion animation
aims to make objects look
like they move on their own.
Achieving that illusion takes
buckets of patience and time.
9ideo or ¿lm runs at 24
frames per second for motion
to appear normal to us. Thus,
stop-motion animators move
puppets and objects a mere
fraction per frame for each
second of video.
Zech Cyr, 14, is a member
of the youth council for
the Confederated Umatilla
tribes. He said as a youth
leader he likes to participate
in these kinds of events, but
he also saw the workshop
as an opportunity to try
something new, and making
even a small-scale Àick was
enticing.
Georgina Hayns headed
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Zech Cry, 14, adjusts a character for a short video during the stop-motion anima-
tion workshop Saturday at Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts on the Umatilla
Indian Reservation near Pendleton. Animator Brian Hensen films and captures the
images to a computer.
up the Laika team. She is
the creative supervisor of
the company’s puppet lab.
Joining her were Molly Light
from the art department,
animator Brian Hensen, who
directed and shot the little
movies, and puppet painter
Josh Storey, who grew up in
Pendleton.
Hayns said Laika has 65
puppet makers, but that is
just part of a larger effort to
bring the characters to life on
the screen.
Behind one puppet are 20
to 30 artists and craftspeople,
she said, and creating a
feature ¿lm takes Laika about
two and a half years with
300-400 people working on
150-180 puppets. Hayns said
the team just ¿nished the last
puppet for Laika’s fourth
¿lm, “.ubo and the Two
Strings,” due out in August
2016.
Each of Laika’s movies
cost about $60 million to
make. So far, each has been
a ¿nancial success, and most
critics liked the movies.
.arl 'avis is the exec-
utive director of Crow’s
Shadow. He said “the
Pendleton connection” was a
key reason Laika brought the
workshop to Crow’s Shadow.
Renowned
local
painter James Lavadour
is co-founder of Crow’s
Shadow and friends with
Storey, Laika’s lead puppet
painter who grew up in Pend-
leton. They chatted about the
possibility of a workshop on
the reservation, and Hayns
said Laika had success
holding the workshop on the
Warm Springs Indian Reser-
vation. 'avis said one thing
led to the next, Laika sent out
its team and Crow’s Shadow
put them up for a couple
of nights and provided the
workshop space.
Crow’s Shadow has a
reputation for its artist-in-res-
idence program and its
bi-annual monotype and
monoprint marathon. 'avis
said the animation workshop
is a step outside what the
institute usually provides,
but it is refreshing to offer an
activity for children.
“It’s part of our mission
to foster those things, but we
don’t have a lot of opportu-
nity for that,” he said.
Parents and guardians
there Saturday said they were
happy this came to Eastern
Oregon. Amy Rogers of
Pendleton brought her two
daughters, who are fans of
“The Boxtrolls” and saw it in
a cinema.
“To be exposed to this
anywhere is fantastic,”
Rogers said, “but for them
to come out here — we
wouldn’t miss it for the
world.”
BRIEFLY
Sherwood Heights
vandalized over
weekend
PEN'LETON
— Sherwood Heights
Elementary School was
vandalized over the weekend,
according to local of¿cials.
Pendleton School 'istrict
Assistant Superintendent
Tricia Mooney said a vandal
spray-painted graf¿ti on the
exterior of the building and
broke a window.
The school district has
since painted over the graf¿ti
and replaced the window at
the elementary school.
The district reported
the vandalism to the police
department and will work
with authorities if they
identify a suspect.
Students and staff at
Sherwood Heights will
move into a new facility in
Fall 2016.
The district reported in
a written statement one
vehicle partially blocking
the southbound lane, so
¿re¿ghters provided medical
help and traf¿c control.
A Walla Walla couple
was in the Chevrolet, and
the 28-year-old woman
passenger received treatment
at St. Anthony Hospital,
Pendleton.
Nowaski also went to the
hospital, where staff treated
and released him. Then
state police took Nowaski
to the Umatilla County
Jail, Pendleton, and booked
him on charges of driving
under the inÀuence of
intoxicants, reckless driving
and two counts of recklessly
endangering another.
Police investigating
Pilot Rock deer
poaching
PILOT ROC. — Oregon
State Police is seeking the
public’s help to ¿nd the
poacher or poachers that
slaughtered two deer near
Pilot Rock.
A caller Friday at 1:45
p.m. told state police in
Pendleton she saw a dead
deer with the head removed
in a ¿eld on East Birch Creek
Road just east of Pilot Rock.
She said the deer had not
been there in the morning.
The agency’s media
report stated a necropsy
revealed the buck was shot
twice and the head removed.
“The rest of the animal,”
according to the report, “was
left there to waste.”
Of¿cers found a second
road kill buck with its antlers
removed west of the ¿rst one.
State police asked
anyone with information
about the slayings to
contact senior trooper 'ain
Gardner at 541-561-7425.
Information that leads to
an arrest could result in a
reward from the Oregon
Hunters Association’s
Turn-In-Poachers — or
TIP — program.
PRESENTS
Pendleton man
jailed after drunk
driving crash
PEN'LETON — A
Pendleton man landed
in jail Friday night for
driving drunk and crashing
into a vehicle.
Oregon State Police
reported Jason .err
Nowaski, 32, was
southbound on Highway
11 at about 8 p.m. in a
Jeep Wrangler when he
did not make a curve near
milepost 15, over-corrected
and slammed into a
Chevrolet pickup ahead of
him. Both vehicles rolled
at least once.
The East Umatilla
County Rural Fire
Protection 'istrict
responded at 8:05 p.m.
to assist with the crash.
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mer’s, Matlack said Getman
has no other serious medical
problems and is not a danger
Morrow County authorities to himself.
“He just gets confused
searched into the night for a
missing 78-year-old Irrigon when he can’t ¿nd his way,”
man with Alzheimer’s disease Matlack said. “He tends
who walked away from home to start walking, and will
keep walking until he can’t
early Monday morning.
John Getman was last anymore.”
This isn’t the ¿rst time
seen possibly at Frederickson
Farming near Boardman Getman has walked away
between
1:30-2
p.m., from home. According to the
according to Sheriff .en sheriff’s of¿ce, there was a
previous incident
Matlack. Getman
where he left and
was seen earlier in
was later picked up
the day by a mail
by a truck driver.
carrier
walking
Getman
is
west on Washington
described as a white
Lane in Irrigon, then
male, 6 feet tall, 190
again by the U.S.
pounds with short
Fish & Wildlife
gray hair, brown
Service in a parking
eyes and no facial
area at the Umatilla
hair. He was last
National Wildlife Getman
seen wearing a
Refuge.
Getman lives in Irrigon brown Carhartt jacket, brown
with his sister, who reported plaid shirt, blue jeans and
him missing at about 10:50 sneakers.
About 15 of¿cers searched
a.m. He is not familiar with
for Getman during the day,
the local area, Matlack said.
A search party consisting which phased down to about
of the sheriff’s of¿ce, three patrols after dark.
Boardman police and the Matlack said he will call for
Boardman and Irrigon rural additional help if there are
¿re departments spent most of more con¿rmed sightings.
Temperatures in Irrigon
Monday looking for Getman.
Matlack said they found are expected to dip to 44
footprints near McCormack degrees with a 60 percent
Slough along the Columbia chance of rain, according to
River 4-5 miles west of the National Weather Service.
Irrigon, and focused primarily A high wind warning is also in
effect for the area for Tuesday,
on driving the nearby roads.
The
sheriff’s
of¿ce with gusts up to 60 mph.
Matlack said crews will
received several potential
sightings during the afternoon continue to look for Getman
and evening, though Matlack until they ¿nd him. Anyone
said the tip from Frederickson with information should call
Farming was their strongest the Morrow County Sheriff’s
lead. Frederickson Farming Of¿ce at 541-676-5317.
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owns farmland from the Port
Contact George Plaven at
of Morrow industrial park
gplaven@eastoregonian.com
east to Paterson Ferry Road.
Apart from having Alzhei- or 541-966-0825.
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
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