Wednesday, January 6, 2016
REGION
East Oregonian
Page 3A
HERMISTON
PENDLETON
Joel Luna joins
list of missing men
Street racing ends with crash
One man arrested
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
A Hermiston man’s family is worried about his where-
abouts after three weeks without any contact from him.
Family and friends say they haven’t seen Joel Luna, 36,
since Dec. 15, 2015. His stepmother Michelle Luna said his
phone is turned off and a car he borrowed around that time
hasn’t been found.
Michelle said it isn’t uncommon for him to take off for
a few days at a time — for example,
he had just returned from visiting
a friend in the Grand Coulee area in
Washington. But he has never gone
weeks without any contact with his
three daughters in Boardman or other
family members.
“Somebody should have heard
from him,” she said.
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haven’t had any luck in locating him.
Joel is Hispanic, 5’7”, 170 pounds
with brown eyes and dark hair. He has
a piercing on his chin, several tattoos
and usually wears facial hair. His
last known vehicle was a blue 1998
Mercury Sable with Oregon plate
number 185 FGV.
Michelle said if he hears his
family is looking for him she hopes
he remembers his daughters, who are Getman
“devastated” that they haven’t heard
from him since before the holidays.
“Your family loves you Joel,” she
said. “We want you home.”
Luna’s family aren’t the only ones
still searching for a loved one in the
area in the new year.
John Getman, 78, is still missing
after wandering away from a family
member’s home in Irrigon about 2
a.m. on Nov. 16, 2015.
Wise
Getman has Alzheimer’s and had
recently moved to Irrigon from New
York. Several people later reported seeing him walking
along nearby roads that morning but search and rescue
efforts were unsuccessful in locating him.
Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack said deputies
followed up on reports from La Grande and Texas in the
weeks after Getman’s disappearance, but to no avail. The
trail has since gone cold.
“We have not heard anything more,” Matlack said.
Getman is described 6 feet tall, 190 pounds with short
gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a
heavy brown Carhartt jacket, brown plaid shirt, blue jeans
and sneakers.
Marcus Wise, 27, of Hermiston has been missing since
June 18, 2015, but his family and friends haven’t given up
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the hopes that someone comes forward with information on
his whereabouts.
According to them, he left for a walk with his dog in
the Riverfront Park area on June 18. The dog was found
wandering around the west end of town later that day, but
Wise was nowhere to be found and his family hasn’t seen
him since.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the
three men can contact Hermiston Police Department at
541-567-5519 or Morrow County Police Department at
541-676-5317.
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Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4536.
A man street racing
Tuesday morning near
downtown Pendleton is in
jail after crashing his car
into another.
Mike Davis, 27, of
Pendleton, was racing his
Eagle Talon against another
vehicle eastbound on Dorion
Avenue,
according
to
Pendleton police Cpl. Chris
Freeman, and smashed into
the left back tire area of a
Dodge Durango going south
on Southeast Fourth Street.
The collision tore apart
the front of the Talon,
ripped at least one tire from
the Durango and spun it into
the corner of the building on
the 400 block of Southeast
Dorion, near the Dean
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and Gushwa said the crash
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to land across Fourth Street
near the site of Elite Taxi.
Gushwa and his wife,
Jennifer Roe, said the dog
was injured and bleeding.
She also said the impact
shook the building.
The driver of the
Durango was an elderly
woman, Gushwa said, who
was shaken, asked for her
dog and stated her back
hurt. Pendleton assistant
chief Matt Benedict said an
ambulance took her to St.
Anthony Hospital, Pend-
leton, and someone took the
dog to a veterinary clinic.
The East Oregonian has
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Contributed photo by Hermiston Fire & Emergency Services
Hermiston Fire & Emergency Services’ new ambu-
lance has a different look than its predecessors.
New style of ambulance
comes to Hermiston
district’s last ambulance
purchased in 2013 and is
HERMISTON — Resi- expected to get twice the
dents who spot Hermiston miles per gallon as the big
Fire & Emergency Services’ box model it is replacing.
The district transports
newest ambulance on the
road might not recognize it about two patients a day,
which puts more than
as such.
The red vehicle looks 110,000 miles per year on
more like a large van than its units. The new ambu-
a typical “big box” model lance will mostly be used
of ambulance people are to transport patients from
used to seeing on the streets, Good Shepherd Medical
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drivers still need to pull over Tri-Cities and Portland
and give it the right of way. area but will also be used
According to Herm- to respond to emergencies
iston Fire, the model cost when the district’s other
30 percent less than the ambulances are busy.
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Phil Wright
A car race Tuesday morning through Pendleton ended with a crash. Mike Davis, 27,
of Pendleton, drove the Eagle Talon that was racing another vehicle and caused the
crash, according to Pendleton police, who arrested him at the scene.
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Pendleton police Cpl. Chris Freeman and officer Na-
than Bessette arrest Mike Davis, 27, of Pendleton, on
charges related to car racing Tuesday morning through
Pendleton.
the victim.
Davis walked away from
the crash and appeared
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cers arrested Davis at the
scene for speed racing, reck-
less driving and recklessly
endangering another and
hauled him to the Umatilla
County Jail, Pendleton.
Police set up road blocks
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area until a tow company
removed the debris and
vehicles. Roe and Gushwa
said drivers speed by the
block on a regular basis as
they jockey to get in the
right lane before crossing
Southeast Seventh Street,
where the left lane on
Dorion branches into a
left turn only and the right
continues on as one lane
before widening again two
blocks later.
The vehicle Davis raced
against was not involved
in the wreck and got away.
Police said they have an
idea who that driver was.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
MISSION
Quartet blends musical genres for Valentine show
East Oregonian
Performing inspirational
songs about goodness, helping
others and love is a perfect
lead-in to Valentine’s Day.
The Tenors, a quartet
from Canada, will perform
Saturday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in
the Rivers Events Center at
Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
Tickets for the special show
will go on sale Thursday.
People can make an evening
of the event with $89 tickets,
which include dinner at 6
p.m. with the show following.
Other options include $59
premium show tickets or $49
general admission seats.
Since their formation in
2007, the vocal quartet has
performed more than 500
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addition, they’ve made more
than 150 TV appearances,
including on The Oprah
Winfrey Show (with Céline
Dion), Today Show and
Entertainment Tonight, as
well as at the 2014 National
Christmas Tree Lighting at
Contributed photo
The Tenors will perform a special Valentine’s show Sat-
urday, Feb. 13 at Wildhorse Resort & Casino. Tickets go
on sale Thursday.
the White House, at the 2014
Stanley Cup Finals, the 2012
Emmy Awards, Her Majesty
The Queen’s 2012 Diamond
Jubilee at Windsor Castle
in England and the 2010
Vancouver Olympic opening
ceremonies.
Known for their signature
blend of classical and pop
music, the group has shared
the stage with such artists as
Sting, Elton John, Paul McCa-
rtney, Sheryl Crow, Justin
Bieber, Earth, Wind & Fire.
The Tenors have received
numerous
accolades,
including the 2013 JUNO
Award for Adult Contem-
porary Album of the Year.
The JUNO Awards are the
Canadian equivalent to the
Grammys. Their third album,
“Lead with Your Heart,”
went platinum in Canada in
just seven weeks. The album
has been featured on Good
Morning America, Access
Hollywood, ET Canada,
CNN Morning Live, e-Talk
and FOX & Friends.
The group’s new album,
“Under One Sky,” debuted at
number one on the Billboard
Classical Crossover and
Classical Overall Charts. The
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Gold with momentum still
growing.
Tickets are available at
www.wildhorseresort.com or
by visiting the Wildhorse Gift
Shop. For more information,
contact Tiah DeGrofft, Wild-
horse community relations,
at 541-966-1628 or tiah.
degrofft@wildhorseresort.
com. For more about
the group, visit www.
tenorsmusic.com.
Pendleton man charged with manslaughter in Idaho crash
East and collided with Paul-
son’s orange Volkswagen
Beetle.
Idaho State Police inves-
A Pendleton semi truck
driver has been charged after tigators were called to the
a November crash that killed crash. They found the entire
front of the Volkswagen
an Idaho man.
Joseph D. Murray, 31, is crushed inward and debris
charged with misdemeanor scattered on roadway.
Paulson died at the scene.
vehicular manslaughter in the
One witness, who was
death of Robert Paulson, 75,
making a delivery to Jensen’s
in Rupert, Idaho.
A pretrial conference was Meat Market, went outside
Tuesday in Minidoka County to her truck to get a pen.
Fifth District Magitrate She heard a loud “boom and
looked up,” court records say.
Court.
She saw the Volkswagen
According to the Mini-
doka County Prosecutor’s convertible underneath the
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a semi truck and trailer and came to rest on the
owned by Michael Ramirez shoulder of the road. The
Trucking of Pendleton when witness saw that Paulson was
he failed to stop at a stop sign deceased and she pulled a
at Idaho Highway 25 and 100 dog from the Volkswagen.
By LAURIE WELCH
Twin Falls Times-News
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Paulson was not wearing a
seatbelt.
Murray told police he had
made a delivery to Cargill
Animal Nutrition and left the
business driving south on N.
100 E. Road. He told police
he stopped at the intersection
and felt the impact as he
crossed.
Immediately after the
crash, several witnesses said
they heard Murray say he
did not stop at the stop sign,
police said.
Paulson’s wife told police
that he was headed to the
Minidoka County Senior
Center for lunch when the
crash occurred.