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WEEKEND EDITION HERMISTON HEADED TO STATE ANIMAL CENSUS 5A GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT/1B LIFESTYLES/1C Smith takes Walla Walla job REGION/3A MARCH 5-6, 2016 140th Year, No. 101 $1.50 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Homeless camp cleared out By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Tammy Page and Phillip Martinez stand with their belongings on the side of Old River Road after the Umatilla County Sheriff’s ofi ce evicted them from a sec- tion of riverbank where they had been living. ReVLGeQtV oI aQ XQoI¿ FLaO hoPeOeVV FaPS oQ OOG RLYer RoaG Zere treVSaVVeG )rLGa\ PorQLQJ IroP the SroSert\ E\ the 8PatLOOa CoXQt\ 6herLII¶V OI¿ Fe. AV FoXQt\ ZorNerV FOaG LQ QeoQ oraQJe YeVtV SXOOeG oOG FXVhLoQV aQG EroNeQ EXFNetV oXt oI the EXVheV aQG threZ theP LQto aQ oYerÀ oZLQJ GXPSVter, VoPe oI the FaPS¶V reVLGeQtV Staff photo by Jade McDowell stood on the side of the road with their EeOonJinJs SXshed into a SiOe. ³We don¶t Nnow where to Jo,´ TaPP\ 3aJe said. 6he and her Eo\friend 3hiOOiS Martine] FaOOed that sSot E\ the 8PatiOOa RiYer hoPe for aEoXt ¿ Ye Ponths, she estiPated, after EeinJ eYiFted froP their SreYioXs FaPSinJ sSot aOonJ the riYer Eehind 8PatiOOa HiJh 6FhooO. AEoXt two weeNs aJo, she said, soPe SeoSOe who said the\ worNed for the state FaPe and toOd theP the\ needed to PoYe to hiJher JroXnd EeFaXse the riYer was JoinJ to À ood. That SXt theP FOoser to the road, and their inFreased YisiEiOit\ Jenerated FoPSOaints. 3aJe said SeoSOe froP the FoPPXnit\ had stoSSed E\ in reFent weeNs with food and EOanNets. %Xt Pan\ SeoSOe want the hoPeOess ³oXt of siJht and out of mind.” ³The\ don¶t Nnow how to See HOMELESS/10A After the war Photo contributed by Ryan Lehnert / staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton Police Cpl. Ryan Lehnert knows i rsthand the struggles that many combat veterans go through. Lehnert was a platoon sergeant with the Oregon National Guard and served a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. ComEat ]one is hard to OeaYe Eehind By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian R\an /ehnert rememEers the moment in 2004 when an artiOOer\ roFNet shattered his sense of FontroO. /ehnert had arriYed in IraT a weeN earOier to Oead a SOatoon of OreJon Arm\ NationaO *uard soOdiers OoFatinJ and destro\inJ roadside EomEs near KirNuN. DurinJ those earO\ da\s, /ehnert feOt Fon¿ dent he and his 0 soOdiers FouOd thwart danJer E\ simSO\ doinJ their MoE. When a roFNet Oanded near him as he waONed EaFN from Fhow one niJht, his SersSeFtiYe FhanJed. ³I FouOd hear the noise in the air and see the À ash,” he said. ³I hit the Jround. The roFNet EOew uS aEout 100 \ards from me. It was riJht then and there I thought, ‘We are not in Kansas an\more. This is the reaO deaO. This is war.¶” %efore he stood EaFN uS, he shot a Sra\er to the man uSstairs. It was a waNe-uS FaOO, of sorts, a reminder of the imSersonaO nature and unSre- diFtaEiOit\ of modern war. 6omeone a FouSOe of thousand \ards awa\ Fan OaunFh a roFNet and NiOO someone without eYer seeing their faFe. In the ne[t \ear, /ehnert and his men wouOd sSend their da\s doing reFonnaissanFe aOong the roads of northern IraT, OooNing for an\thing out of SOaFe that FouOd indiFate the SresenFe of e[SOosiYes. ³You OooN for an\ irreguOarities ² new dirt, green Yersus Erown Yegetation, a dead animaO, oOd tires, a grain saFN,” he said. One da\, a soOdier sSotted a white wire stiFNing out from the seam Eetween a FurE and a sidewaON. %omE teFhniFians set a Fharge and EOew it uS. OFFasionaOO\, a EomE e[SOoded undeteFted. In -anuar\, a soOdier in the SOatoon Oost his Oeg after See LEHNERT/10A Relief from the refuge %urns EasNetEaOO teams e[SerienFe suFFess desSite standoff stress By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian In some wa\s, 2016 %urns High 6FhooO EasNetEaOO wasn¶t that different from 2015. %oth the Eo\s and girOs teams SOa\ed weOO in the WaSiti /eague and made a run in the O6AA 2A 6tate %asNetEaOO Tournament in 3endOeton. %ut desSite a Fontinuum of EasNetEaOO suFFess, the 2016 teams had to deaO with eYents that no %urns sTuad had deaOt with Eefore. )rom -an. 2 to )eE. 11, %urns was transformed from a Tuiet ruraO Fommunit\ to the state¶s foFaO Soint as seOf-desFriEed miOitia memEers oFFuSied the MaOheur NationaO WiOdOife Refuge in Srotest of the arrests of two OoFaO ranFhers. DesSite the internationaO atten- tion, and the OoFaO tensions, FoaFhes of Eoth the Eo\s and girOs teams said it wasn¶t dif¿ FuOt to NeeS their SOa\ers foFused on the tasN at hand. WhiOe the toSiF of the oFFuSation Fame uS oFFasionaOO\, most of the SOa\ers¶ attention was on SraFtiFe and the uSFoming game. ³%asNetEaOO was reaOO\ Must Nind of a reOief,” forward %rett )ried- riFhson said. Not that the teams weren¶t FomSOeteO\ unaffeFted, esSeFiaOO\ giYen that the Harne\ Count\ 6FhooO DistriFt FanFeOed a weeN of See BURNS/9A EO Forum on Mental Health •Tuesday, 7 p.m. •Blue Mountain Commu- nity College, 2411 NW Carden, Pendleton •Gordon Smith wrote “Remembering Garrett” about his son’s battle with depression and suicide, and will lead a EO Forum discussion on mental health. Smith, a Pendleton native and two-term U.S. senator, is president and CEO of the National As- sociation of Broadcast- ers and operated Smith Frozen Foods in Weston and now lives with his wife, Sharon, in Bethes- da, Maryland. PTSD through the century By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian It seems eaFh war has its own name for Ss\FhiatriF trauma. In the CiYiO War, soOdiers suffered from soOdier¶s heart. During WorOd War I, it was sheOO shoFN. In WorOd War II, it was FaOOed EattOe fatigue. 6inFe 9ietnam, we Nnow it as Sost-traumatiF stress disorder. The meaning is the same. 6oOdiers Fome home haunted E\ the trauma the\ e[SerienFed. That OiNeO\ has Eeen the Fase sinFe armies ¿ rst faFed eaFh other on the EattOe¿ eOd. See PTSD/10A Shellie Tiller uncovers her eyes during tense moments of the 2A boys quarteri - nal game between Burns and Vernonia on Thursday night at the Pendleton Conven- tion Center. Tiller’s son, Trace, plays for Burns. Staff photo by Kathy Aney
