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Saturday, April 2, 2016
East Oregonian
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Pinwheels raise awareness for child abuse prevention
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Pinwheel gardens will sprout all
over Morrow County and Umatilla
County during the month of April
to bring awareness of Child Abuse
Prevention Month.
The shiny blue and silver
pinwheels were provided by a grant
from Children’s Trust of Oregon and
the Wildhorse Foundation.
Often awareness programs for
the month focus on grim statistics
about child abuse, but Erin Richards
of Umatilla Morrow Head Start
said they are trying to focus on the
happier side of recognizing all of the
work people in the area are doing or
could do to help children.
“Pinwheels are whimsical and
carefree and we think that’s what
every child should have is a happy,
safe, carefree childhood,” she said.
Gardens with 150 pinwheels will
be “planted” at 10 locations across
the two counties, mostly at elemen-
Staff Photo by Jennifer Colton
Norma Jaime plants a pinwheel at Umatilla-Morrow Head Start’s
Main Office on Friday. The organization is planting more than 2,000
pinwheels this month as part of child abuse prevention month.
tary schools.
Richards said schools will be
encouraged to let children place the
pinwheels in the ground themselves.
“The idea is when a child plants
a pinwheel in the garden they are
celebrating someone making their
childhood a happy and safe one,”
she said.
The project is meant to make
people aware of how to prevent child
abuse, and Richards said one of the
things proven to reduce the rate of
abuse is parenting classes. Umatilla
Morrow Head Start offers 10- to
12-week courses to any parent for
free, including childcare provided
during the classes.
Richards said UMCHS is trying
to break the stigma of parenting
classes, because people get the idea
that they’re only for parents who
have done something wrong. But
she said the concepts taught in the
classes can help any parent better
communicate with their child.
“It’s not because they’re a bad
parent, it’s because they want to be
a better one,” she said.
In April UMCHS will also
offer “learning picnics” in several
Hermiston woman in critical
condition after crash
BRIEFLY
Korvola crash
sends two to
hospital
PENDLETON — Two
16-year-old girls were
injured Friday afternoon
in a single-vehicle rollover
crash on a gravel stretch
of Korvola Road outside
Pendleton.
Sgt. Adam Gregory
with the Umatilla County
Sheriff¶s Of¿ce said the
injuries were not life-
threatening. Nobody else
was in the vehicle, which
came to rest upside down in
a grassy ¿eld off the road,
fenced by barbed wire.
Emergency crews helped
the girls escape the wreck,
and one was carried off on a
backboard.
Gregory did not
immediately know what
caused the crash. He
believed one of the victims
may have had a broken
arm. They were taken to St.
Anthony Hospital.
90-year-old man
struck, killed
Wednesday
MILTON-FREEWATER
— A 90-year-old man died
Wednesday evening, several
hours after being struck by
a minivan while crossing
Highway 11, the Oregon
State Police told the Walla
Walla Union-Bulletin on
Friday.
Everett Leon Carson
of Milton-Freewater was
crossing the highway at
12:15 p.m. at the 84200
block of Highway 11 when
he was struck by a 2003
Dodge Caravan driven by
Magdalena Gomez, 52, of
Walla Walla.
Carson was transported
to Providence St. Mary
Medical Center, where he
died at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
No citation was given
or fault noted in the state
police report, according to
of¿cials.
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Staff photo by George Plaven
Emergency crews responded Friday afternoon to a rollover crash on Korvola Road
in Pendleton.
and stay competitive with
other event centers in the
region and with similar
square footage.
Marshall estimated the
increase in rental rates to
the 13,216-square-foot
convention center will bring
an extra $4,000-$9,000 in
revenue.
With the 20-percent
increase, use of the entire
facility will cost between
$660-$1,780, up from $550-
$1,485. The recommended
rental charges for just the
main hall ranges from $330
to $1,320.
The rental increase
will price the Pendleton
Convention Center between
the not-yet-open Eastern
Oregon Trade and Events
Center, which will charge
$1,200 for use of its
facility, and the Hermiston
Conference Center, which
rents out at $1,850.
The council meeting
will be held Tuesday at
the council chambers in
city hall, 500 S.W. Dorion
Avenue.
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features area
authors, open mic
Council to
consider
convention center
rent hikes
PENDLETON — The
Pendleton Convention
Center Commission is
recommending the city
council raise convention
center rental rates by 20
percent.
The council will consider
the recommendation at a
meeting Tuesday.
In a report to the city
council, convention center
employee Kathy Marshall
wrote the commission was
proposing the increases to
bring more revenue to the
center’s operating budget
ENTERPRISE — A trio
of Wallowa County writers
will share their works in the
last Fishtrap Fireside of the
season.
Featured writers are
Abbie Amabisca, Cameron
Scott and Janie Tippett.
Amabisca developed a
passion for helping others
pick up a pen through a
project at Arizona State
University and Florence
Prison education programs.
Scott, who writes a monthly
outdoor column for the La
Grande Observer, recently
received the Blue Light
Poetry Prize for his second
book of poems. Tippett, a
Fishtrap favorite, has been
an Agritimes columnist for
30 years, and is the author
of “Four Lines a Day:
The Life and Times of an
Imnaha Ranch Woman.”
The event is Friday,
April 8 from 7-9 p.m.
at 400 E. Grant St.,
Enterprise. There is no
admission charge and light
refreshments are available.
The ¿reside also
includes an open mic for
audience members to share
their stories. The Fishtrap
Fireside is the second
Friday of each month from
October through April.
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A Hermiston woman is
in critical condition after she
crashed Wednesday after-
noon into a semi hauling
two tankers.
Oregon State Police Sgt.
Seth Cooney said airbags
and a seatbelt likely saved
the life of Carole Ann
Bozarth, 69.
Bozarth drove a 2012
Ford Taurus westbound on
Highway 730 near milepost
195 when she drifted into the
eastbound lanes, according
to a report from state police.
Cooney said Garth Welsh,
43, of Walla Walla, drove
the 2007 Kenworth as far
over as he could, but the
Ford kept coming.
Bozarth’s car hit the
semi’s running boards, then
the dual tires. The car spun
back across the westbound
lanes, struck the guardrail
and came to a stop facing
northwest against the rail.
The Kenworth traveled
122 feet after the collision,
state police reported, went
into a side skid, crossed
the westbound lanes and
smashed into the guardrail.
One of the tankers came
to a stop facing north, and
the second jackknifed and
rolled onto the ¿rst.
State police reported the
wreck totaled the car, the
semi and the two tankers.
Fire¿ghters
freed
Bozarth from the Ford
and an air ambulance Àew
her to Kadlec Regional
Medical Center, Richland.
Nikki Ostergaard, hospital
spokesperson, said Friday
afternoon Bozarth was in
critical condition.
The crash shut down
Highway 730 in both
directions and damaged 113
feet of guardrail. Welsh was
uninjured.
Cooney also said state
police do not know why
Bozarth veered into the
wrong lane and may never
know. He said it was not
uncommon
for
crash
victims to experience
memory lapses.
State police also have a
citation pending for Bozarth
for failure to drive within
the lane.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
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communities. The dates have yet
to be determined, but families will
have the opportunity to bring their
children and “play with a purpose”
to promote literacy. Children who
participate will take home a free
book, and a there will be a drawing
for a home library of 27 children’s
books at each picnic site.
Richards said there will be trained
facilitators there, but the playtime
will mostly be parent-driven.
“Parents are their child’s ¿rst and
most important teachers,” Richards
said.
The dates of the picnics will be
released later, but the dates of local
parenting classes in general can
be accessed online at umchs.com/
events.
The pinwheel gardens set up
during April will be located at
elementary schools in Athena,
Weston, Umatilla, Hermiston,
Milton-Freewater, Heppner, Irrigon,
Boardman, Ione and at the Sage
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