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LA GRANDE DEFEATS BULLDOGS FOUR DAMS TO BE REMOVED 73/44 Cruz, Sanders victorious in Wisconsin BASEBALL/1B NATION/7A KLAMATH RIVER/6A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 WK<HDU1R WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar PENDLETON Council supports $9.76M ¿ re EonG Will be on Nov. ballot to build new fire station By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Paul Tice, founder of ToPa 3D of Beaverton, sets up his 3D laser scanner outside of the Rivoli theater on Tuesday in Pendleton. Tice is using the scanner to create a 3D blueprint of the historic theater. Rivoli restoration on track Pendleton coalition has raised roughly 82 percent of funding for planning phase WKH 5LYROL &RDOLWLRQ WKH QRQSUR¿W LQ charge of turning the long-abandoned cinema into a modern performing arts Activity at Pendleton’s Rivoli center. Picken said the restoration is on Theater is starting to heat up again. Work crews from the Umatilla track, which means a newly restored County Department of Corrections did Rivoli could open as soon as 2020. “We’re setting goals and achieving demolition work Thursday to remove ÀRRULQJLQVWDOOHGLQWKHVYROXQ them,” he said. Although the coalition is still teers came in Saturday morning to do some cleanup work and contractors are fundraising toward its planning GRLQJ'ODVHUVFDQVDVDSDUWRIWKH phase, Picken said Opsis Architecture, planning process to reopen the Rivoli. See RIVOLI/8A Andrew Picken is the president of By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Hali Knight, with architect Peter Meijer’s fi rm of Portland, takes photos on the interior of a gutted section of the Rivoli Theater on Tuesday in Pendleton. The Pendleton City Council is ready to rekindle efforts at building a new Fire Station No. 1. %\ XQRI¿FLDO FRQVHQVXV WKH council told Fire Chief Mike Ciraulo WR UHWXUQ ZLWK DQ RI¿FLDO UHVROXWLRQ to put a $9.76 million bond on the November ballot. A majority of the bond will be used to build an PLOOLRQ ¿UH station on the old St. Anthony Hospital site at Ciraulo 1601 S.E. Court Ave., “This building replacing the current would not pass ¿UH VWDWLRQ our own fi re at 911 S.W. Court Ave. inspection.” Ciraulo — Mike Ciraulo, listed the fi re chief, on the city’s variety of current fi re station reasons why the ¿UH VWDWLRQ QHHGHG WR EH UHSODFHG including mold, lead paint, personnel exposure to carcinogens and the building’s vulnerability to earth- quakes. “This building would not pass our RZQ¿UHLQVSHFWLRQ´KHVDLG The rest of the bond would go to See FIRE/8A PENDLETON PILOT ROCK City receives much needed ambulance Vehicle comes at no cost from Clearview Disability Resource Center in Pendleton By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Sometimes the answer to a problem just comes out of the blue. Pilot Rock Fire Chief Ron Neeley had been stymied for a while about his department’s undependable ambulance. East Oregonian Every so often, the 1997 Chevy would just quit working. “It has electrical problems,” Neeley said. “We’ve been through four alternators and ZH FDQ¶W ¿JXUH RXW ZKDW¶V happening. Every time it goes out, it’s down three or four days. :H¶YHEHHQWU\LQJWR¿JXUHRXW how to replace it.” So you can imagine his elation when someone called to donate an ambulance to the department — free of charge. The caller was Darrin Umbarger, CEO of Clearview Disability Resource Center in Pendleton. About a year ago, the Pendleton Fire & Ambulance Service gave the vehicle to Clearview for non-emergency transports. “We asked for the donation so we could drive bariatric patients to their doctor appoint- ments,” said Clearview CFO Carol Umbarger. Later, however, they realized it would cost about $20,000 WR RXW¿W WKH )RUG ) with a proper bariatric lift to get obese patients into the vehicle. “We decided to keep it moving,” Darrin said. “We donated it to someone who really needs it — that’s Pilot Staff photo by Kathy Aney Rock.” Darrin Umbarger, of Clearview Disability Resource Center, and Pilot See AMBULANCE/8A EO, OPB to host forest plan panel Rock Fire Chief Ron Neeley pose in front of an ambulance gifted from Clearview to Pilot Rock this week. The East Oregonian and Oregon Public Broadcasting will host a forum and discussion Wednesday about the Blue Mountains Forest Plan revision, which covers 4.9 million acres of the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman and Malheur national forests. A panel of representatives will be on hand to talk about the plan, what it does and how it will guide management decisions across the landscape. Featured panelists include Malheur Forest Supervisor Steve Beverlin; Eric Quaempts, director of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Department of Natural Resources; James Nash, rafting guide with Winding Waters River Expeditions in Enterprise; Darilyn Parry Brown, executive director of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council in La Grande; and King Williams, of Boise Cascade wood products. The lecture will be held at Blue Mountain Community College, ST-200 Lecture Hall, in Pendleton. 'RRUVZLOORSHQDWSPZLWK a live recording to begin at 7 p.m.. Admission is free and open to the public. The event will be broadcast Thursday on OPB’s “Think Out Loud” from noon-1 p.m., and again from 8-9 p.m. OPB can be found on the dial at 90.9 FM in Umatilla and Morrow counties.
