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supports
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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
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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
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Although the coalition is still
teers came in Saturday morning to do
some cleanup work and contractors are fundraising toward its planning
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planning process to reopen the Rivoli.
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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.
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council told Fire Chief Mike Ciraulo
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to put a $9.76
million bond on
the November
ballot.
A majority of
the bond will be
used to build an
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station on the
old St. Anthony
Hospital site at Ciraulo
1601 S.E.
Court Ave., “This building
replacing
the current would not pass
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our own fi re
at 911 S.W.
Court Ave.
inspection.”
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listed
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chief,
on the city’s
variety of
current fi re station
reasons
why
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including mold, lead paint, personnel
exposure to carcinogens and the
building’s vulnerability to earth-
quakes.
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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.
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Every so often, the 1997 Chevy
would just quit working.
“It has electrical problems,”
Neeley said. “We’ve been
through four alternators and
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happening. Every time it goes
out, it’s down three or four days.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.