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East Oregonian
Friday, May 13, 2016
HAYDEN: Will attend a 37-day wilderness
EMT course this summer in Washington
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Later that afternoon, Lewis gave
the keynote address at a banquet
in honor of the athletes. He told
the audience of 5,000 about how
dealing with adversity in life
reveals character. Suddenly, he was
talking about Hayden.
“Carl said, ‘Today I saw a lot of
courage and a lot of grit in this little
kid. That kid was burning up and
he gave it his all,’” Paul recalled.
“Hayden doesn’t remember much
of the speech. He was so sick and
curled up in our arms.”
Hayden stuck with running. He
currently leads state 2A rankings in
both the 800 and 1,500. He hopes
to run collegiately for one of the
country’s elite military academies.
This summer he will attend invi-
tation-only West Point and United
States Air Force Academy Summer
Leadership programs.
In a few weeks, Hayden will test
for his pilot’s license. As part of his
senior project (which he started this
year as a junior), he plans to provide
honor lights over the Blue Moun-
tains to veterans who are disabled
former pilots. Hayden calls the
project “my way of honoring those
who served before me.”
“I will rent a plane for a whole
day,” Hayden said. “Each light
over the Blue Mountains will last
30 to 45 minutes. I can take several
veterans at one time.”
Additionally this summer, he
will go to Leavenworth, Wash-
ington, to attend a 37-day wilder-
ness EMT course. He will also
again volunteer for a week at the
Portland Air National Guard Base
to help assemble care packages and
do other tasks for military families
transitioning home from overseas.
Trying to organize all of
Hayden’s activities into a 24-hour
day could confound a compe-
tent time management expert.
His busiest days, Tuesday and
Thursday, take precise preparation.
After rolling out of bed, Hayden
packs his light bag, devours his
to-go oatmeal and heads to school
with his younger brother, Kirkland.
At school he attends an array of
classes: weightlifting, U.S. history,
English, chemistry, psychology and
pre-calculus. He uses his last period
to study for his pilot’s license.
When the inal bell sounds,
Hayden hurries to track practice.
Some days, he runs for distance,
racking up about 35 miles each
week. Other days, he does intervals
and speed work.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Warren Hinrichs, 75, of Spokane hangs from his homemade
rigging while painting the lagpole in front of the Umatilla County
Courthouse on Thursday in Pendleton.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Weston-McEwen junior Hayden Scott does a pre-light check on
a Cessna 172 before taking off Wednesday out of the airport in
Walla Walla.
After practice, Hayden jumps
into his old Toyota Land Cruiser and
points it toward the airport in Walla
Walla. For a couple of hours, he
guides a Cessna 172 through a series
of maneuvers, such as steep turns,
slow light and emergency landing
procedures. Afterwards he heads
home, inally pulling into the family
driveway in Weston at around 9 p.m.
“I put my homework off until
the next day,” he admits.
That’s all right, though. He
still pulls down a 4.0 grade-point
average.
As a freshman, Hayden sought
out Debbie McBee, who is West
Point’s Oregon admissions repre-
sentative, for advice.
“He wanted to know what the
academies are looking for. He
wanted to make himself competi-
tive,” McBee said. “He’s one of the
most driven teenagers that I’ve ever
come across.”
McBee isn’t alone in describing
Scott this way. Sen. Bill Hansell,
R-Athena, wrote letters to Oregon
Congressmen Jeff Merkley, Ron
Wyden and Greg Walden on
Scott’s behalf to aid him in getting
accepted at an academy.
“He is tough, smart, focused and
disciplined — all traits I believe
an oficer in the military should
possess,” Hansell wrote.
These same traits help on the
track.
“Hayden is kind of a student of
the game,” said Weston-McEwen
head track-and-ield coach Loran
Monaco. “He’s probably one of the
most eficient runners I’ve seen. He
has really high expectations and he
doesn’t back down from them.”
Hayden considers the late long
distance runner Steve Prefontaine
a role model. He has watched the
move “Pre” about 40 times since
irst watching it as a ifth or sixth
grader.
“I learned how he overcame
disadvantages and became a
legend,” Hayden said. “I wasn’t
the most talented kid in Weston,
Oregon. I could relate to Pre.”
Hayden has parlayed much that
he learned from athletics into the
rest of his life — or perhaps he
has simply internalized the family
mantra.
“Since he was a little boy, we’ve
said, ‘Shoot for the moon and if
you miss, you’re still among the
stars,’” Paul Scott said. “He always
shoots big.”
Hayden, who plans to serve as a
combat medical oficer or casualty
evacuation pilot in a branch of
the Armed Forces, hopes to hone
his leadership skills at one of the
academies.
“The academies are basically
oficer training schools on steroids,”
Hayden said.
Some of his friends are curious
as to why he wants to subject
himself to the rigor of academy life.
“My friends ask, ‘Why?’” Scott
said. “Someone has to step up.
Why not me? I want to be a leader
in this country. I’m willing to make
that a goal.”
Medical school, he said, will
come later.
In the near future, Scott is
coming to some dificult forks in
the road as he plots his path. One
has already arrived, said his dad.
“He has been contacted by the
Navy track and ield coach,” Paul
said. “He’s got a decision to make.”
PAINTER: Loves the gratitude
people have when they see his work
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Although he likes to joke that “you
only fall once,” he did have a close
call while working on the William O.
Douglas Federal Building in Yakima,
Washington in July 2014.
Working on a lagpole on top
of the building in triple digit heat,
Hinrichs fainted for a moment and
fell back while tied to the pole.
While local emergency personnel
were able to rescue him while
hanging upside-down, the fainting
episode presaged something more
dire than a simple case of dehydra-
tion.
Hinrichs recalled the event to his
doctor in February 2015, who ordered
a round of tests. The tests revealed
that Hinrichs had a potentially fatal
heart condition that would require a
valve replacement. In his case, the
doctor’s used pig skin to do it.
“Somebody else got the pork
chops and the bacon and I got the pig
skin,” he joked.
Following ive months of
recovery, Hinrichs returned to lag-
pole painting, telling his doctor that
he wanted to do it until he was 95.
Even though the paint jobs are
just supplementary income to his
social security payments at this point,
Hinrichs said he continues to do it
because he loves the gratitude people
have when they see his work.
Although he couldn’t resist
another joke.
“People say, ‘Warren, why do you
do this?’ I say, ‘Well, people look up
to you.”
GOP: Ryan said his only goal was party unity
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capped a remarkable week that began
with Ryan, the GOP’s top elected
ofice-holder and its 2012 vice pres-
idential nominee, turning his back on
his party’s presumptive presidential
nominee just days after Trump had
effectively clinched the nomination.
Ryan said at the time he was
not yet ready to back Trump, who
had succeeded in insulting women,
Latinos, disabled people and many
conservatives in the course of a brutal
primary season. He also has alarmed
the Republican establishment with
proposals
including
deporting
millions of immigrants and barring
Muslims from the country.
Yet in the days since, many GOP
lawmakers — and voters themselves
— have made peace with the reality
that Trump is their candidate and
therefore their only hope of defeating
likely Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton. Although some in the GOP
fear Trump could spell election
disaster and cost Republicans control
of the Senate and seats in the House,
recent polls have shown a closer race,
helping their comfort level.
Ryan himself insisted from the
beginning that his only goal was real
party unity. His allies in the House
have predicted he will get behind
Trump in the end, and on Thursday
Ryan sounded like he was well on his
way.
“We talked about what it takes
to unify, where our differences were
and how we can bridge these gaps
going forward,” Ryan said.
WRITE-IN: Rep. Smith also running unopposed
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same strategy, and so far he
has only been challenged
by Barb Dickerson, who is
running as an Independent.
Several prominent local
Democrats — including
Pendleton Mayor Phillip
Houk and Gary Burke with
the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion — already pledged their
support to Hansell in a recent
ad in the East Oregonian.
Hansell said the two
party nominations would
save him time and money
campaigning against what
he would consider to be less
serious candidates.
“If the individual and the
party were serious about
running somebody, they
would have done it by the
deadline,” Hansell said. “I
don’t mind a campaign. I’m
willing to do it. But nobody
iled.”
Likewise, Hansell said he
is not concerned with people
confusing his afiliation with
the Republican Party.
“I’m not a big partisan
politician anyway,” he said.
State Rep. Greg Smith,
R-Heppner, inds himself in
the same situation, running
unopposed for his House
seat in this year’s primary
with nobody iled on the
Democratic side. While not
advertising for write-in votes,
Smith said he is reaching out
to his Democratic supporters
within the district.
“We take it as a badge
of honor to get bipartisan
support,” Smith said.
Even with the major party
nominations, the candidates
could still face a write-in
campaign during the general
election. Other minor parties
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