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East Oregonian
Taking steps for good causes
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
With spring in the air,
people and area organizations
are encouraging the public
to put a little spring in their
step and help support several
causes.
Pregnancy Care Services
in Hermiston, the Hermiston
Warming & Cooling Station
and cystic ibrosis are the
focus of fundraising walk
and events this weekend.
PREGNANCY CARE
SERVICES
In its ifth year, Walk
for Life will raise money to
help support the mission of
Pregnancy Care Services.
The organization provides
resources for men and
women who are faced with
making decisions regarding
an unplanned pregnancy.
Executive
Director
Debbie Cissna encourages
people to “make a date” with
family and friends to help
support the organization’s
effort to raise $5,000. Regis-
tration begins Friday at 6
p.m. at McKenzie Park, 320
S. First St., Hermiston. The
walk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Participants are encour-
aged to obtain pledges.
Those who have $100 or
more in pledges will receive
a T-shirt. Also, the irst 100
people registered will receive
a token for free ice cream at
Dairy Queen.
Cissna is impressed with the
efforts of 12-year-old Teagan
Birt. The Boardman girl has
challenged area youth groups
to raise money for the event.
“She’s an incredible young
lady,” Cissna said. “She’s
just full of ideas and creative
ways to make a difference.”
For more information,
contact 541-567-2393 or
debbie@pregnancycareser-
vices.com. To make dona-
tions online or to download
pledge sheets, visit www.
pregnancycareservices.com.
HERMISTON WARMING
& COOLING STATION
The Umatilla County
Peer Support Network, in
conjunction with Lifeways
Inc., is heading up the
Running Hot and Walking
Cold 5K/10K run/walk.
The event is Saturday
Contributed photo
Participants in the inaugural Running Hot and Walking
Cold run/walk pose for a photo during the 2015 event.
The event, along with two other fundraising walks are
planned this weekend.
from 9 a.m. to noon at River-
front Park and the Oxbow
Trail, 1400 W. Orchard
Ave., Hermiston. There is
no set fee to participate, but
participants are asked to
make a donation of supplies
for the Hermiston Warming
& Cooling Station.
Suggested items include
cases of water, packaged
cookies/crackers,
laundry
detergent,
pre-packaged
bleach, oatmeal, disinfectant
wipes, paper products,
creamer/sugar packets, fruit/
soup cups, hand sanitizer,
hand soap, playing cards,
games, books, non-latex
gloves, coloring books,
crayons, lashlights, batteries,
socks and DVDs.
For more information,
visit www.evenbrite.com and
search “Running Hot and
Walking Cold.”
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
A trio of events are planned
this weekend to raise money
to combat cystic ibrosis.
A genetic disease, cystic
ibrosis causes thick mucus,
which builds up in the lungs,
pancreas and other organs.
The progressive condition
results in limiting a person’s
ability to breathe.
•The Riverside Jr./Sr.
High School National Honor
Society is holding a walk-
athon Saturday at 10 a.m., on
the track at Riverside High
School, 210 N.E. Boardman
Ave., Boardman.
People can make pledges
or walk during the event.
Money raised will be donated
to the Oregon Chapter of the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
For more information, call
541-481-2525.
•Great Strides for CF, a 1K
and 5K run/walk, is Saturday
with registration starting at
9:30 a.m. at Riverfront Park,
Hermiston. The 1K starts at
10 a.m. and the 5K begins at
10:30 a.m.
There is a suggested dona-
tion of $15 for entries or $20
for a family of four. Kids 10
and under are free. Medals
will be presented for the 5K
and other prizes for the 1K.
For more information, ind
the event on Facebook.
•Breath of Life for Cystic
Fibrosis is Saturday at 5 p.m.
in the Hermiston High School
commons, 600 S. First St.
Jessica Brown-Grooms, a
2001 HHS graduate who has
cystic ibrosis, is organizing
both the Hermiston events,
with proceeds going to the
CF Foundation of Oregon.
The
evening
event
includes dinner, dessert, a
live and silent auction, a kid’s
corner (basketball shoot,
bouncy house and coloring
station) and live music with
Brewer’s Grade.
Tickets are $10 each
and children under 10 are
admitted free. Tickets will be
sold at the door and are avail-
able in advance at Smitty’s
Ace Hardware, 1845 N. First
St., Hermiston.
Growing up, Brown-
Grooms was told she wouldn’t
live past age 25. With
advances in medicine, she
continues ighting the disease,
which includes breathing
treatments several times a
day, lung function testing
at Oregon Heath & Science
University every three months
and focus on proper nutrition.
A video presentation about her
and others living with cystic
ibrosis will be shown at the
event.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
BERNIE: Oregon has 13 superdelegates
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voters can only weigh in
if they are members of the
Democratic party. Sanders
has performed better in
primaries where indepen-
dents or other voters can
weigh in.
Oregon’s delegates are
doled out proportionally
based on Tuesday’s results,
another reason why Sanders
urges a strong turnout.
Oregon also has 13
superdelegates,
some
of whom have already
endorsed Clinton, including
Gov. Kate Brown. But
Sanders says it’s possible
they’ll reconsider if Tues-
day’s results swing over-
whelmingly in his favor.
“We will be in contact
with all of the superdelegates
and make the important
point, that if our goal is to
make sure Donald Trump is
defeated ... Bernie Sanders,
it turns out, is the strongest
candidate,” Sanders said.
As of early Monday
morning, the secretary
of state’s ofice reported
673,000 Oregonians, or 29
percent of registered voters,
had so far returned their
ballots.
That’s slightly behind
pace from the same time
in 2008, but the state
secretary’s ofice said it’s
still possible Oregon could
break that year’s record
turnout of 1.17 million
voters.
Aside from the presiden-
tial race, Oregon’s primary
is sleepy with just a few
exceptions.
Among the most heated
is the race for secretary of
state, where ive prominent
candidates are vying for
the second-most powerful
post behind governor.
The three Democrats are
state Rep. Val Hoyle, state
Labor Commissioner Brad
Avakian and state Sen.
Richard Devlin; the two
Republicans are Dennis
Richardson, who was GOP
gubernatorial candidate two
years ago, and Lane County
Commissioner Sid Leiken.
WOLVES: Evidence suggests deterrents are effective
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plan allows wildlife oficials
to selectively kill problem
wolves.
In the case of the four
Imnaha wolves, Brown
said there were a number
of factors that prompted
ODFW to use lethal
control. First, the wolves
had apparently changed
their behavior and started
moving outside of their
usual territory. Second, the
group’s alpha female had a
back leg injury, which could
have prompted the group to
target easier meals. Finally,
non-lethal deterrents had
proven
ineffective
in
keeping wolves away from
sheep and cattle.
Brown compared that
to another series of attacks
last year by the Mount
Emily Pack on sheep in the
Umatilla National Forest.
All ive of those incidents
came against a single band
of sheep, and by the time
the producer asked for
lethal control, Brown said
non-lethal tools had started
to work.
“ODFW will evaluate
each situation when they’re
making a determination
about when to go to lethal
control,” Brown said.
The agency’s focus,
however, continues to be
on non-lethals irst. With
the evidence suggesting
deterrents are effective,
the workshop shifted to
community-wide models for
rural areas where wolves are
re-established.
Suzanne Asha Stone,
senior Northwest represen-
tative for the conservation
group Defenders of Wildlife,
pointed to a few successful
programs across the West —
most notably the Wood River
Wolf Project in central Idaho,
where there’s the largest
concentration of domestic
sheep in the region.
Stone said the program
pulls together ideas and
funding from ranchers,
agencies and wolf advocates
alike to implement non-lethal
solutions. More groups are
starting to take this approach,
she said, because it makes
more resources more broadly
available.
“The challenge is that it
really requires a lot of good
communication,” Stone said.
Between 2008 and 2015,
Stone said they’ve had
anywhere from 10,000 to
23,000 sheep on the land, yet
they’ve only lost 30 of the
animals to wolves over that
period.
“Some of our best solu-
tions have come from that
mix of people that don’t
usually talk to each other,”
she said.
Stone said she was
encouraged by how county
wolf committees were
working together to ensure
ranchers are compensated
for dead or missing livestock
due to wolves. Both Susan
Roberts, of Wallowa County,
and Jerry Baker, of Umatilla
County, were on hand to
discuss how their commit-
tees reach out to producers
and submit applications for
state grants.
Regardless of each indi-
vidual’s opinion on wolves,
Roberts said they have
learned to check their atti-
tudes at the door. Producers,
meanwhile, are getting better
at documenting everything,
which means they stand a
better chance of getting a
slice of the funds.
Baker also emphasized the
need for ranchers to provide
as much documentation as
possible to the committee.
He said the county has devel-
oped a positive relationship
with ODFW, especially when
it comes to implementing
non-lethal deterrents.
“I know the range riders
have helped a lot, if they’re
in the right place at the
right time,” said Baker,
who himself is a livestock
producer. “I think we’re
learning as we go.”
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