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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016
140th Year, No. 154
WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
“They say we have guardian angels everywhere — she was mine.”
Marguerite Darby, about the pharmacist who started CPR after Darby’s cardiac arrest
One dollar
1.2M
votes set
primary
record
Sanders, Clinton matchup
likely drove up totals
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Marguerite and Tom Darby sit in the garden of their home outside of Hermiston. The couple was shopping at Rite Aid last
month when Marguerite collapsed after suffering cardiac arrest. A pharmacist’s fast action in applying CPR may have helped
save her life.
Quick action saves life
Hermiston woman saved while at Rite Aid store
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Marguerite Darby likely
owes her life to a quick-acting
pharmacist and a new way of
performing cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
Darby, 60, doesn’t remember
much about the day she went
into cardiac arrest at the
Hermiston Rite Aid store.
She woke up a week later in a
Seattle hospital with only fuzzy
memories of shopping for patio
furniture with her husband Tom.
On April 27, the couple
drove eight miles to town from
their farm. They were admiring
a display of patio umbrellas at
Rite Aid when the routine shop-
ping trip suddenly morphed into
a fi ght for survival.
“Marguerite said, ‘I don’t
feel right’ and immediately
passed out,” Tom said. “She fell
into a shelving area across the
aisle and didn’t move.”
Marguerite had suffered
cardiac arrest, an electrical
malfunction of the heart. That’s
different from a heart attack,
which involves a blockage.
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Tom, in shock, remembers
starting
mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation. Pharmacist Sarah
Schwab knelt beside him and
checked Marguerite’s pulse.
Finding none, she began CPR
compressions. The Clacka-
mas-based pharmacist contracts
for the RX Pro Health agency
and was fi lling in that day at
Rite Aid. Schwab started hands-
only CPR that she learned in her
See CPR/8A
90
Percent of cardiac arrests
that happen at home
Number of cardiac arrests
each year in U.S.
350,000
Percent of people who
die after cardiac arrest
SOURCE: American Heart Association
All numbers refer to out-of-hospital
cardiac arrests
Drug court a path for second chances
Local offenders complete treatment program
By JENNIFER COLTON
East Oregonian
For 10 years, the Umatilla
County Drug Court has helped
turn fear of failure into second
chances.
“I wasn’t sure what I was
going to do, but I was afraid. I
was afraid of losing my family,
of going to jail, afraid that I
couldn’t stay clean,” Christine
Massingale, of Hermiston, said.
“Drug court saved my life. It
really did.”
The drug court is an intensive
drug and alcohol treatment
program that combines group
sessions and individual coun-
seling as an alternative to
incarceration. Participants attend
rehab, have regular drug tests and
counseling and do community
service. On completion, many
members have criminal charges
dismissed.
Originally started as a
two-year, grant-funded program,
Umatilla County Drug Court
celebrated its 18th graduation on
Friday — and its 187th graduate
in 10 years.
“Over the years, we’re now in
the hundreds of graduates, most
of which are very successful,”
Circuit Court Judge Eva Temple
said Friday. “This is what works
in Umatilla County.”
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Staff Photo by Jennifer Colton
Christine Massingale, of Hermiston, receives a rose of recovery
from Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, at Umatilla County Drug Court
graduation on Friday.
SALEM — More than a million
Oregonians cast ballots in Tuesday’s
primary, meeting expectations set
early this week by election offi cials
that a record number of voters would
participate.
However, the turnout rate was
lower than in the presidential
primary eight years ago and it was
unclear what impact the state’s new
automatic voter registration system
had on the election results. Oregon
has several hundred thousand more
registered voters than eight years
ago .
“It’s an important symbolic
threshold, but also the state is
growing,” said Paul Gronke, a polit-
ical science professor and director of
the Early Voting Information Center
at Reed College. “It’s sort of like
those box offi ce records that have
been broken every year. They’re
kind of meaningless.”
According to unoffi cial totals
from the Secretary of State’s Offi ce,
1,208,659 votes were cast, for a
turnout of 52.7 percent.
Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins
said it was only the second time
primary turnout has topped the
million vote mark, and this year’s
total broke the previous record. The
fi rst time was 2008, when turnout
was driven by the Democratic
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Final returns
pending for
close races
Final tally to come June 1
East Oregonian
While most local candidates
earned decisive victories on
Tuesday, a few races will have to
wait for a defi nitive answer.
Although the state closed polls
at 8 p.m., Umatilla County Elec-
tions Manager Kim Lindell said
the county’s election division will
continue to count ballots through
the end of the month. Some voters
put their ballot in drop boxes outside
the county.
Lindell said the division will
release a fi nal tally June 1.
Extra votes could affect the
at-large race for a Milton-Freewater
City Council seat.
As of Wednesday, Verl Pressnall
held a 25 vote lead over Steven
Patten, who was appointed over
Pressnall in early 2015 to fi ll the
rest of former councilor Sam
Hopkins-Hubbard’s term.
The races for the Democratic
nominations for state Senate District
29 and state Representative District
58 will also take a while to play out,
but for different reasons.
Since no Democrats entered
those races, Sen. Bill Hansell,
R-Athena, and Rep. Greg Barreto,
R-Cove, urged local Democrats to
write their names in on the ballot.
The pair received no opposition
in the Republican primary and were
hoping to capture enough write-in
votes to be cross-nominated.
Union County Commissioner
Jack Howard is also seeking the
state House District 58 nomination
through a write-in campaign while
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