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WEEKEND EDITION INSIDE: VISITORS GUIDE & CHAMBER DIRECTORY BRITAIN LEAVES EU PROVIDING FINAL STYLING BREXIT/9A LIFESTYLES/1C JUNE 25-26, 2016 140th Year, No. 181 $1.50 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Riding High Ministries presents ‘living parable’ to inmates HERMISTON EOTEC gives Frew the reins to meet deadline By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Todd Pierce, founder of Riding High Ministries, of Shelley, Idaho, works on saddle breaking a horse as a group of inmates watch Wednesday at TRCI in Umatilla. Wrangling faith By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian The horse was older and more stubborn than Todd Pierce was used to, but he told the circle of inmates around the pen he didn’t plan to give up on her. “I know miracles can happen,” he said. Pierce, founder of Riding High Ministries, had arranged for the six-year-old mare to be brought to Two Rivers Correctional Institution for a demonstration on breaking a horse to a saddle, conducted as a metaphor for accepting God’s help to change. The horse, however, was having none of it. She ran around and around the makeshift pen in the hot sun, ignoring Pierce’s attempts to calm her and eliciting the occasional groan from the inmates as she skillfully dodged the lasso yet again. “I would imagine this ain’t her fi rst rodeo,” Pierce said, drawing chuckles from the audience. “We’ve all got our own personalities, our own fears, our own issues,” he continued. “Hers aren’t See PARABLE/14A If Frew Development Group’s role in the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center doesn’t change, there is no point in renewing its contract in August. That’s what the company’s CEO told the EOTEC board Friday. “We don’t want to waste your money and time,” John Frew said. Frew appreciated the passion behind the project, he said, but they were “literally a village building a structure” and the endless rounds of meetings with stakeholders over every detail are Frew hindering progress. “If you pursue perfection and forfeit practicality you’re never going to get it done,” he said. The project is expected to be completed in time for the Umatilla County Fair in August 2017. The current fairgrounds in downtown Hermiston will be turned over to the Hermiston School Brookshier District on Jan. 1, 2017. Frew Development Group was hired in 2013 as EOTEC’s project manager. For horizontal construction such as underground utilities and for the recently-completed event center building, Frew also was named the construction manager. Those projects, Frew said, were delivered “pretty See EOTEC/14A “If we keep going as we’re going, we’re never going to get there, or at least not next year.” Staff photo by E.J. Harris Todd Pierce comforts inmate Jamaul Jenkins while the two pray together Wednesday at TRCI in Umatilla. — Ed Brookshier, EOTEC board member PENDLETON Children’s museum crowns two new wiener winners Jennifer Costley wins eating contest By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Two champions were crowned at the kickoff events at Wiener Weekend Friday, both competitors having the speed, focus and guts to achieve greatness. Jennifer Costley, the assis- tant librarian at the Pendleton Public Library, won the inau- gural hot dog eating contest over four other competitors. Costley downed seven hot dogs in three minutes to take the prize, a result she attributed to her trial run earlier in the week. “I practiced and it was horrible and that’s how I learned how to eat the hot dog before the bun,” she said. Costley is a member of the board for the Children’s Museum of Eastern Oregon, which uses the events of Wiener Weekend as a fund- raiser. Contestants signed up More online For video of the races visit eastoregonian.com sponsors to donations based on how many hot dogs they ate. With 53 sponsors, Costley had ample motivation to consume as many franks as possible. Costley’s hot dog gobbling prowess resulted in more than $600 for the nonprofi t. 13-year-old Jacob Carlisle See DOGS/14A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Contestants chow down while competing in the hot dog eating contest during the Dogtona 400 wiener dog races Friday in Pendleton. When is it time to consider assisted living? 1550 NW 11th Street • Hermiston 541-564-2595 • 800-550-3449 regencysunterracehermiston.com See the choices available - schedule your tour today!
