REGION
Friday, July 15, 2016
East Oregonian
PENDLETON
COMING EVENTS
High-speed chase results in arrest
East Oregonian
A Hermiston man was
arrested about 11 p.m.
Wednesday after leading police
on a high speed chase through
downtown Pendleton.
Jason Michael Garza, 26,
reached speeds in excess of
80 mph while driving through
town, according to Oregon State
Police trooper Mitchel Pace.
Pace irst attempted to stop
Garza on Highway 395, about
four miles south of town, for
failure to maintain lane. But
instead of pulling over, Garza
led in a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
He eventually stopped and was
arrested without incident at
Circle K, 335 E. Court Street.
Garza was charged with
felony attempt to elude and
reckless driving. He also had
outstanding warrants for failure
to appear and parole violations.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Oregon State Troopers take the driver of a black Mitsubishi Eclipse into custo-
dy after he led police on a chase though Pendleton on Wednesday ending at
Southeast Court Avenue and Third Street.
ECHO
Family history enthusiast digitizes
1 million names for database
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Technology has changed
quite a bit over Vernon
Cook’s lifetime, but that
hasn’t stopped him from
embracing the advance.
Cook, 90, a family history
enthusiast from Echo, spends
two to six hours each day
digitizing historical records
from around the world. So
far he has entered more than
a million names into his
computer.
Each day he boots up his
computer and downloads a
new batch of census records,
ship manifests, immigration
papers, birth certiicates,
obituaries, marriage licenses,
draft cards or other records
that might enable someone
to locate information about
an ancestor. He looks at the
scanned-in PDF image and
deciphers the handwriting,
typing the information by
hand into a database that
makes the names searchable
online.
Cook said it’s a good way
to keep his brain active.
“I’m 90 years old,” he
said. “I can’t do much of
anything else. It’s good to
Contributed photo by Darla Hartsteen
Vernon Cook, 90, of Echo, keeps his mind active by
digitizing thousands of historical records each month.
sit down and do something
productive.”
The program, known
as indexing, is through
FamilySearch.org, a free
family history database run
by The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
This weekend the website
is sponsoring a worldwide
indexing event, challenging
participants to get online
and index names from July
15-17. The goal is to get
72,000 people participating
Pendleton teacher hired as
Schools to Career coordinator
Bower of Eastern Oregon
Business Source to estab-
Christina van der Kamp lish the Schools to Career
has been named Schools to program and hire its irst
Career coordinator for the coordinator, with Blue Moun-
tain Community College and
Pendleton School District.
Umatilla County
Originally from
providing
addi-
British Columbia,
tional funding.
van der Kamp
The district will
moved to Pend-
use a portion of
leton in 2005 and
a $390,745 CTE
has worked for the
grant it received
Pendleton School
from the state to
District since 2010.
fund the program.
Van der Kamp has
Bower
and
also worked for
van der Kamp are
the Oregon East van der Kamp
under a 12-month
Symphony and the
contract to market
Pendleton Center for the Arts.
program,
develop
Van der Kamp holds a the
master’s degree in teaching employer connections and
from Eastern Oregon Univer- “place students in learning
sity and recently completed experiences” for the 2016-
her practicum toward an 2017 school year.
At the end of the contract,
administrator license at
the position will be trans-
Lewis and Clark College.
Pendleton School District ferred from Eastern Oregon
Career Technical Education Business Source to the
Coordinator Curt Thompson district.
Employers, government,
said he was “excited about
having Christina serve as and industry leaders inter-
the direct liaison between ested in learning how to get
local business and Pendleton involved can contact van
der Kamp at 541-969-6748
students.”
In May, the district entered or Christina.vanderKamp@
into a contract with Susan pendleton.k12.or.us.
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over 72 hours. Organizers
are especially interested in
people luent in multiple
languages to help out with
non-English records that are
piling up fast.
Cook doesn’t get paid for
his work for the website, but
said he enjoys the idea of
helping thousands of people
ind their ancestors and learn
about their heritage.
“I enjoy doing obituaries
and getting that information
about families and relation-
ships,” he said of his favorite
type of record to index.
“Once it’s indexed it’s in the
electronic database. You can
call up a program and ind
a relative instead of having
to go to the cemetery or the
courthouse.”
Cook said he started
almost 10 years ago. This
month alone he has indexed
4,032 names and over his
lifetime he has entered a total
of 1,016,337 names into the
website. His daughter Darla
Hartsteen said the project
gives purpose to her father’s
day.
“He does it all the time,”
she said. “When I get home
from work, I know where
he’ll be.”
For novice indexers
interested in learning how
the program works and
participating in the 72-hour
challenge, volunteers will be
available to help in the family
history library at The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in Hermiston, 850
S.W. 11th Street, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
BRIEFLY
Fire department to conduct training burn
PENDLETON — The Pendleton Fire Department,
along with the Oregon Department of Forestry, will
conduct a three-acre training burn Monday on the South
Hill to practice for wildland ires over the summer.
The burn will take place at the 1100 block between
Southwest Isaac and Southwest Hailey avenues from 9
a.m. to noon. The area is at high risk for wildland ires, and
the ireighters are working with the landowner to not only
mitigate the hazard, but provide additional training.
The training is subject to weather, and could be post-
poned based on conditions.
WID meeting scheduled for Monday
HERMISTON — The Westland Irrigation District will
meet Monday, July 18 at the Stafford Hansell Government
Center in Hermiston.
The board will hear from Jeff Barry of GSI Water
Solutions on groundwater recharge within the district, and
review documents related to the central project, part of a
larger proposal to pump more irrigation water from the
Columbia River. Documents include a draft subscription
agreement for the project.
The WID will also meet in executive session following
public comments to discuss ongoing litigation. A group
of patrons is suing the district, alleging it misappropriated
water to junior rights holders.
The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. For more information,
contact Mike Wick at 541-667-2030.
Bruce
Thoma
s
Smith
s
Original Texa
ck
Roadhouse Ro
July 16 @ 8PM
Pendleton Red Lion Inn • 304 SE Nye Ave
Pendleton, Or 541.276.6111
Presented by www.glcproductions.com
FRIDAY, JULY 15
ADULT OPEN GYM, 6-7
a.m., Pendleton Recreation Cen-
ter, 510 S.W. Dorion Ave. Half-
court basketball. (541-276-8100).
CHILDREN’S
CLOTHES
SWAP, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bethel
Assembly of God Church, 1109
Airport Road, Pendleton. Bring
gently used children’s clothes
to swap for other sizes. (James
541-215-8141).
HEPPNER
FARMER’S
MARKET, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Hep-
pner City Park. Food, craft and
garden vendors. (541-676-8957).
HERITAGE DAYS, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., Emigrant Springs State
Heritage Area, off Interstate 84,
exit 234, near Meacham. Muz-
zleloaders, wood carvers, living
history displays, scavenger hunt
for kids, gold panning, cake walk,
rafles, food and more. (541-983-
2277).
STORY TIME, 10:15-11 a.m.,
Hermiston Public Library, 235 E.
Gladys Ave. (541-567-2882).
SUMMER STORY TIME,
10:15-10:45 a.m., Pendleton
Public Library, 502 S.W. Dorion
Ave. (541-966-0380).
PEPSI PRIMETIME LUNCH
BREAK, 12 noon to 1 p.m., Ta-
mastslikt Cultural Institute, 47106
Wildhorse Blvd., Pendleton. In
conjunction with “The Map is Not
the Territory” installation, features
two movies touching on ilmmak-
er Maen Hammad’s visit to Pal-
estine. “Kicklips Over Occupa-
tion” documents how youths are
using skateboarding to overcome
the ailments of the Israeli mili-
tary occupation. The Ted Talks
video “Pushing Borders: Skate-
boarding in Palestine” interviews
Hammad about his motivations,
production and hopes for his
movie. (541-429-7700 or www.
tamastslikt.org).
PENDLETON
FARMERS
MARKET, 4 p.m. to dusk, 300
block South Main Street, Pend-
leton. Browse fresh produce,
meats, baked goods and plants,
locally crafted jewelry and items
for the home. EBT, debit and
credit cards welcome. (pendle-
tonfarmersmarket.net).
NIGHT AT THE CHIL-
DREN’S MUSEUM, 5-8:30 p.m.,
Children’s Museum of Eastern
Oregon, 400 S. Main St., Pend-
leton. Includes dinner, games,
crafts and a movie. Costs $20
members/$25
non-members,
$10 for each additional child.
Preregistration required. (541-
276-1066).
BLUE MOUNTAIN FID-
DLERS, 6 p.m., Emigrant
Springs State Heritage Area, off
Interstate 84, exit 234, near Mea-
cham.
VFW BINGO, doors open at
6 p.m., games start at 7 p.m.,
Hermiston VFW, 45 W. Cherry
St.
FOLK NIGHT, 7-9 p.m.,
Pendleton Center for the Arts,
214 N. Main St. Contra and
Western-style dancing, live mu-
sic and callers. Admission is $5
or $8 per couple; no partner nec-
essary.
SATURDAY, JULY 16
GREENFIELD
GRANGE
BREAKFAST, 7-10 a.m., 209
N.W. First St., Boardman. Cost
is $5 for adults, $2.50 for children
under 10. (541-720-7267).
LET ‘ER BUCK AND
DASH ‘N SPLASH RUNS, 7
a.m. same-day registration and
check-in, 8 a.m. 5K run begins, 9
a.m. 1K Dash ‘n Splash for ages
3-11 begins, Pendleton Round-
Up Grounds near Let ‘er Buck
statue, 1205 S.W. Court Ave.,
Pendleton. Costs $25 for 5K, $15
for 1K. Shirts may be available
for $15 (adult)/$12 (kids). Part-
ciipants in the 1K run get a free
pass to the Pendleton Aquatic
Center plus pizza and soda af-
ter the race. Register at www.
pendletonroundup.com or at
Pendleton Round-Up and Hap-
py Canyon Gift Shop, 1114 S.W.
Court Ave.
HERMISTON’S
OWN
FARMERS MARKET, 8 a.m. to 1
p.m., McKenzie Park, 300 S. First
St., Hermiston. Food, crafts, live
music, art.
LIL BUCKS OPEN GYM,
8:30-9:30 a.m., Pendleton Rec-
reation Center, 510 S.W. Dorion
Ave. For students in irst and sec-
ond grade and parents/guard-
ians. Free basketball skills and
pickup games.
CHILDREN’S
CLOTHES
SWAP, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bethel
Assembly of God Church, 1109
Airport Road, Pendleton. Bring
gently used children’s clothes
to swap for other sizes. (James
541-215-8141).
INDIAN LAKE FAMILY FUN
DAY, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Indian
Lake Campground 19 miles
south of Pilot Rock on East Birch
Creek Road. Wildlife (9 a.m.) and
isheries (10 a.m.) presentations,
LIGO presentation at 11 a.m.,
free lunch from noon to 12:45
p.m., National Weather service
presentation at 1 p.m. and water
fun with kayaks and canoes from
2-4 p.m. Free admission and
free camping Saturday night, but
camping reservations required.
(Leigh or Tami 541-276-3873).
FREE FOR ALL, 9:30-10:15
a.m. Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St., Pendleton.
Family art experience for children
up to age 12. Children under 8
should be accompanied by an
adult. (541-278-9201).
HERITAGE DAYS, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., Emigrant Springs State
Heritage Area, off Interstate 84,
exit 234, near Meacham. Muz-
zleloaders, wood carvers, living
history displays, Blue Mountain
Fiddlers, scavenger hunt for kids,
gold panning, cake walk, rafles,
food and more. Free. (541-983-
2277).
UGLY DOG CONTEST, 10
a.m., Fiesta Foods parking lot,
1875 N. First St., Hermiston. First
place receives free dog food for a
year; second place receives a full
veterinary checkup; third place
receives a doggy bed. Dogs of
all ages and breeds welcome.
Treats for all participants. (Leo
Leal 541-567-4600).
HIP & HANDMADE, 11 a.m.
to noon, Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St., Pendleton.
Free drop-in art project class for
adults. (541-278-9201).
MCKAY CREEK ESTATES
16TH ANNIVERSARY CELE-
BRATION, 12 noon to 5 p.m.,
1601 Southgate Place, Pendle-
ton. Free barbecue lunch with all
the ixings, watermelon, apple pie
and ice cream loats; vintage car
show, entertainment and door
prize drawings. (Karen Hoholik
541-276-1987).
STRAIGHT TALK WITH
BECKY MARKS, 2-4 p.m., Prod-
igal Son Pub & Brewery, 230 E.
Court Ave., Pendleton. Share
thoughts with Ward 1 council-
woman. (541-276-9147).
ECHO OPEN AIR MARKET,
4-7 p.m., corner of Main and
Dupont streets, Echo. Produce,
crafts and more. Vendor space
is $12 per market. (echoopenair-
market@gmail.com)
PENDLETON
WHISKY
MUSIC FEST, 4-11 p.m., Pend-
leton Round-Up Stadium, 1205
S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton.
Live music with headliner Zac
Brown Band and openers Drake
White, Jackson Michelson and
DJ Sovern-T. Interactive games
and activities for all ages, food
and beverage vendors and beer
garden for those 21 and over.
Tickets $45-$135 at www.pend-
letonroundup.com
BLUE MOUNTAIN FID-
DLERS, 6 p.m., Emigrant
Springs State Heritage Area, off
Interstate 84, exit 234, near Mea-
cham.
MOVIE NIGHT AT THE
CHURCH, 6 p.m., First Baptist
Church, 200 Willow Fork Drive,
Boardman. Enjoy “Last Ounce
of Courage.” Refreshments
available for purchase. (541-481-
9437).
BINGO NIGHT @ THE
GRANGE, 6:30-8:30 p.m., White
Eagle Grange, 43828 White Ea-
gle Road, Pendleton (between
Pendleton and Pilot Rock on
Highway 395 South). Cards are
50 cents each per game and $1
each for progressive jackpot at
7:30 p.m. and blackout at 8:15
p.m. Refreshments available by
donation. All ages. (Gail 541-276-
3778).
SUNDAY, JULY 17
“ROBBERS,
REPRO-
BATES AND THE RED LIGHT
DISTRICT” WALKING TOUR,
12:30 p.m., beginning at
MaySons Old Fashioned Gener-
al Store, 369 S. Main St., Pend-
leton. Local historian Keith May
will discuss the National Historic
District of downtown Pendleton.
Costs $5. (541-276-8206).
KBLU-FM CITIZENS AD-
VISORY GROUP, 3 p.m., Bow-
man Building Suite 352, 17 S.W.
Frazer Ave., Pendleton. Share
ideas on format of Pendleton ar-
ea’s newest radio station. (Vicki
541-566-2744 or Gary 541-566-
0131).
ADULT OPEN GYM, 6:30-
8:30 p.m., Pendleton Recreation
Center, 510 S.W. Dorion Ave.
Free access for ages 16 and up.
(541-276-8100).
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The EO publishes a list of
coming events as space allows.
It’s posted weekly at www.eas-
toregonian.com. All items are as-
sumed free, nonproit and open to
the public unless otherwise not-
ed. Coming events items should
be submitted well in advance to
calendar c/o East Oregonian, 211
S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton, OR
97801, 333 E. Main St., Hermis-
ton, OR 97838 or community@
eastoregonian.com.
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Health
Home
Life
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Veronica Zapata
Family Insurance Agent
The Stratton Agency
Hermiston / Pendleton • stratton-insurance.com
Friday Night Dinner
July 15th • 5:30 pm • $12.00
Spaghetti Dinner
All You Can Eat!
• Complete Salad Bar
• Garlic Bread
• Dessert
Club Hours: M-F, 4-8
Proceeds to benefit Pendleton Elks’ Charities
Pendleton Elks Lodge #288 14 SE 3rd, Pendleton
509-948-2163 • 541-276-3882