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JULY 23-24, 2016
140th Year, No. 201
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
TRCI dialysis unit
saves tax dollars
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The dialysis unit at the Two Rivers Correctional
Institution in Umatilla.
The city of Umatilla’s
only dialysis center is
different than most such
operations in America.
The
life-saving
machines, locked behind
heavy metal doors and
fences topped with razor
wire, run under the watchful
eye of a correctional
offi cer. The patients who sit
quietly in the chairs — all
men — come in wearing
standard-issue T-shirts and
blue jeans marked with the
Department of Corrections
logo.
Two Rivers Correctional
Institution has operated
its own dialysis unit for
inmates since 2002. It was
the such unit in an Oregon
prison until recently, when
a smaller operation for
female inmates opened at
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Pendleton Bronze Trail provides digital audio guide
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
A pair of pedestrians walk past the statue of Esther Motanic on Friday in Pendleton.
Statues tell their story
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Pendleton’s bronze history has gotten a
digital age upgrade.
Travel Pendleton launched the Pendleton
Bronze Trail Thursday, a mobile website that
covers 20 public art pieces across the city,
including the downtown bronzes on Main
Street.
Travel Pendleton event recruiter Pat Beard
estimated the trail can be roughly 1.5 miles
long, starting with the bronze of Til Taylor
and ending with the Cattle Drive statues by
Interstate 84.
Each entry on the self-guided tour includes
an audio snippet explaining the history of the
subject and the piece, with directions from
Google Maps for driving or walking to the
next destination.
While most of the art featured on the tour
are bronze statues, it also features other art
forms like the Umatilla County Court clock
tower and the Western heritage mural on the
side of the Great Pacifi c Wine & Coffee Co.
Beard compared the Pendleton Bronze
Trail to the world’s trendiest mobile game.
“This is Pendleton’s ‘Pokémon Go,’” he
said.
Although the goal of the Pendleton Bronze
Tour is to obtain historical facts instead of
digital monsters, Beard said the point is to
continue to enrich the city’s cultural qualities.
Conceived by former Oxford Suites
manager Stuart Howell, Beard said Travel
Pendleton worked with advertising agency
Duke Joseph to develop the website.
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Pierce says he needs campaign donors
Gov. Brown declined
to attend debate Friday
EO wins
General
Excellence
award
East Oregonian
It’s becoming a dynasty.
For the fi fth time in six
years, the East Oregonian
won the General Excellence
award from the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Asso-
ciation.
The
2016
award,
announced Friday, was
judged on three randomly
selected copies of the paper
from different months and
days. It is based on the overall
product: news, editorial,
photos, design, advertising
and reproduction.
Publisher Kathryn Brown
and managing editor Daniel
Wattenburger said the award
is an honor, and a tribute to
the company’s hard-working
and talented staff.
“I’m just proud to be part
of a team that consistently
produces an excellent news-
paper,” said Wattenburger.
“As more news moves
online, our goal is to keep
putting out a print product
our audience can use and
enjoy.”
In addition to General
Excellence, the East Orego-
nian took home numerous
individual awards in the
competition.
Staff reporting, photog-
raphy and videography of
the fatal explosion and fi re
at Pendleton city hall won
fi rst place for spot news
coverage.
Kathy Aney won fi rst
place for best writing for
“Death with dignity,” about
terminally ill patients dealing
with the end of their lives.
E.J. Harris won best
feature photo for “Fatally
low fl ows,” a photograph of
dead fi sh at McKay Reser-
voir. Drew Langton and
Daniel Wattenburger won
fi rst place for best front page
design.
Aney’s article “Artist
rides life’s waves” was
awarded second place in the
best feature story category.
E.J. Harris’s photo of the
city hall explosion placed
second in best spot news
photography.
George Plaven won third
place in the business and
economic issues category for
his article “There’s always
next year” about how drought
affected the 2015 wheat
harvest. The East Oregonian
also won third place in head-
line writing. Wattenburger,
Langton and Tim Trainor
supplied most of the puns.
E.J. Harris won third place
for his photo essay “Visiting
ghosts.” The Pendleton
Round-Up
Magazine,
produced by the East Orego-
nian, won third place for best
special section.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SILVERTON — GOP guber-
natorial nominee Bud Pierce said
Friday that he is unlikely to invest
any more of his own money in his
campaign for governor.
“I think my affl uence is pretty
tapped at this point,” Pierce said.
“I frankly need to be able to attract
larger Republican donors.”
Pierce made the comments
during the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association conference
Friday at the Oregon Garden here.
For the past 30 years, ONPA
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KEN GATES
OF LEXINGTON
Enjoy a framed art print from
Pendleton Art + Frame
Paris Achen/Pamplin Media Group
Bud Pierce, GOP candidate for governor, answers questions during a forum
at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association convention Friday. The
podium next to him is empty because Gov. Kate Brown declined to attend.