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REGION Saturday, September 17, 2016 East Oregonian Page 3A Round-Up through German eyes By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Photo by Rachael Owen Anna Jane Harris won the Native American Beauty Pageant on Main Street Friday morning before the Westward Ho! parade. Harris sisters win top spots at American Indian Beauty Pageant East Oregonian A pair of sisters placed irst and second in the American Indian Beauty Pageant Friday, continuing a tradition of beauty titles established by their ances- tors. Presented on horseback in front of a panel of 12 judges from across the country, 18 contestants ages 14-24 vied for the top spot on Main Street prior to the Westward Ho! Parade. The top four competitors are all from the Pendleton area and members of the Confeder- ated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Anna Jane Harris, 22, took home irst place, another accolade for a woman who won the 2007 Junior American Indian Beauty Pageant and was a Happy Canyon princess in 2013. After graduating from Pendleton High School with a 4.0 GPA, Anna earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Anna is currently looking at graduate schools with the intention of becoming a surgeon and enjoys riding horses and making art in her free time. Her sister, Mary Harris, 20, came in second place. Mary graduated from Blue Mountain Community College with three associ- ate’s degrees and is currently working on a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Idaho. She was a Happy Canyon princess in 2015. The Harris family has been participating in the Round-Up since its founding, their great-grand- father an early rider in the Indian relay race and her grandmother a previous beauty pageant winner. The grandmother lost her dress after winning the pageant, prompting Mary and her two older sisters to recreate it in her honor. Alyssa Farrow, 17, was the third place winner, following up on her win in the 2012 junior pageant. Farrow enjoys picking berries, ishing, hunting, digging roots and other traditional tribal activities A valedictorian at Nixy- aawii Community School, Farrow will attend Stanford University in the fall. Tayler Leigh Craig, 20, rounded off the top four. A BMCC student and a Wildhorse Resort & Casino employee, Craig is a descen- dant of Chief Jim Kanine on her mother’s side and Chief Joseph on her father’s side. Craig also has several Happy Canyon princesses in her lineage and calls her horse Lane her best friend. PENDLETON Council to discuss replacing closed staircase with gravel path East Oregonian Staff has presented the Pendleton City Council with a few options to ix the closed Southwest 13th Street staircase, but replacing it with a new set of stairs isn’t at the top of the list. At a council meeting Tuesday, staff will propose the stairs be replaced with a gravel path that runs from the Southwest 13th Street/ Goodwin Lane intersection to the Southwest 12th Street cul-de-sac. Students from Goodwin Lane and the surrounding area had previously used the 13th Street staircase to navigate a 54-foot slope to and from a bus stop at the Pendleton Early Learning Center. The staircase closed last year when a Pendleton man posted a video online that highlighted the crumbling concrete and exposed rebar. Staff looked into building a new staircase where the current one is, but the a preliminary estimate pegged the cost at $200,000. Unless the council considered implementing a city-wide charge to pay for new stairs, staff wrote that the gravel path could be paid for out of the city’s existing budget, although no cost estimate has been calculated. If the council approves the gravel path, city staff would also ask for permis- sion to extend it to the end of paving at Southwest Hailey Avenue. Next paving season it would pave the path and demolish the old staircase. The council will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the council chambers in city hall, 500 S.W. Dorion Ave. Andrea Dalhoff mentioned the cowboy hats and smiled. The common sight during the Pendleton Round-Up was new for her. Germany, after all, does not have an event or wardrobe quite like it. “The rodeo,” she said “... is a huge atmosphere in the stadium.” Dalhoff, 52, visited the U.S. three times in her life before this week. She came irst in 1998 for a friend’s wedding in New York City and fell in love with The Big Apple. “I was there for seven days, and I didn’t sleep,” she said. Her next trip came 14 years later, when she, her husband and daughter were in New York state. Her daughter came to Forest Grove in 2013 as an exchange student. The next year, Dalhoff said, they came to Oregon to bring her home, and she learned about Pendleton but they did not drop in. Now she is on a three- month sabbatical from her job as a computer systems administrator for Licht Blick, a renewable energy company in Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city. The time off afforded her the opportunity to fulill her desire to see Pendleton and the Round-Up. Dalhoff arrived Tuesday afternoon, took in the Happy Canyon night show, two days of the rodeo, the Westward Ho! Parade and as much of Pendleton as she could. She leaves early Saturday. The rodeo was a thrill, she said, and the crowd seemed to love it all. But Dalhoff admitted that she did not share the enthusiasm most folks had for bull riding. “My heart was with the bulls,” she said. Tying to understand the rodeo scoring was a chal- lenge, she said, but a man from Walla Walla sitting next her to explained how it Photo by Joe Tierney Andrea Dalhoff, of Germany, traveled to the U.S. this week to experience the Pendleton Round-Up. works. And the many costumes on display during Round-Up, particularly the Indian regalia, drew her eye. She said she used to design costumes for theater, TV shows and movies when she lived on the east side of the Berlin Wall. So far from home, she met a couple from England also here for the Round-Up, and others who traveled from Germany. She said she even discovered she knows someone married to a woman from Pendleton. “I think the Pendleton Round-Up is famous also in Germany,” Dalhoff said, and Germans will travel all the way to Eastern Oregon to experience it for just a single day. Pat Beard, director of Travel Pendleton, gave a rough estimation that 250-300 European visitors come to the Round-Up each year, based on visitors that come into the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce, inquiries the chamber receives and information from Travel Oregon. Most of those, he said, are from Germany, France and Great Britain. “The Germans love the American West,” Beard said, and some of that stems from Karl Friedrich May (pronounced “my”), who in the 19th century wrote Old West adventure novels. There’s even a Karl May festival each year, Beard said. Dalhoff said she enjoys nature and horseback riding, an experiment she began seven years ago. Her teacher, she said, is a stuntman, capable of feats of derring-do on a steed. “I don’t do that,” she said. “I’m happy if I can sit on the horse and not fall off.” Rather than a hotel room or RV, Dalhoff used the website couchsuring.com to ind a place to stay in Pendleton. She landed in the home of Renee Struthers, the records editor for the East Oregonian. Dalhoff hung out with the Struthers family, even pitching in Thursday and Friday evenings to help Renee’s sister, Soi Smith, with her job at Master Printers organizing day sheets for Friday’s and Saturday’s rodeos. Dalhoff and her husband, who is from Israel, have two children — a 13-year-old son and a daughter, soon to turn 19. German is her irst language, but she also speaks English and Russian, which she does not enjoy, and some Hebrew. Being multilingual, she said, opens the heart. Oregon is a lovely state, Dalhoff said, and the people are friendly. And she may not be done with the United States. “I have a great dream to take a car to drive from the east side of the states to the west side of the states,” she said. Her next sabbatical is three years away. They’re your dreams. Start building them. You’ve already dreamed up the blueprints. We may be able to help bring them to life. 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To ensure there’s enough food and seating, those planning to attend are asked to RSVP by Friday, Sept. 30. In addition, people are encouraged to “save the date” for an upcoming candidates’ forum during the Thursday, Oct. 20 chamber luncheon. It will feature those running for mayor and city council in Heppner. Additional details will be available as the event gets closer. For more information or to make a reservation for the Oct. 6 luncheon, contact heppnerchamber@centurytel.net or 541-676- 5536. B2B lunch features drawing for smoker HERMISTON — Those attending the upcoming B2B Luncheon will have an opportunity to win a smoker. The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce B2B Luncheon will include introduction of Emma Porricolo, the city’s 2016-17 community placement participant through the RARE (Resource Assistance for Rural Environments) AmeriCorps program. She will work in developing and advancing downtown district events and programs. 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