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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2016
141st Year, No. 29
WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
One dollar
Your Weekend
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Breakfast with Santa
Saturday in Pendleton
Hermiston community
diversity celebration
“The Snowfl ake Man”
marionette show
For times and places
see Coming Events, 5A
Weekend Weather
Fri
Sat
Sun
52/41
48/36
45/37
2A State Championship
vs.
Stanfi eld vs. Regis
Saturday, 4 p.m.,
at Hermiston
IS car
bomb
kills 56
in Iraq
HILLA, Iraq (AP) — A
car bomb tore through a gas
station south of Baghdad
on Thursday, killing at least
56 people, including 20
Iranians, in an attack claimed
by the Islamic State group.
Police
and
hospital
offi cials confi rmed the toll
and said another 45 people
were wounded in the attack,
which almost completely
destroyed the gas station,
several nearby stores and
set several cars on fi re. The
station is located on a major
highway.
The blast knocked out
power at the station, forcing
relatives looking for the
remains of loved ones to
use the glare of their mobile
phones to guide them.
Body parts that remained
unclaimed were gathered in
a blue bag and placed on the
sidewalk outside the station.
Large sections of the station
were covered in blood.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign
See IRAQ/3A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Brady Flanangan, 9, second from left, gets help topping a piece of pie from his brother, Bryce Flanagan, both of Hermiston, while
learning how to man the pie portion of the serving line Thursday at the Hermiston Community Fellowship Thanksgiving Dinner.
It takes a village
Hermiston residents gather to volunteer, eat at Thanksgiving feast
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Makayla Humphreys hustled and hurried to coor-
dinate volunteers Thursday morning at the Hermiston
Senior Center, where they expected to feed around 800
people for the annual Community Fellowship Thanks-
giving Dinner.
“Things have gone
“This town is
really well this year,” said
Humphreys during a rare willing to draw
moment of stillness. “We
together, and
were prepped and ready to
we help each
go an hour early.”
For 25 years, Laurie
other out.”
Ball-Kiser has directed the
show for the Hermiston — Makayla Humphreys,
assistant coordinator
Community
Fellowship
Dinners. However, health
issues prevented Ball-Kiser from being as involved this
year, which thrust Humphreys into the main role.
That meant organizing well more than 150 volun-
teers who arrived to help as servers, greeters or working
in the meal line. By early afternoon, the tables were full
of people enjoying fresh cooked turkey and all the trim-
See HERMISTON/3A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Assistant coordinator Makayla Humphreys navigates her way past
volunteers while working at the Hermiston Community Fellowship
Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday at the Hermiston Senior Center.
Easy retirement?
Only for a privileged few
By STAN CHOE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — The American
dream of a blissful retirement, free
of fi nancial worries, is dying.
Most U.S. households are
heading for a worse lifestyle
in
retirement
than they had EDITOR’S NOTE
while they were This is part of
working, because Divided America,
they simply aren’t AP’s ongoing
saving enough, exploration of the
experts say. Thir- economic, social
ty-fi ve
percent and political
of
households divisions in
in their prime American society.
earning
years
or later have nothing saved in a
retirement account and no access
to a traditional pension, according
to an AP analysis of savings data
from the Federal Reserve.
Among households that do
have some savings, the typical
See RETIREMENT/3A
It pays to
shop local
Area retailers join Small
Business Saturday movement
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
In this Oct. 20 photo, Nancy Harvey, owner of Lil’ Nancy’s Primary
Schoolhouse, left, cares for toddlers at her home, which has she
has converted into a child care center, in Oakland, Calif. Most
U.S. households are heading for a worse lifestyle in retirement
than they had while they were working, because they simply
aren’t saving enough, experts say. Harvey, who has less than
$2,000 saved despite her decades of work, plans to continue with
real-estate classes in hopes that it can provide a second job.
As Black Friday sales continue to
creep into Thursday, some small busi-
nesses are moving the other direction
by offering deals on Small Business
Saturday.
The campaign, which encour-
ages people to shop at local small
businesses the day after they hit up
the big-box stores, started in 2010
when American Express gave a $25
reward to its credit card holders for
spending money at small businesses
the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The
idea grew into a national movement,
offi cially recognized by a resolution
from Congress, as a way to encourage
people to support locally-owned
businesses.
In Umatilla County, a variety of
small businesses will be offering
See BUSINESS/3A