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PENDLETON
Just keep going
High
price for
marijuana
business
license
Parkinson’s can’t
keep woman
from trekking,
kayaking, biking,
and living large
East Oregonian
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Carol Clupny and the Energizer
Bunny have much in common.
Like the bunny, Clupny keeps up
a steady pace. The bunny, however,
doesn’t have Parkinson’s disease, a
progressive neurological disorder
that affects movement, speech and
cognition.
The Hermiston woman resolved
to keep moving after her diagnosis
eight years ago, shortly after her
50th birthday. The fi nal wake-up call
came during a kayaking weekend
in the San Juan Islands when she
started feeling weak and shaky and
had trouble paddling.
After the diagnosis, she realized
that exercise helped beat back the
symptoms. She shot free throws at
lunchtime. Three times, she walked
sections of the Camino de Santiago,
a web of trails that converge on
the Spanish town of Santiago de
Compostela from starting points in
France, Portugal and Spain. Using
carbon trekking poles for balance,
she walked over the steep Pyrenees
Mountains. Twice, she and husband
Charlie pedaled across the rolling
hills of Iowa for The Register’s
Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across
Iowa, billed as the oldest, largest and
longest recreational bicycle touring
event in the world. She kayaks with
a group of female friends and rides
her family’s two Tennessee walking
horses. A punching bag hangs in her
garage.
“I’ve just got to keep moving,”
Clupny said.
After the diagnosis, she found an
advocate in Charlie.
“Rather than treating Parkinson’s
as a death sentence and sitting down
and waiting for it to happen, we real-
ized there was a lot of life to live,”
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Carol Clupny feeds one of her Tennessee walking horses at her home in Hermiston. Clupny was
diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight years ago, after her 50th birthday.
he said. “We started making plans.”
She eventually resigned her job
as head of the speech and hearing
program of the InterMountain
Education Services District, where
she had worked for three decades, to
focus on living with Parkinson’s.
The cycling started in earnest after
she read a research study reporting
that people with Parkinson’s bene-
fi ted from hopping on a bike. The
study showed that riding at a certain
rate for 40 minutes three times a
week saw a 35 percent improvement
in their symptoms. Tremors eased
and the sense of smell often returned
in those who had lost it.
She and Charlie borrowed a
tandem bike they dubbed the Yellow
Mosquito Eater and rode across
Iowa. Later, they bought their own
bike. They often pedal the Umatilla
County backroads with Carol occa-
sionally yelling “faster, faster,” to her
husband when traveling downhill.
Her quest to stay active got a
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Staff photo by EJ Harris
Carol Clupny, who recently underwent deep brain stimulation,
holds a device called a patient programmer which allows her to
contol the neurostimulatorembedded under her collarbone. With
the programmer, Clupny can monitor battery life and control the
current that fl ows into her brain within physician-prescribed limits.
It could take a lot of green
to sell green in Pendleton.
The Pendleton City
Council has scheduled a Dec.
20 hearing for an ordinance
that would create a special
marijuana business license.
With
Pendleton
voters
passing a series of measures
Nov. 8 that legalizes medical
and recreational marijuana
sales and levies an additional
3 percent tax, the city has
until Jan. 3 to put the regula-
tory scheme in place.
A draft of the business
license sets rules for how
a marijuana retailer can
operate, including manda-
tory owner and employee
background checks, hours of
operation and licensing fees.
The latter is particular eye
catching — the draft states it
would cost recreational store
owners $850 just to apply for
a business license and $600
to apply for a medical mari-
juana retail license. Those
application fees are nonre-
fundable. Annual license
renewal will cost $550 for
recreational and $300 for
medical.
“The application fees may
be further refi ned by resolu-
tion, but are based upon an
estimate of the costs that city
will incur in administration
of these licenses, including
background checks and the
cost of collection of the tax,”
city attorney Nancy Kerns
wrote in a report to the city
council.
In comparison, the base
rate for a license for a
non-marijuana business in
city limits is $100, although
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MISSION
RICHARD CAPLINGER
OF HERMISTON
Enjoy a
free coffee
at Obie’s
Express in
Hermiston
Tamástlikt
sheds light on
dark history
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
The doctor in the black
and white photograph exams
a child with the rickets. The
doctor in the photograph is
Ernst Wentzler, a pioneer in
treating the bone disorder.
The doctor in the photo-
graph helped run the Nazi’s
“pediatric
euthanasia”
program. Wentzler ordered
the deaths of thousands of
children who did not meet
the Nazi standards of perfec-
tion.
Wentzler’s story is part of
“Deadly Medicine: Creating
the Master Race,” a traveling
exhibition from the United
States Holocaust Memorial
Museum on display at
Tamástslikt Cultural Insti-
tute on the Umatilla Indian
Reservation near Pendleton.
The walk-through exhibit
illustrates how the Nazi
regime embraced eugenics
and
recruited
medical
professionals and scientists
to murderous ends. Signs
warn visitors they could fi nd
some content disturbing.
Tamástslikt curator Randall
Melton said he certainly did.
While installing the
exhibit on election night, one
photo in particular struck
him — the grainy image of
four emaciated, naked chil-
dren. They look like boys,
but they are girls. Melton is
a father of two daughters.
He said he wondered how
someone could have done
that to children.
Tamástslikt strives to
bring exhibits that provide
a unique experience for
locals, Melton said, and
“create dialogue” and make
people question and think.
This exhibit is upsetting,
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Staff photo by Kathy
Aney
A young girl
identifi ed only
as Willma B.
appears on a
wall of photos
at Tamastslikt
Cultural Insti-
tute as part of
a traveling Ho-
locaust exhibit
called “Deadly
Medicine: Cre-
ating the Mas-
ter Race.” The
exhibit
runs
through Janu-
ary 7.