East Oregonian : E.O., December 31, 2016, WEEKEND EDITION, Image 21

LIFESTYLES
Gabriel Danzuka, 5, plays the drums with the men during a kid’s powwow at BMCC,
April 20 in Pendleton.
WEEKEND, DEC. 31, 2016- JAN. 1, 2017
Boardman Police officer George Shimer gets a high five from first-grader Juan Luis
Flores Hernandez in the halls of Sam Boardman Elementary School on March 10.
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Russell, a one-year-old yellow lab owned by Curt
Thompson of Pendleton, bounds through the water
while chasing a ball Aug. 7, during the Doggie Dip Day
at the Pendleton Aquatic Center.
The sun shines through the branches of a tree and kids run through the grass in front of the stage at Roy Raley
Park as the band 1939 Ensemble plays Wednesday, Aug. 3, in Pendleton. This was the second of five concerts that
are part of the Wednesday in the Park concert series.
Bullfighter Dusty Tuckness attempts to distract the bull White Clay while Tim
Brigham of Honeyville, Utah, attempts to free himself from his rigging during bull
riding Sept. 16 at the Pendleton Round-Up.
Lohmann Brown chicken hens mill around in a hen
house owned and operated by Mahlon Zehr at his farm
east of Milton-Freewater on Feb. 17.
Pendleton’s Everett Willard loses his helmet while taking down Hermiston’s Tucker
Salinas in the Bulldogs’ 13-12 win against the Bucks on Oct. 28, in Pendleton.
Raz, left, and Sawyer lie underneath the chairs of their
handlers on Aug 8 at EOCI in Pendleton. Inmates train
the animals to become service dogs.
Twin carousels simultaneously milk 80 cows on each side while slowly revolving in
the milking parlor Oct. 13, at the Columbia River Dairy outside of Boardman.
A pod of pelicans preen themselves in the middle of
the Umatilla River channel on May 9 near Washington
Elementary School in Pendleton.
Frank Duff has collected hundreds of pieces of American stained glass at his home
workshop Dec. 6, outside of Helix.