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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017
141st Year, No. 129
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Keeping the future in mind
Students get hands-on look at post-graduation career paths
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Midget Wrestling Fiesta
at Pheasant Bar & Grill
Trivia Games Saturday
at Round-Up Grounds
Easter events all
around the region
For times and places
see Coming Events, 6A
Catch a movie
Universal Pictures via AP
In the eighth installment
of the high-octane series,
two bald, buff bros drive
fast cars and teach the
importance of teamwork in
“The Fate of the Furious.”
For showtime, Page 5A
For review, Weekend EO
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Legislation could
prevent some
deportations of
legal immigrants
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon
lawmakers are considering
a change to sentencing law
that could help prevent the
mandatory federal depor-
tation of legal immigrants
convicted of gross misde-
meanors.
The proposal is in an
amendment to Attorney
General Ellen Rosenblum’s
bill to discourage racial
profi ling.
The change would reduce
the maximum sentence for a
Class A misdemeanor from
365 days to 364 days. A
365-day sentence is one of
several triggers for manda-
tory federal deportation of
green card holders, refugees
and other legal noncitizens.
Other triggers are violent
crimes and felonies, said
Stephen Manning, a Portland
immigration attorney.
See DEPORT/14A
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
On Thursday, roughly
50 Pendleton High School
Advanced Placement biology
students met George.
George is 56 years old, a
smoker who donated his body
to science. He is a cadaver.
As a part of a fi eld trip
meant to show students some
of the career possibilities
in science, a group of high
school seniors viewed that
cadaver, which was being
dissected by the Blue Moun-
tain Community College
nursing program.
The teenagers wound
their way through the BMCC
Science and Tech building,
receiving mini-lessons in
anatomy, chemistry and
microbiology.
Baylie Paul had just
fi nished playing a game
of
“Microbes
Against
Humanity,” a card game
where players contracted
and vaccinated themselves
against infectious diseases.
Paul said she is interested
in becoming a nurse, a
profession she started to think
seriously about during her
sophomore year at Pendleton
High, after she started talking
with nurses when her family
members were in the hospital.
Paul found the anatomy
portion of the tour especially
exciting.
“I really enjoyed the
cadaver, as morbid as it
sounds,” she said.
Johnny Stuvland was
pulling long, viscous strands
of a synthetic nylon polymer
out of a beaker during a lesson
from chemistry instructor
Chandra Kunapareddy when
he paused for a brief inter-
view.
Although he also wanted
to pursue health studies
during college, Stuvland
is noncommittal about his
career goals.
“A doctor as of right now,”
he said of the career goals.
“But we’ll see how that goes.
We’ll see if I change my
mind.”
Changing career paths
after high school isn’t
uncommon, as evidenced by
some of the people guiding
the tour.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Raylee Lehnert gets an up-close look at a human brain as Baylie Paul waits her turn Thursday at Blue
Mountain Community College. The girls and about 50 other PHS honors biology students visited BMCC to
explore careers in science.
“I really enjoyed the cadaver,
as morbid as it sounds.”
— Baylie Paul, PHS student interested in become a nurse
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Jon Jennings pulls a fragile, gooey string of synthet-
ic polymer from a beaker as Jorge Santana looks
on Thursday at Blue Mountain Community College.
The boys and about 50 other PHS honors biology
students visited BMCC to explore careers in science.
BMCC nursing student
Jenna Bradshaw showed the
students how the respiratory
system works by pumping
oxygen into pig lungs.
Even though her mother
was a nurse, Bradshaw said
the industry wasn’t on her
radar until well after high
school when she started
looking for a more stable
career fi eld.
Since beginning the
program,
she’s
grown
passionate about it.
“I’m really happy I found
this,” she said.
Bradshaw’s
younger
brother, Joe Jackson, is also
a BMCC nursing school
student.
Jackson trained as a para-
medic after high school, took
a detour into fi nance, then
became a medical technician
before deciding to move from
Texas to Eastern Oregon and
attend BMCC.
With her father working as
a fi refi ghter and her mother
a nurse, BMCC biology
instructor Sascha McKeon
said she always wanted to
work in the health fi eld.
McKeon
originally
thought that meant being a
doctor, but she eventually
gravitated toward working
in biological research, where
she felt she would accrue
less debt and impact a wider
range of people.
See CAREERS/14A
HERMISTON
Ready for the worst-case scenario County
Local search and
approves
new data
centers
rescue volunteers
train for emergencies
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Search and rescue members know
it better than anyone: emergencies
often happen at the least opportune
time.
“Normally, no one gets lost when
the weather’s nice and it’s the middle
of the day,” Sgt. Dwight Johnson
said with a laugh.
Johnson is the Umatilla County
Search and Rescue supervisor,
and, on a Wednesday night, is busy
administering a monthly training to a
group of volunteers.
The group of about 15 volunteers
is getting certifi ed in tying nine
different kinds of knots, used for
different rescue scenarios. They’re
also learning how to assemble and
dismantle litters, which are boards
which are used to transport people.
These skills are part of the “core
competencies” required by the
Oregon State Sheriff’s Association.
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Rope expert Travis Lundquist demonstrates how to tie a prusik knot
to new search-and-rescue volunteer Kendra Russell on Thursday
during a training session.
“Most people who join Search
and Rescue like the outdoors,”
said Travis Lundquist, a volunteer
with Umatilla County Search and
Rescue for the last three years. “But
they don’t always know how to do
things like start a fi re in the winter.
So in training, we teach things like
land navigation, tying knots. We’re
preparing for any situation.”
Lundquist added that while a
rescue situation may start with one
skill being required, volunteers may
have to bring all their skills into play.
See RESCUE/14A
Online retailer Amazon
has received the green light
to build four new data centers
west of Hermiston.
The Umatilla County
Board of Commissioners
approved a request Thursday
to rezone approximately
120 acres of land between
Westland and Cottonwood
Bend roads from exclusive
use farming to light indus-
trial. That opens the door for
Amazon and its subsidiary,
Vadata, to develop a fourth
campus in Eastern Oregon.
Vadata already operates
one server farm east of
See DATA/14A