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OUT OF THE VAULT
Lucky lamb brings
coolness to school
T
he last survivor of
triplet lambs born
in early February
2000 near Umatilla took up
residence at Umatilla High
School after being rejected
by its mother at birth. Too
small and fragile to be left
on his own while his owner
was at school, Lucky the
lamb quickly became the
school’s center of attention,
and showed that farm life
can be fun and educational
at the same time.
Sophomore Daniel
Bolen brought the lamb to
school because 20-day-old
Lucky needed constant care,
including bottle feeding
every two hours. Bolen
fi nessed a deal with school
offi cials: Lucky could tag
along to school and the lamb
could become a teaching
tool for ag classes.
FFA adviser and ag
teacher Jennifer Henning’s
classroom became Lucky’s
home-away-from-home.
The lamb immediately
adapted to his new
surroundings, wandering
around the room and
investigating the students,
occasionally nibbling at
their clothes. Students
vied for the chance to give
Lucky a bottle of milk,
and corralled him when he
escaped into the hallway to
follow kids to other classes.
“He gets attached,” Henning
said.
With the help of ag
advisers from Umatilla and
Hermiston high schools,
including Umatilla principal
Don Miller, Bolen turned
Lucky from a skinny, bony
weakling into a healthy
and curious animal. And
FFA classmates helped bob
Lucky’s tail, tag his ear
and give him shots as part
of the class curriculum, to
prepare him for his life on
the Bolen farm after he was
old enough to wait patiently
at home for his meals.
In the meantime, Lucky
changed the way FFA was
perceived at the school.
Henning said students “can
see that not everyone in FFA
has to be from a farming
family.”
Bolen agreed. “Everyone
thought that FFA was just
the hick club. ... Lucky
shows that there are parts of
FFA that can be cute, too.”
Organized in 1928 to
encourage young people
to stay in agriculture, FFA
(formerly Future Farmers
of America) has grown to
7,859 chapters in schools
across the U.S., Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The organization focuses on
development of leadership,
personal growth and career
success through agricultural
education.
■
Renee Struthers is the
Community Records Editor
for the East Oregonian. See
the complete collection of
Out of the Vault columns at
eovault.blogspot.com
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 22-23, 1917
Sloan
Thomson’s
two-year-old baby was
severely stung by honey
bees Thursday in Echo. The
little one went out to the bee
hive while the mother was
some distance away in the
garden. The bees attacked
her and but for the fact the
child had on coveralls she
might have been stung to
death. As it is she was stung
several times on the neck
and face. Mrs. Thomson
was also badly stung while
rescuing her child. Both
mother and child are out of
danger.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 22-23, 1967
Searching
neighbors
found a rancher of the
Ione area dead in his fi eld
at 9 p.m. Thursday. Lloyd
Orville Rice, 58, was
reported missing by his wife
when he did not come in
from the fi eld where he had
been building a fence. Ray
Heimbigner found the man,
badly burned from the waist
up, lying beside the fence he
was building about one mile
up Eight Mile Canyon from
the ranch home. He still
clutched a pair of pliers and
a staple gun in his hands. Dr.
R.M. Connell, Pendleton
pathologist,
determined
Rice died of a heart attack.
The burns were caused
when Rice’s jacket ignited
from embers of spot fi res he
had been setting.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 22-23, 1992
Larry
and
Bonnie
Eddy personify the very
concept of environmental
consciousness.
Along
with their two sons and a
Japanese exchange student,
the Eddys live in a passive-
solar, super-insulated house
featuring south-side thermal
pane windows, an air-lock
entryway, fl uorescent light
bulbs, water-saving shower
heads, low-fl ush toilets and
an air-to-air heat exchanger.
Outside, a blue Earth Day
fl ag waves over drought-re-
sistant grass, a compost pile
and three new aspen trees.
And, oh, yeah, they also
recycle. “It’s like going on a
diet — you have to change
your way of living,” said
Larry, a chemistry instructor
at Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College.
ODDS & ENDS
Montana professor sues Wal-Mart
over ‘clean toilets’ description
BOZEMAN,
Mont.
(AP) — A Montana State
University professor is
suing Wal-Mart for libel
after he says an employee
at the Bozeman store listed
his occupation on a fi shing
license as a “toilet cleaner.”
Gilbert Kalonde, assistant
professor of technology
education at MSU, fi led
the suit this past week in
Gallatin County District
Court.
Kalonde is seeking
unspecifi ed damages.
Wal-Mart
spokesman
Ragan Dickens told The
Associated Press: “To our
knowledge an administrative
process to resolve this with
Dr. Kalonde is ongoing.
We’ve not been served with
the lawsuit, but we take the
claims seriously and will
respond appropriately with
the court.”
According
to
the
complaint, Kalonde bought a
state fi shing license in April
2015, showing the Wal-Mart
employee identifi cation of
his employment at MSU.
But the Wal-Mart employee
entered “clean toilets”
into the state database as
Kalonde’s occupation.
The
suit
contends
Wal-Mart exposed Kalonde
to
“hatred,
contempt,
ridicule”
through
the
incident.
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