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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
CATTLE BARON LEGACY AWARD WINNERS
Daniel
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What we
owe our
mothers
other’s Day brings
with it a strange
M
twist of irony that is
downright frustrating for
us children.
The very nature of a
mother — a selfl ess giver
of life and love — repels
the notion of repayment.
In the process of giving
up so much of herself
to make sure we don’t
turn out as reprobates
or degenerates, she left
behind the need and desire
for gratuity. It goes against
the fi ber of her being to
expect such tokens.
So by her nature, which
deserves heaping loads
of appreciation made
manifest, she shuns the
mere idea of receiving
said bounty.
It leaves the rest of us,
the benefi ciaries of these
marvelous women, in
quite the predicament.
Somehow we fool
ourselves each year into
thinking a shopping trip in
early May will yield that
perfect item to express
our hearts. In short, it
will not. There is no
boutique, fl ower shop or
chocolatier that has the
gift on the shelves that
will encapsulate what
you hope to say. There
is no Hallmark card that
has the words or artwork
that can pay your debt
of gratitude. Amazon.
com, while offering
endless scrolling pages of
“mother’s day gifts” with
two-day shipping, will not
save you.
In our culture of
consumer holidays,
where the purchasing and
bestowing of gifts has
become ritual, it is hard to
break the mindset that the
mere transaction is good
enough.
A warning. If you are
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Debby and Terry Anderson stand on a ridge overlooking their summer ranch in the Blue Mountains southeast of Pendleton.
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Couple goes all in on ranching life,
enthusiastically raising cattle on
family estate southeast of Pendleton
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
By ERIC MORTENSON
EO Media Group
J
oy rises in Terry and Debby Anderson like the
continuous upwelling of bubbles in a water cooler.
That’s not to say their life raising cattle and
breeding bulls is an easy one. The operators of
Anderson Land & Livestock, like others in the cattle
industry, face slim
profi t margins in an
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ultra-competitive
market. Success
It’s Cattle Barons
depends on fi rmly
weekend in Pendleton.
grasping technology,
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genetics and
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economics. It’s a
physical, nonstop,
multiple-balls-in-the-air existence that could threaten
their sanity if they didn’t love it so.
This month, the Anderson family got a new
reason to smile when the ranch received the Legacy
Award for this weekend’s Pendleton Cattle Barons
event. Cattle Barons president Andy Vanderplaat
told Terry and Debby about the award as they sat in
their pickup, listening via speaker phone, their jaws
dropping at the news. Later, Terry said, tongue in
cheek, “I couldn’t speak for two days. I was stunned.”
Those who’ve spent even fi ve minutes with the
gregarious cattleman will be skeptical of that much
silence, but Terry’s gratitude at winning the Legacy
Award is real.
“You don’t think people are paying attention,” he
said. “It is a true honor.”
See CATTLE/12A
Contributed photo
Marvin “Red” Anderson and his grandson Corey
Anderson pose for a photo on their ranch southeast of
Pendleton.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Debby Anderson bottle feeds a steer as her Australian
shepherd drinks excess milk from the steers lips on the
Anderson’s ranch southeast of Pendleton.
Diane Daggett remembers the
conversation with the woman who
had just purchased the Daggett
family’s 440-acre cattle ranch in
Wallowa County, land that had been
in the family for four generations.
The buyer said she had called
her husband, who was aboard
their yacht in the Cayman Islands,
to share the news. “Honey,” the
woman said she’d told him, “I just
bought the most amazing birthday
gift for you.”
And the land, sold by Daggett’s
stepmother for what Daggett fi gures
was three times what it could
generate as a cattle ranch, slipped
from the family’s grasp. Now it lies
behind a locked gate.
Variations of that story are
playing out across Oregon and
other states as farm and ranch
land changes hands, sometimes by
thousands of acres at a time. Some
buyers are fellow farmers who are
expanding their operations under
the mantra of “get big or get out.”
But other buyers include invest-
See RANCH/10A
PENDLETON
City competes with private
businesses for storage space
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
The owner of a strip of industrial land just north of Inter-
state 84 is engaged in a dispute with the city of Pendleton.
It has never been a better time to be in
the recreational vehicle business.
According to The Economist, the RV
industry sold 430,000 units in 2016, a
40-year high. Thor Industries, the parent
company of RV manufacturing brands like
Keystone RV, has seen its stock rise by 43
percent in the past year.
The effects of a resurgent industry are
visible at the Pendleton Keystone plant,
too, where storage lots near Interstate 84
are teeming with RVs waiting for transpor-
tation companies to pick them up and take
them to dealerships around the country.
The past year could have been a boon to
storage lot owners like Gale Marshall, but
he isn’t celebrating.
Marshall runs an industrial storage
business on 24 acres just west of the
See STORAGE/10A