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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017
141st Year, No. 151
One dollar
WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Cascadia summit
helps area leaders
prep for disaster
2017 CRYSTAL APPLE AWARDS
Cascadia.
“We’re treating the
eclipse like a disaster, and
When the Cascadia activating the emergency
earthquake devastates the coordination center as an
Pacifi c Northwest, the exercise,” Oregon Offi ce of
government has a plan. The Emergency Management
question is where Eastern director Andrew Phelps
said.
Oregon commu-
The
picture
nities will fi t in.
Phelps and other
“Are
we
speakers painted
going to be the
of
Cascadia’s
responders or the
aftermath is one
victims?” Irrigon
where
Eastern
city
manager
Oregon
may
Aaron Palmquist
escape much of
asked.
the bridge-col-
Palmquist
lapsing,
build-
was one of the Franell
ing-demolishing
city
leaders,
physical power of
educators, fi rst
Cascadia but will
responders,
still be without
religious leaders,
services such as
health
care
electricity,
cell
professionals,
phone
service,
business owners
landlines, internet
and others who
connections,
gathered in Pend-
banking and fuel
leton on Friday
for weeks that
for a Cascadia Phelps
will
in
prepared-
many cases
n e s s
stretch into
summit to
“We’re treating months.
discuss that
In those
very ques-
the eclipse like
conditions,
tion. After
a disaster, and it will take
listening to
a while for
speakers
activating the
govern-
from state
and federal emergency coor- m e n t
esources
agencies,
dination center r such
as
break-out
groups met
as an exercise.” food and
medicine
to discuss
— Andrew Phelps,
to
reach
what steps
Offi ce of Emergency
communi-
their orga-
ties, and the
Management director
nizations
priority will
could take
be sending
to increase
those resources farther west
emergency preparedness.
Some of those plans can to the areas of destruction.
be put through a trial run in That means Eastern Oregon
August, when as many as a families should make it a
million people are expected goal to build up supplies to
to fl ock to Oregon to expe- be able to shelter in place
rience a total solar eclipse for two weeks without
assistance,
and
then
on Aug. 21.
The fl ood of people possibly to help neighbors
who will descend on small who can’t afford to build
Eastern Oregon cities then up that kind of resource.
will in some ways mimic the For those who want to be
refugees from the west side prepared but don’t have
of the state who will fl ood the fi nancial resources to
into the same areas after stockpile food and water,
Cascadia, overwhelming Phelps encouraged them
resources like hotels and to learn survival skills
gas stations. Communities like fi rst aid so they can
and businesses are encour- contribute in other ways
aged to use the lessons during a disaster.
”You are all the fi rst
learned from the eclipse to
strengthen their ability to
See DISASTER/6A
respond to refugees from
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Physical education instructor Justin Funderburk jogs with a group of second-graders at Athena Elementary
School on Monday in Athena. Funderburk and the rest of the 2017 Crystal Apple winners listed on Page 8A.
They call him Mr. Fun
P.E. teacher recognized
as exemplary educator
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
To make it easier for his younger students to
pronounce his name, Justin Funderburk allows kids
to call him Mr. Fun.
“I try to keep it fun, but I’m not sure I always live
up to that,” he said.
Whether fun or not, Funderburk was recently
recognized for something else by his peers and
superiors — an exemplary teacher.
A K-8 physical education teacher for Athena
Elementary School and Weston Middle School,
Funderburk was one of several recipients of the
2017 Crystal Apple Awards at a ceremony at the
See TEACHER/8A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Physical Education instructor Justin Funderburk oversees a
class of second-graders playing tunnel tag on Monday at Athena
Elementary School in Athena.
PENDLETON
Horses, dogs take stage at Cattle Barons
Auction part of
events to raise
scholarship money
Students awarded
scholarships
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Dan Roeser rode Sanjo
Gold calmly and confi dently
into the Pendleton Round-Up
Pavilion Saturday, ready to
show what the 7-year-old
palomino
gelding
was
capable of doing.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
A cowboy shows off a horse during the Western Select
Invitational Working Horse & Dog Sale during Cattle
Barons Weekend at the Pendleton Convention Center.
It was several hours
before the Western Select
Horse and Working Dog
Sale would begin inside
the Pendleton Convention
Center — part of the annual
Cattle Barons Weekend —
and ranchers huddled inside
the pavilion for a preview
of the animals in action.
Some scrawled notes in their
programs as the horses ran
alongside steers for a live
roping demonstration.
Roeser, who runs Roeser
Ranch in Marsing, Idaho,
has been training horses
for 40 years and taught a
number of local cowboys the
fi ner points of horsemanship.
He regularly attends Cattle
Barons Weekend, now in
its 10th year, which helps
raise scholarships for local
students looking to pursue a
career in agriculture.
Along with Sanjo Gold,
Roeser also brought a second
See BARONS/8A
As part of Pendleton
Cattle Barons Weekend, a
number of local students
received college scholar-
ships to pursue a career
in agriculture or animal
sciences.
Scholarship
award
winners included:
Lucas Oil Protect
the Harvest scholarship
($1,500) — Kolby Currin,
18, Heppner High School
Pendleton
Cattle
Barons
scholarship
($1,500)
• Kolby Currin, 18,
Heppner High School
• Makenzi Hughes, 19,
BMCC
• Brady Cope, 18,
BMCC
• Terrel Platt, 20,
Colorado State University
(from Pilot Rock)
• Tanna Osmin, 17,
Hermiston High School
• Wyatt Paschal, 17,
Hermiston High School
• Eric Nelson, 20,
BMCC
TIME TO VOTE
Tuesday is the last day to vote in the May
2017 election. Ballots are due at 8 p.m. at one
of the following locations:
• Courthouse Room 18, Basement, 216 SE
4th. St. (opens at 7 a.m.) or at the curbside box
• Hermiston City Hall, 180 NE 2nd St.
• Milton-Freewater City Hall and police sta-
tion, 722 S Main Milton-Freewater
• Nixy’aawii Governance Center, 46411
Ti’Mine Way, Pendleton
• Umatilla City Hall, located at the back
alleyway entrance 700 6th St.
• Stanfi eld City Hall, located at the front
entrance 106 S. Main St.
• Pilot Rock City Hall, located at the front
entrance 144 N Alder Pl.
• Athena City Hall, located at the front en-
trance 302 E Currant St.
Results will be posted at www.eastoregonian.
com as they become available.
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