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East Oregonian
Saturday, June 17, 2017
HERMISTON
OBITUARIES
City looks at pedestrian improvements
Edwina Mary Vivian
Sheoships George
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Hermiston has taken steps
to improve pedestrian safety
in the last few years, but more
are needed.
The city has been looking
at adding pedestrian cross-
walks to a few streets that
have proved problematic in
the past, but the work will be
contingent on a signal project
that has now been delayed
several months.
According to Oregon law
any intersection, whether
marked or unmarked, is
a pedestrian crossing and
drivers are required to stop.
But in some heavy-traffic
areas, drivers don’t always
do so.
“The Butte Park soccer
fields are a real challenge,
especially during soccer
season,” said Mark Morgan,
Hermiston assistant city
manager, of a heavily-trav-
eled area near West Elm
Avenue and Seventh Street.
“The parking area gets crazy.”
He added that Umatilla
Electric Cooperative has been
nice about letting people park
at their facility, but they’ve
expressed concern about
the safety of those people
crossing the road to get to the
fields.
“UEC said they’re fine
with people parking there, but
they wanted to see if there’s a
way to put in better crossing,”
Morgan said.
With a new signal costing
$60,000, Morgan said the city
began looking at alternatives.
There is currently a
flashing crosswalk further
down Elm Avenue, where
people can cross to get to the
hospital. But there is a nearby
signal project in the works
that would improve crossing
at the intersection at Elm and
11th, both for pedestrians
and vehicles turning on those
roads.
“With the signal project
at Elm and 11th, that would
make the current hospital
crossing
superfluous,”
Morgan said. “So our thought
process was, once we get
that signal project done, then
we can look at relocating the
signal for pedestrians to the
UEC area.”
Morgan said the city hopes
to repurpose the equipment
from the old intersection and
move it to the Butte Park area.
But that project will have
to wait several months, as
city officials will now have
to push back the signal proj-
ects at Elm and 11th, and at
Orchard and 11th.
“Those projects received
no bids,” Morgan said.
He said they will put the
projects up for bid again
in fall, but the projects will
likely be pushed back at
least six months, and along
with it, the pedestrian work
at Seventh Street and Elm
Avenue.
There are a few other
prominent problem areas near
schools that the city is aware
of— but doesn’t yet have the
funds to fix.
One is the crossing
at South First Street and
Highland Avenue, in front of
Hermiston High School.
“That’s a challenge,”
Morgan said. “Short of
making that a closed campus,
there’s not much we can do
affordably.”
He said the $8.2 billion
transportation package that’s
now going through the state
legislature would offer some
support if it passes.
“One of the top priorities
would be to signalize First
and Highland,” he said. “Or
at least a pedestrian stop sign
to round up the kids. So we’re
very hopeful the transporta-
tion package comes through.”
Another challenging area
is at North First Place near
West Standard Avenue. That
area, Morgan said, has no
real crosswalks, and children
walking to school at Rocky
Heights Elementary have to
walk across railroad tracks.
Similar problems exist on
10th Street between Diagonal
Road and Elm Avenue, where
students are trying to walk to
Sandstone Middle School.
“There’s no pedestrian
facilities there,” he said.
“That’s one we’ve known
about for a long time.”
Morgan said a solution to
that problem might include
widening 10th Street, but cost
is an obstacle there too.
Chief Jason Edmiston
echoed Morgan’s concerns
about specific problem areas
near schools.
“The safety of students
to and from school is para-
mount,” he said.
He also noted that there
are specific rules drivers
have to follow with regard
to pedestrians. Any public
intersection, whether it is
marked or not, is a crosswalk,
and drivers must stop for
someone crossing. Mid-block
crosswalks only exist if
they are marked with white
painted lines. If any part of
a pedestrian’s body, or a part
of a person’s wheelchair or
cane, is in the crosswalk,
they are crossing the road and
drivers must stop.
Driver-pedestrian
collisions are a problem
throughout
the
state,
according to the Oregon
Department of Transporta-
tion. From 2009 to 2013, an
average of 798 pedestrians
were injured and 52 were
killed in motor vehicle
crashes annually. A quarter of
those pedestrians were struck
while in a crosswalk, and
the majority of those crashes
were the result of the driver’s
failure to yield to a pedestrian.
The fines for violating
driver-pedestrian rules are
steep, too. If a driver fails
to stop for a pedestrian in a
crosswalk, they may be fined
more than $250.
For more tips on driving
laws related to pedestrians,
visit http://www.oregon.gov/
ODOT/TS.
Fire district to start community paramedic program
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
The Umatilla County Fire
District #1 has gone through a
lot of big changes in the past
year. It will see a few more
signs of growth in the next
few months, with the addition
of its community paramedic
program and the construction
of a training tower at its West-
land Road station.
Community paramedic
programs have shown up
across the country in the last
few years, said UCFD #1
Chief Scott Stanton.
“As
Medicare
and
Medicaid costs soar, and
chronic diseases continue
to be problematic, we’re
looking at how do we better
serve our people? How do we
prevent ground-level falls,
the over-use of ambulances?”
The program, which
Stanton said will begin in July,
will have paramedics partner
up with community health
workers to visit the homes of
people they’ve been referred
to by the hospital. They hope
it will be a win-win situation:
reduce the re-admission rate
for people just released from
the hospital, prevent those
with chronic illnesses from
doing things that might lead
to unnecessary hospital visits
and decrease trips to the
emergency room and use of
the ambulances where they
can be prevented.
“Someone with a knee
replacement, someone with
abdominal surgery,” Stanton
said. “The community para-
medic will check their vitals,
talk to the patient and make
sure they understand what
they need to do after surgery.”
Julie Gregory, the director
of education services at Good
Shepherd Medical Center,
worked closely with Stanton
to get the program running.
She said the paramedics
will conduct several tasks:
a health assessment, a home
assessment, and a look at the
person’s medications.
“Maybe they don’t have
the right foods and that’s why
they get readmitted for high
blood pressure,” Gregory
said. “Or, do they understand
what (medicines) they’re
supposed to be taking?
Medication compliance is a
big issue.”
While the idea of a
community
paramedic
program is not new, Gregory
said there are some unique
components to this one.
“We’ll be able to do some
lab work in the field,” she
said. “Analysis, chemistry
panel, a 12-lead EKG. We’ll
be able to report those find-
ings back to their primary
care doctor.”
The
other
unique
component, she said, is that
paramedics will go out with a
health worker from the hospi-
tal’s ConneXions program,
which connects people with
community health resources.
Stanton said the program
is currently funded by a grant
of about $78,000
“I think it’s going to be a
huge program,” Stanton said.
“We feel we’ll be able
to show a decrease in
readmission to the hospital
and decrease in high ER
attendance,” Gregory said.
“We feel that ultimately, the
program will show savings.”
Gregory said if all goes
well, they eventually hope to
expand the program to all of
Umatilla County.
The fire district will break
ground on its new training
tower on June 29, at Station 3
at 78760 Westland Road. The
tower is a result of the bond
passed for Blue Mountain
Community College two
years ago. The district started
a fire science program at
BMCC three years ago.
“The training tower goes
hand-in-hand with that,”
Stanton said. He said the
four-story tower will allow
for all types of training, from
rappelling to working with
different types of combusti-
bles.
“We’ll have the opportu-
nity to do live fire training,
spots where we can change
the layout for search and
rescue scenarios,” Stanton
said. “All this stuff, we can
do in one place.”
Stanton said previously,
much of the department’s
training was spread out, and
they used locations around
Hermiston as they were
available — but they simply
weren’t able to do some
things.
“As far as four-story
trainings, hose evolution, we
didn’t get to do that,” he said.
“This will add stuff we didn’t
get to work on before.”
The ability to do all their
training in one spot will
benefit this fire district and
those from surrounding areas,
whom Stanton said can use
the facility as well.
Stanton said BMCC is
contributing about $348,000
to the project, and UCFD, a
little over $400,000.
The work will be done
by Mike Becker Construc-
tion from La Grande, and
Stanton said he estimates the
tower will be completed in
September.
Omak, Washington
November 9, 1933 — June 15, 2017
Edwina “Midge” George
passed away on June 15,
2017, in Omak, Wash. She
was 83.
Edwina was born in
Pendleton, Oregon, on
November 9, 1933. Edwina
was the daughter of Edward
Sheoships
and
Betsy
Cowapoo. She was
raised in Mission,
Oregon, just north
of St. Andrews
Church on the
Umatilla Indian
Reservation.
E d w i n a
attended
St.
Joseph’s School,
Chemawa Indian
School
and
Pendleton High George
School.
While
she
attended
Chemawa Indian School,
she met Hank George, who
later became her husband.
Their courtship was inter-
rupted during the Korean
War, where Hank served
in the U.S. Army. In 1953,
Hank returned to the states
and in a civil ceremony in
Toppenish, Wash., married
his girlfriend, Edwina
Sheoships. A few years later,
after his service in the U.S.
Army, they were formally
married in a Catholic
Church wedding ceremony
at St. Mary’s Mission. They
settled in Omak, where they
raised their nine children and
numerous foster children.
Edwina is a member
of the Cayuse and Walla
Walla tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation. Edwina
was a full time loving
mother, grandmother and
great grandmother to her
children,
grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
While small in stature, she
was no doubt the matriarch
of the family. Edwina was
very passionate, loving and
caring person to all who
knew her and she was a
friend to all who knew her.
Edwina and her husband
UPCOMING SERVICES
SATURDAY, JUNE 17
ALGER, ROBIN — Celebration of life at noon at
2919 S.W. Ladow Ave., Pendleton.
APPLEGATE, KAREN — Memorial service at 10:30
a.m. at Pendleton Pioneer Chapel, Folsom-Bishop, 131
S.E. Byers Ave.
MCCOY, DALE — Memorial services at 10:30 a.m.
at the Umatilla High School gymnasium, 1460 Seventh St.
MCKINNEY, DOUG — Celebration of life gathering
with military honors at 11 a.m. at the McKinney family
home.
SMITH, BOB — Memorial services at 11 a.m. at
Weston Memorial Hall, 210 E. Main St.
SUNDAY, JUNE 18
SIMMONS, DENNIS — Memorial service at 4 p.m. at
Bennett Botanical Gardens, 32632 E. Punkin Center Road,
Hermiston.
MONDAY, JUNE 19
TESCH, DARCY — Viewing from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 Grant
St., Umatilla. Funeral services follow at 11 a.m. Burial will
follow at Sunset Hills Cemetery, Umatilla.
TUESDAY, JUNE 20
No services scheduled
MEETINGS
MONDAY, JUNE 19
U M AT I L L A - M O R R O W
COUNTY HEAD START, 11:30
a.m., Head Start office, 110 N.E.
Fourth St., Hermiston. (Kerry
Tassie 541-564-6878)
ECHO SCHOOL DISTRICT,
6 p.m., Echo Community School,
600 Gerone St., Echo. A budget
meeting will be followed by the
regular board meeting. (541-376-
8436)
HELIX CITY COUNCIL, 7
p.m., Helix City Hall, 119 Colum-
bia St., Helix. (541-457-2521)
PENDLETON YOUTH COM-
MISSION, 7 p.m., Intermountain
ESD office, 2001 S.W. Nye Ave.,
Pendleton. (541-276-6711)
101 Olson Road, Boardman.
(Ann Jones 541-676-9474)
UMATILLA COUNTY SOIL &
WATER CONSERVATION DIS-
TRICT, 6 p.m., USDA Service
Center conference room, 1 S.W.
Nye Ave., Pendleton. (Kyle Wag-
goner 541-278-8049 ext. 138)
PILOT ROCK CITY COUN-
CIL, 7 p.m., Pilot Rock City Hall
council chambers, 143 W. Main
St., Pilot Rock. (541-443-2811)
STANFIELD CITY COUNCIL,
7 p.m., Stanfield City Hall council
chambers, 160 S. Main St., Stan-
field. (541-449-3831)
LOCAL
PENDLETON CITY
COUN-
CIL, 7 p.m., Pendleton City Hall
council chambers, 501 S.W. Em-
TUESDAY, JUNE 20
ATHENA CEMETERY DIS-
TRICT, 5:30 p.m., Athena City
Hall, 215 S. Third St., Athena.
(541-566-3862)
IRRIGON CITY COUNCIL, 6
p.m., Irrigon City Hall, 500 N.E.
Main Ave., Irrigon. (541-922-
3047)
PENDLETON
DEVELOP-
MENT COMMISSION, 6 p.m.,
Pendleton City Hall, 501 S.W.
Emigrant Ave., Pendleton. (541-
276-1811)
MORROW COUNTY FAIR
BOARD, 6 p.m., SAGE Center,
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Hank had a passion for the
outdoors and loved to watch
their children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren in
all their activities, and cele-
brate in their success or offer
word of encouragement. In
her younger days Edwina
was an avid jitterbug dancer
and later an avid
bingo
player.
Edwina’s stories
of her youthful
adventures were
truly
amazing,
rich and full of
laughter, and it was
an experience we
all treasured.
Edwina
was
preceded in death
by her husband,
her mother and
father, her sister
Gladys “Macy” Saluskin
and many childhood friends.
Edwina is survived by
her sons Gary (Kelly)of
Pendleton, Henry ‘Bobby’
and Steve of Omak;
daughters Elaine (Kenny)
Clark,
Jeanne
Miller,
Brenda (Albert) Clark, Kim
(Raymond) Gunn, Deanna
(Tim) Sargent, and Wanda
of Omak; grandchildren
Jeremy, Jamie, Adrienne;
Bryan, Sarah, Ashley;
Joseph, Mari; Bradley;
Henry, Rex, Brianne; Hank,
Christopher;
Stephanie,
Tiffine; Jordan, Jade, Timmy,
Faith; Quincy, Dillon,
Megan; great grandchildren
Layla,
Zyrel,
Kelton,
Edwina, Rayen, Naloni,
Kayla, Lawrence, Dominic,
Chelsea, Saffire, Saylor,
Jesse, James, Edward, Ivan,
Baby Joe; Aiyanna, Madison
and Little Brian.
We will dearly miss her
loving touch, her gentle yet
reassuring guidance and her
quiet vocal support for our
sons, daughters, grandkids
achievements; and more
importantly her love of
her husband, their children
and their grandchildren’s
children.
OBITUARY POLICY
igrant Ave., Pendleton. (541-966-
0201)
STANFIELD CITY COUNCIL,
7 p.m., Stanfield City Hall council
chambers, 160 S. Main St., Stan-
field. (541-449-3831)
EAST UMATILLA COUNTY
HEALTH DISTRICT, 7 p.m., dis-
trict office, 431 E. Main St., Athe-
na. (541-566-3813)
OREGON TRAIL LIBRARY
DISTRICT, 7 p.m., Oregon Trail
Library District office, 200 S.
Main St., Boardman. (541-481-
3365)
PILOT ROCK CITY COUN-
CIL, 7 p.m., Pilot Rock City Hall
council chambers, 143 W. Main
St., Pilot Rock. (541-443-2811)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21
MORROW COUNTY BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m.,
SAGE Center, 101 Olson Road,
Boardman. (541-676-9061)
BOARDMAN
PLANNING
COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Board-
man City Hall, 200 City Center
Circle, Boardman. (541-481-
9252)
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