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INSIDE: 102/65 MARINERS WIN THIRD STRAIGHT YOUR GUIDE TO FARM-CITY PRO RODEO SPORTS/1B WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2017 141st Year, No. 207 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD STANFIELD City holds fi rst National Night Out in 13 years Free barbecue, games draw crowds to Bard Park By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Umatilla County Fire District 1 assistant volunteer chief Eldon Marcum fl ips hamburgers while cooking food at the National Night Out party on Tuesday in Stanfi eld. If one of the purposes of National Night Out is to encourage people to meet their neighbors, Stanfi eld residents had a chance to meet a good percentage of the town on Tuesday. The promise of free food and abun- dant prizes drew a large crowd to Bard Park, where residents mingled with police, fi refi ghters and city offi cials over free hot dogs and hamburgers. National Night Out is an annual nationwide campaign to get people out to meet their neighbors and emergency personnel, especially law enforcement. On Tuesday, Umatilla County Fire District was doing double duty between events in Hermiston and Stanfi eld, while Stanfi eld Police Department was splitting three offi cers between the Echo and Stanfi eld events. Offi cer Tristan Walker was getting the Stanfi eld event rolling while Chief Bryon Zumwalt started things out in Echo. Walker said it was the fi rst time in 13 years that Stanfi eld held a National Night Out event. The department felt now was the right time to bring the feel- good event back in conjunction with starting a new, proactive community relations offi cer position. “We have a really good department, More inside For story and photos from Pendleton’s National Night Out See Page 3A really good camaraderie, and we wanted to get out in the public and show that,” Walker said. He said it’s good for people to get to know both their police department and the people in their community, so that in an emergency the people they are asking for help aren’t strangers. Although the police department planned the event, personnel from the See STANFIELD/8A PENDLETON Stranded without a home Couple in ‘survival mode’ after trailer fi re By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Twelve days after their motor home caught fi re in Pendleton, Pete and Joy Goubeaud remain stranded and homeless in an unfamiliar city. The retired couple from northern Idaho set up camp for now in an empty, sun-baked lot between Safeway and Oxford Suites where they continue to sift through their charred belongings. Anything that can be salvaged is laid out on a tarp, though nearly everything they owned was destroyed in the blaze. “We’re not even focused on what we lost,” said Joy Goubeaud as she sat beneath a canopy to avoid the sweltering afternoon heat. “It’s more how in the heck do we survive.” While technically residents of Priest River, Idaho, the Goubeauds sold their house about two years ago to become full-time RVers. It was a decision born out of neces- sity, with Joy needing to visit her elderly mother in Florida and Pete no longer able to do the heavy, physical work it takes to make it in an Idaho timber town. Together, they traveled across the country to take care of Joy’s mother and visit friends in New England before making their way back west. The plan was to travel to the Pacifi c Ocean before eventually circling back around to Idaho, where they would take care of some business at home. That plan hit a major snag after Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pete Goubeaud looks through a bag of salvaged banjo strings in a car trailer on Tuesday in Pendleton, surrounded by other items sal- vaged from his burned-out motor home. Goubeaud and his wife, Joy, were traveling though town on July 21 when the couple’s motor home caught fi re leaving them stranded. arriving in Pendleton. On July 21, the Goubeauds were heading toward the interstate on Southwest Emigrant Avenue when a fi re erupted in the engine compartment of their RV. Firefi ghters still don’t know exactly what happened, but Joy and Pete suspect it had some- thing to do with the transmission wiring. Passersby called 9-1-1 and waved frantically to alert the Goubeauds to the trouble. They were able to get out of the vehicle unharmed, and while emergency crews arrived on scene shortly, it wasn’t enough to save the bulk of their possessions. Everything from their mattress to one of Pete’s vintage banjos now sits in the lot, blackened and ruined. “It’s like you’re in a whole other world,” Joy said. “You’re fi ghting for your life, almost.” Pete, a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran, compared it to being back See FIRE/8A HERMISTON Sisters act in award-winning 48 Hour Film Project By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian A pair of sisters from Hermiston helped create Portland’s winning submission to the 48 Hour Film Project. The annual contest gives fi lm- makers around the world a character, prop and line they must integrate into Cassa Frost their fi lm, which must be created Lacy Frost and produced within a 48-hour span after they draw a genre out of a hat. Isaac Trimble was putting together The best fi lm from each major city an all-American Indian team. They will be screened in Paris during the helped out behind the camera as 48HFP Filmapalooza in 2018, and production assistants and in front of the top 10 fi lms will be shown at the it, playing brief roles as crime scene prestigious Cannes Film Festival. investigators and murder victims in Lacy and Cassa Frost of Herm- the seven-minute silent fi lm called iston joined RedFawn at the last “Missing Indigenous.” minute, after hearing that team leader “They had me laying over a huge “It felt special. I felt honored to be a part of it.” — Lacy Frost, on working with an all-American Indian team boulder, covered me in fake blood and tore my clothes up, and Lacy was hanging upside-down in a tree,” Cassa said. Cassa said she has some acting experience in commercials, and hopes to eventually make a career in the industry. Lacy said she went along with Cassa for the experience. “I did it on a whim but it turned out really well and I had fun,” she said. The silent fi lm follows two detectives, played by Isaac Trimble and Solomon Trimble (who played Sam Uley in “Twilight”) as they work to solve the murder of a young American Indian woman but fi nd more victims along the way. The fi nal moments of the fi lm show a collage of missing posters and a line of text stating that American Indian women are 10 times as likely to be murdered as the rest of the popula- tion. The New York Times used that same fi gure in a 2012 article about the issue, citing Justice Department data. Lacy said she and Cassa were adopted in South Dakota and raised in Hermiston, not on a reservation, See FILM/8A
