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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,
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Pendleton’s National Night Out
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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
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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
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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,
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