PILOT ROCK — Police offi cer Daniel Badal received
a nod of recognition for saving a life.
Police Chief Bill Caldera during the city council
meeting Tuesday night shared a letter he received from
Michael Kaulback, nurse at St. Anthony Hospital’s
emergency department in Pendleton.
Badal on Aug. 18 performed CPR on a man then
rushed him to the emergency department, according to
the letter.
“Consequently, when the patient got to us he had a
pulse,” Kaulback stated in the letter. “We were able to
stabilize the patient who subsequently walked out of out
facility the next day. ... Please pass on our heartfelt thanks
to Offi cer Badal.”
Steve Hardin, the manager of emergency department,
wrote that Badal is a “true asset to our community and
your department.” Caldera told the council he would
issue a commendation to Badal.
“He puts the city in a favorable light with a lot of
people,” Caldera said.
Dance class introduces Arizona 2-Step
PENDLETON — A new dance suitable for small
dance fl oors is coming to Pendleton. Pendleton Parks and
Recreation is offering a class for ages 18 and up to learn
the new steps beginning Oct. 3 at the Vert Auditorium,
480 S.W. Dorion Ave.
The Arizona 2-Step stays mostly in one place, but is
loaded with turns and patterns. The class will teach simple
steps, how to lead and follow, and what to listen for in
the music to gain confi dence and have fun. The class
meets from 7:30-8:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Oct. 3 and
continuing for four weeks. Cost to participate is $24, and
no prior dance experience or partner are necessary. Wear
shoes that accommodate turning steps.
Prior to the new class, an East Coast Swing and 4-Step
Swing class will meet from 6:15-7:15 p.m. This class also
meets Tuesdays beginning Oct. 3 and continues for four
weeks.
Registration for the dance classes is required by Sept.
27. Call the parks and rec offi ce at 541-276-8100 or visit
the offi ce at 875 Tutuilla Road.
Domestic Violence Services shares
donation wish list
With National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
just around the corner, people are invited to assist the local
organization by donating items on their wish list.
The nonprofi t organization provides shelter, meals
and support services for victims of domestic/sexual
violence in Umatilla and Morrow counties. A variety of
food, personal hygiene items and household supplies are
needed. For a specifi c list, visit the organization’s website.
The group isn’t currently accepting used clothing, but
is always in need of new packages of socks, underwear,
sweats, pajamas, slippers and shoes. In addition, monetary
donations are accepted. Donations are tax-deductible.
Domestic Violence Services has shelters in Hermiston
and Pendleton. The nonprofi t organization provides help
to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. In
addition to the shelters, the agency provides a 24-hour
crisis line, safety planning, peer support and referrals for
temporary emergency shelter for adult males.
Donations can be dropped off at Domestic Violence
Services offi ces in Pendleton and Hermiston during
business hours. For directions, or to make donation
arrangements, call 541-276-3322. For more about the
organization, visit www.domestic violenceservices-or.org.
Dance team holds fundraiser
PENDLETON — Rhythmic Mode, Pendleton High
School’s award-winning dance team, is holding a can and
bottle drive to raise funds for the group.
Dance team members will be at Roy Raley Park, 1205
S.W. Court Ave., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. to collect
returnable bottles and cans. Those who are unable to bring
donations to the park may call 541-377-0675 to arrange
pick-ups from homes and businesses.
For more information, contact Lora Franks at 541-377-
0675.
SUBMIT COMMUNITY NEWS
Submit information to: community@eastoregonian.
com or drop off to the attention of Tammy Malgesini at
333 E. Main St., Hermiston or Renee Struthers at 211
S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton. Call 541-564-4539 or 541-
966-0818 with questions.
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circulated a survey that asked
downtown business owners
questions about parking
habits and enforcement.
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received 37 responses, a 15.7
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The Pendleton Downtown
Association and the Pendleton
Development Commission
studied downtown parking
for months. They concluded
there are issues, but fi nding a
parking spot isn’t one of them.
Charles Denight, the
development commission’s
associate director, and Molly
Turner, the downtown asso-
ciation’s executive director,
presented their fi ndings to
the commission at a meeting
Tuesday.
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and
Turner
observed the 311 public
parking spaces and the 339
on-street parking spaces
between Southeast First
Street and Southwest First
Street, Umatilla River to rail-
road, twice a day for ten days
straight in March and August.
They found that the overall
average of vacant parking
spaces never dipped below
50 percent. The six public
parking lots near Main Street
were especially empty — the
vacancy average often crept
toward 70 percent.
“We have a perception of
a parking problem but we do
not have a parking problem.
... People perceive it to be a
problem if they can’t park in
front of the store they want to
visit or the restaurant where
they want to go dining,”
Denight said. “If they have to
walk a half a block, there’s a
parking problem. ... In larger
cities, that would be perceived
as not a problem.”
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PENDLETON — Doug Webb of Pendleton died
Wednesday after crashing his bicycle.
Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts reported the
cause of the crash remains unknown.
Pendleton medics and police at about 1 p.m. responded
to Northwest 12th Street and Despain Avenue for a man
in the intersection who had head trauma and was uncon-
scious. Roberts said an eyewitness reported there were no
vehicles on the street at the time, and Webb fractured his
skull and pelvis in the crash.
“Based on outcome, I suspect the cause (of the
accident) was medical,” Roberts said in an email.
The LifeFlight helicopter ambulance was fl ying Webb
to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, Portland,
but Roberts said Webb went into “full cardiac arrest” en
route. Larry Blanc, spokesman for St. Anthony Hospital,
Pendleton, said the helicopter instead brought Webb to the
hospital’s emergency department, where he died.
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HERMISTON — A Hermiston teacher has been recog-
nized by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
Robert Doherty, a science teacher at Armand Larive
Middle School, has been given the Outstanding Earth
Science Teacher Award for the Pacifi c Northwest region,
a nod to his exceptional efforts
teaching earth sciences at the middle
school. Doherty will attend an annual
meeting with other award winners,
where he will talk with other science
teachers and geoscientists.
“Mr. Doherty is a great example of
the type of teaching happening in our
schools,” said interim Superintendent
Tricia Mooney. “I am not at all
surprised by this recognition.”
Doherty
Doherty is also the advisor for
Armand Larive TV, where students
produce their own monthly news show. He recently
led fi ve students from the program on an expedition to
Warm Springs, where they reported on the total solar
eclipse on Aug. 21. They live-streamed coverage that
morning, and a complete show featuring the eclipse
will be available this month.
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of the owners surveyed said
they’ve received complaints
about parking shortages and
20.6 percent of those respon-
dents reported receiving fi ve
or more complaints from
customers in the last month.
According to Denight and
Turner, the city still needs to
fi nd a way to relocate cars,
including those that belong
to local business owners and
employees, from on-street
parking to public parking
lots. But given the results of
the parking survey, Mayor
John Turner needed more
convincing.
“I’m kind of having a
hard time seeing a sense of
urgency or outrage on the
part of downtown residents
and merchants,” he said.
“You’re going to get a pretty
low turnout for these types
of surveys, so that’s not
surprising. But I see a lot of
people who don’t want to
have enforcement and don’t
really see a huge problem.”
Molly Turner disagreed,
countering that the return
rate was actually relatively
high for a survey of its kind.
“The fact that a large
portion of people were in
favor of enforcement also
suggests that people want
to see something done,” she
said.
Denight said the city
could start enforcing parking
laws and citing people, but
didn’t want that to be the fi rst
resort.
“Personally, I hope we can
start with the carrot approach
before we move on to the
stick approach,” he said.
Denight said a brand
for Pendleton’s parking
program needed to be
created that could “capture
the public’s imagination.”
He said Susan Christensen,
executive director of the
Greater Eastern Oregon
Development Corp., has
worked on parking studies
in Portland and Bend and
would be willing to work
with the commission on a
communication campaign.
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Contact Antonio Sierra at
asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
One less health insurance company for Eastern Oregon
New plans coming to insurance marketplace
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
In 2018, Eastern Oregon
counties will be down to two
insurance options through
HealthCare.gov.
Moda Health and Prov-
idence Health Plan will
continue offering plans on
the health insurance market-
place to almost all counties,
according to information
from the Oregon Department
of Consumer and Business
Services, while Bridgespan
Health Co. will drop out of
most of the state.
The department’s table of
county-by-county coverage
for 2018 shows Bridgespan
will remain in the marketplace
in just three urban counties —
Clackamas, Multnomah and
Washington. The Oregonian
in June reported Regence
BlueCross BlueShield and its
affi liate Bridgespan started
informing customers that
due to market uncertainty
they would pull out of most
counties in 2018.
Elizabeth Cronen, spokes-
person for the Oregon Health
Insurance
Marketplace,
said Moda and Providence
will also sell 2018 plans in
Umatilla and Morrow coun-
ties outside of HealthCare.
gov, as will Health Net,
Regence and Bridgespan.
That’s two carriers on the
exchange and fi ve carriers in
the off-exchange market for
Umatilla and Morrow coun-
ties and the rest of Eastern
Oregon.
Cronen also said fi nancial
assistance is available only on
the exchange, and she noted
the number of carriers are not
the same as the number of
plans available.
“Carriers offer multiple
plans to choose from,”
she said in an email. “On
exchange, they usually offer
at least three different plans.”
Josh Goller said that’s the
upshot of the exchange in
2018. He’s the benefi t depart-
ment manager with Simmons
Insurance Group, Hermiston.
“We do have some new
plans that weren’t available
last year,” he said.
The health insurance
marketplace in Oregon has
offered the state’s standard-
ized bronze, silver and gold
plans, he said, but starting in
2018 the options expand with
a few more plans.
Goller also encouraged
anyone
with
insurance
through HealthCare.gov to
double check to see if their
plan changes next year. Under
the state’s rollover process, he
said, “they may get stuck with
a plan that’s not what they
wanted.”
Open enrollment via
Healthcare.gov begins Nov.
1 and ends Dec. 15. After
that, however, according to
the Oregon Health Insurance
Marketplace, you still can buy
a health plan if you qualify for
a special enrollment period.
Plans sold during open
enrollment go into effect Jan.
1, 2018.
The state’s marketplace
website also reported previews
of plans and prices will be
available shortly before open
enrollment commences.
For more information, visit
healthcare.oregon.gov.
COMING EVENTS
For a complete listing
of regional events, visit
easternoregonevents.com
FRIDAY, SEPT. 22
HEPPNER FARMERS MAR-
KET, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Heppner City
Park, 444 N. Main St., Heppner.
Local produce, crafts, baked goods
and more. (Don or Jo Ann Shan-
non 541-676-8957)
WELCOME HOME VETER-
ANS, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Walla Walla
VA Medical Center, 77 Wainwright
Drive, Walla Walla. Veterans infor-
mation, public job fair, unveiling of
interpretive panels on VA campus,
Buffalo Soldiers of Seattle, break-
fast bagels, car show ‘n’ shine and
more. Free. (Linda Wondra 509-
525-5200 ext. 26520)
STORY TIME, 10:15 a.m.,
Hermiston Public Library, 235 E.
Gladys Ave., Hermiston. (541-567-
2882)
PENDLETON
FARMERS
MARKET, 4-7 p.m., 300 block,
South Main Street, Pendleton. Lo-
cal produce, baked goods, crafts,
jewelry, live music, food vendors
and more. (Cheryl Montgomery
541-969-9466)
VFW BINGO, 6 p.m., Hermis-
ton VFW, 45 W. Cherry St., Herm-
iston. Doors open at 6 p.m., games
begin at 7 p.m. Everyone welcome.
(541-567-6219)
SAGE
CENTER
MOVIE
EVENT, 7:15 p.m., SAGE Center,
101 Olson Road, Boardman. Enjoy
“Captain Underpants” and popcorn
with $3 admission. Bottled water
will be available for cash purchase.
All ages. (Stefanie Swindler 541-
481-7243)
SATURDAY, SEPT. 23
RHYTHMIC MODE CAN &
BOTTLE DRIVE, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.,
Roy Raley Park, 1205 S.W. Court
Ave., Pendleton. Drop off return-
able bottles and cans from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m., or call or text 541-377-0675
before noon on Saturday for pick-
up. (Lora Franks 541-377-0675)
L’IL BUCKS OPEN GYM, 8:30
a.m., Pendleton Recreation Center,
510 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton.
For students in fi rst-third grades.
HERMISTON
FARMERS
MARKET, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Festival
Plaza, Northeast Second Street
and Main, Hermiston. Local pro-
duce, baked goods, crafts, jewelry,
art, live music, food vendors and
more.
POW POKER BIKE RIDE,
9-11:30 a.m., Chamber of Com-
merce Parking Lot, 108 S.W.
Frazer Ave., Pendleton. Bike riding
season is almost over. Join us for a
fun Poker Ride. Bring $5 to enter.
(Christine 734-755-7034)
PENDLETON
JR.
LIVE-
STOCK SHOW AND AUCTION,
9 a.m., Pendleton Round-Up
Grounds Pavilion, 1205 S.W. Court
Ave., Pendleton. Livestock show
for steers, lambs and hogs begins
at 9 a.m., auction starts at 6 p.m.
All purchases tax deductible; pro-
ceeds benefi t 4-H and FFA youth.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS
WASTE COLLECTION DAY, 9
a.m.-2 p.m., Humbert Refuse &
Recycling, 54841 Highway 332,
Milton-Freewater. Bring household
hazardous waste such as aero-
sol cans, paint, engine cleaners,
fl uorescent bulbs, motor oil, pes-
ticides, solvents, batteries, mer-
cury thermometers and more for
free disposal. Explosives, sharps,
ammunition and products con-
taining radiation (such as smoke
detectors) will NOT be accepted.
Small businesses and farms may
dispose of their hazardous waste
for a fee (pre-registration required).
(971-401-0367)
FREE FOR ALL, 9:30-10:15
a.m., Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St., Pendleton.
Free art classes for children up to
age 12. Children under 8 should be
accompanied by an adult. (Roberta
Lavadour 541-278-9201)
YARN CLUB, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.,
Hermiston Public Library, 235 E.
Gladys Ave., Hermiston. (541-567-
2882)
PEACE POLE DEDICATION,
10 a.m., Umatilla County Fire Dis-
trict Station 24, 285 W. Coe Ave.,
Stanfi eld. Members of the Umatilla
County Fire District and Hermiston
Rotary will dedicate the peace pole
inscribed in four languages, includ-
ing representatives of each of the
languages. Everyone welcome.
HIP & HANDMADE, 11 a.m.-
12 p.m., Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St., Pendle-
ton. Free drop-in project class for
adults. (Roberta Lavadour 541-
278-9201)
SAGE
CENTER
MOVIE
EVENT, 2:15 p.m., SAGE Center,
101 Olson Road, Boardman. Enjoy
“Captain Underpants” and popcorn
with $3 admission. Bottled water
will be available for cash purchase.
All ages. (Stefanie Swindler 541-
481-7243)
FIDDLER’S NIGHT, 6:30-8:30
p.m., Brookdale Assisted Living,
980 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston.
Join the jam session, or just listen.
Light refreshments included. (Lau-
ra Mecham 541-567-3141)
SUNDAY, SEPT. 24
TAI CHI: MOVING FOR BET-
TER BALANCE, 9-9:45 a.m.,
Good Shepherd Wellness Center,
610 N.W. 11th St., Hermiston. Im-
prove balance, increase fl exibility
and strengthen core muscles. Par-
ticipants should wear comfortable
clothing and shoes with fl exible
soles. Can be performed standing
or sitting. Class size capped at 15;
registration required. (Lynda Carra-
her 541-922-4203)
TOT TIME, 10 a.m., Pendle-
ton Recreation Center, 510 S.W.
Dorion Ave., Pendleton. For chil-
dren ages 0-5.
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME,
10:30 a.m., Athena Public Library,
418 E. Main St., Athena. For ages
birth to 6. (541-566-2470)
PENDLETON SENIOR MEAL
SERVICE, 12-1 p.m., Pendle-
ton Senior Center, 510 S.W. 10th
St., Pendleton. Costs $3.50 or
$6 for those under 60. Pool, puz-
zles, crafts, snacks, Second Time
Around thrift store 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For Meals On Wheels, call 541-
276-1926. (541-276-7101)
CAN AND BOTTLE DRIVE,
10 a.m.-4 p.m., former PGG park-
ing lot, 1000 S.W. Dorion Ave.,
Pendleton. Drop off your redeem-
able bottles and cans and support
the Pendleton Pathfi nder Club for
their 2019 Chosen International
Pathfi nder Camporee trip.
CASON’S PLACE OPEN
HOUSE, 2-4 p.m., Cason’s Place
Grief Support Center, 1416 S.E.
Court Ave., Pendleton. See the
various rooms devoted to support-
ing children, teens and families
who have lost a loved one. Free.
(541-612-0828)
KBLU CITIZENS ADVISO-
RY GROUP, 3 p.m., Pridogal Son
Brewery & Pub, 230 S.E. Court
Ave., Pendleton. Share ideas on
format of Pendleton area’s newest
radio station. (Vickie or Gary 541-
566-2744 or 541-566-0131)
ADULT OPEN GYM, 6:30
p.m., Pendleton Recreation Cen-
ter, 510 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pend-
leton. Half-court basketball. Adults
only.
MONDAY, SEPT. 25
Eagle Cap Excursion Train
Ride the train this October!
Gold Rush Bandits, Oct. 7 & 14
End of Season ride, Oct. 21
Departs at 10 a.m.
Lunch included.
Book online, eaglecaptrainrides.com or call 800.323.7330