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Saturday, November 25, 2017
East Oregonian
PENDLETON
Stockholders get special seat at Round-Up table
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Owning stock in the
Pendleton Round-Up has had
fluid definitions since it was
established in advance of the
inaugural rodeo more than a
century ago. What began as a
fundraiser has evolved into an
opportunity for the layman to
play a role in the Round-Up’s
decision making process.
The stockholders flexed
their authority Tuesday,
where they not only offered
an alternative candidate to the
Round-Up Board of Direc-
tors’ pick for president, they
nearly got him elected.
According to “Round-Up
at 100: Oregon’s Legendary
Rodeo,” the Northwestern
Frontier Celebration Asso-
ciation, the precursor to the
Round-Up Association, origi-
nally issued $5,000 in stock at
$10 per share in 1910 to cover
the rodeo’s $2,860 budget.
With the Round-Up’s
budget now in seven-figure
territory and the shares still
$10, the modern-day stocks
are used for a seat at the table
during the Round-Up’s annual
stockholder meeting rather
than a fundraising tactic.
Besides an opportunity
for the board to share infor-
mation on the association’s
financial status and the future
of the rodeo, the stockholder
meeting gives the Round-Up’s
most dedicated volunteers
and fans a chance to ratify the
president of the board.
While the other 16
positions on the board are
decided in private among the
board members, the president
needs to be approved by the
stockholders before they can
take their seat. It’s usually a
perfunctory process — the
stockholders ratify the board’s
pick for president by voice
vote — but the 2017 meeting
saw a group of stockholders
nominate former director
Carl Culham to run against
EO file photo
2018 Round-Up Board of Directors
President ........................................Dave O’Neill
Competitive Events ..................... Nick Sirovatka
Arena ................................................Berk Davis
Hay and Barns ............................... Bob Rosselle
Indians ............................................. Rob Collins
Publicity ..................................... Randy Thomas
Parades ......................................Randy Leonard
Let ’Er Buck Room ..................... Mike Ledbetter
Livestock .................................... Randy Bracher
Queen & Court .................................Justin Terry
Grounds .............................................Tim Smith
Concessions ................................... Tim Bennett
Office ......................................... Jason Graybeal
Sponsors ....................................... Tiah DeGrofft
Programs & Ushers........................ Rob Burnside
Room 17/Medical ...........................Brad Adams
Security ........................................... Karl Farber
former director Dave O’Neill,
the board’s choice. O’Neill
ultimately won the presidency
by 12 votes.
Although there were 444
invitations sent out for Tues-
day’s stockholder meeting,
Publicity Director Randy
Thomas said it’s difficult to
ascertain the exact number
of stockholders because the
association hasn’t confirmed
what some deceased members
have done with their stocks.
Like other types of stocks,
Round-Up shares can be
bequeathed in a will or transfer
owners. If a stockholder can’t
make a meeting, they can
assign another person to act
as their representative and
vote by proxy. All told, 226
ballots were cast in Tuesday’s
election.
While there are literally
hundreds of stockholders,
becoming one isn’t an easy
task.
Thomas said there are 10
shares offered each year, but
a person applying for stock
would have to contend with a
waiting list that includes more
than 100 people. And even if a
person waits their way into the
top 10, it’s not a guarantee that
they’ll become a stockholder.
If a new director isn’t
already a stockholder by the
time they are elected to the
board, they will automatically
be awarded stock over the
other people on the waiting
list.
New members or not,
all stockholders will get a
chance to provide input on the
Round-Up again sooner than
expected. While the board
shared the Round-Up’s 2015
and 2016 financial statements,
the 2017 statement will be
released to stockholders at a
special February meeting.
STANFIELD
Flight from cop lands driver in cold water
East Oregonian
Daryl Scott Frederickson,
40, of Umatilla was just
trying to get home for
Thanksgiving,
Stanfield
police reported, but he tried
to ditch an officer and ended
up in jail.
Stanfield Police Chief
Bryon Zumwalt in a written
statement said the pursuit
began around 1 a.m. when
Stanfield
officer
Cody
Marcum tried to stop a car
for an improper lane change
and noticed the license plate
didn’t match the make and
model. The driver sped up to
get away, Zumwalt reported,
slid around a corner before
regaining control, blew past a
stop sign and almost crashed
into a yard.
He continued before
losing control again on a
corner, going through a
fence, down an embankment
and into a water-filled ditch
near North Ash Road west
of South Edwards Road.
Zumwalt stated the chase
lasted all of a minute.
“Not about to give up
at this point,” Zumwalt
continued, “the driver fled on
foot and hid in some bushes
where the police found him a
short time later.”
Oregon State Police
and the Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office assisted
at the scene. Police asked
Frederickson why he tried to
run. His answer, according
to Zumwalt: He was trying
to make it home for Thanks-
giving.
Good Shepherd Medical
Center, Hermiston, treated
Fredrickson for minor inju-
ries before police booked him
into the Umatilla County Jail,
Pendleton, on the following
charges: attempting to elude
the police in a vehicle and
on foot, reckless driving,
second-degree
criminal
mischief, property hit and
run, interfering with a police
officer, and a warrant for a
probation violation.
Frederickson has more
than 45 arrests in his history,
Zumwalt reported. The
chase and catch comes after
the small department made
arrests Nov. 17 in a theft case
involving tools worth $8,700
and Tuesday’s capture of a
double-murder suspect out of
Idaho.
Umatilla County
Health seeks partners
for Year of Wellness
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Bill Quesenberry gives a prepared speech after being voted in as the new president
of the Pendleton Round-Up during the 2014 stockholders meeting at the Let’er Buck
Room in Pendleton.
Photo courtesy Stanfield Police Department
Daryl Scott Frederickson, 40, of Umatilla crashed into
a ditch in Stanfield after being pursued by police on
Wednesday.
Chase in Morrow County
The Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office the day
prior had a high-speed chase
that ended with an arrest at
gunpoint.
The sheriff’s office in a
written statement reported a
citizen at 8:53 a.m. Tuesday
told a deputy that Angelique
Lanae Kettlewell, 24, of
Irrigon, who had arrest
warrants, was at the Shell
convenience mart, Irrigon,
and left with Lawrence Allen
Perrin, 41, also of Irrigon, in
a green sport utility vehicle
toward Umatilla.
Sheriff Ken Matlack about
five minutes later saw the car
heading east on Highway
730 and tried to make a stop,
the sheriff’s office reported,
but the driver hit the gas.
TRI-CITIES
The vehicle reached 80 mph
and began passing vehicles.
Before long, according to the
statement, the vehicle neared
Umatilla at more than 105
mph.
Umatilla police tried to
spike the vehicle’s tires, but
the driver swerved, avoided
the trap and turned right onto
Powerline Road and accel-
erated. The sheriff’s office
reported the driver “narrowly
missed” a Umatilla resident
and a moment later lost
control, spun in the road
and almost rolled before
stopping on an embankment.
The driver tried backing up
but the car was stuck in soft
dirt.
“The driver began making
suspicious movements with
his hands,” according to the
sheriff’s office, and deputies
and Umatilla police took him
out of the car at gunpoint.
The
sheriff’s
office
arrested the driver, Perrin,
for felony attempt to elude,
misdemeanor driving while
suspended, reckless driving
and exceeding more than
100 mph. And deputies
arrested
Kettlewell
on
multiple warrants.
Perrin has a criminal
history and convictions going
back to at 1995, according to
state court records, including
when he tried to get away
from the sheriff’s office
during a chase in January
2016. That led to six months
in jail for attempting to elude
a police officer and reckless
endangering.
Umatilla County Health
Department aims to make
the county a healthier place
to live with a Year of Well-
ness.
Jim
Setzer,
health department
director, described
the program to the
board of county
commissioners
Wednesday
in
Pendleton as a
series of month-
to-month themes
and activities to Setzer
promote healthier
living.
The program is one of the
department’s major efforts
of the coming year, he said,
and part of an overall shift
from strictly providing
services to individuals to
making Umatilla County “a
place where it’s easy to be
healthy.”
Doing so will take
outreach, money and help
from community partners
— and not just the hospitals
and clinics. Setzer said the
county will need to connect
with businesses and institu-
tions “that have a role in and
a vested interest in making
Umatilla County a healthier
place.”
Tillamook County in
2016 implemented a Year
of Wellness program and
received contributions from
health centers and clinics,
as well as from local farms,
Fred Meyer and the Tilla-
mook County Creamery
Association.
Tillamook
County formed a task force,
several subcommittees and
a variety of events
and
materials
to
encourage
wellness,
from
yoga classes to
healthier recipes.
The
program
continues to this
day.
Setzer said this
was an opportu-
nity for Umatilla
County
Health
Department to broaden its
partnerships as well.
County
employees,
however, cannot solicit
donations without the
approval of the board of
commissioners.
Setzer
said the program will need
in-kind and cash donations
and asked the board for the
OK.
Murdock said this not
like “bake sales and car
washes” but closer to grants
from organizations that
could benefit from healthier
employees and residents.
Setzer concurred and
added there is no budget
yet, but the fundraising
goal would be $20,000-
$25,000. The board of
commissioners voted 3-0
to allow employees to seek
donations for the project.
HERMISTON
City council to consider
enterprise zone expansion
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The Hermiston City
Council will consider an
expansion to the city’s
enterprise zone Monday.
The Hermiston Enter-
prise Zone — which staff
recommend renaming the
“Greater Hermiston Enter-
prise Zone” — gives certain
types of companies a three-
to five-year exemption
from property taxes on new
buildings and equipment if
those capital investments
result in at least a 10 percent
increase in employees. The
council will be asked to
consider expanding the
zone to industrial land
outside city limits near the
intersection of Interstate 84
and Interstate 82.
According to informa-
tion in the council’s agenda
packet, the enterprise zone
has been an “extremely
valuable incentive” that
has been “directly involved
in attracting $83 million
of new capital investment,
362 new jobs, and total new
annual cash payroll of $9.65
million from 2008 through
the end of 2016.”
The zone has been
expanded outside city limits
before, including the prop-
erty where Shearer’s Foods
now sits, when a company
was considering investment
in the property. Umatilla
County, a co-sponsor of the
site, would also have to sign
off on the new expansion.
On Monday the council
will also consider approval
of a $1.5 million construc-
tion contract with Stettler
Supply Company for dewa-
tering equipment at the
Recycled Water Treatment
Plant. The city received
four bids, all below the city
engineer’s estimate of $1.79
million. The equipment will
allow the city to dispose of
solids from the plant more
effectively and at a lower
cost.
The council meets
Monday at 7 p.m. at city
hall, 180 N.E. Second St. in
Hermiston.
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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