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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017
142nd Year, No. 37
WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
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Your Weekend
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Holiday Stroll through
downtown Pendleton
Author David Dorfmeier
at Pendleton library
Rudolph Run fundraiser
in Umatilla
For times and places
see Coming Events, 10A
Weekend Weather
Fri
Sat
Sun
33/20
34/19
34/18
Watch a game
vs.
Walla Walla vs. Pendleton
Friday, 7 p.m., at Pendleton
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Veterans Mark Jaeger, left, and Sean Degan look at a World War II-era copy of the Oregon Journal at the Pendleton Air Museum on
Thursday.
Wasco
County
calls for
probe of
NORCOR
A day of
infamy
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Pendleton Air Museum, veterans
recall Pearl Harbor attack
Wasco County Board of
Commissioners is demanding
swift action after a report
claims the juvenile jail in The
Dalles mistreats youth.
Wasco County commis-
sioners Rod Runyon, Scott
Hege and Steve Kramer each
signed a letter Wednesday
urging the board of directors
for the Northern Oregon
Regional
Correctional
Facility to immediately
convene an emergency
meeting to discuss the 37-page
report from Disability Rights
Oregon and to hand over
control and administration of
the juvenile detention facility
to an oversight committee.
Sarah Radcliffe, attorney
for Disability Rights Oregon,
created the report, “Don’t
Look Around: A Window
into Inhumane Conditions for
Youth at NORCOR,” based
on visits to the juvenile jail
See NORCOR/10A
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The U.S. Army uniform of Pendleton author Dorys
Grover sits on display at the Pendleton Air Museum.
Grover worked for the Army at the Pendleton Airbase.
The generation of American soldiers
who fought during World War II is
quickly vanishing. According to the
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs,
only 3 percent of the 16 million Amer-
icans who served in World War II are
still alive
There may not be many World War
II veterans left to tell their story, but the
reverberations of Dec. 7, 1941, were
still felt Thursday by the people at the
Pendleton Air Museum.
In honor of National Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day, the museum
hosted several veterans among its
collection of memorabilia from the
World War II-era Pendleton Airbase.
Desert Storm veteran Mark Jaeger
had brought an article about his grand-
father, Cal Butler. According to Jaeger,
Butler was at home in Redmond when
he got the shocking call that Japan had
just bombed Pearl Harbor. Already a
member of the Army Air Corps, Butler
acted as a fl ight instructor for other
pilots.
After Butler returned home, Jaeger
recalled staying at his grandfather’s
house and excitedly looking at pictures
of old planes. Butler’s love of aviation
was passed on to his grandson and
eventually inspired Jaeger to join the
Air Force, serving from 1991 to 1997.
See PEARL HARBOR/10A
HERMISTON
Carols and lights usher in Christmas downtown
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The temperature outside
was frightful, but the choir
was still delightful during
Hermiston’s annual tree-
lighting festival downtown
on Thursday.
Cori
Applegate,
a
teacher at Armand Larive
Middle School, braved the
cold specifi cally to hear
Hermiston High School’s a
cappella jazz choir Majazzty
(pronounced “majesty”) sing
before Santa Claus arrived
to throw the switch for the
40-foot Christmas tree just
down the street from city
hall.
“I have a lot of past
students that sing and I like
to support them when they’re
doing something fun,” she
said.
The festival tied in with
the Hermiston Downtown
District’s First Thursday
event for December, which
drew some of the attendees
into Main Street businesses
with special deals and enter-
tainment, but Applegate said
she was waiting until after
the choir was fi nished to take
a peek at what the businesses
had to offer.
On the other side of the
massive tree, Rebecca LaBell
was warming herself by one
of the metal fi re pits set up
to add some break from the
cold. She said she and her
daughter came down to the
city-sponsored event because
they enjoy any excuse to get
out of the house and mingle.
“We come to almost
everything they have,” she
See CHRISTMAS/10A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Santa Claus, a.k.a. Hermiston city councilor Doug Primer, waves to the crowd
after arriving at the tree-lighting festival on Thursday in Hermiston.