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WHAT IS FCC VOTES A SERVICE TO END ‘NET ANIMAL? NEUTRALITY’ REGION/3A ALL-EO PLAYER OF THE YEAR NATION/6A SPORTS/1B FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 142nd Year, No. 42 Your Weekend Pendleton Whisky sold for $205M East Oregonian • • • Pancakes with Santa in Hermiston Ice skating with Santa in Pendleton Inland Northwest Musicians concert One dollar WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD The Pendleton Round-Up’s branded whisky has been sold to a Mexican liquor conglomerate for $205 million. Becle, S.A.B. de C.B., the parent company of the Jose Cuervo line of tequilas, announced the purchase of the Pendleton Whisky brand from Hood River Distillers on Thursday. According to a press release, Pendleton is just one of a growing number of brands under the Mexi- co-based company’s umbrella. “The Pendleton Whisky brand will fi ll an important strategic position in our portfolio,” said Mark Teasdale, president and CEO of Proximo Spirits, the American subsidiary of Becle. “We expect to build on the remarkable success of Pendleton using our resources as a full-service, global spirits company.” Round-Up Publicity Director Randy Thomas said the sale was a success story. “It’s a very positive thing for the Round-Up,” he said. Launched in 2003, Pendleton See WHISKY/8A PENDLETON For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Catch a movie Freshman Autumn Sax- ton, center, and Bella Baumgart- ner serve up salad and macaroni and cheese from the Pendleton High School culinary program’s food truck Wednesday in Pendleton. The culinary program uses the food truck to serve hot meals to guests once a week at the Pendle- ton Warming Station. Lucasfi lm via AP Space wizards wave some glow sticks around while a bunch of stuff explodes in the highly anticipated “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 36/31 40/31 46/41 Watch a game Staff photo by E.J. Harris vs. Putnam vs. Pendleton Friday, 7 p.m., at Pendleton STANFIELD Liscom to resign at end of year By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian PHS food truck ‘open for business’ Students serve meals at warming station By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian To better deal with temperatures dipping into the 20s Wednesday night, Kristin Swaggart and her two Pendleton High School volunteers wore jackets and beanies instead of their usual chef gear as they got ready to start serving food to the city’s homeless. Stanfi eld School District Superintendent Shelley Liscom announced her plans to resign at Wednesday’s school board meeting. She will stay through the end of the school year, serving her last day with the district June 15. Liscom sent an email message to district staff Thursday morning informing them of her decision. The trio was at work outside the Pendleton Warming Station in the state-of-the-art food truck recently purchased by “Chef K” and the school’s culinary arts program with a $100,000 grant from Farmers Insurance. The warming station is featured prominently in the culinary program’s plans to deploy its newly purchased food truck into the community and expand its fi eld operations. Some kinks were still being worked out: as freshman Autumn Saxton washed her hands before handling the food, water stopped fl owing out of the faucet. Saxton’s hands were thoroughly lathered by the time Swaggart was able to get the generator back online. The food truck was made possible by the grant from Farmers Insurance, which required an extended campaign from the PENDLETON teacher and Pendleton High School. Her food truck concept was one of the top vote getters in the country and when the prize was announced at a special ceremony in November 2016, students rushed Warburg Court. Swaggart acquired the truck over the summer, fully loaded with the type of equipment expected for a nationally competitive program. The truck’s appliances include an See PHS/8A ECHO Councilor confronted over criminal record Convicted of possessing child pornography since October, after the Echo councilor told Joe Wilson, a gay fi lmmaker The Echo City Council from Hawaii, that he would adopted a code of ethics spit on Wilson’s grave after and social media policy he died of AIDS and called on Thursday night, but Wilson an anti-gay slur on Facebook. Councilor Lou According to Nakapalau was court documents not there to cast obtained from his vote after Clark County, being confronted Washington, by before the the East Orego- meeting by a nian on Thursday member of the m o r n i n g , media about Nakapalau was documents found guilty in showing he had 2000 of nine previously been Nakapalau felony counts of convicted of possessing child pornog- possessing “a depiction of a minor engaged in raphy. Pam Reese, an Echo sexually explicit conduct.” business owner, said Sentencing records state Nakapalau showed up he was sentenced to early to the VFW hall 60 days custody in the where the meeting was county jail (52 served on being held, but walked work release) and was out without a word after a not allowed to possess a reporter from KVEW-TV personal computer during post-incarceration in the Tri-Cities asked him his supervision. about the documents. Reese has been a vocal See NAKAPALAU/8A opponent of Nakapalau By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian See LISCOM/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Mike and Gilda Ciraulo are the fi rst place winners of the classic residential decorating class of the Pendleton Christmas Lighting Contest with their home at 203 N.W. Ellis Ave. in Pendleton. Fire chief wins Christmas lighting contest East Oregonian Awards for the Pend- leton Christmas Lighting Contest were given in three categories following judging by the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce, who said there were a lot of really good displays, and some were tough decisions. For the business category, winners were Pendleton House Historic Inn (1), Calico Country Florist (2) and Bella Cosa (3). Classic residential decorating honors went to Mike and Gilda Ciraulo, 203 N.W. Ellis Ave. (1), Stu and Susie Clem, 539 N.W. 21st St. (2), and Michael and Jenny Corey, Northwest Ingram and North Main Street (3). For homes displaying contem- porary decorating themes, winners were 2040 S.W. Quinney Ave. (no name given - 1), Hunter Gray, 1819 S.W. 45th St. (2), and Hazel Dietz, 1906 S.W. 44h St. (3).