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Pendleton Whisky sold for $205M
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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
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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
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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
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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
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opponent of Nakapalau
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
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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).