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Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
and Marissa
Linda Sampson
to help
Keysha Ashley,
during a fundraiser
Andria Scott,
fry bread tacos Bevis on Tuesday at Nixyaawii
Baumgarner make
expenses of Zoe
with the medical in Mission.
Community School
PENDLETON
Capitol
converge on
Two rallies
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Pendleton and the Blue Mountains glow as the sun sinks in the sky Monday evening.
avid supporter of
Alameda was an
Hill and Deadman the school’s athletic teams. Nixy-
club
between Cabbage
employees, the booster
Pass.
Sacred Heart aawii other members of the reservation
Zoe is at Providence
Several and
pulled together Tuesday
Center, Spokane.
fundraiser at the
and her Medical of her family are there community
to hold a lunch
members
Alameda Addison
died Sunday in a school gym for the Bevis family. out
Bevis were in
granddaughter Zoe night returning with her. Alameda She was 58.
wound
line for the meal along the
hospital.
The
Richland
the caravan Saturday
ip
Commu-
area and
the championsh
Zoe attends Nixyaawii Indian the concessions served around 200
to Pendleton after
game in
the Umatilla
They
into the
high school basketball
it nity School on Nixyaawii principal gym wall.
make
minutes
90
not
did
about
Reservation.
Baker City. They
was the only lunches Heinrich said people were
Heinrich said Zoe
event.
home.
were in was Ryan at the school who suffered
See CRASH/5A
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in multiple student injuries in the collisions.
serious
among the 20 involved
icy Interstate 84
crashes on an
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The rural advantage
hall
Pendleton old city ashes
EOU hopes to leverage new designation to grow enrollment, funding
restored from the
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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018
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HERMISTON
Police continu
Oegon State series of crashes on
that
the
investigate te near Pendleton
ay night.
the icy intersta
people Saturd injuries,
injured nine
d serious Ground
Five suffere
to state police.
victims
according
nces took
Pendleton
and air ambula
al
y Hospital,
to St. Anthon Regional Medic Lt.
East Oregonian
and Kadlec nd. State police said
Center, Richla in Pendleton
A
in
HERMISTON —
Mike Turner s in hospitals to
man died in an industrial
having victim adds another layer
of
accident southwest
different states investigation. try to
to
Hermiston on Tuesday
a complicated
of
continuing
morning, but much the
“We’re just together,” Turner
pieces
the information about to be
put all the
not
accident is still yet
said.
Police have
released.
Oregon State identities of the
Umatilla
has
the
a.m.,
11
ed
At
confirm Turner said OSP about
1
County Fire District
victims. media questions
no
officials were dispatched
received from the crash, but has
site on
to an industrial Road,
a fatality hospital involved
Cottonwood Bend facility
agency or any deaths. At this point,
have
Amazon
ed
an
not
where
confirm
police do
the
is being built.
he said, state that anyone died at
Battalion Chief Corey
information ard.
man
vehi-
Gorham said one
scene or afterw reported 20
an acci-
died as a result of confirm
State police semi-tractors and 13
ed.
not
did
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involv
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cles —
how
cars — were was not one
his name or exactly said
passenger
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he died. Gorham being
Turner explain but instead separa of
the incident is
large pile-up the westbound side 223,
investigated by Occupa-
crashes on 84 near milepost
Health
ton.
tional Safety and and he
Interstate
east of Pendle
Administration,
about 13 miles inary investigation
more
The prelim and black ice helped
couldn’t release any
it.
g in
E.J. Harris
Staff photo by
information about
revealed speed o effect resultin
the
Dispatchers on said
create a domin
ns.
in Pendleton.
collisio
ger
le
scanner
Harris
by E.J.
hall building Monday
the multip 6:20 p.m. a passen e emergency
hit by
Staff photos
of the old city
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
e becaus
Around
the man had been
on the top floor
d on the roadsid ng traffic, highly pressurized water,
the new windows
Regional advisor Wendy Sorey speaks to Umatilla seniors Celeste Rodriguez, left, and Daisy Garcilazo at an information booth
car stoppe
are reflected in
was blocki from state
psi, and
for Eastern Oregon University at a job fair at the SAGE Center on Wednesday in Boardman.
Blue sky and clouds
log
as much as 200
a crash already
to the daily
y Christian
that CPR was adminis- a
according
to Count ers during
afterward,
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loss
tered. Shortly
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drumm
awii’s 56-54
of Nixya n dances to tribal e.
dispatcher said a chaplain
warmups
halftim
sent to scene.
been
during
By JADE MCDOWELL
pre-game Smith, 12, of Missio
had
and shows our unique mission,” for programs that are targeted them by name.
the
a song
that
Sky
during
ers play
Moments before had
Many of those students come
said Tim Seydel, EOU’s vice toward helping first-generation
perform ay in Baker City.
OLD CITY HALL scorch East Oregonian
tribal drumm
drummers
call, UCFD crews to a
dance as
SIERRA
president for university advance- college students, for example, or from Umatilla and Morrow
still some visible
top: Tribal p game on Saturd
are
ANTONIO
round
to
There
By
a
from
in
hall is starting Eastern Oregon University ment.
been dispatched van and
counties. Umatilla County
those from rural communities.
Clockwise 1A championshi
participate 1B.
East Oregonian
marks, but old city it was in the years
and fans
wreck between a vehicle
in the state
The designation — which
“When they say, ‘Why students have made up roughly
has always been a home for
Sports, Page
Spectators
resemble the building
small sports utility front of
halftime. on the game, see
had a busy 2018.
July 21, 2015.
students looking for a smaller, passed both chambers of the Eastern?’ we can say, ‘That’s nine percent of EOU’s enroll-
The Quezadas have of the family are leading up to day, an explosion caused by
T-boned in
ort DACA
For more
ment for the last decade, and this
more rural college experience legislature unanimously and what we do,’” he said.
deal-
On that
Eduardo
allies supp in place on gun that
Multiple members
the Tom Denchel car
separate renovation homemade fireworks killed
Seydel said it could also help year there are 311 students from
in Oregon,
but that role is now was signed by the governor on
to
Highway
immigrant
structure
working on two
tions already and closes the ership at 81143
Pendleton — old
and caused the
Tuesday — doesn’t come with with recruitment at the univer- Umatilla County and 48 students
official.
gun control,
roof
projects in downtown Dorion Ave. and Quezada destroying much of the
ownership “boyfriend loop- 395.
focuses on
one
The
the La Grande-based school a boost in state funding or new sity, which was at 3,016 students from Morrow County. The
city hall at 34 S.E. S. Main St. — in an catch fire,
Two adults and the
so-called “intimate partner
onstration
windows and scarring
to
has been designated by the state rules for how the university is during the fall term. He said university has increased recruit-
Sister’s Cafe at 308 the buildings to their and top-floor
hole” or as the governor child were taken non-life
Student dem
legislature as Oregon’s Rural run. But Seydel said it could help some students are searching for ment efforts in both counties as it
brickwork.
attempt to restore
ACHEN
loophole,” referring to it. hospital with injuries,
half years later, contractor
s.
By PARIS
Two-and-a-
looks
to boost its numbers.
a
smaller,
more
rural
experience
set
EOU
apart
when
applying
University.
tour
prior appearance
have threatening
later started
delivered a quick “It defines our role in the state for state and federal grants where their professors know
invested in both
Capital Bureau
Matt
abusers who
5 with lofty
See EOU/8A
With city money its contractor are Jamie Stone
Domestic d, cohabitated according to Lt.
E.J. Harris
and
shut
session Feb. of universal
Staff photo by
See CITY HALL/5A
projects, the family on both fronts.
Surrounded
been marrie n with their Fisher. Traffic was
ACHEN
ambitions and a cap and
building is un-
SALEM — of students
By PARIS
in the northbound
the old city hall been installed. reporting progress
or had childre
ds
already banned down for 30 minutes.
health care m. Adjourning
the interior of
Capital Bureau
have
by hundre
for stricter
Construction on a new roof and windows
lanes
victims were guns.
invest progra
kers left the
Brown
demonstrating
derway now that
from having signed into law
ay lawma
Gov. Kate a law
— Oregon
ay Saturd Capitol having passed
gun laws,
into
SALEM
The bill
that ban to
ements
state
leaders Saturd
y expands
Monday signed
convicted
whom
legislative a 28-day policy- smaller policy advanc
Monda
LINE
bans
the
s, with
DEAD
from
a bill that abusers and
celebrated
dating partner may not have
marked by with consensus ty in many
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domestic
buying or
making session
the victim nor had children
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legislation.
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surprised
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The Legisla launched the
with.
rather than
le needed ,
“This session President
ground, he said,
House Bill who have
Senate
“This loopho
cratic leaders
Pilot Rock community
politics within
those
That move in 2015
to be closed
me,” said ey, D-Salem. “I
prohibits tic
violence
for fuel partisan
we now him.
desperately closes it and
drew Selsky
t
economy in which
Peter Courtn d that we were
domes
increased the salary a year. the community.
bill
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a
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hold a and this
to $86,273
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was worrie ted, doing too
Rick Pullen worked 2004
restraining having firearms.
Oswego n State protects victims ,” said
fellow the post
have
By PHIL WRIGHT
from
ned
Murdock and Givens Commissioners now
over-commit
from Lake
equally ee of
Orego
the
More inside
Umatilla County
them from
By KATHY ANEY
by
we just adjour
East Oregonian
students the steps of the
violence
salary of $90,852. until he quit on Dec. 15, 2017,
n-Mag
draws
much, but before the consti-
commissioners Larry
tion High school contro
Proposed
l on
in their an annual
East Oregonian
•Governor’s race
.
Doreen Dodge d Action.
the legisla
gun
stated Murdock took when he was in the assessor’s
Page 2A
eight days
and Bill Elfering are
in Salem
are
e.”
governor, ly the only signa- rally for on
important Moms Deman percent of
and
17 candidates.
against
contended Bailor
Monday
Two challengers George
marks an
tutional deadlin made a
mid-70s. Bailor one gener- raises while arguing working office. Pullen is a singer
know
was arguab emerge from the Capitol
• Hermiston, Pendleton
About 54 gs — those in
to oust
only
for
The death of a child is a parent’s
Warbucks
tic
Lawmakers
looking
to
(some)
at the “Today ne, but we do. It’s
Daddy
represent
increases
get
domes
they
e
law
wage
poli-
races
term
portrayed
ture
shootin
state’s
council
g rampag
s milesto more to
28-day
Commu-
biggest nightmare.
3A
Murdock from another
fix to the gun laws, passed
ation.
or more people
the mass
have
in the recent College
commis-
Legislature’s session, which shootin y Stoneman Dougla
50s, people.
new faces. Page
the
nd, we past time we hold ss which four — between 2009
For Sara Hebard, the night-
back
as Umatilla County
“As someone in my to
violence
Bailor also said Murdock nity Theatre production of did
cymaking
to
res to push
long
March 3. Marjor School in Parkla
killed
Congre
opinions
important
ay,
are
and
Pullen
is
measu
related
mare
came true in January when
it
partisan
sioner.
some
in High
House
were
new I think
Pullen
administration
ended Saturd
diverse expressing news violates the musical “Annie.”
said,
approved
, Feb. 14. sign this White table. Now’s the time and 2016
Tom Bailor and Rick 1 on believes the county needs
her eight-year-old son died
on Trump made changes to
have leadership with
in local
to
and domestic abuse, she
not return calls Tuesday. serve
The bill was with bipartisan Florida
l experience and nonpartisan spirit of the
Monday for Position ers. leadership.
“I’m proud Oregon the accoun
ers
suddenly
after crashing his bike
real change
filed
policies and affordable housing
-
generationa
the
House
Commission
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
enact
the
legisla
to
passed
County
last day
” Bailor stated.
“It’s time for diversity,”
charter.
IES/8A
the board of commission
and developing a rare infection Liam’s family keeps his ashes in a special Batman urn in the
help fund
san bill, making to take action federal gun safety
four-year terms. The
on pharmaceu-
support and
See RALL
and Pullen Bailor said. “We need lead- connection,
county county
with biparti
ers should be to file for the May 15 primary
Murdock, Bailor
first state t senseless gun tion.”
called necrotizing fasciitis. As living room.
He also said
and shed light
respects
Senate
to
s restric-
approving commission
preven
all live in Pendleton. commis- ership that not only but also commissioners
flesh-eating bacteria attacked the
tical drug prices. ture’s “short”
was Tuesday.
tragedy in
trying to build solutions
The bill expand
opposition. touted the legis- to
e since the
pay raises of local problems on common election
action
Bailor ran for again in traditional values
The Legisla in even-num-
boy’s soft tissue, surgeons tried to 21, leaving behind a devastated
The weeks since losing Liam
Brown said.
Brown
s first violenc
embraces themselves
with
held
the nation’ the Parkland, Fla.,”
state to take ”
sioner in 2013 and giving understands and age and $8,000 did not sit well
session — — was sold to
get ahead of the deadly bacteria mother, stepfather Scott Hinkle, have been a barrage of emotions
lation as
digital
law since
land
gon the first
time to
2016. He said he’s
bered years
by amputating parts of his body and three stepbrothers. The death for Hebard.
he the dynamic
gun safety
2010 as a the state
making Ore e the tragedy in Park
it another go because
voters in
during four separate operations.
stunned the family’s tiny commu-
bill,
adjust
and
this
laws
Legis-
sinc
fix
See LIAM/8A
Liam Flanagan died on Jan. nity of Pilot Rock.
d to sign
2016, the
governor
gun violence
budget. In the short session
“I’m prou
senseless Kate Brown, Oregon
lature used
policies such
—
to prevent
to pass major e in minimum
of
as an increas
on the use
wage and limits
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gle pride
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Tribal community survivor
and
speed to
for crash victim
blame for
wrecks on
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Cabbag tang
led
cles
Twenty vehi le injured
and nine peop
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RIP CITY
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Disney
“A Wrinkle in Time”
brings
classic children’s
sci-fi tale
to the big screen.
For showtime,
Page 3A
Staff photo
Pendleton’s
by E.J. Harris
new city
councilor
was sworn Chuck LeVall
city counc in during the e
il meeting
day in Pendle
Tues-
ton.
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Sat
Sun
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Watch a game
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Motivational speaker Cory Green-
wood talks to a young audience about
his life’s struggles Wednesday at the
Attitudes for Success Conference at
the Pendleton Convention Center.
Sherwood Heights
Elementary School
ers during an assembly
counselor Lisa
Roberts smiles
to show their support. Thursday in Pendleton
while watching
. Roberts is battling
Staff photo
breast cancer and a slideshow prepared for
her by students by E.J. Harris
the administra
and teach-
tion and students
put on the assembly
vs.
BMCC softball
vs.
Southwest Oregon
Doubleheader
Saturday
Love through it al
l
Meet the
newest
councilor
New
comer LeVa
lle
brings new
view to
city council
By ANTON
IO SIERR
A
East Oregon
ian
Eighth
By KATHY ANEY
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It didn’t
Junip
perform
East Oregonian
Chuck LeVall take long for
in a charad er Sorensen,
Tatum Paullu
e to ingrati
e Tuesday
himself in
during a
ate
s, Natali
Pendleton.
suicide preven
he kids kept the secret
younger students joined
e Siede
It was
for three
tion aware rs Molly Magil
weeks.
“When you’re weak, in.
and LeVall September 2016,
l and
ness class
I’ll be strong
e was lookin
at Sunrid Keilah Mossm
On the sly,
When you let go,
a cold beer
g for
ge Middl
an
Elementary students Sherwood Heights
e School discuss an activit Staff photo by E.J.
When you need to I’ll hold on
a four-day, after finishing
in Pendle
y they want Harris
song during recess practiced a special
ton.
That I’ll be there to cry, I swear
from Savann 3,500-mile trek
and times when
to
counselor Lisa Roberts
ah, Georgi
When you feel lost dry your eyes
his new South
a, to
was away
getting cancer treatments.
Main Street
Like you can’t take and scared to death,
apartment.
one
more
to sing Martina McBride’s They planned
step
Just take my hand,
He was
“I’m Gonna
together we can do
Love You Through
I’m gonna love you
it
the bar at the welcomed into
through it.”
a way to encourage It” to Roberts as
Fraternal Order
As
of
they
By
Eagles
sang,
her
JAYAT
they waved daffodils,
Lodge across
I RAMAKRISH
ordeal. The students through the
which they would
street. Within
spent part of each
NAN
later give Roberts.
East Oregon
music class rehearsing
30 minute the
After the song came
joined the
ian
s, he
the song.
a
video
Eagles
Speaker talks about a changed By ANTONIO SIERRA
featuring
Principal Theresa Owens
individual shots of
and within
a day he
The Sunrid
children holding
the idea. The administrato instigated
East Oregonian
handwritten messages
Brenne. would meet John
students though ge Middle School
life at leadership conference
for their
encourages the children r often
t
counselor.
they
sharing
A
The
were
sentiments melded
year-an
to sing. She
their favorit
herself sings every
The Pendleton Round-Up
into another.
one
LeValle would d-a-half later,
sports, art,
e activities just
Safe at scho
—
announcements. morning during
Association has been
By KATHY ANEY
be sworn
“You are a rock star,”
as Brenne
outdoors. music and exploring
ol
in
trum-
said one.
the
peting that 2017
Through
East Oregonian
“I firmly believe singings
“You are brave.”
at Tuesda ’s replacement
In reality,
A group of students
the month
builds
the EO will
community,” she said.
Staff photo by
of its best years. was one
have daffodils in
of March
“You are powerful.”
meeting. y’s city council
E.J. Harris
with ways they were coming
Martina McBride
Last week
the air while singing
,
ways schoo report on the
it officially released
So it seemed the
Cory Greenwood laid his pride aside
“You are strong.”
each other to handle stress and up
an assembly. For song “I’m Gonna Love You Through
the
There wasn’t
many
ls protec
the
video of the song,
during difficu
both on
help
Roberts, who has perfect way to uplift
t students,
between being a lot of time
“You are loved.”
to back it up.
Wednesday as he addressed students at numbers
the
and off campu
visit eastoregon It” during
“You have
breast cancer. They
lt times.
ian.com
would sing their support.
The Round-Up
s.
in town and the new guy
“We believe in you.”
things to do all shared some
Pendleton Convention Center.
into the gym expecting
great
Some questio
for self-ca
its financial statement released
On Thursday, it was
to find a child in distress,
leton’s govern joining Pend-
Roberts soaked
you can encour
As a motivational speaker, Greenwood
looked momentaril
re,
ns were a little
for the
challenging.
y stunned as she took
fiscal year — Nov.
The school’s 500 showtime.
age others and that
students filed out in the love. As
more
LeValle, 43, ing body, but
said Amand
regularly tears himself down to inspire
scene. Owens directed
1, 2016 to
in the
to do,”
of the gym, Roberts
“Suicidal people
a Walsborn,
spoke about
gave them hugs. When
the school gym and students quietly filed into
Oct.
her
to
quick
educat
a
row
kids in those tough formative years.
As 31, 2017 — at its Feb.
chairs
of
prevention
his
folding
ascent and
ion coordi
where members of
to themse
keep
reflected on the three they had gone, Roberts
hushed expectation waited on the bleachers in
27 stockholder’s
what came
her family, including
nator
before it
lves,” Walsbo their plans
Umatilla
husband and police
an insecure, unfocused and irresponsible
meeting.
“Myth or fact?”
County Health for the
started. She said the weeks since chemo
ready. Someone was . Owens’ guitar sat at the
The statement shows
rn said.
chief Stuart Roberts,
ment.
LeValle
waiting for her.
teenager, he had bullied others to make
up
students have supported
dispatched
sat
Depart
the
Studen
to
her
get
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nonprofit
with encouragem
“They told me a student
Roberts.
luh-vell) grew (pronounced
rodeo organization
On Tuesda
“We love you and
for the attention he wasn’t getting from
said while ts weren’t sure. Walsbo
was having a melt-
One day, four siblings ent and thoughtful gifts.
up and lived
down,” Roberts said
in a his good financial
Savannah,
Walsborn taught y and Wedne
rn
your back,” Owens want you to know we’ve got bought
later
in
pooled their money
standing
unaffectionate father. He became a teenage
true, those people often think
sday,
going into 2018.
told her into a microphone
students a
The child developmen that day with a smile.
flowers. On
and goes back where his family
suicide preven
Roberts smiled
course in
father himself.
often comm considering suicide this is
t specialist, who strode
generations.
.
his favorite toy car. another, a boy brought her
• After tallying
promotion, tion and mental health
He recalle
sang the first verse. as fourth and fifth graders
all the
thinking and unicate what they will
No more, though. The Minnesota
“Every day has had
revenue and expenses,
As they got to the
mother had d how his grand-
time for your explaining that making
are
Members
chorus, the “The
silver linings,” she
but not always how they are feeling
native now travels the country giving
kids
the
eight childre
Round-Up
kids have been so
said.
but still manag
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made $295,846
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the message
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of stress or eing is important in phys- campus
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while her two
she taught trouble. During the times
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class,
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Care Projec ging on them team have communicate
youngest sity
also attendi
risk factors students to recogn
Though similar
pain and ways to
all over the Walsbo
t.”
ng, eventu were
tive impact on
suffering,”
rn said.
earning a
someone who and warning signs ize Persuade, Refer” to the “Quest
ally
master
ion,
She
for
the world just
may
cautioned
method of
’s degree in
some comm
prevention
education.
suicide, and
be consid
studen
suicide about
and be the
that
on myths
by becoming
only person ts not to try
to a friend ways they can reach ering adults, these Walsborn teache
and facts
suicide
s to
who might
lessons were
See LEVAL
“Why
that helps.
out adoles
comfortable in
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be struggling.
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their own skin.
as the statem more obvious,
want
Walsborn
an adult?”
such students.
ent:
had studen
she asked
The young
By PHIL WRIGHT
ts identify prevent suicide.” “Only experts can
Walsbo
Tompkins said.
audience at the
rn said while
“Myth,” studen
East Oregonian
may be nervou
ts recognized.
students
of a miracle that “It’s kind
28th Annual
s about betrayi
she’s still
alive.”
ng a
Attitudes for
The bald eagle should
See PROT
— Cory Greenwood,
be
Blue Mountain Wildlife
dead.
Success Youth
ECT/12A
had its own surprise
Leadership
Blue Mountain
Eastern Oregon’s Wildlife, the fall when it needed in
Conference alternated between hilarity
leading new x-ray
a
HERMISTON
animal recovery center,
and rapt attention.
system to assess
took animal injuries.
in the ill female
He psychoanalyzed his former bully
The
raptor in January juvenile machine is portable, can x-ray
self.
lead test. Staff had and ran a images of animals as take
“I tore people apart and belittled them,
small
to
dilute
bats and songbirds
the eagle’s blood
thinking the smaller I could make people
and about
twice costs about
to obtain a lead
$1,300. But
feel, the bigger I would feel,” he said.
By JADE
enough to register level low computer that digitizes the
“I felt big and tough for a second, but at
MCDO
the
machine. The result: on the images costs about $26,000.
East Oregon WELL
night, I felt even smaller.”
with the
813
ian
Tompkins asked for
micrograms of
The keynote address came halfway
Hermiston city and give
dona-
lead per tions in
deciliter.
The Hermi
the center’s weekly
of the project full ownership
through the conference, attended by about
ston
newsletter. One
Council will
Lynn Tompkins,
350 students in grades 6-12 from Umatilla
have plenty City commissione . The board of
the said, committed donor, she
talk about
center’s director,
rs
to
to $10,000,
and Morrow counties. They came to learn
an agreem Monday, including their side of the approved
Spirit, a great grey
was the highest lead said that and within two weeks
ent to take
Thursday,
the
owl, flies up to
leadership skills and explore career ideas.
control of the
tain Wildlife on
the compo deal on
center has measured. level the center had $19,000.
a perch in one
full
Staff photo by
Thursday
E.J.
nents of
Harris
of
A
the
The students attended breakout sessions
level
outside
flight pens at Blue
Pass in 2004 after
Trade and Eastern Oregon which include:
“That was a pretty
Moun- of 20 is toxic.
being hit by a of Pendleton. Spirit was found
•The city takes
on a smörgåsbord of subjects: various
education bird
car and has lived
whelming response,” over-
a tour of Event Center,
near Deadman’
“She’s still hanging
ever since.
full
at Blue Mountain
s
she
careers, goal setting, communicating
in said.
Center and the Harkenrider ship of EOTEC and owner-
Wildlife as an there. We just got
the land
her moved
Former
feelings, college admission and stress
water project a proposed joint it is on, including liabilit
outside three days
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of Comm NFL quarterback
with Umatil
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management.
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has been in C discussion
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of Ott and takes ownership
the works
, see Page Wildhorse Resor illa County Comm Chamber
Januar
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including
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bully at financials
rodeo
the pulpit on show
the grow
“I felt big
and tough
for a second,
but at night,
I felt even
smaller.”
Protecting
one anothe
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Students lear
ning
Blue Mountain Wil
dlife flutters into the
to care for
their own
mental hea
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and those
around them
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