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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
BRIEFLY
Get a tree started
this Arbor Day
PENDLETON —
Pendletonians can celebrate
Arbor Day by getting a free
tree seedling from the city
on Saturday.
According to a Pendleton
Parks and Recreation
Department press release,
volunteers will be handing
out seedling from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the Pendleton
Wal-Mart, near the grocery
entrance.
Seedling varieties include
ponderosa pine, water birch,
quaking aspen, and red-osier
dogwood. The seedlings will
be distributed on a first-
come, first-serve basis.
Children will also have
the opportunity to make
decorations for the White
House Christmas tree.
Pendleton was recently
named a Tree City USA by
the Arbor Day Foundation
and the Oregon Department
of Forestry.
The seedling giveaway is
sponsored by the city’s parks
and recreation department,
the U.S. Forest Service, the
Pendleton Tree Commission
and the Pendleton Parks and
Recreation Commission.
Bird club welcome
wildlife biologist
PENDLETON — A
field biologist with the
Oregon Department of
Fish & Wildlife will make
a presentation during the
upcoming Pendleton Bird
Club meeting.
Cathy Nowak will
discuss “Research,
Recreation and Resource
Management — An
Introduction to the Ladd
Marsh Wildlife Area.” The
public is invited to the free
event Thursday at 7 p.m. at
the First Christian Church,
215 N. Main St., Pendleton.
Also, people are invited to
bring a dish to share with
others for a potluck that
starts at 6:30 p.m.
For more information,
contact Lorna Waltz at
lornawaltz@gmail.com or
visit www.pendletonbirders.
org.
Public health
admin guest
of federal
employees group
PENDLETON — The
National Association of
Retired Federal Employees
(NARFE) Chapter 2115
welcomes Umatilla County
Public Health administrator
James Setzer to its monthly
meeting Thursday.
The meeting starts with a
no-host lunch at 11:30 a.m.
at Shari’s Cafe & Pies, 319
S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton.
All federal employees,
active or retired, are
welcome to attend.
For more information,
call Janet Lambert at
541-980-3268.
East Oregonian
STANFIELD — A vehicle
struck and killed a woman
trying to walk across Interstate
84 Tuesday morning near
Stanfield,
According
to
police,
Rosialy Carmia Tiffany, 49, of
Kennewick, died at the scene.
She was reportedly walking
across Interstate 84 when she
was struck by a 2006 station
wagon.
Oregon State Police said,
“Tiffany had left her vehicle
and, for unknown reasons,
attempted to cross the freeway
where she was struck while
in the fast lane.” Police said
alcohol use by Tiffany “is
being considered a contrib-
uting factor in the crash.”
Lt. Mike Turner, state police
commander of the Pendleton
area, said the fatality occurred
a few minutes before 5 a.m.
on the eastbound side of Inter-
state 84 near milepost 189.
The interstate was closed for
more than four hours during
the investigation, and traffic
had to be routed through the
town of Echo during that time.
The freeway’s eastbound
lanes in the immediate area
had reopened by 10 a.m.
Tuesday.
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Before retirement in
2002, Mayclin conducted
Pendleton high school and
middle school choirs. He
led the Peace Lutheran
Church choir for 30 years
and still directs music for
theater productions. He
sings solos and directs
and sings in a subgroup
of the men’s choir called
Dulaman.
In short, music powers
Mayclin’s life.
That’s just the way
of it since before he can
remember. As a toddler,
he even listened to opera
broadcasts on the radio
with his mother.
“I can’t imagine my life
without music,” he said.
“Music brings beauty into a
world that sometimes isn’t
so beautiful.”
The ACDA award is
partly about leadership in
the organization. Over the
years, Mayclin served as
state president and regional
president for the group.
He created programs for
three national conventions,
events which regularly
draw several thousand
people.
As far as Mayclin’s
ability as a director, a
couple of his local choir
members described his
modus operandi.
“He’s very meticulous,”
said Steve Muller, men’s
chorus member and himself
a retired music teacher and
choir director. “You do it
over and over again until
you get it right — and then
you do it again.”
The maestro is also
fastidious about his concert
programs, assembling an
eclectic mix of music that
somehow meshes seam-
lessly.
“He plans concerts a
year or more in advance,”
said choir member Randy
Thomas, a former middle
school music teacher and
choir director. “The pieces
go together. One piece
animates the audience and
the next penetrates the soul.
His standards are so high.”
Mayclin has a good ear.
“He has an amazing ear
for pitch,” Thomas said.
Even with the multiplicity
of sounds created by a
choir, he can hear sour
tones and “zero right in.”
Howard Meharg, of the
choral association, called
Mayclin a shoo-in for the
award.
“We would be hard
pressed to find anybody
who has served ACDA
better than Bill,” Meharg
said. “He’s been very
active at the national level.
He has turned out fantastic
choirs. It was practically
unanimous.”
“I
was
stunned,”
Mayclin said of learning he
had won.
The maestro plans to
keep on directing for years
to come, God willing.
“When you’re involved
in music,” he said, “you’re
involved in music forever.”
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Contact Kathy Aney at
kaney@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0810.
911: State is footing the bill to install and maintain system
Continued from 1A
Dispatchers can gather
information more quickly
by talking to someone
over the phone, but texting
might be the best option for
people who are deaf, hard
of hearing, or have speech
disabilities. Texting might
also be useful for people
who are in an emergency
situation where a voice call
could put them in danger,
like a home invasion or
domestic violence incident.
Lieuallen said police in the
Portland area have caught
a few kidnappers when
victims texted 911.
In addition to encour-
aging able-bodied citizens
to continue to use 911 tradi-
tionally, local dispatchers
will also mount a public
education campaign on
how to use the new service.
• The first text to 911
should include the location,
including the city, and what
type of help they need like
police, fire or medical.
• Text messages should
be concise and use full
words.
• The person requesting
services through text needs
to stay by the phone to
answer any follow-up ques-
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Umatilla County dispatch has added text to its 911
service.
“It’s very important that 911
take texting. It just seems like
it’s a no-brainer.”
— Darrin Umbarger,
CEO of Clearview Mediation and Disability Medical
Center, Pendleton
tions or follow instructions
from the dispatch center.
• Photos, videos and
emojis can’t be sent to
911 and will corrupt the
text message the dispatch
center receives.
• Emergency texts can’t
be sent in a group text or
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For the second year in a row, the
Pendleton Whisky Music Fest is a
sold-out show.
In a Monday press release,
organizers announced that the July
14 concert featuring country music
singer Blake Shelton and rapper
Pitbull was sold out only a few weeks
after tickets went on sale March 23.
Whisky Fest is reporting that
the tickets were in “high demand,”
evidenced by the 98 percent of
ticket sales coming from pre-sales
and the first day they were available
online.
Andy McAnally, one of the event’s
organizers, said some of the artists’
tickets are still on hold and may be
released closer to the show, but it
won’t be many.
Organizers expect the third annual
Whisky Fest to combine elements
from the first two editions.
“Blake Shelton, with twenty-five
#1 hit singles, will reintroduce the
Music Fest to its country roots,
brought to life by the inaugural
performance of Zac Brown Band, and
Pitbull, known worldwide, will bring
to the crowd the upbeat, pop-tempo
established by Maroon 5 who played
to a sold-out arena in 2017,” the press
release states.
For the 2018 concert, Whisky
Fest plans to expand its Friday night
kick-off party, a Main Street concert
the night before the main event.
McAnally said they hoped to release
those artist names in the coming
month.
For more information, visit www.
pendletonwhiskymusicfest.com.
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East Oregonian
Please join us on Saturday, April 28, 2018 as we celebrate the life of
Barbara J. Haines , January 28, 1935 - January 9, 2018.
This gathering will be an open house from 11am to 3pm at the home of
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Hermiston at Hat Rock on the Columbia River.
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When
a
Umatilla
County resident sends
an emergency text, they
will be sent an automated
response asking if they can
report that message through
a voice call.
If they respond nega-
tively, an employee from
the dispatch center can
respond
with
several
automated
responses
or compose an original
response. Lieuallen said
the automated responses
ensure information is
exchanged faster and emer-
gencies are responded to
more quickly.
She said text to 911 runs
off of a web-based program,
which means the system
goes offline if there’s an
interruption in internet
service. If the dispatch
center’s texting capabilities
are offline, citizens who try
to use the service will be
sent an automated response
that will instruct them to
call 911.
Darrin Umbarger, CEO
of Clearview Mediation
and Disability Medical
Center, Pendleton, said
911 text is a must-have
service. People who are
hearing impaired already
have smartphones, he said,
to use text to communicate.
A deaf person who
calls 911 can’t hear the
dispatcher, Umbarger said,
and the flip side is someone
who has never heard or lost
hearing in early childhood
has difficulty speaking.
In those cases, he said,
dispatchers might not
understand what someone
needs.
“It’s very important that
911 take texting,” he said.
“It just seems like it’s a
no-brainer.”
Lieuallen
said
the
sheriff’s office spent a
year selecting a vendor
and testing out their new
software, which dispatch
center employees learned
quickly and easily.
The state is footing the
bill to install and maintain
the system, which is
$19,200 for installation
and three year’s worth of
maintenance.