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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
East Oregonian
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PENDLETON
Walking for a cure at Roy Raley
By JAYATI
RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
By 4:30 p.m., Kristi
Worden had walked 12 and
a half miles without leaving
Roy Raley Park. As a partic-
ipant in the Relay For Life
event Saturday, Worden
was one of about 250
who started walking laps
around the Pendleton park
that morning for the event,
which raises funds for can-
cer research.
But not many persisted
as long as she did. Worden
was few who walked con-
tinuously from the begin-
ning of the event at 10 a.m.
without stopping to rest.
“I’m walking for my
mom, Pam,” Worden said.
“She has breast cancer and
is in treatment right now.”
Worden said she was also
walking for her grandfather,
who died of mesothelioma.
Along with John Doherty,
Worden adopted the spirit of
Relay For Life. Originally,
the event, founded in 1985,
lasted for 24 hours to help
people realize that “cancer
never sleeps.”
The two Heppner resi-
dents said they had gotten
lots of encouragement from
people who heard they were
doing the event.
“(Worden’s) mom just
started treatment,” Doherty
said. “So her family thought
it was a good time to join.”
Pendleton has had a
Relay for Life for about
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Elizabeth Lindberg holds her dad’s hand as she walks
Saturday during Relay for Life in support of her grand-
mother, who is undergoing cancer treatment.
15 years, said coordina-
tor Carol Preston. This
year, their goal was to
raise $50,000. By Saturday
afternoon, they had raised
$40,450.
Though the money
goes to the national Amer-
ican Cancer Society orga-
nization, Preston said this
year the local chapter will
be able to apply to get five
percent of the funds raised
back to use at a community
organization.
The event this year
drew 27 teams, Preston
said, some representing
local businesses, groups of
friends or families.
There are several events
that take place each year,
such as the survivor lap,
and the setting out of lumi-
narias, or bags decorated to
honor a person who died of
cancer or is fighting it now.
A small candle is placed in
the bag to light it up.
The event features live
music, a silent auction, and
a variety of food vendors.
But the highlight for
most is the sense of commu-
nity among those walking.
“My first year, I met a
woman who was 30 years
out of breast cancer, and I
was two years out,” Pres-
ton said. “It’s good for us
to meet others, and know
we’re not going through it
alone.”
Former Pendleton resi-
dents Gert and Dan Haw-
thorne came down from
Richland. Dan has had
basal cell carcinoma four
times, and the couple have
been involved with Relay
for Life since their grand-
daughter asked them to be
on a team 12 years ago.
Gert has served on the
planning committee in
many different roles, and
said she has had many fam-
ily members battle cancer.
Her sister passed away from
pancreatic cancer.
“I encourage people to
get the appropriate tests,
and work in partnership
with their doctors,” she said.
Though
the
crowd
thinned out a little after
some rain Saturday after-
noon, a group of people
kept walking through it all.
Worden
looked
at
Doherty and smiled.
“I’m going to keep walk-
ing until he gives up,” she
said.
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Contact
Jayati
Ramakrishnan at 541-564-
4534 or jramakrishnan@
eastoregonian.com
Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office looking
for armed suspects in two crimes
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office seeks the pub-
lic’s help to find two armed suspects
from crimes on opposite ends of the
county.
The sheriff’s office reported it
received a call Saturday at 7:58 p.m.
of a robbery that occurred that morn-
ing at the Taj Food Mart, 84802 High-
way 11, Milton-Freewater. The owner
said a young Hispanic male entered
the store at approximately 6:30 a.m.,
grabbed an 18-pack of Budweiser and
ran out of the store.
The suspect got into the passen-
ger side of a white Chevrolet car
with damage to the front passenger
side, and the car took off toward Mil-
ton-Freewater. The gas attendant fol-
lowed the car until one of the occu-
pants on the Chevrolet held a handgun
up in the air, displaying it for her to
see.
And Sunday around 1:20 a.m., staff
at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 77514 S.
Highway 207, Hermiston, reported a
robbery just occurred.
“A male suspect entered the lobby
of the business, displayed a gun and
demanded the clerk give him all the
money in the cash drawer and safe,”
according to the sheriff’s office.
The clerk complied and the rob-
ber left. He was possibly Hispanic,
approximately 6 feet tall, had dark
hair, wore a light colored jacket with
a hood over and around his face. He
carried a dark colored bag or back-
pack, which he told the clerk to put
the money into.
The sheriff’s office reported it is
working with the business to retrieve
video and anticipates releasing clearer
photos soon. The suspects in both
crimes remain at-large. The Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office asked anyone
with information about either crime to
contact the 24-hour dispatch center at
541-966-3651.
HERMISTON
School distirct narrows potential bond projects scope
By JAYATI
RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
SAVE
A group of commu-
nity members and district
employees trying to help the
Hermiston School District
come up with its next bond
request has narrowed their
options.
Stacey Stanek and Phil
Hamm, co-chairs of the
Hermiston School District
Facilities Planning Commit-
tee, presented two “project
mixes” to the school board at
a recent meeting. They also
asked the board to approve
the facility master plan.
Project mix “A” has four
goals: replace Rocky Heights
Elementary School, renovate
Sandstone Middle School,
renovate Highland Hills Ele-
mentary School and expand
Hermiston High School.
Project mix “B” has all the
same projects as “A,” with
one exception. Instead of ren-
ovating Highland Hills, proj-
ect mix “B” calls for replac-
ing the school.
Committee members said
project mix “A” had an esti-
mated cost of around $67
million, and project mix
“B” had a projected cost of
between $75 million and $90
million.
District Operations Man-
ager Brad Wayland said the
board will now review the
information presented to
them, and likely ask him for
more details about the poten-
tial costs and what a bond
structure would look like for
each of project.
“I anticipate several
months of back and forth
between myself, the board
and Superintendent (Tricia)
Mooney,” he said.
After making presen-
tations to parent and com-
munity organizations, the
committee held two public
meetings where people could
come and ask questions
about the potential projects.
The committee then voted
on a list of priorities based on
their research.
“Number one was replac-
ing Rocky Heights, and num-
ber two was renovating Sand-
stone,” committee co-chair
Stacey Stanek told the board.
Stanek said the third pri-
ority was building a new ele-
mentary school and fourth
was expanding the high
school.
But Wayland said that
when considering the dis-
trict’s financial situation,
building a new elementary
school would have limited
the district’s ability to com-
plete the first two projects.
“The committee rapidly
realized we didn’t know the
exact numbers of what we
could spend, but had ball-
park figures of what to spend
to keep taxes stable,” he said.
Wayland said he didn’t
know what the exact cost
of each project would be,
because the numbers were
based on current dollar val-
ues, and didn’t factor in
inflation.
Staff photo by Jade McDowell.
Attendees at a regional school and childcare nutrition
training sample different recipies.
School lunches will
get a menu makeover
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
While pizza, sloppy
Joes and chicken nuggets
still make an appearance in
school cafeterias sometimes,
today’s school lunches are
not what they used to be.
“I like to encourage par-
ents to go have lunch with
their students at school at
least one time to see how
things have changed,” chef
Garrett Berdan said. “They
might be surprised to see the
variety, the different colors,
the love and care that goes
into them.”
Berdan was at Uma-
tilla High School on Fri-
day, teaching child nutri-
tion program professionals
from schools and daycares
around Eastern Oregon for
a training sponsored by the
Oregon Dairy and Nutri-
tion Council and the Oregon
Department of Education’s
Child Nutrition Services.
The annual trainings cover
a variety of topics, such as
evidence-based lunchroom
design that helps encourage
kids to make healthier eating
choices. Friday morning’s
training included a section
on knife skills with fruits
and vegetables and fresh
herbs.
By 1 p.m. attendees had
cooked 16 different reci-
pes and everyone sat down
to try the buffet of options.
They loaded up plates with
arroz con pollo, spicy Asian
noodles with tofu, fiesta
chicken chili, Brazilian rice
and beans, berry smoothies,
oatmeal, roasted garbanzo
beans and more.
Most of the recipes, Ber-
dan said, were adapted from
the Food Hero program that
Oregon State University’s
extension service uses to
teach families about afford-
able, nutritious cooking
(anyone can look up recipes
at www.foodhero.org).
“It’s nice to have those
recipes featured at school,
because there’s a good
chance they have already
tasted them at home, espe-
cially if their families are
SNAP recipients,” he said.
U.S. Department of Agri-
culture standards for school
and childcare nutrition have
gotten more strict in the past
20 years, Berdan said, which
presents more of a challenge
but also means that in many
cases students today are eat-
ing healthier meals at school
than their parents did.
Menus will vary depend-
ing on who runs the kitchen,
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but for the most part culi-
nary specialists are encour-
aged to offer a more diverse
selection that represents a
variety of cultures.
Rikkilynn Larson, child
nutrition director for Uma-
tilla School District, said
Friday was the second time
Umatilla had played host to
one of the state’s continu-
ing education trainings. Last
time she picked up a few
new recipes she incorpo-
rated into Umatilla school
lunches, including a gour-
met grilled cheese sandwich
with roasted tomatoes. This
time she found a few more
she wanted to try.
“It’s so amazing,” she
said. “I always learn some-
thing new.”
As attendees tasted the
various recipes, accom-
panied by Armand Lar-
ive Middle School students
who were documenting the
event for ALTV, they dis-
cussed ways to adapt them
for their own students. Sev-
eral people thought the fiesta
chicken chili turned out
too spicy for younger stu-
dents, for example, and one
table decided they would
add pineapple juice to the
berry smoothie to sweeten
it without adding sugar.
Some attendees discussed
which recipes could be used
for students who are glu-
ten-free, dairy-free or have
other dietary restrictions —
something that has become
increasingly common.
Larson said it can be hard
to walk the line between
offering healthy, diverse
foods and offering selec-
tions that most students will
eat on any given day.
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