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REGION Saturday, July 21, 2018 East Oregonian PENDLETON Cossacks show their stuff at Bike Week By BRITTANY NORTON East Oregonian The smell of exhaust hung heavy in the air and tires screeched against the burning pavement as motor- cycles swerved around each other. The Seattle Cossacks were warming up for 30 minutes of stunt riding. That means Pendleton Bike Week is in full swing for its fourth year of bring- ing together motorcycle lov- ers for events, demos and rides. For co-organizers Bran- don Packman and Eric Fol- kestad, Pendleton seemed like the perfect place to host a show like this. “People bring their horses, and we figured it would be a great place for people to bring their iron horses,” Packman said. This is the third time in Pendleton for the Seattle Cossacks, who are celebrat- ing their 80th year in exis- tence and who were awarded a key to the city by Pendle- ton mayor John Turner Fri- day night. “It’s all about balance,” said team captain Sam Chedester of the organiza- tion’s complicated stuns. “It takes a lot of time and coordination.” Chedester first saw the Seattle Cossacks at the Bothell 4th of July Fair when he was 7. He didn’t know who they were at the time, but thought they were cool. Fast forward 13 years to when Chedester was in college. He was talking to a coworker about a Camaro he had bought that was going to fix up and race. Staff photo by E.J. Harris “Well, you ought to come out and see what we do,” Chedester recalls his coworker saying. So he did, and he was reintroduced to the Seattle Cossacks. “It’s still the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,” he thought to himself. He later bought what’s known as a “basket case” — a bike in pieces — for $2,000. He put it together in seven months. That’s the bike Ched- ester still rides today, almost 28 years later. The type of motorcycle a Cossack needs is very specific: a hand-shift, foot-clutch, springer front- end, rigid frame Harley Davidson. Because of these specifications, it ultimately limits the bikes available to the club to those built in the 1930s and ‘40s — around the same time the group was formed. They are marvelous vin- tage motorcycles painted in colors maroon and white. “People who have these bikes, they look at them. They put them in muse- ums or their living rooms, but we’re dropping them. We may even catch one on fire this weekend,” said Chedester. The motorcycles them- selves aren’t the only thing that mark the passage of time. The men learn most of their skill from those who came before them. More than 130 men have partic- ipated in the Seattle Cos- sacks at some point. They pass down knowledge to the next generation of riders. This is also a tradition that attracts families. Ched- ester was the first in his fam- ily to participate in the Cos- sacks, but he now has a son on the team. And George Wright, who is a team apprentice, has a father who is a Cossack and a grandfa- ther who used to be one. “We’re considered an extended family,” said Chedester. “Sometimes we’re kind of like your crazy Uncle Bill that shows up at Thanksgiving though.” The Cossacks started an apprenticeship program about six years ago in an effort to get more young people to join the team. Chedester said, for what- ever reason, it’s difficult to recruit the younger genera- tion. But new recruitments are the future of a multi-gen- erational team like theirs. “Hopefully they’ll keep us going for another 80 years,” said Chedester. HERMISTON 46-home subdivision underway on Gettman Road By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian The Wolf Run subdivi- sion is just getting started, but it already had a neighborhood barbecue Friday. The barbecue was part of a ribbon-cutting for the new 13-acre housing development on Gettman Road in Herm- iston, which so far has one house completed and four more in construction. The sub- division is expected to feature 46 homes in total. New housing is a welcome sight in the rapidly-grow- ing Hermiston, where the real estate market overall is tight. Heidi Carver of RE/MAX Cornerstone, the listing agent for the homes in Wolf Run, said new industrial devel- opments by Amazon, Lamb Weston and other compa- nies has created an increase in prices paid for family homes. Debbie Pedro, director of the Greater Hermiston Area Chamber of Commerce, told the gathering at the ribbon-cut- ting that the chamber was No criminal charges from collision that killed Pendleton cyclist By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Riders of the Seattle Cossacks perform a stunt called the flower while performing Friday at Pendleton Bike Week. Staff photo by Jade McDowell Developer Frank Gehring and real estate agent Heidi Carver cut the ribbon on the first completed house of the Wolf Run subdivision. happy to see investment in the community. “We’re excited about this subdivision,” she said. “Boy, do we need houses!” Developer Frank Geh- ring of Frank W. Gehring Construction has experience developing other housing in Hermiston, including small pockets of eight to 12 lots built in recent years, and was a key player in the Overlook Ridge subdivision in the northwest part of town. Carver said so far the larg- est home in the subdivision is $379,900 for 2,850 square feet, while the fully completed home is listed at $324,900 for 2,278 square feet. Gehring is allowing custom designs to be requested but also offers four different floor plans that are each four-bedroom ranch- style homes. Gehring said he’s will- ing to take a look at two-story designs but really prefers to keep the neighborhood sin- gle-story where possible, as he’s adamant about preserving the privacy of the back yards. He said the first couple to buy one of the houses is retired, but he also thought the subdivision — a block from Armand Larive Middle School and Desert View Ele- mentary School — would be a great place to raise a family. RE/MAX Cornerstone is holding open houses from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Satur- day and Sunday, and Gehring said when he filled in recently he didn’t get out of there until 1:30 p.m. because there were so many walk-ins. You Never Know What You’ll Find At A Collectors West Gun & Knife Show! August 4 th & 5 th Second Annual Pat Clubb Memorial Golf Tournament Pendleton Convention Center Saturday, August 11, 2018 7t4BUBQ 4VOBQt*OGPDPMMFDUPSTXFTUDPN Page 3A The driver involved in the collision that killed Ann Wyatt of Pendleton will not face criminal charges. Wyatt was bicycling June 8 to her job at the U.S. Forest Service on the Uma- tilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton when an SUV struck and killed her. She was 62. The Umatilla Tribal Police Department headed up the investigation and confirmed the fatality occurred but has not identi- fied the driver nor released other information. Wyatt’s friends raised public con- cerns about her death in that absence. Umatilla County Dis- trict Attorney Dan Primus said tribal police called him about the death and he went to the scene along Road crews on Highway 395 PENDLETON — High- way maintenance projects will affect travel on two Eastern Oregon roads. The Oregon Depart- ment of Transportation reported the work started this week on Highway 395-B between Pilot Rock and Pendleton in Umatilla County and on Highway 402 between Long Creek and Kimberly in Grant County. The work along 395-B will continue for about three weeks and is in addi- tion to a separate pavement upgrade project further south between Cape Horn and Long Creek. The oper- ation on Highway 402 will be active between Monu- ment and Kimberly until around Thursday. Crews will shift to the section from Long Creek to Ham- ilton between July 30 and Aug. 2. To check for highway conditions, construction projects and other traf- fic information, visit Trip- Check.com, or call 511 / 800-977-6368. with Oregon State Police. “I would say the investi- gation has been completed at this point,” Primus during a phone interview Thursday afternoon. “I don’t believe with the information we have there are criminal charges.” Primus said his office receives notice of all death investigations and police look for actions that are criminal in nature. In this situation, he said, investi- gators can’t point to actions that would produce crimi- nal charges. The only witness was the driver, and there is no video footage of what hap- pened. Primus said that makes for difficult circum- stances to investigate. “There is nothing to indicate there is anything criminal,” Primus said. “Unfortunately, sometimes there are accidents.” Pilot Rock city workers receive pay bump PILOT ROCK — City employees of Pilot Rock received a 3 percent pay increase for cost of living. The city council Tues- day night voted for the bump, which went into effect July 1. The total raise for the city’s 11 employ- ees comes to $12,442 a year, according to the staff report. City recorder Teri Bacus said the approval was the result of one new employee waiving medical insurance, which covered the cost of the raise with more than $3,000 left over. The council also approved spending about $4,500 for manhole risers and lids due to the recent completion of a paving project. The funds came out of $50,000 from the Oregon Department of Transportation’s program for cities with populations less than 5,000. 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