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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.
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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. She said
Pilot Rock wants to be pro-
active and just applied for
$100,000 from the next
allotment.
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