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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Wednesday, August 8, 2018 FAIR: Tarps were hung to protect animals “Pigs never tan, they just burn and peel.” Continued from 1A “You usually freeze a lot ahead of time,” she said. “We had to buy a freezer just for water bottles.” Over in the largest barn, Kove Harwood of Echo was tending to his sheep named Savage. Frozen water bot- tles aren’t as much help to the larger animals, but spray bottles and baths work well, he said. Keeping their drink- ing water cool helps too. “It gets hot, and so I’ll take it and dump it out and refill with cool water,” he said. The sheep are shorn as closely as possible (oth- erwise it’s like “one of us wearing a wool sweater,” Harwood said) and their “tubes” that keep them clean after a bath can also be wet- ted down for some extra cooling effect. Pigs are tricky to keep cool because they don’t sweat and are sensitive to sunlight. “Pigs never tan, they just burn and peel,” Hannah Walker of Hermiston said. She and Jacob McKillip were hanging out with their pigs Tuesday afternoon, near the western edge of the barn where shade tarps had been hung to protect the pigs from the setting sun in the eve- ning. The pigs have water in their enclosures, but McK- illip said he also frequently took his pig Troy to the wash racks for a bigger drink and a wash. “Sometimes they need a big drink of water that the spigot doesn’t provide,” he said. You have to slowly wash the pigs from their feet up, McKillip and Walker said, because pouring cold water straight on their backs will — Hannah Walker Staff photo by E.J. Harris Caleb Irwin, 14, of Hermiston wets down a towel that is draped over his Berkshire hog in an attempt to keep the animal cool. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Deven Hofbauer, 18, sprays down his black Angus cross market steer at the wash rack. send them into shock. Pigs start panting heavily when they get overheated, so Walker said if fairgo- ers notice that a pig is pant- ing they can point it out to a nearby 4-H or FFA member. One of the secrets to taking care of animals at the fair is that everyone watches out for each others’ animals. On the end of the barn where the steers are kept, someone had used a drip- hose and mesh to rig a mis- ter system, and others were working on similar projects. A series of large fans were trained on the steers in the large, insulated barn, which was cooler than the outside. Kelly Nelson of Pendle- ton, who is showing a steer named Royal and a lamb named Alex this year, said getting her animals frequent fresh air and a drink at the wash racks helped. “With my steer, every hour I take him out of the pen and get him some water and then cover him in water,” she said. Instructors reminded the youth at a meeting Tuesday morning to make sure their animals stayed hydrated, but after spending a season car- ing for the animals already, they weren’t likely to forget. “I’m a little worried (about the extreme heat coming up) but we’ve been really good about keeping them cool,” Nelson said. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Jesselee Leachman’s zombie apocalypse response team vehicle is on display at the National Night Out. PARTIES: 75 fliers passed out Continued from 1A in the area of the park have fences. Altman said they made that work. When they could not hand folks a flier, they stuck them in the fences, under windshield wipers and sometimes in doorways. She said they made 100 fliers and passed out 75. The effort seemed to pay off. Matt Terjeson, one of three Kiwanis Club past presidents at the park, said they started with 100 hot dogs for the event and were down to 10 by 7:30 in the evening, a half hour before National Night Out came to an end in Pendleton. “We got rid of pretty much all the hot dogs, I know that,” he said. The scene repeated itself at Roy Raley Park, where host Jesselee Leachman was about burning the grates off his gas-powered grill. He had folks lined up 20 deep for the free hot dogs, which local businesses provided, along with the hamburgers his mother tossed in. Mayor John Turner and his wife, Gail, were mak- ing the rounds at the sev- eral parties and gatherings in Pendleton. Past National Night Outs conflicted with city council meetings, but this year Turner rescheduled the meeting so he and other council members could participate. Turner thanked Leach- man for stepping up. Scan- ning the scene, Turner said there were an easy hundred people at Roy Raley, from neighborhood families to local businesses and organi- zations, including the Pend- leton Animal Welfare Shel- ter. He said this a step in the right direction for building community. Residents on the 100 block of Southeast Sev- enth Street were grilling as well. Alyssa Hanson orga- nized the party for her block. She works in the front office of Oregon State Police in Pendleton. “My dad was a retired state cop, so I grew up in it,” she said. Hanson said the event helped the community get to know its local police and firefighters and was a fun way for neighbors to come out and get together. Back over at Kiwanis, with the hot dogs all but gone, folks sat at the park tables and chatted. “I didn’t know who would come out,” Altman said, but tonight she was hanging with folks she hadn’t met before. Sort of the whole point of the night. POLICE: As city continues to grow, the number of police on duty may increase Continued from 1A when multiple incidents pile up. Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston said it’s rare for that many emergencies to converge. “It’s very atypical,” he said. “The last thing I can think of is when we had the officer-involved shooting in 2012, and OSP was deal- ing with the bus crash on Cabbage Hill that killed 17 people.” Lt. Randy Studebaker said when any major inci- dent occurs, he or one of the police captains will immedi- ately show up and appoint a case manager and a lead detective. They, along with other officers, will close off the scene to the public and begin collecting evidence. Officers also apply for a search warrant and notify the forensics lab. The night of the stab- bing, Studebaker, detective Freddy Sotelo, and Capt. Travis Eynon responded to the home on the south side of town around 10 p.m. While Studebaker and Sotelo worked through the night and into the next afternoon, Eynon was called away a few hours after the stabbing to manage officers who were responding to the next inci- dent, a shooting around 1 a.m. on West Hartley Ave- nue. He was joined by police detectives Victor Gutierrez and Robert Guerrero, who worked until about 6 p.m. the next day. At that scene, they found 26 year-old Erik Navarrete Campos, who had a gunshot wound to the head. He died later in the week from that wound, and police are investigating his death as a homicide. Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston said two patrol officers are on duty at all times. As the city con- tinues to grow, that num- ber may have to increase to three. And the long-term absences of three officers for health and family reasons are straining the department. All the law enforce- ment agencies in Umatilla and Morrow counties have signed an agreement to pro- vide mutual aid, which includes helping another department secure a scene, collect evidence, interview witnesses and suspects, write search warrants and attend autopsies. That night, Edmis- ton said the department received help from Board- man, Pendleton, Umatilla, Stanfield and Milton-Free- water police departments, as well as Umatilla and Mor- row County sheriff’s offices, Oregon State Police and the Blue Mountain Enforcement Narcotics Team. Edmiston estimated those assisting from outside agencies pro- vided an average of 24 to 36 hours of assistance to HPD for the two incidents. Edmis- ton said his department was at minimum staffing that evening, and his own detec- tives worked longer to keep up with the workload. He noted in these calls for mutual aid an officer may work overtime for another city. But each agency is responsible for paying their own employees overtime. “That is why it is a give- and-take, and why we want to ensure we have a case manager,” Edmiston said in an email to the EO. “In addi- tion to the lead detective to make sure there are still tasks to be done. If not, the case manager will start send- ing people home.” “In those first 48 hours,” Studebaker said, “it’s not so much investigating leads as trying to identify what those leads are.” Studebaker said after the stabbing they collected what information they could from the victims, but were only able to get the first name of the suspect. So they started looking into people asso- ciated with the victim and began going through the timeline of events. “When we’re looking into this is when we get the shoot- ing call,” Studebaker said. Some Umatilla police officers who had been dis- patched for mutual aid began knocking on doors. “We kind of got some luck, the (suspect) opened the door and said, ‘Hey, I’ve been waiting on you guys,’” Studebaker said. Investigators interviewed Zuwala, who provided a statement that corroborated some of the details police knew. Officers recovered the weapon, which had been thrown into a field. Police arrested and booked Zuwala in the Uma- tilla County Jail, Pendle- ton, and the next day he was arraigned on two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of attempted murder. He awaits a pre-trial hearing Aug. 13. Police have not released any more details about Navarrete’s murder and are investigating it. Around 7 a.m. that day, Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office also responded to a shooting death at Windy Lane. The sheriff’s office confirmed it continues to investigate the death and will not release any information. For cases where the inves- tigation is longer, such as the Navarrete case, Studebaker said the process depends largely on the availability of evidence. “I think it’s important to remember the difference in the role of the police and the role of the prosecution,” Studebaker said. “When we get that case, we don’t know what’s important, what’s rel- evant, or what’s going to be pivotal later.” Much of that is deter- mined after they receive physical evidence back from the crime lab, which can take anywhere from a few days to a few months. “We’re taking on a huge chunk from the beginning, and then the prosecutor is able to whittle down what they need to work with,” he said. After the initial investiga- tion, detectives will spend as much time as necessary on a case — but most local agen- cies don’t have the staff to have a detective devote all their time to one case. “I can’t necessarily pri- oritize my caseload based off what’s most important,” Studebaker said. “I may have to prioritize it based on where I’m going to lose evidence.” Officers also immediately began communicating with the Umatilla County District Attorney’s Office. “On major crimes, the district attorney is one of the first people we notify,” Studebaker said. Often, he said, the district attorney will respond to a crime scene or to briefings with detectives. “They provide legal guid- ance, input from cradle to grave on a case.” A case will officially be turned over to the district attorney when it is ready for prosecution. Studebaker said that may be when police have exhausted all leads, or when they need to get a case through grand jury, or get an arrest warrant for some- one who’s fled the state. The stabbing was turned over to the district attorney within 24 hours of the incident. I have the power to explore You inspire all of us at Pacific Power to provide the most reliable and sustainable energy possible. Every solution we create is to power you, your family, neighborhood and community. Learn how our programs can help you at PoweringGreatness.com. © 2018 Pacifi c Power
