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East Oregonian
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
FAIR: Tarps were hung to protect animals
“Pigs never
tan, they just
burn and
peel.”
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“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
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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
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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.
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