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TION WEEKEND EDI CAPS WIN CUP ANLEY ST SPORTS/1B SALEM’S ABLE UNDRINK WATER BEST OF PREP SEASON SPORTS/1B SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE OREGON STATE OMAHA-BOUND WORLD/2A SPORTS/2B SOUND OF MEXICO LIFESTYLES/1C FRIDAY, OF THE WINNER No. 166 8 JUNE 8, 201 JUNE 9-10, 2018 One dollar CE AWARD EXCELLEN GENERAL 2017 ONPA 142nd Year, No. 167 WINNER OF THE L EXCELLENCE 2017 ONPA GENERA LOST VALLE Y SUED BY CHEES EMAKER REGION/3A DUATION GRA HERMISTON kend Fest at July One dollar WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PENDLETON $1.50 AWARD Your Wee CSAs help bring local farms to your doorstep n in Missio • Spring Grounds unity Days, Helix • Comm fun run in in the Park er • Music in Heppn Bankruptcy filing stalls Hamley auction Co-owner Woodfield severs partnership before date of sale By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The auction to control Hamley businesses turned into a no-ride. For the time being. The Hamley western store, cafe and steakhouse are fixtures of Pendleton’s downtown. Hamley own- ers Parley Pearce and Blair Woodfield are battling each other in court over the future of the businesses. HIPO, an Idaho lim- ited-liability company, bought about $1.4 million of Hamley debt earlier this year and planned to auc- tion the memberships that control the business enti- ties Monday in Portland to recoup that expense. But Woodfield on Friday filed for bankruptcy protection, effectively blocking the sale. “I needed to stop the sale because of the need to pro- tect my interests, so I filed Chapter 11 reorganization,” he said, “and it’s a personal Chapter 11 reorganization.” Woodfield on his filing lists the HIPO debt, $1.5 million to Banner Bank and almost $3.7 million to the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Devel- 142nd Year, No. 169 WINNER OF THE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2017 ONPA GENERA L EXCELLENCE 13, 2018 AWARD One dollar PENDLETON Round-Up to tear down Albertsons, build new retail space ‘South opment, which provided the loan for the Hamley steak- house more than a decade ago. Woodfield said he and Pearce personally guaran- teed the debts and owe them jointly and separately. See HAMLEY/6A HERMISTON and places , 6A For times g Events see Comin campus expansi will centralize operatio on’ ns, add parking space Catch a movie via AP Staff photo by Ocean 8 5A ime, Page For showt Weekend EO , For review Staff photo by E.J. Harris of a thinned section canopy while touring look up into the Rising Summit the Mass Timber Participants in north of Union. forest Thursday Kathy Aney sets up shop operates Val’s Veggies, e Center. Val Tachenko, who Nixyaawii Governenc Thursday at the Erik Navarrete Campos Homicide inquiry begins in shooting sold at farmer’s markets. very By JAYATI “I’ve always been eat- RAMAKRISHNAN passionate about people East Oregonian ing local,” she said. one of Tachenko has been smiles consistent growers As Val Tachenko a carton of the only and hands over a s to a in the region to maintain just-ripe strawberrie after- CSA. She has 48 customers, customer on Thursday is not and usually caps the service 65/49 person noon, one 65/46 at about 60. farm- 82/52 happy. Tachenko sells at Aney East Oregonian young grandson er’s markets in La Grande, by Kathy Her photo Staff the edge Baker pokes his head over at the and has a fruit stand in she Erik Navarrete Cam- Each Thursday, of the table and frowns City. the wick. table in pos, 26, was taken off life Kenne remaining boxes. sells produce at a Forest products find Center in one!” “He took my best what Nixyaawii Governance Cen- support Friday night and ction at the Toyota day night new uses in constru died soon after at Kadlec It’s hard to say in the ter in Mission. air Thurs s into the Regional Medical Center, looks best. The table e Cen- With so many opportu- mortarboard Governanc local produce, toss their buy Richland, Wash. WRIGHT to Nixyaawii PHIL grads nities By baskets of Hermiston said many people An autopsy determined ter groans with East Oregonian cher- Tachenko CSA understand why a the cause of death was a fresh greens, onions, s, which don’t before the ries and strawberrie of Val’s box is a good option. sea- gunshot wound to the head, Bill Gamble stood Sandbox and on in the Tachenko, owner The service relies which and police are investigat- crowd Thursday alongside but the vegetables, restore its health. Veggies, sells ing the shooting as a homi- touted the work to high points, that she’s sonal that you won’t find Manage- the CSA boxes not just the that had shaped them. means cide, according to Herm- says The Sandbox Vegetation ed 16,000 to deliver to weekly peppers in early June. iston Police Chief Jason l dates in brought encompass challenges Project severa Sen. Grassley ment to eat Mountains near had been customers. “People struggle tors, Westfall noted Edmiston. years that acres in the Blue Catherine Creek all 100 sena should A CSA, or Communi- , seasonally,” Tachenko said. Police responded to the the last few for their class. it’s Union in the Upper is the U.S. For- first few weeks residence of Navarrete Cam- ty-Supported Agriculture NAN milestones d Nov. 25, 2017, the not just two, Watershed. Gamble for the La Grande pay a fee “The I RAMAKRISH greens. (People) He recalle High School won allows people to intment By JAYAT Oregonian pos in the 500 block of Hart- est Service ranger of a sea- mostly Those i- ston the work that East decide appo at the beginning a box of want tomatoes, corn. ley Avenue in Hermiston day Hermi 5A football champ District. He oversaw E.J. Harris open and natural son and then get delivered aren’t available yet.” peo- the OSAA recalled one of the Staff photo by ted, Herm- about 1:20 a.m. on June 4 resulted in a more 16 million board ate MCDOWELL s they gradua fresh vegetables onship. He But the boxes allow after while on a tour By JADE when a classm nian School’s class from a that a report of gunshots forest while selling section of forest East Orego project wrapped up iston High to them each week farm. As ple to get vegetables the toughest days, through a cleared ted every- of Union. feet of timber. The as Participants walk Timber Rising Summit north available at and found Navarrete Cam- that of 2018 celebra local or regional passed away. like those test us has may not be t them to the Mass in 2015. native Ryan aca- pos injured. He was taken ents our building. Tachenko during dozen s brough wood ston day, week, a “Mom in the of this Hermi people safe thing that well as the change ser- market. The crowd was a couple and industry come he said. “That big threat. Kadlec Regional Medical headed to is wood in one form a family,” a little closer.” expanded her delivery “The CSA boxes to up Fire, after all, is the had to prove Bounds is point — as all of the building ated demics, forest managers in Pendle- from Center in Richland, Wash. the attending the Mass or another, including cross-lamin pan- family got vice to customers first,” she said, opening Heppner said Lever withstand a Senate ce heard ahead. for the love, insiders who were Police have not released boxes awaiting in La Grande. The audien ano, a student which comes in g beams could ton and Hermiston. “I thank you the tears, but most floor for she’s one of the stuffed with additional Timber Rising Summit said, is an timber, or CLT, walls. The material is load-bearin kale, degree in a fur- - information and Tachenko said Salma Angui encouraged her Gamble size of pickup. It’s confir - two-hour fire at 2,000 steel and con- the happiness history,” said valedic Sandbox, els but bok suspects or the cir- n, The who awareness keep they to r if about constructio of test chard, spinach, smart work speake noticed more mation of all, our class speaker Dylan catching on in urban its use in Canada, nace, the kind to pass. to be patient example of good, since she rainbow out have classmates figured out their path Around 1.2 million behind about eating local 2009 at choi and green onions. cumstances surrounding the after the torian and other crete also go see what’s the forest healthy. Mountains needs the U.S. lags fall of 2016, in zucchini some the got CSA in and hadn’t “Let’s e her incident. they that t ll. a did still n started Kingdom “Today Lever Se Westfa the United where acres of the Blue have mass timber prod- passion te he said. Campos’s fam- in life. broccoli. I don’t Navarrete her Baker City farm, your Judi- becoming the first pass the test. there.” the friends held two car class to gradua some kind of restoration, and timber parts of Europe. chickens and at and is with Lever to “Finding at an unexpected that to sell ily she raises cattle, The largest in the history of ciary Jonathan Heppner that designed ucts in the world uses a “self-center- in a enough of That includes thinning that. over the weekend ston firm timber industry “My advice it will happen washes and grows vegetables that table, but the boxes got Framework also Com- from Hermi , 342 seniors walked Architecture, the the crowd earlier she said. livability. sales, which the mass moment,” that moment when to help raise money for his 16-acre garden. Before . He told m i t t e e Bounds the school stage at the Toyota ing design” for earthquake and needs. down Framework of torn lot wants produce, a be seize engineer- won’t spends d wholesale to about is See CSA/10A medical expenses and have she sold The class vote “This building across the and in the day that Lever Mass timber is distin- Kennewick. and comes.” d his structures of wood discussion on how to build to “elevate operated farm stands set up a GoFundMe page 11 to 10 Hill, the Center in ing load-bearing valedictorians ic, Aney ay to forwar ” But the firm Judge Dan by Kathy See WOOD/8A to build high, such on Thursd for the 9th U.S. online. He was a lifelong boasted 10 ses in academ Staff photo keep and using those 12-story high rise the human experience. Jason ors, S/8A the obligation to nomination of Appeals. Hermiston resident. several succes member at the See GRAD as Framework, the this fall. Nearly did not shirk musical endeav l board night Circuit Court judicial nom- athletic and al Tom Spoo. hugs schoo a Thursday going up in Portland es diplom kamper Bounds’ noted Princip of 2018 qualifi thrust into ing her a Wade MILTON-FREEWATER liberal “The class finest in Hermiston Breen eton after receiv wick. ination was ht after Kenne Middl the the spotlig as one of l history,” Spoo said. Toyota Center in ce for Jus- LEGE op-eds activists Allian High Schoo chose to remember ized four Stan- all of MUNITY COL Students tice public to do is just bring oper- COM the ing IN for NTA By PHIL WRIGHT Bounds wrote during col- our farming and baling loca- BLUE MOU East Oregonian ford Review spoke mock- ations to one central which lege, in tion,” he said. oper- More than 18 acres zone Blue Mountain Hay but DS/8A use See BOUN of Walla Walla the exclusive farm could ates out e- near Milton-Freewater an office in Milton-Fre turnaround is an processing has be home to a hay Werhan water. The company a dramatic awards — en overse of the Derstine ated in two for operation. But Tim A locals are offshoot Valley Hay Co., that culmin n SBDC Award the NIO SIERR and some other By ANTO family’s nian nt. for- 2018 Orego & Innovation from East Orego fighting the developme busi- which ships pressed Wil- Excellence Business Administra- “I support a good “But age products from the the Blue said. Business Devel- return to College U.S. Small The family Werhan her Valley. Small ness,” the lamette Award Upon — put them Community pment Cen- tion and t Center Excellence region, let’s find a place to with all — a father and five sons Hay Mountain opmen ss Develo Northwest ngton, Mountain that won’t conflict and formed Blue take advantage Small Busine Carol Frink knew for the Pacific Washi lives n, Orego 2015, these people’s in 2008 to ter in late overhaul on her hands. which covers . and alfalfa prod- property values.” she had an 19 such offices across Idaho and Alaska developing a con- rep- of wheat E.J. Harris fallen Jeremy Christman Hay, ucts east of the Cascades. Staff photo by One of Whether it’s financing, or human the ’s center had s met- ng, RV, opposes resents Blue Mountain Oregon, BMCC cept, brandi SBDC uses a team e who owns Smiley facility next door in the variou company in question. try- See HAY/10A Tim Werhan, to dead last zation uses to mea- r resources, the advisers to provid Mountain Hay and potential water the ss proposed Blue “What we’re really truck traffic rics the organi ing its numbe of five busine business owners because of increased success, includ r of new busi- free help to small sure concerns. numbe quality the by E.J. Harris guidance, of clients, Staff photo /8A under its . See BMCC r director nesses started r of jobs created has nt Cente the 2018 Developme and the numbe years since, Frink nized with Business In the two er Sun Bounds to get hearing in Senate WORLD CUP COMING TO NORTH AMERICA SPORTS/1B TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2018 142nd Year, No. 168 Weath Weekend Sat Fri ONE IN FIVE RURAL KID IN POVERTY S OREGON/2A /2A arner Bros. Barry Wetcher/W FIND YOUR DREAM HOME INSIDE TODAY SPORTS/1B EST NORTHW 142nd Year, RICHARDS IS STATE’S TOP PITCHER SPORTS/1B WARRIORS SWEEP od Building with wo ards bo moves beyond the e tassel Turning th ota Center ir caps at Toy r tosses the est class eve High’s larg Hermiston A und or turns aro ter New direct elopment cen business dev recog the United is the Small tment was just tion from depar Carol Frink ence & Innova and her for Excell at BMCC on. SBDC Award Administrati Oregon Business States Small proposed Neighbors oppose hay processor 142nd Year, No. 170 PENDLETON Developer asks city to build road to proposed apartment s WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA THURSD AY, JUNE 14, GENERAL EXCELLEN CE AWARD 2018 One dollar Previous agre included split ement cost of road ting By ANTO NIO SIERR A East Orego nian Pendleton Heights devel- By ANTONIO SIERRA oper Saj Jinvaje e is asking East Oregonian for more complete financial help to the The Pendleton his housin final phases of southward by tearing Round-Up will expand g wants it soon. project, and he sons grocery store down the former Albert- Swimmers pass The Newbe a 10-pound brick and ticketing facility and building a new retail the Hermiston among each other rg develo laid in Family Aquatic its per former out while parking lot. treading water his Center. Months of speculation Staff photo by during a junior June 7 letter proposal in a E.J. Harris gave way to real- lifeguard swim ity Tuesday as the class Monday at ager Robb to City Man- project, which it Round-Up announced the Corbet t. If the is deeming the “south city grants pus expansion.” cam- Jivanjee said his requests, Round-Up President construction he can begin Dave O’Neill said new 10,000- to 15,000-squ on the first the units of a 100-un 20 are-foot building will centralize many it apartment complex. of the rodeo’s operations and give them more space. Aquatic centers work Jivanjee propos The Round-Up’ es: • Rather prevent drownings to increased retail space s key needs are for of extending than split the cost with room to store with fill online sales, an the road to apartment expanded swim lessons independent ticketing and the with adequate office area jee wants complex, Jivan- istrative offices and space, cohesive admin- the entire the city to cover By JADE MCDOWEL cost of the service providers. convenient space to meet L Army vetera The total street. East Oregonian ticketing have risen Revenue from retail and n Steph and help $394,000. estimated cost is his fellow en Jensen served ing them under one in recent years, and hous- veterans day at the pool • The curren transition as a vehicle gunne or those processes more roof is intended to make t deal be relaxing, but for the beach can to civilia $720,0 r in northe places efficient. 00 n life. someone who rn Iraq in Randy Thomas, the doesn’t know property as in liens on the 2004. Jense Round-Up’s director of publicity, acknowled n is now quickly turn deadly. how to swim, it can improvement a part of a local Staff photo about to ged that by E.J. Harris the way cus- tomers purchase tickets district. graduate That’s something jee wants from BMCC to make Jivan- ticketing infrastructu has changed, and their aquatic centers hope the staff of local ment for every a pay- re needs to as well. to avoid. “People unit The he builds used to rather than Hermiston Staff photo by E.J. Harris then write a check,” buy a ticket, buy a hat, and ter is teaching swim Family Aquatic Cen- builds all annually. If he he BMCC grad The fire charred hallway on the west end of the Hermiston Adventist Church on Monday in Hermiston. An early morning fire 100 units, With more and more said. 1,700 people this lessons to more than would uate that be $7,200 patrons printing gutted the building Sunday morning. their tickets at home to adults. The adult summer, from toddlers veterans trans to run new cent At a Pendle per unit. or even using images out er that help spurred by a recent class is new this year, on ton City ition from Council work drowning s death of a military to Umatilla man who day, Jivanje session Tues- BMCC grad See RETAIL/8A By KATHY jumped into the Colum- college uation bia River to save his ANEY cil that he e told the coun- a damaged Thursday, East Orego needed an combat action ing how to swim. son despite not know- knee and nian soon or his answer loss from Pendleton June 14, 7 p.m. badge, hearin financing ican flag. IED Convention “It was heartbreaki be withdrawn. would On the other, the Amer- home, he eased explosions. Back g tephen Jensen Center ng,” aquatic center a zombi manager Kasia Robbins MILTON-FREEWATER wears his who depicts who Hermiston congregation A mixtur can life. Re-ent back into Ameri life on his Jensen says e said. “I felt said. “We once was. sleeve. - to try to prevent ry took time. and warine e of confusion like our he Many of “You’re used Tattoo it from happening want Pierce Strong, 10, porpoises countr will move to school while the images needed as many again.” both of Jensen sleeves cover come in pairs, ever the junior out of the water meate the ss seemed to per- Staff photo by E.J. Harris swim team class as they could. people to step y guard all the time,” to being on one on the while doing the ’s muscular the other on up don’t Each arm breast stroke during Monday at the The new class, held bers tried to council as mem- right, he said. “You arms. devil. the left. considering options Hermiston Family Tuesday and Thurs- need He joined ” day evenings at theme. One conveys an opposi Aquatic Center. The seven Jesus and the headed latest change comprehend the you still are.” to be anymore, but the Army 8:05 p.m., has attracted to the water, followed by te the seven deadly sins is light, the to a projec to six and participants from By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN dark. different Iraq and els The heaven t. lev- in of 25-minute classes. other Instead of ages 2004. In said. around Kirkuk city ly virtues. “Every and lege, going back open to ages 16 and 17 to 57 (the class is morning East Oregonian On Monday how “Other kids learn how to stay afloat, with Pendle was involved When the , Jensen spent a mix up). The HFAC is to col- Iraq War wake up, morning when you days as a gunner his igator. he worked as a veteran offering more children’s graduates also ing in different of skill levels were practic- really a stroke affects their endurance. from its start ton Heights veteran you atop vee, Thursd It have With lessons nav- parts ranges a Hum- paths scanni of the pool. A handful with age.” than ay from different funding from this year and as a Mountain ing city-ow in 2012, donat- A fire early Sunday morning destroyed Blue recentl you can take,” Jensen result still has slots usual of very young girls were practicing improvised ng the landscape for Westcare Found On the the able. Usually the his gown Community Colleg avail- ing up and Olney Cemet ned land near much of the Hermiston Adventist Church, bounc- trum is more advanced end of the spec- veterans naviga ation, he helped will hide his aquatic center has e, right y. “I’m trying to take said He and his explosive device down in a shallow ery the hour-long and culty of path.” te diffi- s. ing fellow collection meaningful part of the class, the finding enough summer as flames and extensive smoke damaged front- the in a multi-use pool to infrast which gives teens junior lifeguard tattoos, but caravan lookin soldiers rode housing, build resume system, get keep their heads staff to meet Jensen returne know they the demand for lessons, help seal the ructure costs to a the decades-old house of worship. and whatev he will s, find food g for anythi irregul are there. They d to but Robbins said water, while in the lap pool small above cises they would practice taste of the exer- deal. years er story. this year they have Long battle ended In exchan Umatilla County Fire District Marshal tell his had ago after a long college two where ar, nooks and cranni ng A few years else they needed. more staff than ever of elementary school-aged children groups — potentially lifesaving to be a lifeguard by ge, Jivanje an IED hiatus. He started at ago, before. es Lee, agreed to On the kickboards or swam skills used they choose Scott Goff said investigators think the fire e BMCC the inside a dead could lurk such and now-w his boss, John pay back $457,000 from Busines loan for the laps. to work at a pool whether names and left arm are his kids’ 2000 after gradua as fall of the most of There are two levels ife Fia Jensen animal was caused by a lamp that was too close to “The young kids next sum- s Oregon enforc infrastructure ting dates of road. It wasn’t or a hole in convinced him to of parent and are learning the water mer or not. costs. As classes, for infants birth, his leton High School. from Pend- return to lege before a wooden table. Foul play is not suspected. ement relaxin and toddlers to get tot safety aspect, when is it safe “They’re going over “You’re on col- “Then 9/11 used water and city placed measures, the to get in the By ANTONIO SIERRA the edge the g work. 2020. Jensen his GI Bill ran out training that life- “It was a long, slow, smoldering fire that time,” Jensen how to exit and enter,” happened,” in whole As enrolled at jee’s proper liens on Jivan- Robbins he East Oregonian he settled kind of cooked the whole building,” Goff BMCC. He returne recalled. See SAFETY/8A into his classes a stipulation ties and created d to the states said. , the in the agree- with After years of operating ment that As flames engulfed the west side of the See allowe without, GRADUATE/ drinking water will d 5A eventually return clean to retake the land the city building before dawn on Sunday, some ton-Freewater’s Locust to Mil- if it went church members were quick to jump to Staff photo by E.J. Harris The Milton-Freewater Mobile Village. See DEVE action. LOPER/5A Flames erupted out of these doors on the west end of the Hermiston Adventist mously voted Tuesday City Council unani- Corbin Maxey, Larry Hanson, a former head elder in Church on Sunday in Hermiston. IRRIGON forgivable loan from to authorize a $457,000 the Reptile the church, helped fight the fire as a volun- trailer park to the the state to connect the Guy, holds a teer for the Echo Fire Department. Hanson, a longtime member of the Goff said he estimated the damage at $3 Manager Linda Hall city’s water system. City Brazilian rain- said the loan will “It’s kind of hard to say how long it had church, said the building was constructed million. Hanson said the church’s insur- verted to a grant be con- bow boa con- as been burning,” Hanson said. in the mid-1960s. Hanson said on Monday ance would cover those costs. ished within three long as the project is fin- strictor on the years of the contract executed. He arrived around 5:15 a.m., close to an that they wouldn’t know the extent of the While the building is under repair, he being end of a stick during a Sum- hour after UCFD reached the church, and damage until an insurance adjuster arrived Inside the urban mer of Scales side city limits, growth boundary but out- See FIRE/6A remained on site until about 9 a.m. Tuesday. By JADE Locust Mobile Village tour event on MCDO been in a protracted has East Orego WELL battle with the city Tuesday at access to the municipal nian to gain told him during the Hermis- his infantr On Dec. shot at maybe In 2015, the trailer water system. y days he 1, 1969 Artie ton Library. park tried to force twice, but Gerald Dunca got city to annex the property up in the Kellar as PENDLETON Maxey will be into the system until Vietnam when n were on a helicop Jr. and on his a helicopter he got soon as he went the city lobbied performing his first day. Gunne shot at 15 times the Oregon Legislature Kellar was ter in to that tore a pass a law that effectively rs were more hit get to animal show right leg just silver dollar-sized by a round enemie hit than the pilots, likely A year later, the Oregon scuttled the move. Wednesday he said, becaus hole in his s shooting Health Authority a tourniquet above the ankle. Dunca at the found a federal grant aiming e at Vert Club over the wound that would have covered n tied slightl directly at the craft had a habit of lar from bleedin the city’s cost of Room 5 p.m. helicopter y ahead of data that showed how many chil- By ANTONIO SIERRA The figures for total new enroll- Another 21 percent unenrolled extending water lines, g to death that kept Kel- instead of to it. in Pendleton. base. the on Umatilla with On Dec. the way back County dren enrolled in the district in a automatically because they missed ment appear to show the district East Oregonian The two men agreeing to act as Board of Commissioners carriers when 1 they were protec school year versus how many left. 10 straight days of school and making up for lost students with the fiscal agent. were reunite time this week lar was “grabb they took fire. Sudde ting troop But the d for council the The Pendleton School District is It also included information about 12 percent transferred to another some new ones, but an overall drop as Duncan nly, Kel- ing his leg lar’s home reject extending the unanimously voted to stopped by first It’s in Irrigon losing more students than it’s taking why students left. school district. Much smaller per- in students is backed up by the dis- Kel- mome interesting what and screaming.” try trip. during a cross-c soning it wasn’t the utility at that time, rea- people nt like that, in, and in many instances, there’s The report shows that out of the centages graduated early, entered trict’s enrollment reports. oun- Duncan said. think of in a “This guy and was unfair to best use of federal money “What was here saved other properties that The 2,973 students enrolled in little the district can do about it. 266 students who dropped out of a treatment program, started home going throug said. that my life,” had to Staff photo by h my mind Kellar my time was that he E.J. Harris On Monday, district staff pre- the district over the course of the school, went through an expulsion June was a 27-student decrease Back in 1969, at was helicop bleedin See WATER/8A Kellar was sented the Pendleton School Board 2017-2018 school year, 57 percent or left for an extended vacation Artie Kellar can was there to ter, and he was not g all over 18 21. Both Jr., left, and going to Staff photo at Kellar with a “mobility report,” a set of moved out of town. before the last day of school. See SCHOOL/6A — gunner were “Copp and Dun- day,” he help clean it up at Gerald Dunca by Jade ’s Irrigon s McDowel the end of be said. l home after since 1969. n Helicopter for the Army’s 162nd erheads” the He jumped reuniting stand together Company. into action, for the first 17 and Dunca Kellar had Assault niquet applyi enlisted at and time Duncan n had been drafted they landed providing medica ng a tour- l care until dangerous said door gunner was . ting shot . Kellar said the feeling job in the was “like of get- Army — the most being hit one buddy with a 10 See REUN ITED/5A LIFE SAVERS A BATTLE TESTED Lamp blamed for church fire Trailer park will connect to city water Scaly to the max S Veteran reu nit who saved ed with the man his life in Vi etnam Administrators try to break trend of slow enrollment decline Subscribe and get it all, five days a week. Get full online access with a print subscription. Call us! 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SEE WEEKLY ADVERTISING CIRCULARS INSIDE