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Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Beards and dachshunds at Pilot Rock Days
East Oregonian
Foreign exchange
program still looking
for host families
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Winners of Pilot Rock Day’s inaugural beard competition check out their awards. Five men entered the
contest Saturday afternoon, and Greg DeBoer (right) won for natural beard, Terry Corwin won for crowd
favorite, and Marcus Eley won for freestyle.
Staff photos by Phil Wright
Above: Velvet and Slick take off for the finish line Sat-
urday during the Wiener Dog Races at Pilot Rock Days.
Right: Jaxynn Thurmond of Pilot Rock holds Luna June,
the winner during Saturday’s Weiner Dog Races at Pi-
lot Rock Days. The annual community celebration in Pi-
lot Rock introduced the dog races three years ago, and
Luna June has been the champ each time.
MILTON-FREEWATER
Police nab four following drive-by shooting
East Oregonian
Walla
Walla
police
arrested
four
suspects
following
a
drive-by
shooting late Friday in
Milton-Freewater.
Milton-Freewater Police
Chief Doug Boedigheimer in
a written statement reported
officers at 10:48 p.m.
responded to a call about
gunshots on the 100 block
of Southeast Fifth Ave-
nue. They found a drive-by
shooting occurred, but the
bullets did not hit anyone,
and the suspects took off in
a vehicle.
The Walla Walla Police
Department and Walla Walla
County Sheriff’s Office
just across the border mon-
itor Oregon’s police calls,
according to Boedigheimer.
Walla Walla police reported
its C Squad overheard the
call at approximately 11:13
p.m., and officers set up in
anticipation of the suspects
coming to Walla Walla.
Sure enough, an offi-
cer spotted a vehicle that
matched the description of
the car from Milton-Freewa-
ter and tried to stop it.
The vehicle briefly came
to a stop, then took off,
according to the written
statement from Walla Walla
police, and officers pursued
after learning the occupants
were likely involved in the
shooting.
Members from the Walla
Walla Police Department,
the Walla Walla Sheriff’s
Office and the Washing-
ton State Patrol chased the
car, which ultimately led
to a sheriff’s deputy setting
out spike strips to blow the
tires on the car. The vehi-
cle crashed at the Mill Creek
Bridge, and four people ran
from the crash.
Law enforcement caught
two immediately and identi-
fied them as Charley Lozano
Magana and Juan Venegas
Esquivel, both 24.
The third suspect ran far
enough away to get an Uber
ride. Police tracked that to
Milton-Freewater,
where
officers stopped the ride and
arrested a juvenile suspect.
Police caught the fourth
suspect and driver, Michael
Angelo Cantu, 27, at his
home in Walla Walla. Cantu,
Lozano and Esquivel remain
in the Walla Walla County
Jail.
“Milton-Freewater inves-
tigation is continuing, with
charges pending upon com-
pletion,”
according
to
Boedigheimer. “Gang moti-
vation is suspected.”
Walla Walla police also
reported while its officers
were busy with the catching
the suspects, nearby College
Place police handled the
bigger city’s calls for police
services.
HERMISTON
Police crawl to catch Bartz and Barker
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Police
finally caught up to Zachary
Lorance Bartz.
Bartz, 25, has been on the
run from local law enforce-
ment for weeks. He is a sus-
pect in vehicle thefts, hot
pursuits and other crimes.
Hermiston
police
reported its officers Friday
night went low to make the
arrest.
Police received a report
of a stolen trailer, which offi-
cers tracked to just outside of
town, according to a written
statement from the Hermis-
ton Police Department.
“After low crawling
through the dirt and sand for
much longer than they would
have liked, while using the
darkness for concealment,”
according to the statement,
“our officers got
to within a few
feet of the alleged
thieves.
They
slapped
cuffs
on the surprised
crooks before they
knew what was
happening.”
The
sus-
pects were Bartz Bartz
and 45-year-old
Charles Brian Barker.
“Coincidentally,”
the
statement continued, “while
our officers were making
the arrest, we received a
call about another burglary.
As it turns out, the stolen
property from that case had
been recovered during these
arrests, before the victim
even knew it was missing.”
Officers booked the pair
into the Umatilla County
Jail, Pendleton. Police
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arrested
Barker
for two counts of
possession of a
stolen vehicle and
violating parole,
according to the
jail’s online ros-
ter, while Bartz
faces an array
of charges, from
vehicle theft to
burglary to felony
fleeing.
Hermiston
police
reported the charges relate to
crimes in Umatilla and Mor-
row counties, and the depart-
ment said it would release
more information this week.
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Kids are already start-
ing to head back to school in
some districts, but families in
Eastern Oregon still have an
opportunity to host a foreign
exchange student this year.
Jennifer Gartin, the local
coordinator for the Council
of Educational Travel USA
program, said she still needs
more host families for 2018-
19 who live within 60 miles
of her Tri-Cities location.
They need to be selected by
Friday, so she said if people
are interested they should
contact her immediately.
Gartin said she is look-
ing for families to host for 10
months, 5 months, or to be a
“welcome family” that hosts
for a few weeks until a per-
manent home can be found.
“A lot of host families
start with that, with the wel-
come families,” she said.
“They’re a little unsure but
once they get into it they usu-
ally say, ‘This is great.’”
Host
families
for
CETUSA are required to
pass a background check
and must provide the student
with three meals a day and
their own bed. Students can
have their own room or share
with a same-sex student of
the same age. Exchange stu-
dents come with their own
medical insurance and an
allowance from their parents
for school supplies, clothing
and other essentials outside
food and housing.
“They bring their own
pocket money,” Gartin said.
The students are all profi-
cient in English.
She said in return for play-
ing host to the students, fam-
ilies get a memorable expe-
rience and an opportunity to
foster a “cultural exchange”
by teaching the student about
American culture and learn-
ing about the student’s home.
“You get to learn about a
different country in your own
home, which is a big thing,”
Gartin said.
Gartin is originally from
Sweden, and said she valued
the experiences she was able
to share in when she came
to the United States for col-
lege and shared cultural dif-
ferences with her American
roommates.
Area schools host foreign
exchange students and also
send local students to other
countries each year through a
variety of programs, includ-
ing CETUSA, Rotary and
the ASSE International Stu-
dent Exchange Program.
Students currently look-
ing for an American host
family in the area:
• Jieling, 16, hails from
China and enjoys movies,
running, badminton, basket-
ball and soccer. He describes
himself as mature and
friendly and said his dream is
to take over his father’s busi-
ness someday.
• Minh Duc, 16, is from
Vietnam. He enjoys cheer-
leading, cooking, gardening,
basketball, bicycling, bowl-
ing, classical music, comput-
ers, going to sporting events,
hiking and gymnastics.
• Natthabhum, 16, is from
Thailand and is Buddhist. He
collects stamps, wants to be
an engineer, plays the vio-
lin and enjoys a variety of
sports.
• Zhenbgo, 15, is from
China and enjoys popu-
lar music, hiking and swim-
ming. He has an A- grade
average and said he wants
to learn a lot and study hard
while in America so that he
can help his father’s business
when he returns home.
• Rafael, 17, is from Bra-
zil and is Catholic. He enjoys
computers, watching mov-
ies, listening to popular
music, running, swimming,
cooking and playing video
games. He hopes to someday
be a doctor, or a dentist like
his mother.
For more information
or to volunteer to host a
student, contact Gartin at
310-985-9579.
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