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Vickie Leonard of Pendleton is one of two wagon drivers that will be giving wagon rides around downtown Portland Aug. 28-31
to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Oregon Trail.
HITCHIN’ A RIDE
Cantu
Attempted
murder
added to
charges in
drive-by
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Michael Angelo Cantu of
Walla Walla faces charges of
attempted murder for Friday
night’s drive-by shooting in
Milton-Freewater.
The Umatilla County
District Attorney’s Office on
Thursday arraigned Cantu,
27, on the following: three
counts of attempted mur-
der, two counts of unlaw-
ful use of a weapon and one
for felon in possession of
a firearm, all felonies; and
seven misdemeanor counts
of recklessly endangering
another person.
Court records don’t indi-
cate if Cantu entered a plea.
His next hearing is Sept. 11.
For now, he remains in the
Umatilla County Jail, Pend-
leton, in lieu of $1.81 mil-
lion bail.
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Urban traffic doesn’t worry wagon drivers
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
N
eed a lift? If so, you might consider
going by covered wagon.
The ride-sharing company, Lyft,
and Travel Oregon will provide free wagon
rides in downtown Portland from Aug.
28-31. The wagon will travel a predeter-
mined route from the Oregon Historical
Society on Southwest Park Avenue from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. The event commem-
orates the 175th anniversary of the Oregon
Trail.
Two Umatilla County wagon drivers,
Vickie Leonard and Brian Cook, will navi-
gate Portland streets with Leonard’s wagon
and Cook’s mules, Mary and Jean.
When Lyft called Leonard in December
to engage a covered wagon, Leonard was
confused.
“I was sure it was a wrong number,” said
the Pendleton horsewoman.
Turned out Lyft Portland and Travel Ore-
gon wanted to hire her and Cook’s company,
Wagon Train Adventures, to ferry people in a
covered wagon as a way to pay tribute to the
historic Oregon Trail.
Leonard’s wagon is a reproduction built
by an Amish company, though she and her
husband Randy have built other wagons with
their own hands. The couple now has a fleet
of 14 wagons and a pasture full of mules and
horses to pull them. Insurance requirements,
however, mandate using a commercially built
wagon for such events. The wagon includes
features not seen on covered wagons travel-
ing the Oregon Trail so many years ago. This
prairie schooner has roller bearings, hydrau-
lic brakes, improved suspension, metal steps
and hazard lights.
The Portland gig was an outgrowth of
another one in 2016. A production company
from the Netherlands hired Leonard and two
other local teamsters to drive a wagon for
an episode of the Dutch reality show “Wie
See WAGON/8A
“I’m sorry to the buffalo. He didn’t
deserve what I did to him”
— Raymond Reinke
Pendleton man gets
jail time for harassing
Yellowstone bison
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — An
Oregon man who said he and his
buddy were on a “last hurrah” tour
through national parks before he
entered alcohol treatment
was sentenced Thursday
to 130 days in jail for his
drunken behavior, includ-
ing harassing a bison that
had stopped traffic in Yel-
lowstone National Park.
Raymond
Reinke’s
crimes drew national
attention when at least
one Yellowstone visi- Reinke
tor caught his interaction
with a bison on video .
Reinke, of Pendleton, Oregon,
pleaded guilty during a federal
court appearance in Mammoth,
Wyoming, where cases from Yel-
lowstone park are heard.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark
Carman sentenced him to 60
days in jail for harassing wildlife,
60 days for interfering with law
enforcement and 10 days for disor-
derly conduct. He was given credit
for 21 days served.
Reinke, 55, is banned from
Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Gla-
cier national parks for a five-year
probationary period during which
he is not allowed to drink alco-
hol. His planned chemical depen-
dency treatment is now
court-ordered.
“I’m sorry to the buf-
falo. He didn’t deserve
what I did to him,”
Reinke said, ABC Fox
Montana reported.
U.S. Attorney Leo
Pico described Reinke’s
behavior as the “most
egregious” case of ani-
mal harassment he’d seen
in Yellowstone.
The judge told Reinke: “You’re
lucky the bison didn’t take care of
it, and you’re standing in front of
me.”
Reinke was first cited for public
intoxication and interfering with
law enforcement in Grand Teton
National Park on July 28. He spent
a night in jail before posting a $500
bond.
A few days later in Yellowstone,
Reinke got in trouble after getting
See BISON/8A
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Hannah Whyatt poses for a friend’s photo as smoke from the Fer-
guson fire fills Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, Calif.
Tourism takes a hit
due to wildfires
Agencies from
Oregon, California and
Washington team up to
assure people it’s safe
to visit
By LORIN ELENI GILL
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Alarmed
by as much as $20 million in lost
tourism revenue in July due to vis-
itors’ fear of wildfires, California’s
state tourism agency said Thursday
it is teaming up with Oregon and
Washington state to reassure tour-
ists it’s safe to visit.
The states formed the West
Coast Tourism Recovery Coali-
tion to remind tourists that the fires
have hit mostly rural areas, so will
likely not affect their vacations,
despite recent blazes that have
clogged skies with smoke.
“As we shift into crisis recovery
mode, competition takes a back-
seat,” said Caroline Beteta, presi-
dent of Visit California.
In a survey by the tourist
agency, about 11 percent of 1,000
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