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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 2018)
Pendleton football fans watch the action on the field in the Bucks’ 38-12 win against La Grande in the season opener Thursday in Pendleton. Staff photo by E.J. Harris FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2018 142nd Year, No. 215 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend • • • Free fishing weekend Saturday, Sunday Pancake breakfast Saturday in Stanfield Irrigon farmers market on Saturday For times and places see Coming Events, 3A Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 78/52 79/48 83/55 Watch a game Hermiston vs. Pasco Friday, 7 p.m., at Kennison Field, Hermiston DA CHARGES NEGLECT REGION/3A AUDIT FINDS STATE RISKS INSIDE/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Umapine residents Meredith Moore, 15, and Taylor Ann Skramstad will represent the state in 2019 as Miss Teen Rodeo Oregon and Miss Rodeo Oregon. Umapine royalty Two rodeo queens hail from same tiny town By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian T he tiny agricultural community of Umapine produces cattle, wheat, apples, grapes and rodeo queens. As far as the latter goes, it was a bumper crop this year. Umapine residents Taylor Ann Skram- stad and Meredith Moore won state rodeo queen titles this summer. Skramstad, 23, is Miss Rodeo Oregon. Moore, 15, is Miss Teen Rodeo. The pair will spend the whole of 2019 serving as the face of Oregon rodeo. The two young women honed a rock-solid friendship preparing for competition. “We’d text each other trivia questions,” Moore said. “She’d come over to my house and we’d practice our modeling and speeches.” They hashed out clothing details, per- fected their horsemanship skills and grilled each other during mock interviews. “We totally grabbed the bull by the horns,” Skramstad said. They met up again this week at Tate’s, a store/restaurant combo near Umapine’s lone four-way stop. About 300 people live in the unincorporated town about eight miles northwest of Milton-Freewater. As the rodeo royalty settled into chairs in the restaurant, Donna Tate called out to them from behind the cash register. “Congratulations, girls,” Tate called. “We are very, very proud of you.” Moore and Skramstad grinned at each See ROYALTY/8A Most parks get high marks in Pendleton survey By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Samantha Brown of Pendleton checks her cell phone while walking with her daughters, Aislyn, 2, and Au- tumn, 4, in Community Park on Thursday in Pendleton. Pendleton residents love their parks. That was one of the main takeaways from a city survey about residents’ opin- ions and attitudes toward the Pendleton parks and recreation system. The survey was conducted by Campbell DeLong Solutions Inc., a Portland polling and research firm, and was based off of a sample of 485 people, although the respon- dents skewed female, over 40 years old and toward homeowners. The survey concluded that 99 percent of respondents have visited either a park or a department facility like the Pendleton Aquatic Center, Olney Cemetery, or the Vert Auditorium. When the survey takers visited parks, they generally felt like the facilities were well taken care of and had the right amount of amenities, with 88 percent rating those qualities as “excellent” or “good.” See PARKS/8A
