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TION WEEKEND EDI CAPS WIN CUP STANLEY 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, WINNER ONPA OF THE 2017 No. 166 8 JUNE 8, 201 JUNE 9-10, 2018 One dollar CE AWARD EXCELLEN GENERAL 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 one noon, 65/46 at about 60. farm- 82/52 happy. Tachenko sells at Aney East Oregonian by Kathy Her young grandson markets in La Grande, er’s Staff photo edge the Baker pokes his head over at the and has a fruit stand in she of the table and frowns City. Each Thursday, in the Erik Navarrete Cam- wick. find s table a boxes. at pos, 26, was taken off life Kenne remaining sells produce Forest product 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 into the Regional Medical Center, rboards looks best. The table e Cen- With so many opportu- their morta produce, Richland, Wash. Nixyaawii Governanc grads toss nities to buy local people By PHIL WRIGHT of ston baskets Hermi said many 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. says The Sandbox Vegetation ed 16,000 to weekly means in early June. cide, according to Herm- in brought to deliver challenges peppers Police Chief Jason several dates been Sen. Grassley eat ment Project encompass to iston Mountains near had 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- Agriculture the weeks d nes few two, 2017, first ty-Supporte NAN milesto residence of Navarrete Cam- not just d Nov. 25, 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 on a tour s they gradua fresh vegetables onship. He But the boxes allow after By JADE a while selling when a classm of forest while nian School’s class from that forest a report of gunshots up days, week section Orego st High wrapped each vegetables East project to get iston to them toughe through a cleared ted every- of Union. the found Navarrete Cam- feet of timber. The farm. As ple as Participants walk Timber Rising Summit north available at and of 2018 celebra local or regional passed away. like those test us to that has may not be in 2015. native Ryan pos injured. He was taken building. dozen aca- during the Mass s brought them day, our “Moments the of this week, Tachenko ser- market. Hermiston people safe in a wood thing that well as the change The crowd was a couple and industry come he said. “That big threat. Regional Medical headed to is wood in one form a family,” a little closer.” expanded her delivery “The CSA boxes to Kadlec Fire, after all, is the had to prove Bounds is point — as all of the building ated up in Richland, Wash. demics, forest managers in Pendle- from Center the attending the Mass or another, including cross-lamin pan- family got vice to customers Heppner said Lever withstand a first,” she said, opening 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 in a fur- Timber Rising Summit said, is an timber, or CLT, walls. The material is load-bearin kale, - information and Tachenko said fire at 2,000 degree Salma Angui encouraged her pickup. It’s confir - happiness history,” said valedic bok suspects or the cir- The Sandbox, Gamble work to keep els the size of urban construction, but two-hour kind of test steel and con- who awareness they r if spinach, more about n chard, o our Dylan i smart speake noticed r mat nace, the of all, catching on in to be patient example of good, since she rainbow class speake pass. out classmates figured out their path Around 1.2 million behind its use in Canada, about eating local 2009 at choi and green onions. cumstances surrounding the after the crete also have to torian and go see what’s the forest healthy. Mountains needs the U.S. lags in the fall of 2016, and some other incident. still hadn’t started her CSA “Today they got zucchini Lever did that in Senate Westfall. “Let’s the United Kingdom 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 to sell ily is with Lever to “Finding at an unexpected she raises cattle, The largest in the history of ciary includes thinning Jonathan Heppner that designed ucts in the world uses a “self-center- a enough of that in That that. got ston advice industry happen vegetables firm timber the boxes washes over the weekend “My will and grows Framework also Com- from Hermi , 342 seniors walked Architecture, the the crowd earlier that table, but it she said. sales, which the mass earthquake livability. moment,” that moment when to help raise money for his 16-acre garden. Before m i t t e e Bounds the school stage at the Toyota Framework. He told spends a lot of ing design” for won’t be torn down wants and needs. produce, seize engineer- d wholesale to class the CSA/10A e about Lever sold is t See building is o she medical expenses and have that The v “This across and in the day Mass timber 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 said. Middl Center in Kenne of the Jus- one Spoo the spotlig for as ,” ce Toyota l history LEGE op-eds activists Allian High Schoo chose to remember ized four Stan- all of MUNITY COL Students tice public ing to do is just bring oper- for the NTAIN COM By PHIL WRIGHT Bounds wrote during col- our farming and baling loca- BLUE MOU East Oregonian ford Review spoke mock- ations to one central lege, which 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 overseen ated in two awards for Tim Derstine But of the operation. 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 ss Devel- return to College U.S. Small Valley. The family Small Busine Award ness,” Werhan said. the lamette Upon her and them ence — unity put Comm Cen- tion t Center Excell est region, let’s find a place to with all — a father and five sons Hay Mountain opmen ss Development Northw Blue Mountain that won’t conflict Small Busine Carol Frink knew for the Pacific lives and formed to take advantage n, Washington, people’s Orego 2015, these in 2008 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 See HAY/10A the company in question. try- Tim Werhan, Hay to dead last zation uses to mea- r resources, the advisers to provid water Mountain really Blue potential ss proposed “What we’re its numbe truck traffic and rics the organi of five busine small business owners s, including because of increased to sure succes number of new busi- free help quality concerns. the by E.J. Harris guidance, of clients, Staff photo /8A under its or . See BMCC nesses started r of jobs created has Center direct opment with the 2018 and the numbe years since, Frink ess Devel recognized Small Busin the United 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 was just is the tion from department ence & Innova Carol Frink 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 laid out his rg developer in its former parking Family Aquatic while treading Center. Months lot. water during a of speculation gave Staff photo by June 7 letter proposal in a E.J. Harris junior lifeguard way to real- ity Tuesday as the swim class Monday ager Robb to City Man- at project, which it Round-Up announced the is deeming the “south city grants Corbett. If the 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. and give them more of the rodeo’s operations Aquatic centers work space. 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- space, cohesive admin- istrative offices and the entire the city to cover By JADE MCDOWEL cost of the service providers. convenient space to meet L Army vetera The total East Oregonian estimated street. ticketing have risen Revenue from retail and n Steph and help $394,0 cost is 00. his fellow en Jensen served ing them under one in recent years, and hous- veterans day at the pool or • The curren transition as a vehicle gunne those processes more roof is intended to make t deal places be relaxing, but for the beach can to civilia $720,000 r in northe efficient. 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 by E.J. Harris tomers purchase tickets ged that the way cus- 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 to avoid. “People used to buy needs to as well. unit he builds The rather Hermiston Staff photo by E.J. Harris than then write a check,” 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 be $7,200 uate that summer, patrons gutted the building Sunday morning. to printing from their tickets at home run new cent toddlers to adults. The adult veterans trans 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 s session mili Umatilla man who drowning death of a day, Jivanje BMCC grad tary to colle See RETAIL/8A Tues- By KATHY uation bia River to save his jumped into the Colum- ANEY ge 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 8:05 p.m., has attracted to the water, followed by te the seven deadly sins is light, the to a projec to Iraq in Army and six different lev- participants from By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN dark. and els of 25-minute The heaven t. other Instead ages 17 to 57 (the 2004. said. city around ly “Other kids learn virtues. classes. On Monday of going back Kirkuk, Jensen In and lege, “Every class open to ages 16 and East Oregonian with Pendle was involved how to stay afloat, When the how he worke up). The HFAC is is morning a mix of skill levels to col- spent his Iraq War wake up, morning when you days as a gunner offering more children’s graduates also ing in different were practic- really a stroke affects their endurance. from its start ton Heights veteran igator. With d as a veteran nav- you have atop a Hum- vee, scanni Thursday It lessons parts ranges in paths of 2012, with than the differe fundin this pool. Mount usual age.” you can take,” from Blue ng the landsc ing city-ow A fire early Sunday morning destroyed year and as a result A donat- Westcare nt improv g from the ain On the still has slots avail- of very young girls were practicing handful ape for Found recentl Jensen ised able. Usually the his gown Community Colleg Olney Cemet ned land near much of the Hermiston Adventist Church, bounc- trum is more advanced end of the spec- ing up and down 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 in a shallow the hour-long culty finding enough of meanin path.” diffi- te the s. ing infrast ery and front- fellow as flames and extensive smoke damaged the in a gful tattoos collection summer staff to meet multi-use pool to keep their part of the class, which gives teens junior lifeguard caravan lookin soldiers rode housing, build resume system, get Jensen returne know they the demand for lessons, , but he will heads help seal the ructure costs to a the decades-old house of worship. and whatev 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 Scott Goff said investigators think the fire used they choose 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- recalle Robbins he East Oregonian he kind of cooked the whole building,” Goff BMCC. d. settled into He returne See SAFETY/8A a stipulation ties and created his classes d to the states said. , the in the agree- with After years of ment that As flames engulfed the west side of the See GRAD drinking water will operating without, clean to retake allowed the city UATE/5A eventually return the land if building before dawn on Sunday, some ton-Freewater’s Locust to Mil- 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 the state Reptile to connect the the church, helped fight the fire as a volun- trailer park to 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 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 until 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 shootin above the Health a tourniq Authority found e at Vert Club a federal grant that uet over the ankle. Duncan tied aiming directly g at the craft had a would have covered lar from bleedin wound the city’s cost of Room 5 p.m. slightly ahead at the helicopter habit 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 of it. to base. in Pendleton. the on Umatilla with On the County Dec. way dren enrolled in the district in a automatically because they missed ment appear to show the district East Oregonian back carrier 1 they The two men agreeing to act as Board of Commissioners s when they were protecting 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 took fire. Sudde troop But the council d for the first lar was “grabb The Pendleton School District is It also included information about 12 percent transferred to another some new ones, but an overall drop as unanimous nly, Dunca ing lar’s Kel- his leg and ly voted to n stopped reject extending the home in Irrigon It’s interes screaming.” by Kel- losing more students than it’s taking why students left. school district. Much smaller per- in students is backed up by the dis- try trip. during a cross-c soning it wasn’t the utility at that time, rea- moment like ting what people think of in in, and in many instances, there’s The report shows that out of the centages graduated early, entered trict’s enrollment reports. oun- that, Dunca “This guy and was unfair to best use of federal money a “What was n said. here saved other properties that little the district can do about it. The 2,973 students enrolled in 266 students who dropped out of a treatment program, started home going throug said. that my life,” had to Staff photo by h my 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, was bleedin mind at helicop See WATER/8A ter, g all Kellar was sented the Pendleton School Board 2017-2018 school year, 57 percent or left for an extended vacation Artie Kellar and he was can was there to 18 21. Both not going over Jr., left, and Staff photo at Kellar See SCHOOL/6A with a “mobility report,” a set of moved out of town. before the last day of school. — gunner were “Copp and Dun- day,” he help clean it up at to 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