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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2018
143rd Year, No. 12
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WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Trick or treaters air it out
Staff photo by Jayati Ramakrishnan
Dulcie Hays is the Oregon GED Edu-
cator of the Year. Hays is a teacher at
Two Rivers Correctional Institution in
Umatilla.
Resilient
spirit propels
instructor to
GED award
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Abraham Shippentower, 8, the Tyrannosaurus rex, faces off against Bryce Mitzimberg, Godzilla, while participating in Trick or
Treat Downtown on Wednesday on Main Street in Pendleton.
Inflatable costumes in vogue,
superheroes still popular
Hays teaches inmates at
TRCI, draws on her own
background
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
H
alloween in Pendleton has blown up
in a big way this year.
It’s not that the holiday is any
more popular than usual, it’s just that
inflatable costumes were a hot item at this
year’s Trick or Treat Downtown.
Inflatable Tyrannosaurus rexes were the
most common sighting, but an inflatable
sumo wrestler, Minion and Homer Simp-
son were also spotted gallivanting down
South Main Street, adding a significant
amount of mass and height to the throngs
of trick or treaters looking for candy from
downtown businesses.
Elliott Becker, 9, followed the trend but
went for a unique look, dressing up as an
inflatable chicken.
His mother Jessica said he chose the
costume because he thought it would
be humorous, but it had unintended
consequences.
“A lot of the little kids don’t think
it’s funny,” she said. “They think it’s
terrifying.”
Although the lineup of costumes was
more gassed up than usual, old standbys
like princesses and superheroes were still
popular with the young masses.
Batman and Captain America were well
represented, and characters from newer
Staff photos by E.J. Harris
Left: The Randle family — Tyray, left, Tyra, 6, and Orkesia are dressed as characters
from the movie “Black Panther” on Wednesday while participating in Trick or Treat
Downtown on Main Street in Pendleton. Right: Landon Lopez, 10 months old, of
Pendleton wears a Jack-Jack costume from the movie “The Incredibles.”
films like “Black Panther” were mixed in
with the crowd.
The Randle family chose to go as
three different “Black Panther” charac-
ters because they wanted to dress as a
group, and they thought that it was cul-
turally appropriate.
Tyray was the king and titular super-
hero, his wife Orkesia was a member of
the Dora Milaje, the corps of guards who
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Dulcie Hays knows what it’s like to
have no one believe in you.
Growing up in Irrigon in a poor fam-
ily, she said teachers and classmates
never expected her to succeed.
Now the 2018 Oregon GED Educator
of the Year, Hays draws on her own back-
ground as she helps inmates work toward
their General Education Development
certificates.
“I don’t give up on people who soci-
ety has already given up on,” she said. “I
get that.”
Hays won the statewide award after a
15-year career with BMCC, 13 of which
she’s spent working as a teacher at Two
Rivers Correctional Institution. She
teaches inmates, who are working toward
their GED degrees, covering several
subjects and every skill level. She also
teaches a few times a week at the BMCC
Hermiston campus, working with other
GED students.
Hays still thinks about the experiences
that shaped her early education. Capable
and ready to learn, she was hampered by
other barriers.
“We were the poorest, whitest trash
family in Irrigon,” she said. “People
never let me forget who my brothers
were, who my cousins were. So I hated
school. Freshman year, I missed so much
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Local ag puts bucks into Oregon governor’s race
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Ag producers, lawyers
and their companies are the
largest local contributors to
Oregon’s gubernatorial race.
Gov. Kate Brown, Dem-
ocrat, has raised more than
$9.9 million this year and
has total contributions
pushing $12.7 million.
But Republican challenger
Knute Buehler has raised
almost $14.4 million, with
Nike owner Phil Knight giv-
ing $2 million.
No surprise the donors
in the 12 cities in Umatilla
County and five in Mor-
row County favor Buehler.
He received contributions
from 102 local individuals
or businesses while Brown
received 34, according to
ORESTAR, the Oregon Sec-
retary of State’s website for
campaign finance activity.
Brown has 12 donors
from Hermiston and 20
from Pendleton, and the
last two are big businesses
in Boardman. Buehler has
37 contributors from Herm-
iston, 34 from Pendleton.
Helix, Ukiah and Lexington
show no donors for either
campaign.
Contributions
ranging
from $100-$500 are com-
mon on the local scene. Sev-
eral exceed that many times
over.
Threemile Canyon Farms
of
Boardman
donated
$10,000 — $5,000 last year
and $5,00 this year — to
re-elect Brown, and the sis-
ter company Castle Rock
Farming gave her cam-
paign $10,000 this year.
Farmer Bob Levy of Herm-
iston donated $12,500 to
both camps either person-
ally or through companies.
And Pendleton lawyer and
cattle rancher Henry Loren-
zen’s Rural Services Com-
pany also gave $10,000 to
the Buehler effort.
Levy and Lorenzen
declined to comment on the
donations.
The Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation gave Brown
$7,000, and Camille Preus,
the recent president of Blue
Mountain Community Col-
lege, gave $2,000. Hermis-
ton Mayor Dr. Dave Drotz-
mann gave $500 to Brown
in 2016, but nothing to her
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