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MEDICAL POT CARDHOLDERS DROP IN OREGON HEPPNER XC HEADS TO STATE SPORTS/1B NORTHWEST/2A FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 143rd Year, No. 13 PENDLETON Your Weekend • • • Dia de los Muertos gala at arts center Red Kettle fundraiser dinner in Pendleton Oregon East Symphony opens season Sunday For times and places, visit www.eastoregonian.com Weekend Weather Fri 63/47 Sat 60/50 Sun One dollar WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD California company buys cinema building By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian For the second time in three years, the new owner of the Pendleton Cinema building is promising it will fill one of the largest vacant properties in the downtown area. The Carrington Co., a company based out of Eureka, Calif., bought the 415 S.W. First St. prop- erty on Oct. 18, and the new owner wants to move quickly to fill the old movie theater. Nathan Berti, Car- rington’s regional real estate director, said the company had looked into the prop- erty for a year before pull- ing the trigger. Although Carrington wants to fill the spot imme- diately, Berti said the com- pany is still considering what kind of tenant it wants for the building and whether it’s interested in upgrading or demolishing the existing building. “We want to cast a wide net and bring someone in,” he said. Berti said Carrington owns the La Grande Town Center, a shopping center that includes a Big 5 Sport- ing Goods, Bealls and Dol- lar Tree, and specializes in Staff photo by E.J. Harris The message on the sign of the Pendleton Cinema building has not changed since the movie theater closed in 2015. shopping centers in rural areas. As the new owner looks to repurpose the prop- erty once more, Carrington looks to end the game of hot potato previous own- ers have played with the See CINEMA/8A 60/43 Watch a game Pendleton vs. Crescent Valley Friday, 7 p.m., at Round-Up Grounds, Pendleton OHA seeks $2.7 million to expand facility for mentally ill inmates By PARIS ACHEN Oregon Capital Bureau State health officials are seeking $2.7 million to add beds at the state’s psychiat- ric hospital in Junction City to house a burgeoning num- ber of mentally ill inmates from county jails. The money, sought from the legislative Emer- gency Board, would pay for 25 beds and staff for six months. The request comes as state lawmakers renew their focus on diverting men- tally ill Oregonians from the criminal justice system to mental health treatment and resources. Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Author- ity, said most police officers are not trained or lack access to mental health resources to help the mentally ill. As a result, the ill often end up Staff photo by E.J. Harris Author Bernice Ende puts a halter on her Norwegian Fjord horse, Montana Spirit, on Thursday at the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds. Long-haul horse riding By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian ernice Ende has done horse rides in Canada, France and through most of the United States, but she’s never been to equine-friendly Pendleton. But Ende has been trotting out a piece of Pendleton with her for a few years now, and she’ll take that piece with her as she makes her 30,000-mile journey across the country and back. Ende, 65, is in town to promote “Lady Long Rider,” a new book that she read from at an event at the Pendleton Public Library on Thursday evening. The morning before the read- ing, Ende is tending to her two B See OHA/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Author Bernice Ende sweeps leaves and loose alfalfa out of the bed of her truck Thursday while staying at the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds. Norwegian Fjord horses, Montana Spirit and Liska Pearl, in the pens by the pavilion at the Round-Up Grounds. As she clasps fly masks onto her two mares to keep the grow- ing cluster of flying insects at bay, Ende resists calling her book a memoir, although it is an autobi- ographical account of her second career riding horses on tremen- dously long trips that range from 1,500 to 8,000 miles. Even though she grew up rid- ing horses on her family’s farm in Minnesota, much of her early career took place off of horseback. Ende studied ballet in Portland, got a fitness specialist degree, and See ENDE/8A Hermiston Senior Center volunteers save woman after fall By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian A Hermiston woman might owe her life to Meals on Wheels. When volunteer Gary Riesland knocked on Glenda Wilcox’s door a cou- ple of weeks ago to deliver a meal, he heard her shout- ing for someone to call her daughter. He did, and Pam Lincoln arrived to find that her mother had fallen and been lying on her living room floor, unable to move, for more than 72 hours. “He truly did save Mom, because she couldn’t have held out much longer,” Lin- coln said, adding that her mom looked “like a zom- bie” when she found her. Wilcox was severely dehydrated and spent three days in the intensive care unit before being moved to another unit at Good Shepherd Medical Cen- ter for additional care. Lin- coln said she had visited her mom that Friday and Wil- cox fell on Saturday night. Lincoln hadn’t been plan- ning on stopping by again until the next Thursday, but Reisland was there Tuesday afternoon. Riesland said he and his wife Darlene have been delivering meals for the Hermiston Senior Cen- ter for more than 30 years. They started when his mother, who took her meals at the senior center at the time, asked them to con- sider helping out with deliv- ering meals to homebound seniors who can’t make it to the center. He said they enjoy chat- See VOLUNTEERS/8A
