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143rd Year, No. 13
PENDLETON
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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