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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
East Oregonian
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Morrow County
Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office
honors Search and Rescue volunteers sheriff’s deputy in
By JAYATI
RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Contributed photos by
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Department
In 2018, Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office Search
and Rescue responded to
21 active searches. Each of
those calls was handled by
a crew of volunteers, who
were honored for their ser-
vice on Friday.
Among those honored
were Volunteer of the Year
Julie Hendren, and Bill
Morris, who received the
Mission Hour award for
responding to 16 missions,
with a total of 75 volunteer
hours. Four volunteers were
also recognized for their
contributions to the unit’s
rope rescue program: Josh
English, Travis Lundquist,
Craig Russell and Kevin
Scheibner.
Umatilla County Search
and Rescue has 25 volunteer
members who assist with
missions, as well as meet-
ing at least once a month
for additional training and
preparation. That includes
lessons on tying different
kinds of knots, as well as
quickly assembling and dis-
mantling different types of
rescue equipment.
Bill Morris, left, was
honored for his vol-
unteer service with
Search and Rescue.
He is pictured with
Sgt. Dwight Johnson
and Sheriff Terry
Rowan.
Already responsible for
one of the city’s biggest
July events, the organizers
behind Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest are planting their
flag on the Fourth of July.
The Pendleton Rotary
Club, which managed the
city’s firework show in
2018, announced Tuesday
that Stadium Entertainment
LLC would donate $15,000
toward the 2019 show.
“The community of
Pendleton shows tremen-
dous support for the annual
music fest and funding the
firework show is another
East Oregonian
A Morrow County sher-
iff’s deputy was involved
in a single-vehicle roll-
over crash on Tuesday
afternoon.
The sheriff’s office
declined to release the
name or the condition of
the deputy, nor the rea-
son for the crash, and
directed further requests
for information to Oregon
State Police. OSP did not
respond by deadline.
Morrow County Sher-
iff’s Office sent out a press
release saying that around
1:46 p.m., the deputy was
traveling north on Bomb-
ing Range Road near mile-
post 13 when the car left
the roadway and hit a
power pole.
The vehicle rolled and
landed on its top.
The deputy was taken
by ambulance to Good
Shepherd Medical Cen-
ter. Sheriff Ken Matlack
requested that Oregon
State Police conduct a traf-
fic crash investigation.
‘Follow Your Art’
creates opportunities
Volunteer of the
Year Julie Hendren,
left, is pictured with
Sgt. Dwight John-
son, Sheriff Terry
Rowan and Search
and Rescue Coordi-
nator Jan Good.
Whisky Fest gives $15,000 for fireworks
East Oregonian
single-vehicle crash
way for us to show our
appreciation and give-
back to the community
we all love,” co-organizer
Andy McAnally said in a
statement.
Stadium Entertainment’s
donation not only lends
some financial stability to
an event with a tumultuous
past, it bumps the budget for
an event that usually func-
tions on $10,000 or less.
For years, the show had
been handled by various
community organizations
like the U.S. Junior Cham-
ber, Cornerstone Commu-
nity Church, and the Fra-
ternal Order of Eagles. But
when the Eagles declined
to fundraise and organize
the 2017 event, Indepen-
dence Day came and went
without a firework show in
Pendleton.
The absence of fireworks
spurred Pendleton teenager
Devan Driskell to begin
raising money for a 2018
show, and his effort was
eventually subsumed by the
Pendleton Rotary Club.
With Devan’s help,
Rotary was able to raise the
requisite $10,000 for last
year’s show.
According to a Rotary
press release, Rotarian Jerry
Imsland was preparing
to lead the effort for 2019
when Whisky Fest organiz-
ers approached him about
making a donation.
“The entrepreneurs were
enthused by the possibility
of making the month of July
even more exciting for the
Pendleton area,” he said in
the press release.
Now in its fourth year,
Whisky Fest has attracted
musical acts like Zac Brown
Band, Maroon 5, Pitbull, and
Blake Shelton to the Pendle-
ton Round-Up Grounds for
concerts.
This year’s Whisky Fest
is July 13. The musical act
has not been announced. .
Fundraiser
features all-you-
can-eat crab
By TAMMY
MALGESINI
East Oregonian
A meal featuring crab
and grilled steak kabobs
will be served during
the Hermiston Education
Foundation Benefit.
Formerly known as
Beach & Beef Fundraiser,
the event is in its 10th year.
Money raised by the non-
profit foundation will be
used to help enhance the
educational experience of
students throughout the
Hermiston School District.
With a theme of “Follow
Your Art,” the benefit din-
ner and auction is Saturday
at Eastern Oregon Trade
and Event Center, 1705 E.
Airport Road, Hermiston.
The doors open at 5 p.m.
for silent auction viewing
and bidding. Dinner will
be served at 6 p.m., with
the live auction following.
Tickets are $40 and are
available at the Hermiston
School District office, 305
S.W. 11th St.; Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce,
1055 S. Highway 395,
Suite 111; and via www.
eventbrite.com.
Some of the items on
the auction block include
tickets and a parking pass
for a Seattle Seahawks
game, a dinner package at
Anthony’s Restaurant in
the Tri-Cities and a “Stay
& Play” package at Wild-
horse Resort & Casino,
which includes one-night
accommodations,
golf,
movie passes and dinner.
Karen Sherman, HEF
co-president, said the board
has been busy the past few
months. While involved
in planning for the annual
benefit dinner, they also
took on organizing last
month’s Dancing with the
Hermiston Stars.
Phil Scheuers, who
joined the HEF board in
October, said the change
of venue provides bet-
ter logistics for the event.
Having some extra space,
he said, will reduce the
bottleneck of people try-
ing to pay for auction items
while others are leaving
the event.
BMCC announces four finalists for president; public invited to meet them
East Oregonian
After
a
nationwide
search, a Blue Mountain
Community College com-
mittee has lined up four
finalists for its open presi-
dent position.
According to a BMCC
press release, the four men
have varied professional
backgrounds with experi-
ence in and out of Oregon.
BMCC will host each
candidate on an individual
visit in February that will
include meetings with the
BMCC Board of Education,
faculty, staff, students, and
the public.
Following the candi-
date visits, the commit-
tee expects to make a rec-
ommendation ahead of the
board’s March 13 meeting.
The candidates, their
biographies, and the dates
of their visits are listed
below. All public forums
with the candidates will be
5:20 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Mor-
row Hall at the college’s
Pendleton campus.
Anthony Rosilez (Feb.
5)
Rosilez is the execu-
tive director of the Ore-
gon Teacher Standards and
Practices Commission, the
agency that licenses K-12
teachers throughout the
state. Prior to joining the
commission in January
2018, Rosilez was the vice
president of student and
personnel services at Klam-
ath Community College in
Klamath Falls. He also has
experience at the K-12 level,
having served as superin-
tendent at Romoland School
District in California and
assistant
superintendent
at Harlem Consolidated
School District 122 in Illi-
nois. Rosilez has a doctor-
ate in educational leader-
ship from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and a
law degree from UCLA. His
biography highlights his
role in the state education
cabinet and his experience
participating in legislative
hearings and state work-
groups regarding education.
Jeff Sherman (Feb. 7)
According to his Oregon
State University biography,
Sherman grew up on a dairy
farm in Eastern Oregon. He
has a master’s degree in
agricultural education from
OSU and became an admin-
istrator for the university,
where his official title is
assistant director of OSU
Extension Service-strategic
innovation and statewide
director. His role includes
working with community
colleges to expand educa-
tional access through com-
munity engagement and
workforce training. One of
his roles is to direct Ore-
gon State’s Open Campus
and Juntos programs, which
work with school districts
and community colleges
to help underserved stu-
dent populations. His work
earned him the OSU Vice
Provost Award for Excel-
lence in Diversity in 2018.
Dennis Bailey-Fougnier
(Feb. 11)
Bailey-Fougnier
hop-
scotched between Oregon
and Kansas during his aca-
demic career, getting his
bachelor’s degree at the
University of Oregon, his
master’s degree in educa-
tion from Wichita State
University, and his doctor-
ate in community college
leadership from Oregon
State University. His biog-
raphy centers his profes-
sional experience around
his time at Mesa Colo-
rado University in Grand
Junction, where he super-
vised the university’s com-
munity college division as
vice president of commu-
nity college affairs. The
bio touted his work increas-
ing enrollment at the com-
munity college and his pas-
sion for bringing education
to first-generation, under-
represented, and rural stu-
dents. However, he did not
leave Colorado Mesa Uni-
versity on the best of terms.
According to The Daily
Sentinel in Grand Junction,
Bailey-Fougnier resigned
from the university in Feb-
ruary 2018 after 17 months
on the job following months
of friction with the univer-
sity president.
George McNulty (Feb.
12)
Currently the vice pres-
ident of student affairs at
Colby Community College
in Kansas, McNulty has a
Ph.D. in educational lead-
ership from the University
of Nevada, Reno. The biog-
raphy describes his cur-
rent job as involving facil-
ity development, teaching,
institutional effectiveness,
fundraising, and commu-
nity engagement.
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