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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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Growers
asked for
help in ergot
monitoring
OSU Extension
hopes citizen-science
approach helps
overcome limitations
By MITCH LIES
For the Capital Press
Oregon state uni-
versity Extension plant
pathologist
Jeremiah
dung hopes to engage
growers in a citizen-sci-
ence approach to moni-
tor for ergot in grass seed
crops.
dung told eastern
Oregon grass seed grow-
ers during the Hermiston
agricultural
Research
and Extension Center’s
Grass Seed Field Day that
he hopes the approach
will help researchers
overcome logistical lim-
itations that hinder their
ability to expand spore
trapping.
Currently, the team of
researchers involved in
monitoring ergot spores
are utilizing three traps,
dung said: One in La
Grande, one at the Cen-
tral Oregon agricultural
Research and Extension
Center and one at the
Hermiston center.
The
citizen-science
approach is made possi-
ble by the fact research-
ers have discovered a
spore trap that costs a
fraction to build com-
pared to the trap they are
using. Growers can pur-
chase materials to build
the rotating arm trap
for around $100, Dung
said. Materials are easily
accessible online, and, he
said, the trap is simple to
construct.
Conversely, it costs
$5,000 to purchase the
spore trap researchers are
employing, Dung said.
Parts are proprietary and
custom-made, so can be
difficult to obtain, and
getting the traps serviced
can be difficult.
dung said that grower
involvement in scouting
will help producers pin-
point when spore counts
are high enough to war-
rant treatment. “This
way, we can scout for
pressure before infection
occurs,” he said.
dung added that grow-
ers should be keeping a
close watch on their crops
at this point in the grow-
ing season and keeping
abreast of spore counts in
the university traps.
“When your crops are
See Ergot, Page A7
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Tom Tangney, a member of the Pendleton Veterans of Foreign Wars Let ‘er Buck Post 922, bows his head during the benedic-
tion at a Memorial Day observance at Olney Cemetery. For more photos, turn to page A8.
Memorial Day ceremonies
in Pendleton, Hermiston
recognize fallen veterans
By PHIL WRIGHT AND TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
or Tom Tangney of Pendleton, honoring the
United States of America’s war dead matters.
Tangney fought in the Korean war, along
with his brother, who died there on Heart-
break Ridge. Tangney, a long-serving member of
the Pendleton’s Veteran of Foreign Wars Let’er Buck
Post No. 922, drove home the need to recognize
Memorial Day during the annual ceremony at Olney
Cemetery.
“We remember because sacrifice is meaningless
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without remembrance,” Tangney told the 50 or so
gathering at Pendleton’s burial ground. Most of the
crowd was older and included several white-haired
veterans. “America’s conscience demands that all
citizens be aware of and recall on special occa-
sions the deaths of their fellow countrymen during
wartime.”
While veterans hold Memorial Day sacred, he
said, he questioned if the general public and, more
importantly, future generations value the day. The
freedoms Americans enjoy came at the cost of lives,
he said, few of whom we knew.
“This should be regarded as a civic obligation,”
Tangney stated. “For this is a national debt that can
only be repaid by individual Americans. By honor-
ing the nation’s veterans, we preserve their memory,
their service and sacrifice.”
See Tribute, Page A8
Sister Monica goes home
Nun was a fixture
at St. Anthony
Hospital
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
On the medical/surgi-
cal floor at St. Anthony
Hospital, a man was in
the final stage of dying.
Registered
nurse
Emily Smith remembers
that day several years
ago with clarity.
“He
didn’t
have
any family members,”
smith recalled. “We
were really sad, but it
was just way too busy
for us to sit with him.”
So, they called Sister
Marie Monica Borden
— or sister Monica —
who worked in pastoral
services at the Catholic
hospital. The Franciscan
nun entered the room.
As if the man was the
luckiest guy on earth,
she said, “Oh, you’re
just about ready to go
home, aren’t you?”
“she sat there and
held his hand through
the whole process,”
smith said.
Last Wednesday, it
was sister Monica’s
time to go home after 84
years on Earth. Many at
the hospital were taken
by surprise. Except for
recent eye surgery, the
nun hadn’t skipped a
See Nun, Page A7
Photo courtesy of Kim Fetrow Photography
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