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beat. She had arrived
at 8 a.m. that morning,
checked email, visited
patients and readied the
chapel for daily mass.
She left for home with her
typical joie de vivre.
St. Anthony CEO
Harry Geller chatted with
her for about half an hour
that morning and didn’t
detect anything amiss.
With her passing, he said,
there is an angel-sized
hole at the hospital.
“She was basically
the moral compass of the
whole place,” Geller said.
“She was so attentive
and compassionate. She
exhibited radiance and
kindness toward all.”
He paused.
“She’ll be missed on
terra firma,” Geller said.
St. Anthony Hospi-
tal Chaplain Rick Oliver
will miss the way Bor-
den addressed everyone
as “love” and set the tone
of life at the hospital. The
nun had not only human-
ity, but brains, he said.
She served on the board
of trustees and founda-
tion board for the hospital
(which is owned by Cath-
olic Health Initiatives).
She earned two master’s
degrees and had a career
in education before com-
ing to St. Anthony in
2006. She served as prin-
cipal at Oliver’s own high
school, Sacred Heart
Academy in Klamath
Falls, though he gradu-
ated before she arrived.
Oliver said Sister Mon-
ica also spent time serv-
ing in the Caribbean and
Puerto Rico. If she had a
weakness, it might have
been her daily cup of java.
“She loved Puerto
Rican coffee,” he said.
Borden, a member of
the Sisters of St. Francis
of Philadelphia, served
the hospital before mov-
ing to Pendleton to
replace another sister
who retired.
“I commuted to the
board meetings from Spo-
kane,” said Sister Monica
in a video. “When Sister
Columba retired at 92,
she asked if I would con-
sider coming to Pendle-
ton, so I did that.”
This was her second
move to Pendleton. She
attended high school at
Pendleton’s St. Joseph’s
Academy, which closed in
1974 and met the wreck-
ing ball soon after. The
footprint became part of
the adjacent St. Anthony
Hospital, a 102-year-
old institution that was
demolished after a new
$70 million medical cen-
ter opened at its present
location in late 2013.
Sister Monica transi-
tioned from the old hos-
pital to the new with the
rest of the staff. Oliver
said the Family Birthing
Center was a place she
most loved to spend time.
“Every baby she held
was ‘the most beauti-
ful baby in the world,’”
he said. “She always
talked of the glow of new
mothers.”
When a baby was still-
born, she helped family
members cope with grief.
She attended memorial
and burial services.
Borden also served
as the hospital’s histo-
rian. She sifted through
“mountains of photo-
graphs and articles” and
was organizing them,
Oliver said.
“She was a larger
than life person,” Oliver
said. “She had an abiding
faith that was absolutely
contagious.”
Smith, who is now the
hospital’s
communica-
tions director, will miss
hearing Borden’s pet
greeting for her of “Hello,
beautiful.”
“She was so kind.
She always had a smile,”
Smith said. “It’s a huge
loss.”
East Oregonian
Capital Press Photo/Mitch Lies
Oregon State University Extension plant pathologist Jere-
miah Dung at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Ex-
tension Center’s Grass Seed Field Day May 22 encourages
growers to help researchers monitor ergot spore counts by
placing traps in fields.
starting to get into the
boot stage, you should
start thinking about put-
ting on that first fungi-
cide application to pro-
tect flowers,” Dung told
growers.
He added that research-
ers are utilizing a blog
format to relay infor-
mation to growers again
this year, allowing them
to provide more frequent
updates than when they
were sending out updates
via email.
Ergot is a fungal dis-
ease of grasses grown for
seed that affects perennial
ryegrass and Kentucky
bluegrass in Eastern
FOR MORE
INFORMATION
Growers can contact
Jeremiah Dung for more
information on ergot at
541-475-7107 or at jere-
miah.dung@oregonstate.
edu.
Oregon production sys-
tems. Ergot spores reduce
yield by replacing seed
in seed heads. The fun-
gus requires an unfertil-
ized flower to infect, so
once pollination occurs,
flowers are no longer
susceptible.
Researchers
started
catching spores immedi-
ately after they initiated
trapping on April 24, he
said.
“We are seeing some
ups and downs in spore
production,” he said, “but
generally we are seeing
less than 50 spores pro-
duced in a day.”
Dung said researchers
also are evaluating the
potential for resistance to
two commonly used ergot
fungicides this year.
“We want to establish a
baseline that we can have
in our back pocket, so we
can monitor populations
of ergot and make sure
that we aren’t encoun-
tering fungicide resis-
tance in certain growing
regions,” Dung said.
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