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AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File
In this April 5, 2011, file photo, Cyprus President Dimitris
Christofias speaks during a news conference focusing on
his government’s domestic policies at the Presidential Pal-
ace in the divided island’s capital Nicosia, Cyprus.
Cyprus ex-President
Dimitris Christofias
dead at 72
By MENELAOS
HADJICOSTIS
Associated Press
NICOSIA,
Cyprus
— Dimitris Christofias,
Cyprus’ first communist
president whose troubled
tenure was marked by near
financial ruin that necessi-
tated an international res-
cue, uproar over a deadly
Iranian munitions blast
and failure to end the
country’s ethnic division,
died Friday. He was 72.
Cyprus President Nicos
Anastasiades confirmed
his predecessor’s death
in a written message,
expressing “deep sor-
row.” Anastasiades said he
and Christofias may have
been on divergent politi-
cal paths, but he did what
he thought was best for his
country.
Conveying his condo-
lences to the Christofias’
family, Anastasiades said
his predecessor had been
in frail health for many
years.
Christofias, who was
president from 2008-2013,
had been in a critical con-
dition since being admitted
to Nicosia General hospi-
tal in May. Israeli doctors
had assisted Cypriot col-
leagues in treating the for-
mer president. Christofias’
personal doctor Michael
Minas told state-run
Cyprus News Agency the
former president died at
5:36 p.m. local time (1436
GMT; 10:36 a.m. EDT).
Condolences to Chris-
tofias’ family poured in
from Greek Cypriot polit-
ical leaders as well as the
leader of the breakaway
Turkish Cypriots Mustafa
Akinci, who did so in a
tweet.
Greek Prime Minis-
ter Alexis Tsipras praised
Christofias as a “genuine
leader” of the Cypriot peo-
ple and a “great fighter of
the Left” who was always
on the frontline of the
struggle for social justice
and for reunifying Cyprus.
Anastasiades will chair
a Cabinet meeting Satur-
day to work out the details
of Christofias’ funeral
arrangements.
Christofias was the
only Cypriot president not
to seek re-election, citing
his failure to achieve his
“life’s vision” of reunify-
ing the country that had
been split since Turkey
invaded in 1974 following
a coup by supporters of
union with Greece.
After his March 2008
rise to power, Christofias
was hailed as the leader
with the best chance to
achieve a peace break-
through that had eluded
his predecessors, thanks to
long-standing ties with the
Turkish Cypriot left-wing
trade union movement.
But all the optimism
faded as talks with two
Turkish Cypriot leaders
dragged on over five years
without tangible results.
Some faulted Christofias
for allowing momentum
to drain from the process.
“I will leave truly mis-
erable, because what I had
promised can’t happen
given Turkey’s intransi-
gence, so from here on in,
I’ll suffer along with you
as a common citizen,” he
had told municipal offi-
cials shortly before leav-
ing office in 2013.
Christofias’
“man-
of-the-people” persona,
which he often played up
to underscore his work-
ing-class roots, endeared
him to many.
OBITUARIES
DEATH NOTICES
Daniel Edward Wilcox III
Janice Mary Arsenault
Fort Collins, Colorado
July 27, 1981 — May 26, 2019
Umatilla
July 25, 1974 — June 17, 2019
Daniel Edward Wilcox III among the Kianyele people,
was born in Madang, Papua about 70 miles from the near-
New Guinea, on July 27, est road. He loved traveling
1981, to Rosalind and Daniel all over the world and work-
E. Wilcox Jr. He passed away ing with wood. Daniel was
loyal and caring to
at his home in Fort
friends and fam-
Collins, Colorado,
ily. He especially
on May 26, 2019.
loved children and
He was 37 years
animals.
old.
He is survived
Daniel
grad-
uated as valedic-
by his parents, a
torian from high
sister, a brother-in-
school in Toledo,
law, and their three
Oregon, in 1999.
children.
There
He received a
are several aunts,
Wilcox
bachelor’s degree
uncles,
cousins
in industrial engi-
and many friends
neering from Oregon State as well.
University, then an MBA
A celebration of life will
from Portland State Univer- be held on Saturday, June
sity. He was working as a 29 at Oxbow Regional Park,
Senior Financial Analyst for 3010 S.E. Oxbow Pkwy,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Gresham, OR 97080-8916,
Daniel had an interesting from 1-6 p.m. at the Beaver
childhood, growing up in the Lodge. Anyone who wishes
jungles of Papua New Guinea to come is welcome.
Janice Mary Arsenault, 44, of Umatilla, died Monday,
June 17, 2019, as the result of a boating accident near Herm-
iston. She was born July 25, 1974, on Prince Edward Island,
Canada. A celebration of life service will be held Saturday,
June 29, 2019, at 3 p.m. in the Hermiston High School Com-
mons. Arrangements are with Burns Mortuary of Herm-
iston. Share memories of Janice with her family at www.
burnsmortuaryhermiston.com.
PORTLAND — So
many gray whales are
dying off the U.S. West
Coast that scientists and
volunteers dealing with the
putrid carcasses have an
urgent request for coastal
residents: Lend us your pri-
vate beaches so these ocean
giants can rot in peace.
The number of dead
whales washing ashore in
Washington state alone
— 29 as of this week —
means almost every iso-
lated public beach has been
used. Authorities are now
scrambling to find remote
stretches of sand that are
privately owned, with pro-
prietors who don’t mind
hosting a rotting creature
that’s bigger than a school
bus and has a stench to
match its size.
“The preferred option
is, at all times, that they
just be allowed to decom-
pose naturally,” said John
Calambokidis, a research
biologist with the Olympia,
Washington-based Casca-
dia Research. “But it gets
harder and harder to find
locations where they can rot
without creating a problem.
This is a new wrinkle.”
At least 81 gray whale
corpses
have
washed
ashore in California, Ore-
gon, Washington and
Alaska since Jan. 1. If tal-
lies from Mexico and Can-
ada are added, the number
of stranded gray whales
reaches about 160 and
counting, said Michael
Milstein, spokesman for
NOAA Fisheries.
U.S. scientists last month
declared the die-off an
“unusual mortality event,”
a designation that trig-
gered additional resources
to respond to the deaths and
launch an investigation.
The first private-beach
owners to respond, a
Washington state couple,
received their carcass ear-
lier this month. Volunteers
with the so-called “strand-
ing network” — a coali-
tion of nonprofits, research
institutions and govern-
ment agencies — attached
a rope to the dead whale’s
tail and used a motorboat to
tow it 3 miles (4.8 kilome-
ters) along the coast to the
couple’s beach, where they
anchored it to tree stumps.
Mario Rivera and his
veterinarian wife, Stefanie
Worwag, asked their neigh-
bor’s permission first and
are using copious amounts
of lime to speed decom-
position and reduce the
stench. They visit the car-
cass daily and consider it a
Burl Green
Canby
July 25, 1932 — Oct. 24, 2018
Former Pendleton resident Burl Irvin Green died Wednes-
day, Oct. 24, 2018. He was born July 25, 1932, in La Grande.
A graveside service will be held Saturday, July 20 at 11 a.m. at
Olney Cemetery, Pendleton. A celebration of life will follow at
1 p.m. in the Bamboo Room at Pendleton Center for the Arts.
Bradley Eugene Peterson
Pendleton
Oct. 2, 1955 — June 20, 2019
Bradley E. Peterson, 63, of Pendleton died Thursday, June
20, 2019, died at his residence. He was born Oct. 2, 1955, in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Arrangements are with Burns Mortuary
of Pendleton.
Audrey Lee Stanley
Robert ‘Bob’ Earl Smith
Union
Nov. 9, 1935 — June 19, 2019
Robert “Bob” Earl Smith, retired in 1998. Robert was
83, of Union passed away on a volunteer for the Stanfield
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Volunteer Fire Department
at his residence.
from 1964-1977,
A graveside ser-
with nine years
vice will be held
of being the chief.
at the Hermiston
Bob and Jan were
Cemetery on Fri-
snowbirds going
day, June 28, 2019,
to Winterhaven,
at 10 a.m. Follow-
California, for 21
ing the graveside
years. He was a
service, a recep-
life member of
tion will be held at
the Union County
the Stanfield Com-
Museum, where
munity
Center,
he was an enthu-
225 W. Roosevelt,
siastic volunteer,
Stanfield, Oregon.
many an idea was
Bob was born
realized through
on November 9,
his
handyman
Smith
1935, in Here-
abilities.
ford, Texas, to
Bob is survived
Claude and Alline Smith. He by his children, Valerie
resided in Dimmitt, Texas, Stockhoff (Hank) of Union,
Weed, California, Sutherlin, Oregon, and Robbin Swales
Oregon, Twickenham, Ore- of Lodi, California; broth-
gon, Stanfield, Oregon, and ers, Raymond Smith (Jo) and
Union, Oregon. He attended James Smith, both of Pend-
schools in Weed, Califor- leton, Oregon; sister, Nancy
nia, Sutherlin, Oregon, and Jeanes of Spokane, Wash-
graduated from Mitchell ington; eight grandchildren;
High School in 1955. Robert 18 great-grandchildren and
served our country while in 16 nieces and nephews. He
the United States Navy. He was preceded in death by his
married Janice Bain on Sep- wife, Janice; daughter, Car-
tember 17, 1957, in Pendle- rie Smith; parents, Claude
ton, Oregon.
and Alline, and step-mother,
Bob was employed with Opal Smith.
his family logging until
In lieu of flowers, memo-
November 1959, when he rial contributions can be
hired on with the Union made to the Union County
Pacific Railroad as a carman Museum, 331 S. Main Street,
helper. From 1972-1977, he Union, OR 97883.
Online
condolences
was also a derrick operator
and then became the car fore- may be made to the fam-
man in 1977. He was with ily at www.lovelandfuneral-
the railroad for 38 years and chapel.com.
U.S. agency seeks ‘hosts’
for rotting whales amid
die-off
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Lexington
May 26, 1932 — June 19, 2019
Audrey Lee Stanley, 86, of Lexington, died Thursday, June
19, 2019, at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. She was
born May 26, 1932, to John and Wahneta Yoakum Stanley in
Rainville, West Virginia. A funeral service will be held Mon-
day June 24, 2019, at 11 a.m. at the Community Bible Church
of Lexington. A concluding service and burial will follow at
the Lexington Cemetery. Arrangements are with Sweeney
Mortuary of Heppner.
UPCOMING SERVICES
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
FERGUSON, DORIS — Celebration of life service at
1 p.m. in the banquet room at The Pheasant, 149 E. Main
St., Hermiston.
MAEL, JAMES — Graveside service with military
honors at 11 a.m. at the Monument Cemetery. A celebration
of life remembrance gathering and potluck luncheon will
follow at the Monument Senior Center, 269 Main St.
THAUT, LEO — Funeral service at 11 a.m. at the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 850 S.W. 11th
St., Hermiston. Burial with military honors follows at the
Hermiston Cemetery.
SUNDAY, JUNE 23
FERGUSON, DORIS — Graveside service at 1 p.m. at
the Athena Cemetery.
NEWBOLD, MICHAEL — Celebration of life service
at 2 p.m. at Weston-McEwen High School, 540 E. Main St.,
Athena.
WESTON, JANE — Memorial service at 1 p.m. in the
chapel at Burns Mortuary, 685 W. Hermiston Ave., Hermis-
ton. Burial will follow at Desert Lawn Memorial Cemetery,
Irrigon. A celebration of life gathering will follow the services
at Stokes Landing Senior Center, 150 Columbia Lane, Irrigon.
MONDAY, JUNE 24
STANLEY, AUDREY — Funeral service at 11 a.m. at the
Community Bible Church, 170 B. St., Lexington with conclud-
ing service and burial to follow at the Lexington Cemetery.
TUCKER, BETTY — Memorial service at 1 p.m. at
Crossroads Community Church, 350 N. Sherman Ave.,
Stanfield.
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
No services scheduled
MEETINGS
MONDAY, JUNE 24
AP Photo/Mario Rivera, File
Officials examine a decomposing whale that washed
ashore on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Port Ludlow, Wash.
scientific opportunity.
“It’s
decomposing
nicely. There’ve been a cou-
ple of days this week when
I was out there mowing
and I was like, ‘Oooph,’”
Rivera said of smell from
the 40-foot (12-meter) adult
male whale sitting 150
yards (137 meters) from his
house.
“But it’s only temporary.
It’s only going to be smell-
ing for about a month —
and after that, the smell’s
gone.”
Since the Port Townsend,
Washington, couple wel-
comed the carcass, 15 more
private individuals have
signed on to do the same,
mostly in remote areas
around the Salish Sea in
far northwest Washington
state, Milstein said.
The number of dead
whales found in Wash-
ington state this year has
already surpassed the tally
for 2000, when the last
significant die-off of gray
whales occurred on the
West Coast. In Oregon,
five dead gray whales have
been documented as of this
week, more than in all of
last year. California has
seen 37, and 10 have come
ashore in Alaska.
Experts estimate the
washed-up whales rep-
resent just 10 percent of
the total number of the
dead, with the rest sinking
into the sea unnoticed by
humans.
In past years, the major-
ity of stranded whales were
left to rot in place after nec-
ropsies were done. A few
were buried, hauled to a
landfill or sunk at sea. Tow-
ing them back out to sea
isn’t the preferred method
because the bodies could
wash up again or could
cause problems if they float
into shipping channels and
collide with boats.
Officials have learned
CASON’S PLACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY GRIEF RECOVERY
CENTER BOARD, 6 p.m., Cason’s Place, 1416 S.E. Court Ave., Pend-
leton. All those interested in volunteering are encouraged to
attend. (Matt Terjeson 503-720-1620)
UMATILLA BASIN WATERSHED COUNCIL, 6 p.m., Eastern Ore-
gon Higher Education Center room 134, 975 S.E. Columbia Drive,
Hermiston. (Michael T. Ward 541-276-2190)
MILTON-FREEWATER CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Milton-Freewater
Public Library Albee Room, 8 S.W. Eighth Ave. (541-938-5531)
HERMISTON CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Hermiston City Hall council
chambers, 180 N.E. Second St. (541-567-5521)
IRRIGON COMMUNITY PARKS & RECREATION DISTRICT,
7 p.m., Irrigon Fire Station, 705 N. Main St. (541-922-3047)
MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT, 7 p.m., Pioneer Memo-
rial Hospital conference room, 564 E. Pioneer Drive, Heppner.
6 p.m. provider dinner, 6:30 p.m. board meeting. (Tonia Adams
541-676-2942)
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
UMATILLA-MORROW COUNTY HEAD START, 11:30 a.m., Head
Start boardroom, 110 N.E. Fourth St., Hermiston. (Monina Ward
541-564-6878)
IONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3:30 p.m., Ione Community School, 445
Spring St.; 4:30 p.m. board meeting, 5:30 p.m. budget committee
meeting. (Kim Thul 541-422-7131)
UMATILLA PLANNING COMMISSION, 6:30 p.m., Umatilla City
Hall, 700 Sixth St. (Brandon Seitz 541-922-3226 ext. 103)
MORROW COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Port of
Morrow Riverfront Center, 2 Marine Drive, Boardman. (Stephanie
Loving 541-922-4624)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
MORROW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m., Bar-
tholomew Government Building upper conference room, 110 N.
Court St., Heppner. (Roberta Lutcher 541-676-9061)
HERMISTON LIBRARY BOARD, 4 p.m., Hermiston Public Library,
235 E. Gladys Ave. (541-567-2882)
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