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Saturday, July 27, 2019
East Oregonian
County approves
two grants
NWS removes radar for replacement
Milton-Freewater
Kiwanis Club,
Pendleton Lodge
receive grants from
Umatilla County
By ALEX CASTLE
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
Umatilla County Board of
Commissioners approved
two grants on Wednes-
day, one of which will
give $10,000 to the Mil-
ton-Freewater Kiwanis
Club and the other that
will give $6,000 to the
Pendleton Lodge.
The Kiwanis Club will
use its community devel-
opment grant to replace
the hand lines used to
water the Milton-Freewa-
ter Cemetery with an irri-
gated sprinkler system.
The Pendleton Lodge
plans to use its economic
development grant to
assist in replacing its sec-
ond story roof drains.
Lance
Leonnig,
co-owner of the Pendle-
ton Lodge, hadn’t heard
that the grant had been
approved until he was
headed to work on more
of its various projects on
Thursday but was ecstatic
at the news.
“I’m so happy, I’d
really like to thank the
county,” he said. “I
couldn’t do this with-
out their help. All these
grants are doing wonders
and I wasn’t even really
expecting to get it.”
Leonnig said he asked
for funding for an assort-
ment of projects but that
the $6,000 will go toward
helping bring parts of the
building up to health and
safety code. As is, the
auxiliary bar located on
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Crews work to lower the internal structure of the National Weather Service Pendleton radar dome Friday morning.
The removal of the dome was a part of the endeavor to update and replace the radar system. The renovated radar
system is expected to provide reliable data for the next 10 years, according to the National Weather Service.
Camp in Boardman demystifies manufacturing
By JESSICA POLLARD
East Oregonian
BOARDMAN — Elaina
Salgado has big plans for
the future.
The 11-year-old, who is
headed into the sixth grade
at Windy River Elemen-
tary in Boardman, plans on
becoming a veterinarian.
And as of this week, she’s
also hoping to design and
custom-make her own chair
out of a tree stump.
She’s one of 21 mid-
dle school kids from Mor-
row and Umatilla coun-
ties to participate in the
second annual “Nuts,
Bolts and Thingamajigs”
camp, which focuses on
manufacturing.
“I’m used to tools,” she
explained.
Prior to the camp, Sal-
gado said she had helped
her family out with main-
tenance projects around
the house, including oil
changes on her family’s car.
But this week, she and
the other campers took
their math, science and
manual skills to a new
level when they built their
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Liam Heideman, 12, paints a step stool that he constructed as
a part of the Nuts Bolts and Thingamajigs camp at Riverside
High School in Boardman.
own step stools and solar
cars with the guidance of
Ken Jacobs, a wood shop
teacher at Pendleton’s Sun-
ridge Middle School.
Jacobs has been in the
wood shop at Sunridge for
five years, but has been
working with kids for three
decades. He said the proj-
ects this summer are no
simple feat.
“It’s challenging,” he
said. “They are more capa-
ble than we give them
credit for.”
This week, campers
toured the Port of Morrow,
SAGE Center, and Lamb
Weston before heading
back to the wood shop at
Riverside High School each
afternoon to work on their
projects.
They also got their feet
wet with the 3D design
software SOLIDWORKS,
which they used to design
the step stools.
On Thursday afternoon,
Riverside High School
campus seemed dead, but
the wood shop behind the
school was bursting with
the noise of power tools
and the scent of wood.
Kids were drilling, cutting,
sanding and painting their
stools while a troop of solar
cars waited ready to roll for
Friday’s parent showcase in
the next room over.
“You’re sawing, you’re
sanding, you’re measur-
ing,” said Colby Crowell, a
soon-to-be sixth-grader at
Windy River. “It’s building
stuff. I learned that manu-
facturing is building things,
putting them together and
designing them.”
The camp is funded with
a three-year tiered grant
from the Fabricators and
Manufacturers
Associa-
tion. The camp was made
possible from a partner-
ship between OSU Exten-
sion Service, the POM and
Blue Mountain Community
College.
“It really gives these stu-
dents an opportunity to look
at a wide range of manufac-
turing careers,” said Kalie
Davis, a workforce train-
ing program manager at the
Port of Morrow.
BRIEFLY
Hermiston area
man arrested in
Tillamook
TILLAMOOK — Tim-
othy Allen Kelly, of Herm-
iston, was arrested by the
U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task
Force on July 23 for several
charges including second-de-
gree theft and burglary, as
well as first-degree arson.
He is currently in custody
in the Tillamook County Jail,
awaiting transfer to Umatilla
County.
The Hermiston Police
Department believes that on
Aug. 14, 2018, Kelly — 27
years old at the time — threw
an explosive device through
the window of 1100 West
Sunland Ave. at approxi-
mately 4:30 a.m.
Hermiston Police Chief
Jason Edmiston said at the
time, the HPD had issues get-
ting someone to accept own-
ership of the residence fol-
lowing the owner’s arrest
and imprisonment for assault
charges.
The home was occupied
during the incident, which
resulted in a broken window.
No further damages or inju-
ries were reported.
Pratt announces
run for sheriff
BOARDMAN — A ser-
geant with the Boardman
Police Department is running
for Morrow County Sheriff,
according to a press release.
Mark Pratt announced
Friday he’s
running for
sheriff
in
the
2020
election.
“I
am
running for
sheriff
to
Pratt
provide
a
new vision and direction for
the sheriff’s office, which
will provide improved ser-
vices,” he said. “I will work
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the presence of God and you heard a
prosecuting attorney listing all the reasons you
should be sent to hell, how would you plead?
Guilty or not guilty?
Th e apostle Paul said, “All have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God? (Romans 3:23). Th at makes us
guilty as charged. What is the penalty for our sin?
“Th e wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
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the lodge’s second story
doesn’t have legal sinks
due to ineffective drains.
Not only is one of the
drainage pipes that runs
all the way to the roof
broken, but the area that
the water is meant to
drain to is also blocked
from the curb. And even
if the pipe wasn’t busted
and could extend to the
curb, the city drain that
was once open at the curb
has been paved over.
The money from the
grant will help as Leon-
nig replaces and reori-
ents the second story and
roof’s drainage system so
that a legal floor sink can
be installed upstairs.
While the grant is one
step in the right direc-
tion for Leonnig and the
Pendleton Lodge, he said
he doesn’t have a target
completion date for what
remains of a long list of
projects.
Steve
Timmons,
who was instrumen-
tal in the Milton-Free-
water Kiwanis Club’s
efforts to be awarded its
$10,000 grant, couldn’t be
reached for comment on
Thursday.
However, the fund-
ing is the latest aid the
group has received from
the county in its work at
the cemetery. Commis-
sioner John Shafer said
the county had previously
donated old county signs
that weren’t being used
to the Kiwanis Club to
direct people around the
cemetery.
Also out of the board
of commissioners meet-
ing, the county approved
$7,600 in advertising in
the Other Oregon maga-
zine, which is produced
and published by the EO
Media Group.
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