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East Oregonian
Saturday, August 17, 2019
New dermatology clinic coming
to Pendleton in September
Silver Falls
Dermatology
has 27 locations
throughout the
Pacific Northwest
By JESSICA POLLARD
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Magui Verdugo serves a dish to Adulfo Sanchez at the new Magui’s Antojitos y Raspados
food cart located in the food cart pod near the Hermiston Post Office.
Food truck pod gets new addition
Magui’s Antojitos
y Raspados sells
fruit cups, snow
cones, traditional
Mexican snacks
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — The
inaugural food truck pod
in Hermiston has a new
addition.
Magui’s Antojitos y
Raspados sells various
types of fruit cups, snow
cones and traditional Mex-
ican snacks. The truck’s
most popular item, accord-
ing to Joselyne Verdugo,
is their shaved ice, which
comes in a tall cup and
is flavored with real fruit
and cream.
Joselyne
said
her
mother, Magui Verdugo,
makes most of the items
from scratch. Her mom,
she said, bought the bright
green truck on a whim.
“It was really sponta-
neous,” she said. “My mom
fell in love with the color,
and she’s always doing
stuff like this, making cute
little food things.”
The Hermiston family
expects they won’t likely
make much money in the
remaining weeks of this
season, but they hope to get
their name out there and be
more established next year.
The food truck joined
Southern Twain BBQ and
Tacos Garcia last week at
the city’s new summer food
truck pod on Orchard Ave-
nue across from the post
office. Known as Third
Street Eats, the pod opened
as a pilot program in April
and the city provided tables
and shade.
Joselyne said that so far
not many food trucks had
signed on, but she knows
of a few different people
who are planning to open a
truck there eventually.
“Hopefully
this
becomes more of a thing,
but it’s been fun so far,”
she said.
Magui’s Antojitos y
Raspados plans to add more
items to their menu as they
go along, and are consider-
ing expanding their hours
past 8 p.m. since more peo-
ple seem to be drawn to the
food pod in the evening
when it’s cooler out.
BRIEFLY
Arrowhead gets pumped up
with customer event
MISSION — A lawn party is planned
at Arrowhead Travel Plaza.
The customer appreciation event is
Wednesday, Aug. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
at Arrowhead, located off Interstate 84 at
Exit 216. It features special fuel discounts,
free food, live music and giveaways.
People are invited to get pumped up
by getting out of their cars and moving
to the music of Nuketown or listen in on
a live remote on 103.5 KWHEAT. Peo-
ple are encouraged to register for Rewards
on the Rez program, which offers instant
fuel discounts, bonus points and random
prizes.
For more information, contact mary.lib-
erty@wildhorseresort.com, 541-276-8080
or visit www.arrowheadtravelplaza.com.
— East Oregonian staff
PENDLETON — One
of the largest dermatology
groups in the Northwest, Sil-
ver Falls Dermatology, will
be opening its doors in Pend-
leton next month.
Der matology-trained
family nurse practitioner
Lorrie Weldon will be the
primary care provider at the
clinic. She’s new to the Sil-
ver Falls team, and is coming
from California.
“I visited Pendleton and
I liked the town, the people
there seem very friendly,”
she said.
Weldon has nursing
degrees from John Hopkins
School of Nursing and the
University of California, San
Francisco. She said she looks
forward to providing care in
the area.
“Most people might have
to commute to Washington
for dermatology care right
now,” she said. “There’s
a need.”
Dr. John
Young, who
founded Sil-
ver
Falls
Der matol-
ogy
and
Weldon
A l l e r g y,
said the clinic is special in
the sense that Weldon will
be linked into an electronic
platform that allows her to
communicate with and get
information from other der-
matology specialists that
work with Silver Falls, across
the region, in real time.
“Our model is kind of
like teledermatology on ste-
roids,” Young said. “That’s
worked very well for us,
allowing us to take care of
lesser served areas.”
The Pendleton location is
the 27th Silver Falls Derma-
tology clinic to open in the
Pacific Northwest.
Young, who is originally
from New Orleans, said
inspiration for starting Sil-
ver Falls Dermatology came
from his time as a flight sur-
geon in the Air Force.
“In the military, I found
it was hard to get people
into specialists. I wanted
to be a specialist who was
embracing the primary
care world by providing
OFFICE
LOCATION
Silver Falls Dermatology
will open and start accept-
ing new patients on Sept.
3. The clinic will be located
at 1100 Southgate, Suite 6,
Pendleton. Those interest-
ed can call 541-210-5771
for information or to set
up an appointment
access,” he said.
Young studied at Loui-
siana State University, and
went on to earn his medical
degree from Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston.
The Pendleton clinic will
provide diagnosis and treat-
ment of hair, skin and nail
conditions like acne, psoria-
sis, bacterial and viral infec-
tions and herpes. They also
provide allergy-immunology
services.
The office will accept
most
insurance
plans,
including Medicaid.
“For the foreseeable
future, we’ll have the capac-
ity to have people seen the
same week they call. We
try to keep our waits and
our waiting lists short,” said
Rachael Rossman, market-
ing director for Silver Falls.
Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde purchase paper mill site
By MONICA SAMAYOA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
WILLAMETTE FALLS — The Con-
federated Tribes of Grand Ronde final-
ized their purchase of the former Blue
Heron paper mill site at Willamette Falls
on Wednesday.
Once home to the Charcowah vil-
lage of the Clowewalla, the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde bought the 23-acre
site from Washington developer George
Heidgerken. The property is located within
the tribes’ ancestral homelands and holds
significant historical and cultural impor-
tance for the Grand Ronde.
“This is a historic day for the Grand
Ronde Tribe and our people,” Cheryle A.
Kennedy, chairwoman for the Confed-
erated Tribes of Grand Ronde, said in a
statement. “Since 1855 the government
has worked to disconnect our people from
our homelands. Today, we’re reclaiming a
piece of those lands and resurrecting our
role as caretakers to Willamette Falls — a
responsibility left to us by our ancestors.”
The area is part of the lands ceded to
the United States government under the
Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855. Follow-
ing the treaty, tribal members were forcibly
removed from Willamette Falls and relo-
cated to Grand Ronde.
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