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By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
—
Engraved wooden fence
pickets sitting at the Herm-
iston Community Center
this weekend tell a story
of the people who came
together to rebuild Funland
playground in 2001 after it
burned down.
After a second fire this
spring burned down the
2001 playground, the city
salvaged everything they
could that had a name on it.
The fence pickets local res-
idents sponsored are now
catalogued, alphabetized
and available for pickup
Sept. 20-22 from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Hermiston
Community Center, 415 S.
Highway 395.
Charlie Clupny was
there Friday morning
shortly after the pickup
process started, and he
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Engraved fence pickets salvaged from the former Funland
Playground after it burned down sit ready for pickup in the
Hermiston Community Center.
could tell stories about
most of the names on the
wooden slats.
“There’s so much his-
tory here,” he said.
Clupny is one of eight
committee members who
are working on the design
and fundraising for a new
Funland playground at
next summer.
The new park will be
larger and made of a more
fireproof, long-lasting com-
pressed plastic to discour-
age future arson. The fence
pickets for the new park
will be made of the same
material, a sample of which
is on display at the commu-
nity center.
Families and individuals
can sponsor a slat, engraved
with their choice of names
or message, for $100. Busi-
nesses can sponsor one for
$250. Other larger spon-
sorships, such as benches,
will also be available as
the Funland committee
works to raise money for
the new playground. For
more information, see bit.
ly/funlandpicket or call
the Hermiston parks and
recreation department at
541-667-5018.
Good Shepherd finishes remodel of diagnostic clinic
Hospital officials say
major remodel will
help hospital better
serve community
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
—
Patients of Good Shepherd
Health Care System who
need an X-ray or mammo-
gram will have a more pri-
vate, comfortable experience
after the the hospital com-
pleted a major remodel of its
diagnostic imaging depart-
ment and lab services.
Hospital staff celebrated
with a ribbon cutting on
Thursday. Chief Operat-
ing Officer Jim Schlenker
said they were excited about
the change, which will help
the hospital better serve the
community.
Eric Peterson, Good
Shepherd’s interim facilities
manager, told the audience
gathered Thursday that the
soft, inviting color palette
and overall look of the patient
staging area was “very rep-
resentative of what Good
Shepherd will look like in
the future.” The design work
on the project will provide a
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Good Shepherd Health Care System Chief Operating Officer
Jim Schlenker, center left, and CEO Dennis Burke cut the rib-
bon on the newly remodeled diagnostic imaging and labora-
tory area at Good Shepherd.
template for future remodels
to other parts of the hospital.
“We can’t do it all at once,
but we will over time,” he
said.
Previously, patients who
needed diagnostic imaging
or a blood draw checked in
at a desk within earshot of
other patients. Now they will
be able to check in in the pri-
vacy of one of three regis-
tration offices before being
seated in a lobby.
Inside the lab, the num-
ber of draw stations was
increased to three, with
an area for patients to lie
down if they need to. On
the other side of the new
lobby are the rooms for diag-
nostic imaging such as CT
scans, X-rays, MRIs, ultra-
sounds, mammograms and
echocardiography.
The increased number
of registration stations and
draw stations is expected to
significantly decrease the
amount of time it will take
for patients to get blood
drawn, and the offices will
also mean less wait time for
scans.
Good Shepherd has
remodeled, expanded or
added several new areas to
its plaza at 620 N.W. 11th St.
in the past few years, includ-
ing the addition of the Good
Shepherd Women’s Clinic.
The clinic announced hir-
ing its second midwife this
week.
Cynthia Rice, a certi-
fied nurse midwife, comes
to Hermiston from Georgia.
She has seven years of expe-
rience as a registered nurse
and a master of science in
nurse-midwifery from Fron-
tier Nursing University in
Hyden, Kentucky.
She said in a news release
that she was inspired to
become a midwife after a
midwife helped her through
the birth of her second and
third children after a “very
traumatic” birth experience
with her first child. She said
she is excited to work with
the team at the women’s
center to provide care for
women from adolescence
to menopause.
PENDLETON — Maintaining their
code of silence, the Pendleton City
Council will interview potential buy-
ers for the old fire station at 911 S.W.
Court Ave. behind closed doors.
At a city council meeting, Pendle-
ton resident Rex Morehouse asked the
council whether they were going to
hold the interviews in an open meeting.
Mayor John Turner said the coun-
cil would meet with the potential buy-
ers in an executive session, meaning
all discussions about the property and
buyers would be shielded from public
view until the council made a decision.
The city asked for proposals for
the vacated fire station by Aug. 22,
but since then, city officials have
declined to identify who has submitted
a proposal.
The East Oregonian independently
verified two people who have submit-
ted a proposal: La Grande developer
Gust Tsiatsos and Hillsboro business
owner Scott Hart.
Tsiatsos owns a boutique hotel and
restaurant in La Grande, and he wants
to do a similar project in Pendleton.
Hart has declined to share details about
his project, but he owns a dirt bike
equipment business in Hillsboro.
The interviews are set for a city
council workshop on Sept. 24.
ODF and woodland
association to host tour for
forested property owners
WESTON — The Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry and the Oregon Small
Woodlands Association are hosting a
field tour east of Weston for forested
property owners interested in thinning
their land.
For property owners worried
their stands will be lost in a fire or
insects, the tour will take them to sev-
eral pre-commercial thinning proj-
ects where they can study techniques
and treatment options to protect their
property.
The tour will be at 56327 Brutscher
Road about 10 miles east of Weston
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Organizers recommend attend-
ees wear boots and rain gear or warm
clothing in case of cold or wet weather.
For more information, call Hans
Rudolf at 541-276-3491.
Hermiston council to
discuss cybersecurity
HERMISTON — The Hermiston
City Council will be asked to adopt
cybersecurity policies during its Mon-
day meeting.
Staff have been working on cre-
ating a 25-page set of guidelines on
protecting the city from cybersecu-
rity attacks. Cities in some parts of
the United States have had all of their
data held ransom by hackers, who have
demanded millions of dollars for the
release of records ranging from police
reports to email accounts to building
permits.
The proposed plan up for a vote
Monday includes measures, such as
backing up data, proper disposal of
confidential records, strong password
requirements, regular trainings, net-
work vulnerability assessments and
creating an incident response team to
handle data recovery efforts during
security breaches or natural disasters.
The cybersecurity policy headlines
a short agenda for the night, which also
includes the consent agenda and the
city’s regular reports from staff, com-
mittees and council members.
The council meets Monday at
7 p.m. at city hall, 180 N.E. Second St.
The agenda packet can be previewed
before the meeting at hermiston.or.us/
meetings.
Eighth Street Bridge to
close Tuesday
PENDLETON — The Eighth
Street Bridge, which connects South-
east Eighth Street to the Lee Street
Grade across the Umatilla River, will
be closed to vehicle traffic on Tuesday,
Sept. 24, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The closure will allow for the instal-
lation of riprap to reinforce a section
of the riverbank following erosion last
spring. The erosion, a result of the
heavy rains and construction at the
site, resulted in an unstable bank near
the bridge site.
For the duration of the bridge clos-
ing, a pedestrian crossing will remain
available.
The installation of riprap must be
completed before the end of the Uma-
tilla River in-water work window on
Sept. 30, 2019. Additionally, crews will
be unable to finish work on the River-
front Parkway until after the stabiliza-
tion of the river’s bank.
For more information, contact the
Pendleton Public Works Department at
541-966-0201.
— East Oregonian staff
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SALEM — As appropri-
ations bills get ready to hit
the Senate floor, a $2 million
appropriation for research
on cannabidiol could guide
Oregon farmers growing the
crop.
Cannabidiol,
known
more commonly as CBD, is
a main component of hemp,
which is on track to be a bil-
lion dollar crop for Oregon
this year.
On a conference call with
reporters Thursday, Sen.
Jeff Merkley said he wanted
to make sure funding was
set aside for research, policy
evaluation and market anal-
ysis for the Food and Drug
Administration to regulate
CBD.
The non-psychoactive
ingredient has risen in pop-
ularity as companies have
infused it into everything
from gummy bears to sham-
poo. This week The Associ-
ated Press released a report
detailing lab testing done by
the AP and by law enforce-
ment on CBD products.
They found some products
claiming to contain CBD
had none at all, while others
mixed in illegal synthetic
marijuana without labeling
it as such. In some cases,
people have ended up in the
hospital from ingesting or
vaping synthetic marijuana
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Pendleton council will meet
privately with potential fire
station buyers
d i sg u i s e d
as a CBD
product.
“ We ’r e
in the Wild
We st ,”
Merkley
Merkley
said.
He said
some people are of a mind
that the FDA should stay
“hands off” on CBD prod-
ucts as long as a specific
health claim is not being
made. Others want to see the
FDA crack down on fraudu-
lent labeling.
“I would encourage them
to put significant effort into
accurate labeling and dis-
closure to provide a better
foundation for consumers,”
Merkley said.
He said hemp farmers
also need the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture to pro-
vide a standardized method
for testing their crop for
THC, the high-inducing
component in marijuana.
The 2018 farm bill legal-
ized hemp, but if a crop has
more than 0.3% THC levels,
it becomes an illegal mar-
ijuana crop under current
federal law.
Merkley said the type of
test used, when the testing is
performed and other factors
influence the results, how-
ever, so it is important that
regulations were put in place
for everyone’s crop to be
tested by the same standard.
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
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