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Oregon
test scores
on the
decline
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
A child dressed as a ghost pirate strolls down Main Street among crowds of costumed trick-or- treaters on Thursday afternoon.
By ROB MANNING
Oregon Public Broadcasting
PORTLAND — Student
test scores fell in Oregon and
Washington on the assessment
known as the “Nation’s Report
Card,” a trend that mirrors
national declines over the last
two years.
The National Assessment
of Educational Progress, or
NAEP test, is given every two
years to a sample of fourth-
and eighth-grade students in
every state.
Oregon’s
results
for
fourth-graders remain below
the national average on both
reading and math. Eighth-
grade scores were very close
to the national average, two
years ago, and stayed that way
this year.
Washington has histori-
cally performed better than
Oregon and the national aver-
age on the NAPE tests. That
remained the case for this
year’s eighth-graders. But
fourth-graders slipped to
being on par with the country
as a whole.
Washington’s top education
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Lucas Tullis, 4, dressed as Harry Potter for
Treats on Main in Hermiston.
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Jessica Pollard
PENDLETON — Businesses along
Main Street opened their doors to robbers,
pirates and dinosaurs on Thursday night
for the annual downtown trick-or-treat.
The hundreds of costumed children fi lled
the sidewalks toting buckets and bags to
collect candy in celebration of Halloween.
While several children dressed as
postal or delivery workers, Lillee Vie-
ira, 5, was the only person dressed as a
mailbox. Vieira’s mother said the costume
idea came when the pair were driving and
she asked her what she wanted to be for
Halloween.
Further down the street, past a gaggle
of kids dressed as green plastic army men
and a child dressed as a whoopee cush-
ion, Paul Melton was handing out candy.
Marisa White and Hannah Schulz, both of Hermiston, dressed as puppet and pup-
pet-master during Treats on Main on Thursday afternoon.
See Halloween, Page A8
See Scores, Page A8
Good Shepherd community meeting highlights patient care
Hospital announces plans to start oncology clinic,
sleep center and cardio rehabilitation expansion
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — When Mar-
cus Engle took the stage during the
Good Shepherd Community Health
Care System Community Meeting
on Wednesday night to talk about
patient care, he was speaking from
experience.
At age 18, Engle, who authors
books and gives speeches nation-
wide about improving the patient
experience, was coming home
from a hockey game in St. Louis
with his friends when a drunken
driver crashed into the side of the
vehicle where he was a passen-
ger. The crash broke every bone in
his face and others throughout his
body, took his eyesight, required a
tracheotomy and resulted in hun-
dreds of hours of surgeries.
He doesn’t remember much
from his arrival at the Level 1
trauma center 3 miles away, other
than the intense pain, but he does
remember Jennifer.
“Most of the night I was uncon-
scious, and the only thing that
gave me comfort in that messed up
world was the fact that someone
was holding my hand,” Engle said.
Every time he had a moment of
consciousness, she would squeeze
his hand and repeat, “My name is
See Good Shepherd, Page A8
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Marcus Engle, with his guide dog Elliot, speaks at the Good Shepherd
Health Care System Community Meeting at Hermiston High School on
Wednesday.