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Thursday, November 21, 2019
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Eunice Irene Smither
David Hagewood
Milton-Freewater
October 31, 1927 — November 11, 2019
Pendleton
Nov. 29, 1927 — Nov. 19, 2019
Eunice Irene Smither, of Lorri Smither, and her brother
Milton-Freewater,
Oregon, Lowell Garner. She is survived
died on November 11, 2019, at by her brother Eugene Garner
the age of 92.
of Augusta, Ga.; sisters Fay
Eunice
was
Wyckoff of Pasco,
born October 31,
Wash., and Jeanette
1927, to J.R. and
Strech of Mission
Pairlee Garner in
Viejo, Calif.; sons-in-
Thiel, Arkansas,
law Roy McGill Sr.
where she attended
of Weston, Ore., and
school through the
Manny Vasquez of
eighth grade.
Vancouver,
Wash.;
On February
grandchildren Jenny
1, 1947 Eunice
(Steve) Luther, Roy
married Thomas
Jr. (Melissa) McGill,
Smither
Smither in Mal-
Troy
(Tammy)
vern,
Arkansas.
McGill and Lon-
Shortly after they moved to the nie Smither; great-grandchil-
Walla Walla/Milton-Freewa- dren Matt (Bobbie) McGill,
ter area where they raised their Sierra (Aiden) Pringle, Brittany
four children.
McGill, Kelen McGill, Sawyer
Eunice worked for many Luther, Adrien McGill, Tay-
years at Martin Archery, where lor McGill, Kyle McGill, Gra-
she retired.
cie Smither and Amanda Kidd;
Eunice loved spending time and
great-great-grandchil-
with her family and enjoyed dren Lane, Rylee and Haylee
being a grandma and great- McGill, and Everett Pringle.
grandma. She loved to have
Memorial services will be
her children and grandchildren held on Saturday, November
over after church service on 23, 2019, at 1 p.m. at Valley
Sundays for family lunch.
Christian Center, 800 N. Main
Eunice was known to be a Street, Milton-Freewater, OR
godly woman who would pray 97862.
for everyone. She enjoyed vol-
Memorial contributions can
unteering at her church, Valley be made to Walla Walla Com-
Christian Center.
munity Hospice through Mun-
Eunice is preceded in selle-Rhodes Funeral Home,
death by her parents, husband 902 S. Main, Milton-Freewa-
and all four children, Elaine ter, OR 97862.
McGill, Kenneth Smither,
To leave a online condolence
Cindi Smither-Vasquez and visit www.munsellerhodes.com.
David Hagewood, 91, of Pendleton, died Tuesday,
Nov. 19, 2019, at his home. He was born Nov. 29, 1927,
in Nashville, Tennessee. Funeral services will be held
Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Burns Mortuary of
Pendleton. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge
of arrangements. Sign the online guestbook at www.
burnsmortuary.com.
5:13 a.m. — On Interstate 84 in Boardman, a vehicle struck
a deceased deer. The vehicle was disabled on the side of the
highway, but no injuries were incurred.
8:05 a.m. — Someone came to the Hermiston Police Depart-
ment to report that people are living in a vehicle in a private
alleyway behind the library back parking lot. The subjects are
making noise at night.
9:08 a.m. — The Hermiston Police Department took a report
of a storage unit on Kelli Boulevard that was burglarized. All
items were reportedly stolen.
11:21 a.m. — The Morrow County Sheriff ’s Offi ce issued a
citation to a driver following a single vehicle accident on I-84
westbound in Boardman. There were no injuries.
12:19 p.m. — The Oregon Department of Transportation
reported to the Oregon State Police that road and weather
equipment was stolen off of I-84 near mile marker 198.
4:57 p.m. — When dispatch returned an abandoned 911
call from Hermiston, a crying woman answered. She stated her
name, and hung up the phone. Dispatch attempted to contact
her twice more, to no avail.
6:46 p.m. — On Southeast Utah Avenue in Irrigon, a woman
heard someone trying to kick in her back door while she was
showering. She didn’t see anyone, but there is a shoe print on
the door. The Morrow County Sheriff ’s Offi ce took a report for
the incident.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
Tuesday
•The Boardman Police Department arrested Ryan Duwayne
Payne, 40, on six charges, including two counts of fourth-de-
gree assault, a Class C felony.
Wednesday
•The Umatilla Tribal Police Department arrested Hunter
David McKay, 21, for domestic abuse, harassment and
menacing.
MEETINGS
THURSDAY, NOV. 21
WEST EXTENSION IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 9 a.m., Irri-
gon Fire Department, 705 N.E. Main St., Irrigon. (Lisa Baum
541-922-3814)
HERMISTON IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 4 p.m., Hermiston Irri-
gation District offi ce conference room, 366 E. Hurlburt Ave.,
Hermiston. (541-567-3024)
ECHO CITY COUNCIL, 4 p.m., Old VFW Hall, 210 W. Bridge St.,
Echo. (541-376-8411)
UMATILLA COUNTY SPECIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT, 5:15 p.m.,
Pendleton Center for the Arts boardroom, 214 N. Main St.,
Pendleton. (Erin McCusker 541-276-6449)
PENDLETON PLANNING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Pendleton
City Hall, 501 S.W. Emigrant Ave., Pendleton. (Jutta Haliewicz
541-966-0240)
FRIDAY, NOV. 22
No meetings scheduled
MONDAY, NOV. 25
UMATILLA BASIN WATERSHED COUNCIL, 6 p.m., Pendleton
City Hall community room, 501 S.W. Emigrant Ave., Pendleton.
(Michael T. Ward 541-276-2190)
MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT, 6 p.m., Pioneer
Memorial Clinic conference room, 130 Thompson St., Hep-
pner. Provider dinner at 6 p.m., board meeting at 6:30 p.m.
(Tonia Adams 541-676-2942)
IRRIGON COMMUNITY PARKS & RECREATION DIS-
TRICT, 7 p.m., Irrigon Fire Station, 705 N. Main St., Irrigon.
(541-922-3047)
HERMISTON CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Hermiston City
Hall council chambers, 180 N.E. Second St., Hermiston.
(541-567-5521)
MILTON-FREEWATER CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Milton-Freewa-
ter Public Library Albee Room, 8 S.W. EIghth Ave., Milton-Free-
water. (541-938-5531)
TUESDAY, NOV. 26
UMATILLA-MORROW COUNTY HEAD START, 11:30 a.m.,
Head Start boardroom, 110 N.E. Fourth St., Hermiston. (Mon-
ina Ward 541-564-6878)
IONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3:30 p.m., Ione Community School,
445 Spring St., Ione. 3:30 p.m. work session, 4:30 p.m. regular
meeting. (Kim Thul 541-422-7131)
UMATILLA PLANNING COMMISSION, 6:30 p.m., Umatilla
City Hall, 700 Sixth St., Umatilla. (Brandon Seitz 541-922-3226
ext. 103)
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27
MORROW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m.,
Bartholomew 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., Hermiston. (541-567-2882)
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Irrigon
June 20, 1938 — Nov. 16, 2019
Robert Ray “Bob” Miller, 81, of Irrigon, died Satur-
day, Nov. 16, 2019, at his home. He was born June 20,
1938, in Riverside, California. At his request, no ser-
vices will be held. Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in
care of arrangements. Share memories with the family
at www.burnsmortuaryhermiston.com.
UPCOMING SERVICES
THURSDAY, NOV. 21
TANNER, BUD — Recitation of the rosary at
7 p.m. at Burns Mortuary, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave.,
Pendleton.
FRIDAY, NOV. 22
ASHBECK, EMERY — Celebration of life service
from 2-4 p.m. at Maxwell Event Center, 145 N. First
Place, Hermiston.
CARLSON, LOUIS — Celebration of life at 4 p.m.
at the Ione American Legion Hall, 325 W. Second St.
Bring a salad or side dish to share, if you wish.
MCHENRY, BILL — Celebration of life from
4:30-6 p.m. at Pendleton Sanitary Service, 5500 N.W.
Rieth Road, Pendleton.
TANNER, BUD — Funeral mass at 10 a.m. at
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 800 S.E. Court Ave.,
Pendleton.
Apple sleuths hunt for varieties believed extinct
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PULLMAN, Wash. —
The apple tree stands alone
near the top of a steep hill,
wind whipping through its
branches as a perfect sun-
set paints its leaves a vibrant
gold.
It has been there for more
than a century, and there is
no hint that the tree or its
apples are anything out of
the ordinary. But this scrag-
gly specimen produces the
Arkansas Beauty, a so-called
heritage fruit long believed to
be extinct until amateur bot-
anists in the Pacifi c North-
west tracked it down three
years ago.
It’s one of 13 long-lost
apple varieties rediscovered
by a pair of retirees in the
remote canyons, windswept
fi elds and hidden ravines of
what was once the Oregon
Territory.
E.J. Brandt and David
Benscoter, who together
form the nonprofi t Lost
Apple Project, log count-
less hours and hundreds of
miles in trucks, on all-terrain
vehicles and on foot to fi nd
orchards planted by settlers
as they pushed west more
than a century ago.
The two are racing
against time to preserve a
slice of homesteader his-
tory: The apple trees are old,
and many are dying. Oth-
ers are being ripped out for
more wheat fi elds or housing
developments for a growing
population.
“To me, this area is a gold-
mine,” said Brandt, who has
found two lost varieties in
the Idaho panhandle. “I don’t
want it lost in time. I want
to give back to the people so
that they can enjoy what our
forefathers did.”
Brandt and Bensco-
ter scour old county fair
records, newspaper clippings
and nursery sales ledgers
to fi gure out which variet-
ies existed in the area. Then
they hunt them down, match-
ing written records with old
property maps, land deeds
and sometimes the memories
of the pioneers’ great-grand-
children. They also get leads
from people who live near
old orchards.
The task is huge. North
Ted S. Warren
In this Oct. 28, 2019, photo, amateur botanist David Benscoter, of The Lost Apple Project,
picks an apple that may be of the Clarke variety in an orchard near Pullman, Wash.
America once had 17,000
named varieties of domesti-
cated apples, but only about
4,000 remain. The Lost
Apple Project believes set-
tlers planted a few hundred
varieties in their corner of the
Pacifi c Northwest alone.
The Homestead Act of
1862 gave 160 acres to fam-
ilies who would improve the
land and pay a small fee, and
these newcomers planted
orchards with enough vari-
ety to get them through the
long winter, with apples that
ripened from early spring
until the fi rst frosts. Then, as
now, trees planted for eating
apples were not raised from
seeds; cuttings taken from
existing trees were grafted
onto a generic root stock and
raised to maturity. These
cloned trees remove the
genetic variation that often
makes “wild” apples inedible
— so-called “spitters.”
Benscoter, who retired in
2006 after a career as an FBI
agent and an IRS criminal
investigator, pursues leads
on lost apples with the same
zeal he applied to his crimi-
nal cases.
In one instance, he found
county fair records that listed
winners for every apple vari-
ety growing in Whitman
County, Washington, from
1900 to 1910 — an invalu-
able treasure map. In another,
he located a descendant of a
homesteader with a gigantic
orchard by fi nding a family
history she posted online.
Once he discovers a for-
gotten orchard, Benscoter
spends hours mapping it. He
has pages of diagrams with a
tiny circle denoting each tree,
with GPS coordinates along-
side each dot. A lengthy com-
puter database lists apples,
including the Shackleford,
the Flushing Spitzenburg and
the Dickinson — all varieties
rediscovered by the project.
Apples from newly dis-
covered trees are placed in a
Ziploc baggie and carefully
labeled with the tree’s lati-
tude and longitude and the
date the fruit was collected.
The apples are then shipped
to the Temperate Orchard
Conservancy more than 400
miles away in Molalla for
identifi cation.
There, experts work to
identify them using a trove
of U.S. Agriculture Depart-
ment watercolors and old
textbooks. Once a variety is
identifi ed as “lost,” the apple
detectives return to the fi eld
to take cuttings that can be
grafted onto root stock and
planted in the conservancy’s
vast orchard, to be preserved
for future generations.
The trees could eventu-
ally boost genetic diversity
among modern-day apple
crops as climate change
and disease take an increas-
ing toll, said Joanie Cooper,
a botanist at the Temper-
ate Orchard Conservancy
who’s helped identify many
of the lost varieties found in
Northern Idaho and Eastern
Washington.
She and two others
founded the nonprofi t con-
servancy in 2011, and oper-
ate it on a shoestring, after
recognizing the need for a
repository for rare fruit trees
in the U.S. West.
“You have to have vari-
eties that can last, that can
grow, produce fruit, survive
the heat and maybe survive
the cold winter, depending
on where you are,” Cooper
said. “I think that’s critical.”
For Benscoter and Brandt,
however, the biggest joy
comes in the hunt.
Brandt, a Vietnam veteran
and passionate historian, last
year found a homestead near
Troy, Idaho, by matching
names on receipts from a
nursery ledger with old prop-
erty maps. Three wind-bent
apple trees neatly spaced
along the edge of a wheat
fi eld were all that remained
of the orchard.
Brandt collected the
apples, hoping one was the
Enormous Pippin, a lost vari-
ety he saw listed in the sales
ledger.
Months later, he learned
he had instead found the
Regmalard, a yellowish apple
with vibrant red splashes on
its speckled skin. It hadn’t
even been on his radar.
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