East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, March 21, 2020, WEEKEND EDITION, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextREGION Saturday, March 21, 2020 East Oregonian A3 CORONAVIRUS Hermiston council urges online participation for meeting By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian HERMISTON — The city of Hermiston is adjust- ing access to its build- ings and its next city coun- cil meeting in order to better follow social distanc- ing guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention. Beginning Monday and lasting until at least April 14, residents are asked to call and make an appointment before coming in to talk to city staff or access services. Bill payment can be made online at hermiston.or.us/ pay_home, by phone at 541- 567-5521, or at the drive- through drop box outside the old city hall. The city council is going ahead with its regular meet- ing Monday at 7 p.m., but it has been moved to the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center, and everyone interested in attending is urged to tune in via video or phone instead of attending in person. MAKING AN APPOINTMENT To schedule an appointment with a department in the city of Hermiston, call a number below: City Hall or Planning Department, 541-567-5521 Building Department, 541-667-5025 Parks and Recreation, 541-667-5018 Police Department (non-emergency), 541-567-5519 Hermiston Library, 541-567-2882 Municipal Court, 541-567-6610 A livestream video will be broadcast at https://bit. ly/HermistonYouTube and can also be accessed after the meeting, or residents can listen in by phone by calling 1-206-462-5569 and using the code 8262-77-4726. Call- ers will be muted for most of the meeting, but there will be opportunity to make pub- lic comment by phone. For those who aren’t able to access those options, a limited number of chairs will be available at the meet- ing and in an overﬂ ow room with video. The agenda includes a discussion about moving city council meet- ings to once a month during the COVID-19 outbreak, continuation of the city’s efforts to clean up the lan- guage of its code of ordi- Local schools brace for extended closure By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian PENDLETON — Pub- lic schools will remain closed through late April, but school- work is resuming. The Pendleton School Dis- trict ofﬁ ce will be open next week to provide supplemental learning material to its 3,000 students stuck at home after the governor ordered schools closed statewide over the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning Monday, the district’s central ofﬁ ce at 107 N.W. 10th Street will be open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. to offer work packets for elementary school students and laptops. The packets will also be avail- able online for download and at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reserva- tion Education Department in Mission. The packets are dif- ferentiated by grade, but are otherwise the same regardless of the student’s class. Matt Yoshioka, the dis- trict’s director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, said middle school and high school students would receive education material through their teachers’ web pages. Yoshioka said the dis- trict already had been sup- plying supplemental mate- rial after Gov. Kate Brown Staﬀ photo by Ben Lonergan The Pendleton School District culinary arts food truck sits at the CTUIR Recreation Center as the district distributes lunches and breakfasts to students 18 and under during the closure. The recreation center site is one of three lunch sites operated by the school district on weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lunches are also available at Washington Ele- mentary School and Pendleton Early Learning Center. closed schools March 16, but they began preparing the ﬁ ve- week packets once Brown extended the ban to April 28. Despite the interruption to everyday learning, Yosh- ioka said Pendleton decided quickly not to switch to an online school format because it would create an inequitable situation for students without access to the internet. While the Pendleton dis- trict does operate its own online school program that will go uninterrupted through the school closure, Yoshioka said the district is not allow- ing new students to sign up during the shutdown. Yoshioka said the packets provided by the district would contain worksheets covering reading, writing and math, and would be similar to home- work in the sense that they would reinforce concepts the children have already been taught rather than introducing new ones. InterMountain Education Service District Superinten- dent Mark Mulvihill said his organization would begin activating its printers and cou- riers to assist Eastern Oregon districts in delivering supple- mentary material. When Brown closed state schools, Mulvihill said the state promised to continue funding K-12 education as long as schools met four basic requirements: employees are paid, students are fed, sup- plemental education services are provided and schools pro- vided staff and space for day- care for the children of emer- gency professionals. Mulvihill said regional superintendents met for two hours on Thursday to coordi- nate their supplemental edu- cation programs. While each program will have its differences, Mulvi- hill said the region can expect each district to roll out supple- mental education plans over the next few weeks. After some superinten- dents pondered reopening their schools to seniors as long as they kept the class sizes small and observed social distancing, Mulvihill said he reminded them that the school closure order was ironclad. But educators will return to work, just without the bene- ﬁ t of face-to-face contact with their students. “This isn’t a vacation,” he said. “This is an emergency.” nance, and staff and council reports. “Just as many businesses have limited their contact with customers to stop the spread of coronavirus, the city of Hermiston is taking precautions to stay in com- pliance with state and fed- eral guidelines,” Hermiston City Manager Byron Smith said in a statement. “We will continue to operate and meet the needs of residents, and we appreciate everyone doing their part to keep this community safe.” BRIEFLY Tribes suspend Hermiston man Kayak Public killed by gunshot Transit for a week HERMISTON — The MISSION — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reserva- tion announced on Friday afternoon that it would be shutting down Kayak Pub- lic Transit, according to a press release. The closure — in response to COVID-19 — would begin Monday and run though Satur- day, March 28, the release said, adding that the board will monitor the situation and a make determination concerning the following week. “Kayak recognizes its role as a lifeline for access to employment, medi- cal and shopping needs throughout the region and we do not take this action lightly,” the release said. Kayak Public Transit operates three ﬁ xed routes and four commuter bus services in Southeastern Washington and North- eastern Oregon, including La Grande, Hermiston and Walla Walla, Washington. Anyone with questions are encouraged to contact dispatch for updates or inquiries. autopsy of the Hermiston man found dead northeast of the city on Wednesday revealed he was killed by a gunshot wound, the Umatilla County Sher- iff’s Ofﬁ ce said in a press release Friday. A Umatilla/Morrow County Major Crimes Team is investigating the murder of Jordan Deloen Crandall, whose body was found by a res- ident at about 9:37 a.m. on Wednesday approx- imately 75 feet west of Alpine Drive, north of Punkin Center Road and next to an irrigation ditch. “At this time, there is no reason to believe the general public is in dan- ger due to the homicide,” the press release said. “We will release further infor- mation when we are able.” According to the East Oregonian’s archives, while attending Hermis- ton High School, Crandall competed with the Inter- mountain High School Rodeo team from 2007 to 2009. He was 28 years old. — EO Media Group State-run campgrounds forced to close By MICHAEL KOHN EO Media Group SALEM — Camp- grounds in state parks, for- est areas and wildlife areas have been ordered to close after April 3 in the state’s latest attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will accommodate current over- night guests through April 2, according to a release. Reservations for campsites in state parks from April 3 through May 8 will be can- celed and site fees will be refunded. The recreation depart- ment will review the state campground closure prior to May 8 and determine at that time if the closure should be extended. All individual and group over- night facilities are affected, including campsites, yurts, cabins, tepees and ser- vices operated by conces- sionaires. Reservations for group day-use areas are also suspended. The restrictions do not affect daytime access to state parks, so people are still encouraged to visit state parks in Eastern Oregon. Most campgrounds run by the Oregon Department of Forestry are currently closed for the season and will not reopen for individ- ual and group use. Year- round campgrounds close starting Monday. 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