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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
East Oregonian
Sign of the season
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Line crews with Pacifi c Power work to hang a “Seasons Greetings” sign over Southgate in
Pendleton on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.
Hermiston teacher cooks up
new ideas amid virtual learning
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — As
most Oregon students learn
from home
this
year,
some classes
are
spill-
ing over into
family life.
Angela
Treadwell,
Treadwell
who teaches
family and
consumer sciences at Herm-
iston High School, said dis-
tance learning for her classes
is allowing her students to
cook for or with their fam-
ily members as a homework
assignment. They complete
“food labs” using kits of fresh
ingredients they pick up from
the high school.
“One of the values of this
is it’s exposing them to new
foods, to local foods and to a
variety of foods,” she said.
Once they made pancakes,
another time they made gra-
nola. Their fi rst lab was a
simple vegetable omelet in a
cup.
Most recently, Treadwell
provided fresh winter squash
from Hermiston-based Third
Gen Farms, and let students
choose what they made with
it. They could choose one of
the recipes provided through
the free Food Hero website
run by Oregon State Univer-
sity, or make a family favor-
ite. Afterward, students sent
photos and a report of how
it went, with most sharing
their family’s reviews of the
recipe.
“I seasoned, baked, and
pulled apart the squash so
nicely that I was actually
impressed,” wrote a student
SALEM — Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department
is inviting Oregonians to
head outside for some fresh
air the day after Thanksgiv-
ing. OPRD will waive day-
use parking fees that day in
25 state parks across Oregon
on Friday, Nov. 27.
The parking waiver
applies from open to close
Nov. 27 at the 25 parks that
charge a $5 daily parking fee.
A list of parks that require
day-use parking permits is
available at stateparks.ore-
gon.gov. Parking is free year-
round at the majority of Ore-
gon’s 250-plus state park
properties.
“We recognize that being
outdoors makes us feel bet-
ter and is a break from the
stresses of 2020,” said direc-
tor Lisa Sumption in a press
release. “In this unconven-
tional year, we feel it is espe-
cially important to honor this
tradition as thanks to Ore-
gonians for supporting us
through our toughest times.”
Thanksgiving
week-
end falls squarely within
the Gov. Kate Brown’s two-
week freeze, Nov. 18-Dec. 2.
Accordingly, OPRD directs
people to limit gatherings at
parks to six people and two
households. This is in addi-
tion to longstanding direction
Coronavirus spreads rapidly at social gatherings,
putting every person in attendance at risk. It can
take up to two weeks for symptoms to begin, and
you may be transmitting the virus without even
knowing you have it.
The best way to protect your loved ones from the
holiday season is to alter your annual routines and
Angela Treadwell/Contributed photo
A student sent Angela Treadwell, a family and consumer
sciences teacher at Hermiston High School, a picture of this
spaghetti squash they made at home for an assignment to
cook something with squash in it.
who made spaghetti squash.
“I’ve never done something
like that before and it turned
out better than I expected. I
had my mom, little brother
and little sister taste it, and
they all thought it was deli-
cious. My mom didn’t know
it was squash until I told her.”
The squash was paid for
by an OSU Moore Family
Center Healthy Community
Outreach grant.
Treadwell just started as
a teacher at Hermiston High
School, but she is extremely
familiar with teaching cook-
ing, particularly using Food
Hero recipes, after years of
teaching SNAP education
classes to families receiving
food stamps, visiting schools
and carrying out other educa-
tional activities as the Oregon
State University Extension
Service’s SNAP Education
coordinator for Umatilla and
Morrow counties.
Under the comprehensive
distance learning model that
Hermiston School District is
using during the pandemic,
students have “synchronous”
learning in the mornings
when they watch instruc-
tional videos or gather with
their whole class over video
chat for live classes with their
teachers. In the afternoons,
they can work on homework
like Treadwell’s food labs or
learn in small groups or one-
on-one time with teachers.
It hasn’t been an easy
adjustment, said Treadwell,
who both teaches classes
for the high school and has
her own daughter learning
online at home. But students
are adapting.
“I know it’s different, but
students here are getting into
a routine,” she said. “They’re
showing up for their synchro-
nous learning, and I’m really
proud of what they’re doing.”
In addition to cooking
labs, Treadwell also teaches
them about safe food prepa-
ration, knife safety, nutrition,
seasonal produce and other
topics. Preparing meal kits
for about 100 students to pick
up can be labor intensive, but
Treadwell said she tries to use
locally produced ingredients,
such as the Third Gen Farms
squash, as much as possible.
to stay local, wear face cov-
erings and maintain a 6-foot
distance from other visitors.
Hermiston woman
arrested, passed out
in car with drugs
HERMISTON — A
Hermiston woman was
arrested Saturday, Nov. 21,
after police found her passed
out in the driver’s seat of a ille-
gally parked vehicle.
Umatilla
County Sher-
iff’s Deputy
Cody Mar-
cum discov-
ered Ruby
Sanders, 45,
passed out in
Sanders
a vehicle that
was parked
illegally at Short Stop on East
Punkin Center Road and
Highway 207 in Hermiston.
Marcum knocked on the
window with no response.
He also banged on the top
of the car and she moved,
opened her eyes and gained
consciousness.
When questioned, Sand-
ers admitted that she was
using methamphetamine and
told Marcum she had more
drugs in her purse. She also
said there was a warrant out
for her arrest. Dispatch con-
fi rmed a felony no bail war-
rant out of the Oregon State
Parole Board.
Sanders identifi ed her
Passing COVID-19 around the dinner table and
putting your family at risk is worse.
Keep it small.
Limit the number of people and households at your
gathering. It is recommended that no more than six
people from two households gather at one time.
If you’re sick, stay home.
Get your rest and don’t risk the health of your loved
ones by potentially exposing them to coronavirus.
LOCAL BRIEFING
State parks waive
day-use fees on
Nov. 27
COVID-19 is a
gift you don’t
want to give
this holiday
season.
purse and the drugs and par-
aphernalia Marcum found,
including multiple baggies
and containers with approx-
imately 40 grams of meth, a
quantity of M-30 pills (fen-
tanyl), small baggies with
brown heroin, a digital scale,
small Ziploc baggies and $593
in cash.
Sanders was lodged in
the Umatilla County Jail on
the felony warrant, along
with charges for posses-
sion and delivery of all three
substances.
Stop the spread.
Wear your face covering, keep a 6-foot distance,
and wash your hands regularly when you’re around
people who don’t live in your household.
TRCI inmate dies
in custody
UMATILLA — A Two
Rivers Correctional Institu-
tion inmate in Umatilla died
early Friday, Nov. 20, the
Oregon Department of Cor-
rections (DOC) reported.
Robert Archie Shimmin,
83, died at a
local med-
ical facil-
ity. Shim-
min entered
DOC cus-
tody in Feb-
ruary 2014
from Mar-
Shimmin
ion County
of multiple counts of sexual
abuse. His earliest release
date would have been
November 2039.
Per standard protocol, the
Oregon State Police have
been notifi ed of the death.
— EO Media Group
Talk to your family.
Stay connected through phone and video
conversations, and share the reasons you are
choosing to stay safe this holiday season.
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