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Saturday, May 29, 2021
East Oregonian
Toby Keith headlines Whisky Fest
Clare Dunn, Clay
Walker and Cole
Swindell also to
take the stage
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Pend-
leton Whisky Music Fest is
ready to thrill again.
Songwriters Hall of
Fame inductee and two-time
Academy of Country Music
Awards Entertainer of the
Year Toby Keith is set to
headline the annual summer
event on July 10, 2021, at the
historic Pendleton Round-Up
Grounds.
Country music’s Clare
Dunn, Clay Walker and Cole
Swindell also are slated to
perform, according to the
announcement from Pendle-
ton Whisky Music Fest.
Doug Corey, Whisky Fest
co-founder, said the entertain-
ers have been easy to work
with and “having a top notch
agent and one that is respected
in the industry” was central to
getting the lineup.
“Trying to do this without
an agent would be diffi cult,”
Greg Allen/Associated Press, File
Country music recording artist Toby Keith performs on NBC’s
Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza on July 5, 2019, in New York.
Keith, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and two-time
Academy of Country Music Awards Entertainer of the Year, is
set to headline the Pendleton Whisky Music Fest on July 10,
2021, at the historic Pendleton Round-Up Grounds.
he said. “There are simply
too many moving parts. We
are extremely lucky to have
secured Toby Keith, Cole
Swindell and Clay Walker, all
on such short notice. It will be
a wonderful country music
event. We are excited for this
year’s Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest.”
Organizers canceled the
2020 festival due to the coro-
navirus pandemic. The new
lineup of 2021 performers will
replace the original headlining
artist Eric Church, who is now
set to perform at the Pendleton
Whisky Music Fest in 2022,
along with Macklemore.
Whisky Fest also plans to
take place in front of a live
audience, but there will be
differences from previous
years.
Pendleton Whisky Music
Fest, according to the press
release, will follow all health
and safety guidelines per the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention as well as
local and state govern-
ment health officials. This
year’s main event will have
a reduced capacity of 12,000
fans, and title sponsor Pend-
leton Whisky will provide
face masks at each entrance
to festivalgoers who choose to
wear one.
The event has showcased
some of the biggest names in
the music performance indus-
try, including Maroon 5, Blake
Shelton and, in 2019, Pitbull
and Post Malone.
This year’s festival will
kick off as usual with a Friday
night party in downtown
Pendleton, featuring musical
performances by Kurt Van
Meter, Precious Byrd and DJ
Sovern-T.
For updates on the 2021
and 2022 musical festivals,
including ticket information,
visit www.pendletonwhisky-
musicfest.com.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Arrow Dental
clinic opens in
Hermiston
SALEM — Moda Health is
working to address shortfalls
in rural access to dental care
with the opening of Arrow
Dental in Hermiston.
The clinic is focused
mostly on serving patients on
Medicaid, known in Oregon
as the Oregon Health Plan. It is
a full service dental clinic that
includes pediatric specialists.
Moda opened the origi-
nal Arrow Dental in Salem
in 2014, and has since opened
offi ces in Astoria, Clatskanie,
Eugene, Milwaukie and
Hermiston as well as a mobile
clinic that serves patients in
the Portland area.
Greg Hansen, director of
dental Medicaid for Moda,
said conversations with coor-
dinated care organizations
pinpointed Hermiston as an
area with high need for more
dentists who take Oregon
Health Plan patients, particu-
larly for providers specializing
in pediatric dentistry.
The company opened the
Hermiston offi ce in April, and
the branch is taking patients.
Hansen said 98% of Arrow
Dental’s patients statewide are
on Medicaid.
“We do take private insur-
ance, but it’s usually family
members of patients,” he said.
In 2018, Oregon Health
Authority’s statewide health
assessment found only 0.42
dentists per 1,000 people in
Oregon, with rural areas even
further underserved. It also
found 58% of third graders in
Oregon already experienced
tooth decay, and 45% of chil-
dren ages 1-5 on Medicaid had
not received any preventative
dental care.
Dr. Teri Barichello, chief
dental offi cer at Moda, said
it is important for people to
understand what a “criti-
cal role” oral health plays in
peoples’ overall health. It can
have an eff ect on everything
from cardiac health to diabe-
tes.
“In children we don’t worry
as much about gum disease,
but their enamel is much thin-
ner,” she said. “Once a cavity
gets started it can progress
much quicker.”
Children experienc-
ing tooth pain have trouble
concentrating in school, she
said, and sometimes resort to
acting out with bad behavior.
Barichello said all children
should visit a dentist by their
fi rst birthday or once their fi rst
tooth erupts to get an early
start on prevention.
Opening Arrow Dental in
Hermiston should make that
easier for Eastern Oregon resi-
dents.
Arrow Dental shares a
building with Affordable
Family Eyewear at 298 E.
Gladys Ave. in Hermiston.
Athena woman
injured in
head-on crash
HER MISTON — A
woman from Athena was
injured in a head-on colli-
sion on Tuesday, May 25,
near Hermiston, according to
Oregon State Police.
Stephanie R. Sneed, 34,
was taken to Good Shepherd
Medical Center in Hermis-
ton for treatment, along with
the driver of the other vehicle,
Michael R. Sanchez, 33, of
Hermiston.
Sneed still was at the hospi-
tal the afternoon of May 26,
but hospital representatives
said they would not release
information on Sneed’s condi-
tion.
According to a report
from state police, the crash
occurred just before 7:30 a.m.
on May 25 on Highway 37
near its intersection with U.S.
Highway 730 and Landing
Road northeast of Hermiston.
Sanchez, driving a gray
Chevrolet Malibu, allegedly
failed to give Sneed the right
of way at the highway’s split
intersection and crashed
head-on into Sneed’s white
Dodge Caravan, troopers
reported.
State police cited Sanchez
for his reported role in the
crash.
The drivers were trapped
in their cars, according to the
report. Both cars were totaled
and towed from the scene.
A 13-year-old Athena girl
also was in the car with Sneed.
Troopers also said they
found a gun from Sanchez’s
car and placed it “into safe-
keeping.”
— Hermiston Herald and
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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Yellowhawk CEO caps
tenure, steps down
While American Indians
nationally have been dispro-
portionately impacted by the
pandemic, infection has been
largely suppressed on the
Umatilla Indian Reservation,
even as cases have surged in
By BRYCE DOLE
Umatilla County to some of
the highest rates statewide.
East Oregonian
“Our Yellowhawk Team
MISSION — Lisa thrived during the pandemic
Guzman, chief executive by building a whole new
offi cer of Yellowhawk Tribal public health infrastruc-
Health Center, has resigned. ture,” Guzman said. “I am
The Confederated Tribes confi dent I am leaving high
of the Umatilla Indian level health care administra-
Reservation announced tors and providers.”
the move in a press release
In December, Guzman
on Thursday, May
headed the health
27. Guzman said
center’s COVID-
she resigned due to
19 vaccine rollout.
“personal reasons,”
A series of clinics
saying she needed
with the Oregon
to “rebalance and do
National Guard at
Wildhorse Resort &
some self-care.”
“This past year
Casino highlighted
has been fast-paced
Guzman
the rollout, vacci-
due to the high
nating thousands of
demand of what the COVID- people from across Oregon
19 pandemic imposed on all and Washington, includ-
of our lives,” Guzman said. ing American Indians and
“This year provided me new non-American Indians.
learning opportunities as
In all, tribal health offi -
I was part of the proactive cials have vaccinated more
incident command team and than 3,100 people, according
experienced the commitment to Yellowhawk data.
that this tribe had in support-
Guzman became
ing their members as well as Yellowhawk’s CEO in
Umatilla County and their 2018, just before the new
ceded territories.”
64,000-square-foot health
The CTUIR Health care center opened on the
Commission has desig- reservation. During her
nated Yellowhawk Human tenure, the health center
Resources Director Aaron achieved national accredita-
Hines as interim CEO start- tion as a public health author-
ing on May 28. Hines has ity and received a Regional
worked for the tribes for 16 Public Health Innovation
years, including on multiple Award from the National
committees and commis- Indian Health Board last
sions and the Board of Trust- month, the press release said.
ees.
Capping off her time at
In March 2020, Guzman the health center on May
was the incident commander 28, Guzman said she now
when the trustees declared a plans to spend time with her
state of emergency as the husband, children and grand-
fi rst COVID-19 cases were children.
reported on the reservation
“As I look back,” Guzman
and in Umatilla County.
said, “I am smiling.”
Human Resources
Director Aaron
Hines named
interim CEO
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