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Round-Up names grand marshal of Westward Ho! Parade
Bob Stangier will
lead nonmotorized
parade on Sept. 17
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
oldest living Pendleton
Round-Up director and a
veteran of World War II is
the grand marshal of the 2021
Westward Ho! Parade.
Pendleton native Bob
Stangier, a beloved figure
in the community, leads the
nonmotorized parade that
trots and rolls along Pend-
leton streets on Friday, Sept.
17, starting at 10 a.m. and
marks an unoffi cial start to
the Pendleton Round-Up.
The Pendleton Round-Up
announced Stangier would
serve as the grand marshal in
a press release Friday after-
noon, May 28.
Stangier was born in 1923,
raised in Pendleton and grad-
Pendleton Round-Up/Contributed Photo
Pendleton native Bob Stangier, the oldest living Pendleton
Round-Up director and a World War II veteran, is the grand
marshal of the 2021 Westward Ho! Parade.
uated from Pendleton High
School in 1942 before enroll-
ing at Oregon State College,
now Oregon State University.
He married his wife Mary
Jane Stangier in 1949. The
couple raised four children
in Pendleton. She died in
2017 at the age of 90. He now
has four grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren.
Stangier is a decorated
war veteran who served
during World War II in the
Army Air Corps as a B-25
bomber pilot, f lying 70
missions while stationed in
Italy. He earned the Distin-
guished Flying Cross and the
Air Medal with seven clus-
ters for his service.
After the war, Stangier
attended Oregon State before
returning to Pendleton to
begin his business career. His
businesses included an ice
cream manufacturing plant, a
children’s clothing store and
a Hallmark gift shop.
St a ng ie r h a s b e e n
Students ditch electronics, head outside
By JEREMY BURNHAM
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
WESTON — With a
return to in-person, indoor
learning dominating educa-
tion news amid the COVID-
19 pandemic, Weston Middle
School welcomed the return
of Outdoor School May
24-27.
Outdoor School is a week-
long event when at Weston
Middle School students
spend their days outside
learning skills such shel-
ter building, stream quality
and stream life, cooking over
self-made cook stoves and
orienteering.
Much of the week was
spent at ABC Mountain
Retreat. Students also went
hiking on trails near Corpo-
ration Organizational Camp
along the Umatilla River.
Normally, the week is for
fi fth and sixth graders, but
things were a little differ-
ent this year. The week had
to be canceled in 2020 when
there was no in-person school
statewide in Oregon.
Athena-Weston School
District staff didn’t want to
see last year’s sixth graders
miss out on the week, so sixth
and seventh graders partici-
pated this year.
“We are grateful that the
state provided funding this
year for both grades so that
our current seventh graders
would also have this import-
ant educational experience,”
Weston Middle School Prin-
cipal Ann Vescio said.
Contributed Photo
Outdoor School, a week-long event when Weston Middle School students spend their
days outside learning skills such as shelter building, stream quality and stream life and
cooking over self-made cook stoves at ABC Mountain Retreat was May 24-27, 2021. Back
after a 2020 pandemic cancellation, this year’s event included students who would have
attended last year.
This year’s fi fth graders
will get to take part in the
fall, Superintendent Laure
Quaresma confi rmed.
Quaresma said there was
a lot of enthusiasm for the
week.
“Everyone from students
to teachers to volunteers
are exhausted after spend-
ing four days outdoors, but
all return to school each
Contributed Photo
Shelter building was among many of the outdoor skills ac-
tivities during Weston Middle School’s Outdoor School week
May 24-27, 2021.
Umatilla County Historical
Society Presents:
17 TH ANNUAL
OLD IRON SHOW
June 4th-6th
in Roy Raley Park
Admission is FREE and open to the public
www.heritagestationmuseum.org
day with exciting stories
and big smiles,” Quaresma
said. “What a great way to
end what has been a diffi cult
school year.”
She added that in a year
that has been spent inside
on computers all day, it was
good to get children away
from their electronics for
awhile.
“Following a year of
COVID screen time, this is
the perfect time to get our
students in an outdoors learn-
ing classroom,” she said.
“For our students, getting
unplugged and out in nature
so close to home is a fantastic
way to spend a week.”
Quaresma said state
grants and Oregon State
University fund Outdoor
School.
involved with the Pendleton
Round-Up beginning in 1935
when he was 12, according to
the press release. He served
as a Round-Up director from
1950-57, where he performed
as the accommodations
director, concessions direc-
tor and the policing director,
as the positions were titled
during his years of service.
He is credited for establish-
ing the Buckle Club, which
is an event past Round-Up
and Happy Canyon directors
put on for their members and
guests each year.
Stangier not only is the
oldest living past Round-Up
director, according to the
press release, but he also
likely is the youngest to
ever serve on the Round-Up
Board of Directors. And
he may hold the title for
longest-serving volunteer
with more than 80 years of
committed service.
“Bob doesn’t believe that
he has missed a Round-Up,
except the four years he spent
serving our country during
World War II,” the release
stated.
Stangier has a history of
involvement with other orga-
nizations in the community,
including the Pendleton
Chamber of Commerce, the
Pendleton Downtown Asso-
ciation, the Rotary Club
and the Umatilla County
Historical Society. He also
was an ex-offi cio Pendleton
Round-Up director while
serving as the Pendleton
Chamber of Commerce pres-
ident in 1975.
Stangier continues to
be an active and valuable
Round-Up volunteer in the
retail store.
Pendleton Round-Up
in the press release stated
Stangier’s extensive contri-
butions to the Round-Up
“allow him to be recognized
and honored as the grand
marshal for the Westward
Ho! Parade this year.”
LOCAL BRIEFING
Condon man dies
in motorcycle
crash with car
FOSSIL — Oregon State
Police reported a Condon
man died Saturday, May
29, outside Fossil after the
motorcycle he was driving
crashed into a car.
OSP troopers and other
emergency personnel at
approximately 4:20 p.m.
responded to a crash on
Hoover Creek Lane. State
police reported the prelim-
inary investigation showed
Timothy Bender, 32, was
driving a Honda 450R
motorcycle north on the road
and collided with a south-
bound Subaru Outback.
Bender suffered fatal
injuries and died at the
scene.
State police also reported
Thomas Edwards, 71, of
Bend, was driving the
Subaru. He and passen-
ger Gale Brown, 61, also of
Bend, suff ered minor inju-
ries.
Pilot Rock looks
to ban using RVs
as homes
PILOT ROCK — The
Pilot Rock City Council at
its meeting Tuesday, June 1,
hears the draft of a proposal
to prevent people from
using recreational vehicles
as dwellings.
There are several recre-
ational vehicles people are
using as residences, accord-
ing to the memo to the city
council, which determined
it’s time to limit how long
an RV can double as a home.
The city council meets
June 1 starting at 6 p.m.
in the council chambers at
Pilot Rock City Hall, 144 N.
Alder Place.
Ordinance No. 592
would prohibit using a
recreational vehicle as
living and sleeping quarters
when it is parked or stored
on a residential lot, private
driveway, city right-of-way
on any location the city
council does not approve
for such use. The ordinance
allows an exception for
recreational vehicles that
function as guest accom-
modations for no more than
14 days.
The council packet for
the meeting includes one
objection to the proposal.
William and Margaret
Arbogast in a hand-written
letter to the council stated
he is on a CPAP — contin-
uous positive airway pres-
sure therapy — machine,
and there are times he must
sleep in their camp trailer,
such as when power goes
out or they have company
staying at their small house.
The council also will
consider a request to divide
the property at 241 S.E.
Fourth St. and a request for
a conditional use permit for
a business at a home at 234
S.W. Birch St.
— EO Media Group