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COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Golf tournament
tees off for
Agape House
HER MISTON — A
four-person scramble golf
tournament will benefit
people in need in the commu-
nity.
In its fourth year, the
Agape House Golf Tourna-
ment is Saturday, July 31, at
Big River Golf Course, 709
Willamette Ave., Umatilla.
Registration opens at 7 a.m.
with a shotgun start at 8 a.m.
The cost is $60 per person.
A meal will be provided
afterwards. The registration
deadline is Saturday, July
24. There is an additional fee
charged by the golf course for
carts — call 541-922-3006 to
reserve one.
In addition to playing in
the tournament, there are
other ways to help. General
event sponsorships, hole
sponsors and prize/raff le
sponsors are welcome. Any
help is appreciated.
Agape House, 500 W.
Har per Road, Her mis-
ton, provides programs and
services on behalf of the
elderly, children, the working
poor, single-parent families,
the homeless and the newly
unemployed. See its website
at www.agapehousehermis-
ton.org.
For more information
about registering for the
tournament or serving as
a sponsor, contact Mark
Gomolski at 541-567-8774,
agapehouse@eot net.net
or Cameron Bendixsen at
541-429-3283.
Berean Baptist
hosts ‘I Love
America’
conference
PENDLETON — Pastor
Brad Wells, who minis-
ters to many United States
government officials, is the
keynote speaker for the “I
Love America” conference
at Berean Baptist Church.
The fifth annual event
opens Monday, June 28, at
7 p.m. at the church, 8 N.W.
Ninth St., Pendleton. The
evening will include a time
of dessert and fellowship.
The conference continues
June 29 with sessions begin-
ning at 10 a.m. The closing
service is at 7 p.m. Child care
is available and meals will be
provided on the second day.
Everyone is welcome to come
and be inspired by the special
patriotic services.
Nearly seven years ago,
Wells founded Graceway
Baptist Church on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C.
Pastor Mark Watkins of
Berean Baptist said Wells
has insight and perspective
regarding the needs of our
country and can provide
guidelines in helping people
interact with local, state and
federal government officials.
His wife, Deborah Wells, will
provide special music and
also speak to women in one
of the breakout sessions.
Sessions also will be
available via Facebook
Live at www.facebook.
com/ bbcpendleton. For
more information, contact
541-276-5239 or bbcpendle-
ton@hotmail.com.
Red Cross
announces blood
shortage
SEATTLE — The Amer-
ican Red Cross is experienc-
ing a severe blood shortage as
the number of trauma cases,
organ transplants and elec-
tive surgeries rise and deplete
the nation’s blood inventory.
The Red Cross urges
donors of all blood types —
especially type O and those
giving platelets — to make an
appointment to give as soon
as possible to prevent delays
to critical patient care.
As a thank you, those
who come to give now
through Wednesday, June
30, will receive a $5 gift card
Angelica is pretty, but don’t eat it
to Amazon.com (restric-
tions may apply). For more
information or to schedule
a donation time, visit www.
redcrossblood.org or call
1-800-733-2767.
Hermiston Sports
Boosters serve up
steak, auction
HERMISTON — The
Hermiston Sports Boosters
announced tickets still are
available for its annual Steak
Feed & Auction.
The 21 and older event is
Saturday, July 17, at East-
ern Oregon Trade and Event
Center, 1705 E. Airport
Road, Hermiston. The doors
open at 5 p.m., dinner starts
at 5:30 p.m. and the auction
begins at 6:30 p.m.
An individual ticket is $50
or a table of eight is $400,
which includes dinner and
beer, wine or soda. A no-host
cocktail bar will be avail-
able. Tickets, which must be
purchased in advance, are
available at hermistonsports-
boosters.square.site. For
questions, contact 541-567-
5215 or hermistonsports-
boosters@gmail.com.
ODFW
hatcheries back
open for visitors
SALEM — Outdoor areas
at Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s more than
30 fish hatcheries — includ-
ing the Umatilla and Irrigon
hatcheries — are open again
for visitors.
Hatcheries across the state
closed to visitors in March
2020 because of the global
pandemic. Some areas of the
hatcheries will remain closed
for now, including picnic
areas, drinking fountains,
indoor areas and any outdoor
areas with close quarters that
don’t allow for social distanc-
ing.
Most hatcheries are open
to visitors daily from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. A few remain closed
to visitors, including Klam-
ath Hatchery in Chiloquin
and Rock Creek in Idleyld
Park, which were damaged
in last year’s fires. Trask
River Hatchery in Tillamook
also is closed to visitors due
to construction but should
reopen later in summer.
For a visitor guide to
the hatcheries with tips
on what you can see and
do, visit myodfw.com/
visit-odfw-hatcheries. For
questions about the Irri-
gon Hatchery, call 541-922-
2762, and for Umatilla, call
541-922-5659.
Library’s book
club to discuss
‘Afterlife’
HERMISTON — A Time
Magazine Must-Read Book
of 2020 described as “ravish-
ing and heartfelt” is the topic
of the upcoming Bookmind-
ers, the Hermiston Public
Library book club.
The group will discuss
“Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez.
The gathering is Tuesday,
July 13, at 1:30 p.m. down-
stairs in the library meeting
room, 235 E. Gladys Ave.,
Hermiston. Anyone that’s
interested is invited to attend.
The publication is the
first adult novel in nearly 15
years by the internationally
bestselling author. Accord-
ing to The New Yorker, the
book, which is set in 2019,
“… poses questions about
American immigration and
mental-health policies, and
it is a moving exploration of
the ways we inadvertently
fail the people we love.”
The book club, which is
free and open to everyone,
meets the second Tuesday
of each month. A limited
number of copies of “After-
life” are available at the
library. For more informa-
tion, call 541-567-2882 or
stop by the library.
— EO Media Group
Thursday, June 24, 2021
BRUCE
BARNES
BLOOMIN’ BLUES
Scientific name: Angel-
ica arguta
Common name: Sharp-
tooth angelica
Sharptooth angelica
is a robust, tap-rooted
perennial up to 6 feet tall,
that grows mainly in or
near water, in moist soil,
streambanks, and crowded
marshes. It is fairly
common from Alaska to
California, from western
valleys and the Cascades to
Alberta, and in Wyoming
and Utah.
The base of the lateral
stems are sheathing around
the main stem. The flowers
are white, tiny, and borne
Bruce Barnes/Contributed Photo
Sharptooth angelica, Angelica arguta.
in eight to 45 compound
spherical clusters, the
overall umbel being up to
about 15 inches across. The
leaves are twice divided
into smaller leaflets, and the
edges are sharply toothed.
One Northwest tribe ate
the young stems, and used
it to flavor salmon that was
dried and heated over an
open fire. The stems were
also eaten as a vegetable in
May for its celery flavor.
But do not try to eat it. You
could easily have the wrong
plant.
Please note: A lot of
plants from the same plant
family are deadly poison-
ous and look very much the
same as this plant. Poison
Hemlock, for example, is
a large plant that is very
common in the Blues, and
along the Umatilla River,
and is extremely poison-
ous; it’s the same plant that
killed Socrates.
———
Bruce Barnes directs
Flora ID, producing plant
ID software, found at
flora-id.org. Reach him at
flora.id@wtechlink.us.
A reflection of trustworthiness
CHRIS
HANKEL
LIVING ON PURPOSE
W
ould you say
that you are,
by nature, a
trusting person? Do you
trust people easily, or do
you find it difficult to trust
anyone these days? Many
of us wonder if we can trust
election results, trust our
government, even trust our
neighbors.
As I sit writing this
column, I received a phone
call from someone who
wanted me to purchase
land in Tennessee. Yes,
Tennessee. Trust is such
a crucial ingredient in
our relationships and our
communities. How are we
to extend trust to people
in a world that seems to be
full of scammers and ques-
tionable characters? How
do we learn to build trust
when hurt by infidelity,
betrayal and lies?
One of the best ways to
develop and extend trust
is to become a person
who can be trusted. I can
only control and am only
responsible for one person’s
actions, my own. If I want
to develop trust in my rela-
tionships and defeat the
habit of looking at others
through a lens of distrust, I
can begin by creating trust-
worthiness in my own life.
Jesus addressed this
character quality in
Matthew 5:36-37 when he
said, “Do not swear by your
head, because you cannot
make a single hair white
or black. But let your ‘yes’
mean ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’
mean ‘no.’ Anything more
than this is from the evil
one.”
People should be able to
trust that the things we say
are true. Early in my years
as a pastor, I frequently
committed to more than
I could do and built up
expectations I could not
realistically fulfill. The
result was a level of distrust
when I said I would take
on a project or commit to
doing something. I realized
people need to trust that
when I say I will do some-
thing or make a commit-
ment, that I will follow
through.
Another way to become
someone who can be
trusted is by loving people
not for what they can do
for you but simply for who
they are. We all want to
be valued for who we are.
When I can love and accept
people regardless of what
they do for me, it creates
trust and authenticity in
those relationships. People
will know that I don’t have
an agenda or some plan but
just want to know them for
who they are.
People sometimes let
us down, lie to us and
outright betray us, but
we do have a God who is
trustworthy. When I find
myself discouraged by a
lack of trustworthiness, I
know that I have a Heav-
enly Father who is faithful
and loves me for who I am,
and by his grace, I hope
to become a reflection of
his trustworthiness to the
world around me.
———
Chris Hankel is the
lead pastor at New Hope
Community Church in
Hermiston.
PUBLIC SAFETY
MONDAY
6:20 a.m. — A domestic disturbance occurred on Hemlock
Court, Umatilla.
7:46 a.m. — Police responded to a report of the unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle on East Harding Avenue, Stanfield.
2:31 p.m. — Police responded to three reports of a theft on
North First Street, Hermiston.
4:46 p.m. — Police responded to a reported assault on East
Newport Avenue, Hermiston.
6:58 p.m. — Police responded to a reported assault on East
Main Street, Hermiston.
8:53 p.m. — Police responded to a report of the unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle at Sleep Inn on Southeast Front Street,
Boardman.
9:36 p.m. — Police responded to a reported assault on South-
west 28th Drive, Pendleton.
TUESDAY
4:21 a.m. — Police responded to two reports of a burglary on
Southeast Court Avenue, Pendleton.
10:57 a.m. — A domestic disturbance occurred on Northwest
Elder Street, Pilot Rock.
12:35 p.m. — Police responded to a reported assault at the
intersection of George and Main streets, Rieth.
7:27 p.m. — A domestic disturbance occurred on Reservoir
Road, Stanfield.
8:16 p.m. — A domestic disturbance occurred on East Hard-
ing Avenue, Stanfield.
8:33 p.m. — Police responded to a reported burglary on West
Main Street, Ukiah.
8:51 p.m. — Police responded to a reported burglary at Irri-
gon Learning Center on Columbia Lane, Irrigon.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
The Pendleton Police Department arrested Andrew Paul
Zachary Cook, 21, on 24 counts of the unauthorized entry of a
motor vehicle and one felony count of first-degree theft.
The Milton-Freewater Police Department arrested Charles
Adam Buettner, 34, on felony counts of first-degree forgery and
violating parole, a misdemeanor count of second-degree theft
and one count of being a fugitive.
The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Carlos Anto-
nio Ramirez, 30, for first-degree theft, felon in possession of a
weapon, failing to appear and violating probation.
The Hermiston Police Department arrested Feliciano Joaquin
Pedro, 28, on a felony count of fourth-degree assault and a mis-
demeanor count of failing to appear.
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