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Heat:
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“We’re slammed,” he said.
As the heat wave across the
western United States contin-
ues to spread, it’s also taking
longer to get parts in, particu-
larly for the old R22 units that
have been phased out.
Draper said to help their air
conditioner stay in good work-
ing order, it’s important people
make sure their filters are clean
and so are their outside units,
which can become clogged
with cottonwood fluff or other
debris.
He said as temperatures
soar above 110 degrees next
week, people will need to
have reasonable expectations
for how cool they can get the
inside of their home.
“One hundred and fifteen
degrees outside really stresses
AC units,” he said.
People can help reduce that
stress by keeping their blinds
closed and lights off as much
as possible, he said, and not
running appliances, such as
ovens, that will add heat to
the house. They also should
reduce traffic in and out of the
house as much as possible, and
try opening the windows if it
cools down at night.
As people crank up the air
conditioning, Steve Meyers,
spokesperson for Umatilla
Electric Cooperative, said the
utility will be closely watching
weather conditions and system
loads. While extreme weather
does put additional demand on
the power supply, he said UEC
has made it a priority to main-
tain its infrastructure to reli-
ably provide power in all kinds
of conditions.
“Our power supply is suffi-
cient to meet the expected
spike in demand from air
conditioning and irrigation
during this extreme heat
wave,” he wrote in an email.
He said in a typical year,
UEC provides more than
$1 million in rebates and
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because it needed to be done.
“He had this way of always
standing up for what was
right,” T.J. said. “He lived his
values.”
“He was the embodiment
of that quote: ‘Be the change
you want to see in the world,’”
said granddaughter Tammy
Fisher.
After retiring, he worked
for the city of Pendleton part
time doing maintenance and
janitorial work just to stay
useful.
“He retired again at 85,”
Maxine said.
Umatilla County Commis-
sioner George Murdock got
to know Tangney while plan-
ning celebrations for WWII
and Korea veterans. Murdock
said he felt heartbroken upon
learning of Tangney’s death.
“I believe Tom did much
of what he did to honor his
brother’s memory and that of
his comrades,” Murdock said.
“He lived with honor and he
will be remembered with
honor.”
For Tangney, the beginning
of the end came about a month
ago. He had been about ready
to leave for a Buddy Poppy
event. His shoes were shined.
His VFW hat sat snuggly on
his head. Then he passed out
and fell in his living room and
the ambulance was called.
The incident started a month-
long health decline. Before
then, T.J. marveled, his grand-
father seemed strong, mowing
his lawn several times a week.
Before an air ambulance flew
him to Walla Walla, Tom fret-
ted about Maxine.
“In the helicopter,” Fisher
said, “he told them, ‘My wife,
she can’t drive. I have to take
her to get her hair done.’”
Maxine said her husband,
the good-looking boy who
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Cattle find shade under trees on the edge of a field on Friday, June 25, 2021, along Stanfield
Meadows Road outside of Stanfield.
$300,000 in low-interest loans
for energy efficiency upgrades
in members’ homes and busi-
nesses. Those investments
help reduce the demand on
UEC’s system, he said.
Tom Guantt, spokesper-
son for Pacific Power, said
Pacific Power is not expecting
any disruptions to the power
supply during the heat wave
either.
“The system is in good
shape, and we have contin-
gency plans for any unforeseen
challenges that may arise,” he
said. “At the same time, we
urge customers to be mindful
about their power use both to
save power and money.”
In a news release, Pacific
Power suggested customers
should set their thermostats at
78 degrees while they’re home
and 85 degrees while they’re
out.
Protecting animals
Darren Cox, owner of
Baker’s Pond Farm outside
Hermiston, said livestock tend
to weather the Eastern Oregon
climate well, but do need a
little extra protection when
the heat reaches the extremes
attracted her at Crook County
High School almost 70 years
ago, was a tough Marine
with a tender side. He was an
excellent husband, father and
grandfather and lived an idyl-
lic purpose-driven life.
Once in a while, disre-
spect toward veterans or the
flag brought Tangney up short,
however. In 2008, vandals
shattered a marker at the
Bishop Memorial Garden in
Pendleton bearing the names
of Umatilla casualties in
World War II. Pieces of gran-
ite littered the sidewalk.
Tangney, commander
of VFW Post No. 922 at the
time, struggled to contain his
emotions.
“I have a hard time under-
standing why someone would
do a thing like this,” he said.
“This is honoring the memory
of those killed in World War
II.”
He was heartened, though,
when community members
donated money to help the
VFW rebuild the monument.
Tangney considered the
flag one of the strongest
symbols of respect for veter-
ans and the country they
defended. Fisher said her
grandfather was an expert in
the flag code, which speci-
fies the dos and don’ts of flag
flying. It should always be illu-
minated, for example, and it
should never become tattered.
If he noticed an improperly
flown flag, she said, he wasn’t
afraid to march up to the
person’s door and share his
knowledge.
The family invites all
who loved Tangney to gather
Wednesday, June 30, at 1 p.m.
at the Pendleton Conven-
tion Center to celebrate his
life. At the bottom of a flyer
announcing the service is
written, “In lieu of flow-
ers please consider an act of
service to your community or
a donation to the Pendleton
Military Tribute.”
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expected for next week.
He said he sprays the chick-
ens and ducks with water when
it gets especially hot, and when
it’s up over 100 degrees some-
times the goats need wetted
down too.
“They hate water,” he said
of the goats, “but we do spray
them when they get hot. You
don’t have to do as much with
cows. They’re used to the
elements.”
The farm’s barn has a big
awning where animals can
congregate in the shade, he
said, and they will have fans
running. Pigs don’t sweat, so
Cox said he’ll be making sure
they have plenty of water and
mud to roll around in.
One of the most important
things will be making sure
animals have “plenty of cool,
clean water” in their troughs as
they go drink more than usual,
Cox said.
“You can go down and buy
blocks of ice, and put them in
the trough,” he said. “When it’s
really hot, on the 115 (degree)
day, that’s probably what we’ll
do here.”
He’ll be keeping his dog
in the air-conditioned house,
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“The other part that
spoke Pendleton to me, and
what people across the coun-
try associate with it, is that it
is held on grass, so I added
that,” said Barry, whose
signature also is in green, by
the grass, so that it doesn’t
overtake the artwork.
Once Barry was done
with the artwork, he and the
board realized it was miss-
ing something.
“I knew how iconic the
chutes are,” Barry said. “I
had to have the right chutes.
There are chutes, and then
there is a walkway. You want
to get the right chutes, and
the right colors.”
Barry chose chutes 9-11,
which are yellow, green and
red. They add just the right
pop of color on the black
background behind the
horse.
The casual onlooker
likely won’t notice the subtle
changes Barry made to the
bronc rider and the horse.
“There is an Irish influ-
ence,” Barry said. “The rider
doesn’t have dark hair, but
more of a reddish brown.
Also, the bottom of the
horse’s feet are light in the
original. You aren’t going
to have light coming from
under the horse, so I made
them black.”
Barry finished the poster
in April, and after final
touches were added and
approved a graphic artist
added the logo and date with
the Round-Up’s specific font
and size.
“That font is part of
Pendleton Woolen Mills,
the Pendleton Round-Up
and Pendleton Whisky,”
Round-Up General Manager
Erika Patton said. “It has to
be exact.”
Mikal Wright/Pendleton Round-Up
Rowdy Barry poses for a recent photo at the Let ‘Er Buck
sign in Pendleton with the poster he created for the 2021
Pendleton Round-Up.
Annie Fowler/East Oregonian
A closeup image shows details in Rowdy Barry’s 2021 Pend-
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Local resources
Pendleton Police Chief
Chuck Byram said the high
temperatures raise concerns
for people’s well-being.
“With the heat coming,
what we worry about the most
are the elderly and people who
don’t have the means to cool
themselves down,” he said.
Byram encouraged people
to check on their family and
friends more often during
the next week. Protracted
heat tends to fray the nerves,
he said, and police see more
nighttime activity than
daytime activity.
People seeking shelter from
the heat in Umatilla County
can do so at several places.
The Hermiston Public
Library on 235 E. Gladys Ave.
will be open at limited capac-
ity June 25 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. It will be closed on June
26 but will reopen from 10-5
on June 27, again from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., according to Mark
Rose, the library director.
The Pendleton Warming
Station on 715 S.E. Court
Ave. will expand its hours
and act as a cooling station
during the the weekend. It will
open from 1-6 p.m. each day
through June 27. The station
is seeking volunteers to remain
open for those needing shel-
ter next week. The station will
have water bottles, Gatorade
and some snacks, according
to Dwight Johnson, executive
director at Neighbor 2 Neigh-
bor Pendleton, the nonprofit
that operates the station.
And the Fellowship Hall at
the Wesley United Methodist
Church on 816 S. Main St. in
Milton-Freewater will be open
as a cooling station from June
26-29, 12-6 p.m., according to
its Facebook page.
The off icial poster,
unsigned, sells in the store
and online for $20, and has
been flying out the door.
They are headed to places
across the country, includ-
ing New York, Tennessee
and Texas.
Only 600 posters were
ordered, and through June
21, 186 had been sold.
“We didn’t want a bunch
of posters left over by the
end of the year,” Patton said.
“We will order more if we
are out before Round-Up.
This is the first time it has
sold that quickly.”
The Pendleton Round-Up
poster is one of many Barry
has done in his career.
He’s also created them for
the Farm-City Pro Rodeo,
Walla Walla Fair and Fron-
tier Days and the Sisters
Rodeo, to name a few. He
also has done artwork for
rodeo programs and does
commission pieces.
Wallace Smith did the
first official Round-Up
poster in 1925. Before that,
various businesses created
any posters. The first post-
ers the Round-Up commis-
sioner were in 1989 and 1990
and done by Boots Reyn-
olds.
“They were kind of a
busy cartoonish poster with
a million different things
going,” Patton said. “It was
a comedic type of perspec-
tive.”
There were no posters
from 1991 to 2001, then
Buck Taylor stepped in and
created posters through
2012.
The posters disappeared
again from 2013-15. From
2016-19 different artists
created pieces, but none
have resonated like Barry’s.
“You just don’t know
each year how popular it
will be,” Patton said. “He is
popular, and he knows a lot
of people.”
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If a child or pet is in imminent
danger, he said, don’t wait for
the police.
“There is no real justifica-
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be left inside vehicles in the
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he said, and if any of the other
animals are showing signs
of heat exhaustion, they can
come inside too.
“When temperatures rise,
we do all too often see cases
of heat stroke in pets here in
Pendleton,” said Dr. Barbara
Panata of the Pendleton Veteri-
nary Clinic. “Signs most often
include excessive panting and
drooling, difficulty breath-
ing, reluctance to move and
collapse.”
To prevent these scary and
sometimes tragic scenarios,
she said there are a few actions
owners can take.
Make sure all pets have
ready access to water, shade
and ventilation. Ideally, she
said, owners should leave pets
in a home with air condition-
ing. And they should be under
supervision when outdoors in
the hot summer.
“Not only is drinking water
essential, but it can also be
very helpful to provide water
to get them wet,” Panata said.
“Dogs don’t sweat all over
their bodies to dissipate heat
the way we do (they sweat
through their paws), so getting
pets wet can be helpful. Some
dogs enjoy kiddy pools.”
Walk or run with pets in the
early, cool part of the day, and
before the asphalt gets hot, and
make sure they get breaks with
access to water.
Owners should take extra
care with breeds with shorter
muzzles, such as pugs and
bull dogs, she said. They are
at a higher risk for overheating
because they are not as effec-
tive at dissipating heat as other
breeds. Likewise, pet owners
should take precautions with
animals that are older, over-
weight or have medical condi-
tions, such as a respiratory or
cardiac disease. These “higher
risk patients,” she said, would
do best with air conditioning
and not being out into the heat.
“If you have concerns that
your pet might be showing
signs of heat stroke, provide
them with cool water, wet their
fur, and act quickly to get them
to a veterinary clinic,” Panata
said.
And do not leave pets
in vehicles unattended, she
stressed. No cracked window
will compensate for the oven
created within a vehicle in hot
temperatures.
Oregon’s good Samaritan
law, which has been in effect
for four years, allows someone
to enter a vehicle to remove a
child or domestic animal in
imminent danger of suffering
harm without facing criminal
or civil liability under certain
requirements. That law could
get a workout with this heat.
Hermiston Police Chief
Jason Edmiston said police are
supposed to base their actions
on what is reasonable in the
circumstances, and that’s a
measuring stick that can apply
to the good Samaritan law.
“Is it reasonable to leave
an animal in a vehicle with
no ventilation?” he said. “The
answer is no, it’s not reason-
able.”
He said police would like
to be involved if someone has
to break into a car to save a
child or pet, but the depart-
ment’s resources are limited.
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