RECORDS/COMMUNITY
Saturday, August 14, 2021
East Oregonian
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SCENES FROM THE UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
The late afternoon sun silhouettes a trio of riders Thursday,
Aug. 12, 2021, while riding a swing at the fair.
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Fairgoers wander the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
Fairgoers hold on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, as they ride the
Extreme Scream.
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Elks scholarship
program accepting
applications
PORTLAND — All high
school seniors in Oregon
who are U.S. citizens are
welcome to apply to the
Elks Most Valuable Student
Scholarship Program. The
entire MVS application
process is handled online
with applicants being judged
on academics, leadership and
community engagement and
fi nancial need.
Applicants will be judged
at four levels with the oppor-
tunity to earn scholarships at
the local, district, state and
national level. The top male
and female students will
advance from the local lodge
level to the district level, and
from there onto the state and
national competitions.
At the national level,
two first-place awards of
$50,000 each, two second-
place awards of $40,000
and two $30,000 third-place
awards will be granted. The
remaining 14 fi nalists will
each receive $20,000 and
480 runners-up will receive
scholarships of $4,000, for a
total of $2,440,000 nation-
wide. Students wanting to
apply for the scholarships do
not have to have an affi lia-
tion with the Order of Elks
and the deadline to apply for
the 2022 application is Nov.
15 at 11:59 p.m.
Online applications and
additional information are
online at www.elks.org/
scholars/scholarships/mvs.
cfm.
Also available for those
not attending a four-year
college or university, the
Oregon State Elks Asso-
ciation off ers a Vocational
Grant Scholarship for those
attending a program specifi c
to a trade or profession, such
as nursing, mechanics, hair/
nails and construction. Adult
learners also are eligible to
apply for this scholarship.
Applications opened Aug.
2 and must be received by
midnight on March 1, 2022.
For more information and to
apply, visit oregonelks.org/
student-contests/scholar-
ship/.
For more information
or assistance, interested
students, families or high
schools can contact their
local lodge or the Oregon
State Elks Association Schol-
arship Chair Mary Danca at
emjade@opendoor.com.
oregon.gov/oprd and click on
the menu for Commissions
& Advisory Committees,
click on the link to County
Parks Assistance Advisory
Committee and under “Grant
Advisory Committee” open
the link to Committee Roster
and Application Information
to access a “Committee Inter-
est Form,” or go directly to
www.oregon.gov/oprd/GRA/
pages/GRA-cogp.aspx. The
form is due by Wednesday,
Sept. 15.
For questions, contact
Mark Cowan, grant program
coordinator, at 503-951-1317
or mark.cowan@oregon.gov.
East Oregonian, File
Pendleton High School students shared the library
with an MG Sprite during a Pep Week prank on Feb. 23, 1981.
ing to the paper, removed a
center post from the library
doors and rearranged the
furniture to place the car in
the center of the room.
The crew behind the car
caper was so smooth, there
was not a scratch on the fl oor
nor any oil leaks.
Parking attendant Dave
White heard about the inci-
dent and gleefully slapped
a ticket on the windshield,
citing the owner for improper
parking, not having a park-
ing sticker and for blocking
the aisle.
A nd P r i ncipal Joe
Cannon said, “We’ll get it
out of here, but I don’t know
when.” While the battery and
engine were still in the car, it
wouldn’t start.
Infamous Pendleton
High class holds
40th reunion
PENDLETON — One of
the more notorious classes
to graduate from Pendleton
High School meets this week-
end for its 40th reunion.
The Class of 1981 is hold-
ing events Friday and Satur-
day, Aug. 13 and 14, at the
Roy Raley Room at the Pend-
leton Round-Up Grounds.
The event is “very casual,”
according to information on
the Facebook page for the
reunion.
Members of the Class
of ’81 pulled off one of the
all-time great pranks at the
high school, impressive
enough the East Oregonian
covered it.
“Pep Week pranksters
str uck Pendleton High
School in February 1981 with
a puzzling parking problem,”
the paper reported in an “Out
of the Vault” segment.
“Students arrived on
Monday morning, Feb.
23, 1981, to find a yellow
MG Sprite plunked in the
middle of the high school
library. The car was jacked
up and the tires removed and
shoved under the car. The
pranksters took the lug nuts
so the wheels couldn’t be
reinstalled. A potted plant
perched serenely in the rear
seat, and three books were
carefully placed alongside:
“Fingerprinting,” “Great
Adventures in Crime” and
“Crime in America.”
The “culprits” obtained a
key to the building, accord-
SAGE Center
makes plans for
harvest festival
BOARDMAN — The
SAGE Center in Board-
man urges people to “save
the date” for the Morrow
County Harvest Festival. In
its eighth year, the event will
be held exclusively outdoors
on Saturday, Oct. 2.
The festival will feature
a variety of vendors with
high-quality, regionally
produced agricultural goods
and handmade ar tisan
crafts. In addition, Threemile
Canyon Farms will provide
an opportunity for attend-
ees to “fill-a-bag” full of
locally grown produce with
“Harvest Bounty for Youth
in Agriculture.”
Many other fun activi-
PUBLIC SAFETY
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11
9:48 a.m. — Milton-Freewater police
responded to a reported theft on Elzora Street.
8:42 p.m. — Pendleton police responded
to a reported burglary on Southeast Goodwin
Avenue.
9:57 p.m. — Hermiston police responded to a
reported burglary on East Main Street.
11:12 p.m. — Milton-Freewater police
responded to reported vehicle theft on South
Andrea Street.
FRIDAY, AUG. 13
THURSDAY, AUG. 12
12:01 a.m. — A domestic disturbance
occurred on Northwest Elder Street, Pilot Rock.
11:57 a.m. — The Umatilla County Sheriff ’s
Offi ce responded to a reported burglary at Suzi’s
Handy Mart, 211 N. Water St., Weston
5:36 p.m. — Hermiston police responded to
three reports of a theft on North First Street.
7:24 p.m. — Hermiston police responded to a
reported burglary on East Dogwood Avenue.
12:56 a.m. — The Umatilla County Sheriff ’s
Offi ce responded to a reported burglary on Pru-
nedale Road, Milton-Freewater.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
Aug. 12
2:40 p.m. — Umatilla Tribal Police Depart-
ment arrested Marqus Jordan George, 29, for wel-
fare of a minor, reckless endangering, failing to
appear in court and violating a restraining order.
ties are planned during the
event. For more information,
visit www.visitsage.com or
call 541-481-7243. As the
event gets closer, further
details will be printed in the
East Oregonian.
State parks seek
committee members
SALEM — The Oregon
Parks and Recreation Depart-
ment is seeking a recreational
vehicle owner and a repre-
sentative of a county parks
department to serve on the
County Opportunity Grant
Program Advisory Commit-
tee. The seven-member
committee allocates fund-
ing to county projects that
involve recreational vehicle
camping.
The group’s main func-
tion is to read, assess and
score grant applications
submitted to the program,
and attend a one-day grant
application presentation
meeting, typically held in
Salem each November. (The
meeting may be virtual,
depending on the status of
the pandemic.)
For more about the
responsibilities, visit www.
Oregon students
cash in with
Community Bank
JOSEPH — Despite a
chaotic school year for teach-
ers, students and their fami-
lies, Community Bank’s
Earn While You Learn
program marked its 11th
year.
The program paid out
more than $11,800 to 552
student-customers in the
Eastern Oregon and South-
east Washington area. This
brings the total since the
program began in 2011 to
$137,141.
Earn While You Learn
is designed to encourage
students in their academic
success by rewarding
Community Bank Youth
Savings account customers
for their good grades. During
the months of June and
July, all Community Bank
branches accepted end-of-
the-year report cards from
students in fi rst through 12th
grade.
For every top grade
(indicated on the grading
system used for each school)
in a main school subject,
Community Bank depos-
ited $1 into their Commu-
nity Bank Youth Savings
Account. The program
provides up to $50 annually
per student.
Community Bank was
founded in 1955 by a group
of Joseph business leaders as
the Bank of Wallowa County.
Since then, it has grown
across the region, including
local branches in Hermiston,
Pendleton and Milton-Free-
water. For more information,
visit or visit www.communi-
tybanknet.com.
Echo schools set
registration process
ECHO — As summer
winds down, the Echo School
District is gearing up for the
2021-22 school year.
Families can complete
registration verification
for their students online or
may attend a pair of in-per-
son sessions if assistance is
needed. The online regis-
tration opens Monday, Aug.
16, and closes Wednesday,
Aug. 25. For detailed infor-
mation about the registration
process, visit https://5il.co/
wtva.
To receive in-person assis-
tance, a session is available
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1-7 p.m.
In addition, help will be
available during the open
house, which is Aug. 25, at
5:30 p.m.
Also, Family Health Asso-
ciates will conduct sports
physicals Aug. 18, 5-8 p.m.
in the school’s Pioneer Hall.
Students entering seventh,
ninth and 11th grades who
plan to participate in sports
will be required to have one
prior to participating in prac-
tices. It may include a cogni-
tive test that can be used for
comparison in case an athlete
sustains a head injury.
If you require assistance
and can’t attend one of the
in-person sessions, email
Jenny Thomas at jthomas@
echosd5.org. The school also
has office hours Monday
through Thursday from
9 a.m. to noon. For questions,
call 541-376-8436. For more
information, visit www.echo.
k12.or.us.
—EO Media Group