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Union County Sheriff’s Office to assist at Round-Up
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The Observer
the individual deputy for the
service. With such a large
event, law enforcement
from neighboring counties
provides additional assistance
in monitoring the health and
safety of those involved.
“It’s basically just an over-
time shift that’s pretty fun
and something different,”
Bowen said.
According to Pendleton
Police Chief Chuck Byram,
the police department begins
planning for Round-Up
coverage in
Apr il and
heightens
that plan-
ning after
the Pendle-
ton Whisky
Music Fest
Byram
in early July.
“We’re expecting a
full-capacity crowd,” Byram
said. “We’re expecting people
to come and want to interact
again,” he said.
The Pendleton Police
Department has 24 offi-
cers, a number that has not
changed since the 1960s.
Byram emphasized the
importance of having neigh-
boring law enforcement assist
with public safety during
Round-Up. Participants and
spectators come from across
the country and from foreign
countries every year for the
famous event.
“We’re at full staff,”
PENDLETON — The
Pendleton Round-Up, one of
the largest events in Eastern
Oregon, is gearing up for its
111th rendition.
With upward of 50,000
slated to attend the week-long
event, law enforcement from
surrounding areas is coming
into Pendleton to assist in
overseeing the crowds. Of
the surrounding counties,
the Union County Sheriff’s
Office will be sending several
deputies to Round-Up.
“The motivation is help-
ing
our
n e i g h b o r-
ing counties
with large
eve nt s,”
U n i o n
Cou nt y
Sheriff Cody
Bowen
Bowen said.
The plan is for Bowen
and two deputies to assist
at Round-Up, depending on
schedule availability. Accord-
ing to the sheriff, deputies are
able to support Round-Up
so long as it doesn’t inter-
fere with their regular work
schedule in Union County.
Bowen said he likely will
attend one day, while he is
not sure about the schedules
of the other deputies yet.
The work is voluntary,
and Umatilla County pays
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian, File
The Pendleton Round-Up bucking bronc logo tops a wayfinding sign in Pendleton on April 14, 2021.
Byram said, “and we obvi-
ously can’t do this without
our area partners.”
The Union County Sher-
iff’s Office joins other law
enforcement at Round-Up,
including the Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office,
police from Boardman,
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water and a bicycle team from
Oregon State Police. Accord-
ing to Bowen, the Union
County Sheriff’s Office has
been sending deputies to
Round-Up for a number of
years now. Byram said that
most visiting law enforce-
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“crisis care principles,” which
the OHA developed with
community input. Those prin-
ciples are nondiscrimination,
health equity, patient-led deci-
sion making and transparent
communications.
An Oregon Health Author-
ity spokesperson told KGW
no new crisis guidelines are in
development and they expect
health care providers to apply
the principles.
While Hultberg agrees the
2018 guidance needed revi-
sion, she said she believes the
state still needs actual crisis
care standards both for now
and in the future. She said
she does not believe the list of
principles on its own provides
the kind of detailed informa-
tion that would help clinicians
during a crisis.
“These are wrenching
choices to make but avoiding
the conversation does not solve
the problem,” she said.
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PORTLAND — With
COVID-19 cases surging in
Idaho’s panhandle and hospi-
tals there exceeding capac-
ity, the state of Idaho recently
activated its crisis standards of
care.
That means care is not
guaranteed for everyone.
Instead, doctors are advised
to treat patients who are most
likely to survive — not neces-
sarily those whose conditions
are most critical. The goal by
doing that is saving as many
lives as possible while space
is limited.
But in Oregon, such crisis
care standards no longer exist.
“A pandemic is the time
when you absolutely need
crisis standards of care in
place,” said Becky Hultberg,
president and CEO of the
Oregon Association of Hospi-
tals and Health Systems. “So
for us to not have them right
now is really troubling.”
Hultberg said having a
crisis standards of care docu-
ment is important for health-
care workers in Oregon as well
as patients. She believes every-
one should understand how
care will always be delivered
when resources can no longer
meet demand.
“We’re not having to allo-
cate a scarce resource like a
ventilator at this point, but
having the guidance in place
gives clinicians the path
forward to making these really
tough decisions.”
Oregon had a crisis stan-
dards of care document with
that guidance in 2018. But last
year, the state said the docu-
ment was discriminatory.
In December 2020, the
Oregon Health Authority
replaced the crisis care stan-
dards document with four
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The 2021 Pendleton
Round-Up week began
Sept. 11, with the Dress-Up
Parade in the morning
in downtown Pendleton
and a kickoff concert in
the evening at the Happy
Canyon Arena. The week
extends through Sept. 18.
Oregon’s lack of crisis standards
of care worries health care officials
BY KATHERINE COOK
KGW News
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cloudy and nice
ment have attended the rodeo
before, which makes opera-
tions go smoothly.
“We know people are
coming here for a good time,
but once that jeopardizes
the safety of themselves or
others, it’s time to nip that
in the bud,” he said.
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IN BRIEF
Large freight load to cause
traffic delays in Baker County
BAKER CITY — Motorists should
expect nighttime delays of up to 20 minutes
on Oregon Highway 86 — the Baker-Cop-
perfield Highway — this week, beginning
Wednesday, Sept. 15.
The travel impacts will occur between
10 p.m. and 5 a.m. the following morning to
accommodate a 16-foot-wide, 185-foot-long and
421,726-pound load of transformer equipment.
Delays are expected to run through Sept.
17.
The shipment will travel between 25 and
50 mph through Baker County, primarily on
Highway 86. Motorists should watch for pilot
cars, flaggers, traffic control crews and to plan
extra travel time during this nighttime oper-
ation.
ODFW commission to adopt
2021 big game regulations
SALEM — The Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife Commission looks to adopt
the remaining 2022 big game regulations
when it meets Friday, Sept. 17, online begin-
ning at 8 a.m.
The regulations include a new Rocky Moun-
tain bighorn hunt that is proposed to be added
as part of a rotation among the states of Oregon
and Washington and the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
The commission also will approve fund-
ing for several access and habitat projects that
provide hunting access or improve wildlife
habitat on private land and approve a project
recommended by the Oregon Conservation
& Recreation Fund, which is a Green Jobs
Training and Internship Program in partner-
ship with Forest Park Conservancy and other
natural resource organizations.
Commissioners also will hold a public
forum for people to comment on topics not
on the agenda the morning of Sept. 17 follow-
ing the director’s report. To participate in the
public forum, call the ODFW director’s office
at 503-947-6044 by Sept. 15 at 8 a.m.
Public comments also can be emailed to
odfw.commission@odfw.oregon.gov.
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