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Pendleton Round-Up announces 2021 queen and court
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — For the
fi rst time in two years, the
Pendleton Round-Up has a
new court.
With the pandemic
canceling the 2020 rodeo,
the Round-Up retained its
court for 2021. But with the
rodeo offi cially revived and
in the books, the Round-Up
announced a new court Satur-
day, Nov. 27, led by Queen
Addie Kilgore.
Kilgore, 23, is a veteran of
rodeo courts, having served
as the queen of the Chief
Joseph Days court in 2015 and
a Round-Up princess in 2019.
The daughter of the late Wes
Kilgore and Sherri Kilgore,
the principal at McKay Creek
Elementary School, Kilgore’s
Round-Up ancestry includes
Hall of Fame members John
Span, Bonnie Tucker-Blan-
Been
Davis
kenship and Harley Tucker.
“Being able to honor
my family’s background
combined with the amazing
heritage and traditions of the
Pendleton Round-Up is one
of the greatest honors that I
have ever had,” she said in a
statement. “I was raised in an
environment that mimics the
cowboy way; a strong work
ethic, a love and commit-
ment to family, a respect for
animals, and kindness.
Kilgore has plenty of
equestrian experience as
well, her love of horses begin-
ning when her grandparents
bought her a pony at age
Hales
5. She’s also accomplished
academically, having been
valedictorian at Joseph Char-
ter School and graduating
from Oregon State Univer-
sity with a degree in speech
communication and busi-
ness marketing. She’s now
pursuing a master’s degree in
elementary education.
Four princesses from
across the state join Kilgore.
• Brooklynn Been, 19, of
Pendleton, graduated from
Pendleton High School in
2020 and is now enrolled in
the nursing program at Wash-
ington State University.
The daughter of a steer
HERMISTON
BAKER CITY — A
Baker County grand jury has
indicted a Hermiston build-
ing contractor on felony theft
charges for failing to do work
for a Baker City couple after
they paid him $150,000 this
spring as the fi rst installment
on the construction of their
home.
James A. Cavan, 41, is
charged with aggravated
fi rst-degree theft, a Class B
felony.
The grand jury issued the
indictment Nov. 18.
Jeff and Angie Skillicorn
hired Cavan to build a home
and shop on their property in
Baker Valley, Baker County
District Attorney Greg
Baxter said.
The couple has not had
any contact with Cavan for
several months, Baxter said.
The indictment on crim-
inal charges follows a civil
lawsuit that the Skillicorns
filed on Aug. 13 in Baker
County Circuit Court.
The suit names as defen-
dants James and Felicia
Cavan, doing business as
Dreams to Reality.
The lawsuit includes a
copy of the construction
contract agreement between
the Skillicorns and James
Cavan, dated May 26, 2021.
The agreement calls for
the Skillicorns to pay Cavan
a total of $457,700, including
a $150,000 deposit at the time
the agreement was signed.
According to the civil
suit, Cavan used $29,500
of the $150,000 deposit for
materials and labors, which
consisted of building the
foundation for the Skil-
licorns’ home. Cavan has
not refunded the remaining
$120,500.
Jeff Skillicorn wrote in
an Oct. 4 court filing that
around July 20, Cavan told
him he had lost his contrac-
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East Oregonian
LOCAL BRIEF
New doctor joins
Good Shepherd
Primary Care Clinic
HERMISTON — Good Shepherd
Primary Care Clinic has a new family
medicine physician.
Good Shepherd Health Care System
in a recent press release announced Dr.
Nicole Patching has joined Dr. David
Shanley, Angie Hayes, family nurse
practitioner, and JoDee Williams,
doctor of nursing practice, at the clinic
eomediagroup.com
at 620 N.W. 11th St.
Suite M-103, Hermis-
ton. Patching is certi-
fi ed by the American
Board of Family Medi-
cine.
Patching was born
and raised in Winni-
Patching
peg, Canada, where
most her family resides, according
to the press release. She obtained her
doctor of medicine at Saba University
School of Medicine in Saba, Dutch
Caribbean. Patching then completed
her family medicine residency at
Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
“My strong points are making sure
that my patients understand what I
am doing,” she said in press release.
“Communication and trust are key in
helping my patients understand what
is happening with their health.”
For more information, call 541-667-
3830 or visit www.gshealth.org/
good-shepherd-medical-group/prima-
ry-care-clinic.
— EO Media Group
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wrestler, Been competed in
high school rodeo, where she
qualifi ed for the pole bend-
ing competition at state fi nals
multiple times.
“I loved being a part of
the rodeo world where every-
one helps each other out even
while competing against one
another,” she said.
• Cloe Davis, 19, of Adams,
graduated from Weston-McE-
wen High School and is now
pursuing a degree in agri-
culture from Blue Mountain
Community College.
The daughter of Round-Up
Arena Director Berk Davis,
she rode in her fi rst Westward
The setting
sun casts a
warm glow
across the
landscape
Tuesday, Nov.
23. 2021, in
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of the Blue
Mountains
near Dead-
man Pass
southeast of
Pendleton.
tor’s license and could not
fi nish the home.
“Defend a nts have
acknowledged their obliga-
tion to reimburse Plaintiff s
and have expressed that they
do not have readily available
funds to reimburse Plain-
tiffs,” the lawsuit states.
“For that reason, Defendants
off ered to reimburse Plaintiff s
using the proceeds from the
sale of Defendants’ house and
principal place of business.”
On Sept. 27 a default
order was approved in Baker
County Circuit Court and
Cavan was ordered to pay
the balance of the Skillicorns’
deposit, $120,500.
On Oct. 21, Judge Matt
Shirtcliff signed a supple-
mental judgment ordering
Cavan to pay an additional
$12,521.65 in attorney’s fees
and other costs.
According to the Oregon
Construction Contractors
Board, a contractor’s license
was issued to James and
Felicia Cavan on June 24,
2016. That license has been
suspended and is not active,
according to the agency.
Disciplinary records from
the Construction Contractors
Board show the Cavans were
fi ned $1,000 in March 2021
for doing work without being
certifi ed as a lead-based paint
renovation contractor.
T hei r l ic e n se wa s
suspended on July 22,
2021. The records don’t
list a specifi c reason for the
suspension.
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Round-Up events.
• While most Round-Up
court members hail from
Eastern Oregon, Alexa
Marandas is from Sauvie
Island, an island in the
Columbia River north of Port-
land.
She graduated from
Lincoln High School in Port-
land in 2020 and is now a
biology student at Oregon
State University. Although
she grew up on the west side
of the state, she spent all her
childhood summers in Long
Creek in Grant County and
her family’s involvement in
the Round-Up goes back to
her great grandparents.
“Keeping the sport of
rodeo and the western way
of life alive have always been
very important to me,” she
said.”I am so honored and
excited to serve on this court
and do my part in preserving
what we do.”
Setting sun warms the wintry Blues
Contractor charged
with felony theft
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
Kilgore
Ho! Parade at 18 months and
has continued her family
tradition of volunteering
during Round-Up week by
being a pennant bearer at the
Happy Canyon Pageant and
helping out in the 1910 Room.
• Madeline Hales, 20,
graduated from Pendleton
High School in 2020 and is
now a sophomore at Oregon
State University, where she is
majoring in marketing.
She is the daughter and
granddaughter of two past
presidents and her fami-
ly’s history as directors and
royalty stretches back gener-
ations.
Having attended her fi rst
Round-Up at nine-months-
old, Hales most recent brush
with rodeo history came
when she rode Badger at the
2021 Westward Ho! Parade.
Badger is a quarter horse
who has rode in more than 30
grand entries, among other
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