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Happy Canyon announces 2022 princesses
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Marley John-
son and Samantha Craig-Allen have
been named as Happy Canyon prin-
cesses for 2022.
The duo will serve as ambassa-
dors for the Happy Canyon Night
Show, Oregon’s offi cial outdoor night
pageant that happens alongside the
Pendleton Round-Up, according to
a press release announcing the prin-
cesses.
“We are absolutely thrilled to
have these two talented local young
women represent Happy Canyon
this next year,” Happy Canyon Pres-
ident Tanner Hawkins said in the
press release. “Their family roots
run deep in local tribal history and
in Happy Canyon, so we’re honored
to have them serve as our represen-
tatives in 2022.”
Johnson, 20, is the daughter of
Micah Johnson and Julie Rowell
of Portland. A descendant of Chief
Joseph’s sister, she is of Nez Perce,
Cayuse and Walla Walla descent and
has attended Happy Canyon and the
Pendleton Round-Up nearly all of her
life.
Johnson, who began competing in
junior American Indian pageants at
age 3, took third place in the Senior
American Indian Pageant in 2019. As
a Happy Canyon princess, Johnson
will continue a family legacy. Her
aunt, Drew (Johnson) Rivera, served
as a Happy Canyon princess in 2000.
Her grandfather, William Johnson,
was the fi rst tribal member to pass the
Oregon State Bar and has been chief
judge at the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservaion
Tribal Court for more than 30 years.
The moccasins Johnson will wear as
a Happy Canyon princess have been
in the family for more than 100 years.
Johnson graduated from St.
Mary’s Academy in Portland. She is a
sophomore at Mt. Hood Community
College, where she plays basketball
and softball. Her goal is to complete
an associate of arts Oregon transfer
degree at Mt. Hood and transfer to
a university to pursue athletics and
a degree in journalism or communi-
cations.
“I am proud and humbled to be
selected as a 2022 Happy Canyon
princess,” Johnson said in the press
release. “Being selected as a Happy
Canyon princess means so much to
me. It allows me to act as a role model
for youth and the honor to repre-
sent Oregon Natives, specifically
my indigenous urban community. I
look forward to giving back to the
community as well as gaining new
experiences.”
Craig-Allen, 19, the daughter
of Sandra Craig of Pendleton and
Sheldon Allen of Culdesac, Idaho,
is a 2020 graduate of Pendleton
High School. She is of Umatilla,
Cayuse and Nez Perce descent and
an enrolled member of the Confed-
erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, the press release stated.
Her maternal great-great-grandfa-
ther, Dick Johnson, was with the Nez
Perce band during the War of 1877, as
well as her great-great-grand uncle,
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Craig-Allen plans to enroll at
Blue Mountain Community College
in Pendleton, where she’d like to
improve her skills in writing, dance
and acting. She works at McDon-
ald’s at Arrowhead Travel Plaza and
said she applied to become a Happy
Canyon princess because of her late
grandfather, Fermore Craig Sr., who
was a part of Happy Canyon for more
than 75 years. According to the press
release, Craig-Allen cherishes the
memories she has of participating in
Happy Canyon with her grandfather
before his death and looks forward to
continuing the tradition in her family.
“What I am excited about being a
Happy Canyon princess is being able
to get in touch with my culture even
more and making my family proud
for representing our tribe, Happy
Canyon, and, most of all, my fami-
lies,” Craig-Allen said in the release.
“Also, I’m looking forward to all
of the traveling and making new
friends, experiences and getting to
know (fellow princess) Marley more.”
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
Samantha Craig-Allen and Marley Johnson pose Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021,
at the Pendleton Convention Center after being introduced as the 2022
Happy Canyon princesses.
Hermiston resident fi nds artistic outlet in painting
By ERICK PETERSON
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Donna
Anderson, of Hermiston,
experienced back pain so
intense she thought she
would never be able to do
anything interesting ever
again.
Then she discovered an
artistic outlet. Now a painter,
and the owner of her painting
business, Acrylics by Donna,
she is creating and selling
her works.
Anderson, who was
married to the late Andy
Anderson, a former Herm-
iston chief of police, said her
back pain was excruciating.
She had a 12-hour surgery,
and there was little she could
do afterwards, she said.
Two years ago, she
started painting on a whim,
Erick Peterson/East Oregonian
Donna Anderson, of Hermiston, discusses an angel paint-
ing on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. It was one of many paintings
that she made and brought to a bazaar at Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church in Hermiston.
fi rst watching videos on the
subject and then practicing.
Now, after a couple of years
of making pictures, her home
is crowded with paintings.
At a Saturday, Dec. 11,
Our Lady of Angels Catho-
lic Church Christmas bazaar,
as she stood at a booth where
she sold her paintings, she
explained her situation. She
said she was running out of
room in her house. Her chil-
dren had been telling her to
sell them, she said, but she
never felt that she was good
enough. She lacked confi -
dence that people would
want to buy her paintings.
After some thought,
however, she decided to sell
paintings at another recent
bazaar. She sold 10 paint-
ings. That encouraged her
to plan appearances at other
bazaars, including the one at
the Catholic church, she said.
Early Dec. 11, she already
had sold paintings, she said.
She had brought 50 paint-
ings, and though she said she
did not expect to sell them
all, she said she would be
happy to sell some of them.
She also was pleased, she
said, to have received a lot
of compliments on her work.
“It’s stroking my ego,
making me feel good,” she
said.
Anderson said her style
is varied, though she tends
toward abstract styles. Real-
ism is not of much inter-
est to her, as she said it
resembles photography too
much. When one is paint-
ing abstract works, they can
convey something special
and unique, she said. Also,
she explained that her mood
comes across in her paint-
ings.
“Sometimes you can tell
my attitude at the time. If
the painting is bold, you can
guess that I was stressed. If
I’m painting something nice,
like a nice, sweet fl ower, I’m
feeling good. It just comes
out that way,” Anderson said.
She added she often gets
caught up in her work. One
day, she recalled, she was
painting and thinking about
grocery shopping. After
painting for some time and
thinking about apples, she
looked down at her painting
and noticed a big apple in the
center of the canvas.
This made her laugh, she
said. She had not intended to
paint an apple, yet there one
was.
Painting is unlike other
art she has done, she said.
For a while, she was making
fairy houses. But no one
was interested in her little
houses, she said. In contrast,
she said, people are showing
excitement for her painting.
“I can see myself doing
this for a long while,” she
said.
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