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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Sexual assault film brings out students and adults
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Steve Tool/Chieftain
As part of their FCCLA project, Enteprise High School juniors
Tishrei Movich-Fields and Deedee Duncan wanted to bring
attention to sexual assault and its aftermath by showing the
movie “Audrie and Daisy” at “The Space” on Friday Jan. 18.
About two dozen people attended the event.
When you’re a high
school member of the Fam-
ily, Career and Community
Leaders of America, choos-
ing a subject for your state
FCCLA state conference
presentation can prove a
daunting task. It’s even more
difficult when you choose a
daunting subject.
That didn’t bother Enter-
prise High School FCCLA
members Tishrei Mov-
ich-Fields and Deedee Dun-
can. The two juniors chose
one of the more daunting
subjects imaginable — sex-
ual assault. The girls wanted
to spread the word about the
devastating effects of sexual
assault and the aftermath,
which in this age, includes
social media.
The girls chose the film
after Safe Harbors, Wallowa
County’s domestic violence
and sexual violence service
provider, showed the film
about a year ago.
“I went there with my
mom and there were only
about three people there.”
Movich-Fields said. “It was
surprising to me because it
made an impact — it was so
powerful.”
Later, thinking of what
she wanted to do for her
FCCLA project, she thought
the film’s subject matter an
important topic.
“I feel like more peo-
ple should watch it because
it’s put together very well,
and it’s a great tool to raise
awareness,”Movich-Fields
said. “More people should
hear about it.”
Duncan said that she
heard of the film through
her
project
partner,
Movich-Fields.
“I went home that night
and watched it, and it was
really powerful,” Duncan
said. “It was hard to watch,
and I had to do it in sections.
I totally agreed it would
be something totally great
to show. I also thought it
would be cool to get people
to watch it.”
The film tells the story of
two teenage girls who suffer
sexual assault while drinking
with boys they knew. The
film shows the aftermath of
the rapes nearly, if not more
so traumatic than the events.
Both girls and their fami-
lies endure the worse sort of
abuse from their peers and
neighbors through social
media as well as in the pub-
lic realm. The indifference
of law enforcement to the
girls’ plight is appalling, and
none of the boys were con-
victed of a sex crime even
though during a videotaped
confession, one boy uses the
word “rape” to describe his
assault of the girl.
One of the girls can-
not take the public humil-
iation and hangs herself in
the closet a week later. It
is not a film for the light-
hearted. Although no rapes
are depicted, some of the
texts to the victims are
frankly disturbing and con-
tain obscene language. The
movie is not rated and is
available on Netflix.
Both Movich-Fields and
Duncan have seen the film
multiple times but found
it equally disturbing each
time.
For a variety of rea-
sons, the girls were unable
to show the film at Enter-
prise High School, and the
OK Theatre is in a construc-
tion phase. With the help of
Safe Harbors and Winding
Waters Medical Clinic, the
girls arranged to have the
film shown at “The Space,”
located at the county’s for-
mer health department.
Representatives
from
Safe Harbors and the coun-
ty’s juvenile department
shared some eyebrow-rais-
ing statistics — Safe Harbors
served 30 victims of sex-
ual violence over the year,
including a significant pro-
portion of minors. The juve-
nile department reported that
20 percent of its caseload
concerned sexual offenses.
Both Movich-Fields and
Duncan said they know
peers who suffered sexual
assault.
“A lot of people think
it doesn’t happen here, in
places like this,” Mov-
ich-Fields said. “It happens
more than they think.”
Eastern Oregon Meteorite lands back in Oregon
By Phil Wright
EO Media Group
One of Eastern Ore-
gon’s oldest and most-trav-
eled residents is back in the
state for all to see.
Some 460 million years
ago, a collision in the vast-
ness of the asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter
hurled a chunk of rock on
a trajectory toward Earth.
Washington residents Don-
ald and Debbie Wesson dis-
covered that meteorite in
1999 in a ditch in Morrow
County. The space rock
resided in private hands and
often out of the public eye.
That changed in Decem-
ber when the Rice North-
west Museum of Rocks
and Minerals, Hillsboro,
acquired the 40-pound
Morrow County Meteorite.
“We made a deal where
we traded for it,” Rice
executive director Julian
Gray said. “And we are
ecstatic.”
The Rice had the piece
on loan from mineral col-
lector Ed Thompson, and
Gray said the museum
wanted to own it outright
for years. Meteorites from
the moon and Mars can go
for $1,000 a gram, but even
common meteorites sell for
a few dollars a gram. At
near 18,200 grams, Gray
said, the Morrow County
Meteorite was outside what
the Rice could afford to
pay. But there was a way.
“We had a meteorite
from Gibeon, Africa, and
they wanted it — badly,”
Gray said, “and were will-
8 LAST
ing to trade us for that
meteorite and give us a
replacement.”
The museum gave its
200-pound Gibeon piece
for the Morrow County
specimen and a 125-pound
Campo del Cielo iron mete-
orite. Most meteorite dis-
plays are hands off, but not
the Campo del Cielo.
“We love having these
touch pieces that allow
museum visitors to actually
touch something that has
been in outer space,” Gray
said.
The Rice also is pretty
keen on the Morrow County
Meteorite. Gray said six
meteorites have been found
in Oregon, and the Rice has
displays of five, although
some are only a few pieces.
The Cascadia Meteor-
ite Laboratory at Portland
State University analyzed
the Morrow County spec-
imen in 2010, declaring it
the real deal and naming it
Morrow County. Gray said
Wesson has never revealed
the exact location of where
he found it in the midst of
wheat county.
“That’s kind of frustrat-
ing for us because scien-
tists like to be exact,” he
said.
The meteorite is the first
found east of the Cascades
and the second-largest
from Oregon. The largest
is the 32,000-pound Willa-
mette Meteorite, earning it
the title of largest in North
America. The American
Museum of Natural History
in New York City has it on
permanent display.
Photo contributed by Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
The Morrow County Meteorite now is on public display at the
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro.
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