The BulleTin • SaTurday, June 19, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Saturday, June 19, the 170th
day of 2021. There are 195 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1865, Union troops arrived
in Galveston, Texas, with news
that the Civil War was over, and
that all remaining slaves in Texas
were free — an event celebrat-
ed to this day as “Juneteenth.”
In 1775, George Washington
was commissioned by the Conti-
nental Congress as commander
in chief of the Continental Army.
In 1911, Pennsylvania became
the first state to establish a mo-
tion picture censorship board.
In 1917, during World War I, King
George V ordered the British
royal family to dispense with
German titles and surnames; the
family took the name “Windsor.”
In 1944, during World War II, the
two-day Battle of the Philippine
Sea began, resulting in a deci-
sive victory for the Americans
over the Japanese.
In 1945, millions of New Yorkers
turned out to cheer Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, who was hon-
ored with a parade.
In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35,
and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted
of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic
secrets to the Soviet Union, were
executed at Sing Sing Prison in
Ossining, New York.
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act of
1964 was approved by the U.S.
Senate, 73-27, after surviving a
lengthy filibuster.
In 1975, former Chicago orga-
nized crime boss Sam Giancana
was shot to death in the base-
ment of his home in Oak Park,
Illinois; the killing has never
been solved.
In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down a Louisiana law
requiring any public school
teaching the theory of evolution
to teach creation science, as well.
In 2013, actor James Gandolfini,
51, died while vacationing in
Rome.
In 2014, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of
California won election as House
majority leader as Republicans
shuffled their leadership in the
wake of Rep. Eric Cantor’s prima-
ry defeat in Virginia.
Ten years ago: Libya’s govern-
ment said NATO warplanes had
struck a residential neighbor-
hood in the capital and killed
nine civilians, including two
children; NATO confirmed hours
later that one of its airstrikes had
gone astray.
Five years ago: LeBron James
and his relentless Cavaliers
pulled off an improbable NBA Fi-
nals comeback to give the city of
Cleveland its first title since 1964
as they became the first team to
rally from a 3-1 finals deficit by
beating the defending champi-
on Golden State Warriors 93-89.
Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best
known for playing Chekov in the
new “Star Trek” films, was killed
by his own car as it rolled down
his driveway in Los Angeles; he
was 27.
One year ago: Americans
marked Juneteenth, a holiday
commemorating the eman-
cipation of enslaved African
Americans, with new urgency
and protests demanding racial
justice. The mayor of Louisville,
Kentucky, said Brett Hankison,
one of the three police officers
involved in the fatal shooting of
Breonna Taylor, would be fired.
A day before President Donald
Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, the state reported its
second-biggest daily increase in
its coronavirus case load. British
actor Ian Holm, whose career
included roles in “Chariots of
Fire” and “The Lord of the Rings,”
died at 88.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gena
Rowlands is 91. Hall of Fame race
car driver Shirley Muldowney
is 81. Singer Elaine “Spanky”
McFarlane (Spanky and Our
Gang) is 79. Nobel peace lau-
reate Aung San Suu Kyi is 76.
Author Sir Salman Rushdie is
74. Actor Phylicia Rashad is 73.
Rock singer Ann Wilson (Heart)
is 71. Musician Larry Dunn is
68. Actor Kathleen Turner is 67.
Singer Mark DeBarge is 62. Sing-
er-dancer-choreographer Paula
Abdul is 59. Actor Andy Lauer is
58. British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson is 57. Actor Mia Sara is
54. TV personality Lara Spencer
is 52. Rock musician Brian “Head”
Welch is 51. Actor Jean Dujar-
din is 49. Actor Robin Tunney is
49. Actor Bumper Robinson is
47. Actor Poppy Montgomery is
46. Alt-country singer-musician
Scott Avett (The Avett Brothers)
is 45. Actor Ryan Hurst is 45. Ac-
tor Zoe Saldana is 43. Former
NBA star Dirk Nowitzki is 43.
Actor Neil Brown Jr. is 41. Actor
Lauren Lee Smith is 41. Rapper
Macklemore (Macklemore and
Ryan Lewis) is 39. Actor Paul
Dano is 37. Actor Giacomo Gi-
anniotti is 32.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
College installs American Indians’
artwork to reflect its homeland
BY ANTONIO SIERRA • East Oregonian
T
he Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s ceded territory stretches to nearly every corner of Blue Mountain Community
College’s service area. Soon, the artwork featured in all of BMCC’s five campuses will reflect that fact. BMCC recently used more than
$60,000 in state grants to purchase, frame and install artwork made by American Indian artists from Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, a
Umatilla Indian Reservation print studio and gallery.
Annie Smith, BMCC’s Na-
tive American liaison and suc-
cess coach, said the art pur-
chase represented a boost to
the college’s American Indian
students.
“They’ll be able to see them-
selves in this area,” she said.
Crow’s Shadow Market-
ing Director Nika Blasser said
the seeds of the idea grew out
of a 2019 exhibit at BMCC’s
Betty Feves Art Gallery. The
gallery reached out to Crow’s
Shadow after a planned exhibit
fell through and the result-
ing collaboration led to “This
Good Land,” an exhibit that
spotlighted American Indian
artwork from the nonprofit’s
collection.
Lori Sams, the Feves Art
Gallery director, said she so-
licited feedback from students
on the exhibit and received
a strong response, especially
from the college’s American In-
dian students.
BMCC Grants Manager
Bonnie Day said more than 3%
of BMCC’s students identify
as American Indian or Native
American. That means BMCC
has the largest proportion of
indigenous students of any
community college in the state.
With those facts in mind,
Day and a group of BMCC
staff began applying for grants
to make the college’s visual pre-
Dena Sum-
merfield,
right, frames
“kahss K’wa-
hyayis”
by Shirod
Younker on
June 14 at
Pendleton Art
and Frame in
preparation
for its display
at Blue Moun-
tain Commu-
nity College.
Ben Lonergan/
East Oregonian
sentation start reflecting some
of the students it serves, a pro-
cess that took more than a year
to complete.
The larger of the two grants
— a $59,360 grant from the
Oregon Department of Edu-
cation — provided the lion’s
share of money to the college
to purchase prints from Crow’s
Shadow. But the grant ex-
panded past artwork, including
money for a free Umatilla lan-
guage class for 25 students, ed-
Chlorine shortage:
Cities ask people
to reduce water use
The Associated Press
SALEM — Authorities in
Lake Oswego and Tigard in
Oregon and Anacortes in
Washington are among the
communities asking residents
to reduce water use during a
chlorine shortage.
Oregon Public Broadcast-
ing reports the chemical is
used in small amounts by wa-
ter treatment facilities to pre-
vent harmful bacteria growth
in drinking water supply. State
officials say they have a plan to
help water districts across Ore-
gon get the chlorine they need
if their stockpiles run low, and
there’s no threat to the water
the public depends on.
The shortage occurred af-
ter a power outage earlier this
month at the Westlake chemi-
cal facility in Longview, Wash-
ington, the main provider of
chlorine for Oregon.
Matt Marheine, the deputy
director at the Oregon Depart-
ment of Emergency Manage-
ment, says the shortage is not
unique to Oregon.
“(This) is a situation that is
occurring nationally as we see
shortages and challenges with
chlorine distribution and pro-
duction throughout the coun-
try,” he said.
In the West, the distribution
and production of the chlorine
used in water and treatment
and wastewater treatment is
mostly facilitated out of West-
lake. The facility had a power
“(This) is a situation that
is occurring nationally
as we see shortages and
challenges with chlorine
distribution and production
throughout the country.”
— Matt Marheine, the deputy
director at the Oregon
Department of Emergency
Management, says the shortage
is not unique to Oregon.
disruption due to a power con-
nection failure, which is in the
process of being repaired.
“We expect to see that that
facility has power before the
end of the month and pro-
duction is able to resume and
deliveries get back on track,”
Marheine said.
Oregon Emergency Man-
agement is working with 33
state agencies to keep the pub-
lic informed of the water status.
However, Marheine wanted to
make one thing clear:
“The drinking water in the
state of Oregon is clean and
safe to use and drink,” he said.
The concern is how long the
current chlorine supply will
last. Most Oregon water dis-
tricts have around a month’s
supply of chlorine, according
to Andre Ourso, administrator
for the Oregon Health Author-
ities’ Center for Health Protec-
tion.
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ucational materials and a “day
of learning” for the BMCC
Board of Education on the
Umatilla Indian Reservation.
Blue Mountain is hustling to
use the grant funds, having al-
ready selected the art, paid for
its framing and chosen specific
locations for each piece of art.
Smith said college staff were
very intentional with where
they placed each print.
For instance, the college is
placing an untitled print from
James Lavadour and Lillian
Pitt at the Hermiston campus
because it’s evocative of the
Hermiston area’s natural land-
scape, which was known tra-
ditionally as K’ulk’ulíipa, or “at
the bowls,” because of the area’s
bedrock formations and butte.
For the college’s veterans cen-
ter, Smith and the college chose
George Flett’s “Prairie Chicken
Dancer Flashing His Power
Through His Mirror” because
Flett himself was a veteran and
the print depicts an indigenous
warrior.
“I liked to select pieces that
were meaningful to that place,”
Smith said.
Blasser said Crow’s Shadow
artist-in-residency program at-
tracts American Indian artists
from all across the country, but
the work they produce during
their residency is often locally
inspired because of their sur-
roundings on the Umatilla In-
dian Reservation.