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Portland-based author presents on how to live life like Julia Child
Two more will visit
Hermiston as part
of Altrusa series
BY MAEGAN MURRAY
HERMISTON HERALD
Portland-based author
Karen Karbo traveled to
Hermiston last week with a
butter-inspired motive.
Karbo, who was invited
by the Hermiston Altrusa
chapter, spoke about how
she learned to live life like
Julia Child while writing a
book about her, called “Ju-
lia Child: Lessons on Sa-
voring Life.”
Karbo said even though
Child is dead, people of
different generations have
come to know her in their
own ways. She said the
older generations came to
know her through her book,
which she authored with
two others, called “Master-
ing the Art of French Cook-
ing.” Others, including
Karbo, came to know her
through her cooking show,
“The French Chef.”
“I watched the French
Chef with my mom as a
kid,” she said.
Others still, Karbo
said, came to know Child
through a parody clip from
Saturday Night Live where
Dan Akroyd took the stage
to reenact an episode of
Child’s show. The newest
generation, Karbo said, has
been able to learn about
Child by reading or watch-
ing the book and now mov-
ie “Julie and Julia.”
Karbo said, regardless of
how people have found her
over the years, most can say
they have a special place
in their hearts for Child.
She said the main reason
for that is because Child is
someone to whom people
can relate, and she never
took herself too seriously.
Those qualities, she said,
are some of the things that
made her so successful.
Karbo said, after reading
several books and letters
about Julia Child, she real-
ized Child didn’t really live
by any strict rules, which
was in strict opposition to
Child’s specialty of French
cuisine — an art that has
more rules than any other.
Karbo said, however, she
believes Child adhered to a
few rules.
One of those rules, Kar-
bo said, was “Cooking
means never saying you’re
sorry.” Karbo said, during
Child’s cooking show, if
she dropped something,
she would pick it right back
up and continue on. If she
made a mistake on a recipe,
she would use substitutes
to make her creation just as
good, if not better, than it
had intended to be.
“Who is going to know?”
Child asked on her cooking
show, Karbo said.
“That is her legacy that
she left for us,” Karbo said.
“She gave us ways that we
could actually live with it.”
Karbo said another les-
son that can be learned from
Child is that “to be happy,
you must work hard.”
Karbo said Child didn’t
achieve success until late
in her life. She said while
Child lived in Paris with
husband, Paul, during the
end of World War II, she at-
tended classes at Le Cordon
Bleu culinary institute be-
ginning at 6 a.m. every day.
At that time, many of the
school’s students relied on
their own ingredients as the
institute would run out of
basic things such as salt or
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to speak the “worst French”
anyone had ever heard, Kar-
bo said, but nonetheless,
Child pushed ahead.
A few years later, Child
worked with friends Sim-
one Beck and Louisette
Bertholle to write “Master-
ing the Art of French Cook-
ing,” which they wrote
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About 10 years and two re-
jection letters later, the trio
got their book published,
which became one of the
most popular cookbooks in
history.
witty anecdotes about how
she related to her life.
“I thought she did a great
job,” she said.
Hermiston resident Bette
Brown said she also thought
Karbo did a wonderful pre-
sentation.
“I love to hear about
cooking and some of her
recipes,” she said. “Julia
Child’s personality really
comes across in her book. I
am so happy that she came.”
Karbo said “Julie Child
Rules” is one of four books
in her series, which she
calls the “Kick Ass Wom-
en” series. Her other three
books include “The Gos-
pel According to Coco
Chanel: Life Lessons from
the World’s Most Elegant
Woman,” “How Georgia
Became O’Keefe: Lessons
on the Art of Living,” and
“How to Hepburn: Lessons
on Living from Kate the
Great.”
Karbo’s visit to Hermis-
ton was made possible by
Hermiston Altrusa because
it received a $5,600 grant
this year from the Wild-
horse Foundation.
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three authors who will
visit Hermiston this year.
The second will be Mau-
reen McQuerry, who will
talk with middle school
students about one of her
young adult books. Altrusa
member Karen Zachari-
as-Spears said they expect
her to come in February or
March.
The third author to
visit Hermiston, Zacha-
rias-Spears said, will be
Charles Martin, who is a
“New York Times” best-sell-
ing author, for Altrusa’s One
Book, One Community read
project. She said this year’s
book will be “A Life Inter-
cepted,” which follows the
story of a man who is false-
ly accused of rape. He will
visit Hermiston on April 22
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students at Hermiston High
School and then with the
rest of the community at 7
p.m. at the Eastern Oregon
Higher Education Center.
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Author Karen Karbo signs copies of her books Thursday night after speaking on her book
‘Julia Child: Lessons on Savoring Life.’
Author Karen Karbo talks with Hermiston and area community and Altrusa members about how
they can live their lives like Julia Child.
“She never gave up,”
Karbo said. “That was Ju-
lia. She was passionate
about what she did.”
While on a tour for her
book, Karbo said Child got
picked up for a television
show. She said she was be-
ing interviewed by a public
television show and decid-
ed to cook the show’s hosts
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stove and her own utensils.
Child was then offered a
three-episode trial run.
Those attending Karbo’s
talk about her book said
they found Karbo enlight-
ening and her take on Child
refreshing.
Pendleton-resident The-
resa Bosworth said she
thought Karbo made Julia
Child come to life with her
Hermiston man named new grounds director for Happy Canyon
BY MAEGAN MURRAY
HERMISTON HERALD
Johnny Pimentel may
be from Hermiston, but he
said that won’t get in the
way of his being named
one of the newest board of
directors for Pendleton’s
Happy Canyon as it heads
into its 99th year this year.
Pimentel, who has vol-
unteered for Happy Can-
yon for the last 13 years,
was recently named the or-
ganization’s new director
of grounds. Pimentel, who
grew up in Hermiston and
graduated from Hermiston
High School in 1987, said
he has been welcomed to
Pendleton with open arms.
“I grew up a Bulldog,
and the Buckaroos are our
friendly rivals, but every-
one has been very wel-
coming,” he said. (Happy
Canyon) is neat to be a part
of.”
Pimentel said some of
his main duties as the di-
rector of grounds will be
setting up and tearing down
for concerts, getting the
grounds ready for Profes-
sional Bull Riders events,
hauling dirt and sawdust
to get ready for the Happy
Canyon Show and more.
While he has helped with
those things in the past as
a volunteer, now that he is
heading up the effort, he
said he is both anxious and
excited.
“There is a lot more re-
sponsibility about being a
director,” he said. “There
is a lot of behind-the-
scenes things that I never
was a part of, but it is good
excitement. The other di-
rectors are very helpful.
They have supported me
and have gotten me on my
feet, and it is not like I am
going in there blindfolded.
I’ve been a major volun-
teer with that position —
helping set up for concerts,
managing the grounds.”
In addition to his expe-
rience with Happy Can-
yon, Pimentel has experi-
ence on the rodeo scene.
In 1995, he joined the
Northwest Intercollegiate
Rodeo Finals Association,
for which he soon became
the director of security.
He stepped down after 13
years to be a bigger part
of his son’s sporting activ-
ities. He’s also judged the
Junior Rodeo when it has
come to Hermiston, but
stepped down from that
role in 2009.
Pimentel
said he, his
wife, Melis-
sa, and son,
Mitchell, have
also
been
Pimentel
very
active
at
Pendle-
ton Round-Up for several
years. He said he has vol-
unteered at Round-Up for
the last 17 years.
Pimentel said he is ex-
cited to be one of the Board
of the Directors for Happy
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The Happy Canyon
Pageant is a show de-
picting the settling of the
American West. It starts
with a portrayal of the
Native American way of
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ment of a frontier town’s
rollicking main street
mishaps.
Pimentel recommends
all people who haven’t
seen the show, come out
and see it.
“You can count on one
hand things that have been
around for that long,” he
said. “It is good, family
fun. There is nothing else
like it around.”
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Canyon and hopes to be
just one part of the pro-
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why I give so much time
to it,” he said. “Probably
because it is a neat experi-
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in this area, a show, that
has been around this long.
It is pretty impressive.
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