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Hi, my name is Zoey. I am one of a
litter of four female and one male Chi-
huahua/miniature pincher/terrier/shih
tzu puppies available for adoption at the
Humane Society of Eastern Oregon Pet
Rescue in Hermiston.
I was surrendered by my owner, and
I need a new home. I’ve already had my
shots, and I am good with children and
other dogs. I am 6 to 7 weeks old and
can be adopted for $175. I come with
a free vet check and a three-day return
policy. If I am spayed at 6 months of
age, my owner will receive a $50 re-
fund.
If you are interested in welcoming
Zoey or her brother and sisters to your
family, please stop by the humane soci-
ety at 1844 N.W. Geer Road, Hermis-
ton, or call 541-564-6222.
SCAM:
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contacted soon by Edmis-
ton with the information
of how to pay the more
than $900 in fees needed
to get the money released
from Mexico.
“Later in the evening,
the reporting resident re-
ceived not only a call from
someone claiming to be a
Hermiston police officer
but they also received an
additional call from the
‘chief’ to give additional
information about getting
their ‘winnings,’ ” Sando-
val wrote. “The residents
were vigilant and recog-
nized the scam, stopping
their involvement.”
She said spoofing tech-
nology makes it easy for
scammers to fool caller
ID into displaying the
correct number of the
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment, lending legitimacy
to the call.
She urged residents
to be vigilant and to edu-
cate friends and neighbors
about the scam as well.
She said Hermiston Police
Department would never
act as a representative of
Publisher’s Clearinghouse
or facilitate the transfer of
money unless it was some-
thing seized by the depart-
ment in the line of duty.
If anyone has questions
or concerns that they are
being targeted by a sim-
ilar scam, they should
contact Sandoval at 541-
667-5112 or esandoval@
hermiston.or.us.
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event,” Earp said. “It’s kind
of a neat opportunity.”
After soliciting feedback
from the community about
Parks and Rec offerings,
Earp said many people re-
quested science camps, so a
fun, educational camp will
add to this year’s lineup.
Camp Invention: Physics in
Motion will take place for
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Aug. 3 through Aug. 6. The
camp costs $59 for Herm-
iston residents and $73 for
non-residents.
“It’s going to be educa-
tional but not so much like
a classroom setting — more
fun and interactive,” Earp
said.
Aug. 5 through Aug. 8,
14- through 17-year-olds
can participate in Camp Ad-
venture!
“This one is kind of a fun
opportunity because it’s for
teenagers,” he said. “We ha-
ven’t offered a lot of camps
for teenagers in the past. The
idea of it is each day we’ll
go into a different activity.”
Earp said plans include a
day of kayaking, rafting and
paddle boarding at the Co-
lumbia River, a day at an in-
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MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO
A student completes a bicycle safety course at Sunset Ele-
mentary School during the City of Hermiston’s Safety Town
program.
door rock-climbing facility
and an overnight backpack-
ing trip in the mountains.
“We’re just going to keep
it simple but take the partici-
pants out into the mountains
and do two days of back-
packing,” he said. “It’s go-
ing to be awesome, though,
because I didn’t want to do
something just around here
with the sagebrush. I real-
ly wanted something that
would hook the kids on the
outdoors and nature.”
Earp said adult kayaking
trips have been offered in
the past, but two new trips
to Hutchinson and Shiner
lakes and the Walla Walla
River will be offered this
year June 27 and Sept. 12.
“We’ve expanded our
horizons on those (kayaking
trips) because they’ve been
really popular,” he said.
“You don’t have to have ex-
perience. The water is calm.
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water. You just have to be
in physical-enough shape
to paddle a kayak for a few
miles.”
Earp said the aquatic cen-
ter will offer open swim wa-
ter volleyball from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m. June 21 through Aug.
9, and registration is not re-
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quired. New dance classes
will be offered this summer,
as well.
Of course, Hermiston
will still have many other
camps and activities that
were offered in previous
years, including a summer
day camp, along with many
special events, such as mu-
sic and movies in the park
and Independence Day fes-
tivities.
Earp said the children’s
triathlon is one of his favor-
ite events.
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er children,” he said. “They
just have a blast. We usually
get close to 100 participants
that sign up, and it is one of
the funnest things to watch,
and the kids have a really
good time.”
Earp said many of the
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should register beginning
April 27 to ensure their
spots. Between April 27
and May 8, he said many
of the activities are offered
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at a 15 percent discount.
Registration can be com-
pleted online at hermiston.
or.us/parksrec, and from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m. May 6, from
9 a.m. to noon May 7 and
from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. May
8 at the Parks and Recre-
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City Hall.
Summer activity guides
are available at Hermiston
City Hall or online at herm-
iston.or.us now, Earp said,
and will be distributed to
elementary school students.
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of what regular classroom
instruction entails, students
have learned a bit about
teaching to the culture and
racial make-ups of their
own community. He said,
unlike many teachers, who
are predominantly Cauca-
sian, most students in Uma-
tilla are Hispanic. Many
of the cultural barriers and
limitations those students
face, however, are not dis-
cussed in the classrooms
because of a fear of appear-
ing racist or offending oth-
ers, he said.
“I believe one of the
most important things they
learned this year is the dif-
ference between racial and
being racist,” he said. “We
need to have racial discus-
sions with our kids.”
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focusing on issues such as
language barriers and cul-
tural differences and how
they may be hindering stu-
dents’ abilities to learn.
He said those students
may and do learn different-
ly. By having his students
examine those issues in
his class, they are getting
a real-world look into the
challengers that teachers
encounter and the strategies
they can use to make sure
everyone is learning.
Many of those topics
hit home for seniors Jack-
ie Campos and Armando
Mendoza, both of whom
are Hispanic, and, like
MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO
Umatilla High School junior Armando Mendoza reads a story
with Robert Krostom, a second-grader at McNary Heights
Elementary School, Thursday morning.
MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO
Umatilla High School junior Fabricio Garcia reads with McNary Heights Elementary School
student Liam Early Thursday morning at MHES.
Ledesma, have encoun-
tered many of the issues
discussed in the class per-
sonally.
Ledesma said that when
she was growing up, all the
students were treated equal-
ly, even though some of the
Hispanic students may have
faced greater hurdles be-
cause of language and cul-
ture. Campos and Mendoza
agreed.
In addition to regular
classroom instruction, the
high schoolers have also
worked with students at
McNary Heights Elementa-
ry School.
Whether working with
the elementary children on
reading exercises or observ-
ing the classroom teacher’s
teaching styles, many of the
students said it has been a
tremendous learning ex-
perience to see the issues
that teachers are navigating
through and what teaching
strategies work best for in-
dividual students.
“Everyone is different,
and that is something that
we have been able to real-
ize even as we’ve worked
with these kids,” Ledesma
said.
Mendoza said one of the
challenges he has encoun-
tered is changing his teach-
ing style for an individual
student. “We have to do a
lot of adapting,” he said.
“Not everybody learns the
same way.”
On Thursday, during
one of their classroom ses-
sions at McNary Heights,
UHS senior Annabel More-
no-Mendez read along with
a student as he recited from
his text book in Spanish.
Those types of strategies,
Mendoza said, are things
they have to be aware of
— using different teaching
styles to suit students at
their level.
Campos said she has en-
joyed learning from her stu-
dents as much as they have
learned from her. She said
she has appreciated seeing
what all goes into instruct-
ing each individual student,
which has helped her grow.
“We both learn from
each other,” she said.
Campos said, because
she likes working with
young children, especially
elementary students, be-
coming a teacher seems to
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sonality.
“I’ve always liked in-
teracting with little kids,”
she said. “I just like being
around them.”
Campos said the class
has also helped her over-
come her fear of speaking
in front of people, while it
has strengthened some of
the teaching abilities she’ll
use in the future.
“This helps me to be
open, learn from what I’ll
face later on,” she said.
Mendoza said he is actu-
ally considering a career in
business but appreciates ex-
panding his opportunities.
“This class has opened
up more career paths for
me,” he said.
As part of the class, stu-
dents will write a research
paper on an issue as it
pertains to education, and
how they realized and were
able to overcome those is-
sues while working with
students in the classroom
setting. Then, at 7 p.m. on
May 13 at the high school,
students will present on
the topics. Malgesini said
the public is welcome to
attend.
Overall, Malgesini said
he feels the class has been
a welcome addition to the
high school.
“If nothing else, (the
students) have a greater
appreciation for what their
own teachers go through,”
he said. “They’re able to
see what being a teacher is
like.”