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“He’s just really re-
warding to coach because
he may not be able to
verbally say, ‘OK, thanks
coach, or I get it coach,
but he’s such an observer
and he has such persever-
ance,” she said.
Smalley said it is also
obvious that Arey enjoys
participating.
“We can tell there’s
just so much more that
Lyall is thinking that were
not able to see because of
his lack of verbalization,”
Smalley said. “You can
just tell he enjoys being
out there and doing it.”
His mother, Remick,
agrees.
“I think it’s given him
more opportunities to
communicate in his own
way,” Remick Arey said.
It is only one facet of
Arey’s life, however.
In addition to Special
Olympics, Arey works at
Transitions in Hermiston
and volunteers at Crazy
Mike’s video store, where
he logs movies into the
computer.
“Movie are his thing,”
Remick Arey said. “It’s
probably a dreamy job for
him.”
She said her son also
stays active with friends
through Special Olym-
pics.
“In reality, his social
calendar is way busi-
er than his parents’,”
Remick Arey said. “He’s
so much more social than
we could ever imagine.”
Smalley said the local
Special Olympics pro-
gram offers snow sports,
bocce, golf, basketball
and bowling, and the ath-
letes range in age from
children to 30 and older.
“We are always inter-
ested in recruiting new
athletes of any age to
the program,” she said.
“Many of our athletes
have participated in our
program for decades.”
For more information
on the program or enroll-
ing an athlete, people can
contact local program co-
ordinator Stu Bance, 541-
376-8132. To learn more
about Special Olympics,
visit www.soor.org.
Special Olympics bocce
athletes Lyall Arey, left, and
Jilli Smalley shake hands
after a practice recently. Arey
and Smalley, who are both on
the autism spectrum, have
known each other for years,
went to prom together and
enjoy competing in Special
Olympics events together.
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Columbia Aeromodelers member Ken Thompson launches a
radio-controlled model airplane into the air before allowing
McNary Heights Elementary School fourth-grader Zac Russell
to fly the plane using a buddy box Friday.
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overwhelms them.”
Columbia Aeromodelers
member Ken Thompson,
Hermiston, said it was fun to
show students his hobby and
generate interest in the sport.
“We introduced a lot
of grade school kids — I
think there was probably
about 100 — to the sport
of radio-controlled model
aviation,” he said. “We put
on a flying demonstration
with several of the planes.
I had one of the youngsters
(control a plane) on what
we call a buddy box. It’s a
second transmitter tethered
to the primary transmitter.”
Zac Russell, 10, was the
lucky student chosen to fly
with the buddy box from the
group of students from Mc-
Nary Heights Elementary
School. He said he had flown
small remote control planes
and helicopters before but
never a plane as large as the
one he flew Friday.
“I think it was awe-
some,” he said. “I learned
that it is hard for the first
time to fly big planes. It
was swerving a little bit be-
cause of the wind.”
Fifth-grader Jenexy Ri-
vera said she learned a lot
during the presentation.
“It was pretty awe-
some,” she said. “I liked
it because the planes were
really outstanding. Some
of them were fast, and they
did tricks.”
Thompson said he hoped
the presentation was educa-
tional and also generated
interest in the sport.
He said the Columbia
Aeromodelers
currently
have five core members and
another five who occasion-
ally participate, but the club
does not have a designated
facility to conduct events.
“We would love to get
the sport organized, but you
first have to have a place to
do it,” he said. “We want a
safer place to fly so that we
can generate more interest
in the community.”
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about the club, visit face-
book.com/columbiaaero-
modelers.
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