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CIMMIYOTTI:
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Sandstone Middle School
art teacher Nici Cimmiyotti
created this portrait of Irve
Williams, a local Boy Scout
leader and pastor, using India
ink. Her work is on display
this month at the Hermiston
Public Library.
help get them interest-
ed in art — I think about
how influential my art
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teachers were. And then
After high school, being back where you
Cimmiyotti
attended went to school is kind of
Portland State Universi- cool too.”
ty and received a degree
Cimmiyotti now works
in drawing and painting. alongside her first art
She stayed in Portland for teacher, Larsen, who now
several years before her teaches at Armand Lar-
mother, a teacher, con- ive Middle School. The
vinced her to pursue art two teachers collaborate
education.
to create a single lesson
With a teaching degree plan for both schools.
from Eastern Oregon Uni- Cimmiyotti said Larsen
versity, Cimmiyotti land- is a great artist and teach-
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had her first art class.
great resource and mentor
“Luckily enough, I was as she transitioned from
able to get hired at Sand- student to teacher.
stone to teach art, which
She said inspiring
is kind of like the dream young artists and culti-
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work with kids, which challenging. After years
is great, but I also get to of education and practice,
she said, a teacher must
present the information in
a way that is understand-
able to people with little
or no experience.
“You have to go back
and think of it as though
you’re approaching it for
the first time, and what
are some of the questions
you would have?” she
said. “It’s a learning pro-
cess because you don’t
think of all the questions
students are going to have
when they’re going to
create something.”
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ing with different styles
and media. She alternates
between watercolors and
oils and drawing and dis-
covered one of her newest
passions, India ink, while
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her students.
Cimmiyotti said perse-
verance is the biggest key
to success for any artist.
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times, and sometimes you
feel like you’re not going
anywhere with it,” she
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thing, you’ve got to keep
practicing.”
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CAMERAS:
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$5,000 each, she said, so the
department only plans to up-
date one vehicle per year.
The body cameras are
much less expensive, be-
tween $800 and $1,200 each,
she said. The budget provides
enough funding to purchase
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cers will share.
Huxel said she has not
yet ordered the body cam-
eras, but she will purchase
them from WatchGuard, the
company from which the
department purchased the
vehicle cameras. She said
the infrastructure, including
data storage, is already in
place, so the body cameras
will be easy to integrate into
the system.
Huxel said she has been
pleased with the effective-
ness of the vehicle cameras.
“They’ve been extreme-
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them a lot for training to
review different stops and
whatnot,” she said. “It gets
us good images of the traf-
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of the lights, as well as the
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Some of our court cases have
relied on some cameras.”
With both vehicle and
body cameras, Huxel said
views from multiple per-
spectives would be avail-
able. She said the video is
valuable not only for train-
ing and as evidence some-
one violated a law but also
as evidence for complaints
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“I think you’re going to
see more agencies at least
doing some trial runs with
body cameras if they ha-
ven’t already,” she said.
“If anything else, the trend
will probably be that it will
dispel a lot of accusations
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capture a lot of stuff that
shouldn’t be happening out
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ity of the time, we are doing
the right things for the right
reasons.”
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Hermiston High School alum Nici Cimmiyotti, 31, created this piece of art. Cimmiyotti said she
likes to experiment with different styles and media.
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