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Prayers, worship on 9/11
Fourteen years after
the deadly Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attack on Ameri-
can soil, people gathered
to remember those who
lost their lives.
At McKenzie Park in
Hermiston, Erin Lovett
from New Beginnings
Christian Fellowship or-
ganized a worship event
featuring prayer and mu-
sic. Jay Barnett, pastor
of the church, recounted
the events that resulted
in thousands of deaths
and offered a prayer.
“It’s our responsibility
to remember those events
and to never let the mem-
ory of those who died be
forgotten,” he said.
Jacob Looper from
Hermiston Assembly of
God led the Pendleton
Assembly of God band
in a series of worship
songs.
The group of about
50 people in attendance
later joined hands to
create a circle, and sev-
eral prayed for various
causes, including Lovett,
Barnett
and
Hector
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
GOVERNMENT MEETINGS CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16
MONDAY, SEPT. 21
MORROW COUNTY COURT, 9 a.m., Port
of Morrow Conference Room, 2
Marine Drive, Boardman.
WESTLAND IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 1 p.m.,
district office, 77096 Highway
207, Echo.
UMATILLA COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m. Umatilla
County Courthouse, 216 S.E.
Fourth St., Pendleton.
ECHO SCHOOL DISTRICT, 6 p.m., Echo
School, 600 Gerone St.
UMATILLA-MORROW HEAD START,
6:30-8:30 p.m., 110 N.E. Fourth St.,
Hermiston. (Leanna 541-564-
6878).
INTERMOUNTAIN ESD, 6:30 p.m., district
office, 2001 S.W. Nye Ave., Pendleton.
UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR BOARD WORK
SESSION, 6:30 p.m., Stetson’s
Steakhouse, 1619 N. First St.,
Hermiston. (541-567-6121).
BOARDMAN PLANNING COMMISSION,
7 p.m., Boardman City Hall, 202
N. Main St.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 22
IONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3:30 p.m. work
session, 4:30 p.m. board meeting,
Ione Schools, 445 Spring St.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
OREGON TRAIL LIBRARY DISTRICT, 7
p.m., district office, 200 S. Main
St., Boardman.
MORROW COUNTY COURT, 9 a.m.,
Pioneer Annex conference room,
150 Rock St., Heppner.
Attendees raise their hands and sing along with worship
music at an event Friday in Hermiston commemorating the
14th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack on American
soil Sept. 11, 2001.
UMATILLA HOSPITAL DISTRICT, 7:30
p.m., Umatilla Medical Clinic, 1890
Seventh St.
HERMISTON LIBRARY BOARD, 4-5 p.m.,
Hermiston Public Library, 235 E.
Gladys Ave. (541-567-2882).
Ramirez, pastor at Temp-
lo Fe, Esperanza Y Amor
Iglesia de Dios.
“I think it was a won-
derful thing that we
could come together, all
churches and people,
in agreement and honor
our veterans and remem-
ber 9/11,” Lovett said.
“It was an attack on our
country, and I think it re-
HERMISTON IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 4:30
p.m., district office conference
room, 366 E. Hurlburt Ave.
STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART
ally shocked a lot of peo-
ple that we could be at-
tacked by an enemy. The
repercussions of it are
still affecting people.”
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17
ECHO CITY COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m., 20 S.
Bonanza St.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
OREGON WHEAT COMMISSION/OREGON
WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE JOINT
MEETING, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.,
Discovery Center, 5000 Discovery
Drive, The Dalles. Lunch will be
served. (Diana Thompson 503-
467-2161).
UMATILLA COUNTY PLANNING
COMMISSION, 6:30 p.m., Umatilla
County Justice Center, 4700 N.W.
Pioneer Place, Pendleton.
MONDAY, SEPT. 28
UMATILLA BASIN WATERSHED
COUNCIL, 6 p.m., Stafford
Hansell Government Center,
915 S.E. Columbia Drive,
Hermiston OR Pendleton City
Hall community room, 501 S.W.
Emigrant Ave.
HERMISTON CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m.,
Hermiston City Hall, 180 N.E.
Second St.
IRRIGON COMMUNITY PARK
& RECREATION DISTRICT, 7
p.m., Irrigon Fire Station, 705 N.
Main St., Irrigon.
MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT, 7
p.m., Pioneer Memorial Hospital,
564 E. Pioneer Drive, Heppner.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29
MORROW COUNTY PLANNING
COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Heppner
City Hall, 111 N. Main St.,
Heppner.
Labor Commissioner to
visit student homebuilders
HERALD STAFF REPORT
Hermiston School Dis-
trict and the Columbia Ba-
sin Student Homebuilders
Program will host the head
of Oregon’s Bureau of La-
bor and Industries, Com-
missioner Brad Avakian, on
Friday, Sept. 18.
Avakian plans to visit
the site of the second stu-
dent-built home and meet
with the students as they
work on the project, ac-
cording to a district press
release.
Avakian
works
to
strengthen Oregon’s econ-
omy and workforce with
smart, targeted investment
in career and technical ed-
ucation.
“By investing directly
in middle schools and high
school career programs,
we can provide access ...
hands-on learning and tin-
EOTEC:
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ground here that you don’t
see,” he said.
That work included
bringing water and sewer
to the site and construction
of a “very expensive and
very time-consuming” lift
station, reaching 35 feet
underground to distribute
utilities over the site.
He said Frew Develop-
ment Group is currently
looking over two “pretty
good bids” for construction
of the livestock barns and
will bring a recommenda-
tion to the EOTEC board
soon.
The event center cur-
rently being erected by G2
Construction will include
a 12,000-square-foot exhi-
bition hall, three meeting
rooms, a board room, of¿c-
es and a commercial kitch-
GRIGGS:
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ia this spring at a rodeo in
Lynden, Washington, and
was out for six weeks. The
injury was the latest in a
long ledger of hospital vis-
its, including three broken
legs, broken ribs, stitches,
torn-up shoulders and a
punctured lung.
Griggs does what he can
to keep the cowboys from
the same injuries, rushing
toward a bucking bull and
waving his arms to distract
it when a bucked-off rider
needs an escape.
“I feel very responsible,”
he said. “If a guy gets run
over, even if it was out of
my hands, I still feel re-
sponsible. It’s my job to
stop the wreck before it
happens.”
Griggs said every rodeo
is different. Hermiston is
a “really neat setting,” he
said, with a great board and
kering that can help (stu-
dents) discover their talents
and passions,” Avakian said
in the release.
For the past three years,
the commissioner has
helped 200 Oregon middle
and high schools — serving
more than 100,000 students
— restore 21st-century
shop classes to prepare for
careers in ¿eld such as re-
newable energy, advanced
manufacturing, construc-
tion, agriculture and health-
care, the release states.
Avakian
previously
served in the Oregon Sen-
ate and managed a civil
rights law practice prior to
that.
The second home be-
ing built by the students
is Fieldstone No. 2. Field-
stone No. 1 was success-
fully sold this summer to
retired Hermiston School
District teachers.
en. Heather Cannell, busi-
ness manager for EOTEC,
said the building will be an
integral part of the Umatil-
la County Fair, hosting 4-H
entries, horticulture, open
class and other exhibits all
in one place.
At its last meeting,
the EOTEC board dis-
cussed the possibility of
postponing the Umatilla
County Fair and Farm-
City Pro Rodeo’s move
to the EOTEC grounds
until 2017. Chairman Ed
Brookshier said he would
like to see the board sit
down with stakeholders
and come up with some
answers by the end of
September.
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the
EOTEC board and stake-
holders will meet at Stet-
son’s Steakhouse in Herm-
iston for a work session to
discuss the status of con-
struction.
beautiful arena.
And it’s an honor to work
at Round-Up, where “ev-
erybody who is anybody”
in rodeo has performed.
In the end, though, “the
job’s the same once the gate
opens.”
This
year
marks
Griggs’s 10h year living in
Hermiston, after he met his
wife Torrie at the Colum-
bia River Circuit Finals
and moved to be with her.
He said rodeo weeks are
busy — he just got back
from Lewiston, Idaho,
worked the PBR Monday
and Tuesday and will be
putting in long days the
rest of Round-Up week.
But at the end of the day,
the schedule is worth it
to keep the job he loves,
working with a network of
people who have become
lifelong friends.
“There’s a camaraderie
in rodeo, probably by far
more than any other sport,”
he said.
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