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Hermiston man dies after fi ght THE Memorial service scheduled for today Page 3 2016 WHO’S WHO Hermiston Herald WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016 HermistonHerald.com $1.00 2016 IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN Business and Medical Directory www.eastoregonian.com www.hermistonherald.com SPECIAL SECTION INCLUDED INSIDE TRADING PURPLE FOR PINK PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVE ROHRMAN Students and staff from Hermiston High School show their support for a teacher at rival Pendleton High School who is battling cancer on Tuesday. Many at the school wore pink and made signs in an effort to try to convince the Ellen DeGeneres Show to have teacher Kathryn Youngman on the show. School puts Pendleton rivalry aside to support teacher battling cancer ABOUT TOWN Hermiston chamber rolls out the red carpet The Hermiston Cham- ber of Commerce is roll- ing out the red carpet for its annual Distinguished Citizens Awards Banquet. The event is Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. at the Herm- iston Conference Center, 415 S. Highway 395. Tick- ets are $30 each and can be purchased at the Hermiston chamber, by calling 541- 567-6151 or at www.herm- istonchamber.com. Award categories in- clude man, woman and business of the year, the chamber Award of Merit and Spirit of Excellence Award, the Outstanding Young Citizen Award, the Hermiston School District educators and administrator of the year, and Fire Service Award. The dinner is catered by Columbia River Ca- tering Co and a no-host bar is available by The Pheasant Blue Collar Bar & Grill. School district releases 2016- 2017 calendar By SAM BARBEE Staff Writer A brief stroll through the hallways of Hermiston High School reveals a campaign that’s gain- ing steam. Throughout the high school are pink shirts, pink shoes. pink jackets, SLQNWXWXVSLQNÀLHUVSLQNVLJQV There’s a lot of pink, and it’s for a good reason. Following Pendleton High School’s lead, Hermiston has undertaken a campaign to get former Hermis- ton Spanish teacher and current Pendleton Spanish teacher Kath- ryn Youngman, who is currently battling cancer for the third time while teaching, on TV. The cam- paign was started in the hopes of getting Youngman on the popu- lar daytime talk show, “The El- len DeGeneres Show.” “A couple of our kids got text messages or emails or something from some of the Pendleton ASB kids, and they asked me to start looking at it and they told me that the Pendleton kids wanted us to do pink,” Hermiston Associat- ed Student Body advisor Dave Rohrman said. “My ASB kids met that period and they were just like, ‘Hey this is something we can do that’s nice for people. We don’t have any expectation for re- ward. And it would be kinda cool to get her on ‘Ellen.’ “When it was presented to me, I didn’t have much of a choice. The kids were gonna do it one way or another.” WHO’S WHO STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS Pendleton High School Spanish teacher Kathryn Youngman goes over some Spanish phases with her fourth year students on Wednesday in Pendleton. After Rohrman heard the stu- dents’ pitch, he showed it to the administration. ³,WWRRNDOORI¿YHVHFRQGVIRU them to approve it,” Rohrman said. That was Monday morn- ing. By Tuesday, the campaign had spread on social media to UHDFK VRPH QDWLRQDO ¿JXUHV Three-time Olympic gold med- alist Kerri Walsh, former Ore- gon Ducks quarterback Vernon Adams, current Oregon State basketball player Tres Tinkle and current Atlanta Falcons de- fensive end Vic Beasley each noticed the campaign and helped push it along. “In an hour it started blowing up,” Rohrman said. “We put it out in an email to the staff. We put it out on social media. We PDGH ÀLHUV ZLWK WKHLU KDVKWDJ ‘#YoungmanOnEllen.’” Hermiston and Pendleton have now added a “Pink Out” for the Feb. 2 game between the Buckaroos and the Bulldogs. “Stuff like this is gonna make it so much easier just to get kids involved,” Rohrman said. “We’re having a lot of fun.” But more than just fun, there is a lot of learning going on, as ZHOO,QKLV¿UVW\HDUDV$6%DG visor, Rohrman, a history teach- er, is learning on the job about how to use social media effec- tively while surrounded by a handful of students who already know it intimately. Rohrman himself has gotten a baptism by ¿UHLQWKHZRUOGRI7ZLWWHUDQG Facebook, but he’s also giving OHVVRQVRQVHOÀHVVQHVVDQGJLY ing back. He said he’s been impressed by the level of participation sur- See CANCER, A18 Umatilla Electric selects its next general manager Robert Echenrode will succeed Steve Eldrige in March By GEORGE PLAVEN Staff Writer The Umatilla Electric Co- operative has found a new gen- eral manager from within its own ranks. Engineering Manager Rob- ert Echenrode will be promot- ed to the co-op’s top job begin- ning March 8. Echenrode takes over for Steve Eldrige, who announced his retirement last spring. “It was an honor to be considered to follow such a distinguished group of lead- ers,” Echenrode said in an announcement Thursday. “I want to help build on the past achievements of our employ- ees.” Echenrode, 54, started working at UEC in March 2013 and has 25 years of ex- perience with rural electric co- See ECHENRODE, A18 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Robert Echenrode, who is currently the engineering manager for Umatilla Electric Cooperative, has been selected as general manager DQGFKLHIH[HFXWLYHRIÀFHU+HZLOODVVXPHKLVQHZUROH0DUFK Hermiston School District will begin school on Aug. 29 and end on June 7 for the 2016-2017 school year. The school board ap- proved the calendar on Monday. Winter break will run from Dec. 21, 2016 to Jan. 2, 2017 and spring break will fall on March 27-31, 2017. Students will get a four-day week- end for Veterans Day and for Presidents Day, and three days off the week of Thanksgiving. Gradua- tion will be June 3, 2017. For the full calen- dar hermiston.k12.or.us/ community/district-cal- endars. Area libraries off er job search help Umatilla County res- idents looking for job VHDUFKDVVLVWDQFHFDQ¿QG useful resources through their local library. A new job search engine is available through all 12 Umatilla County public libraries. Library patrons can use LearningExpress Library to search the Job & Career Accelerator Center. This new feature allows ac- cess to more than 5 million job postings from leading job boards, government and corporate sites, online FODVVL¿HGV UHFUXLWPHQW sites and more. In addition to job postings, the cen- ter can help users with updating or creating re- sumes and cover letters, WLSVIRU¿OOLQJRXWMREDS plication forms and pre- paring for job interviews. Staff at any of the pub- lic libraries in the county can assist users in get- ting started with using any of the features in LearningExpress Library. For more information, call or stop by your local library or contact Dan Feil, library district administra- tive assistant, at 541-276- 6449 or dan@ucsld.org.
