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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016
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relax and pretend nobody is
there just like you’re in the
gym shooting with a friend
or something because when
you’re tensing up everything
is short. It helps a lot and
makes me calm down to not
think too much.”
And calm he was. He took
the court one more time in
the inals just as smooth and
relaxed as he was in Round 1,
sinking ive 3-pointers in the
irst 30 seconds of the round.
As time ticked down, he
swished home his sixth, sev-
enth, and eighth made shots
to clinch the title, resulting
in a big cheer and numerous
high-ives from the several
hundred people that had gath-
ered around to watch.
In the slam dunk con-
test, Hermiston native Kee-
gan Crafton took home the
championship in a rather
anti-climactic competition
with two dunks that garnered
some big cheers from the
crowd.
Crafton, a 2015 Hermis-
ton graduate, misired on his
irst attempt of the irst round,
but followed up with a big up-
and-under reverse dunk that
drew a near-perfect score of
28 from the three judges. The
only other competitor to slam
home a dunk was one that
went by the name ‘Miguel’
with a 24 score that sent him
to the inals by default.
In the inals, ‘Miguel’
went for success over lash
by throwing down a two-
hand straight-on dunk that
garnered a score of 25. That
brought Crafton back to the
court, and the crowd instant-
ly was behind the hometown
guy.
Crafton started from the
left wing, tossed the ball in
the air to cause a big bounce
and then proceeded to grab
the ball at its highest point
and throw down a vicious
two-hand dunk to send the
crowd into a roaring cheer.
The dunk received a perfect
30 score from the judges to
claim the victory.
“There was no planning
in that at all,” Crafton said
with a wide grin. “I had no
idea what I was going to do,
I just thought it up there on
the court.”
It’s the second time that
Crafton has won the event,
after he claimed victory in
2014, and he says he loves
coming back for the event
each year.
“It’s absolutely exhilarat-
ing,” he said. “I love every
minute of this.”
Crafton and Paola each
received Takin’ it to the
Streets Nike dri-it shirts and
basketball shorts for winning
the events.
to purchase four new cardi-
ac monitors and a new pa-
tient transport ambulance.
Transport ambulances are
usually smaller and quicker
vehicles than a traditional
ambulance. Decreasing re-
sponse times is a priority
for the new ire district.
With all the proposed
updates and purchases,
Stanton said the district
plans to hold off spending
signiicant money until the
tax revenue is received by
the district in November.
The process of hiring six
full-time ireighter para-
medics will begin this fall
with the goal of fully staff-
ing the Diagonal Road sta-
tion by March 1, 2017. The
next ire board meeting
will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 10
at Station 23 on Westland
Road.
BASKETBALL:
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“You never really lose
it, that’s for sure. I played
in college and that’s what I
was known for, and as you
get older you don’t get as
high off the ground as you
used to, that’s why I don’t
enter the dunk contest,” he
laughed.
Six competitors took the
court to go for the 3-point
contest, with the top two
advancing to the champi-
onship. As the defending
champion, Paola was the
last to go of the group. The
irst three competitors made
a combined nine 3-point-
ers, before Brandon Castro
found a rhythm and sank 11
on 24 shots (46 percent) to
set the tone. Tim Cave then
followed up Castro’s perfor-
mance with nine 3s, which
meant Paola would need to
hit 10 shots to advance to the
inals.
Once the clock started,
Paola’s experience in the
event showed as the 45-year-
old started out at a steady
pace with his smooth jump
shot as to not tire him as
easily. After making two of
his irst seven shots, Paola
found a groove and sank sev-
en of his next eight attempts
to tie him with Cave before
swishing two more home to
advance to the inals with 11
makes on 21 total shot at-
tempts (52 percent).
In the inals Castro was
the irst to shoot and he
FIRE:
continued from Page A1
at $100,000.
“This is kind of ridicu-
lous,” ire board member
Mike Hawman said in re-
sponse to the proposed ig-
ure.
The city proposed the
second and third years’
rent be $65,000, the fourth
year’s rent be $30,000 and
succeeding annual rent be
$1 a year after that until
2115, when the term of the
lease would end.
Board members and
Fire Chief Scott Stanton all
conceded they need a lease
agreement with the city,
but there was no way they
could afford the proposed
9,999,900 percent increase.
The board voted to allow
Chief Stanton to enter into
negotiations with the city
for a more affordable lease
price. Stanton said he was
conident they could ind
“middle ground for what
would be fair.”
Mark Morgan, Hermis-
ton’s assistant city manag-
er, said the lease agreement
is a conversation the city
and the ire district have
been having for a couple of
years.
Under Oregon law there
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Keegan Crafton, of Hermiston, won Saturday’s slam dunk competition
during the 3-on-3 basketball tournament on Main Street.
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Cardell Jones goes up for a shot as Krieg Mueller defends
Sunday in the championship game of the Takin’ it to the Streets
elite division of the three-on-three basketball tournament.
jumped out to a quicker pace
that forced several missed
shots early and resulted in
just two makes out of 12
shots in the irst 30 seconds.
Castro rebounded a little in
the latter half of his round
with ive makes on 12 shots
to inish with seven.
Seeing that mark, Paola
said he wasn’t too focused
on the number as much as
just inding a rhythm and
shooting like he knew how.
“I’m 45 and been doing
it a long time and you can
tell when the kids get in the
inals and they tense up a
little bit,” Paola said. “You
just have to go out there and
is a property tax cap of $10
per $1,000 assessed value.
With the new ire district
tax rate passed by voters in
the spring, increasing from
$1.25 per $1,000 to $1.75,
the city of Hermiston will
lose $130,000 in revenue to
the ire district.
“We know it would be
ridiculous to charge (the ire
district) $130,000 a year (to
lease the building),” Mor-
gan said. “We’re not trying
to bend them over the bar-
rel.” Morgan indicated it
was more of a starting point
for discussion. He said there
have also been conversa-
tions to spread the amount
out over seven or eight years
to lower the payments.
Stanton also updated the
board on bond projects, in-
cluding equipment replace-
ment priorities for this year.
The top priority this year is
making upgrades to Station
22 on Diagonal Road to
make it suitable for 24-hour
stafing. Upgrades needed
include phone, speakers,
computers and other infor-
mation technology-related
projects. Stanton said the
IMESD is already working
on the upgrades.
Other priorities for the
year are purchasing six to
eight new sets of personal
protective equipment and
a new Type Six ire engine.
Type Six ire engines are
usually built on a pickup
truck frame and can bet-
ter respond to areas where
a traditional engine might
struggle. These engines
are a good it for ighting
grass ires because they can
pump water while driving,
where most traditional en-
gines must be in park.
The district also wants
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