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Stanfield
Also on Oct. 30, Stan-
field’s Fall Festival &
Haunted Library activi-
ties including games and
“trunk-or-treat” provided
much fun, thanks to the
work of several volunteers.
Cecili Longhorn, Stanfield
Public Library director,
was one of those volun-
teers. Dressed as a scare-
crow, she welcomed peo-
ple into the library, which
was decorated as a haunted
house.
Volunteers spent a cou-
ple of days setting up
the library. There were
eight other volunteers at
the library alone for the
“haunted library.” Some
were dressed as monsters
and murderers inside.
“Mom! I’m scared!
Mom! Mom!” one small
child shouted while tour-
ing the library, which
was dark inside and con-
tained frightening displays
and music. Other visi-
tors screamed, too, then
laughed at themselves for
being startled. The attrac-
tion, then, had its intended
effect.
“We started it eight
years ago,” Longhorn said.
“A friend and I decided we
wanted to do a fall festi-
val, and we asked if any-
one was interested in vol-
unteering.
Somewhere
along the way, we thought
it would be fun to do a
haunted library.”
She said she had not,
until then, even heard of a
haunted library. A group of
volunteers came together,
and the idea grew from
there. The library building,
which closed for two days
prior to the event in prepa-
ration, always contain fun
new ideas she said. She
expressed volunteers do
a lot of work to give the
impression of a large space
inside their little library.
“I hope everyone who
comes will come again to
see what the library really
looks like,” she said.
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A costumed stilt walker on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, strides along Main Street in Pendleton during the Pendleton Downtown
Association’s Halloween event.
Pendleton
At Downtown Trick or
Treat in Pendleton with
her family, Dawn Skinner,
Pendleton, was one of the
many people making her
way to see the Heritage
Haunt. It was at the Heri-
tage Station Museum and
included costumed charac-
ters and candy giveaways.
It was fun, Skinner said.
She especially liked treat-
ing her granddaughter to
the tradition because she
was not able to experience
it last year.
Granddaughter
Saw-
yer Skinner, 4, was dressed
up as Ariel, from Disney’s
“The Little Mermaid.”
Downtown Trick or Treat
was fun, she said. She also
said she liked the Echo
Corn Maze & Pumpkin
Patch, which she had vis-
ited earlier with her family.
It was scary, she said,
adding she and her group
got lost in some places.
“We used teamwork and
found our way out,” Danny
Kain, Pendleton, said.
Kain, Skinner’s friend
who was with the family at
the maze in Echo, also was
with them in Pendleton for
trick-or-treating.
Sawyer said she liked
dressing up in costume.
“My mom likes it too,”
she said of her outfit.
While young Sawyer
and companions trekked
Main Street, other peo-
ple strove to make their
enjoyment possible. Work-
ers stood at the openings
to many businesses, gift-
ing children with candies.
Long lines were common.
Joanna Engle, execu-
tive director of the Chil-
dren’s Museum of Eastern
Oregon, was one such per-
son. She handed out can-
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six years, but recent months
have been atypical. This
fall, she has heard of many
cases.
She has not seen any
cases in her own business,
she said, but has heard
of the disease spreading
among fostered cats locally
and in Walla Walla and
Portland.
She
recommended
immunizations, and both
Sargent and Frischman
agreed, saying vaccinations
are highly effective in pre-
passes to adults.
“This is another fun
opportunity for us to get
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Becky Ramirez, left, hands out candy to trick-or-treaters Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, along Main
Street in Pendleton.
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Hermiston, Haight said,
and questioned if they
were being as effective as
possible.
They had been, he said,
bringing hope and life to
members of their congrega-
tion every Sunday morning,
and they had been working
outside of their building,
but church leaders believed
like they could do more
and wanted to be do more
to “make Jesus and God
famous” in their city.
He
said
leadership
looked back at the past few
decades and asked, “Are we
being effective?”
Coming out of those con-
templations, they decided
they were holding onto a
name, Hermiston Assem-
bly, which does not “carry a
whole lot of identity.”
Hermiston
Assembly
is part of a denomination,
called Assemblies of God.
It was founded in 1914 and
claims 13,000 churches in
the U.S. with more than 3
million believers, according
to the Assemblies of God
website, ag.org. The website
also claims there are 69 mil-
lion believers worldwide.
Hermiston
Assembly,
though under a new name,
still will be an Assemblies
of God church, Haight said.
He met with state leaders
dies from the doorstep of
the museum, 400 S. Main
St., and gave free museum
people into the museum
and let people know about
it,” she said.
She also liked making
people happy, she said.
When she was a child, she
said, she enjoyed dress-
ing up, which is why Hal-
loween was a fun holi-
day. It was a time for her
and her siblings to have
fun together with the rest
of the family. She added,
as someone who works
around children, creating
joy for youngsters, giv-
ing them the same expe-
riences, she had when she
was small, means a lot
to her.
With
Engle,
Kim
Chavez-Sierra, museum
board chair, said she
also was loving greet-
ing kids and giving them
a
happy
Halloween.
Chavez-Sierra is married
to East Oregonian reporter
Antonio Sierra.
“Halloween is actually
my favorite holiday, even
as an adult,” she said.
A kindergarten teacher,
she added she the merri-
ness on display at Down-
town Trick or Treat was a
good sight. The past year,
with the pandemic con-
tinuing, has been tough on
people, she said, and she
was happy to see people
finding joy in this activity,
providing they were safe.
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A sign Oct. 27, 2021, in front of Hermiston Assembly,
Hermiston, welcomes people to upcoming services. The
church is changing its name on Nov. 7.
about the continued associ-
ation already.
At 10:30 a.m., Nov.
7, the church is host-
ing “Name Change Sun-
day.” It is planned to be an
hour-long event with live
music and a premier of a
documentary.
The film, Haight said, is
the work of a professional
team of California film-
makers. It will tell the his-
tory of the church and its
story in Hermiston. He said
he wants to “provide the
story of what has happened
with our church over its last
90 years of existence.”
The documentary, at the
end, will reveal the church’s
new name.
The secrecy around the
name, according to Haight,
is because the need for con-
text; before one knows the
name, it is important to know
the history leading up to it.
“We’re not just changing
the name to do something
cool or flashy,” he said.
Guests are expected to
appear by video, congrat-
ulating Hermiston Assem-
bly’s big change. Follow-
ing that, the church plans to
hold an after party, 12-2 p.m.
at the Maxwell Event Cen-
ter, 145 N. First Place,
Hermiston.
venting panleuk. Cat own-
ers can get their pets vac-
cinated at local vet clinics
or they can do it them-
selves at home. Vaccina-
tions are available at local
farm stores.
Robin Barker of Fuzz
Ball Rescue, agreed about
the usefulness of vaccina-
tions, and she said she sees
vaccinations as the solution
to the local outbreak. The
problem, she said, is the
outbreak is biggest amongst
cats that are least likely
to be vaccinated, such as
strays.
She has seen outbreaks
in other cities, and she said
she finds the situation sad.
Beau Putnam, Pet Rescue
Humane Society of Eastern
Oregon, also is concerned
about the disease because it
is difficult to treat. He said
he has seen it among fos-
tered kittens, and he wants
people to vaccinate.
Veterinarian Frischman
offered some hope about
the current situation. She
noted we are “coming out
of kitten season,” during
which there are fewer
cat births. We will, then,
see fewer deaths and less
spread, because there will
be fewer new cats to spread
the disease.
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