100 years agoFor several hours yesterday morning little Emery Crofoot, four-year-old son of Mrs. George Crofoot, who with the lad and her daughter were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Marin, was being sought assiduously by more than a score of men and women. The search was made after the lad had strayed away from the Marin home on Johnson street.

While playing with some boy companions, young Emery got out of his own bailiwick into territory of the city that was foreign to his limited knowledge of Pendleton. He was missed after a short time, and the “lost” signal was circulated. The wheat fields were searched south of the city, and the efforts of the city officers were enrolled in traversing the city streets for a sight of the lad.

The youngster was found by Officer Dick Cornwell near St. Joseph’s academy. When Cornwell got in sight of young Crofoot, he found the youthful adventurer imitating a coyote in that his nose was pointed heavenward, and he was yelling with vigor and abandon. He was trying to get up on the lofty heights of the south side, but he had wandered a bit too far east.

50 years ago“We’re so lucky,” said Mrs. Robert (Kay) Petrik, balancing her daughter, Robin, on her knee. Petrik nods in agreement.

How can they consider themselves fortunate, they are asked, when their daughter has no kidneys, they have to place her on a dialysis (artificial kidney) machine every other day and Petrik has to travel to Seattle twice a month for the solution which is run through the machine.

The answer is that “people have been so wonderful,” contributions to a fund for Robin have been so great and they’ve encountered no problems they haven’t been able to handle.

Robin, who was 3 last Dec. 24, entered the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle in mid-October, where both kidneys were removed because they were infected. Two months later she was able to return to her home, 15 miles west of Pendleton, and went on dialysis with a machine loaned by the University of Washington Medical School.

25 years agoSeven students will be traveling to Romania this summer, thanks to the invitation of Dave and Jean Conklin.

Conklin, a recently retired elementary school teacher, and his wife, an interior decorator, have invited four students form a Hermiston Christian school and three from Hermiston High School to join them in a work-study exchange in Romania.

Robert Beaubien, Rachel Hardin, Nicole Journot and Nathaniel Banke will leave in early July, accompanied by their Christian school youth-leader, Steve Frerichs, for a two-week stay in Romania. As they return, the second group, including Stephania Smelser, Elizabeth Shefield and Katie Satter, accompanied by Chaperone Lois Newcomb of Pendleoton, will leave.

The Conklins have been visiting Romania each year for more than three years. They travel there up to six times a year.