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PUBLIC SAFETY FIGHTING THE BREAST CANCER FIGHT
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Beth Upshaw maintains a record of her cancer journey in the back of her planner. She still makes a note after visiting her Portland oncologist every three months.
La Grande Police arresteda 24-year-old transient Thursday afternoon after he attemptedtoeludeparole officers. LGPD's Sgt. John Shaul saidparoleoffi cerswere on the lookout for Cody Hamlin, who was wanted on a statewide felony parole warrant. Officers found him and once they told him he would be taken into custody, he fled, leading the officers to a home on the corner of Ash Street and V Avenue, Shaul said. 'They saw him, and he ran from them into the house," Shaul said. Officers were able to enter the home and arrest Hamlin on the parole warrant. He SeeArrest / Page 5A
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Nearly two decades ago,Beth Upshaw's 84-year-old sister was diagnosed with breast cancer.A breast cancer diagnosisforhermotherfollowed Though it ran in her family, Upshaw didn't think she, too, would hear the words, 'You have cancer." That day came, though, in February 2011 after Upshaw discovered a suspicious lump. It didn't show up on her regular mammogram and wasn't found in an ultrasound. That's when she made an appointment with the family surgical oncologist, the same doctor who treated her sister and mom years ago. Upshaw was in her office on the Eastern Oregon University campus when her doctor told her over the phone that she had breast cancer. "I kind of went into this big fog,"
Upshaw said."I didn't even know where to go with it." After calling her husband and telling a close friend, with whom she had lunch plans that day, she called each ofher two daughters. Upshaw said that was the hardest part ofher journey, second only to finding out herself. "I told them, We're going to fight this,"' she said."I never said 'I.' It was we are going to fight this." Moving from the initial shock into action was an easy transition when working with her Portlandbased medical team. eWe had a plan," Upshaw said. She had a double mastectomy
plus six months of chemotherapy and 10 weeks of radiation because she had four positive lymph nodes. When Upshaw reflects on her journey with breast cancer, though, she fondly remembers her trips to and from Walla Walla, Wash., where her radiation treatment was done. Some close friends had organized a carpool list so that Upshaw neverhad to driveherself— and taught her a major life lesson in the process. Those who drove Upshaw the hour and a half to Walla Walla and back for her short, 15-minute treatment hold a special place in SeeUpshaw / Page 5A
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Pink highlighls need for grevenlalive lesls Though breast cancer gets the spotlight in October, embrace the pink as a reminder to everyone to get the necessary screening tests that check for a variety of cancers. It's not fun, so I've heard, but go get that colonoscopy. Women, get your Pap tests and mammograms in. Perhaps the biggest thing Breast Cancer Awareness Month has done, in my estimation, is it has brought real stories of these tough journeys to the forefront of our minds. It's not easy to share highly personal medical stories. SeeDucote / Page 5A
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S the prevalence ofpink on TV, during football games and on our fiont page today. "Aren't people aware ofbreastcancer by now?" they11 ask. Sure, most probably are, but the fact remains that thousands oflives are lost to breast cancer — and many other cancers — each year. Seeing pink may not mean much to you, but for many women, it's a reminder to go in and get that mammogram or to perform that self-examination. And it's those precautionaryactions thatsave lives. I was in high school when my step-
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dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. Just a few years later when I was a freshman in college, my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer, the same cancer that took her mother's life at 54 years old. I am thankful for the medical professionals who caught my parents' cancers and successfully treated them, but I have friends who haven't been as fortunate.
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Inside • Having a heart for those who hear the words "you have cancer." Page 1C • What happens when a health care professional becomes the patient? Page1C • La Grande oncologist wants to do all he can to keep people out of his office. Page 1C
A hearing regarding the long-running dispute involving an Island City trucking company owned by Jon Fregulia, Oregon Trail Transport, will resume Monday. The hearing will start at 7 p.m. at Island City's city hall. A regular city council meeting will follow the hearing. The hearing, which is being conducted by the Island City Council, started Aug. 24 but was delayed when the council granted a continuance for it. The continuance had been requestedby Fregulia'sattorney, Andrew Martin, because he wanted more time to gather information regarding the case. The continuance of the hearing was the latest chapterinthecaseofFregulia's trucking company, which was granteda permit to operate SeeHearing / Page 5A
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