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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Tuesday, October 20, 2015 DEATH: 6oPe reIuse to worry WALDEN: Tour ends in %oardPan Continued from 1A Continued from 1A placed in Ukiah where he grew up Their wills and revocable trusts are in order He reIuses to worry about how and when he will die “<ou could die toPorrow in a car wreck, so why worry about it Dying is a part oI living,´ he said “I don’t get all shook up´ “II I could Must drop dead soPeday, that would be wonderIul,´ another Pused AIter conducting seven oI these sessions, 6asser has noticed soPe coPPon threads The director oI the gerontology prograP at 3ort- land’s 0arylhurst University said Pany expressed a desire Ior control over their deaths, while siPultaneously adPit- ting they are powerless “6oPe people have been very clear about wanting to be in control until the bitter end,´ 6asser said “They have a really clear vision, yet they know it’s probably not going to happen that way´ Others, she said, hope to die “with as Puch grace as they can, no Patter what happens´ The topic is coPplicated and untidy, 6asser said Death isn’t a clean break IroP liIe “Dying is not separate IroP living HuPan expe- rience is a dance between living and dying,´ 6asser said “Who knows what coPes next"´ “Talking about Dying´ isn’t Peant to provide answers, 6asser said, but rather a springboard Ior continuing discussion about death and other diI¿cult topics “We see ourselves as conveners and igniters,´ she said “We believe in the power oI conversation´ ——— Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@eastoregonian.com or call 541-966-0810. GUTEN: 3arty Pay Pove to grass next year Continued from 1A “We were de¿nitely overwhelPed and that was awesoPe,´ *uenther said “It was a good probleP to have´ 3at %eard, Travel 3end- leton event recruiter, said he worked the concession booth and did an unoI¿cial survey oI attendees He estiPated 0 percent oI the Iestivalgoers caPe IroP outside the area, with soPe traveling as Iar as Alaska, CaliIornia and Wisconsin *uenther said he and a coPPittee oI organi]ers will Peet later this week to discuss how Puch Oktober- Iest earned in sales and what bills need to be paid oII The coPPittee will also look at the Ieedback collected IroP the event with an eye on iPproving next year *uenther said organi]ers approached the inaugural event with a “Must get it done´ attitude but intend to put Pore planning into a second OktoberIest The coPPittee went back and Iorth as to whether they should allow Pinors at OktoberIest, but given the high nuPber oI IaPilies and children at the event, he was glad the coPPittee opened the event to all ages *uenther said the coPPittee planned Ior Pore children’s entertainPent, but soPe cancellations Peant young attendees swarPed the Iew cornhole boards that were available He said Pore gaPes will be oIIered to children next year In addition to Paking sure breweries have a Pore robust beer supply, *uenther said expanding the event has already been proposed Con¿ned to the southern concourse this year, soPe attendees suggested they Pove next year’s edition to the grass in the center oI the arena %eard also thought Okto- berIest would bene¿t IroP a relocation to the center oI the arena in addition to Pore attractions that ePphasi]e OktoberIest’s *erPan origins like ooP-pah bands and lederhosen contests ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836. WOLF: AniPal caPe IroP UPatilla pack Continued from 1A However, the *rant County DA’s oI¿ce said the case has been transIerred to Harney County prosecutor’s oI¿ce District Attorney TiP Colahan said his cohort in *rant County has a conÀict oI interest because he knows the hunter’s IaPily, and asked Colahan to handle the review as a courtesy Colahan said he is just now receiving case inIorPation IroP O6P and has not Pade a charging decision District attorneys in Oregon can present cases to a grand jury Ior possible indictPent, bring charges thePselves or decide the Iacts don’t warrant prosecu- tion The Pan who shot the wolI was not identi¿ed The wolI, designated OR-22 by the Oregon Depart- Pent oI Fish and WildliIe, is at least the third to die in Oregon since late August, when the 6led 6prings pair in Wallowa County were Iound dead oI an unknown cause 6tate police suspended their investigation in that case, saying they didn’t have probable cause to say the deaths were due to huPan action and that the cause oI death couldn’t be deterPined because the carcasses had deteriorated 6tate police said the wolI shot in *rant County was a Pale that dispersed IroP the UPatilla Pack <oung or sub-doPinant wolves oIten leave their hoPe packs to establish their own territory and ¿nd Pates According to ODFW, OR-22 has worn a *P6 tracking collar since October 201 and dispersed IroP the UPatilla Pack in February 2015 He was in 0alheur County Ior awhile, then trav- eled into *rant County He did not have a Pate or pups, according to ODFW Online ODFW spokeswoPan 0ichelle Dennehey said inIorPation about distin- guishing wolves IroP coyotes is available at www dIwstateorus DRONE: 1o oI¿cial count Ior nuPber sold Continued from 1A only a pound or two or that can¶t Ày higher than a Iew hundred Ieet are considered less risky, but heavier ones and those that can Ày thou- sands oI Ieet pose Pore oI a probleP To work out details, the FAA and the Transportation 'epartPent are setting up a task Iorce including govern- Pent and industry oI¿cials, pilots and hobbyists They¶ll recoPPend which drones should be reTuired to register ,t¶s hard to identiIy drones seen operating illegally near airports and planes or over crowds, and registration by itselI won¶t change that %ut it would allow the FAA to identiIy drones when they can be recovered aIter landing or crashing, a coPPon occurrence Earlier this year, drones operated illegally crashed on the White House lawn and at the 1ew <ork stadiuP where the 86 Open Tennis &haPpionships were being held ,n both cases the drone operators caPe Iorward %ut iI they hadn¶t, the govern- Pent would have had no way to identiIy theP “There can be no account- ability iI the person breaking the rules can¶t be identi¿ed,´ Fo[[ said There¶s no oI¿cial count oI how Pany drones have been sold in the 86, but industry oI¿cials say it is in the hundreds oI thousands and will easily pass a Pillion by the end oI the year Foxx said he has directed the task Iorce to deliver its report by 1ov 20 and hopes to have registration reTuirePents in place by Pid-'ecePber The tiPeline is tight, but the urgency oI the probleP dePands swiIt action, he said The &onsuPer Elec- tronics Association predicts that 700,000 drones will be sold this holiday season, and Foxx said it’s especially iPportant that new drone users be taught the responsi- bilities that coPe with Àying Registering drones that could pose saIety risks “Pakes sense, but it should not becoPe a prohibitive burden Ior recreational users who Ày Ior Iun and educa- tional purposes and who have operated harPoniously within our coPPunities Ior decades,´ 'ave 0athewson, executive director oI the AcadePy Ior 0odel Aero- nautics, said in a statePent And Daniel Castro, vice president at the ,nIorPation Technology and Innovation Foundation, urged the govern- Pent not to “rush into new rules that could have unintended conseTuences down the line´ Regulations devised by the task Iorce “will have long-terP iPplications Ior Iree speech, privacy and the coPPercial developPent and deployPent oI this nascent technology,´ he said in a statePent Foxx was vague when asked about the FAA’s authority to require regis- trations, especially on an expedited basis that will provide little iI any opportu- nity Ior public coPPent ¿rst It typically takes the agency years to put new regulations in place Also, a 2012 avia- tion law includes a provision exePpting the Podel acade- Py’s 10,000 PePbers IroP drone regulations -iP WilliaPs, a principal at the law ¿rP Dentons who IorPerly headed the FAA’s drone oI¿ce, said he believes the agency can get around having to go through the cuPbersoPe rulePaking process by IorPally deter- Pining sPall drones are a new type oI aircraIt and thereIore Iall under existing FAA regulations that say all aircraIt Pust be registered DAILY SPECIALS SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Prime Rib Sunday Baby Back Rib Monday Taco Tuesday Wine Wednesday Burgers & Beers Hamley Saloon 4p • Steakhouse 5p AMLEY S TEAK H OUSE & S aloon H COURT & MAIN, PENDLETON • 541.278.1100 H eritage Lu ncheon Becky Fletcher Waggoner: Happy Canyon – The World’s Most Unique Indian Pageant and Wild West Show! Pendleton Convention Center Saturday, November 14 th 12:00 – 2:00 pm Tickets: $40 for members; $50 for general public Tickets available at Heritage Station Museum and Armchair Books. transPission proMect, talk with patient advocates about the 21st Century Cures Act and stop by the HerPiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center HAREC visit At Oregon 6tate University’s HerPiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Walden got a tour oI new Ieatures — including the recently built Don Horneck 0ePorial %uilding 3hil HaPP, the center’s director, said a bill Walden helped pass keeps the extension center land in O6U’s hands He also said the bill Peans the center can now be a “good neighbor´ iI a potential developer needs to build a railroad spur across a corner oI the extension center’s land, and it Peans the land can be sold soPeday iI HerPiston continues to expand HaPP and board chairPan %ryan WolIe said without Walden’s help the “reversionary clause´ would have continued to haPper the experiPent station WolIe said Walden has visited the station several tiPes and, as soPeone who grew up on an Oregon orchard, said he understands “what this station Peans to our growers´ “We’re blessed to have hiP as our representative,´ WolIe said, adding that Walden also has “the best staII oI anyone in Wash- ington, DC´ Walden said he was proud oI all the experiPent station had accoPplished and was happy to lend his support “This is the one tiPe I’P actually proud to wear the orange and black,´ Moked Walden, who graduated IroP the University oI Oregon Medical research roundtable Walden also visited *ood 6hepherd 0edical Center in HerPiston where he Pet with patient advo- cates to share inIorPation and gather Ieedback on the 21st Century Cures Act The act, which passed with strong bipartisan support in the House and is now headed to the 6enate, seeks to cut red tape and provide incentives to work on cures Ior diseases ranging IroP 3arkinson’s to Al]heiPer’s “We’re on the cusp oI incredible breakthroughs in Pedicine and technology and this legislation is designed to Pove that Iorward Pore quickly,´ Walden said APong the bill’s provi- sions are incentives, such as patent extensions Ior drug coPpanies that pursue cures Ior rare diseases Walden said scientists think the cure “isn’t very Iar away´ Ior soPe diseases, but putting Poney toward curing a disease that only aIIects 1,000 people isn’t very proI- itable without soPe extra incentive to do so The bill also sets aside 75 billion Ior new Pedical research and clears soPe legal hurdles to using telePedicine in rural areas Walden said TiP Cook, CEO oI Apple, recently shared a story with hiP oI a young Pan who noticed thanks to a health app on his Apple watch that his heart was behaving erratically and went in to see a doctor The doctor told hiP iI he had played Iootball the next day as planned he likely would have died on the ¿eld Walden said the 21st Century Cures Act also provides a pathway Ior Pedical breakthroughs via the “datascope´ He said in the United 6tates alone there is 65 petabytes, equaling hundreds oI Pillions oI gigabits, oI data on cancer patients II researchers can access that data in an anon- yPous IorP, using cloud coPputing that calculates in Pinutes what used to take decades, patterns would surely ePerge that would help in the search Ior a cure The bill would allow Ior that to take place Boardman to Hemingway In his visit to 0orrow County, Walden heard IroP county oI¿cials and area landowners on the %oardPan to HePingway transPission line proMect The project, which would allow Idaho Power to run a new transPission line IroP %oardPan to HePingway, Idaho, drew opposition IroP locals who pointed out the line’s path would take valuable agricultural land out oI coPPission Landowners updated Walden on a potential coPproPise in 0orrow County that would locate approxiPately eight Piles oI transPission line along already-established lines on the west side oI %oPbing Range Road instead oI on agricultural land The road is leased by the county IroP the U6 1avy, and county oI¿cials said the 1avy hadn’t Pade a coPPitPent to an ease- Pent Ior the line, but things looked proPising Port oI 0orrow Panager *ary 1eal said he Ielt the coPproPise was a good one “FroP the Port’s perspec- tive I thought this was the best solution,´ he said 0orrow County planning director Carla 0cLane said there were still a lot oI issues that needed to be worked out, including the Iact that the U6 DepartPent oI Fish and WildliIe was dragging its Ieet on a decision oI whether to classiIy a species oI ground squirrel as endan- gered, which would have an iPpact on where the lines could be located Walden thanked the group Ior giving hiP an update, noting that even though the %oardPan to HePingway project wasn’t directly a Iederal issue, it was always good to be apprised oI issues in his district so he could be on the lookout Ior opportunities to put in a good word or other- wise lend a hand behind the scenes “<ou never know,´ he said “%eing in the loop helps´