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The Dalles Chronicle
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
2019
methamphetamine and her-
oin, according to The Dalles
Department.
Tragedy, triumph Police
• A 43-year-old man was
marks year’s start sentenced Friday to over
eight years in prison for
Continued from page A1 raping a teen in 2017 when
he was a houseguest at her
family’s home.
opened it up to anybody,
• A Confluence project
veterans and non-veterans,”
to connect people with the
Knopf explained. “There is
indigenous history of Celilo
no distinction.” The group’s
Falls was put on hold due to
primary focus is helping the
opposition from the Yakama
homeless.
Nation tribal government,
Superintendent Candy
according to a Confluence
Armstrong announced she
Project press release.
was retiring, as of July 2020,
and the D21 school board be-
gan gearing up for a lengthy
MARCH
replacement search and
planned to involve commu-
A The Dalles man who
was shot and killed by a city
nity input. That search has
continued into the new year. police officer March 16 as he
stood on his porch firing a
Also in February:
• Funding for street main- rifle had been the subject of
a number of calls to police in
tenance and ADA upgrades
previous weeks.
in The Dalles was found to
The Dalles police were
be inadequate and the city
council considered adding a called to his home around
10 p.m. on reports of a man
$5 transportation fee to city
shooting a gun at his neigh-
utility bills as one part of a
long-term funding solution.
bor’s house, according to a
The annual department
press release from The Dalles
budget falls $1.2 million short Police Department.
of optimal maintenance, and
When officers arrived, they
federal law requires upgrad- heard gun shots and located
a male subject outside his
ing 1,614 non-compliant
residence on the porch, the
sidewalk curb ramps in the
release stated. Officers ob-
city that will further tax the
street department budget,
served the man was actively
according to a report present- shooting rounds from a rifle.
At some point during the
ed to the council at its Jan. 28
incident, the man was shot
meeting.
• A judge ruled the regional and killed. Officers attempted
first aid, but he succumbed to
jail’s contract to house
immigration detainees does his injuries, the press release
stated. No one else was
not violate state law, but its
injured in the incident.
practice of notifying federal
On March 27, The Dalles
officials of the release dates
Police Officer James Finch
of foreign-born prisoners
was found to be justified
did. The ruling from Wasco
in fatally shooting the man
County Circuit Court Judge
John Wolf was handed down by Wasco County District
Attorney Eric Nisley. The man
Friday, Feb. 8 and provided
had fired multiple shots into
wins for both the plain-
a neighbor’s house, pointed
tiffs—four Wasco County
residents—and the jail. A key a rifle at the neighbor, and
win for the Northern Oregon then fired multiple rounds in
Regional Corrections Facility the direction of responding
officers, according to a press
(NORCOR) was Wolf’s
release issued by Nisley.
finding that the jail was
After voting in support of
not “apprehending” peo-
making the Mueller inves-
ple whose only violation is
being in the U.S. in violation tigation report public, Rep.
of federal immigration law.
Greg Walden (R-OR) re-
Therefore, its contract to
turned to Oregon for a town
house U.S. Immigration and hall meeting in The Dalles
Customs Enforcement (ICE) March 15, where his vote was
was considered legal.
met with applause. “What
• A traffic stop Feb.
was I supposed to do? I’ve
11 in The Dalles yielded
always been about trans-
nearly $90,000 worth of
parency and accountability
in government, and I think
Americans have a right
to know what that report
shows,” he said. The resolu-
tion passed unanimously in
the House.
Also in March:
• After more than 25 years
on the job, Mary Reilly, 91,
retired as office assistant at
Cascade Eye Center in The
Dalles. “I love the patients, I
love the people. That’s what’s
so wonderful about this job,”
she said on Feb. 28, her final
day at the office.
• More teens were engag-
ing in after-school activities
and programs at The Dalles-
Wasco County Library as the
teen-focused redesign of the
upstairs mezzanine neared
completion and a unique
team of two librarians work
to create new programs and
opportunities. “They call us
the ‘dynamic duo,’” laughed
Jeannie Glaspy, who shares
the teen librarian position
with Zulema Martinez.
• The era of having a little
extra wiggle room to deal
with a ticket issued by The
Dalles Police ended. For
decades, the former clerk for
The Dalles Municipal Court
had a more relaxed method
of processing traffic tickets,
which kept the occasional
tardy payer from facing a
license suspension.
• Nathan Nanez, a senior
at The Dalles High School,
was chosen to represent
the Eastern Oregon area as
part of a campaign called
Oregonians for Student
Success. He was one of four
students selected statewide.
• Gene Parker, longtime
city attorney for The Dalles,
announced he would retire
in March 2020, giving the city
time to find a replacement he
could help train. He’s been
with the city for 28 ½ years
and has worked on several
projects that “I believe have
significantly benefited” the
city, he said in his retirement
letter.
• One of the sex abuse
victims of a former Dufur
coach sued Dufur School
District and three offi-
cials, alleging the district
violated her civil rights
by failing to prevent
the coach’s predatory
behavior.
• A crowded and diverse
slate of candidates filed to
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One occupant was burned as they escaped a fire that destroyed much of their home in the 1400 block
of Nevada Street in January, 2019. The second occupant was not injured.
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be on the ballot for the May
21 election for North Wasco
County School District 21,
where 13 candidates sought
six positions. Three of the
six seats up for election had
three contestants each. Two
were unopposed and one
had two candidates. Several
candidates were Hispanic.
The filing period for the
election ended March 21.
APRIL
In a rarity, $1,600 that
an elderly woman in The
Dalles was scammed out of
was recently returned to her
by postal inspectors, who
made a special trip here from
Portland to do so. But an
alarming aspect of this case
was that the scammers re-
motely changed the woman’s
phone number, “not once,
but twice,” in an effort to
isolate her, said Gwen Koski,
postmaster in The Dalles.
• With the completion of a
$2 million high-density fiber
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