■✆✝✞✟✠
SPORTS
Berney, Woodward to be enshrined
FRIDAY-SUNDAY ➥ ➦➧➨➩➫ ➭➭➯➭➲➳ ➭➵➸➺ ➥ $1.50
➻➼➼➽ ➽➾➚ ➪➼ ➼➶➹ ➘➾➴➶➷➽ ➬➶➮➬➱➹✃➮➷➹ ❐❒➹✃➬ ❐❒➹✃➬➪➷❮➬➼❮ ➼❰ Ï➴Ð✃❮
Second
arrest
made in
Cove
murder
Settlement
reached in
Union City
Council
ethics case
✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌ ☞ ❬❭❪❪
❂ P▼❆♦❄❆ ❇◗◆❯
❅●♦◗❊◗❍◆❆❅◆▼❆
❑◗❢❄● ❇▼♦❖❢❅◗❊◆
◗❊ ❱❳❨❩
❇ ✁✂✄❦ ☎✆✝✞✟
❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌
A settlement has
been reached in a case
regarding an ethics
complaint
✍✎✏✑ ✒✓ ✔✕✖✗
against the
Union City
Council
by former
❷③⑦⑦❶❸❹⑧⑨ Union City
Administra-
tor Sandra Patterson.
The Oregon Govern-
ment Ethics Commis-
sion has approved a
negotiated settlement
✒✓ ✘✙✏ ✚✛✜✏✢ ✣✓ ✔✕✖✗✤
Patterson filed a com-
plaint in which she al-
leged the Union City
Council violated Or-
egon’s public meetings
law.
Under the terms of
✘✙✏ ✜✏✘✘✎✏✥✏✓✘✤ ✦✏✧✓★
✛✩✑ ✪✎✒✓✘✤ ✫✓✒✧✓✬✜ ✥✛✭★
✧✩ ✜✒✓✚✏ ✮✛✓✯✛✩✭ ✔✕✖✗✤
and the six people who
were members of the
city council in June
✔✕✖✗ ✩✏✚✏✒✰✏✑ ✱✛ ✎✏✘✘✏✩
of education” from the
Oregon Government
Ethics
Commission
explaining the stat-
ute that appeared to
have been violated and
how it can best be fol-
lowed. The councilors
who received the letter
✲✏✩✏ ✳✛✓✑✭ ✴✓✧✵✤ ✮✛✭
✶✎✛✚✷✸✯✩✓✤ ✹✛✘✘ ✦✛✘✏✩✤
✮✧✙✓ ✪✛✩✥✏✩✤ ✺✛✎✘
Brookshire and Susan
Hawkins. All but Knop
are still members of the
city council.
✱✣✬✥ ✻✎✛✑ ✘✙✛✘ ✘✙✏
Ethics Commission will
require them to receive
training (via a letter of
✏✑✯✚✛✘✒✧✓✼✤✽ ✾✛✘✘✏✩✜✧✓
said.
The former city ad-
✥✒✓✒✜✘✩✛✘✧✩✤ ✲✙✧ ✜✘✒✎✎
✎✒✰✏✜ ✒✓ ✫✓✒✧✓✤ ✲✧✯✎✑
like her ethics com-
plaint to result in
Union’s city govern-
ment taking a closer
look at Oregon’s public
See Ethics / Page 5A
Another person has
been arrested in the case
✧❊ ✘✙✏ ✦✧✩✏✘✘✛ ✺✒✎✎✒✛✥✜
murder.
According
to a press re-
✎✏✛✜✏✤ ◆✘✏✰✏
❫ ✛✥✒✎✘✧✓✤● ❴ ✤
was arrested
①③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨ Thursday on
charges of
murder and
conspiracy
to commit
murder by
the Union
⑩❶❶
▼✧✯✓✘✭ ✹✛★
jor Crimes
Team.
✣✓ ✚✩✒✥✒✓✛✎ ✎✛✲✤ ✛ ✚✧✓★
spiracy is an agreement
between two or more
persons to commit a
crime at some time in the
❊✯✘✯✩✏✤ ✛✚✚✧✩✑✒✓✻ ✘✧ ✘✙✏
◆✙✏✎❊ ✦✛✲ ✲✏✸✜✒✘✏✢
Hamilton is the cur-
rent executive director of
✾✧✜✘ ❄✚✯✘✏ ✳✏✙✛✸ ✒✓ ✦✛
Grande.
✺✒✎✎✒✛✥✜✬ ✏P★✙✯✜✸✛✓✑✤
✳✧✓✛✎✑ ❵ ✢ ✦✏✏✤ ✲✛✜ ✛✩★
rested in February on
Body in river
sighted, not
recovered
❂ ❃❄❅❆❇❉ ❅❊● ❆❄❍❇❏❄
❄❑❑▼❆◆❍ ❍❏❍❖❄❊●❄●
❇ ❆✿✆✟❀✆ ❁❡✂✝❂❃✞❀
❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌
❄ ✸✧✑✭ ✜✒✻✙✘✏✑ ❅✧✛✘✒✓✻
down the Grande Ronde
River — last seen near Riv-
✏✩✜✒✑✏ ✾✛✩✷ ✒✓ ✦✛ ❈✩✛✓✑✏ ❉
has not yet been found.
❽❾❿➀➁➂➃➄➅➆ ➇➈➉
➈ ➊➋➌➍➄➅➈➂➄➋➅
❿➎➎➋➀➂ ➍➁ ➈➏➏ ➂❿➈➌➉
➄➅❾➋➏❾❿➐➑➒
➓ ➔⑤→➣↔⑧❸③↕ ➙⑨⑤⑧⑨
➛⑧➜⑨⑦➝ ➞❶③❸→➟ ③⑨➠
➡❶❹→➜❶ ⑥⑤❶➜⑦❶⑨③⑨⑦
✺✏✑✓✏✜✑✛✭✤ ✛❊✘✏✩ ✖ ✵✢✥✢✤
the body of a white male
passed under the North
Spruce Street bridge face-
down before disappearing
in the rapids of the Grande
Ronde River. The search
✛✓✑ ✩✏✜✚✯✏ ✏❋✧✩✘✜ ✚✧✓✘✒✓★
ued from that time on until
✛✸✧✯✘ ●❍■✕ ✵✢✥✢
Unless more details come
to light or another sighting
✏✥✏✩✻✏✜✤ ✩✏✚✧✰✏✩✭ ✏❋✧✩✘✜ ❊✧✩
✘✙✒✜ ✚✛✜✏ ✲✒✎✎ ✓✧✘ ✚✧✓✘✒✓✯✏✤
✛✚✚✧✩✑✒✓✻ ✘✧ ✘✙✏ ✦✛ ❈✩✛✓✑✏
Rural Fire Department and
Union County’s Search and
Rescue team.
There has been wide-
spread speculation over the
man’s reasoning for enter-
✒✓✻ ✘✙✏ ✩✒✰✏✩✤ ✸✯✘ ✓✧✘✙✒✓✻ ✒✜
certain.
An Oregon State Police
trooper was pursuing a ve-
✙✒✚✎✏ ✛✘ ✖❍❏■ ✛✢✥✢ ✺✏✑✓✏✜★
day and found it unattend-
✏✑✢ ✦✛✘✏✩✤ ✘✙✏✭ ✜✵✧✘✘✏✑ ✘✙✏
suspect walking on the side
✧❊ ✣★❑❏✢ ✺✙✏✓ ✘✙✏ ✘✩✧✧✵✏✩
✘✩✒✏✑ ✘✧ ✥✛✷✏ ✚✧✓✘✛✚✘✤ ✘✙✏
✥✛✓ ▲✯✥✵✏✑ ✒✓✘✧ ✘✙✏ ✩✒✰✏✩✤
according to OSP Public In-
formation Captain Tim Fox.
Fox said it is not clear if
✘✙✏✜✏ ✘✲✧ ✚✛✜✏✜ ✛✩✏ ✩✏✎✛✘✏✑✤
✛✓✑ ✯✓✘✒✎ ✘✙✏ ✸✧✑✭ ✒✜ ❊✧✯✓✑✤
✜✘✛✘✏ ✵✧✎✒✚✏ ✚✛✓✓✧✘ ✚✧✓✍✩✥
nor deny the man in the river
is also the man who eluded
police earlier in the morning.
✦✛ ❈✩✛✓✑✏ ✪✒✩✏ ▼✙✒✏❊ ✦✏✜
Thomas said the man in the
water near Riverside Park
✲✛✜ ✱✧✸✰✒✧✯✜✎✭ ✑✏✚✏✛✜✏✑✽
✲✙✏✓ ✙✏ ✸✩✒✏❅✭ ✜✯✩❊✛✚✏✑✢
See Murder / Page 5A
❈✡☛☞✌✍☛ ✎✏☛✑✡☛❤☛ ✒✡✓✔✓✍✴✕✖✗✘✙✚✗✛✜✗✛
✥✢✣❡✤✢❡✦✤✧★ ✧✩t❡✪✢✫✫✢✬ ✭✮✯t✰✱✯❡ ✲✪✦t ✪❡✦✱✫✢✤❡✪
✧❛❡✢✳✰❡✦ ✦❡t ✮✱ ❡✩✩✫✪t✦ t✫ ✪❡✳✫✈❡✪ ✧ ✵✫✤★ ✰✢ t✶❡ ✪✰✈❡✪ ✧t
❘✰✈❡✪✦✰✤❡ s✧✪✷✸ ✹✢ t✶❡ ✱✶✫t✫✦✬ ✺✧ ✻✪✧✢✤❡ ✼✰✪❡ ✽❡✱✧✪t✭❡✢t
✮t✰✯✰✾❡✤ t✶❡✰✪ ✯✧✤✤❡✪ t✪✮✳✷ ✧✢✤ ❦✫✪✷❡✤ ❦✰t✶ t✶❡✣✧✯✯✫❦✧
✿✫✮✢t★ ❀❦✰✩t✣✧t❡✪❚❡✧✭ ✧✢✤ t✶❡ ❁✢✰✫✢ ✿✫✮✢t★ ❀❡✧✪✳✶
✧✢✤ ❘❡✦✳✮❡ ✭❡✭✵❡✪✦ t✫ ✱✪✫✵❡ t✶❡ ✪✰✈❡✪ ✩✫✪ t✶❡ ✭✧✢✸
Thomas was in the middle
of setting up a rescue plan
with volunteers from Union
County Search and Rescue
✛✓✑ ✦✛ ❈✩✛✓✑✏ ✳✯✩✛✎ ✪✒✩✏
Department when the body
passed beneath the North
◆✵✩✯✚✏ ◆✘✩✏✏✘ ✸✩✒✑✻✏✤ ✘✙✏
intended rescue location.
Ropes were thrown from
both sides of the river to at-
✘✏✥✵✘ ✘✧ ✚✛✘✚✙ ✘✙✏ ✸✧✑✭✤ ✸✯✘
rescuers were unable to cap-
ture it before it entered par-
ticularly dangerous rapids.
❖✰✏✩ ✘✙✏ ✓✏P✘ ✍✰✏ ✙✧✯✩✜✤
several local and state agen-
See Rescue / Page 5A
Commissioners pass MERA grazing
moratorium, deny ordinance update
❇ ❣❥ ❡❃✂✝❡ ❧ ✆❡✄ ❥ ❡ ♠ ❡
❚❤✠ ✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌
The Union County Commissioners
voted to put a one-year moratorium
✧✓ ✻✩✛ ♥ ✒✓✻ ✛✘ ✘✙✏ ✹✘✢ ♣ ✥✒✎✭ ✳✏✚✩✏★
✛✘✒✧✓ ❄✩✏✛ ✧✓ ✺✏✑✓✏✜★
day due to the public
opinion that cattle get in
the way of recreational
activities.
❖✩✒✻✒✓✛✎✎✭✤ ✘✙✏ ✵✩✧★
❺❶❻❶❸③❼❶ posed moratorium was
❊✧✩ ✍✰✏ ✭✏✛✩✜✤ ✛✚✚✧✩✑✒✓✻
✘✧ ✘✙✏ ✹ ♣ ✳❄ ▼✧✥✥✒✘✘✏✏✬✜ ✑✧✚✯★
ments submitted to the commission-
✏✩✜✢ ❝ ✙✏ ✍✰✏★✭✏✛✩ ✵✏✩✒✧✑ ✲✛✜ ✚✧✓★
cerning to Commissioners Donna
Beverage and Paul Anderes because
✘✙✏ ✯✓✏✛✘✏✓ ✻✩✛✜✜ ✚✧✯✎✑ ✚✩✏✛✘✏ ✛ ✍✩✏
hazard.
✱ ❝ ✙✏ ✒✥✵✛✚✘✜ ✧❊ ✻✩✛ ♥ ✒✓✻ ✧✓ ✘✙✏
➠➐➡➢➤
❴❵❛❜❜❝❞❝❢❣✐✐✐✐✐✐✐❥❧
❴♠♥❝♦❜✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐♣❧
❴q♠❜❜r♠q❣✐✐✐✐✐s❧
t❢❛q ✉✇✇① ✐✐✐✐✐②❧
landscape and recreation as well
as site suitability were discussed in
✑✏✘✛✒✎✤✽ ✛✚✚✧✩✑✒✓✻ ✘✧ ✘✙✏ ✹ ♣ ✳❄ ✜✘✛❋
✩✏✵✧✩✘✢ ✱▼✧✜✘ ✛✓✛✎✭✜✒✜ ✙✛✜ ✸✏✏✓ ✚✧✓★
sidered in the report as well.”
✹ ♣ ✳❄✤ ✛ ✵✯✸✎✒✚✎✭ ✧✲✓✏✑ ✩✏✚✩✏★
✛✘✒✧✓ ✛✩✏✛ ✯✜✏✑ ❊✧✩ ✙✒✷✒✓✻✤ ✸✒✷✒✓✻
✛✓✑ ✏ q ✯✏✜✘✩✒✛✓ ✛✚✘✒✰✒✘✒✏✜✤ ✙✛✜ ✙✛✑
✻✩✛ ♥ ✒✓✻ ✎✏✛✜✏✜ ❊✧✩ ✚✛✘✘✎✏ ❊✩✧✥ ✮✯✓✏ ✖
✘✧ ❖✚✘✢ ✖ ❴ ✏✰✏✩✭ ✭✏✛✩✢
✹✯✎✘✒✵✎✏ ✵✏✧✵✎✏ ✜✯✸✥✒✘✘✏✑ ✘✏✜★
✘✒✥✧✓✭ ✒✓ ✜✯✵✵✧✩✘ ✧❊ ✘✙✏ ✍✰✏★✭✏✛✩
✥✧✩✛✘✧✩✒✯✥ ✧✓ ✺✏✑✓✏✜✑✛✭✢ ❄✎✎ ✧❊
them use the area for recreation and
stated the cattle slow them down
when they’re there.
▼✧✥✥✒✜✜✒✧✓✏✩ ✹✛✘✘ ◆✚✛✩❊✧ ✜✛✒✑
the business deal of the grazing lease
✲✛✜ ✛ ✱✸✛✑ ✸✯✜✒✓✏✜✜ ✑✏✛✎✢✽
The county receives between
r ■✤✕✕✕ ✛✓✑ r ●✤✕✕✕ ✒✓ ✛✓✓✯✛✎ ✩✏✰✏★
③♠④④❢q①✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐⑤✉ ⑦⑧④❣♠♠q❜✐✐✐✐✐✐✐❶❧
⑥❢♦♠q❣ ✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐♣✉ ❷⑨❝q❝④⑧❛❵✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐❸✉
⑦✇❝④⑧❛q❝❢❜✐✐✐✐✐✐♣✉ ❷⑨♠q④❜ ✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐❹✉
⑦⑨❝⑩❝♠⑩✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐✐❥✉
MONDAY
✓✯✏ ❊✧✩ ✘✙✏ ✻✩✛ ♥ ✒✓✻ ✎✏✛✜✏✤ ✸✯✘ ✒✘ ✚✧✜✘✜
✛✵✵✩✧P✒✥✛✘✏✎✭ r ✖ ❴ ✤ ✇ ✕✕ ✘✧ r ✖❑✤ ✇ ✕✕
every year to repair the damages
caused by the grazing cattle.
Because the commissioners felt
there was no valid reason to grant a
✍✰✏★✭✏✛✩ ✥✧✩✛✘✧✩✒✯✥✤ ✘✙✏ ✚✧✥✥✒✜★
sion approved it for one year.
❄✎✜✧ ✛✘ ✺✏✑✓✏✜✑✛✭✬✜ ✥✏✏✘✒✓✻✤ ✘✙✏
commissioners denied a request
to update the Second Amendment
Ordinance that the county’s voters
passed in the November election.
❝ ✙✏ ✧✩✑✒✓✛✓✚✏ ✏P✵✛✓✑✜ ✘✙✏ ✑✏✍★
✓✒✘✒✧✓ ✧❊ ✍✩✏✛✩✥✜ ✛✓✑ ✵✩✧✙✒✸✒✘✜ ✘✙✏
enforcement of laws that regulate
✘✙✏ ✥✛✓✯❊✛✚✘✯✩✏✤ ✜✛✎✏ ✛✓✑ ✵✧✜✜✏✜★
✜✒✧✓ ✧❊ ✍✩✏✛✩✥✜ ✒✓ ✫✓✒✧✓ ▼✧✯✓✘✭✢
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✛✓✭ ✜✘✛✘✏ ✧✩ ❊✏✑✏✩✛✎ ✎✛✲✜ ✛❋✏✚✘✒✓✻
See County / Page 5A
ôõõéîòöðéìêéòð
❙✄☎ ✉✂✄②
üýùúû
ñ ìòëëìóêéòð
◗❘❙❙ ❯❱◗❲❳❘ ❱❨❨❲❳❘❩❙ ❲❬ ❭❩❪❲❬❲❬❫
❂ ❞❄◆❅◗❢❍ ▼❑
◗❊❇◗●❄❊◆ ❍❖❅❆❍❄
✡☛☞✠✌✈✠✌ ☞ ❬❭❪❪
One man was shot in
the face with a BB gun
but couldn’t tell law
enforcement where it
came from or who did it.
❄✚✚✧✩✑✒✓✻ ✘✧ ✦✛ ❈✩✛✓✑✏
Police Chief Brian Har-
✰✏✭✤ ✘✙✏ ✰✒✚✘✒✥ ✲✛✜ ✲✛✎✷★
ing along Albany Street
near the Towne Center
when he received a glanc-
ing injury along the cheek
area caused by a BB.
✱ ❜❝ ✙✏ ✶✶✼ ✲✏✓✘ ✛✚✩✧✜✜
the face and hit the lens
✧❊ ✙✒✜ ✏✭✏✻✎✛✜✜✏✜✤ ✸✩✏✛✷★
✒✓✻ ✘✙✏✥✤✽ ❫ ✛✩✰✏✭ ✘✧✎✑
The Observer.
The man did not seek
medical attention at the
time of the incident.
Harvey said the man
✙✛✑ ✓✧ ✒✑✏✛ ✲✙✧ ✑✒✑ ✒✘✤
where it came from or
any details that could
help law enforcement
identify the suspect.
✱ ❫ ✏ ✙✛✑ ✙✒✜ ✸✛✚✷ ✘✧
the street and was walk-
✒✓✻ ✒✓✘✧ ✘✙✏ ✸✯✒✎✑✒✓✻✤✽
❫ ✛✩✰✏✭ ✜✛✒✑✢ ✱ ❫ ✏ ✙✛✜ ✓✧
idea where the source
was at all.”
Harvey said the call to
dispatch was just before
■ ✵✢✥✢ ✺✏✑✓✏✜✑✛✭✢
➎➏➐➑➒➎➑ ➓➔
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❋✉✐✂✄②
üþ ÿ ▲❲
Man
shot in
face with
BB gun
❙ ✁✂✄②
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