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Wednesday,October14,2020
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Man arrested for harassment
related to sexual assault charges
she would call the police, he if she doesn’t (respond)”
and described instances of
told her that he was leaving
Jimenez “trying to influence
and asked her not to call
A lo-
her by telling her he was
the cops, but then returned
cal man
going to take her kids, etc.”
released from about 10 minutes later and
A HRCSO deputy located
tried to “slam through” a side
NORCOR
while waiting window. She then called 911, Jimenez’ car and arrested
him at approximately 10 p.m.
and Jimenez left.
for his case
According to the respond- on Sept. 27.
to go through
He was lodged at NORCOR
ing deputy’s incident report,
Hood River
on Sept. 27, according to
the family member and
County
Oscar
HRCSO records. The District
Circuit Court Jimenez had been roman-
Jimenez
Attorney’s office filed a
tically involved before his
now faces
motion for an arrest motion
arrest and she said that
additional Harassment and
on Oct. 1 and Jimenez was of-
Jimenez
had
discovered
via
Contempt
of
Court
charges
Mayor Kate McBride, center, speaks after the Peace Pole unveiling at Waterfront Park. At left, with
social
media
a
couple
weeks
ficially
booked into NORCOR
for
allegedly
violating
a
folder in hand, is Peace Committee Chair Steve Schmidt.
Kirby Neumann-Rea photo
prior that she was seeing
on Oct. 2.
no-contact order on his
another man “and had ‘lost it’
A new conditional release
release agreement.
agreement — with the same
Oscar Jimenez, 32, was first since then.”
the pole, Schmidt joked that in their home, maybe their
The responding deputy
no contact order and an
“we do this unveiling without community, eventually their arrested in November 2019
confirmed that she’d been
additional $27,000 bail — was
on
three
charges
of
Sexual
nation, and who knows,
scissors.”
receiving texts and missed
signed by a Hood River judge
Abuse
in
the
First
Degree,
a
Ten trees to be
The local club pays for part peace on earth is eventually
calls from Jimenez for about on Oct. 5, but Jimenez was
felony,
for
allegedly
groping
planted in honor of the cost of the poles, but the goal.”
a week, with Jimenez offering still in NORCOR custody as of
a child under the age of 10
The pole joins others at
the Jubitz Foundation subsi-
press time.
between June and November to pay for firewood and ask-
Continued from page 1 dizes them all around Rotary Nichols Basin, Hood River
ing what she’s doing.
2019.
District 5100, encompassing Library (Oak Street stairs),
She told the deputy that
Rotary pole: Gaelic, Somali
Hood River County Circuit
and Nichols Basin. The dedi-
most of the Northwest. An
“she’s afraid he’ll kill her
and Hmong, along with
Court
approved
Jimenez’
explanatory plaque will be
cation at last year’s addition,
Hindi. Schmidt said this is
conditional release agree-
placed in concrete later.
at Children’s Park, featured
in honor of Democratic vice
ment on Nov. 21, 2019, with
“Thank you to Rotary. We
a short talk by a Brazilian
presidential nominee Kamala get a lot of traffic down here, Rotary exchange student, in
special conditions that he
Harris, whose mother is a
have no contact with any
local and tourists,” McBride
Portugese, part of Rotary’s
Exceptional Horse Boarding
native of India.
child under the age of 18,
said. “It reminds everyone
tradition of adding the
Also new this year is the
have
no
contact
with
the
that peace is what brings us
language of that year’s vis-
regional indigenous language together.”
child associated with the
iting Rotary student. Due to
Kiktscht. Schmidt asked
Schmidt also presented
COVID-19, no exchange stu- case (name withheld by
Arlita Rhoan, a Warm Springs McBride with a certificate
press), have no contact with
dent is living in Hood River
tribe member, to translate
specified members of the
stating that 10 trees will be
this year. Schmidt said he
“as close as possible” to the
child’s family, and stay away
planted in honor of the new
is working with Hood River
peace phrase.
from the family’s residences
pole, as part of the Rotary
County School District to
English and Spanish
in Parkdale and The Dalles.
Peace Pole Project.
place the next pole at Hood
figures on every Rotary
The case was repeatedly
“We thank you for asking
River Valley High School,
Peace pole. Also featured are us and for getting it installed, after students are back to on- held up in Circuit Court while
American Sign Language and It was no work for us, and
the parties negotiated, and as
site learning.
Braille.
of press time, Jimenez’ plea
very much appreciated,”
(A similar pole exists
About 20 Rotarians and
hearing and sentencing was
McBride said.
adjacent to Brick Stratton
city officials, including City
Schmidt added, “I think
Park, just above the Overlook scheduled for Nov. 9, 2020.
Manager Rachael Fuller,
Nearly a year later — on
it’s really going to draw some Memorial Fountain park on
attended the event. Before
Sept.
27, 2020, at around
attention and maybe provoke State Street, but it was placed
McBride pulled away a sash
9:30
p.m.
— the Hood River
some thoughts about how
before Rotary started its
binding the cloth draped on people can be part of peace
County
Sheriff’s
Office
installations.)
responded to a 911 call
from the family’s residence
Close to town & next to owner’s home for added security.
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release agreement (name
withheld by press) reported
A Happy Horse is a
that Jimenez had been texting
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Dance Horse!
her all day and had tried to
get into their home earlier
Call Kurt Osborne
that day.
541-490-6642
She said Jimenez first tried
4281 Post Canyon Drive
banging on the door at ap-
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process,
City Manager Rachael
the City of
palities and land owners.
Fuller said, “The city has
Hood River
“Becoming public works
has selected director for the City of Hood recently initiated a number
of operational, maintenance
Mark Janeck River will be a welcome
and capital projects and
Mark Janeck as the City of challenge,” Janeck said.
Mark’s skills and back-
Hood River’s “Problem solving to obtain
new public works director.
positive results has been the ground will allow him to
Janeck’s first day was Sept. 21. most enjoyable part of my
hit the ground running.
Since 2015, Janeck served
recent municipal positions. I Mark’s experience as both
as director of public works
strive to develop and main-
private developer and
and engineering in Wheeling, tain solid relationships with
public works director will
Ill., a city with a population of residents, colleagues, and
be particularly important as
40,000. For six years prior, he contractors.”
the city continues to address
was director of community
barriers to low- and mid-
Janeck has a Bachelor
development and engineer-
of Science in Landscape
dle-income housing. We are
pleased to welcome him to
ing in Wheeling. Janeck also Architecture and Urban
Design from Syracuse
the organization and to the
has 13 years private sector
University, and a Master
community.”
experience in numerous
■ By Emily Fitzgerald
Columbia Gorge News
PEACE
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Janeck joins City of
Hood River as Public
Works Director
Anniversary
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PRIORITIES
City to consider
continuing parklets
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argued that ongoing projects
will take up much of the city’s
resources.
“Council members ...
agreed that 2021 should be
a year to be conservative in
the budgeting process as a
number of projects are car-
rying over into the new year
and the economic outlook for
2021 is somewhat uncer-
tain,” Keethler wrote in the
memo. “Once the city council
establishes the priority policy
areas, it will be up to the
mayor and staff to develop
implementation measures
which may include funding
within the 2021 budget or
specific actions items at the
staff and committee level.”
Councilor Jim Ransier
pitched ideas such as beau-
tifying downtown, mitigating
fire hazards and adding a
position to the Bingen-White
Salmon Police Department.
“Finding ways to take
some of the social services
responsibility that are on the
police’s radar and having
another person in the
police department who can
focus more on social service
situations ... if there’s ways to
essentially let our police not
have to be social workers that
feels something that would
be interesting to do,” Ransier
said.
Originally a temporary
fix, the city will also be
looking into continuing the
practice of allowing parklets
to support local restaurant
operations as they navi-
gate through the ongoing
pandemic.
Regarding street infra-
structure, city staff floated
different funding strategies
to improve streets, including
filing a levy for election spe-
cifically for street repairs.
Councilors also called for a
more aggressive plan to work
with Republic Services to
expand the services the city
residents receive.
City staff from here on
out will draw up options for
councilors to work with given
their expected revenue for
next year, and will prepare a
budget for council approval.
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