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Warm month takes toll on snowpack 2A 65/39 DAWGS ADVANCE TO SEMIFINALS GIRLS BASKETBALL/1B THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015 139th Year, No. 105 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PENDLETON One dollar HERMISTON 1RVXVSHFWV LQKRPLFLGH 3ROLFHGHSDUWPHQWKDYHSHRSOHRI interest, one firearm from scene By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney Tim O’Hanlon, owner of this house on Furnish Avenue, objects that the city placed homes on a historic preservation list without notifying the owners. Pendleton’s three-member Historic Preservation Committee must approve any renovations to properties on the list. This old house +LVWRULFSURSHUWLHVRUGLQDQFHFKDOOHQJHGDJDLQ By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian 7KH NH\ RSSRQHQW RI 3HQGOHWRQ¶V ORFDO law that limits what owners can do to his- WRULFKRPHVIRXQGQHZDPPXQLWLRQWR¿JKW city hall. Local attorney Tim O’Hanlon has for years been leading the charge to have the FLW\ FKDQJH LWV KLVWRULF SUHVHUYDWLRQ RUGL nance. The city in 1985 selected homes and sites — 167 in all — for a historic registry. 7KHSUREOHP2¶+DQORQVD\VLVWKDWWKHFLW\ GLGQRWJLYHDQ\RQHWKHRSSRUWXQLW\WRRSW RXW IURP KDYLQJ WKHLU SURSHUW\ RQ WKH OLVW O’Hanlon’s house at 215 N.W. Furnish Ave. is on the registry, and he said the city law limits what he can do to the building. %XWWKHELJJHUFRQFHUQ2¶+DQORQDVVHUW HGZDVWKHFLW\LJQRULQJSHRSOH¶VULJKWV+H said there is no evidence the city even tried WRFRQWDFWSHRSOHEHIRUHPDNLQJWKHUHJLV WU\ DQG D VWDWH ODZ DOORZV SHRSOH WR UHPRYHSURSHUWLHVIURPVXFKOLVWV He sent a letter on March 4 to the city and 8PDWLOOD &RXQW\ RI¿FLDOV DQG WR WKH East Oregonian, concerning a recent Oregon &RXUW RI $SSHDOV UXOH UHJDUGLQJ WKDW ODZ Oregon Revised Statute 197.772, and how LW DSSOLHV WR D SURSHUW\ RQ /DNH 2VZHJR¶V KLVWRULFSUHVHUYDWLRQOLVW7KHDSSHDOVFRXUW reviewed the law and its legislative history, +HUPLVWRQSROLFHPD\KDYHKHDUGWKHJXQ shot that led to the death of Alonso Madrigal *DUFLOD]R$QG +HUPLVWRQ SROLFH &KLHI -DVRQ Edmiston said investigators have their eyes set RQ³SHRSOHRILQWHUHVW´EXWUHOHDVLQJLQIRUPD WLRQDERXWWKHPZRXOGEHSUHPDWXUH +HUPLVWRQRI¿FHUVWKHQLJKWRI0DUFKUH VSRQGHGWRDUHSRUWRIVKRWV¿UHGLQWKHQHLJK borhood behind 11th Street Market at 425 N.W. 11th St., and while canvassing the area they heard gunshots near the business. ³2XU UHVSRQVH WLPH WR WK 6WUHHW 0DU ket was a matter of seconds,” Edmiston said. “That’s what makes it even more frustrating — ZHZHUHWKHUHDQGLWKDSSHQHGVRTXLFN´ *DUFLOD]RGLHGLQWKHPDUNHW¶VSDUNLQJ lot from a single gunshot wound to his torso, (GPLVWRQVDLG*DUFLOD]RZDVD8PDWLOOD High School graduate and father of two young boys. 7KH +HUPLVWRQ 3ROLFH 'HSDUWPHQW DQG PHPEHUVRIWKHPDMRUFULPHWHDPFRPSULVHGRI LQYHVWLJDWRUVIURPORFDOSROLFHDJHQFLHVFRQWLQ XHWRORRNIRUFOXHVDQGSHRSOHUHVSRQVLEOH(G PLVWRQVDLG'HWHFWLYHVKDYHTXHVWLRQHGDWOHDVW SHRSOHDQGDUHORRNLQJIRUYLGHRRUSKRWRV See HOMICIDE/8A MILTON-FREEWATER City, accountant clash over audit By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian WR FRDGRSW 3HQGOHWRQ¶V RUGLQDQFH DQG KH KRSHG WKH UXOLQJ ZRXOG EH HQRXJK WR VSXU the city to change their own. So too does Jerry Villers, whose home at 707 S. Main St. is also on the registry. “We found out we were on the historic SUHVHUYDWLRQOLVWDIWHUZHERXJKWRXUKRPH and we lived here a few years,” Villers said. “When we bought the house we weren’t in- The bad blood between the city of Mil- ton-Freewater and their auditor boiled to the SRLQW ZKHUH &LW\ &RXQFLOPDQ 6WHYH ,UYLQJ called the accountant “an overbearing ass.” The Milton-Freewater City Council didn’t KROG EDFN WKHLU GLVSOHDVXUH ZLWK 5RE7UHPSHU DWDPHHWLQJ:HGQHVGD\YRWLQJWRQRWDFFHSWKLV DXGLWVRIFLW\¿QDQFHVDQGWKHLUXUEDQUHQHZDO agency. $FFRUGLQJWRDUHSRUWZULWWHQE\&LW\0DQ ager Linda Hall, the city normally considers the UHVXOWVRIFLW\DXGLWVLQ-DQXDU\EXWD¿YHPRQWK GLVSXWHRYHUWKHGH¿QLWLRQRI³PD[LPXPLQGHEW HGQHVV´GHOD\HGWKHUHSRUW :KHQ WKH XUEDQ UHQHZDO SODQ ZDV FUHDWHG WKHFLW\VHWWKHPD[LPXPGHEWLWFRXOGLQFXUDW more than $4.8 million. Hall wrote the city con- VLGHUVGHEWDVORDQVSOHGJHGDJDLQVWIXWXUHUHYH nues collected by the agency. $WWKHPHHWLQJ+DOOVDLG7UHPSHUVDZWKLQJV differently. +DOOVDLG7UHPSHUGH¿QHGWKHDJHQF\¶VPD[ imum debt as the sum total of all revenues and H[SHQGLWXUHVRYHUWKHOLIHRIWKHDJHQF\ZKLFK ZRXOGKDYHH[FHHGHGWKHDJHQF\¶VOLPLWE\ million. “If I did my books that way I’d go to jail,” &RXQFLOPDQ %UDG +XPEHUW VDLG ³7KH ,56 See HOMES/8A See AUDIT/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris More than 100 homes are listed as part of a 1985 ordinance that places the struc- tures on the historic preservation inventory. according to the ruling, and concluded “the OHJLVODWXUH LQWHQGHG WR DOORZ DQ\ SURSHUW\ owner that had a local historic designation IRUFHGRQWKHLUSURSHUW\WRUHPRYHWKDWGHV ignation.” O’Hanlon said he urged the county not “We found out we were on the historic preservation list after we bought our home and we lived here a few years.” — Jerry Villers, historic home owner 6XUYH\¿QGVUHFRUGORZ FRQ¿GHQFHLQJRYHUQPHQW 2QO\SHUFHQW confident in Congress By EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON — Amer- LFDQV¶ FRQ¿GHQFH LQ DOO WKUHH branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured at- titudes on the subject for 40 years. 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