WEEKEND EDITION ALL EO PLAYERS OF THE YEAR Students prepare for ‘Music Man’ BASKETBALL/1B LIFESTYLES 1C PENDLETON: Council considers clearing teens from bridge 3A NORTHWEST: Wolf numbers up across most of North Rockies 8A $35,/ 139th Year, No. 122 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD $1.50 Costume controversy Tribal members weigh in on Sundown decorations By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Ricardo Mendoza,17, portraying Jesus, lies on a cross as Vincent Trevino, portraying a Roman guard, uses a mallet while acting out the nailing of Jesus to the cross during The Way of the Cross reenactment Friday in Hermiston. Walking in his footsteps Good Friday display puts focus on faith EO fi le photo The Jackson Sundown bronze on Main Street, Pendleton was decorat- ed in a St. Patrick’s Day motif in March. decorations of the bronze was circulated, gathering 156 signatures. Although many signa- tures come from members of the Confederated Tribes RIWKH8PDWLOOD,QGLDQ5HV ervation, tribal spokesman Chuck Sams said the peti- tion wasn’t circulated by the board of trustees or the tribal government. See STATUE/10A 5LVNDQGUHZDUGIRU growing giant cane By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian While cities geared up to host Eas- ter egg hunts and stores put out extra candy, more than 200 Hermiston res- idents prepared for the holiday in a much more solemn way. They took part in the Way of the Cross, a live reenactment of the cru- FL¿[LRQRI-HVXV&KULVWVSRQVRUHGE\ Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church. The Good Friday performance ZDVFRPSULVHGRIVWDWLRQVVWDUWLQJ ZLWK WKH 5RPDQV¶ FRQGHPQDWLRQ RI Jesus in the parking lot across from the church and ending with his death and burial atop the Hermiston Butte. Alternating between Spanish and English, two priests narrated the events unfolding before the audience’s eyes, ending each scene by leading everyone in The Lord’s Prayer. For both the actors and the wor- Bronze is quickly be- coming the most contro- versial color in Pendleton. A few weeks after Pend- leton resident Pamela Har- mon submitted a petition to the city requesting she and her husband be allowed to decorate the Jackson Sundown statue on Main Street, another petition has surfaced requesting the statue remain off limits to adornments. Since the Sundown bronze was moved from the Pendleton Convention Center to Main Street over the summer, Harmon and her husband, Tim Becker, have decorated the statue in conjunction with holi- days including Halloween, Christmas and St. Patrick’s Day. Harmon gathered a 29-signature petition after Becker got into an alleged confrontation with a man who stripped the statue of St. Patrick’s decorations. In response, a petition asking the city to prohibit who grow giant cane for biomass or other com- mercial uses to post a $1 As a potential source million surety bond with of renewable energy, giant the Oregon Invasive Spe- cane could be the answer cies Council. The money to saving Portland General would pay for costly erad- (OHFWULF¶VFRDO¿UHGSRZHU ication efforts, should the plant in Boardman long af- FURSHVFDSHIURPWKH¿HOG Not surprisingly, PGE ter the facility quits using is opposed to the measure coal by 2020. On the other hand, as while continuing research an invasive species, giant into alternative fuels that cane could spread wild could be used to power across the Columbia Basin, the Boardman Coal Plant. choking out native vegeta- In 2010, the state’s largest tion and undoing years of utility decided to phase out work by local tribes to re- coal at Boardman instead of paying for hundreds of store river habitat. A proposed bill in Sa- millions of dollars in new lem attempts to strike a emissions controls. The balance between the com- plant is relatively young — peting environmental in- it opened in 1977 — and terests. House Bill 2183 See CANE/10A would require farmers By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris The Way of the Cross procession makes its way down Northwest 6th Street as Catholics mark the beginning of the Easter weekend on Good Friday in Hermiston. More photos online at www.eastoregonian.com shipers who followed their journey through Hermiston, the pageant was a chance to remember the religious reasons behind the holiday. “I wanted to show my kids what “I wanted to show my kids what Easter is all about. It’s not just about the Easter Bunny.” — Lela Leon Easter is all about,” said Lela Leon, who brought her four young children and her niece. “It’s not just about the Easter Bunny.” She said seeing the events recount- ed in the Bible played out in front of her made them easier to understand. “It was an awesome experience,” she said. “I loved it.” See GOOD FRIDAY/10A Outdated security software leaves state websites vulnerable By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregonians who used VWDWHZHEVLWHVWRSD\FKLOGVXSSRUW¿OH unemployment claims and renew their vehicle registration in recent months were vulnerable to attackers who could intercept Social Security num- bers and other sensitive information. The state and private contractors left the door open to what is known as a “man in the middle attack” by using outdated encryption protocols on some websites. In that scenario, the attacker intercepts data as it’s passed from the sender to the intended recipient. A spokeswoman for the Employ- ment Department said Thursday that to her knowledge, no one’s personal information had been compromised due to the weakness. State employees do not know how many websites might have this vulner- Outdated encryption software on several websites operated by the state of Oregon, including one used for making online child support payments, have put user data at risk. ability because although some infor- mation technology work is centralized at the Department of Administrative Services, many agencies have auton- omous IT teams and websites, accord- ing to Oregon Chief Information Se- FXULW\2I¿FHU6WHIDQ5LFKDUGV The EO Media Group/Pamplin Media Group Capital Bureau tested more than a dozen websites and found several with outdated encryption pro- tocols and other weaknesses. Most of the websites tested were on a list of vulnerable websites that a private web developer sent the Department of Administrative Services in early Feb- ruary. For example, the Employment De- partment website still uses the encryp- tion protocol TLS 1.0 that has been known to be vulnerable for years, in- cluding at a portal where people are asked to enter their Social Security QXPEHUV WR ¿OH DQ XQHPSOR\PHQW claim. A web portal for Department of Human Services employees uses an- other older protocol, SSL 2, although WKHDJHQF\¶VFKLHILQIRUPDWLRQRI¿FHU Kristen Duus said the site does not See SECURITY/10A