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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
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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
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ervation, tribal spokesman
Chuck Sams said the peti-
tion wasn’t circulated by
the board of trustees or the
tribal government.
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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-
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Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church.
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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-
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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
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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.”
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Outdated security software leaves state websites vulnerable
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregonians who used
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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-
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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
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claim.
A web portal for Department of
Human Services employees uses an-
other older protocol, SSL 2, although
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Kristen Duus said the site does not
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