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WHITE: Promised to never
again cause harm to anyone
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And when it was his turn
to speak, Jacob White choked
up and was almost inaudible
as he apologized. Alexander
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gret. He also read a letter of
apology from White:
“I wish I could take it all
back and be man enough to
make the right choice ... I am
ashamed of myself.”
White in the letter also
promised to never again
cause harm to anyone.
The Key family declined
to make statements to the
court.
Brauer said in spite of
what anyone said, he was
sticking to the deal White
and the state made months
ago. White received seven-
and-half years on the robbery
and 34 months for the bur-
glary. Four of those months
run concurrent with the other
sentence, the rest are consec-
utive to make for 10 years
even. White also will be
under supervision for three
years after he is free.
The judge also said he
hoped White lives up to his
promise.
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pwright@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0833.
PENDLETON: Current business
license doesn’t allow businesses
that are in violation of federal law
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Chief among the council’s
changes to the law was re-
moving language that would
have created regulations for
medical marijuana retailers.
Councilman Chuck Wood
said he wanted to wait for
recreational marijuana reg-
ulations from the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
before the council made a
decision.
The council also restored
language in the ordinance
banning medical marijua-
na dispensaries from within
1,000 feet of a public park.
Because the park radius
would effectively cover the
downtown area, the coun-
cil also removed the com-
mission’s ban on marijuana
dispensaries in Pendleton’s
downtown.
The city’s new draft or-
dinance also disallows grow
operations in exclusive farm
use zones.
Wood said the council
would need to adopt a com-
panion ordinance to amend
the city’s business license
rules to account for dispensa-
ries’ time of operation, signs
and other factors.
Because the city’s cur-
rent business license doesn’t
allow businesses that are in
violation of federal law, in-
terim city attorney Nancy
Kerns said a prohibition of
dispensaries would stay in
effect despite the moratorium
expiring May 1.
After the meeting, City
Manager Robb Corbett said
the absence of marijuana reg-
ulations after the moratorium
expiration shouldn’t have
any legal repercussions.
While most of the meet-
ing’s audience left after an
earlier discussion of the Don
Requa statue (see Thursday’s
East Oregonian), a few resi-
dents stayed behind to offer
their opinions.
Resident Mike Johnston
said he supported restoring
the park’s 1,000 yard perim-
eter, adding that any marijua-
na facility near a place where
youth congregated offered a
tacit endorsement of using
the drug.
Jed Hummel gave a dif-
ferent perspective.
The Pendleton business
owner and youth pastor said
his daughter’s neurological
disorder necessitated the use
of medical marijuana and
was supportive of a law that
would allow dispensaries in
town.
Hummel reminded the
council that there have been
no recorded incidences of
deaths caused by marijuana
overdoses over the past few
years and marijuana dispensa-
ries have multiple safeguards
in place before customers can
purchase marijuana.
“You can’t walk into it
like you would a Rite Aid,”
he said.
On another matter, the
council also deferred making
a decision on an ordinance
that would prohibit peo-
ple from obstructing public
walkways.
The council unanimously
voted to table the issue until
the next meeting, allowing
Councilwoman Jane Hill,
Police Chief Stuart Roberts
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from Pendleton High School
to meet on the subject.
The proposal was born
from the trend of high school
students congregating in the
middle of Bedford Bridge,
obstructing the pathway.
Roberts said the students
not only block the path for pe-
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and other illicit activities.
The police chief said he
was inspired to extend the
proposed law to other walk-
ways because he imagined
the students would migrate to
other public places if the city
focused solely on the bridge.
Roberts also wanted to
use the ordinance to address
transients and protesters that
might obstruct sidewalks,
walking paths or bridges.
Resident Mike Navratil
said he didn’t see why the
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a new law when they could
just increase police presence
by the bridge.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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Teacher confronted by drill gunman sues district
PORTLAND (AP) — A
former grade school teach-
er in eastern Oregon says
she was so scared when a
man burst into her class-
room and pulled the trigger
on the pistol he pointed at
her face that she suffers
from post-traumatic stress
disorder and has sued the
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others responsible for a sur-
prise “active shooter” drill.
The episode in April
2013 at Pine Eagle School
District No. 61, a charter
school in Halfway, fol-
lowed the 2012 Sandy
Hook Elementary School
shooting in Newtown, Con-
necticut, which left 20 chil-
dren and six adults dead.
At the time, Pine Eagle
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ed the drill to see how many
of the school’s staff would
survive an onslaught. Two
men conducted it on a Fri-
for homeowners.
The city also aims to reduce commer-
of waste a week, adding up to millions cial waste by 90 percent by 2030 by adopt-
upon millions of tons a year,” de Blasio ing a program similar to what is being used
said in a statement to The Associated with residential buildings. That could also
Press. “To be a truly sustainable city, we mean tax incentives for businesses who
need to tackle this challenge head on.”
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For decades, the city’s trash has been
And while the de Blasio administration
exported by rail or barge and sent to fa- stopped short of endorsing a City Council
cilities in South Carolina, Virginia, New bill that proposes a 10-cent fee for use of
Jersey, Pennsylvania or upstate New York. SODVWLF EDJV RI¿FLDOV VDLG WKDW UHGXFLQJ
The new plan would eliminate almost all their use is a priority and that they would
of the garbage exports, which currently coordinate efforts with the council.
cost more than $350 million a year.
A spokeswoman for de Blasio said
The amount of waste produced by the some of the funding for the Zero Waste
city has fallen 14 percent since 2005 due program would be revealed in next
to an increase in recycling, and a key com- month’s budget proposal but noted there
ponent of the Zero Waste plan is to bolster would also be cost savings due to the dra-
that output by simplifying the process.
matic reduction of garbage being shipped
Currently, residential buildings have out of state.
two types of recycling bins. The city’s new
The OneNYC presentation, which also
single-stream plan, already used by other is going to include other capital expendi-
cities, would consolidate all of the recy- tures meant to improve the city’s aging
cling into one type of bin by 2020.
infrastructure, is meant to build on de
Organics — food scraps, yard waste Blasio’s environmental record, which in-
and other things that cannot be recy- cludes a ban on Styrofoam boxes and the
cled — make up 31 percent of the city’s goal to reduce carbon emissions from city
residential waste stream. A program to buildings by 80 percent by 2050.
collect that material directly from resi-
Environmental groups briefed on the
dents’ homes is being expanded to near- plan Tuesday applauded its wide-ranging
ly 200,000 residents by year’s end, and scope.
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“We see cities all over the world strug-
city by the end of 2018. The city, which gling with waste,” said Michael Berkow-
has about 8.5 million residents, also will itz, president of 100 Resilient Cities. “A
offer economic incentives to participate, PRUHHI¿FLHQWFLW\LVDPRUHUHVLOLHQWFLW\
including potentially a property tax rebate and that means it’s a stronger city.”
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MARIJUANA:
Council voted
unanimously
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tify at the public hearing was
Steve Rodarte, who said he
wasn’t necessarily against
the extension of the morato-
rium but urged the city coun-
cil to use the time wisely to
study the law and the facts of
medical marijuana.
“Really look into this and
understand there is some
medical value there,” he said.
He said he understood that
sometimes people abused the
system, but other dispensary
owners follow the rules. The
city should be careful not to
squash free enterprise, he
said.
“There are state guide-
lines there and as long as
they are being met I don’t see
it as being an issue,” he said.
After Rodarte’s testimo-
ny the council voted unani-
mously to pass an ordinance
extending its moratorium on
medical marijuana dispensa-
ries within the city limits for
another 120 days.
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incident in the Mediterranean
that we have ever recorded,”
the U.N. refugee agency said.
Just 28 migrants, all
men and boys in their teens,
survived. And despite the
enormous toll, only 24
bodies were recovered —
frequently the case when
ships sink on the high
seas, especially when most
passengers are locked
below deck, as was the case
Saturday night.
Barhyte Specialty Foods, Inc.
Blue Mountain Community College
City of Pendleton
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation
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Hill Meat Company
Idaho Power
Kelly Lumber Supply, Inc.
Saudi-led coalition
says ‘Decisive
Storm’ campaign
against rebels over
NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia
(AP) — Saudi Arabia
declared an end on Tuesday
to its nearly monthlong
“Decisive Storm” air
campaign against Houthi
rebels in Yemen, and
announced the start of a more
limited military campaign
aimed at preventing the
rebels from operating.
Speaking at a news
conference in Riyadh,
spokesman for the Saudi-led
coalition Brig. Gen. Ahmed
Asiri said the campaign of
heavy airstrikes would be
scaled down, but did not
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school board member John
Minarich, the second man
with weapon and similar
attire.
Minarich was described
in court papers as the prin-
cipal and president of Al-
pine Alarm.
The lawsuit said McLean
was so shaken she “contin-
ued to relive it and try to
make sense of it, but could
not. Ms. McLean could not
sleep, and remained anx-
ious and vigilant. When she
drifted off to sleep, she ex-
perienced nightmares and
sweating.”
She tried to return to
work but was unable to, and
doctors and a psychologist
have diagnosed her with
PTSD, the lawsuit said.
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Information from: The
Oregonian, http://www.or-
egonlive.com
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CATANIA, Sicily (AP)
— Rescue seemed so close
at hand.
A ship with experience
plucking migrants from
unseaworthy smuggler’s
boats had arrived soon after
the distress call went out.
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navigator made a maneuver
that would seal the fate of
the 850 people crammed
inside: Instead of easing up
alongside the merchant ship,
he rammed it.
Relief gave way to panic.
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one side, the trawler seized
and capsized. What might
have been another rescue in
a period of unprecedented
migrant crossings instead
turned into a horrifying
statistic: The deadliest
shipwreck ever in the
Mediterranean Sea.
The accounts of survivors
who arrived early Tuesday
in this Sicilian port 48 hours
after the disaster offered
new details of the tragedy.
The traumatized witnesses
corroborated a death toll
of at least 800, making the
capsizing “the deadliest
board members, and Alpine
Alarm
Communications
and Construction, which
put in the school’s security
system. Among its allega-
tions are civil assault and
emotional distress. It seeks
economic and punitive
damages.
Representatives of the
school declined to com-
ment. The company de-
clined to comment to The
Oregonian and couldn’t be
reached by The Associated
Press on Tuesday.
Halfway is a town of
about 300 people south of
the Wallowa Mountains.
Members of the dis-
trict’s Safety Committee
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thorities in advance so they
wouldn’t respond to a call
from the school, and the
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concealed-carry permits to
ensure no teachers would
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cost more than $350 million a year
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Smuggler’s faulty
maneuver turned
would-be rescue into
terrible shipwreck
day when students were
home for a teacher in-ser-
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that a real attack would
have left most of the 15
teachers dead.
The federal court lawsuit
says Linda McLean was
sitting at her desk when
she heard a clatter and run-
ning feet, and then a man in
black hoodie and goggles
burst through the door, The
Oregonian reported.
He leveled a pistol at
McLean’s face and pulled
the trigger. The teach-
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smoke and felt her heart
racing, the lawsuit says.
“You’re dead,” the gun-
man said, and stalked out,
according to the lawsuit.
McLean’s lawsuit names
as defendants the safety
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as well as two school ad-
ministrators, seven school
Lindell Auto Salvage
Lindell Property
Oregon Military Department
Pendleton Chamber of Commerce
Pendleton Flour Mills
Pendleton School District
Smith Frozen Foods, Inc.
The Boat Yard
Threemile Canyon Farms
Top Hatt Travel
Umpqua Dairy
Wallowa Lake Camp
Wallowa Resources