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tractors in the Old Iron Show. This year’s event is Friday, June 5 through Sunday,
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7th Annual Return to the
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At Walla Walla Community College
by the ball fields on Tausick Way
Interactive Exhibit Booths
Wildlife Cartoon Drawings
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12 PM - 1 PM
Salmon Luncheon $11
Children’s Hot Dog Lunch $5
Presented by Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
and Walla Walla Community Colleges Water and Environmental Center.
For info visit www.watereducationcenter.org
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PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
TUESDAY
•A Morrow County sheriff’s deputy at about 1 a.m. assisted
a stranded driver. The driver reported he was on Interstate 84
westbound near Boardman in a Dodge Stratus with a U-Haul
trailer when a tire blew out. On top of that, the driver said, the tire
jack did not work. The deputy helped him change the tire.
•An employee of Eastern Oregon Center For Independent
Living, Pendleton, told police at 8:51 a.m. someone damaged a
company vehicle during the weekend.
•An Irrigon resident at 10:15 a.m. reported possible prowlers
in the night moved items around her house on Southeast
California Avenue.
•A Pendleton woman at 10:47 a.m. complained about her
neighbor on Southwest Eighth Street spraying her dog through
the fence with a pressure nozzle. She also advised he has a
history of poisoning the previous tenant’s dog.
•A Umatilla resident at 11:13 a.m. reported someone parked
their car in front of her garage on Sloan Avenue and she would
like it removed.
•A caller at 11:59 a.m. reported the theft of an old truck frame
and other metal from an old farmhouse on Speare Canyon
Road, Echo. The caller also said he saw an older gray car creep
by, and when he came out it drove by again. He also said there
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contact but wanted law enforcement aware of this.
•A Hermiston-area man on Northeast Seventh Street at 4:08
p.m. reported he had “an encounter” with a neighbor who “took a
couple of swings” at him.
•An Irrigon man at 5:05 p.m. reported the theft of medication
from his mailbox on Northwest Washington Avenue.
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a report of a neglected horse in a small pen near a bridge over
McKay Creek outside Pilot Rock.
•A hitchhiker and his wife at 5:47 p.m. reported they were the
victims of theft. A man in a white Dodge van gave the couple a
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their belongings. The male victim claimed the van had a Texas
license plate on the vehicle and a New Mexico plate on the
dashboard. He also said the driver was drunk. Law enforcement
checked this off as a civil problem.
•A Pendleton caller at 7:55 p.m. reported someone cut
through a screen in an attempt to break into her residence on
Southwest Hailey Place. They were not successful, she said.
•A renter in the midst of facing eviction at Chinn Apartments,
Hermiston, tried to run over the people evicting him. The
would-be victims reported the incident and said they would wait
at the apartments for law enforcement.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Milton-Freewater police released details on Sunday’s arrest
of Ronnie Cowden.
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Ronnie Cowden, 38, and Donald Cowden, 35, were in a physical
confrontation in front of other family members.
“The incident was apparently caused by a dispute regarding
automobile tires, and who they belonged to,” according to
Boedigheimer.
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knife to Donald Cowden’s throat with one hand while tightly
grasping his brother’s throat with the other hand, constricting
Donald Cowden’s ability to breathe, Boedigheimer reported, and
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seized a utility knife they found by a woodpile near a detached
outbuilding next to the residence.
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tion, unlawful use of a weapon and harassment, and took him to
the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton. Boedigheimer also stated
the incident was domestic violence under Oregon Law because
the suspect and victim are biological brothers.