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BUCKS, PIONEERS PREPARE FOR STATE FINALS SOFTBALL/1B Fake orca hits snag NORTHWEST/2A FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015 139th Year, No. 166 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Willamette Valley winery coming to Milton-Freewater Your Weekend • • • Scottish music Friday at Pendleton Art Center Old Iron Show through weekend at Roy Raley Helix family 5K fun run and walk Saturday By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian For times and places see Coming Events, 6A Photo contributed by Willamette Valley Vineyards The new Pambrun Vineyard in Milton-Freewater will be locat- ed in the Walla Walla American Viticultural Area in the SeVein vineyard property. Catch a movie One dollar A popular and well-known Willamette Valley winery is branching out to Eastern Oregon and setting new roots — literally — just outside Milton-Freewater. Willamette Valley Vineyards, one of the state’s top wine producers, has purchased 42 acres of land within the Walla Walla American Viticultural Area ZKHUH WKH FRPSDQ\ ZLOO SODQW LWV ¿UVW ever vineyard east of the Cascades. The move comes as Willamette Valley Vineyards, based near Salem, is focused on opening smaller estate wineries in prime wine country statewide. Christine Collier, winery director, said the Walla Mulvihill points to successes as OEIB folds Larry Horricks/Twentieth Century Fox Melissa McCarthy stars in the action comedy, “Spy.” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri Sat See WINE/9A Sun By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian 85/56 89/59 95/62 Bill extends rape statute of limitations to 12 years Goes to Gov. Brown now for signature By PETER WONG Capital Bureau SALEM — The Senate voted Thursday without opposition to lengthen Oregon’s limitations on pros- ecutions for rape from six to 12 years. The 28-0 vote sent House Bill 2317 to Gov. Kate Brown for her expected signature. The Senate acted despite a call by Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, for a 20-year statute of limitations or none at all, as is the case in 25 states. “Rape victims need maximum opportunities for justice,” Knopp said. “The right thing to do would be to enact a 20-year statute of limitations.” However, if the Senate had amended it, the bill would have had to return to the House with just a few weeks remaining in the 2015 See RAPE/10A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Umatilla County Sheriff Terry Rowan address a gathering of city fi re and police chiefs about the changes to the Umatilla County Communications Center on Thursday at the Stafford Hansell Government Center in Hermiston. Dispatch bill divided up Cities asked to pay 10 percent this year By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Four small cities in Umatilla County will pay something for the VKHULII¶V RI¿FH WR GLVSDWFK WKHLU non-emergency calls this year, but the full bill won’t come due for several years. And Umatilla County Commis- sioner Bill Elfering promised he would lead an effort to form a dispatch services oversight board to help smooth future misunderstand- Staff photo by E.J. Harris ings. Elfering, Sheriff Terry Rowan Umatilla County Communications Center Manager Capt. Kathy and key sheriff’s administrators Lieuallen talks about the new dispatch center with county police faced hard questions and criticism and fi re chiefs on Thursday in Hermiston. in Hermiston Thursday from about charges for dispatch services. cities were not contributing their ORFDOSROLFH¿UHDQGFLW\OHDGHUV Rowan became sheriff in 2013, equal share for dispatch. In 2014, and staff who wanted to know and he said he dug into the organi- See DISPATCH/10A PRUHDERXWKRZWKHVKHULII¶VRI¿FH zation’s budget and found smaller The Oregon Education Investment Board is about to become the latest polit- ical casualty of the fall of ex-governor John Kitzhaber, but as it disbands, its Eastern Oregon representative stands by what the board accom- plished. “It’s very trendy to say ‘Here’s another failed educa- tion initiative,’ but you can’t ignore what we did,” Mark Mulvihill said. “We changed t h e culture.” Mulvi- hill, the Mulvihill superin- tendent of the InterMountain Education Service District, said Oregon school districts’ increased focus on early childhood education, dual credits in high school, attendance, equity for disadvantaged students and career technical education was driven by the work of the OEIB. Those cultural changes will live on long after the board is gone, Mulvihill said. “We’re never going back to the old days on early learning,” he said. When the board was created in 2011 it was the keystone of Kitzhaber’s JUDQG YLVLRQ RI D ³XQL¿HG education system” — a VHDPOHVV HI¿FLHQW PRGHO See OEIB/10A 79VFULSWVHDUQ3HQGOHWRQJUDGVSRWDW86&¿OPVFKRRO By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian It’s been a Hollywood story since time immemorial — a boy from rural America moves to Los Angeles to try to beat the odds and make it in the entertainment industry. That’s Wil Sitz’s story to an extent, except he’s already beaten the odds to get there. After graduating from Pendleton High School Saturday, Sitz will leave Eastern Oregon to attend the USC School of Cinematic Arts and major in writing for screen and television. According to the program’s website, thousands apply each year from around the world, some of them already accom- plished playwrights and prose writers. An aspiring television writer, Sitz was one of 26 undergraduate applicants selected for next year’s incoming class. While a passion for writing isn’t new to Sitz, his love for television didn’t come until more recently. Sitz’s mother, Michelle, said Wil and his siblings watched children’s program- ming like “Sesame Street” when they were young. When weak reception made 79 GLI¿FXOW WR ZDWFK WKH 6LW] IDPLO\ decided to forgo television for other entertainment options. “We read and did other things,” Michelle said. A voracious reader, Wil also took to writing. Self imposing a writing schedule, Wil spent much of his free time writing a Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton graduating senior Wil Sitz will be heading down fantasy novel. See SITZ/9A to California to where he is going to study writing for screen and television at USC.