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REGION Saturday, June 6, 2015 East Oregonian Page 3A IRRIGON Snowpack at all-time low in Oregon Man indicted for emergency in 15 counties, including Umatilla and Morrow counties. Scott Oviatt, NRCS snow survey Oregon has endured historically supervisor, said there is usually at low snowpack in 2015, exacerbating least some snow still left this time of GURXJKWFRQGLWLRQVIRUIDUPV¿VKDQG year in the northern Blue Mountains. However, most of the snowmelt this forests heading into summer. The U.S. Department of Agricul- year peaked around February, with ture Natural Resources Conservation virtually none left to replenish streams Service released its June water supply and reservoirs into summer. In fact, of the 81 snow sites across report on Friday, which shows 60 percent of the state’s snow telemetry Oregon, only one has any measurable sites measured their lowest snowpack snow left, Oviatt said. “Water managers and water users on record last winter. In the Umatilla, Walla Walla and just need to be prudent,” he said. Willow basins, snowpack peaked at “There’s not going to be as much about 50-60 percent of normal and water as we’re accustomed to using melted off between four and nine for irrigation and other uses, but if weeks earlier than usual, according conservation measures are applied, to the report. The Umatilla River is there should be adequate supplies.” The governor’s drought declaration H[SHFWHGWRÀRZWKURXJK3HQGOHWRQDW just 38 percent of its average volume does allow water managers greater ÀH[LELOLW\WRKHOSLUULJDWRUVZLWKHPHU- from June through September. The report says water managers gency water use permits and temporary VKRXOG H[SHFW ³VLJQL¿FDQW ZDWHU transfer of water rights, if needed. The shortages” this summer. Gov. Kate NRCS has also made available up to Brown has already declared a drought $2.5 million for farmers, ranchers and By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian forest landowners in those counties to enhance their conservation practices. Applications are due to the local USDA Service Center on Friday, 26. Meanwhile, dry conditions prompted the Oregon Department RI)RUHVWU\WRGHFODUHWKHVWDUWRI¿UH season Saturday in the Central Oregon District, which covers 2.2 million acres of private and public forest and range- land in Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jefferson, Morrow, Wasco and Wheeler counties. Fire season has not yet been declared in the Northeast Oregon District, though Mitch Williams, wild- land protection supervisor for ODF in La Grande, said they also expect an early start unless conditions change. The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly all of Eastern Oregon in either severe or extreme drought. ——— Contact George Plaven at gplaven@eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4547. A royal visit to the Capitol Governor Kate Brown meets the Pendleton Round-Up court and Happy Canyon princesses Thursday at her office in Salem. The courts presented Brown with a Pendleton blanket. Photo contributed by Gov. Kate Brown’s office allegedly killing 10-month-old daughter Attorney Robert Klahn of Pendleton represented Martin. Temple set a pretrial The Irrigon father in jail hearing for June 18 at 8:15 for killing his 10-month-old a.m. in Heppner. KaSandra Martin last daughter faced manslaughter charges and more Friday Thursday took her infant afternoon, based on a grand daughter, Savannah, with her on an errand, according jury indictment. Morrow County District to Nelson, and in Pendleton Attorney Justin Nelson said the mother discovered the the grand jury Thursday child would not wake up. indicted Travis Michael KaSandra Martin sought help, and an Martin, 21, on ambulance took two counts of the girl to St. ¿UVWGHJUHH Anthony Hospital, manslaughter, Pendleton, which two counts of sent her on an second-degree HPHUJHQF\ ÀLJKW manslaughter, to a children’s three counts hospital in RI ¿UVWGHJUHH Spokane where criminal she died. mistreatment and That sparked two counts of Martin a criminal second-degree investigation, Nelson assault. Those were the same as said, and police found the initial charges Nelson Travis Martin threw the brought against the suspect infant to the ground the Monday. Nelson said the night before she died. The grand jury added nothing charges against Martin new and Circuit Judge Eva also indicate he abused the Temple kept Martin’s bail at child in September 2014 and in January. Nelson said $500,000. The grand jury heard KaSandra Martin worked evidence from Pendleton nights and knew nothing police detective Rick about any abuse and does Jackson and Dr. Sally Aiken not face charges. The Morrow County of the medical examiner’s RI¿FH LQ 6SRNDQH &RXQW\ 6KHULII¶V 2I¿FH DUUHVWHG Washington. Nelson also Travis Martin at his home said the grand jury watched the night of May 29 and videos of police questioning booked him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton. Martin. By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian PENDLETON Sister-city students working toward $10K goal Group looks to sushi night for big trip fundraiser By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Six Pendleton-area students are working their way to resuming the cultural exchange with Minamisoma, Japan. Getting to Pendleton’s sister city, though, will require earning at least $10,000 before they depart in July. Pendleton High School students Haley Kendrick, Riley Kendrick, Stephen Machado, Raeana Mikel and Cheney Chrisman and Nixy- aawii Community School student Katie Ward are about $4,000 shy of the goal. Roberta Lavadour, executive director of the Pendleton Center for the Arts, agreed to chaperone the group on the trip July 13-28. She said if they make more than they need, that money would help pay to host the Japanese students and their chaper- ones, who come in August. Pendleton and Mina- misoma started sending students back and forth in 2000, but the exchange ended for Pendleton in 2011 when the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Minamisoma and caused a meltdown at a nearby nuclear power plant. “This lapse was because of a monumental catastrophe,” Lavadour said. “And anyone who works with an organization knows that when something gets mothballed for four years, you kind of have to reinvent the wheel.” The reinvention has meant the students and Lava- dour reached out to local charities and organizations for funds, including Cayuse Technologies Community Outreach Committee, which donated $1,000. A seven-member delega- tion from Pendleton visited Minamisoma for two days in April 2014 to assess the situation there, among other objectives, and found it was safe to send local students. Families in Minamisoma will host the Pendleton group for the two-week stay, so they will get a sampling of daily life in the area. They will also get to see Mina- misoma’s big festival — a recreation of a millennia-old battle involving dozens of men clad in samurai armor racing on horseback across D ZLGH ¿HOG WR FDSWXUH D banner. Seven students from Minamisoma in August will make the reverse trip for two weeks with Pendleton host families. The group used to come in September for the Pendleton Round-Up, but WKDW PDGH LW WRXJK WR ¿QG Japanese students willing to skip out on two weeks of high school. Karin Power was an exchange chaperone in 2006 and hosted a number of Japanese students and adults. She said this latest group of Pendleton students is learning basic Japanese greetings and a smattering of “survival Japanese.” They also are meeting with Hiroko Cannon, a Pendleton artist from Osaka, Japan, to learn about Japanese etiquette and how to avoid making a common faux pas. Power said that is more than most exchange groups have done. “I was just really impressed with how prepared they will be,” she said. The team of soon-to-be exchange students made and sold crafts at the Pendleton’s Farmers Market and have a car wash fundraiser Sunday and another June 14 at Dave’s 12th Street Food Mart, Pendleton. The group also went to the Web to seek funds at www.gofundme. com/sistercityexchange. And the group’s big event is a sushi night Monday, June 14, at Virgil’s at Cimmiyotti’s in downtown Pendleton. Tickets are $35 per person, with a social hour at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 and a silent auction that includes a one-of-a-kind Pendleton/ Minamisoma kimono and WZR ÀLJKW YRXFKHUV IRU Seaport Airlines and a night in a Portland hotel. Lava- dour said the event features Cimmiyotti’s signature sushi rolls, such as the California Roll and the Cowboy Roll, traditional ramen, saki tasting and more. There also will be a “non-sushi alternative,” according to Lavadour, “for those with less adventurous palates.” Lavadour also said people can give tax deduct- ible donations in the form of checks payable to Pendleton School District, 1100 South- gate, Suite 8, Pendleton, OR 97801. The visit to Japan will be D¿UVWIRUDOOWKHVWXGHQWVDQG Lavadour. She said sending local youth to see other parts of the world has value, and the fundraising effort the group has shouldered is helping lay a foundation for future exchanges. ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastoregonian. com or 541-966-0833. When Caring, Quality and Commitment Make a Difference. bla Ha ol Se spañ E Call Today for your FREE Assessment Providing Personalized In-home Care 24/7 The Rivoli Restoration Coalition recognizes and thanks the Pendleton Foundation Trust for their support of the Rivoli Coalition Architectural and Engineering Project! Please support the Pendleton Foundation Trust www.pendletonfoundationtrust.com 541-429-8099 920 Frazier Ave ste 212 Pendleton Or 97801 www.aqhcinc.com • Personal Care • Checks • Housekeeping • Meal • Appointments Preparation • Bathing • Laundry • Companionship • Home Care • Respit Care • Grooming • Errands • Medication • Memory Care Assistance • Cognition • Insurance •Groceries Billing • Blood Pressure Insured • Bonded • Licensed Congratulations Class of 2015! BRIEFLY EOU to raise in-state tuition 4.9 percent LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University’s board of trustees proposed a tuition increase Thursday for the 2015-2016 academic year. The increase would raise resident undergraduate tuition by 4.9 percent and non-resident tuition by 3 percent. The result would be an annual tuition of $6,345 for undergraduates from Oregon and $16,560 for non-residents. The recommendation is being sent to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education for approval, although the university’s board will have the authority to raise tuition on its own starting July 1. “EOU will still be the lowest-cost public university in the state, even with the proposed increase,” said outgoing president Jay Kenton. Oregon outdoor education tour set for Eastern Oregon Leaders from the Oregon Outdoor Education Coalition and Environmental Literacy Plan will hold a series of meetings in Eastern Oregon to explain the EHQH¿WVRI2XWGRRU6FKRROWRORFDOSDUHQWVWHDFKHUVDQG community members. The presentations will explain the vision for Oregon’s Environmental Literacy Program and provide a legislative update on the coalition’s efforts to fully IXQG2XWGRRU6FKRROIRUHYHU\¿IWKDQGVL[WKJUDGH student statewide. 7KH¿UVWPHHWLQJZLOOEH7XHVGD\-XQHDW Pendleton City Hall from 6:30-8 p.m. A pair of meetings ZLOOEH:HGQHVGD\-XQH¿UVWIURPDPWR 1 p.m. at the Anderson Perry Building in La Grande, and then from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Baker School District 2I¿FHLQ%DNHU&LW\ For more information about the Oregon Outdoor Education Coalition, visit www.oregonoutdoored.org. ——— Briefs are compiled from staff and wire reports, and press releases. Email press releases to news@ eastoregonian.com Music on the Lawn Saturday, June 6 Jen, John & Margaret 6-9 P H AMLEY S TEAK H ouse & S aloon COURT & MAIN, PENDLETON • 541.278.1100 Eagle Cap Excursion Train Bandits are planning their escape! Plan yours! 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