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Robert state player of year WARRIORS EVEN SERIES SPORTS/1B Hermiston, Pendleton hand out free lunches all summer REGION/3A NBA FINALS/1B FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015 139th Year, No. 171 Your Weekend WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar Compromise could allow pot prohibition Legislature considering letting voters to ban marijuana businesses • • • Pendleton Men’s Chorus spring concert Bram Brata jams at Heppner City Park Music on the lawn at Hamley’s Saloon For times and places see Coming Events, 5A — to pass bans on medical and recreational pot businesses. The question of whether SALEM — A compromise to allow cities and counties to under consideration by the ban marijuana businesses had Legislature would allow elected once again threatened to stall RI¿FLDOV LQ FLWLHV DQG FRXQWLHV progress in Salem this week on that voted against Measure legislation to set up Oregon’s 91 — the November initiative new legal pot system. Senate Minority Leader to legalize marijuana for adults By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, said in an email late Tuesday night to other lawmakers that he would not support the bill under consideration unless it allows city councils and county commissions to prohibit medical and recreational retailers. A committee scheduled to work on the issue Wednesday canceled its meeting, but by the end of the day a group that represents city governments around the state was circulating a compromise proposal that Ferrioli and another lawmaker working on the issue described Ferrioli as promising. See DRY/12A Catch a movie Umatilla Co. gets biggest chunk of wolf funds Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Jurassic World stomps its way into theaters with bigger, badder dinosaurs By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian For showtimes, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 82/44 79/48 83/52 Escape plot may have had inside help DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators believe a female prison employee had agreed to be the getaway driver in last weekend’s escape by two killers but never showed up, a person close to the case told The Associated Press. The manhunt, meanwhile, dragged into a sixth day with a renewed burst of activity by searchers in the woods close to the prison after bloodhounds were said to have picked up the convicts’ scent. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo said inves- tigators are also “talking to several people who may have facilitated the escape.” David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, 48, used power tools to cut through steel and bricks and crawled through an underground steam pipe, emerging from a manhole outside the 40-foot walls of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The person close to the investigation said authorities believe Joyce Mitchell — an instructor at the prison tailor shop, where the two convicts worked — had befriended the men. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Glenn Chownings of Hermiston wanted to give proper recognition to his belief in America. So 15 years ago he had a friend build a 65-foot-tall fl ag pole on which he fl ies a 18-by-25 foot U.S. fl ag. BOLD GLORY By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian There is something very American about Glenn and Erin Chowning’s house. The picturesque white farm house, built in 1907, sits in a grove of trees surrounded by amber waves of grain. Rocking chairs line the wrap-around porch. An antique tractor sits at the gate. And above it all, a 450-square- IRRW$PHULFDQÀDJZDYHVJHQWO\LQWKH breeze. “I had a bigger one up there, but it bent the pole,” Glenn said. Now the Chownings settle for a star spangled banner that is “only” 18 feet tall DQGIHHWZLGH7KHÀDJZKLFKFDQEH seen clearly from Highland Extension and West Orchard Avenue, has become a bit of a Hermiston landmark. Contributed photo Friends and family of Erin and Glenn Chowning help take down their 18-by-25 foot fl ag during a ceremony on July 4, 2014. “We constantly get calls from people,” Glenn said. Some of them are Herm- iston residents, calling to express their appreciation for the patriotic display. Other times the Chownings get a knock on their door from out-of-town visitors who enjoyed the view after waking up at the nearby Pioneer RV Park. That’s what it’s there for. Born at the start of World War II and raised in the patri- See FLAG/12A Flag Day is Sunday, June 14. The holiday, which was instituted by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, celebrates the anniversary of the offi cial adoption of the stars and stripes as the fl ag of the United States of America in 1777. Ranchers in nine Eastern Oregon counties will receive compensation from the Oregon Department of Agriculture for managing wolves around their livestock in 2015. Funding for the Oregon Wolf Depredation Compensation and Financial Assistance Grant Program comes from the legis- lature and is Payouts administered ODA wolf through ODA compen- to pay for sation dead, injured grants: or missing live- Umatilla stock, as well as $25,950 non-lethal wolf Wallowa $24,905 deterrents. The depart- Baker ment recently $17,315 a p p r o v e d Union $81,300 for $3,000 U m a t i l l a , Malheur $450 W a l l o w a , Morrow Baker, Union, $6,375 M a l h e u r , Crook Morrow, Crook, $650 Jefferson and Jefferson Wheeler coun- $1,905 ties. About 63 Wheeler percent of the $750 money is set aside for deter- UHQWV VXFK DV ÀDGU\ JXDUG GRJV bells, penning lights, bone pile removals and range riders. Umatilla County received the largest slice of the pie with $25,950, including $1,800 for dead or injured livestock, $975 for missing livestock and $22,500 for deterrents. The money will be sent to the county’s local wolf advisory committee, which will cut checks to cover claims by producers. The Oregon Department RI )LVK :LOGOLIH FRQ¿UPHG 11 incidents of wolf predation on livestock in 2014. Of those claims, six occurred in Umatilla County and resulted in 16 dead VKHHS¿YHLQMXUHGVKHHSDQGWZR injured cows. See WOLF/12A HERMISTON Drill simulates moments after smoke clears School district, police plot out steps to take after emergency By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian A Hermiston school shooting training exercise took a step toward realism Thursday, and the school district plans to expand it over the next couple of years. Superintendent Fred Maiocco said the rehearsal to reunite students with families after an emergency was the capstone to more than a year of training. Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston said while no scenario can account for all real-life variables, hands-on training helps people understand their roles in an emergency. The last few years in June the district has held planning sessions dealing with a school emergency, such as a shooter or a gas explosion. District and school staff held the tabletop portion Thursday morning at Hermiston High School with Hermiston SROLFH DQG ¿UH VHUYLFHV DQG 2UHJRQ 6WDWH Police. Then it was time for the simulation of what to do after police take out a threat. High school football players and some district and support staff hunkered GRZQ LQ FODVVURRPV XQWLO RI¿FHUV FDPH WR move them onto buses that hauled them to Armand Larive Middle School, where other staff were observers and some played the role of anxious parents eager to get to their children. Maiocco said the exercise Photo contributed by Hermiston School District answers questions about what students and Hermiston students and faculty participate in an emer- gency drill Thursday at Armand Larive Middle School. See DRILL/12A