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Donkey basketball CHICAGO WINS STANLEY CUP NHL/1B 89/55 REGION/3A TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015 139th Year, No. 173 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar Committee passes pot rules bill Trapped for Would allow cities to ban marijuana businesses two days under ATV The bill would not restrict the ability of adults to grow recreational marijuana for their own use, nor would it prohibit medical By HILLARY BORRUD testing of marijuana, and gives the Oregon marijuana cardholders from growing mari- Capital Bureau Liquor Control Commission authority to juana for themselves or other patients whom enforce regulations on the legal pot industry. they supply directly. Lawmakers on the House-Senate 6$/(0 ² $ OHJLVODWLYH FRPPLWWHH It would also regulate Oregon’s existing working to implement the state’s new legal medical marijuana program and allow committee that produced the bill worked for SRW V\VWHP YRWHG XQDQLPRXVO\ 0RQGD\ WR HOHFWHG RI¿FLDOV LQ FLWLHV DQG FRXQWLHV WKDW months to reach a compromise, and more send a key bill to the full Legislature for a YRWHG DJDLQVW 0HDVXUH WKH 1RYHPEHU than once it appeared their work might be initiative to legalize marijuana for adults, derailed by disagreements. The latest hurdle vote. The legislation spells out how the state to pass bans on recreational and medical See MARIJUANA/8A will set standards for labeling, packaging and marijuana businesses. Return of a delicacy Staff photo by Kathy Aney Kanim Moses-Conner, of Mission, holds a lamprey caught during a trip to Willamette Falls, near Oregon City. Moses-Conner helped distribute the fi sh to tribal members Monday at the July Grounds in Mission. ODPSUH\KDUYHVWHG distributed to tribal members By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney Kanim Moses-Conner, of Mission, helps distribute lam- prey caught during a trip to Willamette Falls, near Oregon City. Moses-Conner was one of six CTUIR members who caught 400 of the fi sh over the weekend. Bill Quaempts has been catching and eating lamprey his ZKROHOLIH7KHRLO\HHOOLNH¿VK are a delicious source of energy, he said, and last forever when dried. “You just have to drip the oil and cook them slow,” Quaempts said. “They dry so well and last so long.” Quaempts, 62, and his wife, 6WHSKDQLH ZHUH ¿UVW LQ OLQH 0RQGD\ DV WKH &RQIHGHUDWHG Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation distributed lamprey harvested over the weekend from Willamette Falls south of Portland. 3DFL¿FODPSUH\DUHWKHROGHVW ¿VKIRXQGWRGD\LQWKH&ROXPELD Basin, and are valued as one of the ceremonial “First Foods” by Northwest tribes. For genera- tions, members of the Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama reservations have made the trip to Willamette Falls to collect lamprey for families and tribal elders. Quaempts remembers as a child being able to catch lamprey XS 7KUHH 0LOH )DOOV RQ WKH Umatilla River near Hermiston. That was before non-tribal ¿VKHULHV PDQDJHUV SRLVRQHG lamprey twice in the river, once LQ DQG DJDLQ LQ DV part of an effort to clear habitat IRU PRUH SUR¿WDEOH VDOPRQ DQG steelhead. The CTUIR began its lamprey restoration project in WR UHVWRUH VHOIVXVWDLQLQJ populations to the river. And though returns have been on the ULVH ² LQFOXGLQJ D UHFRUG DGXOWV LQ ² WKH\ KDYHQ¶W reached those levels yet. See LAMPREY/8A PENDLETON 0RWDQLFZRQ¶WPRYHWR0DLQ6WUHHW City prepares for new statues with stone bases By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian As the calendar inches toward WKH ¿UVW GD\ RI VXPPHU LW FDQ PHDQ RQO\RQHWKLQJ²LW¶VVWDWXHVHDVRQLQ Pendleton. The placing of three stone bases RQ 0DLQ 6WUHHW ODVW ZHHN VHUYHG DV a reminder that new statues will join the three bronze likenesses of George Fletcher, Jackson Sundown and Stella Darby in Pendleton’s downtown. But despite the presence of three bases, only one will be utilized this summer. See STATUES/8A EO fi le photo Jennifer Lewis, great-great-grandaughter of Esther Mo- tanic, stands next a statue of Motanic on June 1, 2013 after an unveiling ceremony in Pendleton. The statue will remain where Court and Dorion avenues merge, at the request of the family. 52-year-old Condon man rescued, ÀRZQWR3RUWODQGKRVSLWDO By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Wheeler County authorities and volunteers rescued a local ranch worker Sunday who spent nearly two days pinned underneath an overturned ATV in the Lost Valley area north of Kinzua. Bill Williams, 52, was taken aboard Life )OLJKWDQGÀRZQWR/HJDF\(PDQXHO0HGLFDO Center in Portland, where he was in critical FRQGLWLRQ 0RQGD\ DIWHUQRRQ 7KH &RQGRQ PDQZDVLGHQWL¿HGE\WKHKRVSLWDODQGIDPLO\ members online. Sheriff Chris Humphreys said Williams was found at the bottom of a sharp canyon with just his legs sticking out from under the vehicle. He was conscious and able to communicate, though clearly injured, dehy- drated and suffering from exposure. 5HFHQWWHPSHUDWXUHVLQ)RVVLOKDYHÀXFWX See ATV/8A Kotek proposes $13-an-hour minimum wage By PETER WONG Capital Bureau 6$/(0²+RXVH6SHDNHU7LQD.RWHNKDV proposed increasing Oregon’s minimum wage in stages to $13 per hour by 2018 and allowing cities and counties to raise it even more. Kotek, a Democrat from Portland, disclosed details of her SODQWRUHSRUWHUV0RQGD\ ahead of a hearing Wednesday by the House Rules Committee. She mentioned it last week but did not give VSHFL¿FV “It ($13 rate) would PHHW VHOIVXI¿FLHQF\ standards in most coun- Kotek ties,” she said. “There is no perfect number, but if we can make sure that people are living above the federal poverty level when they work full time, we can make sure they have enough to meet their basic necessi- ties, and we will have done our job.” Whether her proposal will advance in the remaining weeks of this session is uncertain. See WAGE/8A Morrow Co. undersheriff wins $5.5 million in lottery By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian 0RUURZ&RXQW\XQGHUVKHULII6WHYH0\UHQ said he has no intention of hanging up his badge, even after winning the lottery. 0\UHQ SXUFKDVHG DQ 2UHJRQ 0HJD bucks ticket at the Boardman Chevron station -XQHIRUWKH0RQGD\-XQHGUDZLQJ+HZRQ $5.5 million, and claimed the prize Friday. A written statement from the Oregon Lottery reported 0\UHQ EHFDPH WKH WK 0HJDEXFNV PLOOLRQDLUH and opted to take the 25 year annuity rather than a lump sum. 0\UHQ ZKR VRXQGHG a little overwhelmed 0RQGD\HYHQLQJVDLGKH already told Sheriff Ken Myren 0DWODFN KH ZDV JRLQJ WR work until he retires in two years, and the jackpot will help carry he and his wife through 25 years of retirement. 0\UHQ ZKR OLYHV LQ %RDUGPDQ VDLG WKH money is in an investment account until they can sort out how to manage it. See LOTTERY/8A
