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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Tuesday, June 16, 2015 MARIJUANA: Legislature will likely work for years to shape Oregon’s legal pot system ATV: Took several hours to extricate Williams to work on some of the proposals that were left out arose last week, when Senate of House Bill 3400. That Minority Leader Sen. Ted includes a proposal by Ferr- Ferrioli, R-John Day, sent ioli, with support from Sen. an email to other lawmakers Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, saying that he would not to allow medical marijuana support the bill under consid- dispensaries to temporarily eration unless it allowed city sell pot to recreational councils and county commis- customers until the launch sions to prohibit medical and of the recreational pot retail recreational retailers. system sometime in 2016. Ferrioli threw his support Under Measure 91, adults age behind a proposal by the 21 and older can legally grow League of Oregon Cities and possess limited amounts WR DOORZ HOHFWHG RI¿FLDOV of pot and cannabis products in cities and counties that starting July 1. voted against Measure 91 Lawmakers plan to tackle to pass bans on medical and early sales and recreational recreational pot businesses. pot taxes in separate bills, Under the compromise and took public testimony on SURSRVDO HOHFWHG RI¿FLDOV the taxation bill on Monday in cities and counties where evening. House Bill 2041 voters approved Measure 91 would replace the weight- could also vote to pass bans, based excise tax the state but those would be referred to would charge growers under the voters. Measure 91 with a sales tax Both provisions were on the drug. included in the bill that passed Several lawmakers on the out of the House-Senate committee said after the vote committee Monday evening. Monday that the Legislature House Bill 3400 will will likely work for years to UHFHLYHLWV¿UVWIXOOYRWHLQWKH shape Oregon’s new legal pot Oregon House. system. Meanwhile, lawmakers on “You can ask the question, the committee will continue how can you be called on to ated between daytime highs of 80 degrees and nighttime lows of 50 degrees. “For the type of accident in the area he was in, and how long he was out there in only work clothes, he was in surprisingly good shape,” Humphreys said. “We’re very thankful for that.” Crews began searching Saturday for Williams, who had last been seen Friday morning, according to a police report. They worked through the night before a sheriff’s deputy and landowner found him early Sunday morning. It took several hours to extricate Williams due to WKH GLI¿FXOW WHUUDLQ DQG move him into an area where the Life Flight heli- copter could land. “The rescue itself was Continued from 1A legislate a culture change?” said Rep. Carl Wilson, R-Grants Pass. “We’ll be working on this forever.” The co-chairs of the committee, Rep. Ann Lininger, D-Lake Oswego, and Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, thanked other lawmakers, members of the marijuana industry and medical marijuana advocates for their hard work on the legislation. Still, not everyone was happy with the bill. Rep. Peter Buckley, D-Ashland, said he voted out of courtesy to move House Bill 3400 to WKH +RXVH ÀRRU IRU D YRWH but he remained frustrated by the process by which the committee drafted the bill. “It’s been dysfunctional in many respects,” Buckley said, adding that he was dismayed at the move by a special Senate committee last month to push through its own bill to regulate medical marijuana. Most of that bill was folded into House Bill 3400. “I think the public has been shut out of this process to a great extent,” Buckley said. LAMPREY: Goal is to bring them back to the Umatilla Usually the harvest begins a little later in the month, Quaempts, who for years Moses-Conner said, but they participated in the annual went early this year due to harvest at Willamette Falls, ORZHUULYHUÀRZVDQGZDUPHU said he is encouraged by the water temperature. By the progress. end, they caught roughly 400 “This tribe is at the fore- lamprey, most of which were IURQW RI ¿VK UHFRYHU\´ KH distributed Sunday. said. “We didn’t make them Not everyone enjoys go away, but we will bring eating lamprey, but the them back, because they are MDZOHVV¿VKUHPDLQDGHOLFDF\ a part of us.” especially for tribal elders, Monday’s distribution on Moses-Conner said. The the reservation was for tribal tribes’ goal is to eventually members only. Jim Marsh, bring lamprey back to the secretary for the CTUIR Fish Umatilla River by trans- and Wildlife Commission, porting them past Bonneville, FKHFNHG ¿UVW IRU LGHQWL¿FD- The Dalles and John Day tion while Kanim Moses- dams and into the basin. Conner, a technician for the “I’m a believer in what ODPSUH\ ¿VKHULHV SURMHFW we’ve been doing,” Moses- KDQGHG RXW WKH ¿VK LQ FOHDU Conner said. “I’ve seen it plastic bags. ¿UVWKDQG2XUQXPEHUVKDYH Continued from 1A gone up for lamprey. It has been working.” Marsh said he enjoys lamprey best over the barbecue, with some salt and pepper. Quaempts prefers to dry the meat, and compared the taste to anchovies. Tribal members cried and prayed when the lamprey were wiped out in the Umatilla decades ago, Quae- mpts said. “It’s so cool to see them when they’re little, their heads poking out of the sand,” he said. “That was years ago. Hopefully my granddaughters will be able to see it.” ——— Contact George Plaven at gplaven@eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4547. STATUES: Don Requa bronze will be unveiled July 11 play until the city can conduct a community survey similar Phillip Houk, Pendleton to the one that produced the mayor and the chairman of original crop of downtown the art commission, said a statues, but Houk was enthu- bronze of 1929 Round-Up siastic over the idea to place Queen Kathleen McClintock a bronze of former Pendleton will be unveiled across from police chief Ernie Gallaher the Fletcher statue at a June across from the Darby, a former bordello madam. 27 ceremony at 10 a.m. “Ernie was really the one Houk said McClintock’s family members are expected who stopped prostitution in WR À\ LQ IURP DFURVV WKH Pendleton,” he said. Featured at the conver- country to honor the former gence of Dorion Ave. and rodeo queen and rancher. The other two bases Court Ave., a rendering of are placeholders for future 1924 Indian Queen Esther statues, which will be deter- 0RWDQLFZDVWKH¿UVWEURQ]H mined by a “community erected after the original process” in the coming survey was conducted in 2012. months, Houk said. While there was some The mayor added that the city will save money in the initial discussion to move long term by cutting the bases the statue to Main Street, from the same stone instead the city nixed the plan when of continually requesting Motanic’s family grew new bases each time a bronze concerned over decorations that periodically adorned the is commissioned. All statue subjects are in Sundown bronze. Continued from 1A Instead, Houk said the city is looking into improving the aesthetics and accessibility surrounding the Motanic bronze, including the instal- lation of new landscaping and sidewalks. Even though the McClin- tock bronze will be the ¿UVW VWDWXH WR MRLQ WKH 0DLQ Street collection, it won’t be the only statue erected this summer. The bronze of former Pendleton High School Football Coach Don Requa will be unveiled at a July FHUHPRQ\ DW %URZQ¿HOG Park. The bronze was entirely sponsored by the Lineback- er’s Club, a football booster club dedicated to preserving the longtime coach’s memory. The statue’s location has proven polarizing, with many residents feeling the high school would be a better spot. Get your $10 raffle ticket at allwheelsweekend.com for your chance to win a fully loaded 1970 Buick Electra 225 with a 454 cubi inch V8 engine. Sponsored by The Times. Continued from 1A “For the type of accident in the area he was in, and how long he was out there in only work clothes, he was in surprisingly good shape.” — Sheriff Chris Humphreys amazing,” Humphreys said. “On this particular situation, the helicopter landed and Life Flight medics had to work a long time to get him stabilized before transport.” Search and rescue was able to drive Williams up a side hill using a utility YHKLFOH FRQ¿VFDWHG E\ SROLFH LQ WKH KLJKSUR¿OH poaching case involving Alan Roy Aronson, of Bend, who was convicted last year of leading illegal hunting trips on private land. Police arrested 23 people on more than 200 counts of illegal hunting stemming from that inves- tigation. Having that UTV avail- DEOH WR WKH VKHULII¶V RI¿FH likely saved Williams’s life during Sunday’s rescue effort, Humphreys said. “There’s no way Wheeler County could ever afford buying one of those,” he said. “Without that, I have no idea how we would have done it.” Members of the Gilliam &RXQW\ 6KHULII¶V 2I¿FH also assisted in the rescue. ——— Contact George Plaven at gplaven@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4547. WAGE: At $13, Portland would be lowest among big West Coast cities Continued from 1A Business groups oppose raising the current wage, which at $9.25 per hour is the second highest state rate in the nation — and they strongly oppose allowing cities and counties to set their own rates. Also, Kotek acknowl- edged that Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, has resisted a discussion about increasing the wage. Senate and House committees conducted a public hearing on various minimum-wage bills on April 13, but have not acted except to move them to the rules committees, which can still advance legisla- tion. The 2015 session must end by July 11. Under Kotek’s proposal, which will be in the form of an amendment to House Bill 2012, the minimum would go to $11 in 2016, $12 in 2017 and $13 in 2018. Afterward, future increases would be linked to the Consumer Price Index, just as Oregon’s minimum wage has been increased annually since 2002. Lawmakers also are being asked to lift a statewide ban that dates to 2001 on cities and counties setting their own rates. Lawmakers just approved a statewide requirement for paid sick leave, supplanting ordi- nances passed in Portland and Eugene. Even at $13 in 2018, Kotek said, Portland will have the lowest wage among West Coast cities. Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles are raising their minimum wage in stages to $15. “I know that is where we should try to get to in Portland, but that getting WR DQ KRXU LV GLI¿FXOW in some parts of this state,” she said. “So from my posi- tion as speaker, I am trying to say that from a statewide perspective, this is what is reasonable and try to help everyone — but not neglect the fact that it is more costly to live in Portland.” $GYRFDWHV KDYH ¿OHG paperwork for petitions to qualify a $15 minimum wage for the November 2016 ballot. Kotek said her proposal was not intended to avert a ballot measure, “but it would make more sense to have a planned strategy.” LOTTERY: Boardman Chevron will receive a 1-percent bonus for selling the winning ticket Continued from 1A “The only thing we have done so far,” Myren said, “we promised ourselves a new pickup. So we bought a new pickup.” He also said he’s received a lot of messages since word leaked about the win, and “98 percent” of those have been from folks expressing thumbs-up to the good fortune. Myren was not the only winner. According to the lottery’s statement, the Boardman Chevron will receive a 1-percent bonus for selling the winning ticket, bringing in $55,000 to the service station and convenience store off Interstate 84 in Boardman. The last Oregon’s Game Megabucks jackpot winner was John and Patricia Cason from Beaverton who won $12.6 million. Players this year have won more than $18 million in prizes playing Oregon’s Game Megabucks. /RWWHU\ RI¿FLDOV UHFRP- mend you always sign the back of your tickets regardless of what Oregon Lottery game you play to ensure you can claim any prize you win. The Oregon Lottery also recommends winners of a jackpot consult with a trusted ¿QDQFLDOSODQQHURUVLPLODU professional to develop a plan for their winnings. Prize winners of more than $50,000 should contact the /RWWHU\ RI¿FH WR VFKHGXOH an appointment to claim their prize. Since the Oregon Lottery began selling tickets on April 25, 1985, it has earned more than $9 billion for economic devel- opment, public education, state parks and watershed enhancements. For more information on the Oregon Lottery visit www.oregon- lottery.org ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastoregonian. com or 541-966-0833. National Flag Week Exchange your old flag for a new American Flag! June 15th through June 19th We celebrate Flag Week in honor of our American flag and our heritage JUNE 19, 20 & 21, 2015 SCHEDULE OF MAJOR EVENTS FRIDAY, JUNE 19 EARLY CAR REGISTRATION Corner of 1st, 4-7pm LIVE MUSIC - BAD MOTOR SCOOTER 7.0 Down- town South Second, 6-9:30pm OPENING CEREMONY AmericanWest Bank park- ing lot on Main Street, 7:30pm FRIDAY NIGHT CRUIZIN’ Up and down gorgeous Main Street PRESENTATION OF CARS American West Bank parking lot on Main Street, 7:30 pm SATURDAY, JUNE 20 CAR REGISTRATION Corner of 1st & Main, 7-10am SHOW-N-SHINE Downtown Dayton, 9am-4pm TRIBUTE TO THE FLAG Markeeta Little Wolf, 9:30am SPEEDER CAR RIDES by Double D Farms at the Historic Depot, 9am-3pm POKER WALK by Dingle’s of Dayton, Corner of 1st In honor of National Flag Week, we will be handing out free American Flags. Flags may be exchanged Monday, June 15 thru Friday, June 19 between 9:00am and 5:00pm. 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