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Pot supporter rolls giant joint NORTHWEST/2A 98/70 THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2015 139th Year, No. 190 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar Photo contributed by Joy Castleton Joy Castleton served a Confederate bat- tle fl ag cake on the Fourth of July to honor her ancestors, who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Confederate À aJV are Ln demand after FontroYerV\ By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Going all in Staff photo by E.J. Harris Makayla Walker, 16, and Brooke Marshall, 16, both of Pendleton, wade and fi sh the McKay Reservoir south of Pendleton Tuesday evening. PENDLETON ,t¶s not easy stayinJ Jreen ,n times of droXJht, taFtiFal Xse of water is FrXFial to sXstain SarNs See FLAG/8A By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian :ith 9 SerFent of the state in a droXJht, there¶s an inFreasinJly hiJh SriFe to NeeS OreJon laZns Jreen. 3XbliF SarNs are no e[FeStion, bXt 3endleton interim SarNs and reFreation direFtor Donnie CooN said the 3endleton SarN system¶s Zater XsaJe is in line Zith the XsXal FonsXmStion rate. )or a toZn of aboXt 1,000, 3endleton has a relatively robXst FolleFtion of SarNs. CoverinJ 190 aFres Zith 21 SarNs, the 3endleton SarN system is larJer than many other Fities of similar si]es. ComSaratively, Hermiston has 12 SarNs and 101 aFres desSite havinJ a sliJhtly hiJher SoSXlation. Of those 190 aFres, CooN estimated the Fity is resSonsible for ZaterinJ 15 of them. ,n a deal strXFN Zith the Fity¶s Zater deSartment, CooN said SarNs Fan Xse a Fertain nXmber of aFre feet of Zater Ser year before the Fosts Fome oXt of the SarNs bXdJet. DesSite the Zide sZaths of Jrass the SarNs deSartment is resSonsible for ZaterinJ, CooN said the SarNs deSartment has never e[Feeded the limit. The SarNs deSartment Xses a nXmber of Controversy over the symbolism of the Confederate battle À aJ may be SromStinJ some SeoSle to distanFe themselves, bXt it is SrovoNinJ an oSSosite reaFtion in others. Janet Johnson, oZner of ColXmbia OXtdoor and SXrSlXs in “The fl ag for me Hermiston, said she has alZays inFlXded does not represent the Confederate À aJ hate. It represents in the seleFtion of defi ance to a À aJs she sells. SinFe SeoSle tyrannical govern- aFross the FoXntry ment that led to beJan FallinJ for the the Civil War.” À aJ¶s eradiFation in JXne, hoZever, she — Joy Castleton, has Jotten a steady of Hermiston, has stream of reTXests. South Carolina ancestors ³, sold oXt in the ¿ rst foXr days after it Zas in the neZs,´ she said. The Civil :arera banner Fame Xnder ¿ re after a shooter Nilled nine SeoSle in an )Xnds aSSroved for danJeroXs stretFh of , By JONATHAN BACH East Oregonian those still on the manXal system reTXire more aFtive attention. CooN said his ¿ rst order of bXsiness eaFh morninJ is to FheFN the latest foreFast from the National :eather ServiFe and tell his Frews to Xse more or less water aFFordinJly. %rown SatFhes sSotted by maintenanFe Frews also SromSts adMXstment from SarNs emSloyees. One of the more danJeroXs stretFhes of freeway in OreJon was alloFated 11.5 million for safety SroMeFts on the last day of the leJis lative session. ,f HoXse %ill 500 is siJned by *overnor .ate %rown, million will Jo to a snow ]one safety SroMeFt on ,nterstate between 3endleton and La *rande and .5 million to bXild a new maintenanFe station in 0eaFham, aFFordinJ to ODOT SXbliF relations of¿ Fer David HoXse. ,nterstate between 3endleton and La *rande ³e[SerienFes a two to threetimes Jreater nXmber of Frashes than the statewide averaJe for interstates, liNely dXe to inFlement winter weather Fonditions,´ read the bill. See PARKS/8A See FUNDING/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris A group of children build a castle out of cardboard on Wednesday at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton, one of the city’s 21 parks. The Pendleton Library and the Children’s Museum of Eastern Oregon combined to put on the event. taFtiFs to NeeS the system Zater FonsXmS tion ef¿ Fient. CooN said half of the Fity¶s SarNs Xtili]e a FomSXteri]ed irriJation system, ZhiFh aXtomatiFally Serforms tasNs liNe tXrninJ the sSrinNlers on and off, shXttinJ off the sSrinNlers Zhen Zater lines breaN and XsinJ more or less Zater deSendinJ on the weather. :hile the Fity FontinXes to add SarNs SieFe by SieFe to the FomSXteri]ed system, TeFh disrXStions hit three maMor bXsinesses By JONATHAN FAHEY AP Business Writer James Borchuck/The Tampa Bay Times via AP Passengers check into the United ticket counter at Tampa Inter- national Airport, Wednesday. A “router issue” at United Airlines suspended all of the company’s fl ights for nearly two hours, leading to 800 fl ight delays and 60 cancellations. N(: YOR. ² ,t was a roXJh day for teFh The nation¶s biJJest airline, its oldest stoFN e[FhanJe, and its most Srominent bXsiness newsSaSer all sXffered teFhnoloJy Sroblems that XSended serviFe for Sarts of the day. *overnment of¿ Fials said that it did not aSSear that the inFidents were related, or the resXlt of sabotaJe, FoXnter to an endless stream of MoNes and FonsSiraFy theories Sosted on )aFebooN and Twitter ² and even the sXsSiFions of )%, direFtor James Comey. ³,n my bXsiness, yoX don¶t love FoinFidenFes,´ Comey told ConJress :ednesday. ³%Xt it does aSSear that there is not a Fyber intrXsion involved.´ )irst a ³roXter issXe´ at United Airlines sXsSended all of the FomSany¶s À iJhts for nearly two hoXrs, leadinJ to 00 À iJht delays and 0 FanFellations. Then at 1132 a ³teFhniFal Sroblem´ at the New YorN StoFN ([FhanJe halted tradinJ. ,n the midst of that, the :all Street JoXrnal¶s website, :SJ.Fom, had ³teFhniFal dif¿ FXlties´ that sent readers to a temSorary site while the SaSer worNed to ¿ [ the Sroblem. ³The Sroblem is hXmans Fan¶t NeeS XS with all the teFhnoloJy they have Freated,´ said Avivah Litan, an analyst at *artner. ³,t¶s beFominJ Xnman aJeable by the hXman brain. OXr best hoSe may be that FomSXters eventXally will beFome smart enoXJh to maintain themselves.´ TeFhnoloJy maNes life easier and the eFonomy more ef¿ Fient, allowinJ for nearly instantaneoXs À ow of information See TECH/8A
