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ceremony because he was
recently admitted to the
hospital with breathing
problems.
Troutdale sculptor Rip
Caswell said Kearney was
also instrumental in helping
to depict Requa, who didn’t
have too many pictures
that showed his face in full
pro¿ le.
Caswell said Kearney
once traveled to his studio
and said the sculptor hadn’t
gotten Requa’s “unique
nose” quite right.
“I literally found a knife
and took a big chunk out and
he said, ‘Now you’ve got
it,’” Caswell said.
The placement of the
Requa statue has endured
a great amount of À ak from
those who feel it would look
better at the high school or
the Round-Up Grounds.
Linebacker’s president
Mike Temple said the
club considered the other
locations before settling on
%rown¿ eld Park, which was
approved by the Pendleton
City Council early last year.
By the time residents
started coming forward to
oppose the location, Temple
said the club was already
deep into their fundraiser
and a site change could
have jeopardized the whole
project.
Despite the contentious-
ness, the unveiling ceremony
went on without a hitch, with
Temple presenting donation
papers to councilwoman
Jane Hill, who accepted it on
behalf of the city.
Included with the statue
is electric lighting and two
plaques, one that includes a
list of donors and the other a
biography. A security camera
will be installed within a
month.
Temple said the club
ultimately raised $102,000,
$25,000 over their goal. The
surplus will go to its scholar-
ship fund, which is awarded
to a senior high school foot-
ball player each year.
B.J. Kemp, Requa’s
granddaughter, helped unveil
the statue.
Since Requa died when
she was four, the Eugene
resident said she had no real
memories of her grandfather,
although she imagines he
would be happy with the
bronze.
“It de¿ nitely makes his
family proud,” Kemp said.
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jeopardized the whole project
Hollie Chay, 38, a
teacher at Sherwood Heights
Elementary School, came to
Monday’s meeting as a parent
and community member
to voice concern over the
changes. She worried about
children who will have to
travel farther to one school
within their boundary when
another is closer to them.
“It just doesn’t make sense.
Why would they walk to
one school when they get to
middle school, but yet for
elementary school they’re
bused all the way across
town?” she asked.
Peterson acknowledged
why such variations in
borders may cause unease.
“The problem with boundary
changes is that no matter
where you draw the line,
you’re going to have certain
neighborhoods that feel as if
they’ve been kind of singled
out to travel a further distance
to one school or another,” he
said. “No matter how you
draw the line, it works out
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allow contractors to work on
a slurry seal down Highland
Avenue from approximately
9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
The road re-surfacing
project will stretch from West
11th Street to East 8th Street.
Street superintendent Ron
Sivey said the noise gener-
ated by the project would be
“probably a little louder than
a (street) sweeper.” However,
he said individual residences
wouldn’t be affected all night
long because the crew would
be moving down the road as
the night progressed.
He said the slurry needs
four hours to dry before cars
can drive on it, so doing the
work in the middle of the night
would be much less disruptive
to traf¿ c. The lower tempera-
tures would also increase the
quality of the seal.
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down, eventually ¿ nding a
trail and following it to the
trailhead on Highway 20.
Five aircraft equipped
with special radios for
detecting
the
missing
plane’s emergency-locator
transmitter searched the
mountains Monday, while
ground crews focused on
areas between Mazama
and Rainy Pass, of¿ cials
said. The planes halted their
search for the night by 8 p.m.
while a couple of Navy heli-
copters from the Whidbey
Island Naval Air Station
continued to sweep the area,
said Barbara LaBoe, a state
Transportation Department
spokeswoman.
The crashed plane crossed
the
Idaho-Washington
border about 2:20 p.m. PDT
Saturday, but it dropped off
the radar near Omak, Wash-
ington, about an hour later,
transportation of¿ cials said.
The last phone signal from
one of the plane’s occupants
was detected around 3:50
p.m.
BOUNDARIES: Some children will have to travel
farther to school within boundary when another is closer
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Primmer were against the idea
of amending the ordinance.
“You want the public to
feel safe, not like there is
going to be a felon behind the
wheel,” Smith said.
City attorney Gary Luisi
said the ordinance didn’t
mean that a rapist who was
convicted 10 years and one
day ago would be granted
a license. The police chief
would still look at the nature
of the crime and other factors,
at which point he “may” grant
the license.
“The operative word is
may, not shall,” Luisi said.
Councilor Jackie Myers
said she thought the city
should be able to trust the
police chief and city manager
to make the right decision
about whether a person was a
danger to public safety.
The council tabled adop-
tion of the amendment until
its July 27 meeting, however,
after Luisi said he would
need to do more research
before being able to answer
whether a conviction that was
expunged from an applicant’s
record would count against
them when applying for a taxi
license.
On Monday the council
also approved a noise
ordinance waiver for July
23 and 24. The waiver will
“You want the
public to feel safe,
not like there is
going to be a
felon behind the
wheel.”
afternoon, saying she had
been in a plane crash.
“She was obviously pretty
traumatized,”
Lockwood
said.
Rescuers
celebrated
Veatch’s survival, but they
immediately returned their
focus to ¿ nding the wreckage,
aided by Veatch’s description
of the crash site, said Lt. Col.
Jeffrey Lustick of the Civil
Air Patrol. Lustick said he
could not con¿ rm any details
about the condition of the
grandparents, Leland and
Sharon Bowman of Marion,
Montana.
“We’re so happy about
this,” Lustick said. “I’ve
spent 30 years in the Civil
Air Patrol and in search-and-
rescue. Moments of joy like
this can be hard to ¿ nd.”
Lustick said he had
spoken with Veatch’s father,
who said his daughter told
him the plane crashed and
caught ¿ re after À ying
into a bank of clouds. She
remained at the crash site for
a day before deciding to hike
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up Monday afternoon and
drove her 30 miles east to
a general store in Mazama,
where employees called 911.
The Aero Methow Rescue
Service sent a paramedic
team to check her out before
she was taken to a hospital
in Brewster for treatment of
what appeared to be minor
injuries, said Cindy Button,
director of services at the
organization.
“Our initial informa-
tion is she sustained no
life-threatening injuries and
is somewhat dehydrated due
to being out in the elements,”
said Scott Graham, CEO of
Three Rivers Hospital.
Okanogan County Sheriff
Frank Rogers said Monday
afternoon that the girl had
been “walking for a couple
of days.” He declined to
comment on the status of the
other two people aboard the
plane.
Serena Lockwood, the
manager at the Mazama
Store, said the girl and a
motorist came in Monday
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TAXI: Will still look at nature
of the crime and other factors
SEATTLE (AP) — A
teenage girl who survived
a small-plane crash in the
craggy, thickly forested
mountains of north-central
Washington state emerged
from the wilderness after
hiking “for a couple of
days” and was picked up by
a motorist who drove her
to safety, authorities said
Monday. But the fate of her
two step-grandparents, who
were also on board, remained
unclear.
Family members alerted
authorities after the Beech
A-35 failed to complete
its À ight from Kalispell,
Montana, to Lynden, Wash-
ington, on Saturday after-
noon. Rescuers narrowed
down a search area based on
cellphone data and typical
À ight patterns. But there
was no sign of the aircraft or
its occupants until Autumn
Veatch, 16, followed a trail to
state Route 20, near the east
entrance to North Cascades
National Park.
A motorist picked her
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reimbursement from the
state rather than simply
waiving tuition. The state
would have latitude to ¿ rst
allocate money to low-in-
come students rather than
“throwing the door open to
all-comers,” Preus said.
Senate Bill 418 also
authorized almost $7 million
to ensure success and
improve college readiness.
The bill, expected to be
signed by Governor Kate
Brown, caps Oregon Promise
at $10 million for the inau-
gural (2016-17) year.
Hass said his bill was
met with early skepticism
that slowly melted away as
he lobbied his colleagues
face to face. The bill passed
the Senate with 28 ayes, one
nay and one excused. In the
House, the bill passed 48-12.
Rep. Greg Barreto (R-Cove)
was the only one from the
Northeast Oregon contingent
to vote against Oregon
Promise. He was unavailable
for comment Monday.
“I wouldn’t even call it
bipartisan,” Hass said of
support for the program. “I’d
call it nonpartisan.”
He said more fellow
Democrats resisted than
Republicans, wanting the
bill to do more. Hass urged
patience.
“This won’t eliminate
poverty. It won’t solve world
hunger,” he said. “It’s one
step forward in education.
It’s a no-frills plan. We’re
À ying coach.”
Preus said interest is
already ramping up.
“Tennessee saw an imme-
diate increase in FAFSA
¿ lings,” Preus said.
Oregon
might
gain
some insight being back on
Tennessee’s shoulder.
“Sometimes when you’re
on the cutting edge, you’re
on the bleeding edge because
you haven’t ¿ gured every-
thing out yet,” she said.
When classes start in
the fall of 2016, the BMCC
might experience a big
inÀ ux. The average student
age of around 30 could take
a dip. The Higher Education
Coordination Commission
expects 4,000-to-6,000 high
school grads to enroll at
the state’s 17 community
colleges, but no one really
knows for sure at this point.
“By fall of 2016, we’ll
have a better idea,” Preus
said.
Hass said the Governor
will likely sign the bill Friday
at Columbia Gorge Commu-
nity College in Hood River.
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map particularly pertaining
to railroad track crossings,
though he said passing the
map now was important
to give people a sense of
“¿ nality.”
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Contact Jonathan Bach at
jbach@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0809.