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MARTIAL ARTIST First Thursdays ADVANCES TO PAN boost business AMERICAN GAMES 1B REGION/3A FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2015 139th Year, No. 211 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PENDLETON Your Weekend • • • Council weighs its marijuana options Summer Strings Music Camp Concert Special Olympics Poker Run Fundraiser Drive 4 UR School Fundraiser in Hermiston Police Chief concerned drug task force could lose federal funding By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Catch a movie One dollar Behind the wheel Staff photo by E.J. Harris Jack Gregg, 3, of Pendleton sticks out his tongue while pretending to drive a fi re truck on Thursday at the Pendleton Public Library. Gregg was participating in the Pendleton Pub- lic Library’s Community Heroes Big Truck Day that is part of the library’s summer reading program. The last time the Pendleton City Council gathered as a public body to discuss marijuana sales, a lack of consensus scuttled plans for a special business license that would have allowed medical marijuana dispensaries to open in restricted areas of the city. Faced with new mandates from the Oregon Legislature, the council took another stab at discussing the contro- versial topic at a meeting Tuesday. Due to the passage of House Bill 3400, the city now has the option to opt out of marijuana sales via a city council vote or a ballot measure. Either option has a deadline — the city council would need to vote on an opt out by the end of the year, while voters would need to vote on a ballot measure at the next general election See MARIJUANA/8A Twentieth Century Fox via AP Marvel’s original super group gets a lackluster reboot in “Fantastic Four” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Warm welcome to Round-Up City Pendleton Police Sgt. Paul Wolverton, cen- ter, braces Jap- anese exchange student Kazuki Watanabe as he fi res off a beanbag round from a shotgun during a tour of the Pend- leton Police Department’s fi ring range on Thursday in Pendleton. Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 87/61 88/61 87/60 Trump MROWV¿UVW debate Staff photo by E.J. Harris Rivals scramble for attention CLEVELAND (AP) — A combative Donald Trump, the billionaire business- man-turned-presidential candidate, Molted the ¿ rst Republican debate of the 2016 campaign by warning he might run as an independent if denied the GOP nomination. His startling declaration left his onstage rivals scrambling to compete for attention the rest of the night. Asked in the debate’s opening minutes whether he could rule out a third-party run, Trump declared Thursday night, “I will not make the pledge at this time.” He also refused to apologize for making crude comments about women, defended his changing policy positions and tangled with the debate moderators. While Trump was charac- teristically bombastic, most See DEBATE/8A Japanese students explore sister city First day includes guns, pizza, formal welcome By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Keita Asakua raised the Taser and watched a red dot dance on the target. He squinted and squeezed the trigger. Two tiny C02-propelled darts shot from the barrel, ¿ shing line-thin wires streaming out behind. As the darts slammed into a foil target, the sizzling sound of electricity persisted ¿ ve seconds before fading to silence. Asakua grinned. Thursday was the 16-year-old’s ¿ rst full day in Pendleton. He and six other students were more than 4,000 miles from their home in Minamisoma, Japan — Pendleton’s sister city. They had arrived the previous evening and gotten settled into the homes of their See JAPAN/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Tak Haneda from Pendleton’s sister city of Minamisoma, Japan, talks about the mounted samurai statuette he and a group of students presented to members of the Pendleton City Council on Thursday in Pendleton. HERMISTON Faith-based committee sets sights on families in poverty By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Staff photo by Jade McDowell Craig Fraley is the chair of the Faith-Based Advisory Committee. The Bible has plenty to say about waiting on the Lord’s timing, but since becoming the chair of Hermiston’s Faith-Based Advisory Committee, Pastor Craig Fraley has had to be patient with the government, too. Fraley, senior pastor at First Christian Church, stepped up this summer to replace Dr. Dean Hackett of Living Faith Church as head of the city’s advisory committee representing the faith-based community. The experience has been a mixture of excitement over the potential of the committee’s latest project and frustration at the bureaucratic roadblocks that have put that project behind by two months. “We haven’t had a quorum since April,” More inside For more local and world faith news see Page 7A Fraley said. That was one of the ¿ rst things committee members prayed for during their monthly meeting on Tuesday — enough pastors to make room in their already-busy schedules so the committee could legally take action on agenda items next month. The prayers, offered at the beginning and end of the meeting, highlighted the delicate intersection of God and government that is the Faith- Based Advisory Committee. The committee members try to be See FAITH/8A
