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Thursday, October 22, 2015
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A papiermâché Kate Brown attends a tea party with the Eugene Raging Grannies inside the Governors
ceremonial office during a protest to speak out against the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas export facility
and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline at the Oregon Capitol, Monday in Salem.
CenturyLink penalized
for 2013 San Juan outage
Court revives prison worker’s
wrongIul¿ring lawsuit
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington
state utility regulators have announced a
penalty for CenturyLink related to a 10-day
service outage in November 2013 in the San
Juan Islands.
The utility will have to give customer
credits totaling 21,000, pay a ¿ne of at least
$50,000 and do nearly $3 million in infra-
structure repairs and improvements.
The Washington Utilities and Transporta-
tion Commission announced the settlement
agreement on Tuesday.
A 2014 state investigation found the 10-day
service outage resulted from a severed under-
water ¿ber cable that separated the Friday
Harbor switch from the CenturyLink network.
The investigation also found that the company
violated state laws and rules related to major
outages and requirements for communicating
outage information to the public.
The company could face a higher ¿ne if
he does not ful¿ll other requirements of the
agreement, including rules about communi-
cating with customers about outages.
In a statement, CenturyLink said tech-
nicians worked “day and night” to restore
service to the islands and that it was reviewing
the commission’s order because it contained
things that were “over and above” the settle-
ment agreement.
PORTLAND (AP) — The
state Court of Appeals has kept
alive a lawsuit ¿led by a former
MacLaren Youth Correctional
Facility employee who was ¿red
after telling Oregon State Police he
thought he had been poisoned on
the job.
The Oregon Youth Authority
¿red Tim Hall in 2011, at least in
part for ¿ling a false report. Hall
and his attorney, Kevin Lafky, said
the dismissal was in retaliation for
Hall’s complaints about assaults at
the youth prison in Woodburn.
Oregon
Youth
Authority
spokeswoman Ann Snyder said
the agency does not comment on
issues involving human resources.
In court documents, the Youth
Authority said Hall also violated
its drug-free workplace policy
and provided false or misleading
information to management during
an investigation and pre-dismissal
meeting.
Hall was hired in 2000 and
supervised young offenders. He
brought a sealed bottle of sweet-
ened water to the visiting center
during a shift on Dec. 22, 2010, and
noticed nothing strange after taking
a few sips.
He left the bottle when his job
took him to another part of the
building. When he returned, he
took another drink and felt a hard
substance, which he believed to be
a dissolving pill. Hall showed the
bottle to three other employees who
thought there might be something
in the liquid.
Hall said he later felt dizzy and
went to Salem Hospital, where a
urine sample tested positive for
barbiturates. He ¿led the police
report shortly after.
Surveillance video proved that
no one tampered with the bottle
and Hall later acknowledged that
a prescription medication he took
for migraine headaches contained
barbiturates.
A trial judge dismissed Hall’s
claim of wrongful termination,
agreeing with the Oregon Youth
Authority that the report of criminal
activity was unreasonable.
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LOW
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61°
88° (2003)
39°
38°
16° (1911)
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37°
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Nov 3
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Astoria
65/40
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Enterprise
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Pendleton 61/30
The Dalles 68/34
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 63/37
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John Day
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. Mainly
clear tonight. Times of clouds and sun
tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Some clouds,
then sunshine today, except sunnier near
the Cascades.
Western Washington: Some sun today;
fog during the morning. Areas of fog late
tonight.
Eastern Washington: Sunny across the south, the
Idaho border and in the mountains today; sun in
north and central parts and toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Clear to partly
cloudy tonight. Times of clouds and sun
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CORVALLIS (AP) — An
Oregon city is considering
adding additional portable
toilets to stop public
defecation.
The Corvallis Gazette-
Times reports that a
Corvallis City Council
Committee is recommending
that the city add more
portable toilets along the
Willamette River to stop the
problem.
One would be placed at
the entrance to Riverfront
Commemorative Park and
the second would be just
south of downtown.
The full council
will consider the
recommendation on Nov. 2.
A homeless shelter also
installed a portable toilet
behind its men’s shelter
on Wednesday. Corvallis
Housing First built a
wooden structure around
the toilet to make it more
aesthetically pleasing.
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SUNDAY
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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MADRAS (AP) — A
hospital in Madras will
continue to send mothers
to Redmond or Bend for
delivery until early 2016 due
to a continued shortage of
nurses trained in obstetrics.
The Bulletin reports that
St. Charles Madras CEO
Jeanie Gentry says the
temporary moratorium was
supposed to last one month
and end in August, but had
to be extended. She says
four nurses are scheduled to
complete their OB training
in December, with the
hospital expecting to resume
deliveries in January.
The hospital needs to
have 10 nurses trained in
obstetrics on its roster and
two working at all times
to ensure safe deliveries.
Gentry says when deliveries
stopped July 10, it was
because two OB nurses left
the hospital.
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PORTLAND (AP) — The
city of Troutdale has paid
nearly ,000 for the riÀe
used in last year’s deadly
school shooting, rather than
return the weapon to the
shooter’s brother.
Freshman Jared Padgett
killed Reynolds High
classmate Emilio Hoffman,
then himself, with an AR-15
riÀe he stole from his older
brother.
The brother, Lucas
Padgett, went to court this
summer, asking a judge to
order the city to return his
property. The city argued that
the weapon and other items
must be held as evidence in
case a charge is ever ¿led.
However, the district
attorney’s of¿ce said almost
a year ago that Lucas Padgett
couldn’t be prosecuted for
allowing his brother to access
the riÀe, because he kept it in
a locked container.
The City Council, on
Oct. 13, agreed to pay the
brother 3,50 for the riÀe,
ammunition and other items
recovered at the scene.
“Understanding the
emotional trauma that both
the Hoffman and Padgett
families have been through,
the city of Troutdale reached
out to Lucas Padgett to seek
a compromise that would be
acceptable to all involved
and help continue the healing
process of this terrible
tragedy,” Mayor Doug Daoust
said in a statement Tuesday.
The release said the city,
at the appropriate time, will
reTuest an order for “¿nal
disposition of the property.”
Padgett’s attorney, Shawn
Kollie, told The Oregonian
that the city contacted him
shortly after the judge ruled
last month.
“People have wildly
varying opinions on guns,”
Kollie said. “The thing that
made the difference in this
case is that it was undisputed
that items were stolen. If you
steal my car and get a DUII,
(the police) don’t get to keep
my car.”
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Showers will linger in the Four Corners.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 95° in Laredo, Texas
Low 20° in Presque Isle, Maine
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