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UFO: East Oregonian Zas the ¿rst to report 1947 µÀying saucer’ sighting
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sky for more than 10 minutes
near Pendleton on May 17 at
10:50 p.m.
“I Zas on the phone
Zith my Zife Zhen I ¿rst
spotted the light,” the report
reads. “I pulled off into the
Zest bound truck scale and
proceeded to look at the light
through 7x50 binoculars.
I couldn’t make out much
detail as I Zas unable to hold
the binoculars steady. To the
naked eye it appeared to be
diamond shape.”
Other reports on the
Zebsite detail a “silver-ish
object” near Pendleton in
March, a “ball Zith four
orange lights” near Umatilla
in 2014 and a “very large
object” streaking across the
sky above Hermiston in
2013.
Umatilla County has a
connection to one of the
most famous UFO sightings
in the United States. The
East Oregonian Zas the
¿rst neZspaper to report a
sighting by .enneth Arnold
in 1947. The Arnold sighting
is described as the “daZn
of the modern UFO era” in
several books and Zebsites
Contributed photo Ivan Dame
This unidentified flying object was captured by a cell
phone camera by Ivan Dame from his yard on Townsend
Road in Herimiston at about 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 15.
dedicated to UFOs, and the
incident gave rise to the term
“Àying saucer.”
Arnold, an experienced
¿re control pilot, Zas on a
search and rescue mission
over Mt. Ranier Zhen he saZ
Zhat he described as “nine
saucer-like aircraft Àying in
formation at 3 p.m. yesterday,
extremely bright — as if they
Zere nickel plated — and
Àying at an immense rate of
speed.”
“It seemed impossible,”
he told East Oregonian
reporter Bill BeTuette the
next day. “But there it is — I
must believe my eyes.”
The story ended up on
the Associated Press Zire
and spread to neZspapers
across the country, sparking
hundreds of reported UFO
sightings over the next
year, including the infa-
mous “crash landing” near
RosZell, NeZ Mexico, that
the Army maintains Zas
actually a Zeather balloon.
The limited technology of
1947 meant there Zere feZer
man-made objects in the air
in Arnold’s day. Today, a set
of lights in the sky is more
likely to be dismissed as an
unmanned aerial vehicle,
airplane, helicopter or satel-
lite.
/aZ enforcement agen-
cies do get a UFO report
from time to time, hoZever.
Umatilla
Police
Chief
Darla Huxel told the East
Oregonian recently that her
department does folloZ up
on reports Zhen they are
received. In December 2011
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment received tZo separate
calls reporting a large UFO
Zith orange lights, but Chief
Jason Edmiston said he
Zasn’t aZare of any recent
reports to his department.
There are still people like
Ivan Dame, hoZever, Zho
believe Zhat they are seeing
could be alien in origin but
don’t call the police. Instead,
Dame snapped a feZ photos
Zith his cell phone and has
been shoZing them around.
“It’s nothing I’ve ever
seen before,” he said.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
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PRISON: Multnomah County has already reduced the number of prison intakes
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BETTY FEVES MEMORIAL GALLERY
created in House Bill 3194
in 2013 to give resources to
counties to set up support
services for offenders on
probation and parole. The
bill also restructured the
state’s sentencing guidelines
to try to ebb the ÀoZ of
offenders into the prison
system.
³:hat Ze hear from
judges and prosecutors is
there are folks they send
to prison because there are
no supervision resources
locally,”
said
Mike
Schmidt, executive director
of the Criminal Justice
Commission. “This justice
reinvestment is building the
infrastructure so Ze can keep
offenders out of prison and
actually give them a shot.”
The Criminal Justice
Commission doled out
$15 million from the fund
in 2013-2014. About $40
million Zas earmarked for
the fund for 2015-2016. The
$9.5 million expansion at
'eer 5idge Zould come out
of the $40 million amount.
,t’s unclear Zhether each
county’s grant Zould shrink
proportionally or Zhether
the balance of grant money
Zould be aZarded according
to merit.
“My concern is that
Zould end justice reinvest-
ment in Oregon,” said Heidi
MoaZad, *ov. .ate BroZn’s
public safety policy adviser.
“,t Zas a hard-Zon battle «
to get our $40 million fund
this biennium.”
Since funding started last
year, some jurisdictions,
such as Multnomah County,
have already reduced the
number of prison intakes.
The counties need more time
to see hoZ the programs
affect
recidivism,
said
Multnomah County Deputy
District Attorney Caroline
Wong.
Multnomah
County’s
grant funds pay for offender
housing, drug treatment,
employment development,
mentorship,
parenting
classes, probation of¿cers
and other services for
Courtesy Oregon Department of Corrections
The Deer Creek Correctional Institution in Madras. DOC wants to renovate the
facility to accommodate an increase in inmate population. The $9.5 million needed
to expand and staff the facility would come from a program designed to keep
parolees out of prison.
offenders in the community.
Dale Primmer, Umatilla
County community correc-
tions director, said he is
concerned the program may
be gutted before it has had a
chance to shoZ results.
Umatilla County applied
for a $914,251 justice rein-
vestment grant for this year.
The county plans to use some
of that money to establish a
program to connect offenders
Zith treatment centers before
they are released from jail.
The shorter the time betZeen
jail and treatment the more
likely it is that offenders
Zill complete diversion
programs and avoid recidi-
vism, Primmer said.
The fear is that the coun-
ties Zill start neZ programs
this year and then lose
funding in 2016 because the
state needs to expand Deer
Ridge, Primmer said. That
kind of uncertainty makes
it dif¿cult for counties to
plan because they craft their
budgets in advance, he said.
BroZn strongly supports
continuing
the
fund,
MoaZad said. The governor
plans to meet Zith county
of¿cials from 9 a.m. to
noon Nov. 10 to discuss
Zays to immediately reduce
the prison population and
stave off the need for the
expansion. The meeting is
scheduled at the Department
of Public Safety Standards
in Training Hall of Fame,
4190 Aumsville HighZay in
Salem.
The
Deer
Ridge
expansion plan entails
moving the existing 787
minimum-security prisoners
from the minimum-security
building to the vacant medi-
um-security facility. The
medium-security building
has 200 additional beds to
accommodate the stateZide
spike in prisoners projected
for March, Peters said.
Moving the prisoners and
repairing and furnishing the
medium-security
facility
Zould cost about $2.5
million. Hiring people to
serve the additional pris-
oners Zould cost about $7
million, Peters Zrote in a
letter to the Oregon Public
Safety Task Force.
The
Department
of
Corrections
director
said the neZ sentencing
guidelines and Justice Rein-
vestment Fund have been
Zorking to sloZ groZth in
the prison population, just
not as much as anticipated.
She said she is still
hopeful that counties may
be able to Zork together
to stave off the projected
groZth of 150 prisoners in
time to avoid expanding
Deer Ridge.
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
HOUSING: Most commute
from more than 25 miles aZay
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Tri-Cities.
Housing has been a
priority
in
Boardman
since community leaders
convened Zith the gover-
nor’s Regional Solutions
team in 2010 to capture an
inÀux of industry at the port.
At the time, the port
claimed 1,600 employees,
though that ¿gure has since
sZelled to 4,000-plus.
Boardman’s population is
roughly 3,400.
The Regional Solu-
tions team conducted a
survey of employees at
Columbia River Processing,
*reenWood
Resources,
Re.laim
Technologies
and the MorroZ County
School District. Of those 69
Zorkers surveyed, about 70
percent said they commuted
to Zork, most from more
than 25 miles aZay.
Access to retail, recre-
ation, entertainment and
activities for kids Zere iden-
ti¿ed as the top areas Zhere
employees felt Boardman
could improve. But Barry
Beyeler, community devel-
opment director, said they
Zere Tuickly confronted
Zith a chicken or the egg
scenario: do more amenities
draZ neZ residents, or do
more residents draZ neZ
amenities?
Ultimately, he said the
city focused its efforts
getting neZ homes built in
toZn. The current housing
stock in Boardman is
approximately 900 living
units, he said. There is a
shortage of rentals.
Progress has come sloZ
and steady, Beyeler said.
In particular, he is excited
about a relatively neZ home
buying incentive program
through the Boardman
Community Development
Association that provides
$5,000 grants to potential
homeoZners.
“The ball is rolling,
but it’s not an avalanche,”
Beyeler
said.
“We’re
starting to get to the place
Zhere commercial entities
can look at us and say
there’s a market here.”
Jill Parker, president of
the community develop-
ment association, said they
have already aZarded 45
grants in just 13 months.
Of those, 65 percent are
moving into the community
from outside MorroZ
County.
“We like to think our
program has helped people
make the decision to invest
in Boardman,” Parker said.
“We just continue to try and
improve every day.”
.im Travis, Zho Zorked
as project manager Zith
the Oregon Solutions and
Regional Solutions team,
said livability is another
major thing for cities like
Boardman to consider in
attracting neZ residents.
She Zas encouraged to hear
the city passed a $12 million
bond to build a neZ commu-
nity recreation center.
“It seems like these
things are starting to come
together in tandem,” Travis
said. “I think (Boardman) is
on a really good path. The
city is de¿nitely open to
Zorking Zith neZ develop-
ment.”
RiverZood Homes Zill
sell houses in the Tuscany
and Chaparral Park neigh-
borhoods as the market calls
for them. Tuscany can even-
tually be built out to 160
lots, and 18 toZnhouses in
the ¿rst phase of Chaparral
Park.
Beyeler said things are
starting to happen on the
retail front as Zell. He Zas
approached by one outlet
— he didn’t say Zho — that
had him Zalking aZay
doing a happy dance.
There are still hurdles
to clear, Beyeler said. The
solution for noZ is getting
more roofs in toZn, he said.
“There’s been a little
change in the dynamic
Ze’ve been laboring through
over the last 15 years,” he
said. “It’s starting to look
like it might be steady.”
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