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NOVEMBER 21-22, 2015
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WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
PENDLETON
STANFIELD
Two cops under investigation
Chief and lieutenant placed on administrative leave after accusations
Department of Justice.
The four-person department
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after the Oct. 26 termination of
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both the chief and lieutenant department and the city regarding
were placed on administrative his termination.
leave Thursday while they are
City Manager Blair Larsen said
being investigated by the Oregon 0F%ULGHZDV¿UHGDIWHUDQLQYHV
By SEAN HART
and JADE McDOWELL
East Oregonian
tigation into an August incident in
which McBride was involved, but
he would not comment further.
Larsen said he placed Chief
Bryon Zumwalt and Lt. Monty
Toombs on paid administrative
leave Thursday afternoon after
speaking to Oregon Department
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Zumwalt
Toombs
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Warren Gerald Browning
looks over his shoulder at his
family before his sentencing
Friday at the Umatilla County
Courthouse, Pendleton.
PENDLETON
Core
member
of Aryan
gang goes
to prison
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Warren Gerald Browning of
Pendleton choked back tears
Friday as he admitted his actions
as a white supremacist gang
member hurt his family and
community. Those actions will
cost him just shy of eight years
in state prison, but he said he
could have lost much more.
Browning,
36,
faced
sentencing in Umatilla County
Circuit Court, Pendleton, after
pleading guilty earlier this month
to racketeering, second-degree
attempted assault and felon
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exchange for the pleas, the
state dismissed other charges,
including conspiracy to murder.
Circuit Judge Christopher
Brauer noted the district attor-
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his defense lawyer, Robert
Klahn of Pendleton, held
“intense negotiations” to reach
the plea deal not long before the
case would have went to trial.
Browning is the last core
member of the United Aryan
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Sunridge Middle School eighth-graders Collin Taber and Sami Spriet, top left, talk with a group of kindergartners at the Pend-
leton Early Learning Center during the fi rst Friendsgiving Feast on Friday in Pendleton.
The first Friendsgiving
District’s kindergartners
share snacktime feast
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“I am sorry for the
things I did. ... I made
some mistakes.”
— Warren Browning
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Kindergartner Dylan Star jumps up to chase Sunridge Middle
School eighth-grader Brooklynn Been while playing duck,
duck, goose on Friday at the Pendleton Early Learning Center.
cooked drumsticks.
After reciting several Thanks-
giving-themed poems, the kinder-
gartners were then allowed to enjoy
By ANTONIO SIERRA
the fruits of their labor — fruit
East Oregonian
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made butter and pumpkin pudding.
The main attraction of Pendleton
Child development specialist
Early Learning Center’s Friends- Anne Sokoloski helped coordinate
giving Feast is the kids table.
the event with the rest of the early
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converted Hawthorne school threw
Sokoloski said kindergarten
the inaugural feast, a Thanksgiv- teachers have been throwing
ing-themed meal for the school’s pre-Thanksgiving feasts for their
240 kindergartners.
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afternoon, sporting self-made hats full-day kindergarten.
depicting turkeys in various states,
Half-day kindergarten allowed
from the colorful plumage of a live
turkey to the dark brown hues of
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Group cOears ¿ rst step for abortion funding baOOot measure
Jimerson has sought to send the
initiative to voters. He failed to
secure enough signatures in 2012
SALEM — An initiative to and 2014.
“Each time we are getting closer
ban state funding of abortions has
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Oregon Life United spokeswoman.
place on the 2016 ballot.
Chief sponsor Jeff Jimerson of “We really do think we have a
Corvallis announced Friday that strong enough volunteer base this
his group, Oregon Life United, time to get it on the ballot for 2016.
Oregon Life United must obtain
has gathered the 1,000 signatures
needed to obtain a ballot title for 117,578 valid signatures to place
the initiative on the ballot.
the initiative.
About 40 percent of the nearly
The group had garnered about
1,500 signatures as of early Friday. 5,000 abortions performed between
This marks the third time January and October were paid for
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
with state funding, according to
Oregon Health Authority.
The state paid about $1.8 million
for a total of 3,556 abortions in
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available Friday. Each procedure
cost about $500.
Oregon Right to Life supports
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cial commitment to the effort, said
spokeswoman Liberty Pike.
The organization has chosen to
spend its resources on supporting
pro-life candidates in the upcoming
election and lobbying lawmakers,
Pike said.
“What we have found is the
system is set up so that it costs
hundreds of thousands of dollars
to get a measure on the ballot,” she
said. “We have decided to use our
resources in areas where we think
we can get the best return on our
investment.”
A Planned Parenthood spokes-
woman did not immediately have
a comment on how it plans to
respond to the initiative effort.
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