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ALABAMA HERMISTON WINS STARS TAKE TITLE THE STAGE SPORTS/1B 38/32 David Bowie dies of cancer at 69 WORLD/6A REGION/3A TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 140th Year, No. 62 Snow report already beats 2015 More needed to feed streams into summer WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD HARNEY COUNTY STANDOFF: DAY 9 Files dug up, fences torn down for years. It’s not clear where the fence was located or which rancher sought the group’s help. KRZ WKH JRYHUQPHQW KDV GLVFULPL Bundy said his group is not The refuge is administered by nated local ranchers who use federal DFFHVVLQJ JRYHUQPHQW FRPSXWHUV WKH 86 )LVK DQG :LOGOLIH 6HUYLFH land for cattle grazing. at the Malheur National Wildlife 6SRNHVPDQ-DVRQ+ROPVDLGEHFDXVH Bundy said the documents would 5HIXJHLQFOXGLQJSHUVRQQHO¿OHV WKHGRFXPHQWVDQG¿OHVDWWKHUHIXJH DOVRKHOSVHFXUHWKHUHOHDVHRI6WHYHQ After the news conference, the PD\ KDYH SHUVRQDOO\ LGHQWL¿DEOH and Dwight Hammond, two area JURXSGURYHLQDFRQYR\WRDUDQFK LQIRUPDWLRQ WKH DJHQF\ ³LV WDNLQJ UDQFKHUV FRQYLFWHG RI DUVRQ ZKR near the refuge and tore down a necessary steps to ensure employee UHWXUQHGWRSULVRQODVWZHHNWRVHUYH VWUHWFKRIJRYHUQPHQWHUHFWHGIHQFH and family safety.” longer sentences. The Hammonds’ The goal, according to the armed The agency strongly condemned case set off the occupation of the PHQZDVWRJLYHWKHUDQFKHUDFFHVV Burns-area refuge on Jan. 2. WR WKH UDQJH WKDW KDG EHHQ EORFNHG See REFUGE/8A Group will use documents to ‘expose’ discrimination against Hammonds By RICK BOWMER Associated Press BURNS — The leader of a small, armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge near Burns said Monday he and his followers are JRLQJ WKURXJK JRYHUQPHQW GRFX ments stored inside refuge buildings. Ammon Bundy told reporters the documents will be used to “expose” By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Oregon started off 2016 with more snow than at any point during last year’s historically dry winter, though more is needed to ¿OO VWUHDPV DQG UHVHUYRLUV heading into next summer. The Natural Resources &RQVHUYDWLRQ 6HUYLFH LVVXHG LWV¿UVWZDWHUVXSSO\RXWORRN report of the new year, and the numbers are promising: RQ-DQVQRZSDFNZDV percent of normal across the VWDWH FRPSDUHG WR MXVW percent a year ago. Locally, the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Willow basins measured 122 percent RI WKHLU QRUPDO VQRZSDFN Snow depth in the northern Blue Mountains ranged IURP LQFKHV DW (PLJUDQW 6SULQJVWRLQFKHVDW0LON 6KDNHV D VQRZ VXUYH\ VLWH near the Oregon-Washington border. If the region continues WR UHFHLYH QRUPDO UDLQ DQG VQRZ WKH 8PDWLOOD 5LYHU :LOORZ &UHHN DQG 6RXWK )RUN:DOOD:DOOD5LYHUFRXOG DOO PHHW RU H[FHHG DYHUDJH ÀRZV WKURXJK 6HSWHPEHU according to the NRCS. That would be great news IRUWKHDUHD¶VIDUPV¿VKDQG ¿UH¿JKWHUV +RZHYHU WKH ORQJUDQJH forecast is iffy at best. A VWURQJ(O1LxRLQWKH3DFL¿F 2FHDQZLOOOLNHO\OLQJHULQWR spring, and the National :HDWKHU 6HUYLFH LV FDOOLQJ for warmer, drier weather in QRUWKHDVW 2UHJRQ RYHU WKH next three months. PENDLETON Staff photo by E.J. Harris Cutie and Cuddles, who are most likely siblings, share a pen at PAWS animal shelter on Monday in Pendleton. The pair of pooches were two of 20 dogs taken in by the animal shelter this weekend from a seizure in Yakima County. Puppy love 3$:6YROXQWHHUVVHWXSDVVHPEO\OLQH to bathe, blow-dry 20 neglected pooches See SNOW/8A “We’ve had our share of low snowpack winters in recent years. I’d like to see us buck that trend.” — Melissa Webb, snow hydrologist with the NRCS One dollar GRJVJDYHNHQQHOFRXJKVKRWVDQG WKHQWXFNHGWKHPLQIRUWKHQLJKW “We had an assembly line of 7ZHQW\ GRJV DUULYHG LQ 3HQG people,” said Pendleton Animal OHWRQ WKLV ZHHNHQG DIWHU EHLQJ Welfare Shelter Manager Crystal UHPRYHGIURPWKHLUKRPHLQ:DVK Sullenger. “Washing stations were VHW XS 7KH SXSV ZHUH FRYHUHG LQ ington. The canines were among 56 their own feces. Each dog was OLYLQJ LQ D UHVLGHQFH LQ <DNLPD bathed and blow-dried.” Sullenger said most of the &RXQW\ DQG D FDGUH RI YROXQ WHHUV ZHOFRPHG WKH DQLPDOV 2YHU FDQLQHVUDQJHIURP¿YHPRQWKVWR WKHQH[WFRXSOHRIKRXUVWKHYROXQ See DOGS/8A teers examined and bathed the By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Crystal Sullenger, the manager for PAWS animal shelter, pets two dogs named Hugs and Kisses on Monday at the shelter in Pendleton. The Pendleton animal shelter took in 20 dogs from a rescue over the weekend and they are now trying to fi nd homes for the animals. Cabbage Hill street blues +D]DUGRXVVHFWLRQRI, interstate system. 2'27VSRNHVPDQ7RP6WUDQG prone to close; commercial berg said the department doesn’t WUDFNWKHQXPEHURIWLPHVRUKRZ GULYHUVSODQDKHDG long it closes the highway, but he estimated the department closes the hill about a dozen times a year in LQWHUYDOVUDQJLQJIURPPLQXWHV When inclement weather hits WRVHYHUDOKRXUV,WZDVFORVHGRQ the region, Eastern Oregon often EDFNWREDFNGD\VLQ'HFHPEHU This holds up the roughly ends in Pendleton. :KHQVQRZLFHDQGIRJFRYHU YHKLFOHV WKDW WUDYHO WKH the Cabbage Hill section of Inter- VWUHWFK HDFK GD\ HYHQ WKRVH WKDW VWDWH LW¶V QRW XQFRPPRQ IRU transport goods and materials up the Oregon Department of Trans- and down the hill. Michael Cannon of Hermiston portation to close the steep incline has been operating pilot cars and between Mission and Meacham, KDOWLQJWUDI¿FRQDVWUHWFKRIURDG WUDQVSRUWLQJ RYHUVL]HG ORDGV IRU D Staff photo by E.J. Harris ODOT calls “one of the most OLYLQJIRURYHUDGHFDGH Semi-trailers drive down Cabbage Hill on Interstate 84 in 2015 near the hazardous stretches of road” in the snow line east of Pendleton. See CABBAGE HILL/8A By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian
