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Saturday, March 19, 2016
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Umatilla Co. OKs anti-tobacco job
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Umatilla County will hire
an employee to help keep
minors away from tobacco.
Umatilla County Public
Health won a $133,000
state grant to fund a tobacco
prevention coordinator. The
grant expires June 30, 2017.
The county board of commis-
sioners on Wednesday voted
3-0 to approve the job.
George
Murdock,
chairman of the board, said
the coordinator would work
with merchants to make
tobacco less appealing to
young people.
The statewide cigarette
smoking rate for 11th graders
is 9.8 percent, according to
Oregon Public Health, but
Umatilla County has a rate
of 17.8 percent. Statewide
data also shows 16.8 percent
of those students get their
smokes from stores and gas
stations.
More than 80 percent,
however, use friends and
family as their source.
The county board also
tweaked the boundaries
of the Athena-Weston and
Milton-Freewater
school
districts. The change covers
about 90 acres on the farm of
Preston Winn of Weston.
Winn, who turned 60 a
week ago, told the board
his ancestors established the
farm near Weston in 1875,
and for the last 20 years his
family lived in a house on
the farm. But he also reno-
vated the old house he grew
up in about a quarter of a
mile away, and a month ago
moved there.
That house now is in the
Milton-Freewater
School
District. Winn said he would
like to keep living in the
Athena-Weston
School
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District and continue his
20-plus years of service on
the district’s board of direc-
tors.
County tax assessor Paul
Chalmers told commis-
sioners the change likely is
to have minimal affect on
the tax revenue from either
district because the state
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fund money Milton-Free-
water schools would lose.
The county board approved
the change 3-0.
The board also held a
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reading for the plans to move
the human services division
from the community justice
department to public health.
Human services handles
addiction treatment, veteran
affairs and developmental
disabilities. Commissioner
George Murdock said public
health is the division’s
rightful home.
The board, though, held
off on approving a deputy
director position to oversee
human services. Murdock
and fellow commissioner
Larry Givens said that should
wait until the reorganization
goes into effect July 1. The
money is in the budget for the
position, which would pay
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And the board authorized
the road department to buy a
2000 CPS belly dump trailer
from Woodpecker Truck
& Equipment for $22,500.
Belly dump — or semi
bottom dump — trailers
have a container that dumps
material from the belly of
the trailer. Road department
director Tom Fellows said
this would replace the coun-
ty’s much older trailer.
“I appreciate the explana-
tion,” Murdock quipped. “I
thought we were starting an
exercise program.”
HEPPNER
Bartholomew Building dedicated
of Oregon’s worst natural
disaster. Bartholomew was
responsible for 94 estate
proceedings before he died.
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ripped through the heart
was always thinking about
of downtown Heppner in
others, which is the kind of
1903, killing 247 people,
public servant you’d want,”
the devastation pushed
Tallman said.
Alba G. Bartholomew to his
With the Bartholomew
breaking point.
Building now complete,
As county judge, it was
county administrator Jerry
Bartholomew’s job to settle
Sorte said they are turning
Staff photo by George Plaven
the estates of victims whose
their attention to potential
Wahner, the great-great-grandson of Alba
loved ones were swept Gus
Bartholomew, speaks during the dedication ceremo- building upgrades — or a
away in the raging waters. ny for the Bartholomew Building on Friday as Morrow brand new facility — on
Historical records indicate County Judge Terry Tallman looks on.
the north side of the county.
Bartholomew
worked
Those conversations are still
broke ground in 2014, and ongoing.
himself to death at the age speak.
“It’s a privilege to have was paid for by revenue
of 58, with his obituary
“We are now getting
reading that he “collapsed such a beautiful building collected by the county to the point where we are
under the strain of his labors dedicated to my great-great from investment partner- starting to crunch some
attending to public and grandfather,” said Wahner, ships signed with wind numbers,” Sorte said. “We’ll
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private affairs.”
be continuing that, presum-
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Commissioners
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On Friday, Morrow
opened
in decided to use its share months.”
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great-great-grandson Gus portation and accounting.
The $4.2 million project resolve in the aftermath
Wahner, who was invited to
Project completed
in November
Three prosecuted
for Medicaid fraud
PENDLETON — A
trio of Milton-Freewater
residents face multiple
counts of theft and fraud.
Court records show the
Umatilla County grand jury
in February indicted Jesse
Patrick Jackson, 29, Chelsey
Sumerlin Breeding, 31, and
Frederick L. Breeding, 71,
for running a Medicaid scam
for several thousand dollars.
Frederick Breeding
is disabled, but the state
alleges Jackson and Chelsey
Breeding were committing
home care worker fraud
from April 2012 through
2015 so they all could
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than needed. The Oregon
Department of Justice plans
to charge each as follows:
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counts of making a false
claim for health care
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with four counts of making
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Their arraignments are
Tuesday morning in circuit
court in Pendleton.
Grants increase
public safety in
Hermiston
HERMISTON — The
Hermiston Police
Department received almost
$29,000 in two grants to
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Hermiston Chief Jason
Edmiston in a written
statement reported a
grant of $26,985 from the
Oregon Department of
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to enforce the rules of the
road during upcoming
construction along the
Highway 395 corridor.
“We would encourage our
citizenry to slow down and
avoid distractions during the
construction,” he added.
And the department will
buy three automated external
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thanks to an $1,800 grant
from the Good Shepherd
Community Health
Foundation.
Edmiston stated the
foundation has provided
opportunities to numerous
organizations and groups in
the Hermiston area, and the
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Chamber to hold
forum for council
candidates
PENDLETON —
Candidates for Pendleton
City Council will make
their case to the Pendleton
Chamber of Commerce and
the public at a forum April
20.
All 14 candidates
have been invited to the
Pendleton Masonic Lodge at
1350 N.W. Carden Ave. to
participate in the forum from
11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“The Chamber believes
it is important to offer
our members and the
community at large a chance
to meet the candidates. It
is wonderful to see such
a large number of people
willing to step into a
leadership role,” chamber
Executive Director Gail
Nelson said in a statement.
The forum will
take place during the
chamber’s regularly
scheduled luncheon,
tickets for which cost
members and employees
of member businesses $13.
Non-members and members
who pay after April 15 will
be charged $16.
Seating will be available
for those who do not want
lunch, but all attendees must
RSVP.
To make a reservation,
call the chamber at 541-276-
7411.
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PENDLETON — A
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training is Saturday, April 9
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at
the Pendleton Convention
Center, 1601 Westgate. An
early registration discount is
offered to those who sign up
by Friday. The cost is $75, or
$60 for graduates of the Ford
Institute Leadership. The fee
increases by $15 after March
25.
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