53/38 Armchair Books to close store WELLY TOSS AND PARADE RESULTS PENDLETON/6A WEE BIT O’IRELAND/3A Bucks sweep Roseburg BASEBALL/1B TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016 140th Year, No. 112 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD MISSION One dead in reservation shooting FBI continues to investigate, second victim remains in hospital By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian One Pendleton man is dead and another wounded after a shooting Saturday morning on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Tony Jimenez, 27, died after emergency efforts to save his life, while Beau Welch, 31, suffered a gunshot to a leg. He had surgery Monday at St. Anthony Hospital, Pend- leton. Welch is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reser- vation. Tribal police and FBI agents arrested one man in connection to the violence — Victor Joseph Contreras, 23, of California. Police booked him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pend- leton, on local charges of attempted murder, ¿ rst-de- gree assault, second-degree assault, unlawful possession of a ¿ rearm and felon in possession of a ¿ rearm. He was due Monday in federal court in Portland. Assistant United States attorney Scott Kerin is prosecuting the case. He is the top drug prosecutor in the attorney’s of¿ ce for the District of Oregon. Tony Jimenez, who was shot and killed on Saturday morning in Mission, poses with his two sons in this photo. Photo contributed by Marisol Jimenez See SHOOTING/8A “When people engage in music, it becomes a more beautiful world.” COST OF TRANSPARENCY — Josh Rist, Hermiston choir director Legislators rival agencies in high fees, long waits MUSIC MATTERS By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Staff Photo by Jennifer Colton Fourth-grader Sydney Stocker helps Raul Cortes DeLaPaz during a Wednesday music class at Desert View Elementary in Hermiston. Hermiston schools make music programs a priority for all ages By JENNIFER COLTON East Oregonian In Hermiston, the halls are alive with the sound of music. Every student, preschool through high school, has the option to make music a part of their education, and the Herm- iston School District is seeing the bene¿ ts of keeping the programs alive through budget cuts and space constraints. Each elementary school continues to house a full- time music teacher, and the secondary schools offer music, band and choir programs. “Research has shown a connection between partic- ipation in music education programs and student success, such as improvement in brain function and a person’s ability to process language,” Bryn Browning, assistant super- intendent, said in a written statement. “Foundational skills for teaching reading and language begin with song and rhyme — think back to your own childhood or the types of books, songs and poems we read/sing to our own children.” For the past two years, Hermiston has been named a “Best Community for Music Education” by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation. Last year, 388 districts nationwide were selected for the designa- tion; Hermiston was the only district in the state of Oregon. The district has applied again this year, and the winners will be announced in April. On Wednesday afternoon, students hummed with activity, ready for spring break. At See MUSIC/8A SALEM — Lawmakers just wrapped up a packed session in which they passed important laws on minimum wage, housing and renewable energy that were negotiated behind closed doors. Their response to a public records request shows how time consuming and expensive it can be Ior reporters — and the public — to ¿ nd out who attended and helped shape legislation during those closed-door meetings. The Pamplin Media Group/EO Media Group Capital Bureau on Dec. 18 requested the calen- dars of 11 legislators. Lawmaker calendars are considered a public record under state law. The bureau planned to examine the schedules to ¿ nd out how legislative leaders and committee chair- persons spent their time and whom they met with leading up to votes on key policy proposals. While many state agencies provide public records for free, the two most powerful people in the Legislature, House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, and Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, were among lawmakers who slapped the highest price tags on their calendars. ,nitially, ¿ ve of the 11 lawmakers volunteered to waive fees associated with releasing their calendars. The other six legislators, including Kotek and Courtney, provided the bureau with estimates that totaled $1,200 to release less than 12 months of their calendars. To reduce the cost, the bureau narrowed its request to the calendars of Kotek and Courtney. As of March 16, the bureau had yet to receive any of the records. Suzanne Trujillo, deputy legislative counsel, said she did not yet have a timeline for when the request would be complete. Waiving the fees Excessive fees and long delays for public records are “a barrier to access,” said Jack Orchard, attorney for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, and a longtime advocate for inexpensive access to public records. “It is See RECORDS/8A PENDLETON Farmers market considers return to Main Street Season starts May 6 By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian The Pendleton Farmers Market may stay on Main Street after all. A week after announcing the Farmers Market would seek a new home for its 2016 season, board president Mary Ann McCune said Monday the board wants to reopen negotiations with the city of Pend- leton to keep the seasonal event on Main Street after receiving public support to keep it there. The original desire to move arose from a conÀ ict between the market’s board, the city and several Main Street business owners. Each Friday afternoon from May through October, the nonprof- it-operated market opens on the 300 block of Main Street, where vendors offer regionally sourced produce, crafts and food. The event closes the block to traf¿ c and parking for about ¿ ve hours each week. After ¿ elding complaints from downtown businesses the past few seasons, the city and the farmers market agreed to keep vendors’ ofÀ oading trucks away from parking spaces in front of MaySon’s Old Fashioned General Store and Alexander’s Chocolate Classics as a condition of its street closure permit. According to City Manager Robb Corbett, the farmers market See MARKET/6A EO fi le photo Patrons purchase fruit at a booth at the Pendleton Farmers Market.