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57/44 FISHERMEN Bucks split WANT HALT at Spring ON GILLNET Break Bash BAN NW/2A BASEBALL/1B HEPPNER WOMAN MARCHES ON CAPITOL HILL REGION/3A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 140th Year, No. 113 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD DOZENS DEAD IN BRUSSELS TERRORIST ATTACKS MISSION Party with rival gang preceded shooting By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert A police offi cer stands guard as people are evacuated from Brussels airport, after explosions rocked the facility in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday. NEW NORMAL Islamic State takes credit for attacks Islamic extremists struck Tuesday in the heart of Europe, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores of others in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway that again laid bare the continent’s vulnerability to suicide squads. Bloodied and dazed travelers staggered from the airport after two explosions AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert tore through crowds checking A man looks at fl owers and messages outside the in for morning À ights. About stock exchange in Brussels on Tuesday. 40 minutes later, another rush- hour blast ripped through a subway car in the heart of the European Union’s capital city. Security tightens The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top U.S. intelligence of¿ cials warned of the risk for copycat attacks at home. President Barack Obama vowed to help Belgium track down those responsible for the deadly explosions. More on Page 7A Ketevan Kardava/ Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP Injured women rest in the Brussels Airport in Brussels, Belgium, after explosions Tuesday. Fear of bloody attacks part of life in Europe By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM — Paris, Copen- hagen, Brussels. In just over a year three European capitals have been ravaged by boPbs and gun¿ re. After each attack life slowly returns to normal. But it’s a new normal for Europe, where terror alerts are always on high and where people in cities so far spared major violence assume it’s a matter of when, not if. “With each atrocity that occurs we change,” said Ian Duncan, a Scottish member of the European Parliament in Brussels. “We become less open. We pull down barriers and close doors. But it is a direction we are following now.” The carnage in Brussels on Tuesday came as Europe was still reeling from the November attacks by Islamic mili- tants in Paris that killed 130 people. In the following months France and Belgium have looked like countries at least partially at war, with soldiers in the streets, lockdowns and deadly shootouts with militants. The rest of Europe has watched with trepidation. “These were attacks in Belgium. They could just as well be attacks in Britain or France or Germany or elsewhere in Europe,” British Prime The last words from Tony Jimenez of Pendleton may have been to warn a friend about a man with a gun. The friend, Beau Welch, 31, took a bullet above his left ankle. Jimenez, 27, was shot in the head and died. Victor Joseph Contreras, 23, from California, now is in the Multnomah County Jail, Portland, and faces federal charges for the deadly violence Saturday morning outside of Welch’s home on the Umatilla Indian Contreras Reservation near Pend- leton. And FBI special agent Eric Thompson in an af¿ davit revealed what happened. Thompson also stated in the document, which is a public record, he was not laying out all the facts in the case but only establishing the probable cause for Jimenez arresting Contreras. The document identi¿ es victims and witnesses only by initials, such as B.W. for Welch, and some of the details are graphic. See SHOOTING/8A Active shooter training coming to Hermiston By JENNIFER COLTON East Oregonian The poster shows a man with a gun pointed at the camera and the haunting words, “What would you do?” The Hermiston Police Department hopes the poster — and the program behind it — will start a conversation about what to do when faced with an active shooter. CRASE stands for “civilian response to active shooter events,” and Hermiston police are bringing their training and tools into the community. “The big question is do you know what to do in that situation. It really is that simple,” Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston said. “For the majority of people, the answer is no.” See TRAINING/8A See EUROPE/7A Interior secretary preaches cooperation during Oregon visit BURNS (AP) — The top Depart- ment of the Interior of¿ cial brought a message of cooperation between ranchers and the government to Burns, where ranchers recently held an armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge. After touring the area Monday, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said she wants to bring attention to a success that was overshadowed by the 41-day occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, reported the Oregonian. Jewell said she’ll return to Wash- ington, D.C., determined to showcase what she called “a disaster averted” — the Harney County effort to protect the greater sage grouse while avoiding federal regulation that could hurt the ranching and logging industries. Environmentalists, ranchers and the government teamed under the brand High Desert Partnership in what Jewell Jewell said should serve as a national model for serving both economic and conservation needs. The secretary also heard from county of¿ cials, refuge workers, Little D a r li n gs ! tribal leaders and federal employees. She said their perspectives have convinced her that she must ¿ nd a way to give federal workers more freedom to experiment without fearing congres- sional inquiries or getting ¿ red. Jewell told the Oregonian that she asked wildlife refuge manager Chad Karges to be blunt about what it took to pull together the groups that eventually became the High Desert Partnership. Karges, a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employee, started that effort in 2005. “He said he really had to go out on a limb,” Jewell said, to thread agency regulations and political realities. The secretary said she wants to reward collaboration and give workers the room to try new approaches. She said it won’t be easy to counter “a lot of misinformation” from the armed occupiers of the Malheur refuge because they created “a simple message” of government failure that resonated with a portion of the public. “The federal government is not about marketing in sound bites,” said Jewell. “Fear is easy to peddle.” This special section will be full of adorable little darlings and a special keepsake for their family for years to come. Submit a photo of your Little Darling (Age 0 - 3) & be entered into a drawing for prizes by local sponsors! Publishes April 13th Send a high resolution photo, a message to your child and your child’s name to classifieds@eastoregonian.com by April 4th.
