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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, March 31, 2016 Dogs rescued from South Korean meat farm arrive in Oregon By ABBY SPEGMAN The Bulletin Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin via AP In this Monday photo, Emily Warchol, a veterinary technician at the Humane Society of Central Oregon, holds one of the puppies rescued from South Korean dog-meat trade, during its examination at Humane Society of Central Oregon in Bend. BEND — Twenty-eight dogs raised on a South Korean dog-meat farm were brought to Central Oregon over the weekend, part of a campaign by Humane Society International to end the dog-meat trade in Asia. The Humane Society of Central Oregon, in Bend, took in 17 dogs, including six puppies; BrightSide Animal Center in Redmond took in 11 dogs, from 4 months to 2 years old. Of¿cials say all of the dogs need to be assessed for medical and behavioral issues before they can be put up for adoption. While dogs are used as meat for human consumption in other countries, South Korea is the only place they are raised on farms for that purpose, said Adam Parascandola, director of animal protection and crisis response for Humane Society Inter- national. Last year the group started working with farmers directly to close them down, paying the farmers to demolish their kennels and switch to another operation that doesn’t involve raising animals for meat. It closed four farms and relocated 236 dogs last year. Earlier this year it closed one farm in Wonju, South Korea, with 270 dogs, which is where the dogs brought to Central Oregon came from. Anyone who adopts these dogs will need a great deal of patience,” said Becky Stock, BrightSide exec- utive director, noting they’ve never been potty trained, walked on a leash or socialized to play with other dogs. Stock said a BrightSide trainer will spend the next few weeks reading to the dogs so they get used to hearing voices and hand-feeding them to build up trust. Stock said once they are adopted, their owners may receive special training. On Monday at the Humane Society of Central Oregon, dogs were brought in one by one from their pens for medical exams. Most of their ages and breeds are a guess at this point. Carmine, believed to be a 1-year-old retriever-Lab mix, had to be coaxed from his pen slowly, peeking around the corner for the dog next to him. He was carried into the exam room, where he cowered in the corner, but his tail started to wag when he saw Vanessa, another 1-year-old mix brought from South Korea. Next up were the puppies, 3 months old and visibly shaking. Tech- nician Emily Warchol kept both hands on Fallon, one of the puppies, to keep him calm as veterinarian Elizabeth Gray checked his eyes and ears and listened to his heart. Some of the older dogs have foot infections from standing on grates for long periods, and the larger dogs have orthopedic issues as a result of being con¿ned to too-small kennels. Apollo, a 129-pound mastiff with droopy jowls, has asymmetrical hips, large Man sentenced for 1988 cold case murder ODA eyes adding ‘stop work’ orders to its authority Taking such drastic steps would be overly burdensome for the agency and the business in the case of minor violations, such as a faulty thermometer in a refrigerated meat cooler, he said. Under the proposed “stop work” authority, the ODA could simply require a company to cease using that cooler until it’s ¿xed, he said. “We’re looking at something very narrow and probably short- term,” Henderson said. The proposal is in a very early stage but the agency is considering it as a possible “legislative concept” for the 2017 legislative session, he said. Henderson acknowledged the “stop work” idea has met with some trepidation among regulated companies. “The industry as a whole is pretty nervous about us having that authority,” he said. Aside from possibly affecting pesticide applications, the proposal could impact on-farm processing, such as dairymen who make farm- By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau Food manufacturers and pesti- cide applicators could be subject to “stop work” orders under new regulatory authority being consid- ered by Oregon’s farm regulators. The Oregon Department of Agriculture may seek new regula- tory power to halt speci¿c unlawful actions that endanger public safety. Currently, the agency can suspend or revoke the license of a food establishment or pesticide applicator that’s violating the law, but such sanctions may be overkill in some situations, said Lauren Henderson, ODA’s assistant director. “We don’t have anything that’s speci¿c to an activity. 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Western Washington: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sun tomor- row. Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; warmer in central parts. Clear tonight. Northern California: Sunny today. Mostly clear tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy tomor- row. Today Friday WSW 3-6 WNW 4-8 SW 3-6 W 3-6 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 3 5 Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sin- cerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the pa- per, please call 541-966-0818. NEWS To submit news tips and press releases:FDOO ID[HPDLOQHZV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Legal Advertising:$PDQGD-DFREV DMDFREV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ and in 2012 submitted old blood evidence from a pillowcase and underwear for DNA testing. The blood matched Howard, who was by this time a sex offender living in San Diego. Police arrested Howard in November 2014, and he was extra- dited to Oregon. Initially charged with murder, the 60-year-old pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a plea deal two weeks ago. Court records after his arrest show he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was taking the anti-psychotic drug Thorazine. Harvey worked as a receptionist at Special Olympics of Oregon after moving to Portland from Montana. She was also an aspiring singer and actress. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson MSHUNLQVRQ#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP ClassiÀed Advertising: FODVVL¿HGV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group TODAY PORTLAND (AP) — A man who killed his downstairs neighbor in the 1980s and got away with it for more than a quarter-century was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison. Walter Wayne Howard was a prime suspect after 25-year-old Renee Harvey was found dead in her southeast Portland apartment in January 1988. She had been stran- gled and her throat had been cut. Days before her death, Harvey’s apartment had been burglarized, and she suspected Howard was the culprit who stole her earrings and VCR. Upset by the crime, she decided to move out. Detectives said she had put down a deposit on another apartment and was in the process of moving when a friend discovered her body. Investigators lacked the evidence to charge in Howard in 1988, and the case eventually went cold. The Portland Police Cold Case Unit rekindled the investigation, stead cheese. Doug Krahmer, a blueberry farmer and board member, said companies should have a way to challenge a “stop work” order. “I would caution you to put some sort of judicial mechanism in there, so if a grower or an owner takes issue with a stop work order, there is a quick way to get adjudication,” he said. The U.S. Department of Labor did not provide such recourse when it issued “hot goods” orders in 2012 that halted the sale of perishable fruit based on alleged labor viola- tions, he said. Krahmer said he would charac- terize the DOL’s actions as “tyran- nical” and he doesn’t ever want to describe ODA that way. Katy Coba, ODA’s director, said the agency is still examining similar authority in other states and recog- nizes the importance of protecting due process while ensuring public safety. “It’s ¿nding in statute the right balance,” she said. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 callouses on his back legs and broken teeth, most likely from chewing on his kennel. But a bigger concern than the medical issues is how fearful these dogs are. While other dogs in the shelter howl and bark and compete for attention, these dogs lie quietly in the corners of their pens. “For the most part, they just hide in back like that. They’re not used to people looking at them, trying to interact with them,” said Karie Gibbs, an animal care technician at Humane Society of Central Oregon. The shelter commonly has open beds and brings in dogs from out of the area to be adopted, since it does not receive enough strays and forfeited dogs to meet the demand of people wanting to adopt, said Lynne Ouchida, the shelter’s outreach manager. Stray dogs are held for ¿ve days before being put up for adoption to give owners time to claim them; last month 92 percent of the strays brought in were claimed. “We’re de¿nitely having to do more (transfers),” Ouchida said, noting this was the ¿rst international transfer in the 20 years she has been there. Suzanne Verhaeg, of Bend, came to Humane Society of Central Oregon on Monday with her husband, Marty. They were thinking of adopting and heard about the South Korean dogs. 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