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Warm Springs’ timber company closes
On Tuesday, the tribes
announced in a news release
that mill operations are shut-
ting down because of tough
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from a reduced log supply.
The 49-year-old sawmill
employed more than 80
people.
At their meeting last week,
Tribal Council members
authorized closing the mill in
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according to the release.
According to Spilyay
Tymoo, the tribes’ semi-
monthly newspaper, the mill
owes money to the tribe — its
primary creditor — as well as
logging companies and other
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The U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs, which last year had
initially resisted approving
further tribal timber harvests
because of the money prob-
lems at the mill, recently
issued an order that prohibited
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party will take control of the
sale of Warm Springs Forest
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release stated.
The company’s CEO,
John Katchia Jr., and Tribal
Council members couldn’t be
reached for comment.
However, it’s the laid-off
employees and their families
that are most affected by the
mill’s closing.
Don Sampson, CEO of
Warm Springs Ventures, the
By AARON WEST
Bend Bulletin
BEND — When Holly
McKinney, who owns a
portable toilet rental company
in Bend, saw Warm Springs
Forest Products Industries
missed its monthly payment
last September for toilets
rented from her, she didn’t
worry much.
She said Tuesday she
considered Warm Springs
Forest Products Industries
— the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs’ mill and
lumber company — a long-
time and reliable customer of
Little John’s Portable Toilets
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tally forgotten to pay the bill.
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But when three months
of missed payments stacked
up to the tune of $4,291 and
McKinney’s calls to the mill
bounced around and were
unreturned, she said she
realized something might be
wrong in Warm Springs.
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sued the mill in small claims
court in Jefferson County
last month to get her money
back. “To me, that means the
money’s not there right now,
not that the whole business
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business arm of the tribes, said
the closing has a big effect on
tribal unemployment.
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or so that were part of the
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said, clarifying that he’s not
involved with the closing and
isn’t familiar with the details.
“In terms of revenue, I don’t
know what the impact is,
but obviously the jobs were
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In 2014 the reservation
had an unemployment rate of
18.8 percent, with 325 people
unemployed out of a labor
force of 1,733, according
to the Oregon Employment
Department.
McKinney, who still
hasn’t gotten the money she
said she’s owed, said she
found out for herself the mill
was experiencing something
more serious than just cash
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when the missed payments
and unreturned phone calls
led her to send a driver to
collect the eight toilets the
mill had rented.
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she said. “You can’t get any
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driver went to the mill to
retrieve the toilets, McKinney
said, he collected the one by
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“I thought that might get
them to pay, if the guard
called the mill and said we
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Bundy brothers, three others due
in Nevada in standoff case
said.
But instead of paying up,
McKinney said, about 20
mill employees ran to use the
eight porta-potties “one last
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they don’t have any other
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Weeks of mill employees
calling to spend their own
money to rent a Little John’s
portable toilet followed,
Mc Kinney said.
“They must’ve known the
mill wasn’t paying, because
(employees) were calling us
to rent their own toilets. One
guy called us twice because
he was trying to pair up with
a couple of co-workers to rent
one. But we knew we didn’t
want to be a part of that and
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According to court docu-
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to dismiss McKinney’s claim.
That motion, which states that
since the toilet transaction
took place on the reservation,
the Jefferson County Circuit
Court doesn’t have jurisdic-
tion. A hearing is scheduled
later this month.
The mill’s closing follows
a round of layoffs in April
2015 that saw the number of
employees — who also took
a 10 percent cut in salary
— reduced from 104 to 84,
Spilyay Tymoo reported at the
time.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys say two sons of
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and three other men are
due to be transferred in custody from Oregon to Nevada to
face charges stemming from an armed confrontation with
government agents two years ago.
Defense lawyers in Oregon lost a bid Tuesday for the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block the move.
Lawyers for Ammon Bundy said they’ve been told
arraignments will be Friday in U.S. District Court in
Nevada.
Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Blaine
Cooper and Ryan Payne have been in federal custody in
Portland, where they’re accused of leading an occupation
of a U.S. wildlife refuge this year.
In Nevada, they’re facing conspiracy, obstruction,
weapon and assault charges for a standoff with federal
agents rounding up cattle near Bunkerville.
Travel Oregon is advertising
in The Onion. Seriously.
PORTLAND, (AP) — Travel Oregon’s latest
advertising campaign is in The Onion, but you should take
it seriously.
The Oregonian reports that the commission’s
communications director Linea Gagliano says the voice of
Oregonians -- which she describes as “nonchalant, fun and
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The Onion, a satirical news website.
She says the idea came from advertising agency
Wieden+Kennedy.
The commission launched the $75,000 campaign in
March. It includes the usual elements like banner ads and
social media promotion, but Travel Oregon is also paying
for The Onion staffers to write satirical articles about
tourism in the state.
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appeared March 21. It offers helpful advice, such as
making sure nearby bears sign a non-aggression pact.
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to endorse Bernie Sanders
While Hillary Clinton has captured the endorsements
of most Senate Democrats, Bernie Sanders claimed
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colleague on Wednesday, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley.
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cited Sanders’ positions on the dangers of global warming,
and the “threats to our economy from high-risk strategies
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military veterans, and he conceded he has an uphill battle
ahead to win the Democratic nomination.
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City rallies on Wednesday ahead of the state’s pivotal
presidential primary, with the Vermont senator drawing
thousands of supporters in a show of force for his self-
proclaimed political revolution.
Sanders’ campaign said his rally in Manhattan’s
Washington Square Park brought out 27,000 people, one
of the largest gatherings in support of the 74-year-old
democratic socialist who has galvanized Democrats and
independents alike with his calls for reforms to corporate
America and remedies for income inequality.
Idaho possible site for nuclear waste storage
BOISE (AP) — The U.S.
Department of Energy lists
the Idaho National Labo-
ratory as a possible site for
storing about 1,300 dump
truck loads of low level radio-
active waste.
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preferred
alternative
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ronmental impact statement
made available in March
is the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant geologic repository near
Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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possibility in three other
alternatives that also include
the Hanford nuclear reserva-
tion in Washington state, the
Nevada National Security
Site and the Savannah River
Site in South Carolina.
Possible methods of
disposal at the 890-square-
mile federal site in eastern
Idaho include an intermedi-
ate-depth borehole disposal
facility, a near-surface trench,
or in a vault, the document
says.
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document said the report to
Congress must include all the
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environmental
impact
statement for disposal of the
waste is not a decision. “The
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the statement said.
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ment said the waste needs to
be stored due to heightened
concerns in the wake of the
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,
because terrorists could get
possession of the radioactive
waste that includes sealed
sources “and use them for
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ered the nation’s primary
lab for nuclear research, but
it also stores some nuclear
waste.
Former Idaho Govs. Cecil
Andrus, a Democrat, and Phil
Batt, a Republican, attained
in 1995 an agreement with
federal authorities limiting
nuclear waste shipments. The
Department of Energy in its
statement to the AP said the
low level radioactive waste
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such waste was a violation.
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should do is comply with
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Wednesday. “Don’t talk about
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reviewing the document and
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