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“Everyone in education talks about being kid-fi rst. Offi cer Hamby is truly
a person who comes to school every day with kids fi rst on his mind.”
— Troy Jerome, Pendleton High School Athletic Director
Clinton
claims
historic
victory
By JULIE PACE and LISA LERER
Associated Press
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton Police Offi cer Glenn Hamby talks with passing high school students on Tuesday in the halls of Pendleton High
School. Hamby has been the school resource offi cer for 17 years and is retiring this year.
Goodbye, Offi cer Hamby
Pendleton school resource offi cer connected with thousands of kids
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
At age 60, Pendleton Police
Offi cer Glenn Hamby holds a
Guinness Book-worthy distinc-
tion.
“I am the oldest fi fth-grader in
Pendleton, Oregon,” he says.
This, of course, isn’t techni-
cally true, though Hamby has
gotten to know just about every
fi fth-grader to come through the
Pendleton school system in the
past 17 years. As the depart-
ment’s school resource offi cer,
he taught DARE (Drug Abuse
Resistance Education) classes to
thousands of them.
Tuesday was Hamby’s last
day of school. He will trade his
uniform, bulletproof vest and
gun for shorts, sandals and a
Hawaiian shirt.
The job he is leaving involved
an eclectic mix of duties.
Besides teaching DARE to
Pendleton, Helix and Echo fi fth-
graders, he rotated between the
high school and middle school.
For many students, a relation-
ship with Hamby was their
fi rst personal connection with a
police offi cer. He counseled them
after fi ghts or bullying incidents.
He shot the breeze with them
NEW YORK — Claiming her place in
history, Hillary Clinton declared victory
Tuesday night in her bruising battle for the
Democratic presidential nomination, becoming
the fi rst woman to lead a major American polit-
ical party and casting herself as the benefi ciary
of generations who fought for equality.
“This campaign is
about making sure there
are no ceilings, no limits
on any of us,” Clinton
said during an emotional
rally in Brooklyn, eight
years to the day after
she ended her fi rst failed
White House run. As she
took the stage to raucous
cheers, she paused to Clinton
relish the moment,
fl inging her arms wide and beaming broadly.
Clinton had already secured the delegates
needed for the nomination, according to an
Associated Press tally. She added to her totals
with victories in New Jersey, New Mexico and
South Dakota, three of the six states voting
Tuesday.
Clinton faces a two-front challenge in the
coming days. She must appeal to the enthu-
siastic supporters of her rival Bernie Sanders
— who insists he still has a narrow path to the
nomination — and sharpen her contrasts with
presumptive Republican nominee Donald
Trump.
She sought to make progress on both, using
her own loss in 2008 to connect with Sanders’
backers.
“It never feels good to put our heart into
See CLINTON/7A
PENDLETON
City agrees
to 100-unit
State tests its readiness for the Big One apartment
Four-day simulation includes
complex
20,000 participants in three states
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton Police Offi cer Glenn Hamby jokes with freshman
Amanda Harrington on Tuesday at Pendleton High School.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Federal and state
emergency management offi -
cials kicked off a four-day exer-
cise Monday to test Oregon’s
preparedness for the Big One.
Seismologists have long said
a 9.0 or greater magnitude earth-
quake is overdue in the state’s
Cascadia Subduction Zone, a
fault that stretches from Northern
Vancouver Island to Cape
Mendocino, Calif. The quake is
expected to cause thousands of
casualties, collapsed buildings
and bridges and billions of
dollars in economic damage.
About 15 million people live in
the subduction zone.
The four-day simulation of
the earthquake and tsunami
started Monday with Gov. Kate
Brown declaring a catastrophic
disaster and notifying federal
and out-of-state authorities of
the need for assistance.
“This might seem so over-
whelming that preparation by
individual Oregonians or state
government is too big of a
task, but I want you all to know
that we can do this,” Brown
said. “We can do this together.
Preparedness is readiness. We
will do it together, building a
better prepared and more resil-
ient Oregon, one step at a time
and one brick at a time. Today
See HAMBY/10A
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Janae Sergeant/EO Media Group
Maj. Gen. Michael Stencel, standing next to Gov. Kate
Brown, addresses a question about the Cascadia Rising
earthquake readiness drills.
we take a major step toward
resiliency.”
Brown then joined emer-
gency management offi cials on
a helicopter to mimic surveying
the damage in the wake of a
disaster and to watch Portland
Fire and Rescue and the Air
Force Reserve perform joint
See EARTHQUAKE/10A
Pendleton City Council agreed to
contribute $176,651 for infrastructure to a
planned 100-unit apartment complex at the
Pendleton Heights development — but they
needed some convincing.
The apartment complex was a change of
plans for the subdivision, which was origi-
nally going to build 32 more townhouses in
its third phase to complement the 40 units
already built.
Developer Saj Jinvanjee said he is
struggled to recoup his investment from the
fi rst two phases because of the high cost of
developing the rocky, inclined land and the
property taxes on the individual lots.
Jivanjee said building an apartment
complex would be easier to build while still
adding more inventory to Pendleton’s tight
housing market.
The council was hesitant to meet Jivan-
jee’s request.
Councilor Chuck Wood said he and
Councilor Neil Brown were on the plan-
ning commission when Pendleton Heights
was fi rst proposed and recalled the strong
resistance it received from residents and
landlords.
He said he was uncomfortable making
changes to the plans when some members of
the public opposed the development when it
was only 72 townhouses. Several councilors
See PENDLETON/10A