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MICHELLE THACKER OF WESTON REGION/3A FOOTBALL/1B LOCALS READY FOR SHRINE GAME CONDON TEEN DIES IN CRASH Enjoy a $10 coupon to Pendleton Music Co. FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2016 140th Year, No. 205 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend • • • Ruckus in the Boonies in Heppner Irrigon Watermelon Festival on Saturday Vanilla Ice at Wildhorse Resort & Casino For times and places see Coming Events, 6A Catch a movie Michele K. Short/STX Productions via AP “Bad Moms” From the guys that made the Hangover movies comes an R-rated comedy about three mothers cutting loose. For showtime, Page 5A Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun SINK OR SWIM Staff photo by E.J. Harris Tammie Parker, vice president of human resources for BMCC, center in red,talks to a group of swim supporters about the problems with the pool at the college on Thursday in Pendleton. 100/67 95/59 88/57 Clinton’s pledge: Steady hand at ‘moment of reckoning’ PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifi er for divided times, an experienced leader steeled for a volatile world. She aggres- sively challenged Republican Donald Trump’s ability to do the same. “Imagine him in the Oval Offi ce facing a real crisis,” Clinton said as she accepted the Democratic nomination for president. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from fl ag-waving delegates on the fi nal night of the Demo- cratic convention, relishing her nomination as the fi rst woman to lead a major U.S. political party. But her real audience was the millions of voters watching at home, many of whom may welcome her experience as secretary of state senator and fi rst lady, See CLINTON/7A Deteriorating BMCC pool stirs passion during tour By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Blue Mountain Community College and the local swimming community have found themselves in troubled waters. That was evident Thursday evening as the college hosted a tour of its broken-down pool. The facility gets heavy use. Pendleton High School, Hermiston High School and Pendleton Swim Association swim teams practice and compete at the pool. The swimming association teaches classes here. Adult swimmers from the commu- nity swim laps and participate in water aerobics. The pool shut down this the summer as usual and was drained as it is every three years, but instead of opening up in September, it could stay closed if a solution doesn’t fl oat to the surface soon. An overhaul would cost an estimated $2.3 million. About 125 people showed up Thursday night at the McRae Activity Center for a tour of the pool. They followed BMCC Vice-Pres- ident of Administrative Services Tammie Parker and watched as Parker pointed out cracked concrete, rusty pipes, ineffi cient pumps, insuffi cient HVAC system and sheetrock bulging from moisture. Her audience stood at the edge of the bone-dry pool and looked grave. PENDLETON Many wore swim team t-shirts. “The pool basically needs a redo,” Parker said. “It needs to be resurfaced. It needs new decking. Everything in the pump room needs replacing.” Ventilation is an issue that recently came to light. State standards that prevent moisture build-up or chem- ical byproducts inside enclosed pool areas have become more strict over time. An inspection in the near future See POOL/10A HERMISTON Swedish exchange student Use of force returns for 60th class reunion doubles, complaints stay put By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian There’s no argument about who traveled the farthest for the reunion of the Pendleton High School Class of 1956. Jan Stoltz, who some say was Pendleton’s fi rst exchange student, fl ew from his home in Lund, Sweden. That’s almost 5,000 miles as the crow fl ies, though most crows top out at about 80 miles per day and they certainly don’t fl y over Greenland. Pendleton continues to Staff photo by E.J. Harris pull Stoltz back. This is Jan Stoltz, of Lund, the third time the youth- Sweden, was Pend- ful-looking 78-year-old leton’s fi rst ever has returned to town since exchange student and his memorable senior year traveled all the way at PHS. from Scandinavia to That original journey attend his 1956 class reunion this week in to Eastern Oregon resem- Pendleton. bled the plot of “Trains, Planes and Automobiles.” he shared with Forrest- He traveled by boat to er’s son, Mike, and set Quebec and by train to off on a trip to the beach New York City. He fl ew with his host family. to Los Angeles, San Fran- Back in Pendleton, Stoltz cisco and then Portland watched the Pendleton and rode the fi nal leg to Round-Up with fascina- Pendleton on a bus. EO fi le photo tion. A contingent of A 17-year-old Jan Axel Stoltz arrives in “I had never seen well-wishers greeted the Pendleton in 1955 as part of the Rota- rodeo,” he said. “This was ry exchange program. He was greeted 17 year old at the bus the Wild West.” stop. Stoltz remembers by Don Fossatti, high school principal, As the start of school and George Corey, president of the feeling stunned by the approached, his host Pendleton Rotary Club. attention. The welcoming father suggested a haircut. committee included a front page. “Mr. Forrester sent me to the photographer from the East The teen stayed at the home barber to get a crew cut,” Stoltz Oregonian. The next day, Stoltz of East Oregonian editor Bud recalled. “My hair had a James opened the newspaper to see a Forrester. Stoltz unpacked his photograph of himself on the few possessions in the bedroom See STOLTZ/10A By ALEXA LOUGEE East Oregonian Hermiston police offi cers used force 14 times in the 2015-2016 fi scal year, twice as many times as the year before and a little higher than the national average. Police Chief Jason Edmiston presented his report to the Hermiston Safety Committee before Monday’s city council meeting and provided a copy to the East Oregonian. The department classifi es a use of force as “any incident which rises to the level of more than More inside just the application Youth of handcuffs on a Hermiston’s offi cer position person.” If offi cers deemed a success have to use any after one year physical controls, Page 3A such as an arm bar take-down or leg sweep, the incident is considered use of force and placed under review. The department used force in 0.94 percent of its 1,492 arrests in the last year. The police department has consistently held use of force incidents to less than one percent for at least the last six years. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ police-public contact survey, among persons who had contact with police in 2008, 0.7 percent had force used against them. This is the same national percentage for 2005 and 2002, other years when the survey was conducted. Every use of force by the Hermiston department is reviewed through an internal See POLICE/7A