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Your Weekend
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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
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Sat
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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.
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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