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Visit the Pendleton Round-Up Gift Shop for a free keychain JUNE PARR OF PENDLETON SEATTLE PRO WINS SENIOR OREGON OPEN PENDLETON MAN DIES IN CRASH GOLF/1B REGION/3A FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2016 140th Year, No. 210 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD HERMISTON Your Weekend EOTEC rejects rodeo arena bids Both bids over $4M budget Film Frame/Lucasfi lm via AP • • • “Star Wars” plays at Movies in the Park Free First Friday all day at Tamastslikt Daddy-Daughter Dance at St. Patrick’s Church By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Almost a year before the 2017 Farm-City Pro Rodeo, the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center board rejected all bids on construction of the new rodeo arena. During a special meeting Thursday morning John Frew, president of project manage- ment company Frew Devel- opment Group, noted that EOTEC has only $4 million available to build the arena. Neither bid hit that mark. Bothum Construction, a Hermiston-based residential contractor, put in a bid at $4,477,138. Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company, a residential and commercial contractor out of Bend, submitted a bid of $4,740,000. Bothum Construction is owned by David Bothum, one of the founders of the Farm-City Pro Rodeo who has helped upgrade and main- tain the current rodeo arena over the years. He resigned More inside Rotary Club gives $25,000 to EOTEC Page 3A See EOTEC/8A For times and places see Coming Events, 6A PENDLETON Catch a movie School leaders defi ne safety terms Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP “Suicide Squad” When the heroes are out, send in the villains to fi ght the supervillain. For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri 92/59 Sat 87/59 Sun as clear as an August day in Eastern Oregon,” Wyden said. “We are going to be trying to use this as a model As the mass shooting that killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg has begun to fade from the public’s memory, it has stayed at the forefront of Mark Mulvihill and Stuart Roberts’ minds. The InterMountain Education Service District superintendent and Pendleton police chief told an audience of school administra- tors and law enforcement from across Eastern Oregon how the events in Southern Mulvihill O r e g o n spurred them to action, including the school secu- rity confer- ence they convened at Roberts the Pendleton Convention Center Thursday. “We seemed almost desensitized and hopeful that that event wasn’t going to be us,” Mulvihill said. “I know every school adminis- trator in this room keeps up at night and wonders, ‘Have I done everything I possibly can to keep my kids safe?’ And also at the same time hoping, ‘Man, I hope that’s not me that it happens to.’ When you think about it that way, have you really done everything you can?” Mulvihill and Roberts began discussing ways they could help prevent a school See POWER/8A See SCHOOL/8A 84/56 Obama denies $400M to Iran was ransom WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters. “This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama said during a news conference at the Pentagon. The money was delivered to the Iranian government in January, at the same time the nuclear deal was settled and the Americans were released. The payment was part of a See IRAN/8A By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris U.S. Senator Ron Wyden speaks in front of a solar panel covered car port at the Oregon National Guard facilities at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton. The balance of power Wyden tours solar array at National Guard armory By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Against a backdrop of newly installed solar panels at the Oregon National Guard armory in Pendleton, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden spoke enthu- siastically about what he described as the “new frontier of renewable energy.” Wyden arrived in town Thursday morning for the offi cial dedication of the 150-kilowatt solar array, part of the Army’s More inside net-zero energy Wyden fi red up pilot program. to prevent The project is forest fi res expected to cut Page 3A the facility’s energy bills by more than $11,000 annually, and has already generated 166,644 kilo- watt-hours of electricity — enough to offset 119 tons of carbon dioxide. The Oregon Army National Guard was selected in 2011 as one of nine locations to test the net-zero initiative, with the goal to achieve net-zero Staff photo by E.J. Harris Oregon National Guard Col. Ken Safe speaks about the guard’s plan for energy conservation at the Oregon National Guard facilities in Pendleton. energy by 2020. Speaking to a group of local offi cials, Wyden praised the effort as a benefi t to jobs, the environ- ment and national security. “The link between these benefi ts is PENDLETON FAA issues $500K civil penalty against SeaPort Claims airline failed to perform inspections on three planes By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian EO fi le photo The fl ight crew of a SeaPort fl ight prepares for departure at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton. SeaPort Airlines continues to pay for the sins of its past. The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday a proposal to fi ne SeaPort $500,000 for operating three single-engine Cessna Caravans that it deemed were not airworthy. A press release from the FAA claims the Port- land-based airline failed to perform and document borescope inspections on the planes’ turbine compressor blades, as required by a directive from the agency. If the compressor turbine blade fails, the engine could lose power. “Airworthiness Directives are critical safety tools,” said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta in the release. “Safe operations depend on metic- ulous compliance with their requirements.” The three planes were used for 583 fl ights while inspec- tions were overdue, which led to allegations that the aircraft were not airworthy. SeaPort also failed to record the method of compliance See SEAPORT/8A
