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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016
141st Year, No. 9
Your Weekend
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Halloween happenings
and Fall Festival
Raley bronze statue
dedication ceremony
Domestic Violence
Services soup supper
For times and places
see Coming Events, 6A
Sat
MALHEUR WILDLIFE REFUGE STANDOFF TRIAL
NOT GUILTY
Jury acquits leaders of Malheur standoff of federal charges
Weekend Weather
Fri
Sun
By STEVEN DUBOIS
and GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
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One dollar
WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
54/44
PORTLAND — A jury delivered
an extraordinary blow to the govern-
ment Thursday in a long-running
battle over the use of public lands
when it acquitted all seven defendants
involved in the armed occupation
of a national wildlife refuge in rural
southeastern Oregon.
Tumult erupted in the courtroom
after the verdicts were read when an
attorney for group leader Ammon
Bundy demanded his client be
immediately released, repeatedly
yelling at the judge. U.S. marshals
tackled attorney Marcus Mumford to
the ground, used a stun gun on him
several times and arrested him.
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown
said she could not release Bundy
because he still faces charges in
Nevada stemming from an armed
standoff at his father Cliven Bundy’s
ranch two years ago.
The Portland jury acquitted
Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and
fi ve others of conspiring to impede
federal workers from their jobs at the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
near Burns.
See TRIAL/8A
Former
sheriff
endorses
challenger
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Ryan Lehnert received a
key endorsement in his race
for Umatilla County sheriff
with less than two weeks
before the election.
John Trumbo, the retired
county sheriff, said he
supports Lehnert for the
job over incumbent Terry
Rowan, who for six years
was Trumbo’s undersheriff.
Lehnert has garnered
several other endorsements
from the law enforcement
community, including his
own boss Pendleton Police
Chief
Stuart
Roberts,
Trumbo’s predecessor James
Carey, and William Caldera
and Tim Addleman, police
chiefs from nearby Pilot
Rock and The Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation.
Rowan is backed by
Oregon Sen. Bill Hansell,
Rep. Greg Smith and Rep.
Greg
Barreto,
county
commissioners Bill Elfering,
George Murdock and Larry
Givens, and the union
representing sheriff’s offi ce
employees and the offi ce’s
administrative staff.
Trumbo retired at the
start of 2013 after building
a career in Umatilla County
law enforcement, including
16 years as sheriff. He said
he once told Rowan what a
Staff photos by E.J. Harris
Ready for the rivalry
Pendleton and Hermiston will play the fi nal game of the regular season Friday, 7 p.m. at Kennison Field. LEFT:
Pendleton quarterback Nick Bower looks downfi eld for a receiver in the Bucks’ 33-23 win against Hood River
Oct. 14 in Pendleton. RIGHT: Hermiston’s Jonathan Hinkle runs the ball on his way to a touchdown in the
Bulldogs’ 54-0 win against Ridgeview Oct. 7 in Hermiston. For more on the game, see Sports/1B.
vs.
Pendleton vs. Hermiston
Friday, 7 p.m.,
Kennison Field, Hermiston
See SHERIFF/3A
PENDLETON
Graphic design in
cowboy country
Portland students try
hand on storefronts
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Richard Stapleman talks about his business with a group of Portland design stu-
dents on Wednesday at his shop, Stapleman’s Custom Boot Shop, in Pendleton.
Pat Beard could have been
a tour guide from anywhere –
except for his boots, cowboy
hat and unrestrained western
fl air.
The tall, burly cowboy led
a group of six students from
Portland’s Pacifi c North-
west College of Art down
Main Street on Wednesday
afternoon like a mama duck
with her chicks. Beard, of
Travel Pendleton, let the
commentary rip, describing
the Pendleton Round-Up
as “Mardi Gras meets John
Wayne” and pointing out
local watering holes, archi-
tecture and bronze statues.
This wasn’t your typical
tour group, though. As they
walked, the graphic design
and illustration students
strained to catch their fi rst
glimpses of two businesses
– Stapleman’s Custom Boot
Shop and Zimmerman & Co.
hardware store.
As the fi nale for a senior-
See DESIGN/3A