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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
“There used to be a time that adults could vehemently disagree and still part ways as friends.”
— Beth Anderson, English teacher at Hermiston High School
PENDLETON
Pierce
vows to
work
in rural
Oregon
Governor candidate makes
stop in Round-Up City
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Speaker Hannah Walker asks a question of the opposition during a crossfi re section of the Hermiston High School debate fi nals
on Wednesday in Hermiston.
School districts give future voters a foundation in civics
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
While the world bemoans the
state of political discourse in the
United States, students across
Umatilla County are getting a
thorough civics education.
That was on display
Wednesday night as two teams
of Advanced Placement English
Language and Composition
students formally debated
whether the United States
should increase its economic
and/or diplomatic engagement
with China.
Mariah Mangione and Marvin
Hozi — the night’s winning
team — argued that the United
States must maintain trade with
China, albeit with tariffs, while
increasing its cultural and diplo-
matic infl uence there as a way to
encourage China toward a better
human rights record.
“We have so much trade with
China, we can’t just abandon
them,” Mangione, the night’s
top debater, said.
Hannah Walker and Lukas
Tolan took a different view,
arguing that a sharp decrease
in trade with China would be
such a blow to its economy that
the country would be forced to
stop sending the U.S. unsafe,
poorly-made products that were
built using slave labor.
“We cannot accept these
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HERMISTON
Pendleton High School mock election results
President:
Donald J. Trump 228
Hillary Clinton 155
Jill Stein 48
Gary Johnson 56
Governor:
Bud Pierce 187
Kate Brown 165
Cliff Thomason 60
James Foster 61
Aaron Donald Auer 18
Senator:
Ron Wyden 226
Mark Callahan 96
Steven C. Reynolds 59
Shanti S. Lewallen 52
Eric Navickas 32
Jim Lindsay 18
Representative:
Greg Walden 338
James (Jim) Crary 136
Secretary of State:
Dennis Richardson 156
Brad Avakian 94
Paul Damian Wells 74
Sharon L. Durbin 48
Michael Marsh 43
Alan Zundel 38
Sheriff:
Ryan M. Lehnert: 324
Terry L. Rowan: 142
Ballot Measure 96:
Yes 372 No 115
Ballot Measure 97:
No 298 Yes 178
Ballot Measure 98:
Yes 316 No 109
Ballot Measure 99:
Yes 351 No 109
Ballot Measure 100:
Yes 272 No 185
Measure 30-116
No 239 Yes 235
Ballot Measure 94:
No 256 Yes 224
Measure 30-117
Yes 287 No 200
Ballot Measure 95:
Yes 272 No 199
Measure 30-118
Yes 308 No 173
Six days out from the election,
Bud Pierce was back in Eastern
Oregon to encourage supporters. The
Republican gubernatorial candidate
met about 20 people at a downtown
coffee shop in Pendleton early
Wednesday.
“If I’m elected governor, I will be
your governor,” Pierce said. “I’ll be
rural Oregon’s governor.”
Pierce, an oncologist, said the best
way to get an unfi ltered take on what
the people of the state think is to go
where they are. He promised, if he
wins, to spend one week out of each
month living in a rural community.
He stayed on that message, saying
he would push for a natural resources
economy for rural Oregon, which
would add jobs and encourage youth
who leave for college to return home
to work. Then he got some unfi ltered
questions ranging from how to boost
state graduation rates, immigration
reform and how to save the state from
the Public Employees Retirement
System burden.
The PERS lament is a common
one, he said, but certain actions,
including modifi cations to the system
for current state employees, would
help. Pierce did not get into the details
— this was a meet-and-greet — but
said PERS is an issue Republicans
can win on.
State Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena,
was among the crowd. He said after
the event he was confi dent in the
work Democrat Sen. Betsy Johnson
of Scappoose and Republican Sen.
Tim Knopp of Bend are doing to
revise PERS. Hansell said lawmakers
likely will be tweaking the law to
save a dollar here and there. Still, he
said, such savings can add up, and
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PENDLETON
Transit committee
fi nalizes bus route
recommendations
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Plans for Hermiston’s
new bus system are ready for
primetime.
A proposal for the free
public transportation system,
including a route and budget,
will go before the Hermiston
City Council on Nov. 14 after
the city’s Transit Advisory
Committee fi nalized its
recommendations Tuesday.
The city will contract with
Kayak Public Transit, run by
the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion, to provide the service.
After placing maps of the
proposed route around Herm-
iston to gather feedback, the
committee spent two and a
half hours taking a fi nal look
at each stop on the route and
making adjustments. One of
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
We all bark for ice cream
Barry and Renee Rueppel of Pilot Rock feed ice cream cones to their fi ve dogs from the back of their
pickup truck Tuesday in the parking lot of McDonald’s restaurant in Pendleton. The Rueppels were giving
their dogs a treat for being good in D&B Supply before heading for checkups at their vet.