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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Oregon flush with marijuana cash
MEDFORD (AP) — As legal-
ized marijuana brings more busi-
ness to Oregon, some communities
are seeing a large amount of cash
in the economy thanks to strict
regulations keeping banks away
from the businesses.
Banking officials say that after
years of moving away from cash,
financial institutions have seen
a recent influx due to the mari-
juana industry, The Mail Tribune
reported.
“We’re seeing much more cash,”
says Jeri Reno, chief operating
officer at Medford-based People’s
Bank of Commerce. “It really is
the unintended consequences of
passing new state laws.”
Many banks will not offer lines
of credit to marijuana businesses
due to high federal penalties for
holding pot-tainted money. As
a result, the marijuana industry
operates with cash. Dispensaries
pay their employees, landlords,
lawyers and most other people
with cash that is then spent in
grocery stores and on other daily
tasks.
Reno said the supply chain best
illustrates how far reaching cash in
the marijuana industry can be.
“A marijuana grower is going
to need irrigation, fencing,
greenhouse supplies and soil,”
Reno says. “So you can see how
far-reaching it is in that it impacts
so many businesses in the valley.”
As a result, building supply
firms, for example, saw increased
cash as growers acquired fencing
and construction materials.
“We’ve had people come in and
pay three, four or five thousand
BRIEFLY
Dozens gather for
vigil for teen shot by
Portland police
PORTLAND (AP) — The
mother of a 17-year-old who
was shot and killed by a
police officer during a robbery
investigation says her son
was family oriented and had a
magnetic personality before his
death.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports that dozens of people
gathered Sunday to hold a vigil
for Quanice Hayes, who was
fatally shot by a Portland police
officer Thursday.
At the vigil, Hayes’ mother,
Venus Hayes, asked the public to
remain from speculating about
the circumstances around her
son’s death. She has asked that
anyone with information about
the shooting called the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Police say Hayes allegedly
used a replica gun to rob a man
sitting in a car near Portland
Value Inn of his state food
benefits card before fleeing from
police.
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, file
In this Sept. 30, 2016, a marijuana harvester examines buds from a
trimming machine near Corvallis.
dollars in cash for the materials
they needed,” says Becky Hingle,
office manager for Hughes Lumber
Co. “We’ve seen a lot of cedar
fencing go out of here.”
People’s Bank Vice President
and Operations Manager Dawn
DeVita said the southern Oregon-
based institution does not work
directly with marijuana businesses,
but it has seen an increased volume
of cash circulation.
“So indirectly, we have a cash
society again,” DeVita said. “We
kind of went back 10-plus years.”
The increase in cash came when
recreational use became legal in
July 2015, Reno said. Growers
began obtaining licenses from the
state in May 2016.
Because the Bank Secrecy Act
requires banks to monitor customer
deposits for any Anti-Money
Laundering law violations and file
reports of suspicious activity to the
U.S. Treasury, many banks now
have to spend more time dealing
with the influx of cash.
“It has evolved over the last
five years,” DeVita says. “We have
daily reports, weekly, monthly. We
look for behaviors with algorithms
for things outside of normal busi-
ness patterns. Based on our size,
we’ve seen a substantial increase
in those. It’s nothing directly
related to the marijuana industry,
but to BSA regulations.”
removed. Watkins said that could
cost as much as $20,000.
“We’ll have to get all new
uniforms, remove some of the
symbols on the walls and in other
places,” Watkins said. “We haven’t
come up with total cost estimates
just yet.”
The issue of Native American
mascots has taken several turns
since the state Board of Education
voted in 2012 to prohibit them,
giving school districts five years to
comply.
A major revision allows school
districts to keep their mascots if they
obtain written approval from one of
Oregon’s nine federally recognized
Indian tribes.
Watkins said he contacted the
Confederated Tribes of the Grande
Ronde because of their affiliation
with the Kalapuya Tribe, whose
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WEDNESDAY
Freezing fog this
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Occasional
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Cloudy, showers
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FRIDAY
Chilly with some
sun
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47° 34°
44° 32°
41° 30°
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35° 34°
35° 28°
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46°
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Feb 26
First
Mar 5
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Seattle
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5:21 p.m.
9:38 p.m.
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Pullman
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33/27
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Enterprise
Hermiston
49/41
Pendleton 37/24
The Dalles 35/28
36/23
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Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 53/42
53/45
John Day
43/11
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
33/18
54/45
44/28
Caldwell
Burns
39/22
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MOUNT VERNON, Wash.
(AP) — Charges have been refiled
against an Oregon man who
tried to shut off an oil pipeline
north of Seattle last fall to make a
statement about climate change.
The Skagit Valley Herald says
the charges were refiled against
60-year-old Kenneth Ward, of
Corbett, in Skagit County Superior
Court Wednesday, after a jury
failed to reach a verdict Feb. 1.
Ward faces felony burglary
and sabotage charges for the Oct.
11 incident in which he broke
through a fence and turned a
safety valve along the Kinder
Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline
near Burlington. That pipeline
carries crude oil from Canada to
refineries in Washington.
During his trial, Ward admitted
to breaking into the facility and
turning a valve on the pipeline.
He said he hoped to inspire a
transition off of fossil fuels.
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Charges refiled against
pipeline protester after
hung jury
BEND (AP) — Public safety
officers at a central Oregon
community college who were
criticized for investigating cases
without having any authority to
do so have stopped such action.
The Bulletin reported
Thursday that following talks
with the Deschutes County
District Attorney’s Office, public
safety officers at Central Oregon
Community College will no
longer attempt to undertake
investigations.
District Attorney John
Hummel says public safety
officials do not have jurisdiction
to investigate crimes the way
campus police do at universities.
Hummel said he was concerned
with the frequency with which
campus security had been
undertaking investigations.
College spokesman Ron
Paradis says the campus officers
weren’t out of line that frequently,
but the school has changed its
policy and no longer investigates
crimes or makes arrests.
members settled across the Willa-
mette Valley and surrounding areas,
according to the Oregon Historical
Society.
“The tribe was amazing to work
with,” Watkins said. “But at my last
meeting with them I could see the
hesitancy. They want to support us,
but they’re getting a lot of grief over
it.”
A tribe official was not imme-
diately available Monday for
comment to The Associated Press.
The school is named for the
Mohawk River, a tributary of the
McKenzie River.
The Mohawk River and the
surrounding
Mohawk
Valley
received their names in 1847,
when an early settler said the valley
reminded him of the Mohawk River
in his home state of New York,
according to the historical society.
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GOVERNMENT CAMP
(AP) — A 19-year-old
snowboarder reported missing
after riding out of bounds of the
Timberline Ski Area on Mount
Hood has been found safe.
Mountain Wave Search and
Rescue said in a Tweet early
Sunday that rescuers found
the teen. He had been reported
missing Saturday evening.
KGW-TV says that the
Clackamas County Sheriff’s
Office confirmed Sunday
afternoon that the snowboarder
had been found safe.
He had been riding with a
group of people but had gone
out in front of them and later
couldn’t be found.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Nathan
Thompson says the
snowboarder’s tracks led into
a canyon area where people
commonly get lost.
Community college
security officers to
stop illegal action
Mohawk High School drops Indians as name of teams
MARCOLA (AP) — Mohawk
High School teams have been
known as the Indians since the
school was established in the late
1920s.
That’s about to change.
A community survey and several
town hall-style meetings prompted
the district to decide to adopt a new
nickname and symbol, Marcola
School District Superintendent Bill
Watkins told The Register-Guard.
Watkins said 52 percent of those
who completed the survey wanted to
drop the name Indians. Forty-eight
percent wanted to keep it.
The district, located about 25
miles northeast of Eugene, hopes to
choose a new mascot by next month.
The switch involves more than
just picking a new name. A large
image of an Indian on the floor of
the school’s gym will have to be
Missing snowboarder
found near Mount
Hood
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 89° in McAllen, Texas
Low -9° in Big Piney, Wyo.
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