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REGION East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, April 22, 2017 HERMISTON Pedestrian distracted by phone hit by train, badly hurt Festival street design on city council agenda By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian The Hermiston Urban Renewal District’s first big project is on the agenda for Monday’s city council meeting. The council will be asked to approve final designs for the proposed festival street on Northeast Second Street next to city hall. The first phase of the project, which is estimated to cost $991,239, will raise the street to the level of the sidewalk, creating a more pedestrian-friendly environ- ment, and will also include brick work, landscaping, benches, ornamental lighting and other decorative features. Removable posts will allow the street to be closed to vehicle traffic during events. Phase 1 is scheduled to be completed in early 2018. Later phases will create a plaza with a large fountain and splash pad across from city hall and extend the festival street down to the soon-to-be-built Harkenrider Center. The project will be discussed during a work session at 6 p.m., before the council’s regular meeting at 7 p.m. at city hall. Monday’s agenda will Associated Press BEAVERTON — An Oregon woman who was distracted by her cellphone is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a freight train in a Portland suburb. Detectives have not been able to speak with Cindy Rodriguez since the accident, Beaverton police spokesman Mike Rowe said. Rodriguez, 26, was not wearing headphones, he said, and she is not deaf. Multiple visual and auditory warnings were all functioning, and the train’s conductor climbed onto a walkway on the front of the engine to try to get her attention, he said. “The conductor was on the front of the train screaming and yelling at her,” he said, adding that the engineer inside the train blasted the horn. “The walk signal actually talks so it was saying, ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ She’s in the crosswalk, and one of the rail arms is actually next to her as she’s walking through.” Officers responding to the scene tied two tourniquets around Rodriguez’s most severe injuries so that para- medics could get her into an ambulance as quickly as possible. “This is an extremely tragic incident and is a sobering reminder to all of us to be aware of our surroundings at all times,” Rowe said. Contributed image This concept image shows the proposed Hermiston festival street improvement project. also include a public hearing on a request by Eastern Oregon Development, LLC to create a neighborhood commercial overlay zone on 8.24 acres of land on the northwest side of Highland Avenue and Southwest 11th Street. The proposed zone would keep existing uses but add mini-storage and multi-family dwellings as conditional uses. Another planning commission item on the agenda for Monday is a request for the council to direct staff to begin researching and drafting residential code amendments to promote more residential development in Hermiston. Promoting construction of more housing was a top priority that the city council named during a January goal-setting session. A presentation by chap- lain Terry Cummings will recognize National Law Enforcement Appreciation Week May 14-20, and the council will also consider two amendments to the lease between the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center and the Umatilla County Fair, bringing the indemnification language in line with what is used for public entities and allowing the fair to terminate the lease if the county does not allocate funds to pay for it. The council will also consider a bid from General Pacific, Inc. to supply new remote-read “smart” water meters to the city. The full agenda packet can be found online at hermiston. or.us/citycouncil-meetings. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4536. PENDLETON Police break up counterfeit money operation and Crabby’s Underground Saloon. His arraignment is Tuesday in Pendleton. In addition to the five, Bowen said police are looking to talk to a key witness and another person who has a probable cause arrest affi- davit. Police have not confirmed the identity of the other four suspects, who Bowen said remain at-large. The first fake $100 showed up around March 9, and more bills appeared during the next 10 days or so. Bowen said sometimes the suspects asked a business to break a bill in exchange for 20s, or they would buy a couple of sodas and candy and pocket $90-plus dollars in real cash. By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Pendleton police broke a counterfeit ring that circulated fake $100 bills. Detective Howard Bowen said a Umatilla County grand jury indicted five suspects Thursday and police are rounding them up. Dustin James Verrall, 24, of 1021 S.W. Nye Ave., Pendleton, is one of the five. Pendleton police arrested him in late March for passing off some of the fake $100 bills. Verrall got out of jail soon after his arrest. He faces five counts of first-degree forgery, a Class C felony, for using the counterfeit money at the Pendleton Denny’s restaurant and moved fast to bring it to an end. Pendleton police also obtained a search warrant for a residence on March 24 and seized computers, chemicals and bills with duplicate serial numbers. Bowen said the group used chemicals to wash out $1 bills, then printed over the paper to make them looks like $100s. That allowed the fakes to pass the counterfeit detection pens many busi- nesses use. Those pens use iodine, which produces a dark stain when it comes into contact with starch in paper. The pens are nowhere near foolproof, as this case illustrates. Even legitimate bills that pick up starch from outside sources Police collected 10 to 12 of the fakes, he said, and several Pendleton businesses fell victim to the ring, including Bare Bones, the Packard, Crabby’s Underground Saloon, and Dave’s 12th Street Chevron. “... This was stealing from local businesses,” Bowen said, “and they are small business owners that work hard to make their way in our community.” Pendleton patrol officers did the ground work to make the cases, he said, from responding to the calls about the money to rounding up surveillance videos and interviewing witnesses. As the reports rolled in, the department realized the scope Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Someone could use counterfeit money to buy drugs on the street, he said, and when the dealer figures that out, there would be pay back and the need for the major crimes team. “All these things have the ability to run down that road,” he said. ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0833. 3 5 5 3 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain will soak parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic as severe storms push across the South Central states today. Showers will dampen the northern Plains, central Rockies and coastal Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 97° in Presidio, Texas Low 16° in Hohnholz Ranch, Colo. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 71 85 59 56 60 85 72 55 87 54 55 53 66 57 58 79 50 68 84 79 55 89 62 86 66 87 Lo 45 62 47 45 42 56 47 43 68 45 37 41 49 35 38 53 27 37 73 52 41 62 39 67 47 60 W s pc r r pc c pc c pc r pc c pc pc c s pc pc sh pc c s r s c s Sun. 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