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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
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
MONDAY
SUNDAY
Clouds and
sunshine
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
66° 44°
61° 43°
Periods of rain
TUESDAY
Cloudy, showers
around; cool
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 42°
56° 44°
56° 41°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
66° 45°
69° 45°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
62°
64°
92° (1934)
38°
40°
26° (1951)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.27"
0.83"
7.54"
4.15"
4.79"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
65°
66°
92° (1934)
35°
40°
20° (1951)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.54"
0.57"
5.47"
2.98"
3.68"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Apr 26
May 2
61° 47°
63° 44°
Seattle
58/47
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
59° 45°
Full
5:57 a.m.
7:51 p.m.
4:12 a.m.
3:28 p.m.
Last
May 10
May 18
Today
WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cool
Spokane
Wenatchee
65/41
61/43
Tacoma
Moses
58/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 67/41
65/42
56/47
58/43
67/39
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/47
69/47 Lewiston
70/45
Astoria
70/47
56/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
62/46
Pendleton 61/38
The Dalles 69/45
66/44
65/44
La Grande
Salem
65/42
61/46
Albany
Corvallis 62/45
62/45
John Day
66/42
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
72/48
61/44
58/34
Caldwell
Burns
72/48
66/39
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
56
63
58
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66
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69
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68
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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Hi
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
81
78
90
58
79
45
62
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70
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WINDS
Medford
68/46
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
61/35
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds limiting sunshine
today; a shower, but dry in the south. A
shower tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Periods of
clouds and sunshine today; warmer in the
south.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today;
arriving in the afternoon in central parts.
Eastern Washington: Episodes of sunshine
today; some sun, then turning cloudy in
the north.
Cascades: Times of clouds and sun today.
Overcast tonight; a shower in spots across
the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny today;
pleasant in central parts. Mostly cloudy
tonight.
Today
Sunday
NW 6-12
SSW 7-14
WSW 8-16
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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will cause the ink to give a
positive reaction.
Bowen said the counterfeit
process they used was a first
for him, and some of the fake
money “looked pretty good.”
Bowen also said he was
concerned the fake money
could lead to serious violent
crime. 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.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0833.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Forecasts and graphics provided by
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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
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59
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72
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87
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Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
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