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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
BRIEFLY
Some farm bills quietly gain approval
modified organisms, or — historic homes can be
GMOs,
attempted
to converted into such ADUs
overturn the state govern- when a new house is built in a
ment’s pre-emption of local rural residential zone. Previ-
restrictions against such ously, the older building had
crops. They also
to be demolished
supported a bill
to make way for a
that would have
new home.
exposed
GMO
It will also be
patent
holders
easier to apply
to new financial
biosolids — often
liabilities.
called
sewage
All the above
sludge — to farm-
proposals failed,
land.
not
during
Biosolids
are
dramatic
floor
already regularly
votes, but because
used as fertilizer,
they were killed ANALYSIS but they’re often
off by legislative
generated
by
deadlines.
stationary sewage treatment
Lawmakers also sorted plants.
through a multitude of
House Bill 2179 clarifies
attempts to tweak Oregon’s that human waste from septic
land use laws to relax restric- tanks can be treated on-site
tions on farmland.
within farm zones in mobile
A
few
significant units that travel from prop-
proposals proved successful. erty to property.
With the passage of
Another successful bill
Senate Bill 677, companies ensures growers who lose
producing hard cider will farm structures to natural
enjoy the same land use rules catastrophes will be able to
as those producing wine, rebuild without interference
meaning they can process from the Department of State
and sell the beverage on Lands.
farmland while conducting
Last year, the agency tried
other agritourism activities.
to block a hay exporter from
Several
bills
would rebuilding two burned-down
have made it easier to build barns because they were
“accessory dwelling units” to suspected of being located
increase housing availability in a wetland, despite the
in rural areas.
property’s absence from any
Under House Bill 3012 wetland maps.
— which passed the House
House Bill 2785 clarifies
and Senate unanimously that landowners who want to
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Many atten-
tion-grabbing farm-related
bills considered during
Oregon’s 2017 legislative
session died quietly despite
much initial fanfare.
Meanwhile,
several
more-targeted and less-con-
tentious proposals were
approved without nearly as
much commotion, though
they’re likely to have on-the-
ground consequences for
growers.
Numerous bills drew
big crowds to committee
meetings where lawmakers
heard hours of impassioned
testimony.
Limits were proposed
for neonicotinoid pesticides,
dairy emissions, livestock
antibiotics and solar panels
on farmland.
New
lawsuits
over
pesticides would have been
possible under legislation
that removed “right to farm”
protections for chemical
applications and eliminated
the requirement to notify
farm regulators before filing
complaints.
Every water right in
Oregon would have been
subject to a new $100 fee
under one bill, while irriga-
tors would have to install
measuring devices under
companion legislation.
Critics of genetically
Jury selection
begins in Bundy
Nevada retrial
rebuild farm dwellings and
other agricultural structures
are exempt from Oregon’s
fill-removal laws, as long as
they receive county approval
and the original destroyed
buildings existed before
2017.
Before approving new
subdivisions, local govern-
ments will have to notify
irrigation districts early in
the process under Senate Bill
865.
Irrigation districts worried
that new housing projects
will disrupt canals and other
infrastructure,
prompting
them to propose the legisla-
tion.
After
some
initial
resistance from cities, a
compromise was struck and
SB 865 passed unanimously
in the Senate and 56-1 in the
House.
On the tax front, farmers
won a notable victory.
Beneficial tax provisions
— exempting agricultural
machinery from property
taxes and reducing property
tax rates for farmland —
were set to expire in seven
years under House Bill 2859,
whereas they’re currently
permanent.
The proposal drew such
vehement opposition from
growers that the House
Revenue
Committee
decided to scrap those
provisions during the bill’s
first hearing.
LAS VEGAS (AP) —
Jury selection has begun in
federal court in Las Vegas
for the retrial of four men
who brought assault-style
weapons to a standoff that
stopped government agents
from rounding up Cliven
Bundy’s cattle in April 2014.
Proceedings started
Monday after several last-
minute rulings by the judge
limited defense plans to tell
jurors the four men were
exercising constitutional
rights to protest government
tactics during the roundup.
Defense attorneys
maintained in the first trial
that their clients drove
from Idaho and Montana
to Bunkerville, Nevada,
after Bureau of Land
Management agents used
dogs and stun guns against
Bundy family members.
A jury found two men
guilty of some charges, but
failed to reach verdicts for
four others.
Craigslist and Backpage.
com reportedly generated
hundreds of responses. But
it was the would-be perpe-
trators who actually traveled
to the apartment who were
arrested, according to a
Washington State Patrol
news release.
The operation was led
by the state patrol’s Missing
and Exploited Children Task
Force, with 45 local, state
and federal law enforcement
officers and prosecutors
participating.
“We realize that this is
just a tip of the iceberg,”
Trooper Chris Thorson told
the Herald. “We collaborated
with multiple agencies to
capture as many of these sex
predators as possible.”
Thorson said officers had
been working on the operation
Twenty-six men have been
arrested over the past four
days for allegedly showing
up at a Richland apartment
intending to have sex with
young girls and boys.
The suspects nabbed in the
multi-agency effort range in
age from 20 to 70, with two
living in Pendleton and 22
others from the Tri-Cities.
The child sex sting, dubbed
“Tri-Cities Net Nanny Opera-
tion,” involved undercover
detectives using various
websites to chat with people
interested in having sex with
children.
The two Pendleton men
arrested were Ryan D. Harris,
32, and Daniel A. Medina, 20.
The postings on sites like
for some time, setting up the
online ads and communicating
with those who responded to
see if they were interested in
meeting up.
The arrests were made
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday night. The
suspects’ cars were either
seized or impounded as part
of the investigation, Thorson
said.
The crimes investigated
include attempted rape,
commercial sex abuse of a
minor, possessing and dealing
child pornography, and
communication with a minor
for immoral purposes.
Investigators also identified
five people who have access
to children at risk of being
abused, the state patrol release
said. Now they’re working
to identify those kids and get
them appropriate assistance.
“Children are becoming
increasingly vulnerable to
sexual predators due to the
growth of the internet,”
WSP Chief John R. Batiste
said in the news release.
“Thanks to the hard work
by our law enforcement and
prosecutor partners, we are
able to make Washington
communities safer for our
families.”
This is the eighth Net
Nanny Operation in Wash-
ington state since August
2015, which have led to
115 arrests and 21 victims
rescued.
The men locked up in the
Tri-City operation have inves-
tigative holds for both felonies
and misdemeanors. A few
also have Immigration and
Customs Enforcement holds.
federal grand jury has
indicted a man accused
of throwing lit flares at a
patrol car and a Target store
during the May Day protest
in downtown Portland.
The indictment handed
down Friday charges
22-year-old Damion
Feller with two counts of
malicious damage by means
of fire.
Feller was arrested on
state charges shortly after
the protest, and pleaded not
guilty to arson, riot, reckless
burning and criminal
mischief.
An affidavit filed in
May says after Fuller was
arrested, police showed
him a photograph of the
person throwing the flares.
The affidavit says Fuller
told police, “I saw that
online and knew I was
(expletive).”
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REGIONAL CITIES
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
Sunny and
beautiful
Plenty of sunshine
87° 55°
92° 58°
THURSDAY
Abundant
sunshine
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Sunshine and hot
Very hot with
plenty of sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
93° 59°
95° 62°
94° 57°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
95° 60°
91° 59°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
88°
88°
106° (1975)
65°
58°
40° (1911)
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
Trace
Trace
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7.20"
7.67"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
89°
88°
106° (1975)
70°
58°
46° (2009)
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"
0.00"
0.07"
6.59"
4.93"
5.77"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
July 16
July 23
5:17 a.m.
8:44 p.m.
10:18 p.m.
7:49 a.m.
First
Full
July 30
99° 66°
98° 60°
Seattle
74/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Records
97° 61°
Aug 7
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
83/58
87/61
Tacoma
Moses
75/50
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 89/55
80/49
66/53
75/49
90/58
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
74/52
89/62 Lewiston
90/57
Astoria
88/58
65/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
78/55
Pendleton 81/45
The Dalles 91/59
87/55
86/59
La Grande
Salem
85/48
81/52
Albany
Corvallis 81/49
82/50
John Day
86/54
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
92/59
81/48
85/49
Caldwell
Burns
91/56
87/45
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
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
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WINDS
Medford
93/58
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
87/48
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds followed by
sunshine today. Mainly clear tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun
today; pleasant. Clear tonight. Plenty of
sunshine tomorrow; hot.
Western Washington: Low clouds giving
way to sunshine today. Mostly clear tonight.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine today. Clear
to partly cloudy tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Nice today with plenty of
sunshine. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; sunny in central parts. Partly
sunny in the interior mountains.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 6-12
W 6-12
WSW 7-14
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CAVE JUNCTION (AP)
— An Oregon perseveration
center says a camel has
died after being injured
in a southwestern Oregon
shooting last week.
The camel named
Camille was standing
across the highway when
a man opened fire in Cave
Junction on July 1. Police
say one man was injured
and one dog was killed in
the incident.
Robert Ringo with the
Tiger Preservation Center
told the Daily Courier that a
stray bullet had hit Camille
above the eye. She died two
days after the shooting.
Police say 30-year-old
Joseph Carl Sallman of
Grants Pass was on the run
for almost three days before
he was arrested July 4. He
has four charges including
attempted murder.
Corrections
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PORTLAND (AP) —
The Multnomah County
Sheriff’s Office has
renewed its search for a
7-year-old boy who went
missing in 2010.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports that
search and rescue teams
on Sunday were looking
for Kyron Horman in an
area about five miles from
Skyline Elementary School
where he was last seen.
Sheriff’s spokesman
Sgt. Brandon White says
the search does not follow
any new information in the
case. He says it’s an area
that investigators have not
searched before.
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Sheriff renews
search for boy
missing since 2010
Protester faces
federal charges for Camel among
southwest Oregon
May Day fires
PORTLAND (AP) — A shooting victims
Child sex sting nets 26 arrests over four days
By KRISTIN M. KRAEMER
Tri-City Herald
The affidavit says Feller
told detectives his actions
were based on a “mob
mentality.”
Portland police said
the damage to patrol car
exceeded $1,000 and
the damage to Target far
exceeded $1,000.
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8-10, Very High;
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National Summary: Storms will affect parts of the Deep South, lower Great Lakes and New
England today. Storms will dot part of the West as heat holds in the Southwest. A heat
wave will build in the mid-Atlantic states.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 111° in Needles, Calif.
Low 34° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
88
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
97
Omaha
96
Philadelphia
93
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
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Providence
83
Raleigh
94
Rapid City
98
Reno
96
Sacramento
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St. Louis
99
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 96
Wichita
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