REGION
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
East Oregonian
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HERMISTON
Judge denies request to ease
Treasure hunt leads to ice cream party
Logman’s 24-hour supervision
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
With National Night Out
just around the corner the
city of Hermiston, the East
Oregonian and the Hermiston
Herald are gearing up for the
annual treasure hunt.
Tim Miears, training
officer/evidence custodian
with
Hermiston
Police
Department, hid a golden
medallion as part of the annual
National Night Out festivities
in Hermiston. Attached to a
red, white and blue ribbon,
it’s about 3 inches in diameter.
In his first year involved with
the treasure hunt, Miears said
it should be fun for those who
look for the hidden medallion.
“What kid didn’t like to
play hide and seek?” he said.
Annual National Night
Out activities have been going
on across the country for 34
years and this is Hermiston’s
19th year of participating.
The event, Miears said, helps
introduce neighbors to each
other, which helps in reducing
crime. It also provides an
opportunity for police and
firefighters to visit with citi-
zens in a laid-back setting.
“It’s a time to provide
positive interaction with
law enforcement and fire
personnel,” Miears said.
“People can get to know
each other in a relaxed atmo-
sphere.”
The purpose of National
Night Out is to encourage
people to get acquainted with
their neighbors. Studies show
that people take more owner-
ship in their neighborhoods
when they know who lives
there. Opportunities for crime
are reduced when neighbors
are more aware of who
belongs and their comings
and goings.
The city of Hermiston will
treat the person who finds the
medallion to an ice cream
social block party Tuesday,
Bipolar woman cut
throat of man who
stopped to give ride
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Tammy Malgesini
The person who finds this golden medallion, which is
hidden somewhere on public property in Hermiston,
wins a National Night Out ice cream social block party
Tuesday, Aug. 1.
Clue No. 1
Look up, look down
Look all around
You could be rockin’
really good
With the ice cream
party in your ’hood
Aug. 1.
City councilors, city
officials and emergency
responders will serve ice
cream at the winner’s party.
The EO is publishing
clues each day until someone
finds the medallion. In
addition, a bonus clue can
be found on the front page
of Wednesday’s Hermiston
Herald.
Miears encourages people
to get in touch with their
inner Sherlock Holmes. The
clues may refer to Hermiston
history, song lyrics, books,
movies or people.
Treasure hunt rules:
•The medallion is located
on public property. Although
not in plain view, searchers
won’t have to dig to find it.
•Participants must live in
Hermiston. Employees and
immediate family members,
or independent contractors,
of the Hermiston Police
Department, East Oregonian
and Hermiston Herald are
ineligible.
•The medallion is hidden
in the city.
The finder will not have
to leave property that is
publicly owned or controlled
by a public agency to find it.
•The person who finds the
medallion must immediately
take it to the Hermiston
Police Department, 330 S.
First St. If it’s found after 6
p.m., the person needs to call
541-667-5112 and leave a
message for Miears.
•The winner acknowl-
edges, by participating in the
treasure hunt, the EO will
publish his or her name and
picture, and the winner will
participate in the National
Night Out activities.
BRIEFLY
Fix pleads not guilty in death
of Pilot Rock man
PILOT ROCK — Angela Marie Fix, the
40-year-old Pilot Rock woman charged in
the death of Larry Castro, pleaded not guilty
Monday to first-degree arson and second-
degree manslaughter.
Fix entered the pleas Monday morning
during her arraignment in Umatilla County
Circuit Court. She
remains in Umatilla
County Jail, Pendleton,
on $500,000 bond.
A jury trial is sched-
uled for 9 a.m. Sept.
11-12 before Judge Chris
Brauer. A pretrial hearing
has also been set for 8:15
a.m. on Aug. 24.
Fix was arrested July
Fix
16 for arson following a
fire that ravaged Castro’s
home at 439 S.W. Birch Place, Pilot Rock.
Pilot Rock Police Chief Bill Caldera said
Castro’s body was inside the home. He was 72.
Fix has been assigned an attorney, Kara
Davis, from Intermountain Public Defender.
Rocky Mountain Colby Pipe
to reopen Pendleton factory
Pendleton’s Rocky Mountain Colby Pipe
Co., which closed its Pendleton plant in
February, is ready to reopen with expanded
production of PVC electrical conduit.
RMCP President Nicholas Lynch said in a
statement that the product was experiencing
“rapid sales growth.”
The company announced in April that
The case of Vanessa
Logman inched forward
on Monday with another
pre-trial hearing.
The mother of four
attacked a Good Samaritan
who stopped to give her and
her sons a ride near Pilot
Rock on June 4, 2016. The
Pendleton woman pulled
a knife from her purse and
cut the throat of Bill Porter,
of Hermiston, and injured
his ex-wife Brenda Porter.
Logman has undergone
psychiatric examinations to
determine her mental state
during the attack of which
she has said she has only
fuzzy memories.
The latest psychiatric
examination, conducted by
a mental health professional
from the state’s Psychiatric
Security Review Board,
hasn’t yet been filed, though
the deadline was June 28,
according to Logman’s
attorney Michael Breiling.
Umatilla Circuit Court
Judge Daniel J. Hill will
consider the coming report
when deciding whether
Logman should continue to
receive psychiatric treatment
locally, as she has for more
than a year, or be housed at
the Oregon State Hospital.
The night before the
attack, Logman’s husband,
Dan, arrived home from
work to find dinner prepared
and evidence that his boys
had been playing in the yard,
but no family. Vanessa, who
has bipolar disorder, had
set off in the family van for
Indian Lake with her sons.
She took no food, water
or camping gear and the
Ford Windstar’s gas tank
was almost empty. The
EO file photo
In this March 2017 file photo, Vanessa Logman
stands next to her attorney Michael Breiling during a
pre-trail hearing at the Stafford Hansell Government
Center in Hermiston.
family slept in the van and,
according to Dan, Vanessa
progressed to “a full-on
delusional state,” believing
she was being chased.
Vanessa, who previously
had only a single traffic
violation on her record,
doesn’t dispute that she
did the crime. She seeks
a verdict of not guilty by
reason of insanity.
Early on, Breiling negoti-
ated terms of release for his
client that required 24-hour
supervision and medication
monitoring by Logman’s
husband or mother. During
Monday’s hearing, Breiling
asked for an easing of that
requirement.
“There have been no
issues at all,” Breiling said.
“We ask that Mr. Logman
and her mother still super-
vise her medications, but
that they have a few hours
to themselves from time to
time.”
Jackie Jenkins, who is
chief deputy district attorney
for
Umatilla
County,
objected to any modifica-
tion of Logman’s terms of
release.
“It’s great that the
defendant has not had any
outbursts or violent acts
since the time that she
was arrested for stabbing
someone in the neck,”
Jenkins said. “But the state
believes that was due in
part to the fact that she was
supervised. The state has
legitimate concerns that
this defendant, if left to her
own devices, could harm
someone.”
Judge Hill denied the
request.
After the hearing, Dan
Logman expressed frustra-
tion.
“Obviously we feel
differently - that my wife is
not a threat,” he said. “There
were known medication
changes going on at the
time of the incident that
have since been corrected.
She has maintained stability
every day before and since
the incident. Based on that,
we feel that she should be
granted the conditional
release.”
He said the past year has
been rough on the family.
“We pray for Bill Porter
every night,” Dan said.
Judge Hill set the next
pretrial hearing for 9:30 a.m.
on Aug. 28.
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Contact Kathy Aney at
kaney@eastoregonian.com
or call 541-966-0810.
it would invest nearly $10 million into the
60-employee Pendleton plant. It closed in
February to accommodate the expansion
and is slated to reopen in September as the
most automated PVC conduit plant in the
United States. PVC conduit made up 36
percent of sales of RCMP’s sales in 2015.
The end market for most of RCMP’s
products is residential and commercial
construction, as well as recreational vehicles
and factory-manufactured housing. The
company had an estimated $99 million in
sales last year.
The company also announced it will sell
two of its Denver plants to Charlotte Pipe and
Foundry Co, a Utah-based company.
Milton-Freewater hires new
public works superintendent
MILTON-FREEWATER — Milton-Free-
water decided to look internally when
selecting a person to replace the city’s
longtime public works superintendent.
In a press release Monday, the city
announced Brian Steadman’s promotion to
the position.
Steadman is now in charge of the city’s
water, sewer, vehicle fleet, streets, parks and
recreation operations, facilities and storm
water management, in addition to several
other responsibilities.
Steadman joined the public works
department in 2011 as a public works
technician, having previously worked in the
city’s engineering and planning department
as an engineering technician.
A McLoughlin High School graduate, he
holds associate’s degrees in computer-aided
drafting technology and civil engineering.
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