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Friday, October 6, 2017
East Oregonian
Police to crack down on jaywalking
at busy Highway 395 intersections
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Hermiston police are
cracking down on jaywalkers
on Highway 395.
Police
Chief
Jason
Edmiston said his depart-
ment started a zero tolerance
campaign for October to
curtail pedestrians crossing
the highway through town
whenever or wherever they
want. He warned jaywalkers
should not expect mere
warnings.
“When I say ‘zero toler-
ance,’ then enforcement is
going to be the norm and
education secondary,” he
said.
He said this campaign is
akin to Oregon’s emphasis
on
distracted
driving.
Jaywalkers can block traffic
and worse, he said, and
distracted pedestrians have
walked into vehicles.
Edmiston said Hermiston
police
received
several
complaints about jaywalkers,
primarily at the intersection
with Highland Avenue and
between Orchard and Jennie
avenues. He also said he saw it
for himself while off duty. He
added Highway 395 carries
a fair share of truck traffic
through town, and “those
vehicles don’t stop on a dime.”
Various Oregon statutes
can apply to jaywalking,
Edmiston
explained.
Crossing against a light in an
intersection, for example, can
result in a ticket for failure to
obey a traffic control device,
while walking into and
blocking traffic can draw a
disorderly conduct charge,
which carries the threat of
arrest. He said Hermiston
officers are to double-check
to make sure they apply the
correct law depending on the
circumstances.
“Our intent is not to
increase arrests for disorderly
conduct, but as written, it’s a
tool we can use if the circum-
stances apply,” he said. “We
want people to conform to
the norms of society, and
willy-nilly walking across
a four-lane or a five-lane
highway ... because you feel
like it, is not conforming.”
Some residents might not
like the crackdown, he said,
but as Hermiston grows and
new people come into the
city, police need to continue
enforcing the regulations and
laws on the books. Edmiston
said he anticipates the
enforcement might generate
complaints about jaywalking
from other areas of town,
but for now the focus is on
Highway 395.
PENDLETON
Resident escapes late-night trailer fire
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Pend-
leton Fire Chief Mike Ciraulo
said a late-night trailer fire
could have ended in tragedy.
The fire department
received
a
call-out
Wednesday at 11:02 p.m. for
a fire at Riverside Mobile
Estates, 2712 N.E. Riverside
Ave. Ciraulo said they arrived
and saw smoke coming out
of the trailer in space 66.
The occupant was about
to shower, Ciraulo said,
when she smelled smoke,
rushed out to a neighbor’s
and called 9-1-1. The fire
was “burning vigorously”
through insulation under
the furnace, Ciraulo said,
and firefighters worked
for hours pulling out the
insulation. They cleared
the scene around 3 a.m.
Thursday.
Ciraulo said the woman
lived there with her
boyfriend, who was hunting,
and he returned when crews
were wrapping up. If she had
been asleep, the fire could
have turned fatal — Ciraulo
said the trailer did not have
any smoke alarms.
HERMISTON — the
public is invited to help
The Arc Umatilla County
in celebrating its 50th
anniversary.
The nonprofit
organization advocates for
people with developmental
and intellectual disabilities
throughout Umatilla County.
The Arc offers activities
to connect families and
community members and
focuses on improving
services and opportunities
for people with disabilities.
The celebration is
Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 5:30-7
p.m. at The Arc building, 215
W. Orchard Ave., Hermiston.
The event includes a free hot
dog dinner at 5:30 p.m. and
cake at 6:15 p.m.
Everyone is invited to
eat, visit with others and
learn more about The Arc
and its mission. For more
information, call Kristi
Smalley, vice president, at
541-571-0997.
New rules served for
mobile food vendors
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The city of Stanfield has
passed an ordinance regu-
lating mobile food vendors
in the city.
While the city hasn’t
had food trucks regularly
in the past, a request for
a business license to run
a food truck sparked
concerns from the city
council that permanent
seating and other features
would be added to make
trucks more of a restaurant
than a true mobile vendor.
“There was a desire to
have them mobile and clean
and operating as a mobile
food vendor should,” City
Manager Blair Larsen said.
The final draft of the
ordinance, which was orig-
inally based on Hermis-
ton’s mobile food vending
ordinance and then went
through several revisions,
was passed during Tues-
day’s city council meeting.
Mobile food vendors
must be located in the
downtown district or other
industrial or commercial
zones, and must be at least
200 feet from the property
line of any restaurant
unless the owner gives
written permission. The
vendors must not add
seating, tables, shades or
other such items for use
by patrons to eat on-site.
The food trucks must
close by 9 p.m. each night
and be moved at least 400
feet away by 10 p.m., not
returning until at least 6
a.m. the next morning.
The unit’s colors must
be consistent with the city’s
downtown development
code, and the unit must
be self-contained without
extra natural gas, water
tanks, gray water recepta-
cles or other items on the
ground. Other standards in
the code govern health and
safety requirements for the
unit and the property where
it is parked.
For more information
contact Stanfield City Hall,
541-449-3831.
Garbage service may
come under city control
East Oregonian
Photo contributed by Pendleton Fire & Ambulance
Pendleton firefighters climbed underneath a trailer to put out the blaze in the insu-
lation Wednesday at Riverside Mobile Estates in Pendleton.
The fire department is
working with the local Lions
Club to install free smoke
alarms in homes, and Ciraulo
said Riverside Mobile Estates
already was on the schedule
for Saturday.
The cause of the fire
is under investigation, he
added, and trailer’s interior
sustained smoke damage.
The couple is now staying
Focus groups
highlight cancer
research, testing
Community members
across the state of Oregon
are invited to share their
thoughts and opinions about
research, genetic testing and
cancers that can be inherited.
A series of 32 focus
groups in communities
across Oregon are being
sponsored by Oregon
Health Science University’s
Community Research Hub
and Knight Cancer Institute’s
Cancer Early Detection
Advanced Research Center.
Each group will consist of
5-10 participants.
Upcoming stops include
Friday, Oct. 13 from 6-7:30
p.m. in Baker City, Saturday,
Oct. 14 from 10-11:30 a.m.
in La Grande and Monday,
Oct. 30 from 6-7:30 p.m.
in Pendleton. Oregon
residents age 18 and older,
including cancer survivors
and patients, physicians
and others with an interest
in inherited cancers, are
invited to register for the
group. Refreshments will be
provided
For more information,
to register or to learn more
about other upcoming focus
groups, contact 503-418-
9832, communityresearch@
ohsu.edu or visit www.
oregontalksgenetics.org.
Booster club
supports Mustang
programs
HEPPNER — A hearty
meal and lots of auction
items are featured during
the Heppner Booster Club
Dinner and Auction.
The event is Saturday,
Oct. 14 with dinner
beginning at 6 p.m. at the
Heppner Elks Lodge, 142 N.
Main St. The auction starts
at 7 p.m. The event features
a live auction, silent auction
and raffle items.
Dinner tickets are $15. For
more information, call Melissa
Lindsay at 541-256-0366.
with family.
Ciraulo also emphasized
if Pendleton residents need
a smoke alarm to contact the
fire department at 541-276-
1442.
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Book club lights up
with Koppel book
HERMISTON — Ted
Koppel’s latest book about
the potential consequences
of a cyberattack on
American’s power grid is
featured at the upcoming
Hermiston Public Library
book club meeting.
Bookminders will discuss
“Lights Out!” Wednesday,
Oct. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at The
Pheasant Bar & Grill, 149
E. Main St., Hermiston.
Koppel, a longtime
broadcast journalist, is best
known for his longtime
anchor role on “Nightline.”
The book club, which is
free and open to everyone,
meets the second Wednesday
of each month. Copies of
the book are available at the
library. For more information,
call 541-567-2882.
The city of Irrigon
is considering bringing
billing and coordination
for all trash services under
the city’s umbrella, in order
to ensure all properties
have trash service and to
make sure trash is removed
weekly.
The consolidation, if
approved, will also aim to
simplify bill paying and
reducing the cost of trash
services.
Irrigon City Manager
Aaron Palmquist said the
decision would be made
in November or December
and would take effect
either Jan. 1 or April 1 of
2018.
Price changes would
include a $1.20 drop for
90-gallon weekly carts at
residential accounts — from
$15.20 to $14 per month.
Current customers with a
35-gallon container would
be able to maintain their
current sized containers, but
new customers would have
to purchase a 90-gallon
container.
Currently,
properties
in Irrigon get sanitary
disposal services through
a franchise agreement, but
the city hopes consolidating
the services will make the
process more consistent
and less expensive, Palm-
quist said.
PENDLETON
Chalmers named to board
for League of Oregon Cities
East Oregonian
the board at the League’s
92nd Annual Conference in
A Pendleton city coun- Portland. The organizations
cilor is one of the newly provides advocacy services,
policy consulting,
elected members
training and tech-
on the League
nical assistance to
of Oregon Cities
city governments.
board of direc-
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tors.
a city councilor
P a u l
from North Bend,
Chalmers, who is
will serve as pres-
also the Umatilla
ident of the board.
County
tax
Tessa Wine-
assessor, is one
barger, a city
of five new 2018
councilor from
board members Chalmers
Ontario, is also a
for the league,
which represents Oregon’s new appointee and the only
other representative on
241 incorporated cities.
Chalmers and his new the board from east of the
colleagues were elected to Cascades.
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