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The Eastern Oregon Regional Airport is carrying $2.5
of local oppo
million in debt, but action by the Pendleton City Council
Watch a game
rtunities
could provide immediate relief and a path to total repay-
on Manufactu
ring Day
ment.
Staff photo by
The city’s auditor, Rob Tremper, and Finance Director
By JAYAT
E.J. Harris
vs.
I RAMAKRISH
Linda Carter explained to the city council Tuesday how
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ian
the city could write off a significant amount of the loan’s
interest and gave a general primer on the airport’s debt.
There are
to work in a number of ways
Mountain View
Here’s how it would work:
vs. Pendleton
manufacturin
Friday
What is the airport debt?
Friday, 7 p.m.,
g. On
, some
Round-Up Arena
students got Morrow County
Decades ago, the city began taking loans from other
of them up to see just a few
city funds to subsidize airport operations. Since 1995, the
close.
For Nation
airport’s debt on those
al Manuf
turing Day,
loans has grown to more
ac-
the Port of
hosted
Morro
than $2.5 million.
w
15 studen
By the numbers
Heppner,
ts from
The city borrows from
Riverside Ione, Irrigon and
a multitude of internal ■ $2.5 million —Total
airport debt to other
to them high schools, talking
sources, but the lion’s city
funds
programs about certifi cation
share comes from the ■ $1.2 million — Total
Community at Blue Mountain
general fund, the city’s interest “repaid” on
By ANTONIO SIERRA
in data centers College, working
only discretionary fund those loans since 1995
, and job oppor-
East Oregonian
tunities in
that pays for services like ■ $1 million —
County. and around Morrow
police, fire and parks.
Pendleton’s aquifer
Amount of debt taken
“Morrow
Deepening wells
ABOVE:
storage and
recovery system
In accordance with a off the books if city
A group
County
Patterson,
third
has
rope swing
of walke
won plaudits
ranks
in Oregon
whose work in
from the state and
state law, Carter said the retroactively reduces
hangs from rs use the trail
the
development of
annual-wage for the highest
By CHRIS LEHMAN
Pendleton’s ASR
a tree over
during a
achievement for been a crowning
airport fund pays back the interest rate to 0.5%
system earned him
Davis, the jobs,” said Kalie
Walk
Oregon Public Broadcastin
the Umat
works director, but the city’s public
illa River Hermiston event
g
balance of the loans at the
2016 Top Ten Public a spot on the
workforce Port of Morrow’s
at Steelh
it isn’t a silver
development
bullet.
ead Park on Wednesday
end of each fiscal year.
by the American Works Leaders
dinator. “We
at Riverf
outside of
A task force
coor-
Public Works
Despite the innovative
created
Hermiston. ront Park in
But at the beginning of the new year, the airport takes out by Oregon
Association, compared
to know what’s want (students)
Hermiston. Staff photo by E.J. Harris
system that
Secretary
allows Pendleton
extracting
the loans again and re-establishes the debt.
groundwater to straws
BELOW:
what the needs available and
State Dennis Richardson of
An old
its drinking water to funnel most of
is
The city is paying back the interest on the loans each
Pendleton has eight in a bowl.
from the Umatilla
Before headin are.”
recommending that
straws
River
in the
rather than pumping
g off to Lamb
bowl — wells that
year, but in name only.
Weston for
redistricting be done future
it from the
ground, the city’s groundwate
by an
gallons of water per pump 8.5 million
spent time a tour, students
According to a spreadsheet presented to the council,
independent commission
r supply
day during peak
has still dwindled over
talking to
.
use.
McMi
the city has paid more than $1.2 million in interest since That would
the years.
Jerry
chael,
be
The numbers fl
chair of the the department
The city eases
1995. Although that money repaid to the various funds
cant change from a signifi -
on whether it has uctuate depending
the current
consumption by its groundwater
Technology Industrial Systems
been a wet or dry
is represented in the budget, it isn’t backed up by actual
model, which tasks
drawing
winter,
progra
Oregon
water
but Public
directly from the
the differe
m, about
lawmakers with drawing
cash.
Bob Patterson said Works Director
winter and spring, river during the
up
learn. He nt skills they can
a plan.
“What you’re forgiving is an IOU,” said City Manager
treating it and
walked studen
levels have dropped groundwater
storing
throug
it
at the water fi ltration
Robb Corbett.
Redistricting is
h a lab
1.4 feet per year for an average of
plant
with severa ts
in east Pendleton.
stations,
of drawing new the process
How does interest write-off affect the debt?
l
since the ASR went the past 14 years The water
equipment each set up with
Utilizing micro-turbi
and congressional legislative
online.
pressure for the
The loans’ interest rate has long been tied to the Oregon
Staff photo by
nes that
districts to
That’s better than
of Pendleton’s well
power fi ve wells
E.J.
in different they’d learn to use
match shifts in population.
the average 3.5 on a gauge at city well 14 city
Local Government Investment Pool and has fluctuated
and a fi rst-of-its-
water system Harris
jobs.
feet per year decrease
on the west side
currently operates
He walked
of Pendleton. The reads kind siphon design used for
eight wells for
before. But
between 1 and 7 percent over the past two decades. takes place every 10 years, It
the new system
them throug
its drinking water
water
city fi ltration, the
the pneum
isn’t consistently
city has stored billions
system.
Development
h
But as an alternative, state statute also allows the following
city
the U.S. Census.
preventing groundwate
of gallons of water
air powere atics system, or
of
Oregon’s next redistricting
r loss, much in Oregon, but cities across
Umatilla River parks, trails and wildlife
less recharging the
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plagued region that in a drought- air motors d pistons and
Eastern Oregon landscape the arid prediction is dire.
help more
aquifer.
will occur in 2021.
members of habitats along the western
Groundwater depletion
rely on
inches of rain per averages just 12 mechanical , hydraulics, and
the same supply.
the public access
“At some point,
The current method
year.
discussed in an agricultural is often
the river.
which include drive systems,
of
On balance, the city
If the area can’t
to go dry,” he said. someone’s going
allowing lawmakers
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context
222-acre Oxbow
now draws and
stop drawing
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to
chains
draw
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heavily
percent
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pulleys
the maps is “susceptible
belts
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from the aquifer, Patterson’s
W. Elm Avenue
reclamation
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of where and stored from of its supply from water examples . He showed them
area
when.
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to political manipulatio
percent to
the cooler months,
of rigging
survive. Some
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and lifting
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to the
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are
open mind students
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working to caretakers of its Columbia provid trees continue to still standing.
as
for a career.
inherent confl ict of
they
grow they
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banks are
By ANDREW TAYLOR
ration and strike a balance betwee
“I bet
will
allowing legislators interest in
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recreat
The Associated Press
n resto- send clearer water back attract wildlife and
guys who you money that the
Oxb
Near Hermi ion.
their own districts to draw
Not all trees
into the river.
work
with pumps
they didn’t
ranch known ston, a 220-ac
their own voters.” and pick
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re former said the biggest are good news. Sater
WASHINGTON
as the
want to be start out saying, ‘I
East Oregonian
purchased
vehicle and pointed Legislative
his
W. Orchard
a pump tech,’”
by the Bureau Oxbow site was is removal of the thing the property needs
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redistricting
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Riverfro
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gun at Morrow County
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years ago
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Congress
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for $29 billion in disaster
vegetation,
Park
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up. Somet s, their eyes light
on the land volunteers planted
W. Highland
Attorney Justin Nelson will Haak, although he did not
aid
imes
7,000
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to
be a “massi
to cover ongoing
Avenue
property
that passion
trees
comes later.”
and establi restore the natural
hurricane
ve
bring charges against a man fire the gun.
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fl oodplain
relief and recovery
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56 percent sh more wildlife habitat
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some kind every other plant
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insurance claims.
said.
systems,
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to be inside the
of Reclamati
September.
almost $200 million
ecosys
al and replace
on; City of
After proble ist Chet Sater said. natural species could
Hermiston
a day
ment with tem.
vehicle, which
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for emergency
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run
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native
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expected
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Tour of
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homes LEFT: This Sept. 4 photo
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bringing
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opened the rear
charges based
Eagle
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Creek
Associated
wildfi re burning
Irma, important Maria on Cayo Santiago, this Oct. 4 photo, a monkey
and Maria.
passenger door,
on
evidence
in the Columbia Press
known
walks over the
sites for research
Riv-
rubble left
into how primates as Monkey Island, in Puerto
White House
looked out, and
presented by the Hurtado
think, socialize
budget protect
Rico, one of the in the wake of
director Mick
and evolve.
pointed a gun at
DA.
world’s most
low-income policy-
disaster
told lawmakers in Mulvaney holders from big
relief
Efren Hurtado, 26, will Haak.
efforts.
rate hikes, Federal
offi cially allow
submitting the request
fi refi ghting accounts winds down and, once again,
Haak quickly fired two
be charged with unlawful
request
that drop the government to would receive
the Forest Service
the federal fl ood
from the program
needed to sition but signaled oppo-
use of a weapon, menacing rounds, one of which struck
$577
insurance properties
to the administrat
as well to replenish million rob money from important
program “is not designed
and carrying a concealed Hurtado in the side of the
them fi re prevention
proposed restrictions ion’s
to repeatedly that have been after a disastrous
handle catastrophic
work to pay fl ood
fl ooded, and
on
weapon. He is currently head, dropping him but not
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insurance.
Western wildfi res. season of for fi ghting wildfi res,”
like those caused by losses phasing out policies
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lodged in the Umatilla penetrating his skull.
Harvey, homes
on new
COMBE
“This funding request
said in a statement. he
Rep.
Irma,
Capital Bureau
and
in
Greg
fl
Maria.
ood
is
35-day legisla
According
to
Nelson,
a
zones.
“We
County Jail.
Walden must not
The NFIP
(R-Oregon) applauded
is simply not fi scally
only supplement good start, but those affected
In
the
which is due tive session,
Hurtado was shot in the Haak rushed back to
meantime, funding
the
SALEM
able in its current sustain- Wednesday’s
to begin Feb.
designated to recoup those accounts to pay for by Maria, Harvey, Irma and
form.”
early hours of Sept. 22 in a his car for cover, called
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wildfi
1,
the cost of this fi
Gov. Kate
proposal would request fi refi ghting costs, as well
Mulvaney proposed
re season, and res still have a long
One propos
parked Chevy Tahoe on the dispatch, and waited for
provide the included
as but
a $16
a push to Brown renewed
package of changes
al,
recommenda- how it’s past time that we fi x said diffi cult road ahead,”
to the fl ood billion to pay those tion that
westbound side of Inter- other police officers to
restricting tighten state laws to the Governor’s according
Minority
we pay for fi res
fl ood insurance
forestry reform
claims, along
Leader
would
gun owners
and
Offi
state 84 near the Boardman arrive. Officers arrived to
Friday.
that, among others, program billion for Federal with $13 pursued to help curb wildfi be treat them like the natural Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
hip purcha prevent a person ce,
from
would gency
find Hurtado unconscious
Emer-
re disasters they
“We should act
exit.
sing
Days after
are.”
Management Agency borrowing going forward.
on this
and until” a fi rearm “unless
supplement
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Nelson said the grand with a revolver near his
shootin
The
deadly
“Another fi re
al quickly, but it
Senate’s top Demo-
Oregon State
g in Las
season crat quickly
Vegas that Police verify they
jury heard testimony hand. Hurtado had been
took 58
backed the aid
are
hundreds, lives and injured to do so. As it stands, eligible
and video indicating that recovering at a Portland
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A woma
Brown
in
people
Oregon can
by E.J. Harris
Oregon lawma called on
Hurtado leaned out of the hospital.
foothills n takes a pair of
still purcha
horse
of the Blue
se
politics aside” kers to “put a gun without backgr
Mountains s out for a run
and pass two check if OSP
ound
throug
proposals
on Friday
doesn’
near Adam h a stubble fi eld
2017 legisla that failed in the them in 72 hours. t verify
under the
s.
This often
called the
tive
“Charl
But it’s not session.
apparent what hole,” after the eston loop-
will change
shooter in
Charleston
lawma
the
minds in
the upcom kers’ was able to church killings
purchase his
ing
gun
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Task force:
Independent
commission
should
redistrict
Drought-resistant
Pendleton still
sees dwindling grou
ndwater
Riverfront
to $29B disaster
package
Government
agencies bal
on western
ance prioritie
stretch of
s
Umatilla Riv
er
View
N.W. 11th Street
Firefi ghting fund
ing added
Road
Hurtado charged
with crimes after
being shot by officer
Parks and
reclamati
on
ve r
Ri
r
ve
S.W. 11th Street
S.W. 17th S tree t
Local investor in biodiesel project
warns against getting ‘suckered’
City plan could
slash $1 million
in airport debt
Harvest Festival
Saturday in Boardman
Free First Friday
at Tamastslikt
Live musical theater
all weekend at
BMCC
For times and
places
see Coming Events,
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
A team of seniors called the Gender Benders engages in a slimy tug of war Wednesday during
Pendleton High School’s Mud Wars at the Happy Canyon Arena. The girls won the event.
One dollar
AWARD
District
a
Morrow County
Nelson said al
Attorney Justin
found no crimin
grand jury in deputy Aaron
wrongdoing 22 shooting of
Haak’s Sept.
an armed man. jury Monday
police
The grand
watched
the
afternoon
e from
footag
place
video
L
that took near
By JADE MCDOWEL
shooting
ate 84 jury
East Oregonian
along Interst
The grand
Boardman. testimony from
to bring
also heard
Companies hoping to the former
detective who
the state police the case. After
development projects Depot won’t be
investigated the evidence, he
Umatilla Chemical for at least eight
reviewing
jury if it
the
able to get started the Army pushed
said he asked
more months after for transferring the
offi ce to pursue
wanted his t Haak.
the latest deadline to May.
agains
s
was
se
charge
respon
land from December
else we can
“And their
“I don’t know what director of the
said.
ris Carlson
AP Photo/Ch
no,” Nelson said the shooting
do,” said Greg Smith, nt Authority.
casino on
E.J. Harris
Nelson Hurtado Jr., 26,
Staff photo by
resort and
Columbia Developme
alay Bay
17,000 acres
ring
victim, Efren
Nildia Resendiz
the Mand
Once the land —
an, is recove
with students
Interstate 84 and
festival near
of Boardm d hospital, and
an occupied bed
at the junction of of Hermiston —
at a music
tes how to make .
talk to
at a Portlan
shooting
s, right, demonstra
in Pendleton
Interstate 82 outside the U.S. Army’s
enough to
of a mass
Jessica Humphrey
Tuesday at BMCC
was well spite of taking a
the scene
is transferred from be divided up as an
Nursing instructor and Cristina Hernandez on
bodies from
police, in head.
Rios, lying down,
ownership, it will
truck with
t training
Vegas.
bullet to the Heppner, parked
s load a
ay in Las
Oregon Military Departmen
of
Investigator Strip Mond
and industrial
older
Haak,
an
refuge
base, a wildlife
car behind west-
the Las Vegas
his police
on the
land.
predecessor
Chevy Tahoe of Interstate 84
In June 2013, Smith’s
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
the East Oregonian Senior Zachary Ferguson gets a hug from senior Felix Aparicio after Ferguson spoke about how much their friendship
bound side for Boardman
Don Chance told
of the prop-
near the exit morning hours
meant to him during a “Breaking Down the Walls” session Wednesday at Riverside High School in Boardman.
that transfer of a portion
Military Depart-
in the early 22. Nelson said
erty to the Oregon happen within 60
in the
of Sept.
the day before
from being together
ment would likely of it transferred to
sisterhood of sorts education.
other offi cers
rest
, and Haak
the
with
vehicle
days,
of nursing
the
for businesses
noticed the to make sure state
Aldean at
experience is daunting. achs, dean of the trenches
who has read
local control in time in 2014. That’s
Bakewell-Sachs,
ng singer Jason
music
was going it for towing.
By KATHY ANEY
Susan Bakewell-S University School
fans watchi 91 Harvest country dove
along with a voluminous
to open their doors since — transfer
tagged
article
is
Science
&
she
Oregonian
Atlantic
said
police
Health
East
ics,
data,
couple
Oregon
ANEY
the Route
been the story ever happen “soon,”
of nursing industry
deny the demograph
Pendleton
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ne else.
of Nursing, doesn’t a deep, cleansing breath. amount panic mode.
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festival. The
of the property will
with everyo at least
East Oregon
looming?
announcement that
cover along
but suggests taking stopped at Blue Moun- not in
off a cliff tomorrow,”
re killed
followed by an Realignment and
Is a nursing shortage
“We’re not racing don’t want is to foster
to her for barrage of gunfi ed more than
Bakewell-Sachs
on her
on’s posts
the Army’s Base shifted the timeline
Maybe.
wound
“What you
nd The
College recently
g in
become a nurse’
Elaine Anders t this weeke a 59 people and
tain Community a white coat ceremony she said.
mass shootin
Closure offi ce has more months.
Maybe not.
need everybody to
to
accoun
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situation seems dire.
the worst . SWAT offi cers
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HERMISTON
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realistic. We need
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seemed typical
Smith said at this deadline given,
Our population is
nearby
the
vacation.
one of OHSU’s satellite
The Ameri
we have the
people turn 65
nursing program is
also have ensure
Las Vegas ing in the hotel pool. of a swarmed the Casino and found Craig
skeptical of any
HO and
AARP, about 10,000
May 2018
system.”
and BMCC and OHSU
are getting older too.
By SALLY IA CANO
achs switched to
Resort and shooter, Stephen
of swimm Fountain. Images
including the newest
single day. Nurses cusp of crisis as a 2016 campuses, .
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Carla Hagen,
caring for preterm from a
timeline, but “we
Are
with
festiva
Between
after
and
sat
night,
es
achs
music
declared?
academia
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rifl
k,
Bakewell-S
came to OHSU
Paddoc
country
and Laurie
a cache of
to accept it.”
on Sunday
Amer-
article in The Atlantic
.
issues such as By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
ed photo
a hospital setting. She in 2013.
associate dean of nursing,
said, the number of
Her post anything but typical . hotel room with
Contribut
With a variety of worked out,
East Oregonian
Jersey
S — The
2010 and 2030, it increase by 75 percent. EOU’s BMCC nursing program director,
started ammunition.
son (on
spent the
are college in New
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worries somewhat
however, was
tonight,” it
water rights already work centers
ons had
icans over 65 will services will soar. A third Post, tiny conference room. The three s
Kevin Ander Kathleen
poppin
The administrator
rst,
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“Very scary killed…”
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rapid-fi re
complexitie
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much of the remaining
ers at fi of
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next 10-15 years.
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music
faculty and enough each other’s sentences and
By JAYAT
shortly
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22,000 countr tand what was
music festiva where 59
and fi nding enough
“How many of you have had a time
we were.”
KRISHNAN
to gain practical
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gunma
didn’t unders when the band
sites
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where someone judged you and it hurt?”
day night in a mass shoot
not as
East Oregon
happening
and singer
Depot timeline agents, she asked the Boardman students, to an
people died
lies that were Harvest country music festival
off the
s of
stopped playing
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■
and
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weapons are
Jason Aldean
After
shooting
research
inue to pray
a
munitions and other
of Nursing
r of mass
stage.
Umatilla Chemi- Whellams is a speaker from
discussion, surveys, the
gunshots,”
University School
“Please cont Elaine Anderson, survivo
destroyed at the
“Breaking Down the Walls,” a program
“That’s
Health & Science
saying
community School Board
—
be heard cell-
l-Sachs, Oregon
cal Depot
authority that aims to help students relate to one
man could
— Susan Bakewel
Hermiston decision Monday
on a
■ June 2013: Reuse says transfer
another and better deal with issues that
emphatically in the nearly
made its
ston High
director Don Chance for business-
cause them trouble in school.
time
phone video of silence and
night: Hermi of 2018 will
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
could happen in on the depot in The session, which was founded
half-minute that followed. A
Toyota
Rochelle Whellams, center, leads a group of Riverside High School
School’s Class
es to be running
caps at the
in
1984
as
part
of
the “Learning for students in a exercise meant to show the students how much they have
others:
their
confusion
with
toss
d
2014
wick.
Stay
Crews begin Living” program, attempts to engage in common with each other during a “Breaking Down the Walls” session
woman pleade
Center in Kenne voted 6-1 to
■ August 2013:
Get down!
Umatilla Chemical
students in several ways: get them Wednesday at Riverside High School in Boardman.
“Get down!
The board
across
dismantling the
ceremony
Facility
down!” the pop-pop-pop
comfortable with each other through
move the in June 2018, and
Agent Disposal
Army Depot
The House Committee ,
s
Then
Norton said his staff decided to host
games and basic conversations, break that they don’t normally associate with,”
the river
■ July 2014: Umatilla
d. And pure
By GEORGE PLAVEN
local option
becomes Co-
on Energy and Commerce
noise resume
Walden
them
Reuse Authority nt Authority
will revisit Board member
in into smaller groups to get to know said Riverside principal David Norton. the event because they’re trying to help
East Oregonian
chaired by Rep. Greg hold a
the
terror set in. start screaming
lumbia Developme developing
each other, and have them discuss and “And second, to recognize that we all students who have adverse child experi-
afterward.
ton was
(R-Oregon), will
“People and we start
preparation to start expected
have baggage. Just because I may be ences, as well as learn more about how
in about their own experiences.
Jason Middle
think
re season may be hearing Wednesday exam-
Wildfi
vote.
transfer
yelling
and
depot after
of large
lone “no” has been a long creeping to a close in north-
“The idea is that kids will start to coming to school upset, there may be a those events affect students’ success
said Andrew
ining the impacts
chair
running,” who provided the
early 2015
“This
at
but the fallout is fi res on air quality, releasing
other people within our school reason for that.”
Final staff recognize
said board
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in
we east Oregon,
■ October 2014:
Akiyoshi, video to The Asso-
of partic-
process,”
laid off as demili-
an. “But the just beginning to ramp up
massive amounts
disposal facility
cellphone “You could feel
is
Karen Sherm
offi cially end
decision)
Washington, D.C.
ulate matter and greenhouse
tarization operations Army says it
feel like
.
ciated Press.
know (the do for students
You could
gases into the atmosphere cata-
■ December 2014: the depot
the panic. were fl ying above
best we can s.”
give
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doesn’t want to
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LEFT: Chase
an active
transfer
parts of my district, with
ground.” some concertgoers
Bay resort
Greg Smith becomes
choked
ana during
alay
are
2015:
July
skies
nt
■
Tropic
Mand
our
While
Developme
at the
the West,”
w at the
, others pushed
woman
director of Columbia extends time-
smoke throughout a Sept.
exits,
hit the ground
wounded : A broken windo
crowded
assist a
Authority and Army from late
RIGHT
Walden said during hearing.
ay.
for the
Sunday.
LEFT: People
line for depot transfer
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ing on Mond
Las Vegas
13 House committee in my
E.J. Harris
2016
See VEGA
Strip in of a mass shoot
Staff photo by
2015 to November
for depot
air
“Air quality issues to rise
aftermath
By JADE MCDOWELL
re smoke in the
■ April 2016: Deadline
home state continue because
from November
“There are so many scams, I usually can
red due to wildfi
East Oregonian
transfer moved
n.
to dangerous levels cancel- The setting sun glows
outside of Pendleto
2016 to May 2017 Agreement
see them, but this one I got suckered.”
of these fi res, forcing events, Wednesday, Aug. 2.,
PENDLETON
■ December 2016:
Everyone hopes to get
n from
division of water
lations of community
— Glenn Bradley, Hermiston investor
for Comparing air pollutio
and lost
reached on the
in on the ground floor of
school closures
day and “very unhealthy”
rights for the depot Army’s Base
the next Microsoft or Pepsi,
sources
dollars.”
The
tourism
t one day.
■ April 2017:
in
wildfires to other
but investing in a start-up wide investment scam” and his company has come into
Closure offi ce
eted
The Oregon Departmen
by wildfires in Oregon
Thick smoke blanketed
Realignment and
acres were burned
Quality
for
away
have interpr
equivalent
company is always a gamble. fined Doughty for violating more money recently and is
of Environmental particu- the area from fi res as far in More than 685,000
a draft agreement moves
Service data. The
Forest
submits
While cities differently, Carter
U.S.
to
and
“ready to go.” Last week he
2015, according
Glenn Bradley, of Herm- Oregon securities law.
ent
A
maintains 35 air statewide, as Montana and Canada,
human activity:
transfer of the depot
IO SIERR
2017 to
this agreem tanding is that she’s
carbon footprint from
“There are so many scams, called the state’s investiga-
iston, can attest to that. After
how
By ANTON
late monitors Pendleton. addition to a rash of infernos
ian
More than 3 million
timeline from September
said her unders
as the
talk about
in
such
driven
to
East Oregon
one
d
I
usually
can see them, but tion “one-sided” and said he
cars
state,
2017
investing
$30,000
in
the
d
the
including
passenger
December
has receive so
Sept. 6, around
not allowe
Creek Total greenhouse
The latest es-
for one year.
Inland Pacific Energy Center this one I got suckered,” plans to fight it in court.
e
Between July 1 and index 48,573-acre Eagle
ton has much money the city
■ May 1, 2018:
from Oregon
on when the
tax revenu
of Pendle
OR
Eleven years after putting
Cascade Locks in gases
in 2006, he has yet to see a Bradley said.
the local air quality
near
timate from BRAC
2015:
ana sales from marijuana characterized the
re
fi
The city
wildfires,
homes’
mariju
r
1.3 million
River Gorge.
some
Doughty maintains that in money, however, Bradley
dime of profit. Last week
depot will be transferred
was listed as “moderate”
year.
although she
for the Columbia wildfi res have 14.2 million tons
received e, but Finance Directo
energy use for one
how far, t as “minimal.”
the state called the operation the plan is not a scam and has his doubts he will ever see
for 13 days, “unhealthy
woman
by E.J. Harris
tax revenu will not disclose
amoun
for fi ve All together,
Staff photo
zyk, a spokes revenue,
sensitive groups” for one
— in which developer Bob he still fully intends to build a return on his investment,
EO Media Group graphic
Joy Krawc
Linda Carter
ent of
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in
much.
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yet.
l infor-
as they graze
was
merely
delayed
by
the
proposed
biodiesel
plant
in
At least not city contracted said the rule is
nancia
fi
sheep
of
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When the
Stanfield — a “community- 2008 financial crisis but
over a herd
3
Oregon Depart
cities
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move slowly
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mation. In marijuana busine e
lus clouds east of Echo.
share
Cumu
ue
ay
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10 or fewer said, specifi c revenu y
and the city’s
a fi eld Mond
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percent tax percent state tax, Carter
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