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East Oregonian
Friday, November 3, 2017
PENDLETON
Sunridge students give peace poster contest a chance
hand bursts toward the
sky from the middle layer,
its hand configured into a
On display at the Pend- peace sign as a dove and
leton Center for the Arts other vibrant peace symbols
Thursday, about 40 posters surround it.
“One day, the world will
tried to convey peace through
color, shape and sybolism — get it together,” she said
after her win, the strife in
but no words.
her poster inspired
Show and don’t
by some of the
tell is the central
civic unrest across
conceit of the
the country in
Lions Clubs Inter-
recent years. Erin
national’s peace
is the daughter of
poster
contest,
East
Oregonian
a
competition
Publisher Kathryn
that asks middle
Brown.
schoolers to depict
Doves, peace
peace
without
signs, yins, yangs,
letters or numbers.
rainbows and flags
S u n r i d g e Erin Picken
were a part of the
Middle
School
general motif of
seventh
grader
Erin Picken took home the most of the posters, but all
top prize for her vision of this of them had a unique spin on
year’s theme — “The Future the theme.
Sunridge seventh grader
of Peace.”
Erin said her poster was Maria Alvarez Barroso drew
meant to be looked from a dove floating in space, the
bottom to top. At the bottom earth a considerable distance
is an international collection away, the moon covered in
of flags depicted as puzzle flags from around the world
instead of just an American
pieces.
The middle layer were banner. The dove had flown
conflicting stick figures in in on a spaceship and even
a drab urban environment, wore its own astronaut’s
protesters on one side, police helmet for its venture beyond
on the other. A mechanical the shuttle.
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Nearly 40 pieces of art are on display at the Pendleton Center for the Arts for the
Lions Clubs International’s peace poster contest on Thursday in Pendleton.
“That was my dad’s idea,”
said Maria, who won an
honorable mention.
She didn’t take much
influence
from
current
events, because her rendering
was from “way in the future.”
Bill Taylor, a 45-year
member of the Pendleton
Lions Club, got the commu-
nity service group involved
with the Peace Posters
contest in 1996.
Pendleton’s participation
in the competition has been
on hiatus for several years
but is back for 2017, the
centennial year of the Lion
Clubs International.
Following a longstanding
rule, only children ages 11-13
were eligible for the contest,
LOGMAN: Victim urged judge to send her to Salem
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only a traffic violation
before the attack, could
become violent again.
Logman joined Pendleton
attorney Michael Breiling at
the defense table.
During the next hours,
Breiling pushed for treating
his client locally and not
tearing her away from her
support system. For the
state, Chief Deputy District
Attorney Jaclyn Jenkins
argued against, saying
Logman had a history of
falling off her medications
and past drug and alcohol
use.
They examined details
of the attack. Warning signs
came days earlier.
One red flag appeared
a few nights prior when
Logman awoke certain that
someone was hiding under
their king-size bed. She
was sure the person had
stuck something through
the mattress and poked her.
The police, summoned by
Vanessa at 2 a.m., found no
one under the bed.
At the urging of family,
she headed to the Yellow-
hawk Tribal Health Center
the next morning to talk to
a counselor, but couldn’t
get an appointment until
12 days later. Later that
day, she disappeared. Dan
arrived home to find his
dinner warm, but Vanessa,
their four young sons and
the family van gone. With
the gas tank nearly empty
and with no food or water,
she drove to Indian Lake,
near Pilot Rock.
Vanessa told Hill she
remembers
only
“bits
and pieces.” She recalled
receiving a text from her
mother, telling her to go to the
lake. No actual text was sent.
Campers recall Logman
acting oddly. She didn’t
sleep, believing people
were shooting arrows at her
and her children. The next
morning, she fled on foot
with the boys on the gravel
road that would reach Pilot
Rock in 21 miles. Tempera-
tures reached 90 degrees
and climbed.
When she saw Bill and
Brenda Porter’s truck, she
waved them down and
time in a logbook.
Two mental health
professionals,
Pendleton
psychologist
Terrel
Templeman, who conducted
multiple mental health eval-
uations, and Rachele Burke,
a licensed clinical social
worker from Lifeways,
recommended a conditional
release. They said Logman,
who is stabilized with
an effective medication
regime, has a good local
support system. Burke
would act as a monitor for
the state’s Psychiatric Secu-
rity Review Board, which
Bill Porter, who also has
bipolar disorder, took the
stand and urged the judge to
send Logman to Salem.
“She did try to kill me,
whether she was in a mental
state or not,” Porter said.
“She needs to pay for her
crime in one way or another.”
Hill decided to keep her
in Pendleton, opting for a
conditional release. The
list of conditions, including
frequency of therapy and
other requirements, is forth-
coming.
After the judge’s deci-
sion, Porter wore a tight
“Let’s not make assumptions that Ms. Logman is not
dangerous. ... The State’s concern is we don’t want to be
here again in three months, six months or a year.”
— Jaclyn Jenkins, Umatilla County Chief Deputy District Attorney
got in back with the boys.
Fear suddenly gripped
her, Logman said, and she
remembers telling him to
stop again and again. Later
she learned she hadn’t
shouted those words at all.
“I’m not sure what’s
real,” she told Hill.
According to police
reports, she pulled a knife
from her purse, grabbed Bill
Porter’s shoulder and sliced
into his throat. The Herm-
iston man braked and he
and Brenda pulled Vanessa
from the truck, wresting the
knife from her hand.
Since the attack, except
for 26 days in jail, family
members have monitored
Logman and transported
her to required mental
health appointments. Dan
observed his wife taking
medication and wrote each
supervises individuals who
have been guilty except for
insanity.
Jenkins pushed back.
“Let’s not make assump-
tions that Ms. Logman is not
dangerous,” she said. “She
stabbed someone in the neck
and injured another indi-
vidual. The State’s concern
is we don’t want to be here
again in three months, six
months or a year.”
Breiling said a “thread-
bare mental health system”
is partly to blame for the
attack. If Logman could
have gotten help the day
before, she likely wouldn’t
have gone off the rails.
“It’s tragic this happened
at all,” he said. “She actually
sought help. It is frankly a
terrible pity that it required
Mr. Porter to be injured for
her to get it.”
expression as he headed
toward the exit of the Staf-
ford Hansell Government
Center.
“Unfortunately, all you
have to do is claim insanity
and you get away with
murder,” he said.
Dan
and
Vanessa
Logman came together into
a emotional hug.
“We had faith in God, a
great attorney and a strong
case,” Dan said.
“I’m relieved,” Vanessa
said. “I feel a lot better.”
The attack haunts both of
them, though, so they do the
only thing they can think to
do.
“We pray for Mr. Porter
every night,” Dan said.
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Contact Kathy Aney at
kaney@eastoregonian.com
or 941-966-0810.
FOODS: Has been an employer in Hermiston since 1990
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ploy the workers as quickly
as possible,” John Asher
of the Oregon Dislocated
Worker Unit said.
For the Hermiston
Foods closure, CAPECO
(Community
Action
Program of East Central
Oregon) and Worksource
Oregon have been making
visits
to
Hermiston
Foods each week to train
employees
on
things
like applying for unem-
ployment, enrolling in
health insurance plans in
the Affordable Care Act
marketplace and writing
a resume. CAPECO held
a job fair for workers
recently, and Worksource
Oregon hosted individ-
ualized meetings with
employees to discuss job
hunting.
“We know a lot of
manufacturing plants in the
area that are desperate for
workers,” Tara Bishop of
CAPECO said.
For
some
laid-off
employees, immediately
getting a job at another
food processing plant in
the area, such as Conagra
Foods or Shearer’s Foods,
may be their preference.
But Bishop said many of
Hermiston Foods’ hourly
workers lack English skills
or a GED, and CAPECO
is willing to help them get
both — or other needed
education
and
skills
training — in order to
improve their job prospects
in the future.
“There are a lot of
opportunities
for
this
group, but it’s also a great
opportunity for them to
scale up, increase their
education,” she said.
NORPAC spokeswoman
Amy Woods said in an email
that Hermiston Foods’ day
shift ended early and its
night shift started late on
Wednesday in order to give
employees an opportunity
to go to the job fair, which
featured booths by 22 local
employers and five agen-
cies.
She said production
supervisors and quality
assurance
supervisors
have also been encouraged
to apply at NORPAC’s
Quincy facility.
Hermiston Foods has
been an employer in
Hermiston since 1990,
with hiring ramping up
each harvest season. The
facility processes peas,
sugar snap peas, edamame,
lima beans, carrots and
asparagus. Woods said
most of the produce came
from the Hermiston and
Boardman area, except
for the asparagus, and was
sent to NORPAC’s ware-
house facilities in Salem
afterward. NORPAC will
continue to contract for
peas, sugar snap peas and
carrots from area growers
but will send them to other
NORPAC facilities in
future seasons, she said.
In its 2016 financial
report, the city of Hermiston
listed Hermiston Foods as
the ninth largest employer
in town, making up 2.8
percent of the city’s total
employment.
Hermiston
Foods was also the city’s
largest water customer. It
purchased $119,584 worth
of water from the city over
the course of a year.
Hermiston Foods has
been a community partner
over the years in a number
of ways. It has donated
produce to the Agape
House’s food bank, given
tours to Leadership Herm-
iston classes learning about
agriculture, and processed
food for Farmers Ending
Hunger.
This year’s Leadership
Hermiston class toured
Shearer’s Foods instead for
its annual agriculture day.
John Burt, executive
director for Farmers Ending
Hunger, said the nonprofit
— founded by Hermiston
resident Fred Ziari — has
gotten peas and carrots
from Hermiston Foods in
the past but will work with
NORPAC to come up with
another solution.
“NORPAC Foods has
been a great partner with
Farmers Ending Hunger and
we expect that to continue
even with the closure of
Hermiston Foods,” he said.
NORPAC Foods is a
co-op of more than 200
growers farming more
than 35,000 acres in the
Pacific Northwest. It is
headquartered in Salem.
The company has not
released information yet on
its plans for marketing or
re-purposing the Hermiston
Foods facility.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
although 14-year-olds with
exemplary posters were
given honorable mentions.
Taylor said this year’s
contest was aided by
Michelle Sickels, an art
teacher at Sunridge Middle
School.
Sickels had 140 students
participate in the peace
poster contest as an assign-
ment, dedicating three weeks
to drawing and coloring their
posters.
“It’s a great teaching
tool,” Sickels said, because
it requires students to express
an idea without using words.
The posters were even-
tually moved to the art
center, where they were
judged by a panel comprised
of Pendleton Lions Club
member Subhadra Maharjan,
Pendleton Early Learning
Center Child Development
Specialist Anne Sokoloski
and
Pendleton
School
District Superintendent Chris
Fritsch.
With Erin winning the
Pendleton competition, her
piece will be entered into a
larger competition against
other posters. If she can
advance past the regional,
state and national competi-
tions, Erin’s poster will be
considered for the interna-
tional competition.
The winner of that contest
will be flown to the United
Nations in New York for
Lions Day at the U.N. in
March.
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Contact Antonio Sierra at
asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
GOP tax bill would cut rates
— but also popular breaks
By ALAN FRAM
and ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With
fanfare and a White House
kickoff, House Republicans
unfurled a broad tax-overhaul
plan Thursday that would
touch virtually all Americans
and the economy’s every
corner, mingling sharply
lower rates for corporations
and reduced personal taxes
for many with fewer deduc-
tions for home-buyers and
families with steep medical
bills.
The measure, which
would be the most extensive
rewrite of the nation’s tax
code in three decades, is
the product of a party that
faces increasing pressure to
produce a marquee legis-
lative victory of some sort
before next year’s elections.
GOP leaders touted the
plan as a sparkplug for the
economy and a boon to the
middle class and christened
it the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
“We are working to give
the American people a giant
tax cut for Christmas,”
President Donald Trump
said in the Oval Office. The
measure, he said, “will also
be tax reform, and it will
create jobs.”
It would also increase
the national debt, a problem
for some Republicans. And
Democrats attacked the
proposal as the GOP’s latest
bonanza for the rich, with a
phase-out of the inheritance
tax and repeal of the alter-
native minimum tax on the
highest earners — certain to
help Trump and members
of his family and Cabinet,
among others.
“If you’re the wealthiest
1 percent, Republicans will
give you the sun, the moon
and the stars, all of that at the
expense of the great middle
class,” said House Minority
Leader
Nancy
Pelosi,
D-Calif.
And there was enough
discontent among Repub-
licans and business groups
to leave the legislation’s
fate uncertain in a journey
through Congress that leaders
hope will deposit a landmark
bill on Trump’s desk by
year’s end.
Underscoring problems
ahead, some Republicans
from high-tax Northeastern
states expressed opposition
to the measure’s elimination
of the deduction for state
and local income taxes.
Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Orrin Hatch
of Utah called the House
measure “a great starting
point” but said it would be
“somewhat miraculous” if its
corporate tax rate reduction to
20 percent — a major Trump
goal — survived. His panel
plans to produce its own tax
package in the coming days.
The House Republicans’
plan, which took them
months to craft in countless
closed-door
meetings,
represents the first step in
their effort to reverse what’s
been a politically disastrous
year in Congress. Their drive
to obliterate President Barack
Obama’s health care law
crashed, and GOP lawmakers
concede that if the tax
measure collapses, their
congressional majorities are
at risk in next November’s
elections.
The package’s tax reduc-
tions would outweigh its
loophole closers by a massive
$1.5 trillion over the coming
decade. Many Republicans
were willing to add that to
the nation’s soaring debt
as a price for claiming a
resounding tax victory. But it
was likely to pose a problem
for others — one of several
brushfires leaders will need to
extinguish to get the measure
through Congress.
Republicans must keep
their plan’s shortfall from
spilling over that $1.5 trillion
line or the measure will lose
its protection against Demo-
cratic Senate filibusters,
bill-killing delays that take
60 votes to overcome. There
are just 52 GOP senators
and unanimous Democratic
opposition is likely.
The bill would telescope
today’s seven personal
income tax brackets into just
four: 12 percent, 25 percent,
35 percent and 39.6 percent.
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The most recent known wolf
population in Oregon was
112 animals, documented at
the end of 2016.
Roblyn Brown, acting
ODFW coordinator, said
dangerous
encounters
between wolves and people
are rare, and wolves will
usually avoid humans if they
see, hear or smell people
nearby.
“If you see a wolf or
any other animal and are
concerned about your safety,
make sure it knows you are
nearby by talking or yelling
to alert it to your presence,”
Brown said. “If you are
carrying a firearm, you can
fire a warning shot into the
ground.”
The shooting marks the
sixth wolf killed so far this
year in Eastern Oregon. Four
members of the Harl Butte
pack were shot in Wallowa
County after repeated attacks
on livestock. One member of
the Meacham pack was also
killed after preying on cattle
four times in eight days.
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Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0825.