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Hermist
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By PHIL WRIGH
ian
East Oregon
r’s grave
Jamie Gardne abandoned
small
marker at the Foster Cemetery
cemetery off eld, shows the
Road, Stanfi 1891 at the age of
boy died in
of Pendleton d
stoppe
6. Chris Dacus
has not nicating
said that
commu
Jaime from
with him. 38, and his wife
Dacus,
31, and their
Ashlee Dacus, Durkee, 52,
gate
friend, Karen
ston, investi
of Hermi orldly as the
the otherw Soul Patrol. They
rmal
home
Parano
cemetery, brush
said the old
, sage
graves
to thorn bushes
crumbling
trees and a 100 years old, is
more than to spirits. The team
also home
a digital audio
disem-
recounted using
capture the
recorder to of a little boy at
bodied voice saying, “Pow,
,”
Jaime’s grave
“Vroom, vroom
pow,” and he were playing
as though
ox-sized toy
with the matchb
at the site.
car they left raise the hair
“It does of your neck,”
on the back said. “I think
for me,
Chris Dacus
the thrill is
that’s what ure of it. And not
the advent
knowing.”
said he was
Chris Dacus old the fi rst
years
10 or 11
tered some-
time he encoun the realm of
thing outside tanding. He,
were
normal unders
and a friend house
his brother
h their
running throug South Hill, he
ton’s
the
Pendle
on
he bolted into
said. When rag fl ew from the
kitchen, a him, and a voice
sink and hit “Stop.”
whispered
experience
The freaky Dacus to an
young
opened the of possibilities.
otherworld Bigfoot, I’m into
g out
“I’m into
into anythin
UFOs, I’m y,” he said.
of the ordinar
said the Soul
of
Ashlee Dacus
look into all in
Patrol would
The trio formed
the above. after Chris Dacus
February met in anther local
and Durkee outfi t. The Soul
paranormal since investigated
Patrol has s home in Pend-
the Dacus’ ghostly activity
leton, where around Ashlee
center
to
seems
of three. She
on the
Dacus, mother
ne tugged
said someo shirt and uttered
back of her but she turned
“Mom,” fi nd no one there.
around to also said they have
The couple y fi gures moving
seen shadow
about the place.
nced it
“I’ve experie
Dacus said.
Ashlee
,”
more
myself
ting to learn
“It’s interes
about it.”
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Teenager
stable
homes after tree
ry,
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in old cem
accident
igates spirits
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By JAYAT
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RAMAKRISH ian
East Oregon
142nd Year, No. 12
WINNER OF THE
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Scanner transmissi public
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142nd Year, No. 13
WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Walden applauds effort in conference call
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
For the fi fth time in as many years,
the U.S. House of Representatives
passed a bill Wednesday that would
expedite certain forest thinning projects
to lower the risk of destructive wildfi res
across the country.
Rep. Greg Walden (R-Oregon)
hailed it as a big day for the Northwest
during a conference call with reporters,
saying the bill not only solves the issue
of “fi re borrowing” but gives agencies
more leeway to thin overcrowded and
diseased forests.
Fire borrowing refers to the long-
standing practice of taking money away
from forest management programs to
pay for fi re suppression, making it even
more diffi cult for the Forest Service
and Bureau of Land Management to
get ahead of the problem. Instead, the
Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017
would create a new account under the
Disaster Relief Fund — administered
by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency — to cover fi refi ghting costs.
“That way, work can continue on the
ground that’s so necessary,” Walden said.
The federal government spent a
record $2.5 billion fi ghting wildfi res in
2017, including 678,000 acres burned in
Oregon. By eliminating fi re borrowing,
Walden said more work can be done
to lower the size and intensity of fi res
moving forward.
The bill itself features several
provisions to increase the pace and
scale of forest restoration, Walden said.
For example, thinning projects as large
as 10,000 acres could qualify for a
categorical exclusion, fast-tracking envi-
ronmental review. That limit increases to
30,000 acres if the project is developed
by a collaborative group.
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Friday, 7 p.m.,
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U.S. Rep. Greg Walden speaks during a Hermiston Ro-
tary luncheon in September in Hermiston.
Insurance
sign-up
period
cut in half
Winter
weather
coming
to higher
elevations
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give fall preview
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home treatment
sat in the gallery
hands with her holding
Dan, waiting for husband
court.
Around them sat
driven by her bipolar
25 friends
disorder and family members.
and a change in medication
That
The defense and prosecution . morning, Logman, 32, had
hugged her sons
agreed to request
goodbye,
under supervision 10 years knowing she might not return
by
home
the
for days, months
state Psychiatric
or
Review Board in Security years. As they sat waiting,
exchange Dan leaned close
for Logman pleading
and
whis-
to assaulting Brenda guilty pered to her. Nervousness
Porter. fl ed for a moment
The judge agreed.
as she
laughed.
The only question
was
Umatilla County
whether Logman
would Court Judge Daniel Circuit
continue
J. Hill
treatment
in would need to consider
Pendleton or go to
mental hospital in the state whether Logman, who had
Salem.
On Wednesday, Logman
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Elk hunter
kills wolf in
self-defense
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First documented
case
142nd Year,
No. 15
Mentors
to boost
mental
health
services
By PHIL WRIGH
East Oregon T
ian
The front
health service lines of mental
County have s in Umatilla
shoulders to 18 new sets of
lean on.
The group
to use their of locals hoping
to help others own struggles
hours of trainin completed 40
g the week
Oct. 23 to
of
become behavi
health peer
oral
mentor
Peterson,
manager s. Dan
Oregon Washin
of the
gton Health
Network,
have lived said the mentors
with mental
lems and substan
prob-
ce abuse and
recovery, so
what clients they can related to
are experie
ncing.
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OF THE
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Intricate qu
RE
in the Umatilla County Jail,
He also makes
Pendleton, has a settlement
several
accusations
conference on Dec. 4.
about people related
The handwritten letters,
to the case, singling
dated Sept. 8 and Sept. 11,
out a Hermiston police
address Temple directly. In
offi cer who he claims
the fi rst, a 12-page letter,
has unfairly targeted
Houfmuse tells Temple he
him in the past. He
is innocent and praises her
goes on to accuse the
effusively as he defends his
offi cer of having sexual
Houfmuse
relationships with two
own character.
of Houfmuse’s friends
“Honorable Judge Eva
J. Temple, I am not a murderer, or while on the job and protecting them
some lazy dirt bag that wants to take from arrest to buy their silence.
money from the state in lawsuits that
After questioning several people
should be used for cancer and Aids about the claims, the East Orego-
foundations or educational charities,”
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East Oregon
ian
The Watt
family insists
accident.
it’s a happy
Nevada
Silver State, Watt shares a name
he just liked but her silversmith with the
father said
“She’s the way the name
didn’t know named Nevada sounded.
because we
Jeremiah Watt how to spell Conne
cticut,”
The young joked by phone
trade and er Watt picked up .
Convention ventured to the the family
Pendleton
Center
for the
Leather Pendleton
Show,
a
two-day trade
“You can
where Wester show
companies n gear
mov
e
from
across the
traditions
country
sell their wares.
forward.
While
If
scent of the strong
you don’t,
delivered cowhide
on the
implicit promis
they die.”
e of
the leather
silver was show, — Nevada Watts
,
also in
heavy supply
of Frenchg
len
the trade show on
fl oor. After
spurs, belts
need buckle all, boots need
bits.
s and reins
need
“Bank robber
s are attract
things,” Pendle
ton Conve ed to shiny
Manager Pat
ntion Center
Beard, Beard said. “So are
contractor, a former rope maker cowboys.”
ture from said Watt’s work was and stock
the “staid”
a depar-
silversmithin
style of conven
tional
The jewele g.
ry Watt creates
traditional
incorporate
elements. Western design with
Classic
silver engrav left-fi eld
scrolls with
gles, diamo geometric shapes ings like
gram page, nds and crosses. On like trian-
Watt calls
Eclectic Maker
herself the her Insta-
“Western
“You can .”
said. “If you move traditions forwar
d,” she
Despite don’t, they die.”
23, spends her creative leanin
workshop Thursday leading gs, Watt,
covering one
a pre-sh
design elemen
of the traditio ow
ts of Wester
scroll.
n silver — nal
the
As a fi nished
bles a gnarle product, the scroll
resem-
leaves, fl airs d vine, a loopin
has her three and twists. But as g series of
students draw a start, Watt
of spirals
a
of design on a piece of paper, “backbone”
adding layer
the actual elements before movin
engrav
g on to
As the group ing.
works on
Watt moves
from studen their designs,
t to studen
t,
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ARTIST
LA GRANDE —
East Oregonian
in Oregon since wolves
The
Oregon Departmen
t of
returned in 1990s
Local insurance agents will be Transportation is warning
hard-pressed to keep up with demand motorists that roadways will
be slick beginning
By GEORGE PLAVEN
for their services this year after the and
Friday
East Oregonian
federal government shortened the low through the weekend as
enrollment period for the health ture temperatures and mois-
A 38-year-old
— with the
insurance exchanges to 45 days.
says he feared for his Clackamas man
of snow — come possibility
into the
“It’s fast and furious,” said Doug region.
and killed a gray wolf life when he shot
Friday, Oct. 27
Beamer, a partner at Wheatland The
while hunting elk
warning is aimed
Financial Services in Pendleton.
according to Oregon in Union County,
especially at drivers
“They
in
The enrollment period for people higher elevations
Upon further State Police.
belonging,” build a sense of
during
to sign up or switch insurance plans early morning
hunter will not investigation, the
hours, with
face charges after
provide a lot he said. “They
runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15. Last year the risk of “skidding,
authorities determined
selor wouldn of things a coun-
sliding
the shooting
it ran twice as long, through Jan. 31. and subsequent
was in self-defens
’t
e — a fi rst for
Peer mentor provide.”
The deadline applies to anyone who because of a loss crashing”
Oregon since wolves
s help clients
with needs
returned to the
buys their health insurance through ODOT also of traction.
state sometime in
the late 1990s.
tation and such as transpor-
warns that
snow plows and
the insurance marketplace set up by
The hunter, who was
as well as child care, he said,
deicer
not identifi ed
in a press release,
trucks may be on
the Affordable Care Act because they
agement for offering encour-
reported himself to
the roads,
OSP and the Oregon
and motorists should
do not get health insurance through
clients trying
make
Departmen
stay
it
to
throug
t of
Fish & Wildlife. The
an employer or the government. several car lengths behind.
Oregon h recovery.
hunting elk alone man said he was
Computer-savvy
Americans Studded tire season
Health Netwo Washington
noticed some type when he repeatedly
began Wednesday
rk
can log in to www.healthcare.gov
started
years ago
of animal moving
and will
around him.
and operate three
and shop for and enroll in plans conclude
on
March
Umatilla, Morro
s in
While the modifi 31, 2018.
A short time
w and Union
their own. But many people prefer
countie
later,
ed
tires
the man
s in Oregon
observed three of
provide traction,
to consult with an insurance agent
and Walla
Walla County
were coyotes. One what he assumed
asked drivers to ODOT has
, Washin
before making the decision, and
Peterso
directly toward him, began running sought n said the organiz gton.
using other safety consider
Beamer said with the time crunch
his life” he shot it and “fearing for suppor ways to bring ation
— such as traction measures
this year they should not wait until
of 27 yards. The once at a distance and t for behavioral more
chains — or postpone tires or
the last minute to do so. The enroll-
other
health
substan
travel
two then
disappeared out of
if possible. A 2014
ce
ment period also overlaps with showed
the
sight, and the man The lack of abuse services.
study
returned to his hunting
mental health
studded tires
Medicare Part D enrollment period,
camp in the professionals in
Starkey Wildlife Manageme
about $8.5 million caused
rural
a driving
annually
which ends Dec. 7.
nt Unit.
factor. He areas is
on Oregon highways.
Still unsure if
pointed
“Everything is power-packed into
actually a coyote, what he shot was
The National Weather
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this period,” Beamer said. “We Service
are
TH/13A
to the site with the man returned
is
fellow hunters and
predicting
going to work some Saturdays temperatur
and
discovered the animal
es in the 30s with
we’ll stay late and work through
A wildlife biologist was a wolf.
snowfall at Meacham
examined the
all
lunch and do everything we can.”
carcass, and found
weekend, with a
chance of
To help speed appointments
female associated it was an 83-pound
snow at lower temperatur
Nevada Watt
with the OR-30
es
along, Beamer said people can Saturday
help and
pair, which has been
the Pendle of Frenchglen
Sunday night.
occupying the
by getting their own login and Visit
user- tripcheck.c
ton Leath
Starkey and Ukiah
demonstrat
er Show
units
om
es metal
since
for
April.
name set up before they arrive
and
in the Pendle
updated road conditions.
After consulting
engra
with the Union
ton Conve ving at a GRS
making sure they have their fi nancial
County District
Equipment Staff photo by E.J. Harris
ntion Cente
booth Friday
r.
authorities decided Attorney’s Offi ce,
information readily available.
at
the hunter. Killing not to prosecute
Staff photo by
A majority of Americans receive
E.J. Harris
Oregon, except in wolves is illegal in
their health insurance through
defense
of
human
life or in limited
their employer, or through govern-
Daylight
circumstances ends
Saving
The winning poster
involving livestock
ment-sponsored Medicaid or Medi-
on Sunday Time
HERMISTON
predation.
entry for the for
by Sunridge seventh-g
at 2 a.m.
An
the
initial
when
care. The rest — including those
Lions
examinatio
Clubs Internatio
clocks are
rader Erin Picken.
turned
wolf was not a breeding n indicates the backward
nal’s peace
For more on the
who are self-employed — can sign
one hour
female, but a
contest, see Page poster contest was
to
DNA analysis will
up for plans via the Affordable Care
10A.
be done to be sure. Sunrise and sunset will 1 a.m.
earlier, which
be
Act health exchange. In most cases,
means mor
See WOLF/10A
depending on income level, people
who sign up for health insurance
via the exchange can qualify for tax
By JADE
CAPECO and Workso
MCDO
credits to help cover some of their
East Oregon WELL
premium costs.
(14) days thereafter.”
ian
help train those looking urce Oregon
The
The enrollment period open now
Shelly Coyke
for new careers notice states that there will
ndall’s quilts
most people
is the only time they can sign up for a
be “some limited
By JADE MCDOWEL
are
wall than use would rather hang so detailed,
L
new plan or change to a different plan
decommissioning work”
Hermiston’s ninth
East Oregonian
them on the
them to keep
the
for 2018 unless they have a “quali-
“I used to say
employer — in largest in the ensuing months. plant
warm.
I’m a quilter,
order to
people were
fying life event” during the year such
The notifi cation
Nearly 200 Hermiston consolidate the plant’s
is
artist,” she saying I’m more but I realized
required by law for
as marriage or moving to a new state.
operations with a
Foods employees
said.
of a fi ber
layoffs
facility in involving
Intricate pattern
Those who already have insurance
getting help seeking are Quincy, Washington.
at least 50
s of thread
the top of each
new
through the exchanges can have their
According to a Worker people. It gives the state’s
jobs as the plant
swirl
creatio
prepares
fl
n,
owers
forming feather across
Adjustment and Retraining dislocated worker unit
plan automatically renewed for the
and
to process its last
s and
vegetable Notifi
a
stitches, which animals. The fl owing
chance to partner
next year, but the Oregon Department
this month.
cation sent
with
lines of
of each other, often pass within
state, 199 people will to the and local agencies to state
of Consumer and Business Services
NORPAC Foods
help
be laid workers
by Coykendall, are all free-motion millimeters
Inc. off, including
announced at
with the transition
recommends that they still log on to
14 salaried to
the end employees
quilting machin who steers the handiwork
unemployment or
of June that it would
needle of her
their account to update their fi nancial
,
e by hand
their
each quilt,
be separations and “closure next job.
around
shutting down the
information and compare plans.
following
herself.
vege- to begin are anticipated
designs she the top of
“The goal is to
table-processing
“People who do so, instead of
November 13,
created
re-em-
plant — 2017
One
of
or within fourteen
automatically being renewed, often
two-foot by Coykendalls creatio
See FOODS/10A
Hermiston Foods
Staff photo
save money,” the department wrote
featured in two-foot “graffi ti ns — a
will shut down on South Highway 395 in by E.J. Harris
quilt”
this
Hermiston
in November, laying
in a news release.
month
—
Quilting Unlim
is
’s edition
off 199 employee
s.
place fi nisher ited magazine as of Machine
Quilter Shelly
See INSURANCE/8A
Coyke
in Hermi
by the magaz in a national contest the second
ston. Coyke ndall holds out
of awards ine. The honor is one sponsored
one
ndall says
the detail of her quilts in
earned over that the Hermiston of dozens
her
ed work
woman has
10 years of
on her quilts work room Thurs Staff photo by E.J.
picked up after
quilting, a
Harris
day
has been
hobby she
referred at her home
“I think it retirement.
to as fi ber
pushes me,
art.
that compe
titive
See QUILT
A PEACEFUL FUTU
Murder defendant asserts innocence
in letters to judge as settlement nears
FIRM HAS
N TO
PROFIT AT PLA
EOTEC TURN
One dollar
Woman pleaded guilty
to knife attack,
will not have to go
to state hospital
By KATHY
The woman who
cut
a man’s throat while
in a
mental crisis will
not have
to go to the Oregon
State
Hospital.
Vanessa Logman
never
denied pulling a
knife and
A relieved Vanessa
Logman smiles Staff photo by Kathy Aney cutting Bill Porter’s neck
at the end of Thursday’
at her husband near Pilot Rock
s hearing.
and
on a conditiona
l release instead The judge decided his ex-wife on July injuring
the Oregon State
of commitment
4, 2015.
Psychologi
Hospital.
to
cal evaluations
Logman
of a man while
in the grip of mental cut the throat suggest that
the mother of
illness.
four had a break with
reality
IN BIG HOUSE
LIFESTYLES/1C
ER 3, 2017
AWARD
By JADE MCDOWELL
et
ment errors
$64M for CCO pay
OHA may owe feds
142nd Year, No. 14
Your Weekend
Watch a game
La Salle Prep vs.
Julian Simpson
pleads guilty to
2016 murder
on reservation
fl ock to Main Stre
One dollar
Forest reform bill passes House
receivers and
personal scanners,
silent.
tions for emer-
safety communica the two counties. smartphone apps is a common thing,”
“Encryption
gency agencies in plans to seek bids
Deschutes County
won’t fi nd many
district
a Halsey said. “You
ion He said the year
or in the spring for the systems that are not encrypted.” plans
already uses encrypt
later this
also
include
Deschutes County
radio system that would
signal.
to provide trans-
for scanner traffi c
ability to encrypt the including police at some point with a 30-minute
Public agencies s, ambulance missions online he did not know
said
By PHIL WRIGHT
department
Halsey
re
and fi
Department delay.
Morrow county
East Oregonian
if Umatilla and
services and the Oregon
route
ion use public radio agencies would take a similar ns off
te with
scanner trans- of Transportat
transmissio
Police and fi re and Morrow frequencies to communica
or make certain
to
and one another. limits. He said that could be up
missions in Umatilla be silent.
the dispatch center
agencies
County
soon
agencies.
could
Deschutes
E.J. Harris
counties
their individual
Staff photo by
the director of
Shawn Halsey is Radio & Data in late June encrypted to The
to the scanner .
See SCANNERS/8A
time listening
Hermiston
the Umatilla Morrow
transmissions, according
spends a lot of
The move rendered
local governing body
listen
Bill Medlock, 55, Facebook page What’s Happening
not be able to Radio District, the of providing public Bend Bulletin.
to update his
citizens would
Morrow
with the task
and other private
if the Umatilla
Trick or treaters
TINY HORSE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017
One dollar
AWARD
are
members
Community for a Herm-
hit and
raising money
Medlock
who was
traffi c on the scanner
iston girl a falling tree.
police and fi re adopts a digital radio system.
a
injured by
& Data District
Larson,
High
Jordan
Hermiston
15-year-old sophomore, was
Regional
School
Kadlec
taken to Center, Richland
Medical afternoon after a
then
Friday
on
her. She was
tree fell on to Seattle for
transported
l treatment,
as of
further medica
remained
where she
’s
Monday.
, Larson
Ivy Coons her daughter
two
mother, said
better after
is doing immediately after
surgeries nt.
to
accide
By PHIL WRIGHT
the
been able
“They’ve tubes from her
East Oregonian
“She
remove the
said.
guilty
clots
Simpson pleaded
throat,” Coons
two blood
Julian Darryl James of Tony Jimenez Jr. of
had to have from her head.
crime
Friday to the murder
be sentenced for the
removed removed the drain
Pendleton. He will
Courthouse, Portland.
They have her chest.”
Feb. 1 at the U.S. District
guilt to second-de-
tube from said her daughter’s
Simpson, 24, admitted and killing Jimenez
shut,
Coons
swollen
gree murder for shooting
be
Umatilla Indian
eyes were
y had to
19, 2016, on the
March
initiall
on
her
she
to
t
and
to preven
Reservation, according
federal
restrained ng her face and
court records in the
from touchi was in and out
case.
head. Larson s.
defense
Simpson,
T.
of consciousnes
s told her
attorney Benjamin
She said doctor
may be
daughter
Andersen and prosecutor
off
that her of intensive care
John C. Brassell signed
E.J. Harris
Staff photo by
moved out of the week.
packs a
in
on the deal, which
a-
by the end said her daughter
while trick or treating
sentencing recommend
erd
Street on Tuesday
Coons
prison.
Avenue and Main
to Good Sheph ston,
tion of 25 years in Mosman Simpson
.com
was taken
the corner of Court
, Hermi to
congregate at
at www.eastoregonian
Judge Michael W.
8A and online
Medical Center
Halloween revelers
iately fl own
the terms.
photos on PAGE
and immed for treatment on accepted plea came four days before Simpson’s
Pendleton. More
The
was
Richland
there she
set to begin.
Contreras,
Friday. From rview Medical trial was
Victor Joseph
nt
Harbo
resulting
Co-defenda
to assault
taken to
.
in July pleaded guilty as well as possession
Center in Seattle
injury,
surgery she 24,
with the
“The fi rst on the road,” in serious bodily
connection
in
a fi rearm
10 years in prison,
had, I was adding that it and shooting
He faces more than
Coons said, within an hour of assault. to court documents.
federal
took place er arriving at the according
Jan. 25, also at the Brown
His sentencing is
Anna
her daught was to remove a
in Portland. Judge
hospital and in her brain. That courthouse over both sentencing hearings.
d is presiding
County
blood clot
said, reveale Simpson remains in the Multnomah Columbia
which
surgery, she
Contreras is in the
blood clot
Jail, Portland, and
a second second surgery.
St. Helens.
a
required a said her daughter County Jail, and Contreras were attending
reser-
Simpson
the
on
Coons
recog-
Welch
ABOVE: Remington Christensen performs with his fellow
of Beau
sive and
Welch
party at the home
is now respon
Pendleton High School Rhythmic Mode dancers during the
documents show
for vation in 2016. Court and Contreras objected.
nized her.
Fall Preview on Wednesday night at Warberg Court.
asked me
party
“She just Coons said by decided to end the in to help Welch. During the
Simpson and
RIGHT: A young Junior Jam dancer performs with the rest
root beer,” Monday afternoon, Jimenez stepped
outside the house, a bullet in
on
l
on
confrontati
of her group.
hospita
took
E.J. Harris
phone
er’s
Staff photo by
fi re. Welch
and
by E.J. Harris
on
Contreras opened
from her daught .
Staff photo
e
Jimenez was shot
sidewalk Tuesday Staff photos by Kathy Aney
in Seattle family has his lower left leg, and
investigativ
walk down a Pendleton.
E.J. Harris
room
ormal
Staff photo by
the
of
Halloween revelers
treating in
for killed in the driveway. federal court because
the paran
A friend
Jason from the Main Street while trick or
make up
dMe page
in
trick or treats as in Pendleton.
of the
with The case landed
Hermiston
set up a GoFun
on Tuesday
Durkee of
Welch are members
to help them
Art Hill, 10, of Pendleton
,
and
series
crimes
Karen
movie
family
the
Simpson
the
e
Tribes and
eton and
utility bills.
“Friday the 13th”
of Pendl .
Confederated Umatilla
More onlin
medical and
lands.
Chris Dacus
interview
Soul Patrol
took place on Indian
/10A
short
Ashlee and
ormal
a
TREE
For
visit
Paran
See
Dacus
team the
with Chris n.com
$7 billion in
eastoregonia
state made nearly recipients on
a the
payments for Medicaid
Plan in 2016.
Patrol
“It’s vital that we have
that dual-eligible
the Oregon Health
ormal Soul
federal funding for
piece of our
er of the Paran
rent, effi cient and
“It’s a very small it ends up being
By PARIS ACHEN
population.
though
Dacus, memb
to recoup $10 transpa
Capital Bureau
care budget, even Allen
— Chris
OHA was able
said.
nts from
accountable health
dollars,”
Cover
million of the overpayme
lives big Another
error related to Plan
Oregon Health CCOs in 2016 but lacked a mecha-
SALEM — The
Health
system because the
owe the federal nism to recover the excess amounts
Oregon and Oregon
ians
Robb
Authority may
for
OHA offi cials are
and 2015, said
$64 million
recipients, which also may require
of so many Oregon
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
’s Offi ce
government up to it made over paid out in 2014 spokesman.
the White House t has put
depend on it.” still parsing to out, the federal govern-
East Oregonian
erroneous payments of an error in the Cowie, an OHA was known for some
Budge
decision by
and
repayment
The problem
three years because
It’s still unclear
Brown
until after
according to
of Management tion work on hold.
— Gov. Kate
ment, Allen said. could cost the
told
time but was not publicized
Cover Oregon website,
of OHA
As a Hermiston man accused
that error
even the prepara the politicians ce of
Allen took the helm
as how much impact Oregon Health
OHA.
In a letter, director Offi
of murder prepares for a settlement
which was Patrick
and identifi ed it
or
Brown selected the
ney,
“the
The failed website, but never two months ago. the Department of Cali Robison, be dealt with,” Allen agency
said.
conference, he has sent two letters
Mick Mulva and Budget, that and
Plan recipients, he thanked Allen and
“a problem to
former head of
ement
legal
used by state agencies
Services
a
miscate-
to the presiding judge in the case
has
Manag
publicly
Business
public,
Brown
Y
ment
to
launched to the eligible for both Consumer and after former Director said.
maintain the
EW SELSK
echoes of one of his team “for responding quickly”
claiming his innocence and trying to
federal govern
By ANDR
OHA
sibility” to
“It was one of the
Press
gorized people
according to lead Saxton resigned in August
moral respon urged him to recon-
cast doubt on the investigation.
with Cover Oregon,” the revelations about the problems.
Associated
Medicaid,
problems
and
trans-
the
a
They
Lynne
to
have
g.
Medicare
a conspiracy
offi ce. The
Tyree Houfmuse, facing charges
“It’s vital that we
e
adminis- fundin his decision.
and
amid a scandal over about a Port- he said.
to Gov. Kate Brown’s
about 40,400 parent, effi cient and accountabl
The Trump
- sider
for killing Hermiston resident James
news
dated Friday
in OHA making
y,
OHA estimates that
SALEM — ting the U.S. govern
were
mistake resulted overpayments to plant negative
because the lives
The letter, media on Monda
new
Cragun in May, wrote the letters to
Medicaid provider. took Oregon Health Plan recipients of the health care system
Murray
depend on
d to the
tration is neglec ion to build
$74 million in
a result
Organizations land-area
Umatilla County Circuit Court Judge
original release
of so many Oregonians
by Sens. Patty gton,
miscategorized as
When the new leadership
ment’s obligat
Coordinated Care for both Medi-
Indians whose by dams was signed Cantwell of Washin
brought the miscat- error. So far, the impact on OHA’s it,” Brown said in a statement.
Eva Temple, both of which were
homes for
for patients eligible from 2014 to over, employees
submerged
rs and Maria Merkley and Ron Wyden
to the agency’s budget has been small. Overall,
then made accessible to the public in
Jeff
abodes were bia River, membe
care and Medicaid miscategorization egorization issue
Blumenauer
nancial offi cer, Laura
Houfmuse’s case fi le on the Oregon
and Rep. Earl
tions from Sens.
a, fi le
kers are
along the Colum
mid-2016. The receiving excess new chief fi
of Oregon,
sia Wozniack
the lawma
ssional delega
State Courts website.
AP Photo/Go
of Congre Washington state said. rs of Oregon. All of
s at the
resulted in Oregon
can home
Houfmuse, who is being held
built,
Oregon and ds of tribal membe
Democrats. the dams were
Native Ameri
and
the
in
hundre
of
trailers
The
Dam
When
the
shows one Dalles.
Bonneville
in dilapidated
The
fi le photo
are living dard housing along new starting with the hydroelectric dams
This 2014 fi shing site near
promised
and then
other substan
Lone Pine
River. The built yet even 1938
Columbia
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t been
since
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homes haven’ s have passed
g
though decade built. Now a fundin
the dams were
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foot, I’m into
ry.”
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into anythin
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