RECORDS
Thursday, November 16, 2017
East Oregonian
PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
TUESDAY
6:16 a.m. - A caller reported someone driving a dark blue
2000 Dodge diesel pickup passed him in a no-passing zone
near the mill on Highway 74, Heppner, and flung gravel all over
his vehicle.
8 a.m. - Irrigon residents on Synder Road asked for extra
patrols because a male has been trying to break into their
home while they work.
9:47 a.m. - Pilot Rock police tagged five abandoned
vehicles on North Alder Place.
9:51 a.m. - Hermiston police received a call from a
maintenance worker who reported a transient was sleeping in
a laundry room on Southwest 11th Street. The transient made
threats as he left, and the worker took photos of him and asked
police to view those.
10:55 a.m. - Staff at the East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers
Ave., Pendleton, requested to speak to an officer about
possible death threats.
12:48 p.m. - A Lexington resident reported she trapped a
dog after it killed her chickens. She asked the Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office to send a deputy before she shot the dog. The
deputy took the dog to Pet Rescue, Hermiston. The woman
said she did not want to pursue the case further.
1:01 p.m. - An Irrigon man found plastic pellets around his
home on Southeast Utah Street and told law enforcement he
was concerned someone may be shooting at his dogs when
he is away.
2:12 p.m. - A man reported someone entered his camper
at his son’s Ione residence at Gooseberry Road and Kincaid
Lane and took items and also stole several sets of horns from
his son’s barn.
5:27 p.m. - Umatilla police and fire responded to the back of
Tucker Avenue for a grass fire in the construction zone for new
housing.
6:18 p.m. - Pendleton emergency services responded to
the Horizon Project, 1307 S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton, for
a client who injured his head and may have swallowed a
thumbtack.
6:21 p.m. - Umatilla Tribal Police Department notified
Oregon State Police someone was lighting fires at the
Deadman Pass Rest Area off the eastbound side of Interstate
84 milepost 222. Troopers found a number of small slash piles
burning where shrubs were cleared. They also found a black
coat next to one pile and took that for safekeeping.
6:53 p.m. - Several juveniles caused a disturbance on West
Theater Lane, Hermiston.
10:03 p.m. - Pendleton police received a 911 report of
a man fighting with his ex-girlfriend and refusing to leave
her residence at Wilson’s Mobile Home Rentals, 2918 N.E.
Riverside Ave., Pendleton.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Travis Loren
Roberts, 38, of 120 E. Punkin Center Road, Apt. 9, Hermiston,
for first-degree theft. Umatilla County Circuit Court Records
show he pleaded no contest in July to an angling violation.
•Pendleton police arrested Arianna Janie Farmer, 24, of,
Boise, for unauthorized use of a vehicle.
•Stanfield police arrested Jose Lewis Cerda, 34, of
Stanfield, for felony possession of methamphetamine.
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OBITUARIES
Ronald McKenzie
John Gregory Walker
Pendleton
April 20, 1954 - November 13, 2017
Hermiston
January 28, 1956 - November 10, 2017
Ronald McKenzie, 63, Eastern Oregon, and many
of Pendleton died suddenly trips with his father to the
at his home on Monday, Wallowa Mountains and
November 13, 2017. He was the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
a lifelong resident
He loved to mow
of Pendleton.
yards and was an
He was born
avid walker around
at St. Anthony
Pendleton, always
Hospital,
an
stopping to talk to
identical
twin,
many.
on
April
20,
Ronald
is
1954. His parents
survived
by
were Dr. Robert
father Dr. Robert
McKenzie
and
McKenzie; sisters
Huela McKenzie.
Linda and Kathy
He attended St.
of Pendleton, and
Joseph’s Academy McKenzie
Barb of John Day;
and
Pendleton
and twin brother
High School. He was a paper Randy, a long haul truck
carrier for the East Orego- driver. He was preceded in
nian as a boy and worked for death by his mother, Huela
Harris Pine Mills after high McKenzie.
school.
He will be missed for his
Ronald enjoyed fishing big smile and his friendly and
the streams and lakes of inquisitive nature.
John Gregory Walker
was born January 28, 1956,
in Hermiston, Oregon, the
son of Woodrow and Edith
(Goodman) Walker.
He passed away
in Hermiston on
Friday, November
10, 2017, at the age
of 61.
John lived the
majority of his life
in the Hermiston
area. He graduated
from
Hermiston
High School in the
Class of 1974. He Walker
worked
various
jobs throughout his life but
mostly as a body and fender
repairman or farming with
his brother Steve.
He enjoyed golfing and
fishing.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Woodrow and
Edith Walker, and brothers
Jerry and Dick Walker.
He is survived by a
brother,
Steve
Walker; a son,
Christopher; and
several nieces and
nephews.
A
memorial
service will be held
at 3:00 p.m. Sunday,
November
19,
2017, at the Herm-
iston Seventh-day
Adventist Church,
855 W. Highland
Ave., Hermiston,
OR 97838). A private inter-
ment will be in the Hermiston
Cemetery.
To leave an online
condolence for the family go
to www.burnsmortuaryherm-
iston.com
DEATH NOTICES
UPCOMING SERVICES
Stan Philip Bastien
THURSDAY, NOV. 16
ROME, CAMERON — Family viewing from 4-7 p.m.
in the chapel at Burns Mortuary, 685 W. Hermiston Ave.,
Hermiston.
THOMPSON, LUONA — Visitation from 3-7 p.m. at
Burns Mortuary, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton.
Pendleton
Sept. 25, 1958 - Nov. 14, 2017
Stan Philip Bastien, 59, of Pendleton died Tuesday, Nov. 14,
2017, at St. Anthony Hospital. He was born Sept. 25, 1958, in
Vallejo, Calif. Arrangements are being handled by Pendleton
Pioneer Chapel, Folsom-Bishop. Online condolences may be
sent to www.pioneerchapel.com
Vernetta Mae Meeks
Pendleton
May 24, 1924 - Nov. 15, 2017
Vernetta Mae Meeks, 93, of Pendleton died Wednesday,
Nov. 15, 2017, at a local care facility. She was born May 24,
1924, in Pendleton. Arrangements are being handled by Pend-
leton Pioneer Chapel, Folsom-Bishop. Online condolences
may be sent to www.pioneerchapel.com
FRIDAY, NOV. 17
MATHWICH, J. MERLE — Funeral services at 10:30
a.m. at Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main St.,
Milton-Freewater. Concluding services and interment will
follow at the Athena Cemetery.
ROME, CAMERON — Memorial service at 1 p.m.
in the chapel at Burns Mortuary, 685 W. Hermiston Ave.,
Hermiston.
WEBBER, KRISTOFER — Service at 2 p.m. at Burns
Mortuary, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton.
Nevada rancher’s son tells jury militia ‘saved my life’
“We didn’t know
who they were. Yet
here they were,
protecting my life.
They were heroes.”
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — The
eldest son of a Nevada
rancher and states’ rights
figure told a federal jury
on Wednesday he believes
protesters and self-styled
militia members saved his
life when they arrived in
April 2014 after govern-
ment agents used dogs
and stun guns against his
family members ahead of
a gunpoint showdown that
ended a cattle roundup.
“We didn’t know who
they were,” Ryan Bundy
said of the hundreds of
people who answered a
family call for support after
news reports and internet
accounts of family scuffles
with agents and contract
cowboys collecting cattle
from hardscrabble range-
land northeast of Las Vegas.
“Yet here they were,
protecting my life,” he said.
“They were heroes.”
Bundy, who is serving
as his own lawyer in the
trial in Las Vegas, spent
more than an hour speaking
with a projected image of
his wife and eight children
on the courtroom screen.
He told his family history,
declared his belief in states’
rights over limited federal
government, and professed
his love of family, the land,
God, Americans, liberty and
freedom.
“My family and I have
been charged with some
pretty grievous things,”
he said. “I want to tell you
— Ryan Bundy, on the
hundreds of people who
answered a call for support
AP Photo/John Locher
Ryan Bundy, center, walks out of federal court with his wife Angela Bundy, Tuesday
in Las Vegas. Ryan Bundy, along with his father Cliven Bundy, brother Ammon Bun-
dy and co-defendant Ryan Payne, are accused of leading an armed standoff in 2014
against government agents in a cattle grazing dispute.
that they’re not true and the
evidence will show they are
not.”
Yes,
Cliven
Bundy
stopped paying grazing fees
to the government in the
1990s, he said, echoing the
family history told a day
earlier by his father’s lawyer,
Bret Whipple. But that
was after the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management cut
nearly in half the allotment
of cows the family could
turn out to graze in the vast
public range surrounding the
160-acre ranch the Mormon
family settled more than 140
years ago.
Acting U.S. Attorney
Steven Myhre on Tuesday
cast 71-year-old Cliven
Bundy as the leader of a
conspiracy to enlist armed
militia members to turn
away federal agents trying
to enforce federal court
orders and remove what
authorities termed “trespass
cattle” from range including
what is now Gold Butte
National Monument.
The prosecutor told
jurors they’ll be asked at
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MEETINGS
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of regional events, visit
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THURSDAY, NOV. 16
HERMISTON IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, 4 p.m., Hermiston Ir-
rigation District office conference
room, 366 E. Hurlburt Ave., Herm-
iston. (541-567-3024)
ECHO CITY COUNCIL, 4
p.m., Old VFW Hall, 210 W.
Bridge St., Echo. (541-376-8411)
UMATILLA COUNTY SPE-
CIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT, 5:15
p.m., Pendleton Center for the
Arts boardroom, 214 N. Main St.,
Pendleton. (Erin McCusker 541-
276-6449)
PENDLETON
PLANNING
COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Pendleton
City Hall, 501 S.W. Emigrant Ave.,
Pendleton. (Jutta Haliewicz 541-
966-0240)
FRIDAY, NOV. 17
No meetings scheduled
MONDAY, NOV. 20
WEST EXTENSION IRRIGA-
TION DISTRICT, 9 a.m., Irrigon
Fire Department, 705 N.E. Main
St., Irrigon. (Lisa Baum 541-922-
3814)
WESTLAND
IRRIGATION
DISTRICT SPECIAL MEETING,
1 p.m., district office, 77096 High-
way 207, Echo. The results of
Tuesday’s board election will be
discussed. (541-667-2030)
ECHO SCHOOL DISTRICT,
6 p.m., Echo Community School,
600 Gerone St., Echo. A budget
meeting will be followed by the
regular board meeting. (541-376-
8436)
HELIX CITY COUNCIL, 7
p.m., Helix City Hall, 119 Colum-
bia St., Helix. (541-457-2521)
PENDLETON YOUTH COM-
MISSION, 7 p.m., Intermountain
ESD office, 2001 S.W. Nye Ave.,
Pendleton. (541-276-6711)
TRICT, 6 p.m., USDA Service
Center conference room, 1 S.W.
Nye Ave., Pendleton. (Kyle Wag-
goner 541-278-8049 ext. 138)
UMATILLA CITY COUNCIL
WORK SESSION, 6 p.m., Umatil-
la City Hall council chambers, 700
Sixth St., Umatilla. (Nanci 541-
922-3226 ext. 105)
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EASTERN OREGON TRADE
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TY, 7 a.m., EOTEC main building,
1705 E. Airport Road, Hermiston.
(541-289-9800)
ATHENA CEMETERY DIS-
TRICT, 5:30 p.m., Athena City
Hall, 215 S. Third St., Athena.
(541-566-3862)
IRRIGON CITY COUNCIL, 6
p.m., Irrigon City Hall, 500 N.E.
Main Ave., Irrigon. (541-922-
3047)
PENDLETON
DEVELOP-
MENT COMMISSION, 6 p.m.,
Pendleton City Hall, 501 S.W.
Emigrant Ave., Pendleton. (541-
276-1811)
MORROW COUNTY FAIR, 6
p.m., Morrow County Fairgrounds
office, 74473 Highway 74, Hep-
pner. (Ann Jones 541-676-9474)
UMATILLA COUNTY SOIL &
WATER CONSERVATION DIS-
the end of the four-month
trial to weigh the rule of law
against the effect of force
and violence “at the end of
a gun.”
The first government
witness called Wednesday
was a Bureau of Land
Management director, Mary
Jo Rugwell, to testify about
the decades-long dispute
with Cliven Bundy.
Ryan Bundy earlier cast
the government as intent on
running his family off the
land.
“If they become that
which will not honor our
rights, then they become
the criminal,” he said. “The
government is our servant,
not we to them.”
Government agents over-
reached and overreacted,
Bundy said, spending untold
millions of dollars to close
a vast area to the public,
designate
corral-style
“First Amendment Zones”
for protesters and devote
nearly 200 federal agents
and contract cowboys to the
cattle roundup.
He
denied
anyone
conspired, coerced, threat-
ened or impeded federal
agents.
“We were attacked. Our
house was surrounded,”
Bundy said. “Surveillance
cameras on one hill. Snipers
aiming at the house.”
Bundy choked with
emotion as he recalled
people like co-defendant
Ryan Payne, head of a
self-styled militia group,
arriving from Montana in
response to a family call for
help.
“They saved my life,”
Bundy said, “for before they
were there, I had a sniper
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pointing at me.”
Payne’s lawyer, Ryan
Norwood, described Payne
as a U.S. Army veteran
who lost four good friends
during two deployments
in Iraq who felt compelled
after seeing reports of
clashes and arrests of Bundy
family members to leave his
job as an electrician and his
wife and children at home
in Anaconda, Montana, and
drive to the Bundy ranch.
Norwood said jurors
might not agree with his
client’s views on the law
and constitutional rights,
but, “Ryan Payne believed
people were in danger, and
if he didn’t do something
now it was going to get
worse.”
Payne never pointed a
gun at anyone and remained
with Cliven Bundy on the
day of the standoff, miles
away from the clash point,
Norwood said.
“He worked to keep
people safe,” the attorney
said. “Keeping people safe
is not a crime.”
Attorneys for another
Bundy son, Ammon Bundy,
told Chief U.S. District
Judge Gloria Navarro they
would wait until after the
prosecution evidence has
been presented to make an
opening statement.
Each defendant faces 15
felony charges including
assault and threats against
federal officers, obstruction
and extortion. Convictions
could carry the possibility
of more than 170 years in
prison.
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