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TRUMP REJECTS IMMIGRATION DEAL PROTESTERS PICKET LUNCH DISRUPTION NATION/6A REGION/3A FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 142nd Year, No. 62 WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend • • • One dollar PENDLETON Cabin Fever Concert in Hermiston Saturday Dancing with your Hermiston Stars Rev. Deacon Chuck Barnes Ordination For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Catch a movie Warner Bros. Pictures via AP A hyperintelligent bear who spreads joy and marmalade hunts down a book thief that threatens to ruin his aunt’s 100th birthday in “Paddington 2.” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 52/38 52/33 45/32 Camp Umatilla training center to get $25M upgrade Taking a spin on the wheel ABOVE: Erika Anuca’s hands are covered in wet clay as she uses her fi ngers to build up the sides of a piece of pottery while taking a beginning wheel throwing pottery class Thursday at the Pendleton Center for the Arts. Anuca said she found an old notebook with notes in it from the last time she took a pottery class 20 years ago. RIGHT: Instructor Marie Pratuch demonstrates how to start the walls of a pot while teaching a be- ginning wheel throwing pottery class. This is the eighth time Pratuch has taught this class at the arts center and she said there was so much interest in it she had to open a second class. Staff photos by E.J. Harris East Oregonian Offi cers become experts in spotting drug impairment HERMISTON With about 7,500 acres of former Umatilla Chemical Depot land now in the hands of the Oregon National Guard, the Oregon Military Department is planning to invest $25 million to improve the facilities. According to a report Thursday from the public affairs offi ce of the Oregon National Guard, the new training center west of Hermiston will be used for weekend and annual training requirements for the Guard and other military branches. It will also house the 249th Two-week course reviews cannabis, prescription drugs, meth and cocaine Offi ce, said offi cers have to go through a lengthy training program to become certifi ed. When a car swerves After applying to the off the road but a Breath- position, candidates spend alyzer shows the a few days dedi- driver has no cated to basics. alcohol in their “We make bloodstream, sure the candi- police have to dates can appro- determine if the priately do and person is under interpret fi eld the infl uence sobriety tests,” of something Roberts said. else and what Through is causing the a two-week Gutierrez impairment. course, candi- To answer dates review these questions, how drugs affect most agencies a person’s brain have trained and body and drug recognition study the specifi c experts, offi cers effects of seven who use a categories of 12-step protocol drugs. Those at a hospital or include cannabis, police station prescription to recognize Jons drugs, metham- when someone phetamines and is impaired by a substance cocaine. other than alcohol. The candidates also Sgt. Josh Roberts, one have to study a matrix of two such experts for the See DRUGS/8A Umatilla County Sheriff’s By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian See UMATILLA/8A EO fi le photo Parking lot attendant direct traffi c at the 2017 Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston. Planning commission questions EOTEC’s failure to meet conditions By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian The Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center has been directed to report to the Hermiston Planning Commission each month leading up to the next Umatilla County Fair after failing to meet multiple conditions of a parking variance granted by the city. Commissioners said during a meeting Wednesday that they supported the fair and the Farm-City Pro Rodeo and wanted those events to succeed, but they couldn’t turn a blind eye to the infractions committed during the 2017 Umatilla County Fair. “We can’t make EOTEC above everyone else in the city we have a responsibility for,” Phil Hamm said. The EOTEC board had obtained a variance from the planning commis- sion in 2017 allowing some parking and traffi c requirements to be waived during large events with more than 2,000 people in exchange for meeting certain conditions. But most of the six conditions were not met during the 2017 fair and rodeo, including requirements to notify neighbors and to submit an event permit application, a lighting plan, an overfl ow parking plan and shuttle ridership count. The events See EOTEC/8A
