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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018
142nd Year, No. 62
WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Your Weekend
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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
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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