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EAST OREGONIAN • HERMISTON HERALD • BLUE MOUNTAIN EAGLE • WALLOWA COUNTY CHIEFTAIN
TUESDAY
January 23, 2018
104 Special Notices
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184 Personals
504 Homes for Sale
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debts other than my own.
Julie Medrano
$329,900- So much to enjoy!
3 bed, 3 bath with great room
plus large family room. Kitchen:
granite counters, stainless appli-
ances. Gas fireplaces. Two lots
w/deck space looking toward
park. Vicki 541-969-9441 cell.
#17297249
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541-276-0021
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487 Bargain Bin
$169,900- HELIX. 3 bed, 2
bath, 1484sqft (m/l) manufac-
tured home. Handicap ramp,
oversized interior doors, walk-
in shower. Patio, carport. .34
acres, includes another .18
acre easement. 12x15 outbuild-
ing. Jerry 541-969-6378 cell.
#17269206
Coldwell Banker Whitney
541-276-0021
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504 Homes for Sale
$97,000- Exceptional deal on
corner lot. 2 bed, 1 bath great
starter home and will finance.
Seller has put on new roof, ren-
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310-9563 cell. #17237042
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541-276-0021
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I am no longer responsible for
any debts other than my own.
Charles R. McMullen
$177,900- 3 bed, 2 bath w/
master suite, new master bath-
room. Deck, dog kennel, play
structure. Updates include roof,
HVAC, windows, exterior doors,
garage door, electrical. Jef 541-
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541-276-0021
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Great RV set-up. City water/
sewer. 10x10 Gazebo set-up for
2 RVs. 12x52 deck, 8x10 storage
shed. 50 amp electrical. Land-
scaped and fenced. Marsha
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Coldwell Banker Whitney
541-276-0021
$192,000- HERMISTON
3 bedroom, 2 full bath home.
Newly remodeled bathroom,
stainless steel appliances. Lev-
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Patio, deck, fire pit, UGS. Cari
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Coldwell Banker Whitney
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IRZ Consulting is hiring for
seasonal field technician.
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older, have a valid driv-
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math, and be able to work
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McKay Creek Estates
Mom and Dad
Deserve the Best.
Are you concerned about your loved one?
We can help.
$90,000- 9.1 acres parcel over-
looking the Umatilla River w/
views of the Blue Mountains and
sunsets. Utilities available at the
edge of the lot. Molly 541-969-
4188 cell. #18441016
Coldwell Banker Whitney
541-276-0021
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LOOKING for a great location to
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views of mountains and valley
below. Enjoy the beautiful town
of Cove. Carolyn 541-786-0822
cell. #16585741
Coldwell Banker Whitney
541-276-0021
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Live by a park! Open concept
split- level by owner and the
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3 possibly 5 bed. 2 bath,
carport, UGS, flat location,
great neighborhood. $189,000
Pendleton,541-612-0999
651 Help Wanted
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the Fair Housing Act which
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any preference, limitation, or
discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, handicap,
familial status, or national or-
igin, or an intention to make
any such preference, limita-
tion, or discrimination. Famil-
ial status includes children
under the age of 18 living with
parents or legal custodians,
pregnant women, and people
securing custody of children
under 18.
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tising for real estate which
is in violation of the law. Our
readers are hereby informed
that all dwellings advertised
in this newspaper are avail-
able on an equal opportunity
basis. To complain of dis-
crimination, call HUD toll-free
at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-
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$264,900- McKay Park area!
3200sf(m/l), 4 bedroom, 3 bath
home on quiet cul de sac. 2 car
garage with a work shop behind.
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Coldwell Banker Whitney
541-276-0021
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HERMISTON
Women’s March
on
Pendleton, Saturday
Cabin Fever Concert
Saturday in Hermiston
Dinner Dance Fundraiser
for HHS band
For times and
places
see Coming Events,
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On track to break
ground in May
gives the
are a
Mayor John Turner
Weight loss programs
Council’s 2017
Good Shepherd
Pendleton City
dime a dozen, but
is trying to
performance a B-. that grade to grow
Health Care System
and stay
Turner expects but he said last
By ANTONIO SIERRA
help people get healthy
by the end of 2018, the groundwork
East Oregonian
healthy — for life.
Thrive,
year was spent laying
fresh set of
Achieve Conquer a series of
for the new-look council’s
known as ACT, offers
The Pendleton projects
as well as indi-
goals instead of
nine group classes a registered
and equipment paid for by a
achieving them.
vidual meetings with Participants
$10 million ﬁ re bond remain
until
us
“Give
dietitian nutritionist.
under budget, but cuts had to
to maintain a
2018 to crow
can learn how lower choles-
be made to keep it that way.
anything,”
about
physique,
healthier
Fire Chief Mike Ciraulo
levels, get
he said.
terol and triglyceride stress and
told the Pendleton City
Between the
clearer skin, reduce
and
Council
Tuesday that the
2016
start of
other healthful practices. misinfor-
ﬁ re station needed to cut $2
2017, ﬁ ve of the
“There’s so much wrong ideas
million in features to stay on
nine seats on the
mation, and so many the internet,”
target.
council turned Turner
ﬂ oating out there on
Nutrition
In an interview after the
over as incum-
said Nancy Gummer, Education
bent retirement gave way to new meeting, Ciraulo explained
Services and Diabetes
so much click-
that the cuts were the result
and resignations
Manager. “There’s
nutrition
regarding
of
an
updated
construction
faces.
—
there
faces
out
bait
ve new
ﬁ ve things
Four out of the ﬁ Jake Cambier, cost estimate.
— ‘Don’t eat these for you.’”
Turner and councilors
Under a previous ﬁ re
and life will change loss” program
Dale Primmer —
Scott Fairley and ﬁ rst full year in department
administra-
Any “weight
lose weight
talked about their their expectations tion, ofﬁ cials estimated it
will help someone said, as they
ofﬁ ce and some of
would take $7.7 million in
temporarily, she their diet. But
going forward.
some of the construction costs to build
drastically change temporarily
Turner pointed to in 2016, like a a new ﬁ re station. The
many fad diets only or help the
had
city
the
successes
take off pounds, weight without
from the Drinking department operated under
$14.9 million loan
Fund that the that estimate through the
participant lose
health
Water State Revolving and replace its bond’s successful May 2017
by E.J. Harris
addressing underlying
Staff photo
high blood
city is using to repair
e took part
concerns such as
election, but the numbers
100 peopl
water infrastructure.
pressure.
More than
changed
once
design
ﬁ rm
develop
ston.
Gummer, who helped
ay in Hermi
Mackenzie and contractor
See COUNCIL/8A
said people
on Mond
the ACT program, ideas that all
Day march
McCormack Construction
Luther King
tend to have wrong for example,
took an updated look on the
a Martin
Jr.
fat is bad for them, been preached
Street during Luther King
costs. Their estimates now
Martin
onto Main
since “low fat has
works of
the turn
say it would take $10 million
ers makes ting the life and
for so long.”
of march
to get the project built.
emora
it’s the right
“It’s not low fat,
A procession l march comm
The ﬁ re department and
annua
said.
the
she
in
fats,”
said she
its consultants then spent
Mary Ann Anson nutrition
time eliminating features
about
thought she knew class, but she
on the ﬁ re station design to
before taking the
bring the project back under
learned plenty.
I thought
budget.
“Some of the things
are not,” she
“We have no other pot of
were healthy for me
money,” Ciraulo said.
said.
sly hostile.
switched
got
The cuts ranged from
it’s not obviou
For example, she yogurt to
that I always
d
East Oregonian
“The pro was ” he said with a
“niceties” that would have
from Activa-bran learning that
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he
of yogurt vary
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grin. “The a story of when
A woman was found off a rural
different brands stopped eating
He told child, a teacher had
after she drove
in nutrition,
that
hours
widely
12
and would have improved
Aney
road
natural”
Kathy
“all
farm
ested
Staff photo by
was a small call him by his name,
some things labeled would be
Morrow County for help. service or the safety of
.
tory
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Yoga in Hermiston
refused to
that she had assumed
of
walked away to look
him a deroga
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The ﬁ re department was
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does a pose during
ANTONIO ANEY
ntly
helping people to eat
term.
soft drinks altogether.
Springﬁ eld, was found
planning to install folding
why she called
underlying
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people refer just
manage Jenny Sullivan
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by the Morrow doors
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helped her better which is
things
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and
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and Search
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open mind and are
that, and she ever going to be,’”
to themselves as weeks’ worth conditions.
her diabetes, she
Sheriff’s Ofﬁ ce
open horizontally rather than
seen a lot of
to take the an
— without creating
a few
ston’s
She said she has
all you’re d.
change.
what prompted her
Rescue.
at Hermi
or more
vertically — because they
of the after taking
speciﬁ c diet
l-
her 78-year-old
without
The mood King Jr. Day march
Rachel Tate, one teach ACT of training on a the registered people lose 25 pounds
Rome recalle told a story acknow
McDuffee and driving Monday
class in the ﬁ rst place.
open and close faster and
so she
health overall
e,
ities. He
He also
disunity.”
Martin Luther g was positiv
Anson uses a walker, difﬁ cult dietitians who helps people learn program, Tate said who work but also have better ACT and then
mother-in-law were off Highway
206 a longer lifespan. But
have
his own insecur
is more
e that
nutritionists
completing
said helping
the grocery
rural roads
after
edging
exercise
dietitian
on
to
classes,
Monday mornin
to
messag
said
night
least
one
bury,
trip
at
on
advice
drove
is
a
clear
its
they’re
more expensive than
have
a
but based
Wood
their vehicle
elderly
continuing to apply
remembered
but carried social justice is far
for her than some, during ACT about their metabolism
— Sarah
near Condon when
where an him.
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izer
a traditional garage door, so
a steep incline.
degree in addition their lives.
things she teaches.
event organ
store last year,
the ﬁ ght for
advice she was given
and
off the road and down
MLK Day
woman,
walking toward recip-
to walk of the they also cook, meal plan a bachelor’s
training
they
had
to go.
goal
elderly
was
a
the
small
it
to
over.
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supervised
makes
didn’t
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to
from
said
According
she now
the gone was the depart-
come to
walk, listen
, but they
scene of Also
about stress and
per week and
See ACT/8A
“When you ston and still Methodist Church to
by E.J. Harris
He smiled
what
at least two miles yoga. She said and “talk a lot and techniques to continuing education.
McDuffee left the midnight
and plan to line the entire
Staff photo
then, of not
Hermi
ment’s
and
down
“This rocate.
and discuss
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town like
she has taken up a huge beneﬁ t, inﬂ ammation
the song
accident on foot about
watching said to speeches, e continues to
me up and
was not dressed
along to United Method-
g,”
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have people
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of Kenne a service at the First ay in Hermiston. in disgust, and
marching,
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around Herm- a Rev. Robert Eadie
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stories
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of
a 911 call
how prejudi
justice and place in Hermiston for City Councilor Doug
A passerby made after seeing the
had the
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stage, talking
arted and
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8:24 a.m. Tuesday of the incline.
were lighthe
own experie
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18 years.
vehicle at the bottom
ston area,
Hermiston.
about his
the elderly woman
Tri-Cities, growing up black in
from the Hermi
The caller assisted The victim was
d and the
By TIM TRAINOR
as Portlan front of Hermiston’s
who was still inside.
Memorial
East Oregonian
gathered in
transported to Pioneer
and released.
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cop car
in a vacant house
near 33464 E. Punkin
Center Road
By JAYATI RAMAKRIS
of Hermiston. east
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The
East Oregonian
Umatilla
County
Sheriff’s Ofﬁ ce
A Hermiston man
been called to had
was arrested twice
Thursday: in the morning
area on the report the
for burglary and
trespassing, and in
suspicious vehicle of a
the afternoon —
that
stealing and crashing
after
a 911 caller said might
a sheriff’s ofﬁ ce Phillips
vehicle and leading
be related to recent
police on a two hour
manhunt — for escape,
burglaries
vehicle theft and
Deputy Chris Daugherty in the area.
eluding police.
responded
and
found
Christopher Phillips,
the vehicle, a red
1994 Ford
at the Umatilla County 23, is behind bars Explorer, as well as Phillips
Jail facing charges Morris, 19.
and Tyler
on those crimes and
Daugherty arrested
Phillips was ﬁ rst possibly more.
and handcuffed
arrested at 8:50 a.m.
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tal health
agrees to outs provider
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t
By JAYAT
I RAMA
and KATHY KRISHNAN
ANEY
East Oregon
ian
A Friday
professionals meeting left mental
“cautiously and local law enforc health
ement
ments that optimistic” about
in Umatilla can be made to crisis improve-
County.
services
“The most
ways and law important thing
is that Life-
together to enforcement agreed
communicati create a better structu to work
said Kevin on and information re for
sharing,”
the CEO Campbell,
Companies
of
Greater
as long as located inside
Oregon
enterprise
the invest
(clockwise
Health, Inc. Behavioral
ment
zones
Company from top left) causes the comp can receive
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The
exemp
Oregon Grain
in Pendle
any
meeting
From left: Maribel Marin, Michelle Ryan and Kate Allen investigate a crime scene during a pre-test lab exercise during a forensic
ton, and
included
Growers to add jobs or tions on property
By JADE MCDOWEL
Lamb Westo
Brand Distill increase produ
taxes for
science class on Tuesday at BMCC in Pendleton.
L
county
mental
n in Hermi
East Oregonian
new constr
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ctivity
ston.
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health
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ton, Pione . Businesses in
er Hi-Bre
Lifeways,
enterprise or equipment,
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Echo city councilor
admini
in Hermi zones include
organization strative
ston, Hill
Nakapalau has resigned. Lou
Meat
and chiefs GOBHI,
Nakapalau became
of most
a
of
divisive ﬁ gure after
the
Cities
county
By KATHY ANEY
making
“You’re going to have to put anti-gay
can give
police departm ’s Campbell
for new projects businesses tax breaks
East Oregonian
all the pieces together,” DeGarmo ﬁ lmmaker comments to a gay
It was promp ents.
for three
in "enterprise
on Facebook in
granted by
ted by
instructed.
zones." Below or more years
a message
October. The scrutiny
Hermiston
last week
are
and Pendlet
value of each
He grinned at them.
In one episode of “CSI: Crime
from
by the controversy created
on since 2009 the exemptions
project.
brought
and the total
“You’ve seen CSI,” he said. to light past
Scene Investigation,” Captain Jim
who issued Campbell,
Hermiston
felony
Enterprise
statement a public
“You can ﬁ gure it out.”
Brass shouts to investigator Gil
for nine counts of charges
Zone exemp
possession
if Lifewa saying that
By JADE
On the hillside, ﬁ ve students of child pornograph
Grissom.
tions
Company
MCDOWELL
AND ANTON
make “key ys did not
Project cost
encircled the area with yellow which he was found y, for
“Hey, look what I found: a
Pioneer Hi-Bred
IO
Shearer’s
guilty in
($ millions Year
by Feb. changes”
Year
East Oregon SIERRA
crime scene tape. They donned Clark County, Washington
knife with blood on it.”
Foods, DuPon
) begun
Pioneer Hi-Bred
20 their
Pioneer Hi-Bre
ian
expired
,
contract
t Pioneer,
$35
blue surgical gloves and grabbed in 2000.
Grissom answers deadpan.
d
Al Plute points
2009
and
for
Telecom —
Eastern Oregon
Dupont Pioneer
crisis
Some of
2015
to a ﬂ oor plan
services in
evidence bags. They stepped
“Hey, look what I found,” he
City administrator
13.9
Thursday in Pendleton
for a
Umatilla
businesses Eastern Oregon’s bigges
erty taxes from paying any
2013
Shearer ’s
County
. Plute’s plans residential remodel of the third
2019
prop-
gingerly, looking for clues and Berry said she found a Diane
said. “A dead guy.”
Roberts
Foods
t equipm on the new constru
would add 18 more
2.6
ﬂ oor of the Bowman
can access get a tax break only
“very
2013
terminated. would be
ent for three
ction
residential apartment
, but it comes
Shearer ’s
they
placing evidence markers next to short” resignation letter
About 25 newbie crime scene
Building from
Staff photo by
2019
Foods
to ﬁ ve years. or
E.J. Harris
3.1
The
In early Januar
one of the studio
s to the downtown
with a catch.
in
After Friday
the city’s dropbox
2010
shell casings.
investigators combed through two
apartments progra enterprise zone,
Shearer ’s
area.
2014
earlier
’s meetin
Foods
Police Chief
m that provid an Oregon its ﬁ rst tax break y, the city gave
25
g,
DeGarmo, instructor and this month.
faux murder scenes on Tuesday
2011
longer
property tax
Eastern Oregon
years
es
2015
more optimi Stuart Roberts Pendleton
3.5
Telecom
exemptions multi-year rural — known as a than ﬁ ve
program coordinator of the “This is my letter of
on the Blue Mountain Commu-
said he felt
2014
investments,
Lamb Weston
services in stic about mental
enterpr
longter
on
2018
school’s recently rebooted crim- resignation from the Echo
nity College campus, looking for
*
the county
2
by Pendleton has been utilized new potato proces ise agreement — m
2017
time.
than he had health
2021
to
inal justice program, advised City Council, effective Jan.
such evidence — plus a lot more.
in a long
past decade and Hermiston over often The compa sor Lamb Weston
225
Pendleton
“We agree
2018
Pendleton develop
ny will
the proper
Enterprise
.
them to patiently soak in the 2,” it read.
The CSI wannabes, entering their
2033
industries . Companies in certain
ers
deliverables that as long as
ty taxes for not have to pay
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Zone exemp
located inside
there are
second week of Matt DeGarmo’s An evidence marker and a ruler mark a footprint at a crime scene, assessing all evidence large The council was set to
in
zones
tions, 2013-2
announce plans as
the next 90
Company
one of the $225 million project 15 years on a
willing to
can
discuss the resignation
days
021
work
2017
forensic science class at the scene during a pre-test lab exercise for the forensic science and small.
exemption receive a three- to ﬁ ve-yea
Hermiston
Project cost
at
Keystone RV
Roberts said together,” he said. we are
its regular council
plant. But expanding its
ﬁ nishes on strong
r the longer
($millions) Year
construction on property taxes for
“Move slowly in concentric Thursday,
college, found a gruesome scene class Tuesday at BMCC in Pendleton.
in
the
meeting
Year
exchan
group
of
immed
begun
note
ge for
Keystone RV
formed
iate
expired
but
the investm or equipment, as long new has agreed tax break, the compa
$0.75
circles from the outside,” he said. canceled
on a grassy hill near the school’s
Berry
in an outside goals: speciﬁ cally, a couple
2013
By ANTONIO SIERRA
Keystone RV
2015
to add jobs ent causes the compa as payment to to a $1 million per ny
“Be extremely observant and take before the meeting shortly
softball ﬁ eld. A bald man (all forensics classroom, a woman evidence of a struggle.
ways and consultant to work bringing
0.25
or increase
be split betwee
year
ny
noon
2014
East
setting
with
Oregonian
after
of
Rocky Mounta
productivity.
ﬁ nding
Life-
Hermiston
up a coalitio
right, a dummy) lay there, with lay sprawled on the tile ﬂ oor
2016
This was a pre-test. The baby steps.”
case-speciﬁ
n the city
The
0.2
in Colby Pipe
n to addres
c
Assistant city and Umatilla County
2015
See NAKAPALAU/8A
From the exemptions
four bullet holes riddling his body. with a knife protruding from her students didn’t know much yet
Rocky Mounta
s
He said issues.
2017
Looking to expand
1.5
in Colby Pipe
Lifeways
See FORENSICS/8A
ton’s enterpr beginning of Hermi
said that $15 manager Mark Morga .
2016
In a second scene inside the chest. Knocked-over chairs gave except what they’d seen on TV.
consul
his
property
hoped
Rocky Mounta
tant within
portfolio beyond Portland,
million spread
2018
s- years
n
the end of ise zone in 2005
4.2
in Colby Pipe
the next couple to hire a
will
developer
over
Roberts
2017
Nate Brusselback
(pending)
Hill Meat
2019
prise zone 2017, the city gave until what Lamb equal about 42 percen 15
was propos said the idea for of weeks.
4.5
the largest cities looked at some of
2019
a coalition
Hill Meat
million in tax exemptions to enter- in property Weston would have t of
in the Southwest.
2021
Tim Hoeks ed by new Lifewa
capital investm
1.2
taxes over
paid
$85
But he ended up purchasing
2013
breaks exemp
that same time
Pendleton
ent. Those period.
organization tra, who started work ys CEO
2015
several
apartment complexes
Woolen Mills
ted the compa
6.5
just this week.
with the
2016
in a much
nies —
“It’s
Oregon Grain
smaller desert town.
2018
0.35
Growers
See ENTE
employed,” a strategy he’s
2016
*$1 million
RPRISE/12A
Brusselback’s
previously
2018
Roberts said.
per year to
0.15
be paid instead
Campbell
Pendleton didn’t investment in
2017
Sources: Cities
of property
said
2019
they also
taxes.
stop there. He
of the challen
of Hermiston
recently secured building
and Pendleton
ges Lifewa identiﬁ ed some
Maess, Chris McMahon and
permits to
“I believe one
ys has faced.
construct a 25-unit
EO Media
barrier in the
duplex complex
Roni Durham were standing in a
Group graphic
on Southwest 28th
past has been
20-foot Weldcraft about 8:30 a.m.
Drive near
See LIFEW
Juniper House.
AYS/12A
near Tansy Point when they noticed
“I didn’t know
a 31-foot Bayliner Trophy speeding
Pendleton ... but anything about
By JACK HEFFERNAN
toward them. After yelling at the
on me,” he said it’s really grown
EO Media Group
in an interview
boat and waving their hands, the trio
Thursday.
leapt into the river seconds before
Brusselback now owns
A Hermiston sport ﬁ sherman has the crash. The three were eventually
By ANTON
128 apart-
ments in three different
IO SIERR
A
ﬁ led a lawsuit after being rammed pulled from the water and treated
complexes.
East Oregon
In the last year,
Woman of
ian
he purchased
in a harrowing boat crash on the at Columbia Memorial Hospital,
Pendleton Point Apartments
Martin as the Year and Ron
Emcee
the
Columbia River near Hammond in Astoria for minor injuries. Their boat
,
South
Man of the
Hills Apartments
Year
the Pendle Steve Hill said for 2017.
and Edgewater
August.
Apartments.
was severely damaged.
The third ﬂ oor
A native
Commerce ton Chamber of
of the Bowman
Bryan Maess, a patrol sergeant
Pendle
He eventually
The lawsuit alleges Larsen was
Building may transition
Houk spent
First Citizen
Banquet
a lifetim tonian,
with the Hermiston Police Depart- traveling at an excessive speed,
from ofﬁ ce space
s
Staff photo by
study commission read a housing across the street
E.J. Harris
to residential apartment
Oscars,” was “Pendleton’s up her credentials e building
from South Hills
ment, is suing the alleged driver of distracted and using his cellphone,
which showed not ed by the city, Apartments, Brusselback
unit 1,262
s.
for the
it’s one of not only because award.
decided garages. square feet with a one car thought
the boat — Marlin Lee Larsen — for and did not have one of the two other
housing in general, only need for to expand his
the comm
As a Blue
highest honors
the latter option
unity’s
$372,500 after the boat he was on occupants of the vessel keep watch
need for three-bedro but a speciﬁ c Pendleton assets. ﬂ edgling group of
could be
Current plans
popular with college
of the suspen , but because Community Colleg Mountain
om
call for 20 want
students
was slammed while trolling for for surrounding boat trafﬁ c.
With a property housing.
e studen
Brusselback said
three-bedroom
to live with roommates who
announcing se involved in she played on
units
the
available will span
the Timbe t,
Chinook salmon during the popular
.
the
wolves’ ﬁ rst
25 units and an ofﬁ duplexes two-bedroom apartments and ﬁ ve
The complex will
Maess sustained injuries to the
r-
With one winners.
ce, each master
with dual
also include
Buoy 10 ﬁ shery season. The lawsuit right side of his body. He continues
notable excep- ball team, ran woman’s basket-
bedrooms. Brusselback
tion, the
track, and
claims Larsen caused physical and to wear a knee brace, his ankle still
served
See HOUSING/8A
Clatsop County Sheriff’s Ofﬁ ce
Wildhorse presenters at the on a team that helped
A Hermiston sport ﬁ sherman has ﬁ led a lawsuit over a boat crash near emotional injury in his negligence
lived up to Resort & Casino BMCC community start the
their billing
dinner
Christmas
prior to the crash.
See BOAT/8A
Hammond in August.
night by taking
Friday meals , where she has
served
their time
for more than
announcing
Kathy Houk in
30 years.
as
See CITIZ
ENS/9A
Kathy
Nakapalau
Nakapalau
resigns his
council seat
BAITING B
USINESS
Students get hands-on lesson in forensics
Enterprise
zones give
tax breaks
sig
to local com niﬁ cant
panies
New housing for
the
new year
Hermiston ﬁ sherman sues after boat crash
Video of accident
released on Tuesday
Pendleton’
get the spot s ﬁ nest
light
Houk
Commerce smiles at the
crowd after
2017 Woma
n of the Year.
being name
d the Pendle Staff photo by Kathy
ton Cham Aney
ber of
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