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SPORTS/1B STUDENT GOES FROM BROKEN TO BRAVE 10A VIKINGS REPEAT LEAGUE CHAMPS Trump unveils $4.4 trillion budget plan NATION/9A TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2018 142nd Year, No. 84 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Wyden, Merkley call college op-eds disqualifying for nominee Bounds Hermiston graduate says he has matured since ‘tone-deaf, insensitive’ writings the rights of workers, people of color and the LGBTQ community.” “While we have followed Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say they no through on our commitment longer believe Hermiston to forward to the White graduate Ryan Bounds House the names reported by the committee, is a “suitable we do not believe nominee” for the Mr. Bounds is a 9th U.S. Circuit suitable nominee Court of Appeals for a lifetime after reading appointment to a collection of the bench,” they opinion pieces stated. he wrote during Walden’s office college, including issued a statement one criticizing that although m u l t i c u l t u r a l Bounds Bounds had not student groups that been required “divide up by race for their feel-good ethnic hoedowns” to provide “college kid columns” to the review and foster “race-think.” he had Bounds, a Hermiston commission, High School graduate and provided the columns to the an Assistant U.S. Attorney Senate Judiciary Committee for the District of Oregon, and “has fully denounced was chosen by a bipartisan them.” “Ryan Bounds is a committee of attorneys appointed by Wyden, talented and effective Merkley and Rep. Greg prosecutor who should Walden as one of four final- be judged on his adult ists for a judicial vacancy on record of working to make the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court Oregon safer by holding accountable of Appeals. Any judge lawbreakers seated on the court will have and by his unblemished to go through a confirma- record of public service, tion hearing by the Senate including chairing the bar committee on diversity and Judiciary Committee. However, Wyden and inclusion,” Walden said. Bounds, according to Merkley issued a joint state- ment Monday saying that The Oregonian/Oregonlive, after the committee named apologized to the Mult- Bounds, it learned that nomah Bar Association’s he had “failed to disclose equity, diversity and inclu- inflammatory writings that sion committee — of which reveal archaic and alarming See BOUNDS/10A views about sexual assault, By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian HERMISTON School district aligns 2019 spring break with Washington schools By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian Hermiston School District students will align even more closely with their Washington peers next year, as the school board on Monday voted 4-1 to set its 2018-2019 school calendar. The decision means spring break will be from April 1 to 5, the same as Washington state schools and Hermiston’s new athletic league rivals, instead of the last week in March along with Oregon schools. Board members Jason Middleton and Dave Smith were absent for the vote, and Mark Gomolski was the lone dissenter. Interim superintendent Tricia Mooney said she was making the recommendation to the board at the sugges- tion of the Educational Council, a group of staff representing each school, two administrators and two school board members that makes recommendations about scheduling that is not mandated by the state calendar. At two previous school board meetings, some elementary school teachers had spoken against the proposed change. At Monday’s meeting, Josh Linn, a Rocky Heights Elementary School teacher who has been a vocal oppo- nent of the schedule change, again voiced his concern about the change. Linn has said at several previous See SCHOOL/10A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Sidewalk shadows of the setting sun A pedestrian walks through a shaft of light from the setting sun Monday on Court Avenue in Pendleton. Forecasts call for more sun Tuesday before a cold front moves into the region in the evening bringing a potential rain or snow, according to the National Weather Service. PENDLETON Hunters learn about elk conversation, conservation By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian Verlyn Savage may speak elk, but there’s more than one language. At the Pendleton Convention Center Saturday, Savage stood in front of a crowd of hundreds, lifted a bugle to his mouth, and blew a series of short, high-pitched sounds that faded into a rasp. “Notice any difference?” he asked the crowd of mostly children. “Yes,” some yelled back, already picking up the skill after their first elk bugling lesson. “When a bull starts bugling, try to match its intensity,” he said. “When they’re talking certain languages you have to know what they’re talking, because sometimes they’ll let out a bugle that’s different than what they’ve Staff photo by Kathy Aney Karsten Bracher, of Helix, and Layton Thompson, of Adams, practice their elk bugling skills Saturday at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Outdoor Skills Day at the Pendleton Convention Center. been bugling, that means he’s grabbing his cows and leaving,” he told the audi- ence. “You’ve got to start distinguishing how this bull reacts to your bugle.” Savage was one of the speakers at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s first youth outdoor skills day. More than a thousand people showed up for the event, which aimed to teach kids about how hunting and outdoor recreation relate to conservation. “You see a lot of people who don’t really understand what [it] is,” said event organizer Korie Campbell. “The future of conservation depends on the next genera- tion. The goal is to get these kids exposed.” Campbell, a Pendleton native, is currently attending college in Missoula, Montana, where she studies wildlife biology. She works for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation headquarters, where she plans educational events. In August she called her father, Tim Campbell, who is in the local RMEF chapter, about hosting an event specifically aimed at teaching youth. “Our chapter had wanted to do a youth event,” he said. “This is Korie’s passion.” Though he runs a drywall company by day, Savage is a longtime hunter, and gives several presentations a year on elk calling. Though much of his skill at elk-bugling is self-taught, Savage said each year, he See ELK/10A
