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voters to
Tuesday to ask
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amend the Constitution e
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while the 25 Republican
opposed it.
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chief
D-Portland, the bill’s
light of
sponsor, said in
overturn
federal efforts to Act, it is
the Affordable Care voters
important for Oregon they
to weigh in on whether
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“It is worth noting
Dexter Johnson proposed amendment does
from Portland,
primarily Counsel
opinion
the state to provide
the measure is some legal wrote in a Feb. 12
Julie not require to every resident,
“aspirational,” but the right requested by Rep.
health care
access to
experts say adding could spur Parrish, R-West Linn.
to but only to provide
effective,
to the Constitution
It also is “impossible
health care that is
the amendment medically appropriate and
whether
litigation.
say
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create a financial affordable,” Johnson wrote.
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Kitzhaber
SALEM – Former Gov.
John
Kitzhaber
violated
state ethics laws in at least
11 instances, according to an
investigation report released
Wednesday by the Oregon
Ethics Commission.
Kitzhaber violated law
EOTEC
partners
negotiate
agreement
for split
Umatilla County will
have invested more than
$6 million by 2022
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
not immune
Umatilla County
since 90s
to nationwide trend
prohibiting use of his office for
personal financial gain when
he took actions that benefitted
his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes’ envi-
ronmental consulting firm, 3E
Strategies, investigators wrote in
135-page report. He also failed
to publicly disclose his potential
conflicts of interest and actual
conflicts in several instances, as
required by state law.
The
former
governor
included Hayes’s income
from the firm in his household
income in 2011-2013 on state-
ments of economic interest,
investigators said.
“Former
Governor
Kitzhaber was personally
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speeches, meetings, directives
to staff or official actions that
would further the financial
interest of 3E Strategies,”
the investigators stated in the
report.
The commission is sched-
uled to consider whether to
pursue the violations at a
meeting Friday.
“Although former Governor
Kitzhaber stipulated in a
proposed settlement agreement
that he unintentionally violated
the potential conflict statute,
he
unequivocally
rejects
the suggestion that he used
his public office to obtain a
financial benefit for himself or
Ms. Hayes,” Janet Hoffman,
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Squires warns of
‘ripple effects’ of
fewer exports
By MATTHEW WEAVER
EO Media Group
By KATHY
ANEY
East Oregon
ian
If the United States
doesn’t
re-enter the Trans-Pacifi
Last year,
c
measles broke
Partnership, Northwest
out in a
exports to Japan could wheat
community Somali-American
half within a few years, drop by
When the in Minneapolis.
says the
dust settled
leader of the Washington
Minnesota
,
Grain
Commission.
79 cases of had notched
measles —
The Pacific
state’s largest
outbreak in the
currently exports Northwest
years.
30
800,000 metric tons roughly
Twent
of Western
y-one
white wheat, a popular
mostly childre
people,
soft white wheat and blend of
talized. Accord n, were hospi-
club wheat, to Japan subclass
media reports ing to local
each year,
, fears
commission CEO Glen
the measle
Squires
s-mumps-rub that
said.
(MMR)
A missing wheelchai
ella
vaccine
r ramp at the intersectio
to go out onto
Hard red winter
autism drove
caused
and hard
audit found that the roadway in order to use n of Highway 395 and Southwes
red spring wheat exports
vaccinations the slump in
the crosswalk
ninety-seven percent
t 30th Street in
would
that traverses
also be impacted,
Staff photo by
percent in from 92 to 42
Pendleton
of the curb ramps
on state highways the highway. A recent Oregon would force a wheelchai E.J. Harris
Montana and North affecting
over 10 years the community
r user
were not compliant
Departme
Dakota,
with the Americans nt of Transportation
and other states exporting
exemptions as parents got
with Disabilitie
for their kids.
off
the West Coast, Squires
s Act.
Such
said.
Japan wants the
examples outbreaks are
and is not interested U.S. in TPP,
immunity, of waning herd
said Umati
agreements, Squires in bilateral
County
lla
said.
Public
Administrato
Wheat industry representa-
Health
tives met in Washington
When the r Jim Setzer.
, D.C.,
last week. Many legislators
group gets majority of a
aware of the concerns are
virus can’t vaccinated, a
about
the Trans-Pacific
from person easily spread
By JADE MCDOWEL
proceeding without Partnership
unvaccinated to person and
L
the United
people are
East Oregonian
States, Squires said.
generally
It will
essentially amount
herd immun protected, but
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
to
a
ity
tariff
Ninety-seve
works
ways must include
on U.S. wheat,
most people
n percent of curb
only if
Pre-kindergarten teacher Sarah Leonard writes down words starting with the letter “s” on Wednesday while teaching her class at
a ramp where they
putting the
ramps on Oregon’s
cross a curb. A settlement
country at a price disadvantag
the Pendleton Early Learning Center.
Vaccin get immunized.
are not compliant state highways
disability rights advocates between
in key markets compared e
mind right ations are top of
now for Setzer
with Disabilities with Americans
and the
Oregon Department
competing wheat-produ to
because
of Transporta-
according to a recent Act standards,
tion approved by
countries that are remain cing
Exclusion Wednesday is
a federal judge in
Day, the
in the
Umatilla County is inventory, and
March 2017 committed
trade pact.
students whose
day
no exception to
ODOT to
that lack of accessibility
immuniza-
creating an audit
tion record
Changes under
.
of all crossings,
Pendleton, in
completing curb ramp
occur over nine TPP will
will be s aren’t current
sent home
years, but
upgrades at
long list of corners particular, has a
30 percent of the
Squires said the impact
school. The
from
along Highway
locations by the
Athena-Weston students tested
395 that are missing
end of 2022, completing
ments could be much on ship-
letters warnin county sent
ramps to
higher than the state average in all “This
faster.
upgrades
g
allow wheelchair
of
at
75 percent by the
potential
exclusion
is a massively big
end of 2027 and
four categories. In Milton-Free-
the sidewalk. The users to access
fixing all of the curb
students on to parents of 530
deal,” he said.
ramp locations
Feb. 5.
water, the average student entered Reduced
several places in city was one of
by December 31, 2032.
“Some of
demand
them aren’t
school only able to identify about
out in a report by Oregon singled
to date and
result in lower wheat would
The audit, completed
up
prices,
others simply
Disability Rights advocacy group
two letter sounds and in many
about a have
month ago, rated
Squires said.
Oregon, although
incomplete
only
3
percent
many ramps in Hermiston
districts the average kindergartner A national
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
of Setzer
records,”
the curb ramps on
said.
coalition of
are also
non-compliant.
knew fewer than 10 uppercase agricultural
and
AND ANTONIO SIERRA
“good.” Some were state highways as to help them “We want
commodities is
resolve this
“I was very
lowercase letters by sight.
East Oregonian
most of the rest were rated “fair” but however it
forming to address
works for
rated “poor.”
Umatilla County concerned about A semi-traile
The results serve as a baseline
In 20 percent of
tion, Squires said. the situa-
them.”
Last year
in particular and
r
cases, there was Day,
on
highlighted Pendleton
ramp crossing passes in front of an ADA-comp Staff photo by E.J. Harris no ramp of
for progress made throughout The
a industry
Though graduation rates seem
any kind.
Highway 395 in
schools Exclusion
because I
will appeal to
liant wheelchai
thought it had the
Hermiston.
sent 147
student’s school career, and high-
the Trump administrati
r ramp was at too steep In others, the students
like the most obvious way to
home. Parent
of an angle, have
on to
problems, but there most egregious Stenson, litigation
blocked by a utility
light some of the challenges
in the trade deal.
rejoin
measure student progress, the
were many areas
three
s
attorney with Act
that were concerning,
Disability Rights Oregon.
that required going pole, in a place their childre options: get
was passed in 1991
early elementary classrooms. “President Trump
key to success starts many years
” said Tom
out of the cross-
is the guy
n’s record
to create
The Americans with
federal
The numbers who can negotiate, and
s to Regist
earlier.
Disabilities including standards for accessibility, walk and into oncoming traffic to
ered
See VACC
back involved,” Squires get us
Hot off the heels of strong
laws that pedestrian
The Oregon Kindergarten
Thursday nurse Eryn Griffin
INES/12A
said.
walk-
at the Umat
“It’s clearly a big
See RAMPS/10A
graduation scores, the Pendleton
fills a syring
that preven
Assessment, a statewide test now
illa Count
ts some
the equivalent of impact: It’s
y Health e while prepa
School District’s youngest students
in its fourth year, is given to each
forms of
handing our
ring a
meningitis. Department
competitors a $500
were
also
showing
above-average
kindergartner within the first few
offices in dose of the Mena Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
million
Hermiston.
ctra
days of entering public school.
Pre-kindergarten teacher Sarah Leonard watches students spell performances.
Menactra vaccine on
is a vaccin
In every assessment subject, See WHEAT/10A
On average, an incoming their names on Wednesday at the Pendleton Early Learning Center.
e
Pendleton students scored higher
Oregon kindergartner recognizes
In many Eastern Oregon school than the state average. In English
more than 14 uppercase and 12 those letters make. When asked
lowercase letters and can identify 16 simple math questions, the districts, however, the numbers
By KATHY ANEY
See KINDERGARTEN/10A
are far lower. Only Pendleton and
the sounds that about eight of students could answer about 11.
East
Umatilla County has spent more
than $4.8 million to create and
operate the Eastern Oregon Event
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
and Trade Center since its inception,
and plans to spend almost $1.2
gonorrhea?
million more in the next five years if
What’s going on with
disease,
Hermiston takes over full control of
is
The sexually transmitted
as “the clap,”
the event center.
known colloquially and around the nation.
The county’s single biggest
of
surging in Oregon
cases
71 new
contribution to EOTEC was the
Umatilla County reported
and 88 cases in 2016
roughly $3 million it earned from
gonorrhea last year
selling the fairgrounds in 2013.
— up from just
“STDs are
The county provided an additional
four in 2012.
other
$1,050,000 in 2015-16 for construc-
Two
having a
tion, and along the way more than
STDs, syphilis
big-time
$136,000 for operational support.
and chlamydia,
the
are also on
Hermiston was to take the reins
comeback.
rise in the United
to EOTEC on March 1, but commis-
States.
sioners last week voted to push that
Oregon is not
E.J. Harris
Ruth Helsley,
Staff photo by
to March 12 when Hermiston City
it’s
his morn-
of the Oregon unique —
Council meets. The decision must
ables while doing
Health Authority,
container for non-recycl
be approved by both entities, which
happening
the
checks a recycling
manages
driver Dave Pauley
have partnered in the project since
HIV/
Inc. recycling pickup
all over the
state’s
the beginning.
Horizon Project in Milton-Freewater.
STD prevention
ing route Tuesday
Larry Givens, county commis-
country.”
program.
sioner, and Byron Smith, Hermiston
are
“STDs
— Ruth Helsley,
city manager, said the deal is about
having a big-time
Oregon Health
cutting down on the number of
comeback,”
by E.J. Harris
Authority
said.
governments involved in EOTEC,
Staff photo
said.
Projects
Helsley
Horizon Special
said to having the correct number of
Currin akin
“Oregon is not
Director Ben has handled
cooks in the kitchen.
unique — it’s the country.”
nonprofit
“That’s what we’re hoping,”
recyclables
transition when the
happening all over 1997, gonorrhea rates
e- make the
recycling Milton-Freewater’s
to
Smith
said.
ton.
Milton-Fre
1975
employing
the
ewater’s
From
1980s,
vendor,
Pendle
decade,
a
in
cling
steady for
Project since the
sort
Avenue g bringing a
unanimously Milton-Fre
Smith and Givens said the delay
HERMISTON
By ANTONIO SIERRA
plummeted, stayed again. Syphilis had an
water City Council start its own contractor — Horizon that the disabled people to help
ay on Court
the evenin
allows more time to work out details
East Oregonian
then began rising rise from the ashes.
g sun Mond
region in
voted Monday to effectively Inc. — told city officials
through the material.
the settin
reached
into the
to the deal. That includes language
n could no longer
program,
even more dramatic thought syphilis was
light from front moves e.
But in 2015, the state lawsuit
in the organizatio
Oregon recycling
recycling
a shaft of
requiring the city to construct a new
a cold
“In the ’90s, we
Servic
As vendors across services, ending curbside service
afford to provide
through Tuesday before
a settlement on a federal building at EOTEC to serve as year-
Weather
trian walks
sun
National
gone,” Helsley said. are back — in spades.
curb their recycling
A pedes call for more
out of
ing to the
residents will city. In an interview after the services.
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round office and storage space for
Now both STDs explanation. People
“They’re completely
Milton-Freewater to recycle
Forecasts rain or snow, accord
she
Linda
the county fair.
Helsey offered an risks because they
recycling business,”
longer be able
potential
the
meeting, City Manager
no
to
sexual
needed
Smith said the city and county
are taking more
HIV.
materials at their curbs. its recy- Hall said the city
PENDLETON
will be from
agree on the need for the building
are less afraid of contracting
Faced with losing
spring break 5, the same as
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of conservation
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college where she studies
Team Rubicon
even more gton peers next Middleton and Dave vote,
East Oregon
veterans
military
the
East Oregonian
Montana,
their Washin school board on were absent for was the
nonprofit that unites to take on disasters.
y. She works
may
its
Savage
wildlife biolog Mountain Elk
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first responders
year, as the
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more
and Mark er.
volunteers with organization has sent teams to hurri-
Rocky
and
ar.
the
there’s
arters,
responders
for
Monday voted
but
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headqu
Emergency
the wildfires
school calend
lone dissent superintendent
speak elk,
ge.
Saturday to help local canes Maria and Harvey and
Foundation plans educational
2018-2019 decision means
Coming
Interim y said she was
answered the call and Brian Afdahl.
than one langua
Pendleton
County, California.
The
where she August she called
the
n
flood victims Ginger Walla Walla River on in Sonoma County was a first, as was
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Tricia Moone
Center
recommendatio
events. In Tim Campbell,
emergency
The North Fork acres of their home- to Umatilla
making the at the sugges-
Convention Savage stood
10
up with the county’s
her father, the local RMEF
ional
Feb. 4 flooded the
to the board
Saturday, of a crowd of
water. Ginger teaming
the Educat
who is in
hosting an
management.
assembled,
stead east of Milton-Free
tion of a group of staff
in front lifted a bugle
at
of the water receded
chapter, about
Team Rubicon volunteers
,
a
cally aimed
Afdahl said most with mud and gravel
who joined the
Council,
hundreds,
each school
, and blew
event specifi
according to Roberts,
but left a big mess, their land.
representing strators and two
to his mouth high-pitched
community members
Aney
teaching youth. r had wanted
by Kathy
effort along with
said he
covering much of
two admini members that
Staff photo
series of short, faded into a
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Umatilla County who wanted to help. Roberts
pson, of
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school board
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difference?”
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by day, Savage
Northwest Region about the flooding on
calendar. previous school
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at the
than a thousa the company
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after getting reports
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the Afdahl property.
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Team Rubicon and
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Emergency Management
calling.
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Monday’s Rocky Heights
conservation a lot of people Savage said each
ganization Team a home near Milton-Freewater.
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said.
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Saint Valentine’s Day massacre in Florida
Former student kills 17 at high school
By TERRY SPENCER
and KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. — A former
student opened fire with a semi-au-
tomatic rifle at a Florida high school
Wednesday, killing at least 17 people
and sending hundreds of students
fleeing into the streets in the nation’s
deadliest school shooting since a
gunman attacked an elementary school
in Newtown, Connecticut.
The shooter, who was equipped
with a gas mask and smoke grenades,
set off a fire alarm to draw students
out of classrooms shortly before the
day ended at one of the state’s largest
schools, officials said.
Authorities offered no immediate
details on the 19-year-old suspect or
any possible motive, except to say that
he had been kicked out of Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School,
which has about 3,000 students.
Students who knew the shooter,
identified as Nikolas Cruz, described
a volatile teenager whose strange
behavior had caused others to end
friendships with him, particularly after
the fight that led to his expulsion.
Frantic parents rushed to the
school to find SWAT team members
and ambulances surrounding the
huge campus. Live television footage
showed emergency workers who
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of kindness
Professional
cowboy
Brad Goodrich won’t
soon
forget his college
Gene Ann McLean. advisor,
Goodrich arrived
at
Blue Mountain Community
College in the late
with college rodeo 1980s
mind, but not much on his
else.
McLean pushed him
to get to
class, tracked his grades
and
made him ponder life
rodeo. When the beyond
teenager
found himself without
a
place to stay, she took
him in.
Goodrich said McLean’s
Contributed
Gene Ann McLean photo
unique blend of encourage-
as a
young woman.
ment and discipline
was
impossible to resist.
Gene Ann McLean,
Contributed photo
her life. They remembere
shown here
“She kept everyone
party in 1997,
d
shaped the lives at her retirement her grace, sass,
in Mountain
line,” Goodrich said.
of numerous
patience
Community College
Blue and the red lipstick
“She
Students.
was good at motivating
she
always wore.
you to take care
McLean, who died
of your Feb.
on Many of
business.”
9 at age 80, had plenty
them gathered in McLean came to BMCC
1965 to teach French
Thursday in BMCC’s
of fans besides
and
Goodrich. Clapp
Bob
Theatre to celebrate serve as dean of women,
and later as director
of
student activities.
As part of
her duties, McLean
athletes on the advised
school’s
rodeo team, but didn’t
limit
her influence to tête-à-têtes
about academic
progress.
She
attended
cooked team meals, rodeos,
rode
herd and acted as
a
second
mom.
Pat Beard, an
coach for the team assistant
’80s, said many in the
cowboys had left of the
their
hometowns and
for the first time ranches
to go to
college.
“They were,
ways, ill prepared in some
socially,”
said Beard, who
now
manages the
Pendleton
Convention Center.
bucket raised a lot “She
on the rodeo team. of boys
a little bit mother She was
hen, a
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$1.50
have about — Oregon is expect
general and $99 million more ed to
in net
lottery fund
than state
resources
months ago. economists projected
a few
The state’s
cast, presen quarterly revenu
morning, ted to lawmakers e fore-
is a key
Friday
development
of
the short
session. February
Lawmakers
are
working to
the state’s ensure
two-year current
is on track budget
deal with the and to
cations of impli-
recent
sweeping
changes
to the federal
tax code.
The net increas
e of about $99
in availab
than expect le money is due to million
ed beginning
higher
personal income
fund
tax collect balances,
lottery revenu
ions and
es. Howev
tax collect
er, corpor
ate
than expect ions are projected to
be
ed in late
the last quarter
November, lower
when
ly forecast
State econom
was release
ists
d.
pin down
the impact are still trying to
reforms passed
of the federal
In respon in late December. tax
and Jobs se to the federal Tax
are pressin Act, some state lawma Cuts
kers
Oregon’s g on with efforts to
projected tax code to mitiga change
negativ
te the
e revenue
bill passed
effects. A
on Tuesda
Senate would
y by the Oregon
allow Oregon
overseas
expected profits that compa to tax
through a to bring back to nies are
called repatri provision in the the U.S.
to the House ation. It has been tax bill
consideration Revenue Comm referred
ittee for
.
‘Futur
Gov. Kate e is uncertain’
forecast was Brown said
but warned “good news” for that the
the state,
“demonstrate that the state needed
fiscal discipl
to
critical of
ine” and was
Legislature. a second tax bill before
the
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s
97 percent of curb
8
Legislators
wary of
optimistic
revenue
forecast
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Freshman
back Gabe Luis Magana
gets ready
School. The Vigil during Friday
to shoot
Staff
play baske game gave the ’s unified baske as aid Shaw photo by Kathy Aney
Jerom
tball game
school’s
and annou tball in front of
at Pendle e holds
a cheering special needs
ncer.
crowd, comp students a ton High
chance to
lete with
cheerleader
s
“This will
be sort of
a hub for
tourists
to sit and
Pendleton
rest
Tours is prepari Underground
plan out their and
to its proper ng renovations
next
ties on Southw
Emigrant
destinatio
est
n.”
Main Street, Avenue and South
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help from but it’s asking for Pendle
the Pendle
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opment Comm
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ground Tours
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executive
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director
the Pendle as the commission, a busine
ton City Counc
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consider approv
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façade grant ing a $26,93
inspired
city,
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Barhyte
intends to round tours, which Prison lty Foods and jeans
Blues.
from
front at 365 fill its empty store-
“This will
new tenant. S. Main St. with
a for tourists to be sort of a hub
According
plan out their sit and rest and
to a staff
from Charle
next destina
report in Pendleton,
tion
commission’s s Denight, the there
learn
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the nonpro associate directo
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fit plans to
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Director Brooke
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