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By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
‘Right’
to health
care dies
in Senate
Murder defendant Tyree
Houfmuse of Hermiston is
seeking release from jail
while the state has asked
to delay his trial as it waits
for more work by the crime
lab.
The Umatilla County
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
have
Bill would , with
needed work session
in
little time
ACHEN
By PARIS
Capital Bureau
it in the mail ahead
of
When they receive
election, thousands
of the May 15 residents could open up
Umatilla County have much of a choice.
their ballot and not Democratic nomination
Although the
District 2 is hotly
for Congressional Oregon State University
contested and the
Service
Extension
a
District will have
measure on the ballot,
has
the filing period
been slow for local
offices.
With a week left
6
before the March
filing deadline, most
one
seats only have no
Smith
person running or
one running at all. up
The offices
for election include
ve
state representati 57
seats for district
and 58, three seats
on the Circuit Court’s
two
Sixth District,
seats on the Umatilla
of
County Board and
Commissioners the Barreto
half the seats on the
city councils for
cities: Hermiston,
county’s three largest
water.
Pendleton and Milton-Free
Legislature
yet filed, the dean
Although he hasn’t of Representatives
House
of the Oregon a tenth term.
intends to run for Smith, R-Heppner, said
State Rep. Greg the short legislative
on
he’s been focused but he intends to file for
session in Salem,
seat before the
57
District
re-election to his
deadline.
he said.
“I better get on it,”
his run official,
While he hasn’t made
to raise money for
Smith has continued
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A legislative
to
SALEM —
ask voters
referral to Constitution to
E.J. Harris
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amend the to cost-effective
make access ble health care the
.
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and afforda
festival street site
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pass the
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By JADE MCDOWEL
was doing normally do during
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East Oregonian
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East Oregon
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work attention, Spencer
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“If somebody wants
projects
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who are using
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have a meal. describe it as a symbi- town.
to focus
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owners project they are planning
ments for it the Senate, and
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Urban Renewal District
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revitalization.
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several compa
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office
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session, the
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by Kathy
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2018
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Houfmuse seeks release before trial
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District Attorney’s Office
on Tuesday filed a motion
that would stall the trial
— now set to begin April
30 — until November. The
DA’s office claims the delay
is necessary because more
tests are still needed from
the Oregon State Crime
Lab, while Houfmuse’s
attorney says he should at
least be given the opportu-
nity to make bail.
Houfmuse, 35, faces
murder,
first-degree
manslaughter and weapons
charges in the May 2017
shooting death of James
Cragun. Houfmuse has
been in the county jail in
Pendleton since his arrest
in June with bail set at more
than $1 million.
Defense attorney Kara
Davis in a motion filed
Wednesday claims if the
state gets the delay, her
client will have been in jail
almost a year-and-a-half
while being presumptively
innocent.
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Port of Morrow general manager to retire after nearly 30 years
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Bill would make
strangulation
prison. It also expands
a felony definition
the
By JADE MCDOWEL
of strangulation to
L
include knowingly
unanimously by the
East Oregonian
halting
Senate a person’s
and headed for
breathing by
a vote in applying
the House Friday
A bill making
pressure to their
in
through the Oregon its way waning days of the the chest.
short
Legis- session,
Advocates for domestic
lature would put
domestic strangulatio would upgrade violence
abusers who strangle
survivors are
n from a Class
their A misdemean
victims behind
or punishable applauding
the
bill’s
bars
for
message.
by up to 364 days
longer.
in jail to
a Class
“It makes
Senate Bill 1562,
passed able by C felony punish- about what a statement
up to five years in
will
tolerated,” said not be
Kathryn
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HTER
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SENATE BILL 1562
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
EO Media Group
it escalates
Chaney,
director
of
Domestic Violence
in Umatilla County. Services
“Hope-
fully it could be a deterrent.”
She cited a 2008
study
published in the
Journal
of Emergency
which found that Medicine,
who have escalated abusers
gulation are 750 to stran-
percent
more likely to
eventually
kill their victims.
The act
of cutting off a victim’s
air
supply — using
methods
ranging from squeezing
the
neck to covering
and nose — is a the mouth
flag for “potential huge red
lethality”
Chaney said.
“Preventing
someone
being able to breathe
saying, ‘I’m thinking is
of
killing you,’” she
said.
In her line
Chaney has met of work
many
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ian
$1.50
Umatilla County
Jail better
accommodate
As the
in Pendle
mentally
ill holdin ton to create new
lature looks Oregon Legis- inmates.
g, booking
to wrap
“Needless
Saturday,
and storage hand, will get
areas that
to say,
it will vote up on disappointed,
$1
capital constru
on a
” Sheriff I’m jail to serve would allow the for what is describ million training
Terry a
inmates sufferi
the “Herm
ed as headqu events, as well
includes $1 ction bill that Rowan said.
mental
iston
ng
as the
million for
Rowan
arters of the
new buildin
under the health crisis or of Commerce & Chamber of comm
had testifie
a
chamber this facility can serve
influen
Umati
Wester
erce.
d
new home
Hermiston g for the Greater before the Joint
Ways and But the project ce of drugs. Facilit lla County Community n
“The
for the Hermi as a
Area
Means
Chamber of
Committee’s
Commerce,
didn’t make
y.”
the cut as
ston
nities of growing commu- Chamber of Comm
the bill headed
wester
In
they
for a renova but no money construction subcom capital the House
erce as
to Greg a news release, Rep. County continu n Umatilla suppor continue their work
last week,
tion to help
mittee where
and Senate
e to need
asking
the million
ting
in
additio
it was expect floors, said Smith of Heppn
community local business and
to upgrad for $1 Saturday
the new
er workfo nal meeting
ed to pass
e the jail
activities.”
facility will
and
night
rce
provide space
After a
Hermiston, or Sunday.
training space, development
for
comm
months-long
on the other meetings, educat
unity
search
and
ion and this facility will I believe to a the chamber moved
workforce
smaller space
development that need,” he help meet Corner
in the
said
stone Plaza
statement.
“I am also in a Highway
on South
excited
395 in Januar
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Fortresses
of learnin
g
The Lost Valley Farm near Boardman
has again landed in trouble with Oregon’s
water regulators, who have sought a
temporary restraining order against the
Crescent Valley
facility for continued wastewater viola-
vs. Pendleton
tions.
Friday, 6 p.m.,
In January, the Oregon Department of
Warberg Court
Agriculture levied a civil penalty of more
than $10,000 against the year-old dairy
for unauthorized wastewater discharges
and failing to maintain adequate manure
By PHIL
WRIGH
lagoon capacity.
East Oregon T
Subsequent inspections in February
ian
found that the dairy continued to violate
The crowd
the terms of its “confined animal feeding
building at jostled into the upper
to see the Pendleton High School
operation” permit by allowing lagoons to
Thursday
basketball
overflow, according to ODA.
afterno
locked doors game. School officia on
The agency has filed a lawsuit against
ls
ways to keep and blocked off
Greg te Velde, the facility’s owner,
and adjoini spectators in the hall-
seeking to stop the dairy from generating
rest of the ng foyer and out of gym
wastewater until it complies with permit
school where
the
session
class was
conditions and proves its wastewater
. The
officer hovere armed school resourc in
systems are fully functional.
By ERICKA CRUZ
No one d around the scene. e
Due to the risks posed by pathogens
There were checked bags or purses
and nitrate pollution, ODA claims that a Oregon GUEVARRA
pat downs no metal detectors, .
Public Broadcastin
temporary restraining order and prelim-
g
price of a . Admittance was no
inary injunction against wastewater Two
volunteer. ticket purchased from the
large retailers with
production are necessary to protect the
a
strong footings in
As school
environment and human health.
Northwest have the Pacific
prevent access s consider how
Lost Valley Farm opposed the agen-
to those lookin to
growing roster of joined a
do harm,
g to
cy’s request, arguing that such a tempo-
making changes to companies
of security the amount and means
Staff photo by
Heppner fans hold
E.J. Harris
gun sale
rary restraining order would effectively
up “spirit fingers”
policies.
question. has become a driving
during the first
as one of their
round of the 2A
“shut down its dairy operation” since Kroger —
players shoots
Pendleton Some schools, includi
minutes after the
girls state champion
the
free throws Thursday
High School
ng
ceiling began leaking
it’s not possible to sanitize equipment,
ships
that operates Fred company
money from
during the Mustangs
, have
from the rain. For at Pendleton High School.
’ 52-19 loss
clean barns and maintain cows without
stores in Oregon, Meyer
The
more on the 2A
bonds to add taxpayer-supp used
tournament see following game was delayed to Kennedy
fencing, camera orted
generating wastewater.”
ington, Alaska and Wash-
Sports, Page 1B.
buzz-in
for about 25
system
s and
and Eugene-based Idaho —
“As a result of the above consequences,
Mark Mulvih s.
Bi-Mart
ill is the superin
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announced Thursday
dent of the
InterMountain
ten-
that
they will raise the
Service Distric
Educat
age for gun sales minimum
Umatilla, Morro t serving school ion
from 18 to
s in
w, Union
21.
counties.
Schools are and Baker
safest places
The companies
among
PENDLETON Walmart
join
and as commo for children, he the
and
said,
n as school
Sporting Goods, Dick’s
seem, they
remain rare. shootings
which
both announced
“But when
it does happen
would stop selling that they
Naloxon
trauma
e reverses
is permanent,”
, the
customers under guns to
active shoote
he said. “An
21. The
effects of opioid
retailers have imposed
trauma event.” r event is the worst
new
restrictions on ammunition
overdose
Preventing
sales after the shooting
a tragedy
Oregon
at
By KATHY ANEY
a Parkland, Florida,
share of schools have had
Soldiers of the
Contributed photo
high
555th Infantry
East Oregonian
school Feb. 14,
shooting at that trauma. The their Pendleton High
for a jump shortly
Battalion prepare
which left
1998
School stude
Springfield, Thurston High School
Army Airfield in after arriving at the Pendleton
nts head
April 1945.
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
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wounded, left two dead and , Safe at scho
for a securi
ty gate as
deputies will soon
ol
at Umpqu and the 2015 shootin 23 Throu
the leave
start
targets. Robert
carrying anti-overdo
school Friday
By PHIL WRIGHT
Roseburg, a Community Colleg g the EO gh the month of
se drugs.
March
in Pendle
left 10 dead
assessed them s toured schools
e, ways will report
The medication
East Oregonian
injured.
ton.
on many ,
and
and nine
schools
Staff photo
the ESD buildin for safety, includi
Clear
saves lives by naloxone
protect stude
by E.J. Harris
both on
That shootin
ng anyone glass in window
reversing
gs and early
and off campu
nts, center in
overdoses of prescription
g sparke
and Pendle
see
learnin
s lets safety.
A Umatilla County grand jury
s.
ton Police d Mulvihill Robert
said Robert Hermiston. Mulvih g And cubby in. Not all doors lock.
painkillers, heroin
The ESD,
Chief Stuart
indicted the former director of the
s to examin
By PHIL WRIGHT
s spotted
holes near
ill entranc
and the
immed
Mulvih
synthetic
school
e
Pendleton
painkiller
how local school staff, teache problems that could e are dangerous the main own iately put in tinted ill said,
s could
East Oregonian
Pendleton nonprofit Tonya’s House for
and became
rs and
took
offices, installe
glass at its
The law enforcemen fentanyl.
become
— anyone
stuff a bomb
smoke jumpers,
stealing more than $10,000 from the
harder landsc for granted as part students
d a door buzz-in
system, placed
in one.
and
Roberts’
will receive 60 doses t agency
ape.
of their
Robert Bartlett aims Bartlett along with
assessment
organization.
Friday
in better locatio surveillance camera
districts to
from the Umatilla
forced cubbie
to convince Pendleton Oregon Travel Experi-
s
ns,
Shawn Elizabeth
take practic look at buildings
Health Departmen County
s. The audit, and got rid of the
ence’s historical
al steps toward and
locals that it’s time
t to use
MacGregor,
56,
as Mulvihill
marker
over
to
the
program
next
more
put
two years.
give the Triple Nickles
want to
of Pendleton, goes
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Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon
roadside marker see a
RESS/10A
Staff photo by
their due.
Preven- Stensrud,
Prevention
Kathy Aney
to court Tuesday
near
tion
Drug
Pendleton to commemo-
of Umatilla County Drug Coordinator Mike
Coordinator overdose
Bartlett, 69,
for an arraignment
HERMISTON
Mike Stensrud, of
Public Health,
kit containing
sociology at teaches rate the 555th.
Umatilla name Narcan.
naloxone, under holds an
on charges of one
Eastern
County Public Health,
Markers are value
the brand
Washington University
will
count of first-degree
train officers on
in Cheney, Washington statements, Bartlett said,
aggravated
theft,
naloxone (with the use of tered naloxone 177 times
. that show who
He’s making the
in use of prescription
and what
seven of first-degree
name of Narcan). the brand Umatilla County. But, the
pain
Friday morning to drive is important to a place.
Funding
relievers
earlier
like Percocet and
theft and one of
the drug
from Purdue Pharma
Property own
leton to deliver a Pend- Likewise, the lack of a
to the tered the better is adminis- OxyContin.
presen- marker can
National Sheriff’s
second-degree theft. MacGregor
ers carry poth
chance the
tation on 555th Parachute
send the same
One reason to
tion helped bring Associa- person will recover.
MacGregor
is
ole burden
message. The members
use
By JADE
Infantry Battalion,
the kits to
naloxone is a recent
According to the
MCDO
on public
Umatilla County and
now a health educator at Yellowhawk
shift
Centers
the Triple Nickles, AKA, of the Triple Nickles
East Oregon WELL
road
other law enforcemen various for Disease Control and away from spot testing drugs
the were men who
Tribal Health Center on the Umatilla
ian
themselves.
first all-black airborne
literally
cies across the county t agen- Prevention, 42,249 people found during traffic stops so
the road say But property owners
Indian Reservation. She did not immedi-
Everyone
jumped from airplanes
unit in the United
that officers won’t
at no died in opioid-relat
agrees that
along
cost to taxpayers.
East McKin
off the beaten that law is meant
be exposed
ately return a phone message Wednesday.
the pothol
ed deaths to the
Army during World States into fires, but they also
ney
for
in 2016. According
potent
War jumped into
Local ambulance
They don’t Avenue are huge. es on by residents. path and accessed roads
Tonya’s House provided temporary
to the killer fentanyl synthetic pain-
II.
the flames
crews Substance Abuse
agree on what
mostly
East McKin
already carry the
it.
which comes
of racism and American
and Mental
shelter and care to teen girls in crisis. The
to do about which connects Southe
ney Avenu
They served out
year, emergency drug. Last Health Services Adminis- in both pill and powder form.
e,
of
with South
The road —
nonprofit closed in May 2017. Casey
medical
A
small amount of the
First Street, ast Fourth Street
tration, Oregon ranks
located in
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service workers
the southe
traffic
the county
drug,
sees signific
White-Zollman chaired the Tonya’s
sixth
adminis- nationally
on employ from Union
ant
considered rn edge of Hermiston
for non-medical which is 50-100 times more
House board of directors. She said at
— is skip ees and locals Pacific Railroad
access road,” by the county as
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who are
past
state, federal meaning it’s not a “local shortcut the high school traffic trying to
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a county,
home
has the right or city road but the
creates wear from Safeway. All or take a
to
public
A truck
owners are and tear that nine of that
The questio use it.
proper
McKinney drives around
expected to
it needs major n is what happen
the
Avenue on
shoulder the ty
s when for.
maintenance.
Tuesday potholes in the Staff photo by E.J. Harris
bill
Umati
“It doesn’
in Hermi
lla County
middle
t seem fair,”
ston.
of East boring proper
says it’s the
Gardner,
to fund the ty owners’ respon neigh- Avenue’s one of East said Roe
McKinney
residents.
sibility
filling of
the pothol
es
Schools upd
but also off ate buildings, install
sec
er tip line
for studen urity systems and
ts to report
train staff,
problems
they see.
Bi-Mart,
Fred Meyer
join others
to add gun
restrictions
The tourney has land
ed
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Port of Morrow general manager Gary Neal has announced his plans to retire at the end of the year.
State will stop
putting foster
kids in hotels
Neal’s final year
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2017 ONPA GENERA
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By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
More inside
Morrow County Grain
At the time, he said, the Port of
Morrow was fairly small, but he
“He took sand
and sage-
brush and
turned it into
the second
largest port in
the state.”
was attracted to its potential.
Growers breaks ground on
“There’s a freeway, railroad
As the Port of Morrow’s
$15-$20M terminal. Page 3A
to stop temporarily
mainlines, a transportation grid,
footprint expands, manager Gary
Oregon has agreed in hotel rooms,
irrigated agriculture,” he said. “It
Neal’s successor will have some
housing foster children
to settle a 2016 lawsuit.
big OPB
shoes to fill.
in December 2018, just shy of 30 was just — we can do more with
under an agreement an investigation by
“Since 2007, we’ve had pretty years in the position at what is now these products than just grow and
Two years ago,
meant
of foster homes constant,
— Greg Smith,
found that a lack
weeks in hotel pretty active growth in a the second largest port in the state. ship. We can do value added. There
sizable way,” Neal said.
Neal said he was approached were a lot of pieces of the puzzle, state representative and
some kids were spending
in a has been a big part of that about a job at the Port of Morrow and it looked like a good opportu- former Port of Morrow
rooms.
for 80 days Neal
One child was housed
growth since he took the helm in when he was the manager at the nity to figure that out.”
employee
of in 1989. He will retire Port of Clarkston in Washington.
Boardman
hotel.
chapter
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Attorneys with Oregon’s agreement
Tuesday’s
CASA filed suit.
settles that complaint.
of Human
The Oregon Department
reduce
ly
incremental
to
PENDLETON
Services has agreed in hotels to no more
the number of kids by 2020. Additionally,
year
per
24
than
age of 11 cannot spend
children under the in a hotel room.
more than five nights in a hotel, the state
The idea that gained the most
When it came to city vehicles
If a child is housed is transported to
Council considers how traction
she
was Mayor John Turner’s breaking down or equipment
must ensure he or
proposal to spend 50 percent of failing, Chalmers said the city was
school.
to spend $200,000
bans the state from
revenue on street maintenance often reactive instead of budgeting
The agreement also in welfare offices
kids
and repair, or “pot for potholes” as for their eventual replacement.
temporarily lodging
circumstances.
By ANTONIO SIERRA
Councilor Paul Chalmers referred
Councilor Scott Fairley wants
— except under limited
agreed to hire an
East Oregonian
to it. The council is currently trying to save the money while the
The state has also the root causes of
uncover
to
find
to figure out how to increase its council gets a better hold of their
expert
placements and to
As the city starts to collect road repair budget from $781,000 longterm budget outlook.
emergency hotel practice.
thousands of dollars from taxes on to $1.2 million, which would stop
alternatives to the welfare officials and
Fairley pointed to a projected
recreational marijuana sales, the street conditions from eroding decrease in the beginning fund
“State child
agreed that we all
Pendleton City Council’s interest further. Turner said that some of balance, the money the city uses to
children’s advocates placed in stable and
in how to spend the money is the marijuana money could help cover operating expenses between
want to see children
that are close to
starting to bud.
safe home-like settings
in that area.
the start of the fiscal year in July
school,” said Richard
At a city council workshop
their family and
for two
While
Turner’s
was
the
most
and
getting property tax revenue
guardian
Vangelisti, a temporary
Tuesday, City Manager Robb popular, other councilors pitched in November.
as plaintiffs in
girls who were designated
Corbett said the city is projecting their own ideas.
City staff is projecting the
the suit.
to generate $203,367 in marijuana
Chalmers suggested the council beginning fund balance will fall
revenue in the 2018 calendar year put half of marijuana tax revenue from $3 million in the 2018-2019
and he wants direction on how it toward a fund that would provide fiscal year to $1.8 million in
should be spent.
replacements for capital expenses.
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Pot tax revenue for potholes?
Theft charges
pending for
former Tonya’s
House director
Sheriff’s deputie
s to
anti-overdose dru add
g to arsenal
Black smokejumpers
made their mark
Local access
roads cause
funding dil
emma
for maintena
nce
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OLE/9A
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