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For more, Visitors event is City Center. The the Pendleton money for HER/8A See TEAC 142nd Year, No. 107 WINNER OF THE Your Weekend FRIDAY, MARCH 2017 ONPA GENERA L EXCELLENCE 16, 2018 AWARD One dollar PENDLETON WHIS KY MUSIC FEST Three-day St. Patrick’s • party begins on Friday Fish fry at Our Lady of • Angels in Hermiston shortest parade • in World’s Pendleton Double shot of Sh elton, Pitbull ‘Mr. Worldwide’ to open of ‘The Voice’ at third for country star annual festival By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian For times and places see Coming Events, 6A By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Weekend Weather East Oregonian has bad habits, s Umatilla County Statewide report show advances in healthy outcomes but indicates some Students oppose ag teacher’s resignation One dollar Interfaith leaders to propose assault gun ban SALEM — As students Quaempts walked out of schools around MISSION — Eric executive , Hermiston the nation Wednesday to urge has been named interim ed Tribes Pendleton federal gun safety measures, a director of the Confederat Reservation. elines for coalition of interfaith leaders of the Umatilla Indian of Trustees offer guid announced that they will propose The tribes’ Board that the new e protest nationwid an assault rifle ban in Oregon on announced Tuesday was staff assignment A the November statewide ballot. executive SIERR IO was effective By ANTON The group initially had made Monday and ian East Oregon immediately. honored to planned to try to get the proposal a.m., “I am humbled and to serve as on the November 2020 ballot. sday at 10 have the opportunity On Wedne the country will Growing momentum nation- interim the wide for action on gun violence oms for 17 students across of classro executive and inaction by Congress and walk out the one-month anni- st director,” said minutes on one of the deadlie . the state Legislature prompted , s t history Quaemp versary of the leaders to launch their gs in U.S. ls are according to officia school shootin campaign earlier, said W. to the the release. Local school J. Mark Knutson, pastor of nt approaches “I hope to taking differe Augustana Lutheran Church in Prin- p r o v i d e protest. Portland who will serve as one High School he met continuity for Pendleton said of three chief petitioners for the Greenough discuss the the board and Quaempts cipal Dan staff to initiative. an organizati on, with school week and devised y, “Now is the time,” Knutson the assist issue last activity. On Monda ts their priorities, to studen board in framing next executive said in a phone interview alternative script by E.J. Harris a photo the Wednesday with the Pamplin/ Staff le. and help set nrider teachers read to their rationa the Harke EO Capital Bureau. “We can’t director up for success.” room at explaining we do not want has served the past wait any longer. Given the activ- in the main g Quaempts “While brance of natural momentum and energy and the set floorin remem in 14 years as the director a roller to discourage the horrific events CTUIR. Prior networks we have, both inter- nd, uses should resources for the ities for school out of Richla wildlife a a as ng as serving Floori faith and secular, we are ready work includes Florida, we something that may Tribes and the Commercial difference biologist for both the He has also to roll. It will be a tight timeline, Advanced promote positive ston. owner of U.S. Forest Service. on Oregon’s and there will be opposition, make a forward,” the script Jeff Kohl, Monday in Hermi brings Center on served for eight years nt Board, of course, but we are going to moving a walkout gener- n, it Watershed Enhanceme served as make an incredible effort.” states. “While the situatio have been The name of the campaign including five as co-chair, attention to to no lasting effect. , te. They grants for representative of E.J. Harris g it is comple Staff photo by a BOT-appointed was scheduled to be announced ally has little ment for this activity er- in securin Basin Water in successful to fill the large comm on office Tuesday the CTUIR’s Umatilla Team, and As a replace ing an alternative. t at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Augus- at his medical equipment , and are working of to sugges Rights Negotiation we are propos a routine physical tana church. Chief petitioners policy advisory would like Jim Carey during most of the state. cial kitchen for other types . on several water What we place of walking out, plan to submit paperwork for l check on patient Umatilla County lags behind place more grants and improvements h performs an abdomina groups in Salem. is that in ts at Pendleton High the initiative Monday, Knutson doctors is one in this the Dr. Norman Sitz of primary care furnishings thing has come throug Quaempts will serve all studen action to promote the of The proposed ban will the Board said. ing lot and Pendleton. A shortage in take “Every park here School interim capacity until With said. likely include assault weapons director. community so far,” he joked that the equip- pment still feeling of Trustees hires an executive and high-capacity ammunition new executive was so old Fordice kitchen equi senior school.” part of “What’s Your The search for a and following the old center Mayflower” magazines, though organizers be from s, ment ts will As a on the director is underway d in the work ign, studen were still finalizing language ed recruitment and it “came over have been replace 17?” campa in their classrooms the policies for to the release. Wednesday. e-in delay and should Now the group will have center mov shown a video review, according also reassigned The student walkouts OUT/8A years ago. rators, freezers, stoves The trustees to See WALK 44 per 1,000 former interim Wednesday marked one month MCDOWELL new refrige ercial dishwasher - births numbered By JADE Chuck Sams III, to his regular ian compared s twice-a By KATHY ANEY since a mass shooting at Marjory and a comm East Oregon females aged 15-19, executive director, tions director. senior center’ East Oregonian Stoneman Douglas High School handle the and other events. was with the state’s 22. graduation Center duties as communica rider high school in Parkland, Florida, that killed The week meals old senior center of but Harken ON te, bad and The held steady After the part of the sale d 17 students and faculty. PENDLET There’s good news to almost comple rate of 71 percent with as building is seniors will have ber last year, compared The walkouts, organized by torn down fairgrounds on Orchar news. Rankings from Hermiston August or Septem state’s 75 percent. the former to Hermiston School EMPOWER, were meant as a The County Health by E.J. Harris inside today, rating the The percentage of residents wait until can move in. Staff photo Avenue memorial to those who died and report came out equip- of what was seniors talks about before they county in the without health insurance fell kitchen the District, most The every Fordice . by d r as a protest to urge lawmakers will almost ercial 11 storage and Willar nrider Cente to ings h to Comm r director 13 percent in 2017 the was put into other furnish Harke nation on health outcomes g is to ban assault weapons, like sorting throug s scruti- from but trails ment and d once the buildin er ston. Senior Cente a tour of the soon begin re-used in the new behaviors. Researcher drinking, percent this year, 8 percent. the one used in the Parkland Hermiston es during on Monday in Hermi level will will be a yard be installe April, and city manag te, the single- ff see what and sell the rest in nized smoking, binge transmitted statewide rate of can’t the new faciliti shooting. Demonstrators also Council is the finished in When comple ston City said the city a bus drop-o building obesity, sexually and other Another area of concern want Congress to require start extensive Hermi physicians. g lot with apped spaces will sale. Byron Smith is 7,000 hoping to creating the ratio of primary care diseases, teen births building tly universal background checks during parkin handic work on planned for the center seniors had been The new with a 4,000 square 1,960 Umatilla County at the center moving and extra through what is curren health indicators. around before firearm sales and to crum- a dismal For each there is one doctor feet, parking area t base- after ction site having meals By PHIL WRIGHT Umatilla ranked re stretch ay Avenue and the behind square unfinished dayligh or summer d up. counties for residents, state’s 1,070- until the constru tour, city East Oregonian pass a law that allows courts to Ridgew g the spring equipment and furnitu foot lower lots . A g is cleane 32nd of 36 Oregon falling one compared with the Monday’s n Artz E.J. Harris disarm people who are at risk of IO SIERR upper and the buildin need to do parkin of their n was made Staff photo by ment. During r Brando By ANTON 30 health factors, year. A third to-one. Public Library to get all the decisio g lot until bling on ian “We committing violent acts. gave $321,090 Hermiston e said the seniors recreation directo bad news. last visiting a patient the East Oregon parkin County the , and we need of the in, but once from before That’s the g Umatilla place do ements to in the out About 500 students and adults are improv checks a printout to the Oregon While Fordic a long time for R/8A done, the openin he to wait ction guys The good news came packed of Umatilla County in Pendleton. this budget year Dr. Norman Sitz rate See SENIO Service walked out of Willa- news is faculty the constru we can do that,” to the building was back for safety have been waiting medical office ts and parents Pendleton obese, compared to the state g, the good it once Tuesday at his State University Extension Studen A in the University at 10 a.m. buildin percent the was moved way before start of a tour given mette in at new $397,154 Eighteen HEALTH/8 date put Event See to of 26 percent. oom and could give across the will have lots to night. the boardr n Trade and said at the smoke. Teen Commissioner t central office l Monday Fordice, reasons. can’t bring seniors they Eastern Orego 8A. of Seely of adult residents upcoming cycle. the exact figure See GUN BAN/8A School Distric the city counci “We ship of the more, see Page resignation ton High said g lot,” he said. tour Willard center, the Givens the owner parkin Larry t full Before protest y. For muddy voters in May the Pendle tor and y to accep Umatilla Count r for the senior depends on whether that the the Daniels, instruc district to the directo HERMISTON il voted Monda co-owners Oregonian agriculture approve a new taxing City Counc ent with former School told the East ston d r. The Hermi support the service. g an agreem FFA advise an emotionally charge we then, Center, signin “Provided it passes, y, most During g Monda ers used look at the funding been will has meetin course, issue of board Givens “The housing know we need ce memb m worth, and needs of the Extension,” we of the audien comment platfor t its current 18 hours’ development studied to death, about it,” Morgan L said. the public de the superintenden calls for By JADE MCDOWEL would make future of the city — to do something The tax proposal districts in to persua East Oregonian board to reverse s’ in the northeast part Punkin said. Daniel studied ways creating new service counties for and the school Theater Lane and As the city has n to accept development in Morrow and Umatilla a rate of 33 co-funded by including their decisio and less expensive. A new water project and Umatilla Center — easier there holds most of to boost housing have said that OSU Extension with resignation. unanimously voted city, developers assessed value. “That area up the city of Hermiston housing The board 6 board meeting to in the city of the price of land in Hermiston has cents per $1,000 of that would the ve the developable land hard to County could increase For a $150,000 home, at its March resignation, effecti ts northeast part said. so much that it is if any to the tax bill. development in the save taxpayers Hermiston,” he Lamb gone up add $49.50 a year be permanent, accept that But multiple studen and employers, including a profit on new housing turn Area would Hermiston have Morgan of rate 15. Hermis- up. The didn’t come June noted that school bond. not increase. s said she money on a future have approved Weston, have shortage has made extra expenses part of town meaning it could and Daniel to resign. the districts said in the northeast with The two entities understanding ton’s housing g, Super- At the 33 cent mark, ely $1.7 a choice but them to find a large developers have come up of the meetin declined a memorandum ely $4.6 million it difficult for Following would raise approximat for their opera- expensive “piecemeal” solutions to County and Chris Fritsch to use approximat of taxes from enough workforce million in Umatilla intendent ent on the details said that in 2015 the low water pressure issues, but County, to tions. Morgan also of payments in lieu $700,000 in Morrow to comm Daniels’ resignation. Bureau found that those solutions won’t continue ts. construct a new Corp, Extension Lamb Weston to water tower and the U.S. Census Hermiston developmen according to Mary or. surrounding ts who spoke before s work for many more percent of jobs inside and 1 million gallon Daniel The studen regional administrat in northeast 53 people living outside The new water project, the city characterized distribution system city manager were filled by the board r who went above and d local businesses county hope, will decrease expenses See EXTENSION/8A and Hermiston. Assistant the new storage Hermiston, causing as a teache her students, sparke said out on those customers lose Morgan for to guided WATER/8A Mark the See and beyond agriculture increase on taxes. the city to lose out tank and system would interest in h tough times. capacity beyond Aney throug city’s water storage by Kathy frustration them Staff photo voiced ntion They also ton Conve touches Finishing WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD United in protest Fri Sat Sun 51/36 49/35 53/31 HERMISTON Psychiatric facility gets approval Left: Pitbull performs at the Latin Oct. 26, 2017, in AP file photos Los Angeles. Right: American Music Awards at Song” at the 2017 Blake Shelton performs the Dolby Theatre CMT Music Awards on at Music City Center “Every Time I Hear that in Nashville, Tenn. McAnally ticked reasons why Shelton off the was a logical fit for the festival. When selecting a Shelton is a judge follow-up to Maroon on the 5 and popular singing frontman Adam Levine, competition the “The organizers behind Pendleton other Voice,” which includes Whisky Music Fest pop stars like no further than one looked Alicia Keys and Levine, Kelly neighboring swivel of the Clarkson. chairs on He’s also no “The Voice.” stranger Whisky Fest announced to the tabloid section at the supermarket country star Blake checkout as its 2018 headlining Shelton line: he was named People the July 14 concert. act at magazine’s “Sexiest Man of be joined by rapper He will the Year” in 2017 and Pitbull as attention drew his opener. for his high-profile relationships with Co-organizer Andy See WHISKY/10A fellow Restoring an Athe na gem STUDENTS WITH MESSAG A E PAGES ORGAN LIFESTYLES/ TRANSPLANT 1C E AST O 142nd Year, 3A/4A No. 108 Charities wary of donation misuse, theft WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA UMATILLA- MARCH GENERAL EXCELLEN CE AWARD MORROW 17-18, 201 8 HOMELES S COUNT $1.50 How nonp rofits proect them selves from stick y finge embezzlemen rs, t By JADE MCDO East Oregon WELL ian Small an outsize nonprofits can do in their d amount of good communities their part-tim . e, volunt But nature can eer for abuses also make it easy to It happen go unnoticed. s in Eastern Downtown theater Oregon. Shawn former directo MacGregor, intertwines past, present r of the Pendleton nonprofit Tonya’s shelter arraigned House, By KATHY ANEY was on charge earlier this month East Oregonian s of theft being accuse after d of embez more than Back in 2008, zling the organi $10,000 from thought Rob McIntyre some people Stephen was a just a had to close zation, which little bit crazy. bro, who Scarbro, who came is curren its doors 2017 for The Athena man, tly home from San Anton in less, says the driving io, The Umati financial reasons. force behind the he is spend Texas, walks along s his time Commerce, lla Chamber of the Pendle the town’s vintage renovation of maintaining ton River Association Spray Rodeo remembers getting Gem Theatre, Parkway a low profile Staff photo on Thurs and Haysta while waitin Cemetery by E.J. Harris from foundations the cold shoulder day in Pendle ck Association about g to start reported thefts a new job. ton. Scar- “When we started, funding. have in recent years. by employees doing this,” McIntyre nobody was said. “The information we were Nonprofit thefts in New meth news was other nonprofits was, getting from the od finds 557 ‘You can’t do Shelton to what led Nicole that.’ We couldn’t living on stree even apply to the the subjec recently broach big foundations until t with the of the Hermi that long for the stock 2012. It took crashing on ts, in cars, board ston market crash Warming Station. Shelto couches to cycle itself out.” After that, Fussell a board memb n, who was in Athena Despite the audacity, said, Lifeways still McIntyre By PHIL resigned Sunday er until she and one in , 44 in Milton-Freew and a stubborn cadre must go WRIGH Echo. ater through the licensing , said there were signs East Oregon T got going anyway, of volunteers Males ian for the facility, and process stripping the The Gem Theater were being that donated items 274 to 252, outnumbered female theater’s interior. mishandled. to take other steps. may have ater after the city was originally built in 1901 Case manag identify their and 31 people did s rescued the dusty Carefully, they Once, for as a saloon by council banned Action Progra ers for Comm to breath new not Staff Jacob Betz and time example, Lifeways did not all saloons in 1908. saw a life into the old unity The census gender. later transform photo by E.J. Harris most precious contents. capsule’s she respond A renovation project Oregon had m of East Centra theater. to a request for comment Treasures home a board member take gamut when found they ran started in 2008 ed into a the- came from an old l by pair 2017 count a problem with is beginging the press time. it came they spend closed up since projection room, were among of bras that their population. of the area’s homele the night: to where 1968, with the donate clothin The completed squatted; discovery of an ancient 1.4 percen ss d to the g items facility, which is located The projector, point-i Warmi Station the street; 15.1 percent stayed t movie reels, little near Good ng 55 homele n-time census counte cans of oil and confro . She said when Staff photos by E.J. Harris and Kathy Shepherd Aney friends. 40.6 percent stayed on Medical other items. nted County, one ss people in Umatil d with is 50 Top left: Zion Waugh sheds a tear as she speaks about the 17 people who died at a Florida high school last month. She and about slated to have 16 Center, said they later the person “A in “We la Wheel lot beds, treated had of people are none in Gilliam it like an archeo- their er County other Pendleton High School students walked out of class Wednesday morning to rally against gun violence. Top right: Sophomore Zach given them and serve people away from one payche logical dig,” McIntyre and daught to — the region or Morrow countie Duncan holds a door for his fellow students as they go back to class after a walkout protesting gun violence at Hermiston High School. older who are going 18 and losing housin ck said. “We on the verge er’s friend who is McDaniel took pictures. The through said. More than 300 student participated. Center: Hermiston High School students chant anti-gun violence slogans on Kennison Field during aims to help s where the nonpro s of g,” mental health episodes. put everything in kids came and Another time homelessness. Susie Stuvla a walkout in Hermiston. tions. Glenda low-income popula fit nd and Lifeways applied fellow case about where each boxes with notes told Shelton they a volunteer - McDaniel, those CAPE managers, Sean Ruud, item came from.” a board approval on the for state witnessed one nization examin said the orga- The projection memb the figure CO case managers, of Stephen Scarb August of 2017, project in ed its method and added was surpris will eventually go room artifacts a donated tube er take home ro puts a ology was so small. ing becaus said vation Army into that was delayed a process Danish he at a more more volunteers to arrive e it case installed in the inside a glass with the comm of toothpaste by other a bag to accurate picture They conduc facilities’ lobby. save for saved from his Staff photo by E.J. Harris area’s run out of toothp ent they had applications, When finished, homeless situatio lunch and it reveale later Thurs ted a second of the at the end according to day in Pendl at the Sal- included d 557 homele n. The effort will provide space the theater When Shelton aste at home. talking finding 64. of the summer, that count in the four countie eton. ss people communications Lifeways’ complained, for movies, they said to find homele to school district time Still plays, school functions, s. had director the lower “We no estimates. documented ss students knew s Rick George in August. than their streaming expired and toothpaste was LEFT: Weston-M concerts and other lation. But homeless popu- to where the homele and going there,” McDa the numbers were cEwen music teacher By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN slated The latest really important to her. 46 Cade Bryan while churches ss gather, Rob McIntyre gives A museum there performances. thrown away anywa to be count came probably even niel. “And there out in Morrow were counted this restoring an to The Salvati from and ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian “They don’t have a voice. The instructions to Staff photo by will feature Jan. 31, County, includi time to the banks y. are female Shelto E.J. Harris vintage . RIGHT: A glass old organ Monday in Athena. students Calvin Gilliam and more.” s and 18 of the Umatil on Army East Oregonian of Oakland, California. ng 17 They ornament of a Papineau and designed Hodaka motorcycles, once zation n said the organi lives of the children lost, they no males Wheeler lion protrudes For more on that project, see keeps careful - la River. and assembled counties Umatilla County had in Heppner. questio also worked on asking from a section Saturday’s A longer have a voice,” she said. track of of an old bar purchased in Pendleton, multi-level apartment in Athena. See ns 511, NONPROFIT On the one-month anniversary of on one end “We’re the voice for them.” out 123 in Hermi with 292 better ways. and asking questio better ns in S/11A ston, 51 the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Jeramy Simon, a sophomore, See GEM/10A See HOME Douglas High School in Parkland, stood quietly during the protest. LESS/12A — Glend a McDa Florida, that took 17 lives, students He said he participated because he HERMISTON niel, CAPEC across the country walked out of wanted to pay tribute to the Park- O case manag er class Wednesday for 17 minutes in land victims. support and solidarity. Simon said he felt more needed By JADE MCDOWEL L At Hermiston High School, to be done for all students. East Oregonian a more than 300 students left their “We should help out people,” he two-year and program that He year-round youth programs. classes said. “The Parkland shooter was a The Eastern Oregon is also a former 4-H prepare trains farmers extension Trade and At 10 a.m., about 300 students bully victim.” leader and horse the facility for an upcoming Event Center now agent. sale, private weekend and left their classrooms and filed out He said he felt Hermiston’s others manager at the helm. has a general By ANTON events “I’m and IO SIERR in Kansas’ “I grew a 4-H guy by heart,” he said. Page Cinco de Mayo. (For more, see onto Kennison Field. Some stood school culture has improved, with Al Davis is settling A East Oregon up with 4-H, I love 3A) in at EOTEC agricultu ral ian quietly while others chanted their the signs recently put up around after moving from 4-H.” He said the EOTEC He said he described Kansas industry this Safe at scho month support for gun control and school to manage the center campus and the Helping Hands In the general EOTEC as to manager Staff photo by Kathy Aney full-time. He ol provide lead- perfect position seemed like the the perfect location to recruit events grim statisti first month of 2018, was hired by VenuWorks safety. program. from around the Pacific opportunity to merge c was perpetu A group of Pendleton High School students show emotion a Through the month ership through his management company , the event On Jan. 24, Northwest, the EO will “Protect our children, not our all of and said “There’s always more that can ated. of March experience with event and hold hands Wednesday morning during a rally against gun he was looking forward c h a l l e n g e s ment, Ione Comm that took report , Charter School over EOTEC’s day manage- guns!” A small group of students to unity many ways schoo on the violence. The students walked out of class and listened as a be done,” he said. “If a kid looks to day operations facing agri- rodeos agriculture, 4-H, fairs and taking the facility “to the next level.” music teache Bryan Bates stude in January. ls protec started chanting at the back of peer read the 17 names of students killed in last month’s mass sad or lonely, talk to him and be his Davis will be backed into one place. t r campu nts, both on and Al Davis culture and official miscon was arrested “I think this is up by the crowd. The message quickly friend.” off s. Davis visited for shooting at a Florida high school. other staff from VenuWorks for duct, two rural America. February two weeks in contracts of harassm Davis said. “I can a great facility,” , which spread. counts Reed and Rian Middleton partic- before returning to tell there’s a lot of to provide professiona Before that he to of third-d ent and two counts Despite tight-k heart and soul that’s Kansas was the Nayeli Martinez, a senior who who feel the opposite way,” she to contact state, local and federal ipated in the walkout, standing get operations managemen l egree his family and gone into it.” nit comm manager of Amer- t of arenas, stadiums, and small-t incidents with sexual abuse Davis most ican Royal, a Kansas to Hermiston. He officially move event complexes, own values unities had started the chant, said a lot of said. “I have a feeling a few of us representatives, of which Martinez quietly in the front of the group of for Oregon a 16-year-old City nonprofit working said he student. the Toyota as president and recently served that encompasse hasn’t been , Eastern female to students had been feeling intim- will take action, and let our voices said some of the students would students. to get to know the has been in the Tri-Cities and other Center CEO s — of among Kansas sexual Less than other Agriculture and Rural immun facility things facilities idated by a conservative point of be heard.” likely take advantage. “I don’t feel like much action Leadership, horse — an annual livestock show, and meet with those connected to around the country. The operation Windy River two weeks later, teachers and misconduct betwee e EOTEC. show, rodeo, barbecue will be overseen by n view, but now they were ready to Jada Rome, a ninth grader has been taken,” Reed Middleton Hermiston High School’s Asso- teacher Robert Elementary School According students. the city of Herm- contest He iston, has speak up. ciated Student Body had provided at Hermiston High School, said said. “It’s a great way for us teens which also been working the Oregon to state record for one count Weems was arreste to EOTEC this took full ownership of “We’re going to respect people postcards and information for how participating in the walkout was Sexual misco week. in the first of official miscon d and Practices Teacher Standards s, See WALKOUT/8A sexual condu nduct betwe sexual abuse degree, two counts duct disciplined 10 Commission has ship intend ct and “groo en teachers and teache of sexual Photo illustratio in the second and one stude ed to becom ming” — n by misconduct rs for explicit developing nts can includ E.J. Harris the third count of sexual degree, 2017 from 2007 e sexual. in e both abuse in a roman degree for counties, Umatilla and Morro to tic relatio ongoing sexual n- contact with a teen per year in an average of one w where he used in The Dalles case an area with , population to teach. of 87,000 a combined residents. See SEX ABUSE /11A East Oregonian Lifeways is now one step closer to opening its Hermiston-based psychiatric facility. The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday approved the opening facility, pending final of the Before Lifeways can review. move forward, affected parties have until March 25 a hearing. OHA to request Certificate of Need Coordinato Fussell said an affected r Jana is someone who has party demon- strated private or public interest in the project, groups or individuals and must apply to qualify parties. If no one as affected hearing, OHA will requests a issue a final decision. From then, Fussell said, affected parties days to request a have 60 contested hearing. Hundreds more hom eless Students walk out in Hermiston, Pendleton and across U.S. on one-month anniversary of Florida school massacre “A lot of peo ple are one EOTEC welcomes new general manager Districts tra in for paycheck away from better report ing losing hou sing.” on sex misco nduct Subscribe and get it all, five days a week. Get full online access with a print subscription. Call us! 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SEE WEEKLY ADVERTISING CIRCULARS INSIDE