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S U.S. EXPEL RUSSIAN SPIES NATION/7A RS , RANCHE FARMERS P TO COME UM NEED TR H ON TRADE THROUG A BUCKS OFFENSE OUT BREAKS COMMUNITY/6A NATION/8A PENDLETON CLOBBERS KAMIAKIN AREA EASTER CHURCH SERV ICE SCHEDULES B WEEKEND EDITION FAITH/8A SPORTS/1B DISC EASTER OVER N OREGO 175th N Anniversary OREGON of the TRAIL SPORTS/1B CH 28, 2018 WEDNESDAY, MAR , MA TUESDAY OF THE WINNER 2017 ONPA One dollar WINNER OF THE 142nd Year, No. 114 AWARD L EXCELLENCE 2017 ONPA GENERA CE AWARD EXCELLEN GENERAL One dollar Governor signs addiction bills, executive order By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau No. 113 PENDLETON THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018 142nd Year, No. 115 BOARDMAN Lost Valley herd may go to auction Dutch bank claims dairy owner has defaulted on $60 million loans E.J. Harris at- listens to his defense Tyree Houfmuse during a pre-trial hear- torney Kara Davis at the Stafford Hansell ing on Tuesday in Hermiston. Government Center Houfmuse pushes for his release ian East Oregon ton. ay in Pendle on Saturd students Pendleton for change h lead marc ce or Political for voters Students lead the way during the March for Our Lives MCDOWELL By JADE ian East Oregon h marched throug ay Saturd bout 160 people Pendleton downtown chanting “We want afternoon dozen high change!” ds led by two They were ts wearing orange armban shoot!” school studen signaling “Don’t joined by — the color g world — and pating in the huntin the country partici Our Lives. with millions across l March for signs in a nationa the adults carried calling the es, Some of ning focused messag politically over people” or mentio stuck with GOP “guns But the students g posters the NRA. messages, holdin “Enough and simpler “Never Again” t proclaiming about studen is Enough.” it to be more al,” Pendleton “We wanted said. anything politic safety than junior Daphny Chen on a wall stood School High arrived -haired teen The purple Park as marchers iasti- them enthus red at Brownfield registe welcoming Saturday, asking if they were cally and EO file photo H/8A has raised See MARC Rotary Club on this year’s Pendleton 0 to put fad? Young ain clout uncert A The of $10,00 display. their goal July fireworks Fourth of to Con- ters listen Jamie Two protes candidate Saturday gressional ner Our Lives McLeod-Skin March for during the ton. in Pendle than $60 million to Rabobank, a Dutch agricultural lender. Rabobank made three commer- cial loans and issued three lines of credit for Lost Valley and two other dairies te Velde owns in California. The loans were secured in part by Lost Valley’s dairy herd, other live- stock, silage and equipment. s FFA BMCC take the road program on iate FFA, College Colleg Community instructions. 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Still, a saddle for the high school George Plaven/EO er High a metal to cinch Anne BMCC/2A to See way Heppn proper of the crackers learned the makeshift steed while ain Ferguison, ns using Mountain Zachary g patter around the advisor to Blue Mount , left, and practice weldin y hosted by Blue ntion in er, Conve Livingston, Ethan Akers of an activit FFA State FFA chapt $3 billion in agricultural research funding at work BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN at Pendleton’s Demolition underway nd act in store Rivoli — with a seco Research station shows off upgrades P A on Interstate 84 ion safety projects ODOT plans $11 mill will add a third A separate project (roughly between lane for eastbound trucks in Ladd crossover crashes in the on weather and mileposts 229 and 238 and mileposts Canyon, east of La Grande, closed real-time information stretch is coming years. The is to 250.) traffic. includes $11 249 • Twenty LED lights along two often as trucks spin out and there get The first phase traffic to downhill, westbound projects, including enough room for million worth of by the transporta- miles of the Hill east of not disabled vehicles. $4 million funded the end of the 2017 curves of Cabbage lights added around management plan more corridor with at The passed Pendleton, be tion bill it hopes to accom- Work will begin as funding allows. There will also East Oregonian has a list of goals Legislative session. including reducing to conclude of yellow reflec- more than 12 miles to guardrail in plish by 2025, speed-related crashes in 2019 and is expected of t serious and tive markers attached The Oregon Departmen weather related plans this in 2020. include: by 20 percent and area. Projects n Transportation announced new message that • A new road camera (westbound crashes by 25 percent, communi- constructio dozen of a than series a • More week for road conditions zone sign (east- the interstate. 84 between MP 247.4), snow and ramp gate cating dangerous boards mounted above five minutes projects along Interstate Grande to make According to a press release from MP 220.6), to all travelers within Pendleton and La safer for be linked to bound Exit 224 at Poverty of the condition being recognized ODOT, some will parking from the stretch of freeway informa- (westbound and preventing truck to display real time , presence Flats). motorists. freeways. miles of buried on the Inter- sensors • More than 10 these enhance- spilling back onto notes that during tion, including temperature ts. The work is based Management Plan, of ice or fog, and chain requiremen The study also line to support state 84 Corridor and weather power and future upgrades. a key cause of severe a at road safety ments • Ten additional road in the winter signs with the summer a study that looked and Ontario. It crashes is speed, while • Twelve curve warning between Boardman need to reduce sensors. cable barrier in the Grande Ronde key cause is following too close. • Nine miles of and westbound flashing beacons of La Grande. determined a high crash severity west Canyon eastbound crashes, speed-related to prevent River on the entire between lanes along two stretches and distracted driving and to add better stretch of roadway, begin Construction will d in 2019 and is expecte to conclude in 2020 142nd Year, No. 116 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD By GEORGE PLAVEN lators, may soon be forced to sell its neighboring Threemile Canyon EO Media Group Farms. entire herd. Kate Brown on PORTLAND — Gov. But according to documents Greg te Velde, of Tipton, Calif., drug addiction a public Tuesday declared signed two pieces of The owner of Lost Valley Farm, began operating the dairy in 2017. filed in Morrow County Circuit health crisis and a controversial Boardman dairy that It was permitted for up to 30,000 Court, te Velde is in significant into law. addiction-related legislation has drawn the ire of environmental cows — making it the second- financial straits, more than $150 now, our federal “Unfortunately, right groups and run afoul of state regu- largest dairy in the state, behind million in debt and owing more the problem, government is recognizing on punishment,” but it is certainly focused leaves us, the states, Brown said. “That of a war on drugs that to right the wrongs nothing to address the has done absolutely public health crisis this drive that issues while our prisons and our foster care systems are filled to capacity with its victims.” The declaration is part of an exec- utive order she issued Tuesday that he charges the state Hermiston man claims Alcohol and Drug defense self Gov. Brown in Policy Commis- Cragun shot sion and certain HNAN agencies By JAYATI RAMAKRIS state a East Oregonian ‘The with developing statewide strategic criminal accused of murder plan for addiction A Hermiston man a year could be free prevention, treat- justice and jailed for nearly Kara Davis claims ment and recovery. is next month. Attorney in self-de- acting system was Addiction Tyree Houfmuse confrontation with a the main driver of fense during a fatal to kill him. should not foster care place- man who threatened been in the Umatilla be Oregon’s ments in Oregon, Houfmuse, 35, has since his arrest in Brown said. County Jail, Pendleton, shooting of safety net 60 fatal the Nearly June 2017 following a Hermiston apartment Aney percent of children for persons James Cragun at by Kathy Day weekend. care have Staff photos foster in circuit complex over Memorial Tuesday is suffering at least one parent A hearing that began continue April 18. will with a substance court in Hermiston will consider releasing from the disorder. abuse Judge Eva Temple also charges of murder, disease of Addiction of E.J. Harris Houfmuse, who faces Staff photos by felon in possession contributes and er, the heavily of manslaught addiction.’ pulls down parts . to the nation’s high Construction Co., a firearm. scheduled for on Tuesday in Pendleton Kirby Nagelhout rate of incarcera- His trial was originally the district excerpt from the Salazar, with a man-lift in the Rivoli Theater Jamie February from tion. late April, but in requested to postpone executive order wooden ceiling “The criminal attorney’s office as prosecutors waited system Staff photos by E.J. Harris justice November until state crime lab. Davis U.S. Rep. Greg Walden looks at a condenser in the horticulture laboratory at the Hermiston Agriculture Research and should not be for persons suffering for results from the postponed, Houfmuse Extension Center while on a tour with Oregon Senator Bill Hansell, left, and station director Phil Hamm, right, on Wednes- Oregon’s safety net addiction,” the execu- said if the trial is jail for more than a year of day outside of Hermiston. from the disease will have been in innocent. tive order states. while presumptively both sides to give to comprehensive Reducing barriers could help “lift a Temple allowed Tuesday but said behavior health care hospitals, law opening statements By PHIL WRIGHT another day due burden” off of families, state foster said hearing had to conclude the East Oregonian and Temple prisons evidence. enforcement, to the amount of more than 14 hours of said. care system, Brown signed the executive beams and plaster she has to review written evidence. That iles of boards, of the basement of The governor and video, audio and with witnesses who By JADE MCDOWELL House Bills 4143 Life, cover either side in downtown order and signed East Oregonian includes interviews at Lines for the night of the the old Rivoli Theater had 4137 during an event sed nonprofit were with Houfmuse police as well as of that includes what Pendleton. Some a Southwest Portland-ba shooting, Hermiston She also will review a 24-hour substance fter the 2018 federal spending bill secured more than been the ground floor. agency that provides gutted. Houfmuse himself. $3 billion in funding for agricultural research, Rep. crisis line. various parties, PEOPLES The place is all but of the Historic abuse and suicide By STEVE Press text messages between proposed by Gov. Cragun and his ex-girl- Andrew Picken, president Arts Center Theater House Bill 4143, her Opioid Epidemic Greg Walden got to see some of that work firsthand Associated including between Houfmuse the night Performing at the Rivoli of Wednesday at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and in Rivoli Theater in The demolition Brown, is the work began convening walked the goal for a who was with said the project is with friend, have done Coalition, Extension Center. Restoration is 70 percent — They action across Task Force, which of April 15. Cragun died. accounts from ded Walden got a tour of the center as part of a trip through completion date NEW YORK far full demolition mode. done now, and September. According to witness d and deman e. But it’s the nearly 70 percent things, the bill requires a search warrant say in Umatilla County. Director Phil Hamm, as enthusiastic as other April “I’d by out, marche stop gun violenc Sunridge. detailed the Among at with behind demolition that night, to register conditioning units Kirby Nagelhout project police, Cragun a ever in his promotion of the experiment station, showed we hope to complete getting it all down.” America to that the young people medical providers prescription affidavit from Hermiston d’s apartment ent will be Jon York is the off insect-raising rooms, soil testing labs, greenhouses, bee 15,” Picken said. “That’s the demolition last from certain Our Lives” movem this fall. said crews have removed Oregon Health Authority’s came to his ex-girlfrien The monitoring superintendent. He and more. Much of that her. Houfmuse and Volunteers started coalition also hired research “March for at the ballot box Democrats are up and more. drug monitoring program. to look and charged toward accounts stated, and a walls, stage arches lifts, the largest “In your district you have the best experiment station year. The nonprofit political force are skeptical. that favor gun system allows physicians n Co. to handle Cragun fought, the 50 feet if they have misused took place on two mechanical hand while they Republicans outside groups Kirby Nagelhout Constructio Hamm told the congressman. workers more than battery doctor patients to find out shopping for a anywhere,” Bend-based business gun went off in Cragun’s s. capable of raising the machine is the tough parts. The hopeful. And taking any chance Democrats on were fighting. After making sure everyone — even University of Oregon opioids or have been Pendleton and built and in the air. The bigger about 5,200 pounds, was within his staffs an office in control aren’t Ducks fans like Walden and state senator Bill Hansell — Center, aligned with of millions of weighs Davis said Houfmuse . Health and zations Tribal BILLS/8A powered k self-defense tens See at Organi ng Yellowhaw had on their very own Oregon State University Beavers passion rights because he acted in details what a l are spendi the security upgrades that gun contro ensure that young voters’ in 2015 handled baseball cap, Hamm showed Walden about $1 million in See RIVOLI/8A before the She cited case law do if they feel their and Sunridge Middle air to dollars to iasm doesn’t fade Pendleton High School Oregon Sen. Bill Hansell and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden take a walk- person is allowed the installation of larger and enthus School, as well as See TOUR/8A ing tour of HAREC with station director Phil Hamm G VOTERS/8A See HOUFMUSE/8A See YOUN Staff photo by Fireworks y show read to re-ignite grader at ll, an eighth- a $1,000 Devan Driske School, handed over Club ton Rotary of July Sunridge Middle y at the Pendle the city’s Fourth check Monda help revive meeting to display. of the Rotary fireworks Fjeld, vice president contribution for the Gwen d Driskell handed the check had but Club, thanke saying he right back, h and should done enoug it for his instead save education. all, Driskell’s After to put nearly willingness of his own a year’s worth bringing income toward was what show back the Rotarian Jerry ed. inspired get involv Imsland to a 14-year-old Driskell The pair — delivery boy newspaper ly lost his who recent e of circula - job becaus at the East tion layoffs and a veteran Oregonian real estate Pendleton and Port of appraiser commissioner Umatilla eaded the the — have spearh bring back out in effort to flamed display that Imsland 2017. than its raised more ittee has bigger show The comm and will produce a The event rks Imsland said. $10,000 goal the firewo years prior, than in the night of July 4 and ty west of proper will be the ed from the will be launch Wal-Mart. ORKS/2A See FIREW MARINERS STAR SEASON WITH A T WIN MLB OPENING DAY/1 SPORTS/1B OPINION/4 8 RCH 27, 201 142nd Year, LOTS OF LOCAL EASTER EGG HUNTS USING TRUMP FLOATS ET TO MILITARY BUDG WALL ER PAY FOR BORD PENDLETON SHUTS OUT ST. HELENS The bank claims te Velde has since defaulted on two of the loans, and foreclosure proceedings are underway in California. Toppenish Livestock Commission, of Toppe- nish, Wash., plans to auction the Lost Valley herd, which includes WINNER OF THE Your Weekend • • • 2017 ONPA GENERA L EXCELLENCE Oregon secretary Easter egg hunts all weekend long Steak and live music at Pendleton Eagles Frostbite golf tourney Saturday at Willow Creek For times and places see Coming Events, 5A By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Not many fledgling artists can say they sold work to a major collector at their very first art show, but a Pendleton teenager did just that. Two abstract pieces created by Alysha de Martinez, 15, are now part of real estate developer Jordan Schnitzer’s extensive art collection. The Portland businessman and art aficionado traveled to Pendleton on March 16 to attend the opening of an exhibit of the works of Louise Bourgeois. The art, borrowed from Schnitzer’s collection, lined the walls of the art center’s main upstairs gallery. Alysha’s pieces, colorful and abstract, hung in a different part of the building, a little off the beaten path. Roberta Lavadour, the executive director of the art center, escorted Schnitzer down a flight of stairs to the Lorenzen Board Room Gallery where he met de Martinez and her parents. De Martinez’s paintings and collages ringed the room. As Schnitzer gazed at them one by one, he asked the teenager questions. “I was extremely impressed with the quality of her acrylics and collages — so impressed that I bought two of them,” Schnitzer said. “Equally impressive was her maturity, her demeanor and her confidence in herself.” The Pendleton High School soph- omore is self taught. She does most See MARTINEZ/8A 30, 2018 2018 RECREATIO & VISITOR’S N GUIDE AWARD of state visits east One dollar EastOregonia n.com East Oregonian + Hermiston Herald // 1 DISCOVER EASTERN OREGON side THE 2018 VISITOR’S RECREATION & GUIDE INSID E A Catch a movie sign marki Trail stand ng the Orego Highway s on the side n of 207 west of Echo. Staff photo See HERD/8A by E.J. Harris Jaap Buitendijk/Warn er Bros. Pictures Walden touts benefits from $1.3T omnibus spending bill By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian via AP Ready Player One For showtime, Page For review, Weekend 5A EO 142nd Year, No. 117 WINNER OF THE Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 63/40 59/41 60/39 Pot-friendly states want meeting with AG Sessions 2017 ONPA SATURD AY, MARC H Trade uncert ainty Economic impact rip ples into rur al GENERAL EXCELLEN CE AWARD 31, 2018 $1.50 hits home Eastern Oregon schools, roads and law enforcement are due almost $8 million from By GEOR the reauthorization of the federal Secure Rural GE EO Media PLAVEN Schools program. Group U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon’s lone Umatilla County he beginning elections manager Republican in Congress, chairs the House Richardson on Kim Lindell shows activity on of spring ushers a Thursday during flurry of off the new Energy and Commerce Committee, where he a tour of the elections of Umati the vast, rolling wheat division at the ballot-counting machines Staff photos by authorized selling eight million barrels from Umatilla County Farmers lla and Morrow countie fields to Courthouse in Oregon Secretary of State E.J. Harris s. still-green drive large spraye the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve to fund Pendleton. Dennis plants to contro r rigs while crossin Secure Rural Schools for $426 million. The l weeds and over pests, break rainsto g their fingers program is part of the massive $1.3 trillion By MICHAEL R. BLOOD for make-o average yields rms that can turn r- omnibus spending bill that President Donald Associated Press into a bumper crop. otherwise This year, Trump signed into law last week. however, a tainty has Walden, who is seeking re-election, made LOS ANGELES — new layer industry. emerged for the Northw of uncer- rounds Wednesday in Umatilla County to tout fornia, Oregon and Cali- est wheat other Since the marijuana-friendly the benefits of the appropriations. states cific Partne U.S. pulled out of About $65 million is due to Oregon from the are seeking a meeting with the rship, Trans- or TPP, about mainta Pa- Secure Rural Schools fund. The money goes U.S. Attorney General Jeff By PHIL WRIGHT ining strong growers are worried longtime foreign relationships East Oregonian to local schools, roads and law enforcement Sessions in hopes of resolving custom with Japan, the ers which in countries in places affected by a loss of timber revenue. conflict between federal of the trade signed on to a revised like and state laws that regon Secretary Umatilla County is getting about $1.2 million, local billboard has left the along with deal March 8 in Santiag version Dennis Richardson of State 10 and Morrow County about $111,000. Union, nation’s cannabis industry be willing to offer companies might o, Chile, said he The vast other nations. vacant space as wants to public service announcem Wallowa and Baker counties each receive in legal limbo. between 85 majority of Oregon Umatilla County’s help turn around ents to get Marijuana is illegal out the vote. and 90 percen around $700,000 or more, Harney County wheat — low with 21 percen t — Richardson arrived voter turnout. at the federal Maybe, he said, about $1.3 million and Grant County more than That amoun t of export sales is exported, earlier this the key lies in week to Pendleton finding a way to show level, even as $3.1 million. and participated prices from ts to $60 million to Japan. voting is the in Wednesday night’s , at Portland grain right thing to do. 29 states have Walden told a couple of dozen commis- While fundraiser, and Thursday local GOP termin current legalized The county’s voter sioners in Pendleton the issue was also how to rebounded the price of soft white als. morning he was at the Umatilla registration, modestly meanwhile, is trending pot in some wheat has County fund the program. Parting with a small portion bushel Elections from Division in a smart low last year, up, from its sub-$5 41,756 in January form. of the strategic reserve solved the problem, he estimate higher per Japanese to 42,135 as cargo pants. He said blue blazer and of Thursday morning, State trea- he is visiting said. could negativ tariffs on Ameri flour mills elections offices with 8,903 surers from Cali- Democrats, 13,990 can wheat ely impact more than According to U.S. Energy Information Republicans, market share to gain a first-hand in all 36 counties half, from fornia, Oregon, 1,859 Independen less than 1.4 3 million metric Administration, U.S. oil production is trending by ts, and 17,383 as Illinois and Pennsylvan the process, from understanding of non-affiliated or with tons to that market million metric tons. ia up and as of last week produced 10,433 barrels told Sessions in in to when officials how ballots come share is gone, The county also has other parties. to recaptu And once a letter submit results to a day. seen an increase Thursday that businesses it can be difficu the state. re. in 16- and 17-year-old and lt Matt Wood, Other parts of the bill are good for Oregon banks need greater s registering He asked elections now to vote in the clarity on manager Kim acres of drylan who farms severa future. and the country, he said, especially when how it federal law enforcemen Lindell several questions, l thousand Lindell also showed d wheat and t will respond to the comes to mental health. about turnout. Lindell, including Oregon Secretary of State off the near the small town cattle pasture county’s ballot tabulation Staff photo by growing Dennis to are Umatilla E.J. Harris of manager Richardso wary Helix, legalization Congress in 2016 authorized the 21st County elections since 2014 who also machines. trend. He said they cost Thursday in Pendleton manager Kim n presents a medale economic of the unpredictabili said farmers Century Cures Act to help reduce opioid use, The Trump administra- Lindell during division in the late worked in the consequences . ty. her division bought $98,000 new and a visit Wheat farme “The extend even But the tion lifted an county used to hover 1990s, said the statewide develop and expedite new medical treatments a backup — used two — one for suppor community you r Jeff further. turnout at a meager is curren around the 80 from Lane County policy in January Obama-era t from percent mark but draw and improve mental health care. tly worki Newtson of Helix 39.5 started percent. for a total of $25,000. that kept ng 20-ho “That’s a real is ever shrinking,” business around 30 percent now the rate is managed Umatilla County voters page, a county elections Facebook ur days to plants barley in “We funded it in the omnibus,” Walden federal said, authorities from Wood said. concern.” The Election a rate of and routinely last and Commissio a field off get his crops cracking in the state. with $4 billion going to mental health care and down on of Dorran wide turnout in 31 percent. State- Murdock has pushed ner George ware 850s are fast Systems and Soft- in the groun the 2016 general Road on and make digital trade in states where the pot “I feel very strongly d. the opioid epidemic. Friday northw drop boxes. Lindell for more ballot scans of ballots, Lindell Ripple effect the drug that as citi- election reached 80.3 percent What has said now only can detect legal. zens we have an obligation est of Helix. Staff photo by E.J. said, of The money covers 13 areas to is make registered voters, Harris write-in votes and and tion 181 — happened in Helix Newtson to partic- while Umatilla three communities lack those ipate in the system,” over- is what continu — popula schools safer and help youth, he said, from says he Richardson County’s turnout was 73.3 percent, — Adams, Helix and Ukiah. boxes and under-votes. When the machine over rural Ameri es to happen - responded. the lowest in Oregon. active shooter training for law enforcement to See POT/10A identifies an over-vote, ca, Wood said. Richardson said he all Wood for example, took over The January special Lindell said the programs that teach how to spot youth suffering would help however and his office she said it displays the lease on farm election saw his family’s on ways to turn up county is working offered the possibility it could and the ballot in question a digital copy of has in 1993. Since then, mental trouble. Walden said 80 percent of lost its grocer the turnout. She so a real person he said the to encourage voting. of robocalling y store, hardwa town He even said See WALDEN/8A re store See RICHARDSON/10A See Voter turnout, se cu top Richardson’s re ballots priorities T communiti es, affectin g region’s wheat farme rs O “The Preside nt American has promised to neg agriculture otiate gre American at new dea wheat farm now counts on tha ls. t promise ers — faci be hard-p and ng a cala ressed to mity overcome Excerpt from — now dep they would to Trade Repres a letter written by state and nationa entative Robert end on it.” l wheat industry Lighthizer, urging Preside groups that FARMERS/1 2A Walden talks opioids county law enforcem with ent Teen artist gets boost from major art collector Midnight creative spells offer artistic inspiration FRIDAY, MARCH Potent drugs endange r users as well as police Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton artist Alysha de Martinez, 15, sold two of her works on display at the Pendleton Center for the Arts to real estate devel- oper Jordan Schnitzer. Umatilla County sheriff’s Sgt. John Staff photo by dose of the anti-opioid E.J. Harris NARCAN while Schafer holds up a box with during a round-tab briefing U.S. Rep. a le discussion on Greg Walden opioids Wednesda y in Pendleton . fentanyl, contained to be a pinch of the what appeared drug. The vial of carfentanil, a even-more- potent chemical cousin of By KATHY ANEY what looked like a fentanyl, held East Oregonian grain of sand. The Republican congressman from Oregon sat Rep. Greg Walden photo projected onto stared at a room Wednesday in a conference and shook his head a large screen County Sheriff’s at the Umatilla slide showed three slowly. The Sheriff Terry Rowan Office with vials, labeled county and other with names of law enforcement different leaders, drugs. Each vial contained opioid along with a couple of state legisla- a dose tors, Rep. lethal to humans. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, and Greg Barreto, The bottom of was covered with the heroin vial mally, they chatted R-Cove. Infor- about what has Another vial, a white powder. become one of Walden’s favorite powerful synthetic containing the opioid called See OPIOIDS/10A n part School 2018 Orego cheese as and spray College at the Community Redmond. Oregon’s rar tax law sets e loss from U.S. off politic al fight By TOM JAMES Associated nt Donald Trump was sent to reconsider the TPP HER Believers MISTON events throu remember biblical gh Way of the Cross trolled Legisla ture the propos SALEM al after a passed bitter Donald Trump — President argument, but weeks is still awaitin ’s tax overha later is a short-t g action ul states, but erm boon for most Gov. Kate Brown from , who out entirely: one is set to miss has expressed hesitat about her Oregon. own party’s ion Instead Oregon faces of a bonus, She faces re-elec plan. Novem tion in a loss of $217 ber, and Repub million in licans the overha the two years after said the divisive proposal the largest ul goes into effect, is one of their main tools has reveale of any state that against her. State Rep. Democrats d its predictions. Knute a Buehle created leading Repub r, to avoid a plan lican of million losing hundreds date, said it amoun candi- Republicans s of dollars, but massive tax hike.” ts to “a The federal try to make are using it to tax in this deep political inroads sparked the fight law that will mean extra money blue state. The for most states. Democratic-c on- Actors re-ena See FIGHT at the fourth ct Jesus meeti /10A ng statio passio Press n play on By JADE MCDO East Oregon WELL ian Staff photo by his mothe E.J. Harris n, part r Mary Friday in of the Way of Hermiston. the Cross As Christi ans around the world they believe celebrate what was the important three days most Earth’s history in believers in , hundreds of ered to pay Hermiston gath- their The crowd own tribute. participated in Way of annual pagean the Cross, an t by Our Lady of Angels that takes Catholic Church people throug stations depicti h 14 ng the final See TRIBU TE/11A 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