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Lost Valley herd may go to auction
Dutch bank claims dairy owner has defaulted on $60 million loans
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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
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his release
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ton.
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than $60 million to Rabobank, a
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real-time information
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tion bill
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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
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motorists.
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tion, including temperature
ts.
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Management Plan, of ice or fog, and chain requiremen
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line to support
state 84 Corridor
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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
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who was with
said the project is
with
friend,
have
done
Coalition,
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Center.
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is 70 percent
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Task Force, which
of April 15.
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accounts from
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Walden got a tour of the center as part of a trip through
completion date
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full demolition mode.
done now, and
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things, the bill requires
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Umatilla
County.
Director
Phil Hamm, as enthusiastic as
other
April
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with
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that night,
to register
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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
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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
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year. The nonprofit
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took place on two mechanical
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workers more than battery
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hopeful. And taking any chance Democrats on were fighting.
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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
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Eastern Oregon schools, roads and law
enforcement are due almost $8 million from
By GEOR
the reauthorization of the federal Secure Rural
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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
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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
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Associated
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