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Hermiston High
School graduate
Kodie Arnold
Heppner High
School graduate
Patrick Collins
Pendleton High
School graduate
CeCe Hoffman
Pendleton High
School graduate
Ryan Lacey
Hermiston High
School graduate
Laura Zepeda
Staff photos by
Staff photos
by E.J. Harris
through the
goods have passed
about how many
Josh Burns talks n Tuesday in Hermiston.
General manager
y celebratio
during a 20th anniversar
es
City of tre
a cherry
t nectar from
an
up to harves in Pendleton. At
bee flies
Street
of the
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on Main
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Katie Lompa City
Monday
in a tree
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city a Tree
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granted the
needed
, the city
April 3 Pendle tment of Forestry
the award
care or-
Oregon Depar 2017. To be given ment, pass a tree
for
annual
m with an ation
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ish a
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observ
to establ
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create
Oregon
per capita
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E.J. Harris
Distribution Center
Hermiston Walmart
XES
BILLIONS OF BO
tay employer for 20
iston has been mains
Walmart hub in Herm
BMCC kicks
off 20th annual
arts and culture
celebration
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
Working through college
Umatilla County
Starting this week, only a text message
is
emergency services
away.
Umatilla County
-
In a joint press release,
Center, Milton-Free
911 Communication
t Dispatch and
water Police Departmen Communications
John Day Emergency they were launching
that
Center announced
a “text to 911” service. living in Umatilla
That means anyone
alert their respective
or Grant counties can emergency situations
dispatch centers to
instead of a call.
through a text message
centers’ new
Despite the dispatch Sheriff’s Office
County
abilities, Umatilla
said dispatchers
Capt. Kathy Lieuallen
method.
still prefer the old
talk to them than
“We would rather
years
than 1.3 billion cases
f all of the more Hermiston Walmart
shipped from the since its opening in
Distribution Center to end, they would
end
April 1998 were laid
times.
circle the earth 13
through Hermiston
Those goods passing represent about $54
years
over the last 20
according to general
billion in revenue,
manager Josh Burns. chunk of change,” he
20th
“That’s a pretty good
distribution center’s
told the crowd at the
on Tuesday.
anniversary celebration represented by the
The economic engine acres under its roof
26
center — which has
stores inside — can
and could fit 10 Walmart d. But distribution
be hard to comprehen
s are vital to Walmart’s
centers like Hermiston’
in a digital age.
efforts to stay competitive vice president of
Greg Smith, executive company-wide based
chain
Walmart’s supply
told the group that
itself
in Betonville, Arkansas,
has “distinguished
the Hermiston DC centers.”
across our distribution most productive distri-
“You are one of our
said.
bution centers,” he
the associates and
He also praised an impressive safety
for
managers there
improve. He said
to
record that continues chain” will be what
having the “best supply to succeed in a
continue
Walmart
helps
changing era.
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son peered
Robert Robert
d to
the jail house
and crashe
of about 200
from behind Judy Simmons
from a height
it
bars while
photo. Maybe
to 400 feet. like a loss of
he
took his
was out
she said, if
“It looked
l,” he said
would help, door and stepped
Harold Nelson
around 11:10 power and contro
opened the more light.
when
on the airfield
y.
March 31,
te Monda the Federal Avia-
forward into slid the door
a.m. on
PAE,
PAE Resolu e
n and
Robertson in the metal
he saw the
Administratio
ned vehicl
100 tion Pendleton Unmanned
open and stood ns said that
Eagle, a unman
over
s well
Range have
to the
frame. Simmo
that weigh
from east
crash
Aerial System
was better.
one of
ed that the No
pounds, flying
was
confirm
son
fire.
to
l all
Robert
west.
a small
s Saturday at
g
wasn’t unusua
s
and caused hurt and nothin
several visitor
This sight
other exhibit
, who owns ft one was
during the
the jail and Museum’s open
to Nelson
damaged
ton Aircra
r
by Phil Wright
the Umatilla
e and was nt.
operates Pendle
te a cleane
a
Staff photos
some
incide
an airplan
crashed in
house to celebra
Service, repair business,
displays. That
s talks about illa.
The drone airport prop-
.
look and new in the former
on
er Sam Noble house in Umat
helicopter
ton airport
cell
Nelson
wheat field
its open
ation memb
ries
small jail
near the Pendle ing to Nelson, erty and a picture shows a
la
ical Found Saturday during
held memo
ts
m & Histor
of the Umatil
police station
But accord flight looked
illa Museu upgraded exhibi
from his plane
son.
volunteer Historical Foun-
s
ly took scorched blot where
for Robert last guy that got Umat
the drone’
museum’s
Museum & nonprofit that
black,
before it sudden
fire.
son of the
“I’m the
from
Robert
caught
“wobbly”
jail,”
“away
dation, the task of recording
the wheat
confirmation
to stay in the was 20 years
veered north,
156
ny
took on the unity’s
Despite
the compa
said, but that nt life ago.
comm
range,
the
the
ment,
from
. Robertson
l govern
and a differe to do 21 days,
last
years of history
and the federa on the crash
He had
mpli-
the museum
for “nonco city
popped into ns said, glanced
official details beyond the
ly
probab
the
.
said, then
year, Simmo announced it
remain scarce
ance,” he jail was “unfit
ce of events
around and nothing had ever
basic sequen
er Darryl
found the life.” Even so,
still
looked like
Range Manag
PAE is
for human him finish his
inci-
changed. a fire under us,”
Abling said
the city let
data on the meet-
“That lit
reviewing
sentence. work days the
holds daily
she said.
m and
dent and range officials to
During
to wash
Fellow museu er Sam
let him out muscle
ings with crash. Although
memb
police
or lend
foundation for years people
discuss the ed to provide
patrol cars work, he said.
to the
Nobles said
PAE is expect the test range
to other city however, were
er brought in old items of that
to
a report
ation memb
much
of the crash
Weekends, jail.
ical Found t Robertson museum, but and others
with the cause res it will take
& Histor
Rober
all inside the
up. He
on a small
m’s open
Museum
junk
photo of
ing
and the measu
takes a during the museu the jail’s piled
Golf played TV the Umatilla
separate the tidy
it from happen
t
was
ite
Simmons
worked to
to prevent future, Abling
cal and
jail’s Judy old city jail exhibi illa. Robertson
black-and-wh
the
until
outside the
from the histori
in the
ay in Umat
cops set he said, and the in
to comment
place.
house Saturd
declined d.
son up the
two cells, ss was the same last inmate.
said Robert
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it’s release the Pendleton
Simmons
bunk mattre was there. And
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for the open
TV
the
eat
Although
reason
he
was
I didn’t
as when
was a key is a member and
tment
food.
times a day. a long time after
Fire Depar extinguished
there was the TV dinners,”
house. She
dinners for
son
agency that by the crash,
“Swan
used
said. “They
that.”
the fire caused Mike Ciraulo
Robertson TV dinners three
Fire Chief
to feed us
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
BMCC prints math textbooks from an open education resource, or OER, which helps keep prices down.
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
and ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Baker County cattle ollege is expensive. Even students on
HALFWAY — A have the wolves scholarship often have to take on a job
to
rancher’s request
killed was granted — or several — to reach their academic
Fish
preying on his herd Department of goals.
Tuesday by Oregon
Tuition and fees, room and board, books
and Wildlife.
press release,
and supplies, transportation, and other
According to an ODFW
to all
a kill permit expenses
add up pretty quickly: College
of
the agency will provide Under the terms
Board estimated a four-year in-state college
the take of two wolves. can kill up to two
student who lives on campus spent $25,290
this permit, the producer property he leases
wolves on the private s occurred, during
when the 2017-2018 school year.
Costs for textbooks and other educational
depredation
where the
on the property.
supplies are only about 5 percent of an
his livestock is present
on May 4.
average
public college budget, but it isn’t
The permit expires
autho-
are also getting any cheaper. The average price of a
ODFW staff members
wolves.
new textbook rose from $58 in 2010-2011 to
rized to kill up to two
$80 in 2015-2016.
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At $84, Blue Mountain Community
College’s new textbook price average is
right in line with national statistics, although
community college students at the national
C
By the numbers
by the numbers:
Distribution Center
under its roof.
Hermiston Walmart
million square feet,
26 acres, or 1.1
The center has
inside.
who work there.
of conveyor belt
s and managers
There are 22 miles
, drivers, technician
total associates
the same amount.
There are 1,100
and ship out about
of product.
trailers per day
They unload 125
160 million cases
Montana and
and ship about
Washington, Idaho,
In a year they unload
stores in Oregon,
DC serves 106
The Hermiston
Alaska.
PENDLETON
os from
Maestro gets kud
’s “A Soldier’s
Oregon East Symphony
Tale.”
texted
Mayclin can’t imagine
Instead fellow conductors
in Portland
a life without music
him from the conference e him after
that night to congratulat
as winner of the
By KATHY ANEY
he was announced which recognizes
East Oregonian
biennial award,
e excellence
leadership, performanc
top
arrived at Bill and mentorship. The award is the
Recently, a box
region of the
six-state
the
in
doorstep.
Mayclin’s
the styrofoam honor
conductors and music
Mayclin dug through box, which association for
said the award would
smaller
peanuts to find a Inside, he found a teachers. They
he gingerly opened. that he smilingly come in the mail. conducts the Pend-
Mayclin, 69,
beautiful glass trophy grand piano right
a group launched
leton Men’s Chorus, singers from the
placed on his baby
2007 with 22 male Theater produc-
next to a bust of Chopin.
director had in
choir
Community
Pendleton
College
The
about 20
the American Choral tion of “1776.” Starting with
missed receiving
(Northwest
now has 50.
Directors Association and Service men, the choir
Region) Leadership
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in person. He was
in
Award last month
part of the devil
busy playing the
Welcome baseball
season with Adams
Day
Base of the Blues
Bash
in Milton-Freewater
Arbor Day tree
giveaway in Pendleton
For times
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fellow conductors
level tend to pay more for textbooks and
school supplies and direct more of their
financial aid toward them than their four-year
counterparts.
Over the past few years, BMCC has been
aggressive in transitioning their primary
educational materials from textbooks to
open educational resources, which are free
or low-cost materials developed directly by
faculty.
“For many faculty, the starting motivation
to develop and implement open educational
resources was to break down the cost
barrier of attending college for many of our
students,” Jacquelyn Ray, BMCC’s director
of library resources, said in a statement. But in
doing that, Ray said many faculty discovered
that developing their own course materials
improved student learning as well.
Spread across 53 courses, Ray said open
materials make BMCC’s Associate of Arts
transfer degree the second most affordable in
the state from a textbooks standpoint.
The East Oregonian caught up with some
Dayton changes ple
a to
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Laura Zepeda is pulled in several
different directions as a student, but she’s
not complaining. The college sophomore
works as a resident assistant at one of the
dorms at Oregon State University. Zepeda, a
Hermiston High School graduate, also works
as a teaching assistant for a math class that she
took last year.
“I love both my jobs,” Zepeda said. “At
first, I was only going to be working as an RA,
but then the opportunity to be a TA came up.”
Zepeda, who’s studying biomedical
science and hopes to become a physician’s
assistant, said she has scholarship money
that covers most of her tuition costs. The
money she earns from her jobs goes toward
housing, meals and textbooks.
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The Pendleton City
Council is poised to relin-
quish one of the last pieces
of control it has over the
Round-Up Grounds.
At a workshop Tuesday,
Mayor John Turner told
the council it would
consider selling the city’s
remaining interest back to
the Round-Up at the April 17
meeting, clearing the way for
Blue Mountain Community
College to build an indoor
arena on the grounds.
According to a staff report
from City Attorney Nancy
Kerns, the Round-Up bought
the grounds from the city in
2011, but the city retained
interest in the property
through a “reversionary
clause” that would revert
ownership back to the city
if the Round-Up didn’t hold
a rodeo for two consecutive
years.
Turner, a former BMCC
president, said the college
wouldn’t be able to own the
land or enter into a longterm
land lease on the grounds
without the elimination of
the clause.
Additionally, Turner said
Round-Up officials main-
tained that it handicapped
the rodeo’s ability to obtain a
loan when they expanded the
western grandstands.
BMCC’s project —
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The city of Pendleton sold the Round-Up Grounds
property to the Pendleton Round-Up in 2011.
dubbed FARM II — is a
multipurpose facility with an
indoor rodeo arena and space
for agriculture classes.
The mayor told the council
that he was bringing the issue
142nd Year,
charge increased
Dayton’s prison more than 30 years of practicing law.
and Herman Bylenga
Dayton killed Rodriguez
sentence from
of Pendleton
under a
20 years to at Milton-Freewater bridge on May 20, were in the courtroom. Brauer told
2017, and two days
them he needed a
least 25.
reason to alter the
body to cover up later burned the deal.
the crime.
D a y t o n , pleaded
By PHIL WRIGHT
Bylenga said Dayton
guilty on Jan. 18 to Dayton
24,
appeared gree manslaught
first-de- fulfilled
had not
East Oregonian
certain elements of
er
Thursday
the plea
abuse of a corpse. and first-degree agreement, but
morning
he did not specify
via
Conor Michael
what,
Brauer asked Dayton
jail room video
Dayton of Dayton
if it was his willing and as such Dayton was
Milton-Freewater
intent to have the
to
admit
changed his plea
in
to
court
murder.
Umatilla the original
withdraw
from manslaught
Dayton again
pleas for the charges
er to murder for
County Circuit
killing Marcos Gutierrez
of what he wanted. affirmed this was
Court,
murder
After
Rodriguez Judge Pendleton, to change his plea. corpse. and first-degree abuse of a
in 2017.
formalities, the judge some legal
Christopher Brauer
asked Dayton
called the
hearing unusual and
Pleading guilty to
how he
“Yes, your honor,”
the first for him
the harsher in
Dayton first-degree pleaded to murder and
replied.
his 12 years on
corpse
the bench and
abuse.
Defense attorneys
L. Kent Fisher
See PLEA/9A
and places
A feminist writer/poet, facilitated
see Coming Events,
5A
discussions, food and even animals are
Weekend Weather
featured during Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College’s Arts & Culture Festival.
Fri
Sat
Sun
The festival is Monday, April 16 through
Thursday, April 19 and includes activities
on the Pendleton (2411 N.W. Carden Ave.)
and Hermiston (980 S.E. Columbia Drive)
campuses of BMCC. The activities are
free and open to the public.
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58/40
A special 20th anniversary celebration
is Monday from 5-6 p.m. in the Student
Watch a baseball
game
Union in Pioneer Hall. Doug Radke,
who founded the festival, will speak. In
addition, Susie’s Cafe will provide light
vs.
refreshments.
At 6 p.m., Natasha Ria El-Scari, the
festival’s artist-in-residence, will give a
Hood River at Hermiston
presentation in Bob Clapp Theatre. Other
opportunities to hear El-Scari include
Doubleheader
Saturday
Tuesday at 1 p.m. (Hermiston), and
at noon
Wednesday at 11 a.m. (Pendleton).
Her poetry, academic papers and
personal essays have been published in
anthologies, literary journals and online.
El-Scari’s 2015 DVD, “Live at the Blue
Room,” demonstrates how she connects
with people with warmth and unrelenting
honesty.
When asked in
an interview what
makes her unique,
El-Scari said “…
Annual report
most people lie to
by ODFW tallies
themselves,
but
I like to reveal
base population
myself.”
By KEN THOMAS
A past Kansas
and KEVIN FREKING
By GEORGE PLAVEN
poet
laureate,
Associated Press
Capital Bureau
Natasha
Denise Low speaks
Ria El-Scari
WASHINGTON
highly of El-Scari.
SALEM — Oregon
— In a
striking
“Poems lift off
reversal,
wildlife officials
counted
Donald Trump President
the page, almost reading themselves,”
at least 124 wolves
has asked
trade officials to
Low said. “Unlike some performance
end of 2017, an 11 at the
explore
percent
the possibility of
poetry, her words translate well to the
increase over the year
the
end
States rejoining the United
Jose Adan Guardado
printed page.”
total
Trans-Pa-
for
2016, according
of Irrigon
cific Partnership
business selling
to the latest annual
Other highlights in Pendleton include
agreement,
T-shirts with help has overcome a lot of adversity
from his long-time
Staff photo
in his life, and
released Thursday. report
inaugural video contest (Monday, a 10 free trade deal he pulled
friend, Laurie Ellis.
is now starting by E.J. Harris
out of during his first
a design
The survey, which
a.m.); a barbecue (Monday, noon); office
a
days in
is
as part of his “America
conducted by the
presentation by a National Public Radio
Oregon
first” agenda.
Department of
senior producer (Tuesday, 10 a.m.); Indian Trump’s
Fish &
request
Wildlife, is not
relay races (Tuesday, 11 a.m.); information
a
as he faces pressure comes
population estimate true
from
on immigrant rights and DACA (Tuesday,
farm-state
but
documents the minimum
Republican
noon); Ekphrastic poetry with Shaindel
anxious that his protectionis s
number of wolves
Beers (Tuesday, 1 p.m.); writing compe-
t
trade policies could
By KATHY ANEY
the state based on across
spiral
tition readings (Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.); into
the a trade
verified
East Oregonian
war with
evidence such as
Eastern Oregon Forum featuring a panel
visual
that would hit rural China
sightings,
America.
tracks and
discussing how service animals Trump
help spent
ose Adan Guardado
the 2016 pres-
photographs.
change lives (Tuesday, 7 p.m.); an Oregon
idential campaign
right to be mad at the has every
ODFW will present
world.
Humanities Conversation Project facili-
into the multi-nation ripping
an
He was born
overview of the
findings
palsy in El Salvador, with cerebral
tated discussion, “In Science We Trust,”
saying he could get al pact,
at the next Fish and
a better
where his
mother abandoned
(Thursday, 11 a.m.) and a Video Film deal
Fest for U.S. businesses
life Commission Wild-
meeting
His grandparents him as a toddler.
negotiating one-on-one by
(Thursday, 4 p.m.)
April 20 in Astoria.
collected the little
boy and raised him
Activities in Hermiston include a countries
focus in the Pacific with
“The wolf population
at their home in
Rim.
Irrigon.
group about food insecurity (Tuesday,
continues to grow
Multiple disabilities
11 a.m.), the Conversation Project “In See TRUMP/2A
expand its range and
make each
day a climb up Mt.
in
Science We Trust,” (Wednesday, 10 a.m.)
Oregon,” said
Everest for the
Roblyn
23-year-old. He
Brown, ODFW
can’t
Laurie Ellis checks
ligibly. He struggles speak intel-
wolf
See BMCC/6A
program
Staff
Adam Gaurdado the sizes and number of
coordinator.
muscles and eats via to control his
T-shirts left in a photo by E.J. Harris
’s resident in Irrigon.
“This year, we also
box at Jose
to a port in his a tube connected
mented resident docu-
wolves
spasms make his stomach. Painful
While others might
in the northern
muscles cramp and
give up in the
part of
contract.
face of such obstacles,
through and around
Oregon’s Cascade
them.
Guardado
Moun-
stubbornly figures
tains for the first time.”
out ways over,
See SPIRIT/9A
Wolf
count
hits
124 in
state
Dysfunctional
body can’t cage
indomitable spirit
J
up before the next meeting to
gauge whether there was any
opposition to the $13,000
sale of the interest.
No one said they would
oppose the deal, but veteran
councilors explained why the
decision was made.
“If the bank was ever to
collect on (the Round-Up) ...
it would come back to us,”
Councilor Neil Brown. “It
wouldn’t go to the market
and be sold to a private entre-
preneur.”
Although the council
could forgo their interest in
their Round-Up Grounds,
the city does have a stake in
FARM II.
See WOLVES/10A
Opposite stances arise
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Umatilla County
sioner candidates commis-
to take some shots managed
other Wednesday at each
spite of forum rules night in
banning
exchanges.
Rick Pullen and Tom
Athena Mayor
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
John Shafer answers
Bailor
about the capabilities
a question are challenging Commis-
Department during of the Umatilla County Sheriff’s sioner George
Murdock for
day in Hermiston. a commissioner forum Wednes- Position
1 on the
County Commissio Shafer is challenging Umatilla
three-member board. county’s
ner Larry Givens,
at right.
All three
live in Pendleton.
And Athena
More inside
in county races
of Commerce helped
the event, which sponsor
about 50 people. attracted
Under the
rules, a moderator
asked
each candidate
question, but the the same
Mayor John Shafer
candidates
unseat Commissio aims to were not allowed to
ner Larry each
debate
Givens of Umapine
other. The topics
ranged
from from economic
Position 2. The five
development
men
sat
and
at the same table
housing to mental
Wednesday from
health,
night for a forum
law
enforcement
at Armand to
Larive Middle School,
balancing the
county
Herm- budget.
iston.
Hermiston city
council
candidates discuss
economic developme housing,
nt.
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Chamber
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TAL
One dollar
murder
Life sentence
handed down with
parole at 25 years
Council mulls ceding ownership clause to the Round-Up
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
while they
Men’s Chorus
“Iolanthe” on
the Pendleton
Bill Mayclin directs from Gilbert and Sullivan’s
rehearse a number .
Tuesday in Pendleton
of the students from the Promise and Potential
series to see whether they’re supplementing
their incomes as they study, and where that
money goes.
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weighs
rejoining
the TPP
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By KATY NESBITT
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n for
during a celebratio
hang on a display n Center on Tuesday.
Distributio
of 20-year employees
Identification tags y of the Hermiston Walmart
the 20th anniversar
Your Weekend
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State grants
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request to
kill wolves
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By JADE MCDOWEL
East Oregonian
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Will aid people with
disabilities, or in
dangerous situations
ers say Gov.
tive
Some observ
SALEM — call for a special legisla
s than
’s
Kate Brown more to do with politic equi-
session has Oregon tax code more
making the
for
running
table.
call
Democrat
Brown, a year, said Friday she’ll end
this
before the
reelection
sometime sole propri-
session
of
a special
in
extend to owners
tax rates passed sses.
of June to
the special
busine
etorships
of other small ced she’d
2013 for owners time, she announ prevents
At the same 1528, a bill that
sole
—
Bill
sign Senate certain businesses
ships and
owners of s, LLCs, partner ss income
proprietorship s — whose busine al income
S-corporation h” to their person deduc-
federal tax
“passes throug
new
a
taking
taxes from state taxes.
necessary
tion on their say that bill was
tax
Supporters hole caused by federal
a $244
the measure
to plug a budget
critics call
reform. It’s hike.
r
to give anothe o-
million tax
it’s not fair
Brown said partnerships and S-corp get
torships can’t state
break to LLCs,
sole proprie
the
rations when tax rates passed by
ble
the favora
as, sees
in 2013.
Boquist, R-Dall
.
But Sen. Brian as a political gambit ”
policy,
session
the special about politics not the EO/
to
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an email
in
y.
wrote
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Boquist
l Bureau on
Pamplin Capita
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2018
$1.50
Perry says
BPA won’t
be sold off
Agency
like
increase surc ly to
recent dam harge after
spill ruling
By JADE
MCDO
East Oregon WELL
ian
Cheap
industrial electricity has helped
bring
Northwest, development to the
but utility
Pacific
decisions regardi
companies
fear
Administratio ng the Bonneville
n
Some good will increase rates. Power
Energy Secreta news came Thursd
Greg Walden ry Rick Perry ay, when
that his departm told Rep.
move to
ent
sell
Administratio off the Bonneville will not
n’s assets
Power
through Congre
without going
ss.
The idea
to privati
provides
ze BPA,
wholes
utilities across ale power to which
electric
the Pacific
proposed
Northw
Boardman
by
Police officer
istration last the Donald Trump est, was
er drill Friday
Corey Rose,
pushback from summer. It receive admin-
ment officer at Riverside
left, and
d
s participated High Schoo
Lt. Loren
“It is the Oregon lawmakers. strong
in the exerci l in Boardman. Dieter engag
unites all of one idea — bad idea
More than e with a hosta
se.
Staff photo
ge
400 schoo
By PHIL
told Perry, us in the Northwest,” — that
by E.J. Harris
l officials, taker during an active
WRIGH
according
students
East Oregon T
day’s hearing
to a video Walden
and law shoot-
ian
of Thurs-
enforce-
Subcommittee before the Congre
ssional
he student
on Energy
D.C. “I’m
in Washin
afraid
in black, was tall, dressed all
gton,
this move
nothing but
strode into
hallwa
the
electricity harm my constituents, could do
school and y at the Boardman main
costs, and
hurt consum drive up
the region.
high
handgun. fired two rounds
”
ers across
from a
He asked
No one was
the Depart Perry if he could
hit. Rivers
nior High
assure
ide Junior-
Bonneville ment of Energy “will him
Se-
lockdown. School already
alone unless
leave
was in
Minutes before
explicit authori
Congress provid
entered Friday
es
“Yes, sir,” zation.”
morning, the shooter
father had
Perry replied
an agitate
Rep. Kurt
d
.
hostage. taken the front office
spoke against Schrader (D-Ore
staff
gon) also
Dozens
privatization
during the
of
auditorium of observers in the school
takes no hearing, noting that the BPA
’s
unfold on watched all the
approp
the
BPA
riation
but rather
s from Congre
during the TV and projection drama
operates solely
ss,
screen
largest school
it earns from
ever in Eastern
shooter drill s
wholesale on the revenue
stated that
Oregon
power
the
.
Boardm
electricity used wholesaler provid sales. He
and Pendle an Police Chief Rick
es
Stokoe
ton Police
three-fourths in the Pacific Northw half the
Roberts organi
Chief Stuart
transmission of the region’s high-v est and
zed the
end, while
grid.
Police officer
oltage
the Morro law enforcement
“Selling
s from
District coordi
w County
an active
School
would fragme off these transmission
shooter multiple agenc
Staff from nated the education
drill on Friday
ies clear
nt the grid,
the region
classrooms Staff photo by E.J.
be devasta assets
in Board
on hand, 18 school district side.
rolls. Almos
and provid
Harris
ting to
of victim
man.
s
asset that
t 400 people
s during
from eight along with represe were
or participated,
would not e a meager one-time
in all watche
ntative
beneficial
have any
including the law enforcement agenci s
and 260 memb including 45 studen d
And given
economy,” effects with regard long-term
es,
ers of the school
ts
all the drill
and Morro sheriff ’s offices of
he
to
Everyo
to
told
accom
our
Perry.
was trying
w countie
Union
ne gathered
district.
plish,
The fate
fire and ambula
s, and Boardm
the drill started
in the gym
perfect, I would he said, “If it went
tration has of Bonneville Power
before
. Stokoe announ
off
be amazed.”
County school nce services. Morro an
two people
repercussions
Adminis-
Police
ced
such
knew
checke
only
w
on
as Umatil
the whole
teachers volunt students, staff
including each d every person
“This is
la Electric local utilities
scenar
which gets
and
eered to
Cooperative,
everyone,” going to be a surpris io.
any sort. Group other — for weapo —
play variou
from BPA. 85 to 90 percent of
s
s then headed ns of
surprise.” he said. “But not too e for
its power
destinations,
big a
Steve Meyer
be that school to their
s, UEC spokes
rooms or
in an email
See DRILL
in the region that customer-own man, said
/10A
ed utilities
consequences are concerned
about the
of taking the
system out
of
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High-end
housing
By JADE
MCDO
East Oregon WELL
ian
HERMIS
developer TON
sets sights
on 350-acre
property
Hayfields,
featuring
As Hermi
options intersp
a variety
of housin
ersed
snapped up ston homes continu
e to be community gardens with open fields, trails, g
market, some almost as soon as
and a buildin
as a gatheri
they hit
relief could
ng
g to serve
form of a
be coming the
“There is an space.
major new
in the
unfille
off Highw
ay 207 and housing development housing in this comm d demand for
quality
Feedville Road.
There is
unity,” he
There is room
said.
a re-platting still work to be done
— including for hundreds of on the 350-acre proper
process
homes, even
divide the
property into through the city to plan to leave some
with Howel ty
before develo
areas
l’s
residen
residen
open
tial
Basin Land, per Don Howell of lots — back of ts a view of vegetation space to give
their neighb
instead of
project will LLC can say for Columbia
the
or’s house.
While he
certain the
happen. But
Howell
he is optimi
compact lots envisions streets
stic.
of more
serving snowb
certain what said it is too soon
part of
irds who spend
how many size all of the lots to say for lookin the year in another state
g for afforda
will be, or
and
be built in of each type of housin
ble housin families
g would wants to provide larger
g, he also
But overall the first phase of
want to live
lots for people
the
he
project
in city limits
envisio
“master-plann
.
but have who
ed” develo ns a mixed-use extra land. On the bluff
pment called
with a north-f some
The
acing
See PROPE
Columbia
RTY/9A
their 350-ac Basin Land,
Hermiston. re property LLC, would like Staff photo by E.J. Harris
on Feedv
to develo
ille
Road south p on
west of
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