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Saturday, April 28, 2018
East Oregonian
Stanfield man killed after
crashing into ravine
BRIEFLY
Colorado fugitive
arrested in
Hermiston
HERMISTON — A
Colorado man was arrested
in Hermiston Thursday
and is awaiting extradition.
Officers got a tip that Mathia
Moses, 23,
a fugitive
from
Denver,
was in the
300 block
of West
Harper
Road.
Moses is
Moses
alleged
to have
committed a sexual
assault in Colorado. After
confirming the warrant,
officers chased him on foot
and arrested him.
Moses is not currently a
registered sex offender, and
is not being investigated
locally. He is lodged in the
Umatilla County Jail.
New sponsor for
Pendleton school clinics
Pendleton’s school health
centers will now have a
new source of funding, as
a Boardman clinic assumes
the role of medical sponsor
for the clinics.
Columbia River
Health in Boardman has
been providing a nurse
practitioner to the facility,
and became interested in
taking on a greater role in
the clinic. They will assume
the role of medical sponsor
for the clinic starting July
1, taking responsibility for
operations at the Pendleton
High School and Sunridge
Middle School school-based
health centers.
The Pendleton School
District will continue to
provide the facilities for
the sites, and some funding
will still come from CHI St.
Anthony Hospital. Umatilla
County Health Department
will continue to support and
participate in the clinics’
operations.
“Transitioning the
medical sponsorship to CRH
will promote sustainability
of the SBHCs into the
future,” said Umatilla
County Health Director Jim
Setzer in a press release.
New sponsor for
Pendleton school
clinics
Pendleton’s school health
centers will now have a
new source of funding, as
a Boardman clinic assumes
the role of medical sponsor
for the clinics.
Columbia River
Health in Boardman has
been providing a nurse
practitioner to the facility,
and became interested in
taking on a greater role in
the clinic. They will assume
the role of medical sponsor
for the clinic starting July
1, taking responsibility for
operations at the Pendleton
High School and Sunridge
Middle School school-based
health centers.
The Pendleton School
District will continue to
provide the facilities for
the sites, and some funding
will still come from CHI St.
Anthony Hospital. Umatilla
County Health Department
will continue to support and
participate in the clinics’
operations.
“Transitioning the
medical sponsorship to CRH
will promote sustainability
of the SBHCs into the
future,” said Umatilla
County Health Director Jim
Setzer in a press release.
Forest service
opens Umatilla
firewood cutting
season on May 1
PENDLETON —
Personal use firewood
permits for the Umatilla
National Forest will go on
sale May 1, the U.S. Forest
Service announced Friday.
According to a forest
service press release, local
vendors will sell permits for
$5 per cord with a minimum
cord purchase of $20. The
maximum limit for forest is
12 cords per household per
year.
“Our vendors provide
a great service to our
woodcutters by selling
firewood permits at times
more convenient to the
public,” acting Forest
Supervisor Slater Turner
said in a statement. “Most
vendors are open early
mornings, late evenings
and on the weekends. An
additional fee is not charged
if you purchase a permit at a
Forest Service office.”
All firewood cutters must
have an ax, a shovel, a fire
extinguisher that has an
8-ounce capacity and a spark
arrester if equipped with a
chainsaw.
The service is asking
cutters to drive carefully
during the early spring
months when snow may still
be on the ground and call
1-877-958-9663 during the
dry summer months to see
if public use restriction has
been implemented.
Firewood season ends
on the forest on Nov. 30.
For more information, call
541-278-3716.
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East Oregonian
Photo courtesy Oregon State Police
A Stanfield man died Thursday when his vehicle
tumbled down an embankment into the North Fork
John Day River.
A Stanfield man was
killed Thursday when he
drove off a cliff into the
North Fork John Day River.
According to Oregon
State Police, Randy Jones,
53, was traveling west-
bound Thursday morning
on the gravel Texas Bar
Road when his vehicle left
the road for an unknown
reason. It tumbled down
into a roughly 400-foot
ravine before coming to rest
on its top in the North Fork
John Day River. Jones was
killed in the crash.
According to OSP, he
was wearing a seatbelt and
was not ejected. Speed
is being considered as a
possible factor. The vehicle
was removed from the
river and no environmental
impact was noted.
The Texas Bar Road is
located about six miles up
Forest Service Road 55,
which connects to Highway
395 near Dale.
HERMISTON
Terrific Tuesday
welcomes Rick
Steber
PENDLETON — Award-
winning author Rick Steber
will share about his new
book, “Little Big Man,”
during Terrific Tuesday at
Heritage Station Museum.
The event is Tuesday at
7 p.m. at Heritage Station
Museum, 108 S.W. Frazer
Ave., Pendleton. There is no
admission charge.
A true story, the book
is set in Indian country
and pits two strong-willed
men against each other in
an epic David-and-Goliath
battle over the dominance
of the white man’s religion.
A half-century after Dr.
Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman were killed — a
pivotal event igniting the
disastrous Cayuse Indian
War — Jimmy Cornelison
is assigned as the new
missionary.
He faces a skeptical
congregation made up
of the descendants of
those who committed the
murders. The Indians call
the young seminarian
Shoyapo Shoyapo – Little
White Man. His authority
is swiftly challenged by
Chief Peo, a powerful and
fearsome leader among his
people.
Steber has penned more
than 40 books with sales
of over a million books.
In addition, he is the only
Oregon author to have won
the prestigious Western
Writers of America Spur
Award.
For more information,
contact Kari Brooks,
director of development
and membership,
at membership@
heritagestationmuseum.org,
541-276-0012 or visit www.
heritagestationmuseum.org.
Accepting New Patients
Staff photo by Jayati Ramakrishnan
Gov. Kate Brown presents a check to Lamb Weston employees, in front of the site where the business will
open a new facility next year.
Lamb Weston plant gets $500K
from state’s strategic reserve fund
Lamb Weston
already recruiting
for new facility
By JAYATI
RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Though french fries
weren’t on the menu
Friday, Oregon’s governor
stopped by to feast her
eyes on one of Hermiston’s
fastest-growing areas.
Lamb Weston Herm-
iston welcomed Gov. Kate
Brown, who got a look at
the site where workers are
expanding to build a $250
million facility.
Brown
presented
members of the company
with a check for $500,000,
an award from the state’s
strategic reserve fund.
The money will go toward
infrastructure, as well as
workforce development and
training, said Lamb Weston
Director of Communica-
tions Shelby Stoolman.
Located on Westland
Road in Hermiston, the
new factory will open in
spring 2019 and is expected
to create 170 new jobs.
Stoolman said the nearby
Boardman plant employs
about 400.
Stoolman said they plan
to recruit in waves. They
have already hired some
people, including a few
bilingual recruiters, to help
with training and develop-
ment.
Brian Jackson, Lamb
Weston’s project manager
for the new facility, said
construction started in
February 2018, and the
factory will be similar to
the existing one but with
the newer technology
for processing potatoes.
Stoolman said the new
facility will produce 300
million pounds of french
fries per year.
The company was the
first recipient of Herm-
iston’s long-term rural
enterprise zone agreement,
and was given a 15-year tax
break. Instead of property
taxes, the company will
pay $1 million per year,
to be split evenly between
the city of Hermiston and
Umatilla County. That $15
million is about 42 percent
of what the company
would have paid without
Great things
are
happening!
Women’s basketball
EOU
IS
CONNECTED
standout Maya Ah You-Dias
earned the NAIA’s national
the agreement.
Brown said this was
her second visit to a Lamb
Weston facility, and that
she was excited by the
development in Eastern
Oregon.
“We’re all seeing the
potential in potatoes,” she
said.
Brown stressed the
importance
of
giving
students the opportunity to
graduate high school with
skills that they can use
in the workforce, if they
choose to go that route.
“The
same
chal-
lenges I’m hearing from
employers in the valley,
central
and
southern
Oregon are the same ones
I’m hearing here,” she said.
“They’re looking for a
skilled, quality workforce.”
Hermiston assistant city
manager Mark Morgan said
it’s difficult to compile a list
of the biggest employers in
Hermiston. That’s because
many, including Lamb
Weston, are outside official
city limits but still in the
Hermiston ZIP code.
He noted that unlike
most of the jobs at Herm-
iston Foods, which closed
in late 2017, those at Lamb
Weston would be perma-
nent, full-time positions.
He said one stipulation
of the 15-year tax exemp-
tion is that the salaries paid
to workers had to equal the
countywide average, which
he said is about $38,000.
But he said that only
applies to the workers hired
at the new facility.
“While this will require
them to pay the countywide
average to new workers,
if they pay less next door,
there’s gonna be some
internal strife,” he said,
adding that those were
issues the company would
have to consider.
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EOU’s Trapshooting Club made its first
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