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REGION Thursday, May 10, 2018 East Oregonian Page 3A Back-to-back fires in Hermiston scramble fire department East Oregonian Two fires that flared up during Tuesday night’s storm in western Umatilla County stretched the fire department thin. At 10:30 p.m., Umatilla County Fire District 1 sent a full response to the 3D Ida- pro Solutions dehydration plant at 405 Hoosier Lane, Stanfield, according to Bat- talion Chief JW Roberts. The plant has had at least five fires in recent memory, Roberts said, and each one has required a “full, real- deal response” as smoke from the bag house fills the building. Damage to the building was limited, he said. EO file photo Chuck and Yvonne Bunker take to the dance floor as Vivian Larsen plays the piano during lunch in April 2015 at the Senior Center in Pendleton. CAPECO resumes lunch service at Pendleton Senior Center Nonprofit still looking for permanent cook East Oregonian After undergoing its sec- ond hiatus in as many years, the Pendleton Senior Center is open again for lunch. Vicki Muller, the Community Action Program of East Cen- tral Oregon director of food ser- vices, said the senior center’s daily lunch program resumed on April 25 following a month of closure. CAPECO operates the lunch program, which serves 25-40 seniors per day, while the facility itself is operated by a nonprofit board. When the meal program went dormant, the senior center opened sparingly. The program originally sus- pended activity when it couldn’t find a part-time cook, and Muller said CAPECO was able to restart the program when it made a tem- porary hire. But the new cook is only will- ing to work on an on-call basis, meaning CAPECO is still look- ing for a permanent replacement. Muller said she hopes that a new cook will be identified and pass a pre-employment screen- ing within the next two weeks. She does not expect the transi- tion between cooks to interrupt service. Over the past two years, CAPECO has struggled to retain cooks and find suitable candi- dates to replace them, leading to gaps in the lunch program. The nonprofit has explored outsourcing cooking duties to a commercial kitchen, but it hasn’t found an organization willing to take on the task. At about 11 p.m., a small barn caught fire at 1299 W. Highland Ave., Herm- iston, and Roberts said all available personnel and a few from other agencies responded. Roberts said the barn housed chickens and stored hay, and no one was injured in either fire. The Umatilla Fire Department sent an engine to the UCFD1 headquar- ters in case of a third call, but Roberts said they didn’t need to deploy them. All told, UCFD1 responded to 20 incidents between 8 a.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday, Roberts said, which was above the average of 12 or so. Judge nominee apologizes for ‘overheated’ college writings The Associated Press PORTLAND — Ryan Bounds, the federal prosecu- tor nominated by President Donald Trump to fill a judi- cial vacancy in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, apologized Wednesday for the tone of opinion pieces he wrote as a col- lege student that mocked multiculturalism. Bounds, who grew up in Hermiston, said at his con- firmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee that the rhetoric he used in campus politics was often overheated, overbroad and not respectful of opposing viewpoints. Bounds, a politically con- servative assistant U.S. attor- ney in Portland, received his bachelor’s degree from Stan- ford in 1995 and his pieces ran in The Stanford Review. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live reports the committee was split along party lines at Wednesday’s hearing. Republican senators down- played the significance of the old opinion pieces while Democrats quoted from some of the most alarming passages. Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, asked Bounds about one of his college opinion pieces that appeared critical of Stanford for expel- ling students accused of sex- ual assault. Bounds said he was pri- marily cautioning the uni- versity against not afford- ing due process to someone accused of an assault or low- ering the standard of proof for such allegations. State Bar sparks concerns with statement critical of white nationalists By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Local lawyers questioned the Oregon State Bar’s move to weigh in on national pol- itics in the pages of its offi- cial monthly bulletin. The bar stands by its statement but admitted pairing it with a subsequent statement from lawyer groups was a misstep. The bar in its April bul- letin published a “Statement on White Nationalism and Normalization of Violence.” The statement affirms the bar “remains steadfastly committed to the vision of a justice system that operates without discrimination” and condemns the racist violence in last year’s white national- ist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the attacks on the Portland MAX train. “The current climate of violence, extremism and exclusion gravely threatens” the rule of law and an equi- table justice system, accord- ing to the statement. The president and presi- dent-elect of the bar’s board of governors signed the four-paragraph statement, as did the bar’s chief executive officer, a board member, the bar’s director of diversity and chair of its diversity and inclusion committee. The adjacent page of the 64-page bulletin displays a “Joint Statement of the Ore- gon Specialty Bar Associa- tions” in support of the bar’s piece. But the supporting expression, which the bar board did not approve, also criticizes President Don- ald Trump for making racist comments and catering “to this white nationalist move- ment, allowing it to make up the base of his support and providing it a false sense of legitimacy.” Presidents and chairs of the Oregon Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Oregon Filipino American Lawyers Association, Ore- gon Chapter of the National Bar Association, Oregon Hispanic Bar Association, Oregon Women Lawyers, OGALLA-The LGBT Bar Association of Oregon and Oregon Minority Lawyers Association signed the sup- porting statement. Local attorneys agreed racism and violence are deplorable, but said in gen- eral the bar should stay out of politics. Morrow County District DENTAL Itsuratce Physiciats Mutual Itsuratce Compaty Attorney Justin Nelson said bar members are diverse, but the bar’s action has the effect of tying all its mem- bers to the statements. He said he understood some members were irked the bar used their dues to talk poli- tics and suggested the bar could have conducted an email poll or the like to get a sense of what members wanted. “It was like it came out of the blue,” Nelson said. “It’s surprising it wasn’t asked for.” Mike Breiling of Pendle- ton said he “agrees 100 per- cent” with the bar’s condem- nation of white nationalism and its violent acts, which obviously run contrary to the rule of law. But he said he takes issue with the sup- porting statement because it “draws a number of ques- tionable conclusions,” including to the degree that Trump and his supporters endorse racism or hold rac- ist notions. “I think the vast majority of Trump supporters don’t believe that,” Breiling said, and the bar has no place tak- ing sides with either politi- cal party. Breiling is running for the local circuit court, as is Rob Collins of Pendleton. Collins said the bar’s state- ment toes the line on politics and the law. White nationalism takes the position that certain members of society are sec- ond-class citizens, which is anathema to what the Con- stitution holds, Collins said, and even the most conserva- tive voices would not sup- port normalizing violence. In that light, he said, the bar is making legal arguments. Still, he said, white nationalism is political and the bar is not a political lob- bying group. “Whether this crosses that line — I’m not sure,” Collins said. “But it’s a question to be asking.” The bar received a wave Imagine The Difference You Can Make DONATE YOUR CAR 1-844-533-9173 FREE TOWING TAX DEDUCTIBLE Help Prevent Blindness Get A Vision Screening Annually A less expetsive way to help get the dettal care you deserve If you’re over 50, you can get coverage for about No wait for preventive care and no deductibles – $1 a day* you could get a checkup tomorrow Keep your own dentist! 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