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ple can drop off yard no structures were small fires off limits. Residents of Hermis-
posts,
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get a yard trash
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said the wind was there ton can go to city hall and
burned for several
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A fire in Stanfield on some property affected. Roberts
to extinguish, but
permit, which allows
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do not have to burn
hours Monday afternoon
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threat to any
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said the was no season has begun, and the fire themselves.
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right now he was “still
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Staff photo
142nd Year, No. 179
Document will guide
management over
5.5 million acres
By GEORGE PLAVEN
EO Media Group
has
of net neutrality
At long last, the U.S. Forest
The recent repeal U.S., but Ajit Pai and
the
Service is ready to unveil its final
raised hackles across found a mostly friendly
draft of the much-anticipated Blue
Rep. Greg Walden in Eastern Oregon.
Mountains Forest Plan Revision.
audience Saturday rod chairman of the Fed-
The plans, which were last
in the
Pai, the lightning
Commission, was
updated in 1990, will guide land
eral Communications tour of rural communi-
management activities — includ-
midst of an 1,800-mile
, Idaho, and Mon-
ties in Oregon, Washington
“digital divide” between
tana to discuss the
es.
rural and urban communiti the FCC as the
Walden, who oversees
Energy and Commerce
in Herm-
chairman of the House
Pai as he stopped
Committee, joined Weston.
and
the
Pendleton
iston,
Pai was likely
Ore-
According to Walden,
to visit Eastern
first FCC chairman the day was at Weston’s
of
gon. The last stop
Pai and Walden spoke
ives
Memorial Hall, where
officials and representat
with local elected
corporations.
from communication
to discuss how rural
While Pai was there
ing timber harvest, recreation and
livestock grazing — over 5.5 mil-
lion acres in the Umatilla, Wal-
lowa-Whitman and Malheur
national forests in Eastern Oregon
for the next 10-15 years.
A draft environmental impact
statement, or EIS, for the plans was
released in 2014, but after a signifi-
cant public backlash the Forest Ser-
vice embarked on three more years
of outreach to build consensus.
The result is a final EIS and
draft record of decision that will
be published Friday, June 29, kick-
ing off a 60-day period for individ-
uals or groups with legal standing
to file objections. The process then
segues into a 90-day objection res-
olution period, before the Pacific
Northwest regional forester, Jim
Peña, makes his final decision.
Tom Montoya, supervisor for
the Wallowa-Whitman National
Forest in Baker City, said that if
all goes according to schedule,
the revised forest plans could be
adopted and in place by the begin-
142nd Year, No. 180
See FOREST/8A
EO Media Group file photo
A view of the Strawberry Mountains from Keeney Fork Road on
the Malheur National Forest in Grant County. The U.S. Forest Ser-
vice is ready to unveil its final environmental impact statement
for the much-anticipated Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision,
covering 5.5 million acres of public forests in Eastern Oregon.
HERMISTON
A
PENDLETON
One dollar
UMATILLA
City
manager
Pelleberg
resigns
By JADE MCDOWEL
L
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Tammy Malgesini
Scrub brush continues to smoke as a firefighter with
Umatilla County Fire District 1 continues mop-up work
from a fire late Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of Joy
Lane and Alpine Drive, northeast of Hermiston.
Fire seasons starts Thursday on state for-
est land in northeast Oregon.
Despite scattered rains from recent thun-
derstorms, the Oregon Department of For-
estry announced parts of the Northeast Ore-
gon District are showing increased potential
for fire starts.
Forecasts of higher temperatures and
drier conditions prompted state fire manag-
ers to declare fire season beginning Thurs-
day, at 12:01 a.m., for forest and range lands
under the protection of the Northeast Oregon
District. Jamie Knight, national resources
specialist with the forestry department, said
this opening of the season is about average.
“This is about the time we go into fire
season, give or take a few days every year,”
she said.
142nd Year,
No. 181
Your Wee
kend
WINNER
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2017 ONPA
FRIDAY,
JUNE 29,
GENERAL
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PENDLETON
One dollar
Get fresh
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• Friday
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• Comm
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For times
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, 5A
Weekend
Weath
er
Umatilla City Manager
Fri
Sat
Russ Pelleberg
resigned after a short
Sun
but turbulent time
ing the city.
lead-
City recorder Nanci
Sandoval confirmed
the resignation in
PENDLETON
an
ing, noting Pelleberg email Wednesday morn-
“to pursue other turned in his resignation
80/55
85/60
tunities” and his oppor-
84/54
last
Watch a
would be July 27. day
game
leberg did not return Pel-
a
Hermiston
request for comment
vs. Pendle
in Little
ton
press time Wednesday as of
League Distric
t
Pelleberg joined .
Tournament
the
city in 2013 as
7 p.m., Saturd
works director and public
Ken Melton ay
Park
promoted in March was
to city manager 2016
while Pelleberg
still maintaining
his pub-
lic works duties.
Former city manager
A Union Pacific
Ward
Bob
had been set
depot in 1909, freight train passes the Heritage
but asked the city to retire in February 2017
on Wednesday
Dr. Norm
Station Museum,
council in October
in downtown Pendleton
would like to restart
By ANTONIO SIERRA
an Sitz sorts
which was originally
he
2015
could
Staff
if
photo
end
passenger rail
by
his contract early
E.J. Harris
through
constructed
service to Eastern . A group known as Associatio
East Oregonian
to make way
items in
for Pelleberg.
Oregon with a
n of Oregon Rail as Pendleton’s train
his office
rail route between
and Transit Activists
Thusday
The city council
Portland and Boise.
in Pendle
By ANTONIO SIERRA
At risk of ending the fiscal year in the red,
ton while
offer and promote voted to accept Ward’s
getting ready
which would span
Pelleberg without
East Oregonian
several key Pendleton city funds required
ing at outside candidates.
look-
to close
Boise and include from Portland to northern Oregon
Staff photo
his medic
Later, David Trott
bridge loans.
by E.J. Harris
resigned from his
stops in Pendle-
al practice.
from east to west
ton, Hinkle, La Grande,
he acronym for
and
At a special meeting Tuesday night, the
ing “irreconcilable position as mayor, cit-
the
Baker City, the vice versa. Driving a car along
differences” with
tion of Oregon Rail Associa- Ontario, The Dalles
Umatilla Coun
Interstate 84 is tried
Pendleton City Council approved three inter-
council after it declined
the city
and Hood River.
and
Transit
and
true,
but
Activists is
The volunteer organizatio
travelers can also
ty
to take any action
fund loans that will borrow money from other
concerns Trott had
fly from Pendleton
would start
on
n met to Portland
the artery it shares AORTA. And like in The Dalles
about Pelleberg’s
on June
a name with, the
via
team to
and actions. Pelleberg
funds to supplement cash flow to the water,
résumé
organization is hoping
the concept and plan 20 to discuss a Greyhound Boutique Air or hop on
claimed
addr
By
KATHY ANEY
two degrees
ess treatmen
bus.
from disreputable
to pump new
sewer and the Pendleton Convention Center
a rail passenger
blood into Eastern
diploma
But Nuxoll argued
East Orego
t
Oregon’s defunct summit at Eastern Oregon University
Two other city councilors mills.
Tourism Promotion Assessment Charge funds.
that reintro-
nian
passenger rail system.
in La Grande in March
By PHIL
ducing rail as a transportati
— Mary Dedrick
WRIGH
and
David
City Manager Robb Corbett said that the
2019.
very day for
T
Lougee
on option
It’s been more than
East Orego
Association President
would
voting not to accept — resigned shortly after
20 years since
nian
state prohibits public entities from ending the
Jon Nuxoll rural offer an important choice for
Sitz has torn the past month, Dr.
Amtrak shuttered
of Eugene said
Oregonians.
regularly
Norman
the
a link off
did not specifically Trott’s resignation, but
fiscal year with a negative balance. The fiscal
made
rushed
Umatilla
massive train route Pioneer line, a 200 members the group has 150 to
of
Nuxoll
called at home. to the hospita
represents by his wife, Miche a paper chain
Pelleberg and Trott name the dispute between
ping up to County is step-
year ends June 30.
l after being
Seattle with Chicago that connected the association all across Oregon, but larity of noted the increasing popu-
as their reason for
colored outside Though an interni
reduce the
the Amtrak Cascades
chain has a remaining day of lle. Each link
leaving.
During his tenure,
ber of mental
The state does, however, allow public enti-
num-
ern Oregon communiti and many East- base of supporters needs to expand its train that
st, he often
shrunk to
line, a
his career.
Pelleberg restructured
travels between Eugene
“I deliver the lines of his specia
the
Friday, he
es in between.
city departments
to achieve its goal.
the county ly ill people in
ties to borrow money from other funds to
The association
hangs up his point of vanishing. The
and
and
lty.
“This is not
Vancouver, British
jail.
hooked people ed babies, did
development director created a community
On
Sitz isn’t
stethoscope.
Columbia.
Commissione
cover the difference, although each borrow-
shorter version of wants to revive a night,” he said. going to happen over-
up to ventila minor surgery,
clear exactly
With increasing congestion
“I did just
the Pioneer line,
he’s seen
hired former Umatilla position, for which he
tors,” Sitz
Murdock said r George
how many
about
ing fund will have to pay back the lending
during
along
recalled.
There are a few ways
patients
He moved everything.”
cine in Pendle 39 years of practic
tor Tamra Mabbott. County planning direc-
is a major mental illness
to navigate
fund the totality of the loan plus a 1.5 percent
He worked to
ing medi-
the St. Antho to Pendleton in 1979
concern nation
See TRAIN/6A
parks master plan
“I’ve probab ton.
wide and Umati
to work
annual interest rate. The city will have to pay
-
for the city and put create a
ly
planning to ny Hospital emerg
had 1,500-
lla County
who would
initiatives for downtown
in place
no different.
ency room, in
stay
to-2,00
is
say
it back by the end of the next fiscal year unless
revitalizatio
not
“Pendleton long.
fall 2017 he made
Those patient I’m their doctor,” 0 patients
“We have
— Jon Nuxoll,
was the last
$110,000 per year. n. As of
they extend it.
Sitz said.
come,
s
AORTA association
way
must
The
but
too
place
find
Mayor Daren Dufloth
people in
70-year-old
many
I wanted to
president
Explaining why these funds needed a
jail
ever,” he it turned out to be
had no comment.
reports for a new physician.
time on Friday
— Reporter Phil Wright
mental illness suffering from
last-minute loan to make ends meet, Corbett
and heads work for the last Dr. Norm
Pendleton.” said. “I have loved the best place
contributed to this
,” he said.
partner at
article.
into retirem
Staff photo
an
To
the
Sitz
help
Pendle
town of
by E.J. Harris
said their initial projections didn’t match the
ent. His ancient Syrian holds out a
ton
Sitz also
Dan Marier
lem, the take on the prob-
copy
found love,
medical
, retired at Internal Medicine,
county board
way the city’s financial situation would even-
script while of an Michelle at
clinic, started
the end of
Dr. ing out his office Thurs
meetin
commissione
of
last year.
by Dr. Joseph
day in Pendle clean- worked in St. Anthony Hospit g his wife
tually play out.
1950s, will
the Steppi rs is adopting
Brennan in The
Hoffman remem
ton.
close.
Operation faced mountin
check on the lab. Norm began al where she
“We failed to anticipate that we were going
the when
“It’s the end
a national ng Up Initiative,
lab
stopping by
g legal, economic
her husban bers a time some
of an era,”
run into her. results on the chance
program
to
to have a problem at the end of the year,” he
Long-t
years
d
county
to
Sitz
Johnni
trouble
out of bed
Michelle also
received its permit
get
ime
By GEORGE PLAVEN
said.
officia
he
for an appoin e was too sick to ago was known for
see her doctor patient Joyce Hoffm
said.
noticed Norm, might
law enforc ls to work with
Valley Farm, a controversi
gon Departmen from the Ore- and clean all waste
get ing
tment.
EO Media Group
an hates to canceled, but reques
go.
ement, judges
who
his tie in driving a red pickup
systems.
Water
“I have
al and and Departmen t of Agriculture
district attorne
ted that Sitz She called and interfe
advise her.
oft-troubled dairy
his
structure
Among the issues
and tuck-
,
t of
He
ys and
producer that
call back and
but the best known many good, skillfu
with Lost Val- manure to handle the amount of ment provid
Under the proposal, the water fund will
re with his shirt pocket so it
once
tal Quality, which Environmen- ley and its owner,
Oregon regulators
“But not never called.
wouldn’t
of them have
stethoscope.
it generates, and
ners who happen
l doctors,
ers to divert treat-
Greg
jointly
skill and compa
announced near sought to have 30,000 cows the
long after,
borrow $250,000 from the water reserve Wednesday
fund,
equal measu
Hoffman recalle
Boardman.
state’s confined animal manage agencies claim the dairy te Velde, the to keep accurate records, has failed ple with mental illness peo-
ed to be trainin Both were run-
my doorbe
they are
ssion,” Hoffm
land Marath
res of in
has always
repeatedly
the sewer reserve fund, or both.
accord- jails and into
feed-
g for the Port-
from
on. They began
waste managemen revoking the
an
ing operation, or
The revocation
the neighb d. “There was Dr. ll rang,”
treatment.
t permit for Lost
“Reall
CAFO, program. violated terms of its wastewater ing to ODA and DEQ.
like a good been at the top of said. “Dr. Sitz how
orhood
comes just
Sitz:
running togeth
The city received a $14.9 million state
The Nation
15 months after
that list,
friend or family
“Over the last year
Johnnie was . Thought I’d stop ‘I was training y, a lot of our courtsh
er.
the facility first Lost Valley now has 60 days to discharge permit, putting the envi-
a great doctor
for the marath
we have tion of Counti al Associa-
and see
loan to repair Pendleton’s aging water sys-
member than more
ip
shut down, move
ronment and human
Sitz started doing.’”
used every regulatory
.”
“Many of
on,” Miche happened
all its animals
just tors
his career
tool avail- cil of State es, The Coun-
our
The facility also health at risk.
lle said.
in Grand
as one of
One “date” dates were runs.”
Government
lacks the infra-
three doc-
See LOAN/8A
had no emerg Coulee, Washington.
s
particu
20-mil
See DAIRY/6A
larly stands
ency room
e, high-e
The
See TREA
levation,
physicians, town
TMENT/5A
out-and-back out, a
so Sitz
slog
Mentally
ill
would avo
id
jail with new
initiative
The docto
rs
Pendleton
Internal Me
dicine
E
“This is not going
Justin Lauer, Pendleton wildland fire
supervisor, stated long-range forecasts indi-
cate “high to extreme fire danger begin-
ning in July and extending through Septem-
ber across the district.” The United States
Drought Monitor shows northeastern Ore-
gon is about the only part of the state not in
some phase of drought, but Lauer said the
light fuels in the lower elevations are drying
out and can soon carry fire easily.
The fire season declaration places fire
prevention restrictions on landowners and
the public. Open burning and burning in bar-
rels require permits, Knight said, and land-
owners who burned brush and slash piles in
the fall and spring need to make sure they
are full out and not giving off any heat.
Industrial logging and forest manage-
ment activities also come under strict fire
See FIRE/8A
are out
to close afte
r both doc
tors retire
to happen overni
ght,”
Waste permit revo
ked
for controversial
Boardman dairy
Judge leaves legacy
of kindness
Fire season on northeast Oregon state lands starts Thursday
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
title
AWARD
T
BE
By CLAIRE WITHYCOM
Capital Bureau
may soon allow peo-
to
SALEM — Oregon
ncies such as Bitcoin
ple to use cryptocurre
campaigns.
donate to political is privately issued and
Cryptocurrency but is surging into the
One
exists only digitally,
medium of exchange.
mainstream as a worth about $6,122.
Bitcoin is currently
Dennis Richardson
Secretary of State the change would
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
that
claimed last week n” in state elections. Late afternoon traffic begins to get heavy on Highway 395 on Monday in Hermiston. The Oregon Department of Transpor-
“expand participatio is here to stay, and Ore-
tation and the city of Hermiston have agreed to work together to help alleviate traffic on the busy highway.
“Cryptocurrency that reality by allowing
to
said.
gon needs to adapt
donating,” Richardson of our
this new form of
ncy to be a part
way
“Allowing cryptocurre
is a new and innovative
elections process
n in Oregon elections.”
to expand participatio
director of the
mark in the 2017 transportation a bike-ped trail running paral-
Edwin Bender, executive in State Politics,
$4.5 million North First Place project
on Money
package.
lel
to
the
road
on the east side.
Institute
National
“We as a community need to It can also include upgrades to
could relieve congestion on Highway 395
was similarly optimistic. about exchanging
find alternative routes to 395, the intersection of North First
built
“We’re just talking
is a level of trust cut-
On Monday the city coun- and I think this will help,” said Place and Elm Avenue, allow-
value here, and there
it’s a By JADE MCDOWELL
Bender said. “So
cil signed an agreement with Mayor David Drotzmann.
ing signalized left turns onto
into all currency,” I think certainly merits East Oregonian
the Oregon Department of
According to the agree- First Place from Elm.
ting-edge idea that
”
s traffic congestion Transportation for a $4.5 mil- ment approved by the coun-
“People recognize that’s a
being considered.
increases on Highway lion project to improve North cil Monday, the city can spend lot of the reason people don’t
See CURRENCY/8A
395, Hermiston city First Place, which runs paral- the $4.5 million to widen North use First,” assistant city man-
officials are hoping to drive lel to the highway. The project First Place and put in center ager Mark Morgan said. “I
more local traffic to alternate will be paid for by state funds turn lanes, plus add a sidewalk,
routes.
See PROJECT/8A
after it was included as an ear- curbs, gutters, street lights and
WIN!
capture natio
nal
28, 2018
City needs
last-minute
loans totaling
$1 million
Oregon could
open campaigns
to cryptocurrency
donations
know your neighbors.”
mode of opera-
By PHIL WRIGHT
The department’s was to throw a
East Oregonian
tion in previous years a city park, com-
party at
dogs, soda and
Night Out is community
plete with free hot Studebaker said
Pendleton’s National
But
‘hood.
going back to the od, that is, or a even ice cream.
the National
that was not following
Your neighborho
such as block par-
Shelly Studebaker
maybe a city park. She is the Pend- Night Out model, od cookouts.
said that’s the goal. t’s community ties and neighborho
to do is entice
“What we’re trying
leton Police Departmen
coordinating the folks to have a party,” she said.
services officer and
residents can
Under the revamp, on their block,
event.
party
we’re trying to
“Essentially what go back to the register to host a
and recreation
to
and the city parks providing park
do is we’re going
National Night Out,
also is
national model of folks get together department
E.J. Harris
Staff photo by
that
to which is really their neighborhoods,”
See POLICE/8A
gives a high five
with people in
get to
Kirstin Dunlap
CPR on a rescue Studebaker said. “Basically, to
EMS reservist
her how to do
Pendleton Fire
.
5, after showing
THURSDAY, JUNE
2017 ONPA GENERA
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Group wants to get
regional rail transp
ortation on track
See FCC/8A
n
Police have new visio
Out
for National Night
WINNER OF THE
ALL ABOARD
FINDING RELIEF
Out in Pendleton
McKinley Moore,
National Night
dummy at a previous
SPORTS/1B
One dollar
WINNER OF THE 2017 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Overdue forest plan
to be released Friday
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
WRIGHT
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East Orego
ton.
in Pendle
on Friday ngton.
r dog races
Washi
na 400 wiene of Vancouver,
re Bailey
annual Dogto
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the 12th
ay during dachshund owne
the racew
ear-old
, a four-y
rush down
Contestants was won by Penny
year’s final
One dollar
FCC head
has plans for
rural internet
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Arkansas
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WEEKEND
Ridgway gave offende
chance to better themse rs
lves
consider a world without
Ridgway practiced Bob.
40 years. He received law in Pendleton for
the Pendleton Cham-
ber of Commerce
’s first Boss of the
designation in 2006, Year
the
first year the chamber
As Aesop once said,
gave out the award.
no matter how small, “No act of kindness,
is ever wasted.”
Jeannie
Bob Ridgway, retired
Huffman,
who worked for Ridgway
and Pendleton attorney, municipal judge
was a beacon of
for two decades,
kindness say those
nomi-
who
nated him for that
“He had a gentleness, knew him best.
honor.
” said friend
What made him worthy,
Barhyte. “He was
a person who made Suzie
she
said, was his positiv-
feel settled and
good. He lived life things
ity and genuine
grace.”
with Ridgway
respect
for his employees,
Ridgway died at
cli-
ents,
76. His diagnosis home this week at age anyone
else who came into colleagues and
of stage four esophageal
cancer came only
his orb.
“He loved
a
the arms of his wife, month ago. He died in it a priority life,” said Huffman. “He made
MaryAlice, and daugh-
to be with family
ter, Darcey, on Tuesday
and allowed all
evening. They and of his employees to do the same.”
other family and
friends are reeling
as they
See RIDGWAY/3A
Everything
must go
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Bob and MaryAlice
Contributed photo
during a 2016 cruise Ridgway smile for the
camera
to Greece.
WWW . SAHPE
See DOCT
OR/5A
Gun ban ba
holster initi ckers
ative
Supporters
did not have
new batch
of signatures time to collect
by July 6
By CLAIR
E WITHY
COMBE
Capital Bureau
A trio of
excavators
building
work in
on
tion of the Thursday in Pendle concert while
Staff photo
demo
building
ton. Rod
by E.J. Harris
the end
Tuesday
Anderson lishing the old
of next week.
morning
Albertsons
Const
and the
entire struct ruction began
demoli-
ure should
be down
by
PORTLAND
— Supporters
ban certain
initiative, firearms in Oregon of an initiative petitio
but mainta
sion in the
in efforts say they’ll withdraw n to
to restrict
state.
the
firearm posses
Initiative
-
semiautomati Petition 43, an effort
10 rounds c firearms and magaz to ban certain types
,
in the wake was proposed by a ines holding more of
than
jory Stonem of the shooting that coalition of faith leaders
an Douglas
killed
Feb. 14.
High Schoo 17 people at Mar-
l in Parkla
Supporters
nd, Fla., on
were enthus
opposition
iastic,
challenges to their efforts when but encountered
at
gun
legal
guage used the Oregon Suprem rights advocates
to
filed
e
Opponents describe the measure. Court against the lan-
said the petitio
n language
didn’t adequa
tely
See GUN/6
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