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Hayes bankruptcy filing doesn’t reveal much
BRIEFLY
Despite threatening to file
for bankruptcy for nearly a
month, former first lady Cyl-
via Hayes’s court documents
for Chapter 13 bankruptcy,
submitted Tuesday, were
largely incomplete.
She has about two weeks
to provide basic details such
as her monthly income, an
accounting of her assets and
a list of creditors, according
to a routine notice from the
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Dis-
trict of Oregon Thursday.
Hayes announced in a
Facebook post June 8 that
she planned to file for bank-
ruptcy to protect her home
from The Oregonian.
A Marion County Cir-
cuit Court judge ruled in
June 2016 that Hayes owed
The Oregonian $125,000 to
cover attorney fees the news
organization incurred from
challenging a lawsuit Hayes
filed seeking to keep her
emails from when she was
first lady secret. The Orego-
nian recorded a lien on her
house in Bend earlier this
year to recover the money.
Hayes recently decided to
drop her appeal of the award.
In a Facebook post July
4, Hayes wrote that she
described the developments
as “having my own personal
Independence Day.”
“With the court decision
to agree to my request to
LA GRANDE (AP)
— An Oregon man con-
victed of sexually abus-
ing a girl has been sen-
tenced to almost 19
years in prison.
The Observer news-
paper reports Michael
Altherr-Miller of La
Grande was found guilty
by a jury last month.
Prosecutors said the
victim was 11 years old
at the start of the abuse
and it lasted until she
was 15.
The victim said
in court Tuesday that
Altherr-Miller
made
“suffering a lifestyle”
and his actions have
changed her forever.
The defense submit-
ted 20 letters in sup-
port of Altherr-Miller by
family and friends who
spoke to his character.
Union County District
Attorney Kelsie McDan-
iel said none of the let-
ters acknowledged that
Altherr-Miller was con-
victed of sexually abus-
ing a child on multiple
occasions.
Judge Thomas Pow-
ers rejected the defense’s
bid for a six-year
sentence.
Associated Press file photo
Former Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, but her filing
doesn’t reveal much about her financial situation.
drop the appeal, I was, for
the first time in nearly four
years, free from legal battles
with dishonest newspapers,”
she wrote.
Making a barebones fil-
ing and augmenting it later
is common in bankruptcy
court, said Michael R. Fuller,
one of Hayes’s two attorneys
in the case.
“It is the typical form used
in every case where the doc-
uments filed are staggered
out over time,” Fuller said.
She has 14 days to file
the missing documents —
including an initial Chapter
13 repayment plan, unless
the judge in her case grants
an extension.
“When you’re going
through a reorganization,
you want time to negotiate
with your creditors before
proposing and filing initial
plan,” Fuller said.
The plan can last for three
to five years during which
time the debtor is expected
to make their best effort
to repay their debts. At the
end of that period, the bank-
ruptcy judge can choose to
discharge remaining debts.
Court documents indicate
29 entities will receive notice
of Hayes’s bankruptcy, but
those recipients aren’t all
creditors, Fuller said.
Her main two creditors in
the bankruptcy are the Ore-
gonian Publishing Company
and the Oregon Government
Ethics Commission, he said.
She faces up to $110,000
in fines for 22 counts of
violating state ethics laws,
largely by using her public
position as first lady to win
a paid fellowship and sev-
eral contracts for her envi-
ronmental consulting firm
between 2011 and 2013.
By filing for bankruptcy,
Hayes “is looking for a fresh
start,” Fuller said. “That does
involve keeping her property
and making her best efforts to
pay her debts. I look forward
to working with her creditors
to put together a fair deal and
get her a fresh start.”
require any financial contribu-
tion from employers, but they
must sign up their workers
for OregonSaves if they don’t
offer a 401(k) or other retire-
ment plan. Employees can opt
out.
“OregonSaves is off to a
successful start,” state Trea-
surer Tobias Read said in
a statement. “By helping
more people save for their
retirement, OregonSaves is
addressing the retirement
savings crisis head-on, and
making businesses more
competitive.”
The retirement plan began
on a limited, voluntary basis
last summer. Oregon then
required big businesses to join
at the start of 2018.
The real growth happened
in May, when employers with
between 50 and 100 workers
were brought in. Smaller busi-
nesses are much less likely
than big companies to offer
retirement savings plans.
The May expansion tri-
pled the number of people in
the program, while another
14,000 workers are still in
the process of being enrolled.
About 30 percent of employ-
ees have decided to opt out.
The next expansion is
for Oregon employers with
between 20 and 49 workers,
who will have to enroll their
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SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
very warm
Partly sunny and
pleasant
92° 57°
84° 55°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
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pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
94° 61°
87° 63°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
89° 53°
96° 59°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
92°
86°
107° (2007)
58°
57°
38° (1932)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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11.30"
7.62"
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HIGH
LOW
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86°
108° (1968)
55°
57°
42° (2012)
PRECIPITATION
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
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July 6
July 12
5:13 a.m.
8:47 p.m.
12:54 a.m.
1:34 p.m.
First
Full
July 19
Albany
77/52
Eugene
77/48
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Spokane
Wenatchee
86/57
89/59
Tacoma
Moses
74/56
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 93/57
84/55
67/58
73/55
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
75/57
92/62 Lewiston
96/60
Astoria
93/63
67/56
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
79/59
Pendleton 84/49
The Dalles 96/59
92/57
86/59
La Grande
Salem
88/52
78/55
Corvallis
75/52
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
98° 63°
Seattle
75/58
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Records
95° 61°
July 27
John Day
87/53
Ontario
91/61
Bend
85/46
Today
TUESDAY
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90° 60°
Burns
82/45
Caldwell
93/62
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Cascades: Partly sunny and nice today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Partly sunny tomor-
row.
Northern California: Areas of low clouds
and fog, then sunshine at the coast today;
partly sunny elsewhere.
Today
Saturday
WSW 8-16
W 7-14
WSW 6-12
WNW 6-12
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north today; partly sunny in central parts.
Clouds, then sun in the south.
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today; hot across the north and in the upper
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(AP) — The latest esti-
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of Washington shows
that Spokane County’s
population has topped
500,000.
The state projects
that 507,950 people live
in Spokane County, up
more than 8,000 from
last year.
The population of
the city of Spokane is
estimated at more than
220,000 people.
The Spokesman-Re-
view reports that more
jobs and affordable
housing costs are the
likely drivers of popula-
tion growth.
Patrick Jones, execu-
tive director of Eastern
Washington University’s
Institute for Public Pol-
icy and Economic Anal-
ysis, notes that 3,500
new jobs were created
in Spokane County last
year.
Experts
say
the
national
economic
recovery also is help-
ing attract new residents
to the Spokane area,
including retirees.
BEND (AP) — Bend
police arrested two men
accused of setting off
an illegal firework that
ignited a Fourth of July
wildfire.
KTVZ reports the
blaze at Pilot Butte shut
U.S. Highway 20, cut
power to 27,000 people
and led to the evacuation
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gible for the program by the
end of 2018.
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sluggish, investment earn-
ings for OregonSaves were
poor in the first quarter of
2018, with all funds down
about 1 percent in value. Indi-
vidual workers’ money isn’t
invested until their retirement
accounts reach a balance of
$1,000, however, and most
OregonSaves members hav-
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Spokane County
population tops
500,000
2 accused of
starting Pilot
Butte fire with
illegal firework
Oregon retirement plan turns 1; program growing fast
EUGENE (AP) — An Ore-
gon program designed to help
workers whose employers
don’t offer retirement plans
has seen rapid growth in the
months leading up to this
week’s first anniversary.
OregonSaves has enrolled
more than 32,000 private-sec-
tor employees who previ-
ously didn’t have access to
a retirement savings option
at work, The Register-Guard
reported. They’ve so far set
aside a combined $4.6 million
of their own money through
automatic payroll deductions,
with an average withholding
of 5.1 percent of salary.
The state-run plan doesn’t
of some apartments.
The fire damaged the
east and south lower
slopes of the nearly 500-
foot lava dome and also
ignited spot fires across
Highway 20 that crews
quickly extinguished.
Bend police Lt.
Clint Burleigh says wit-
nesses provided excel-
lent descriptions of the
people and vehicles that
were in the area just
before the fire started.
Investigators arrested
38-year-old
Brandon
Hastings and 29-year-
old Alan Stout, both
of Bend, on charges of
reckless burning.
La Grande
man sentenced
to more than
18 years in sex
abuse case
By PARIS ACHEN
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0-2, Low
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National Summary: Showers and storms will drench areas from Maine to Missouri, while
storms dot the South and southern Rockies today. Most other areas can expect sunny
weather while extreme heat bakes much of the Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 115° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 28° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
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Minneapolis
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New York City
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Oklahoma City
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Omaha
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Philadelphia
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Phoenix
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Portland, ME
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Providence
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Raleigh
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Sacramento
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