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KAVANAUGH SAYS HE ‘MIGHT HAVE BEEN TOO EMOTIONAL’ HARDINS RETIRE FROM CHRISTIAN CENTER SCHOOL NATION/6A FAITH/7A FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018 142nd Year, No. 240 Your Weekend BMCC selects interim president East Oregonian • • • Echo Corn Maze, Echo Morrow County Harvest Festival, Boardman Free First Friday, Pendleton For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 59/45 57/40 62/41 Watch a game One dollar WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Blue Mountain Commu- nity College has picked Dr. Connie Green as the col- lege’s interim president. Green retired as pres- ident of Tillamook Bay Community College in 2017. She will guide BMCC while its board con- ducts a nationwide search to replace Cam Preus, who is leaving BMCC on Oct. 31 to become the execu- tive director of the Oregon Community College Asso- ciation in Salem. BMCC board chair Chris Brown said in a statement that Green has a “strong back- ground” as a col- lege president, leadership coach and workforce development sup- Green porter that will help maintain continu- ity at the college during its search. “BMCC has maintained strong relationships over the years with the 16 other Ore- gon community colleges, so we are familiar with Dr. Green’s leadership and experience,” he said. “There- fore, the Board is very comfort- able bringing Dr. Green in to assist us through this transition.” BMCC has hired Gold Hill Associates, a consult- ing firm that specializes in college executive searches, to assist in recruiting and selecting candidates. The same firm assisted the col- lege in hiring Preus in 2013. The board expects to hire a new president before July 1, 2019. According to a news release from BMCC, Green has stated she is not inter- ested in applying for the permanent position. She has worked with BMCC in the past after being con- tracted to facilitate the col- lege’s strategic planning in 2014. Green has a Ph.D. in education, policy and plan- ning from University of Oregon. She was president of Tillamook Bay Com- munity College for six and a half years and spent 30 years before that in various leadership roles at Cheme- keta Community College in Salem. She also spent two years as a policy advisory on community college and workforce development for the state. Preus’s last day at BMCC will be Oct. 31. Green will begin on Nov. 15, with vice president of student affairs Diane Drebin named acting president for the two weeks in between. CITY IN TRANSITION Pendleton vs. La Salle Friday, 7 p.m., at Round-Up Stadium, Pendleton Where is the money going in race for governor? By AUBREY WIEBER Capital Bureau In addition to being one of the closest governor’s races in recent memory, the fight between Gov. Kate Brown and Rep. Knute Buehler is one of the most expensive. In 2018, Brown as of Wednesday has raised $7,805,941, according to Oregon Secretary of State’s Office records. Buehler has raised $8,115,084 this year, $1 million coming from Nike co-founder Phil Knight in what was the largest con- tribution in state history. In September, he got $750,000 from the Republican Gover- nors Association. Both candidates came into the race with mil- lion-dollar war chests, and collectively have raised $20.2 million as of Thurs- day. The previous record was $17.7 million when Democrat John Kitzhaber narrowly defeated Republi- See MONEY/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris Staff photo by E.J. Harris Incumbent mayor Daren Dufloth was appointed in March 2017 to replace resigning mayor David Trott. Mayoral candidate Mary Dedrick has served on the Umatilla City Council two times for a total of 13 years. Former councilor challenges incumbent in Umatilla mayoral race By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Umatilla’s candidates for mayor are both familiar faces at city hall. Daren Dufloth is the incum- bent, running to keep the seat he was appointed to after David Trott resigned as mayor in March 2017. Mary Dedrick has been on the city council twice, for a total of about 13 years. For Dufloth, running for mayor is about keeping momentum in the city through a period of growth and transition. He just helped hire a new city manager, David Stockdale, who starts Oct. 15. Next on the city council’s list is hiring a new public works director. The city is under- going engineering studies and con- struction projects as it seeks to move its utilities from a mostly residen- tial system to one that supports data centers and other industrial users. A group of Portland State Univer- sity graduate students put together a comprehensive plan for Umatilla’s downtown that the city is starting to implement, and a parks master plan has already prompted renovation of a city park in McNary Heights. Dufloth would like to help see those things through. “We’ve started a pretty big tran- sition with the city,” he said. Dufloth was also elected to the Oregon Mayors Association Board of Directors last week during the League of Oregon Cities’ annual conference in Eugene. He said that opportunity will help his efforts to bring Umatilla onto a more prom- inent stage. “The big piece for me is for Umatilla to have a bigger voice, to See MAYOR/8A PENDLETON New fire station on track for roof before winter By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Construction on the new Pendleton Fire Station No. 1 is well un- derway on Thursday in Pendleton. Progress on the structure is on time and due for completion in the summer of 2019. Five months after breaking ground on a multimillion-dollar fire station, a construction official said the new Pendleton Fire Station No. 1 is on schedule and on budget. Walls have gone up in recent weeks at the fire department’s future headquarters on 1455 S.E. Court Ave., funded by a $10 million bond passed in May 2017. Joseph Hull, the director of busi- ness development and operations for McCormack Construction Co., the construction manager and general contractor for the bond project, said workers are aiming to have the build- ing sealed and roofed by the end of November. According to Hull, the fire depart- ment’s administrative building on the southern portion of the property, which includes offices, a gym, and bunks, is about halfway done. The See ROOF/8A
