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EVENT CONNECTS HOMELESS TO SERVICES FINAL MATCH FOR PENDLETON VOLLEYBALL TRIO REGION/3A SPORTS/1B TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018 143rd Year, No. 5 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PENDLETON CTUIR offers $2 million for Hamley properties Wildhorse would manage establishments By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have offered $2 million to buy the Hamley operations in downtown Pendleton. Chuck Sams, communica- tion director for the tribes, said Candidates take liberty with truth in late ad pushes the Board of Trustees sent the let- ter of interest on Aug. 27. He said the deal would include all Ham- ley assets, from the western store to the saddle shop to the restaurant. “We wanted to show the bank- ruptcy court there are viable buy- ers here,” Sams said. Hamley owners Blair Wood- field and Parley Pearce are in a legal fight over the limited-liabil- ity companies under the Hamley’s umbrella. Woodfield wants to sell the properties and is suing Pearce, who seeks to retain them. HIPO, an Idaho limited-liability company, owns about $1.4 million of Ham- ley debt and planned to auction memberships that control the busi- ness entities to recoup the expense. Woodfield in early June filed for bankruptcy protection, a move that blocked the sale and stalled any movement in the lawsuit. Sams emphasized the legal dis- pute between Pearce and Wood- See HAMLEY/8A EO file photo The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have offered $2 million to buy all of the Hamley properties. Rural Fossil gets statewide call center Gubernatorial candidates release multiple TV, social media ads in final days of campaign By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau The two prime candi- dates for Oregon governor are releasing multiple tele- vision and social media ads in the final days of the cam- paign. Some make mislead- ing and sometimes inaccu- rate claims. Gov. Kate Brown, the Democratic incumbent, and state Rep. Knute Buehler, her Republican challenger, are funneling millions into advertising in the most expensive governor’s race in state history. “What we are seeing now is the candidates trying to define who their opponent is,” said Jim Moore, direc- tor of the Tom McCall Cen- ter for Policy Innovation at Pacific University. “It is not so much lying, but the con- text is completely wrong.” Brown, for instance, released an ad Oct. 16 that ties Buehler to Don- ald Trump, flashing images of the president and U.S. Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh. See ADS/8A Staff photo by E,J. Harris The Oregon Department of Revenue has recently opened at call center in the J.E. Burch Building in Fossil. Six people will handle calls out of Wheeler County office By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian T he next time a local resident has a ques- tion on their state income taxes, it could be directed to Fossil. The Oregon Department of Revenue will be holding a grand opening ceremony for its first standalone call center in the town of less than 500 people on Tuesday. Wheeler County Economic Development Director Greg Smith said it was a “game changer” for Fossil and akin to Nike mak- ing a major expansion at its headquarters in Beaverton. Joy Krawczyk, the department’s spokes- woman, said state legislators began discuss- ing the Fossil call center as a way to invest more resources into Oregon’s rural commu- nities in 2017. Smith said that he and then-Rep. John Huffman, who represented Fossil in the Ore- gon House of Representatives, began talking about decentralizing state jobs with Wheeler County Judge Lynn Morley and former Rep. Cliff Bentz, who represented neighboring District 60 in the House. “Why can’t we divest some of these jobs from Salem and move them to frontier coun- ties like Wheeler County?” Smith said. Staff photo by E,J. Harris A pair of deer rest under the shade of a tree in the backyard of a residence on Wash- ington Street on Monday in Fossil. Smith is no stranger to the Legislature either, having represented western Umatilla County, eastern Wasco County and Morrow, Gilliam, and Sherman counties in the Ore- gon House. The group of legislators and government officials presented the idea to Gov. Kate Brown, Smith said, and she liked it enough to sign off on the proposal. The call center now employs six cus- tomer service representatives and a supervi- sor located at the Jeanne E. Burch Building in Fossil. Krawczyk said the call center has been up See FOSSIL/8A
