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Co-owner Woodfield severs partnership before date of sale
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
The auction to control
Hamley businesses turned
into a no-ride. For the time
being.
The Hamley western
store, cafe and steakhouse
are fixtures of Pendleton’s
downtown. Hamley own-
ers Parley Pearce and Blair
Woodfield are battling each
other in court over the future
of the businesses.
HIPO, an Idaho lim-
ited-liability
company,
bought about $1.4 million
of Hamley debt earlier this
year and planned to auc-
tion the memberships that
control the business enti-
ties Monday in Portland to
recoup that expense. But
Woodfield on Friday filed
for bankruptcy protection,
effectively blocking the sale.
“I needed to stop the sale
because of the need to pro-
tect my interests, so I filed
Chapter 11 reorganization,”
he said, “and it’s a personal
Chapter 11 reorganization.”
Woodfield on his filing
lists the HIPO debt, $1.5
million to Banner Bank and
almost $3.7 million to the
United States Department
of Agriculture Rural Devel-
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Albertsons,
build new
retail space
‘South
opment, which provided the
loan for the Hamley steak-
house more than a decade
ago. Woodfield said he and
Pearce personally guaran-
teed the debts and owe them
jointly and separately.
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By ANTO
NIO SIERR
A
East Orego
nian
Pendleton
Heights devel-
oper Saj Jinvaje
e is
for more
financial asking
complete the
help to
The Pendleton
his housin final phases of
southward by tearing Round-Up will expand
g
wants it soon. project, and he
sons grocery store down the former Albert-
Swimmers pass
The Newbe
a 10-pound brick
and ticketing facility and building a new retail
the Hermiston
among each other
laid out his rg developer
in its former parking
Family Aquatic
while treading
Center.
Months of speculation
lot.
propos
water during a
Staff photo by
June
al in a
E.J. Harris
junior lifeguard
gave way to real-
7 letter
ity Tuesday as the
swim class Monday
ager Robb to City Man-
at
project, which it Round-Up announced the
is deeming the “south
city grants Corbett. If the
pus expansion.”
cam-
Jivanjee said his requests,
Round-Up President
construction he can begin
Dave O’Neill said
new 10,000- to 15,000-squ
on the first
the
units of a 100-un
20
are-foot building
will centralize many
it apartment
complex.
and give them more of the rodeo’s operations
Aquatic centers work
space.
Jivanjee propos
The Round-Up’
es:
• Rather
prevent drownings to
increased retail space s key needs are for
of extending than split the cost
with room to store
with
fill online sales, an
the road to
apartment
expanded swim lessons
independent ticketing and
the
with adequate office
area
jee wants complex, Jivan-
space, cohesive admin-
the
istrative
city
offices
to
the entire
By JADE MCDOWEL
and
cost of the cover
service providers. convenient space to meet
L
Army vetera
The total
East Oregonian
estimated street.
ticketing have risen Revenue from retail and
n Steph
and help
$394,0
cost
in
recent
is
00.
his fellow en Jensen served
years, and hous-
ing them under one
veterans
day at the pool or
• The curren
transition as a vehicle gunne
those processes more roof is intended to make
t deal places
be relaxing, but for the beach can
to civilia
$720,000
r in northe
efficient.
n life.
someone who
rn Iraq in
Randy Thomas, the
doesn’t know
property as in liens on the
2004. Jense
Round-Up’s director
of publicity, acknowled
n is now
quickly turn deadly. how to swim, it can
improvement a part of a local
Staff photo
about to
by E.J. Harris
tomers purchase tickets ged that the way cus-
district.
graduate
That’s something
jee wants
from BMCC
to make Jivan-
ticketing infrastructu has changed, and their
aquatic centers hope the staff of local
ment for every
a pay-
re
to avoid.
“People used to buy needs to as well.
unit he builds
The Hermiston Family
rather than
a
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
ticket,
buy a hat, and
Aquatic Cen-
then write a check,”
ter is teaching swim
builds all annually. If he
he said.
BMCC grad
The fire charred hallway on the west end of the Hermiston Adventist Church on Monday in Hermiston. An early morning fire
100 units,
With more and
1,700 people this lessons to more than
would be $7,200
uate
that
gutted the building Sunday morning.
to
their tickets at home more patrons printing out
run
to adults. The adult summer, from toddlers
per
veterans trans
new center
At a Pendle unit.
or even using images
spurred by a recent class is new this year,
on
ton City
that helps
ition from
Council work
session Tues-
mili
Umatilla man who drowning death of a
day,
BMCC
tary
See
RETAIL/8A
Jivanje
By KATHY
to college
graduation
bia River to save his jumped into the Colum-
ANEY
cil that he e told the coun-
a damaged
Thursday,
East Orego
needed an
combat action
ing how to swim. son despite not know-
knee and
nian
soon or his
answer
loss from
Pendleton June 14, 7 p.m.
badge,
hearin
financing
ican flag.
IED
Convention
“It was heartbreaki
be withdrawn.
would
On the other, the Amer-
home, he eased explosions. Back g
tephen Jensen
Center
ng,” aquatic center
a zombi
manager Kasia Robbins
MILTON-FREEWATER
wears his who depicts who
Hermiston congregation
A mixtur
can life. Re-ent back into Ameri
life on his
Jensen says e said. “I felt
said. “We
once was.
sleeve.
-
to try to prevent
ry took time.
and warine e of confusion
like our
he
Many of
“You’re used
Tattoo
it from happening want Pierce Strong, 10, porpoises
countr
will move to school while
the images needed as many
again.”
both of Jensen sleeves cover come in pairs,
ever the junior
out of the water
meate the ss seemed to per-
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
swim team class
as they could. people to step y guard all the time,” to being on
one on the
while doing the
’s muscular
the other on
up don’t
Each arm
breast stroke during
Monday at the
The new class, held
bers tried to council as mem-
right,
he said. “You
arms. devil.
the left.
considering options
Hermiston Family
need
Tuesday and Thurs-
He joined ”
day evenings at
theme. One conveys an opposi
Aquatic Center.
The seven Jesus and the headed
latest change comprehend the
you still are.” to be anymore, but
the Army
8:05 p.m., has attracted to the water, followed by
te the seven
deadly
is light, the
to a projec
six different lev-
and
participants from
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
dark.
els of 25-minute
The city
heavenly virtues sins and around to Iraq in 2004.
t.
other
Instead of
ages 17 to 57 (the
said.
“Other
was
classes.
In
kids
Kirkuk
“Every
class
open to ages 16 and
learn how to stay
East Oregonian
On Monday how
.
involved
with Pendle
When the
, Jensen spent and lege, he worke going back to col-
afloat,
up). The HFAC is is morning a mix of skill levels
a stroke affects
Iraq War
wake up, morning when you days as a gunner
d as a veteran
his igator.
offering more children’s
graduates
also
were
from its start ton Heights
their endurance.
veteran
atop a Hum-
vee, scanni
Thursday
It
With fundin
lessons than usual ing in different parts of the pool. A practic- really ranges with age.”
nav-
in 2012, donat-
paths you you have differe
this year and as a
Mount
from
ng
ing
A fire early Sunday morning destroyed
handful
of
the
Westca
nt
can
g
very young
ain
city-ow
Blue recentl
from the
landscape
result still has slots
take,” Jensen
improvised
On the more advanced
for veteran re Foundation, he
able. Usually the
his gown Community Colleg
avail- ing up and girls were practicing bounc-
Olney Cemet ned land near
much of the Hermiston Adventist Church,
will hide his
aquatic center has
trum is the hour-long end of the spec-
e, right y. “I’m trying to take said He and his explosive device
helped
down in a shallow
s navigate
culty finding enough
of meanin
path.”
diffi-
s.
ing infrast ery and front-
fellow
the
as flames and extensive smoke damaged
the in a
gful tattoos collection
summer staff to meet multi-use pool to keep their part of the class, which gives teens junior lifeguard
caravan lookin soldiers rode housing, build resume system, get
Jensen returne
know they
the demand for lessons,
, but he will
heads
help seal the ructure costs to
a
the decades-old house of worship.
and whatev
s, find food
g for anythi
irregul
are there. They
d to
but Robbins said water, while in the lap pool small above cises they would practice taste of the exer-
deal.
years
er
story.
this year they have
Long battle ended
In exchan
Umatilla County Fire District Marshal
tell his had ago after a long college two where ar, nooks and cranni ng
A few years else they needed.
more staff than ever of elementary school-aged children groups — potentially lifesaving to be a lifeguard
by
ge, Jivanje
an IED
hiatus. He
started at
ago,
before.
es Lee,
agreed to
On the
kickboards or swam
skills
Scott Goff said investigators think the fire
used they choose
e
BMCC the
inside a dead could lurk such
and now-w his boss, John
pay back
$457,000 from Busines loan for the
laps.
to work at a pool whether
names and left arm are his kids’ 2000 after gradua
as
fall of the
most of
There are two levels
ife Fia Jensen
animal
was caused by a lamp that was too close to
“The young kids
next sum-
s Oregon enforc infrastructure
ting
dates of
road. It wasn’t or a hole in convinced him to
of parent and
are learning the water mer or not.
costs. As
classes, for infants
birth, his leton High School. from Pend-
return to
lege before
a wooden table. Foul play is not suspected.
ement
relaxin
and toddlers to get tot safety aspect, when is it safe
“They’re going over
“You’re on
col-
“Then 9/11
used water and
city placed measures, the
to get in the
By ANTONIO SIERRA
the edge the g work. 2020. Jensen his GI Bill ran out
training that life-
“It was a long, slow, smoldering fire that
time,” Jensen
how to exit and enter,”
happened,”
in
whole As
enrolled at
jee’s proper liens on Jivan-
recalled.
Robbins
he
East Oregonian
he
kind of cooked the whole building,” Goff
BMCC
settled
He
ties
returne
.
See SAFETY/8A
and created
into his classes
a stipulation
d to the states
said.
, the
in the agree-
with
After years of
ment that
As flames engulfed the west side of the
See GRAD
drinking water will operating without, clean to retake allowed the city
UATE/5A
eventually return
the land if
building before dawn on Sunday, some
ton-Freewater’s Locust
to Mil-
it went
church members were quick to jump to
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Milton-Freewater Mobile Village.
See DEVE
action.
LOPER/5A
Flames erupted out of these doors on the west end of the Hermiston Adventist
mously voted Tuesday City Council unani-
Corbin Maxey,
Larry Hanson, a former head elder in Church on Sunday in Hermiston.
IRRIGON
forgivable loan from to authorize a $457,000
the Reptile
the church, helped fight the fire as a volun-
trailer park to the the state to connect the
Guy, holds a
teer for the Echo Fire Department.
Hanson, a longtime member of the
Goff said he estimated the damage at $3
Manager Linda Hall city’s water system. City
Brazilian rain-
said the loan will
“It’s kind of hard to say how long it had church, said the building was constructed million. Hanson said the church’s insur-
verted to a grant
be con-
bow boa con-
as
been burning,” Hanson said.
in the mid-1960s. Hanson said on Monday ance would cover those costs.
ished within three long as the project is fin-
strictor on the
years of the contract
executed.
While the building is under repair, he
He arrived around 5:15 a.m., close to an that they wouldn’t know the extent of the
being
end of a stick
during a Sum-
hour after UCFD reached the church, and damage until an insurance adjuster arrived
Inside the urban
mer of Scales
side city limits, growth boundary but out-
See FIRE/6A
remained on site until about 9 a.m.
Tuesday.
By JADE
Locust Mobile Village
tour event on
MCDO
been in a protracted
has
East Orego WELL
battle with the city
Tuesday at
access to the municipal
nian
to gain
told him during
the Hermis-
his infantr
On Dec.
shot at maybe
In 2015, the trailer water system.
y days he
1, 1969 Artie
ton Library.
park tried to force
twice, but
Gerald Dunca
got
city to annex the property
up in
the
Kellar
as
PENDLETON
Maxey will be
into the system
Vietnam when n were on a helicop Jr. and on his a helicopter he got soon as he went
the city lobbied
performing his
first day. Gunne shot at 15 times
the Oregon Legislature until
Kellar was
ter in to
that tore a
pass a law that effectively
rs were more
hit
get
to
animal show
scuttled the move.
right leg just silver dollar-sized by a round enemie hit than the pilots,
likely
A year later, the
Wednesday
he said, becaus
hole in his
s shooting
a tourniquet above the ankle. Dunca
at the
found a federal grant Oregon Health Authority
aiming
e
at Vert Club
over the wound
that would have covered
n tied slightl directly at the craft had a habit of
lar from bleedin
the city’s cost of
Room 5 p.m.
helicopter
y ahead
By ANTONIO SIERRA
data that showed how many chil-
The figures for total new enroll-
Another 21 percent unenrolled
extending water lines,
g to death that kept Kel-
instead of
to base.
in Pendleton.
the Umatilla County
on the way
with
On Dec. 1 of it.
East Oregonian
dren enrolled in the district in a automatically because they missed ment appear to show the district
Board
back
of Commissioners
The two men
agreeing to act as
carriers when they were protec
school year versus how many left. 10 straight days of school and making up for lost students with
the fiscal agent.
ting troop
were reunite
they took fire.
time this week
But the council
d for the first lar was “grabb
Suddenly,
The Pendleton School District is It also included information about 12 percent transferred to another some new ones, but an overall drop
as Duncan
ing
lar’s home
Kel-
his
reject extending the unanimously voted to
leg
stoppe
It’s interes
and scream
in Irrigon
d by Kel-
losing more students than it’s taking why students left.
school district. Much smaller per- in students is backed up by the dis-
try trip.
ing.”
during a cross-c
moment like ting what people
soning it wasn’t the utility at that time, rea-
think of in
in, and in many instances, there’s
The report shows that out of the centages graduated early, entered trict’s enrollment reports.
oun-
that, Dunca
“This guy
and was unfair to best use of federal money
a
“What
n
said.
here saved
was going
other properties that
The 2,973 students enrolled in
little the district can do about it.
266 students who dropped out of a treatment program, started home
said.
that
my life,”
through my
had to
Staff photo by
Kellar my time was that he
E.J. Harris
On Monday, district staff pre- the district over the course of the school, went through an expulsion June was a 27-student decrease
Back in
was bleedin mind at
helicop
See WATER/8A
sented the Pendleton School Board 2017-2018 school year, 57 percent or left for an extended vacation
Artie Kellar
can was 1969, Kellar was 18
there to ter, and he was not g all over
21. Both
Jr., left, and
going to
Staff photo
at Kellar
See SCHOOL/6A
with a “mobility report,” a set of moved out of town.
before the last day of school.
— gunner
were “Copp and Dun- day,” he help clean it up at
Gerald Dunca
by Jade
’s Irrigon
s
McDowel
the end of be
said.
l
home after
since 1969.
n
Helicopter for the Army’s 162nd erheads”
the
He jumped
reuniting stand together
Company.
into action,
for the first
17 and Dunca
Kellar had Assault niquet
applyi
enlisted at
and
time
Duncan n had been drafted
they landed providing medica ng a tour-
l care until
dangerous said door gunner was .
ting shot . Kellar said the feeling
job in the
was “like
of get-
Army — the most
being hit
one buddy
with a 10
See REUN
ITED/5A
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
arner Bros.
Barry Wetcher/W
via AP
Staff photo by
Ocean 8
5A
ime, Page
For showt Weekend EO
,
For review
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
of
a thinned section
canopy while touring
look up into the
Rising Summit
the Mass Timber
Participants in north of Union.
forest Thursday
Kathy Aney
sets up shop
operates Val’s Veggies,
e Center.
Val Tachenko, who
Nixyaawii Governenc
Thursday at the
Erik Navarrete Campos
Homicide
inquiry
begins in
shooting
sold at farmer’s markets. very
By JAYATI
“I’ve always been eat-
RAMAKRISHNAN
passionate about people
East Oregonian
ing local,” she said. one of
Tachenko has been
smiles
consistent growers
As Val Tachenko
a
carton of the only
and hands over a s to a in the region to maintain
strawberrie
has 48 customers,
just-ripe
after- CSA. She
customer on Thursday is not and usually caps the service
65/49
noon, one person
about 60.
65/46
at
farm-
82/52
happy.
Tachenko sells at
Aney
Grande,
East Oregonian
by Kathy
Her young grandson
er’s markets in La in Baker
Staff photo
edge
the
over
fruit stand
pokes his head
at the and has a
she
of the table and frowns
City. Each Thursday, in the Erik Navarrete Cam-
find
s
table
a
boxes.
at
pos, 26, was taken off life
Kennewick.
in
product
produce
r
remaining
sells
Forest
Cente
one!”
“He took my best what Nixyaawii Governance Cen- support Friday night and
ction
at the Toyota
day night
new uses in constru
died soon after at Kadlec
It’s hard to say in the ter in Mission.
air Thurs
into the
Regional Medical Center,
rboards
looks best. The table e Cen-
With so many opportu-
their morta
local produce,
Richland, Wash.
Nixyaawii Governanc
grads toss
By PHIL WRIGHT
of nities to buy many people
baskets
with
Hermiston
said
An autopsy determined
ter groans
East Oregonian
cher- Tachenko
CSA
understand why a the cause of death was a
fresh greens, onions,
s, which don’t
before the
ries and strawberrie of Val’s box is a good option. sea-
gunshot wound to the head,
Bill Gamble stood Sandbox and
on
in the
Tachenko, owner
The service relies which
and police are investigat-
crowd Thursday
alongside
but the
vegetables,
restore its health.
Veggies, sells
ing the shooting as a homi-
touted the work to
high points,
that she’s sonal that you won’t find
Manage-
the CSA boxes
not just the that had shaped them.
says
The Sandbox Vegetation ed 16,000
to weekly means in early June. cide, according to Herm-
in
brought to deliver
challenges
peppers
Police Chief Jason
several dates been
Sen. Grassley
eat
ment Project encompass
to iston
Mountains near
had
customers.
“People struggle
tors,
Westfall noted
Edmiston.
years that
acres in the Blue Catherine Creek
all 100 sena should
A CSA, or Communi- , seasonally,” Tachenko said. Police responded to the
the last few for their class.
Union in the Upper is the U.S. For-
d Agriculture “The first few weeks it’s
nes
two,
2017, the
ty-Supporte
NAN
milesto
25,
Gamble
just
fee
residence
of Navarrete Cam-
Nov.
not
d
Watershed.
pay a
I RAMAKRISH
greens. (People)
He recalle High School won
for the La Grande
allows people to
intment
By JAYAT Oregonian
pos in the 500 block of Hart-
est Service ranger
of a sea- mostly
Those
i-
ston
the work that
East
decide appo
at the beginning a box of want tomatoes, corn. ley Avenue in Hermiston
day Hermi 5A football champ
District. He oversaw
E.J. Harris
open and natural
son and then get delivered aren’t available yet.” peo-
the OSAA recalled one of the
Staff photo by
ted, Herm-
about 1:20 a.m. on June 4
resulted in a more 16 million board
MCDOWELL
a classmate
s they gradua
fresh vegetables
onship. He
But the boxes allow after
while on a tour
By JADE
nian
School’s class
that a report of gunshots
forest while selling
up
week from a
section of forest
st days, when
wrapped
each
vegetables
cleared
get
East Orego
them
a
project
iston High
to
to
every-
toughe
The
through
ted
the found Navarrete Cam-
north of Union.
feet of timber.
farm. As ple
as
Participants walk
available at and
that
Rising Summit
of 2018 celebra
local or regional
passed away. like those test us
has may not be
t them to
in 2015.
native Ryan
aca- during the Mass Timber
pos injured. He was taken
our
“Moments
the
that brough as the changes
safe in a wood building.
of this week, Tachenko ser- market.
Hermiston
was a couple dozen
“That day,
to
people
crowd
thing
said.
The
form
threat.
come
he
big
Kadlec Regional Medical
headed
well
and industry
is wood in one
a family,” a little closer.”
expanded her delivery
“The CSA boxes to up
Fire, after all, is the had to prove
Bounds is
point — as
all of the building
ated
demics, forest managers
in Pendle-
from
Center in Richland, Wash.
the
attending the Mass or another, including cross-lamin pan-
family got
vice to customers
first,” she said, opening
Heppner said Lever withstand a
Senate
ce heard
ahead.
for the love,
insiders who were
Police have not released
boxes awaiting
in La Grande.
The audien ano, a student
which comes in
g beams could
ton and Hermiston.
“I thank you the tears, but most
floor for
she’s one of the stuffed with additional
in a fur-
Timber Rising Summit said, is an timber, or CLT, walls. The material is load-bearin
kale,
-
information
and
It’s
Tachenko said
fire at 2,000 degree
Salma Angui encouraged her
confir -
happiness history,” said valedic
bok suspects or the cir-
The Sandbox, Gamble work to keep els the size of urban construction, but two-hour kind of test steel and con-
awareness pickup. chard, spinach,
if they
about
smart
speaker who
noticed more
mation
nace, the
of all, our class speaker Dylan
catching on in
to be patient
example of good,
since she rainbow
pass.
out
classmates figured out their path
Around 1.2 million
behind its use in Canada,
about eating local 2009 at choi and green onions. cumstances surrounding the
after the
crete also have to
torian and
go see what’s
the forest healthy. Mountains needs the U.S. lags
in
the fall of 2016,
and some other
incident.
still hadn’t
started her CSA
“Today they got zucchini
Lever did that in
Senate
Westfall. “Let’s
the United Kingdom
where
acres of the Blue
have
mass timber prod-
passion
te
he said.
Campos’s fam-
in life.
broccoli. I don’t Navarrete
her Baker City farm,
your
Judi-
becoming the first pass the test.
there.”
the friends held two car
class to gradua
some kind of restoration, and timber parts of Europe.
chickens and
at and
is with Lever
to
“Finding at an unexpected
that to sell ily
she raises cattle,
The largest in the history of
ciary
Jonathan Heppner that designed ucts in the world uses a “self-center-
in a enough of boxes got
That includes thinning
that. over the weekend
ston
advice
industry
happen
vegetables
-
also
firm
timber
the
grows
m
“My
will
Hermi
washes
the
walked
but
o
mass
and
Framework
C
from
Architecture,
that table,
it
she said.
sales, which the
, 342 seniors
the crowd earlier ing design” for earthquake livability.
moment,” that moment when
to help raise money for his
16-acre garden. Before
m i t t e e Bounds
the school stage at the Toyota
Framework. He told
torn down
lot of
wants and needs.
produce,
is to seize
See CSA/10A medical expenses and have
building won’t be
is about engineer- in the day that Lever spends a
she sold wholesale
The class
voted
“This
across the
timber
and
wick.
Mass
distin-
Kenne
and
comes.”
d his
structures of wood discussion on how to build to “elevate
operated farm stands
set up a GoFundMe page
11 to 10
Hill, the
Center in
ing load-bearing
valedictorians ic,
Aney
ay to forwar
” But the firm
Judge Dan
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to build high, such
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boasted 10 ses in academ
Staff photo
keep
and using those 12-story high rise the human experience.
Jason
ors,
S/8A
the obligation to
nomination of Appeals.
Hermiston resident.
several succes
member at the
See GRAD
as Framework, the this fall. Nearly did not shirk
musical endeav
l board
night
Circuit Court judicial nom-
athletic and al Tom Spoo.
hugs schoo a Thursday
going up in Portland
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kamper
Bounds’
noted Princip of 2018 qualifi
thrust into
ing her
a Wade
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liberal
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the spotlig
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and
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during
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an office in Milton-Fre
turnaround
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processing has
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a dramatic
overseen ated in two awards for
Tim
Derstine
But
the
of
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that culmin n SBDC Award the
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ships pressed for-
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Upon her
and the Small
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that won’t conflict
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lives and formed to take advantage
Oregon, Washi
2015,
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in 2008
ter in late overhaul on her hands.
which covers
.
and alfalfa prod-
property values.”
she had an 19 such offices across Idaho and Alaska developing a con-
rep- of wheat
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fallen
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One of
Whether it’s financing, or human
the
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