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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018
143rd Year, No. 22
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WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Remnants
of standoff
remain
Ammon Bundy
says he never
meant to create a
movement
By NICOLE BLANCHARD
Idaho Statesman
EMMETT, Idaho —
The first sign that you’ve
arrived at the Bundy fam-
ily’s Emmett home is a
poster board affixed to the
fence in front of a small
apple orchard. Scrawled
in Sharpie is the phrase,
“Sunlight is the best
disinfectant.”
It’s a motto of sorts.
Ammon Bundy calls him-
self a “sunlight kind of
guy.” Before his family’s
infamous standoffs near
Bunkerville, Nevada, and
Burns, Oregon, he was
living in the dark, he told
the Idaho Statesman. Now
he’s got a new view on life
that he’s eager to share, he
said, and some Idahoans
are eager to listen.
It’s been nearly three
years since Bundy, 43,
led a group of protest-
ers to occupy the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
— first in protest of the
government’s treatment of
a fellow ranching family,
then in protest of federal
land ownership.
It’s been 11 months
since his charges for his
family’s 2014 confronta-
tion with federal agents on
their Nevada ranch over
cattle grazing ended in a
mistrial. The judge ruled
prosecutors
committed
“gross misconduct” when
they withheld evidence
from the defense.
Bundy said his priority
now is spending time with
his wife and six children.
But remnants of the stand-
offs still bubble up each
day.
“I’ll always get some-
one that calls me,” Bundy
said at his home in
mid-October, after catch-
ing up with a friend call-
ing from federal prison.
“Life has never, ever been
the same — in a good and
a hard way. I think it’ll take
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Gideon Smith, 12, left, Payton Hoffert, 11, and Jayden Hoffert, 11, all of Pendleton, look at a Pendleton Lions Club
Peace Poster Contest entry by Naomi Watrud on Tuesday in Pendleton.
A peace of art
Middle school contest shows ‘Kindness Matters’
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
very parent loves their kids’ art,
as evidenced by the standing
room only crowd at the Pend-
leton School District administrative
offices on Tuesday evening.
The crowd of Sunridge Middle
School students and their parents
had assembled in a conference room
to get the results of the 2018-19
Pendleton Lions Club Peace Poster
Contest.
District Superintendent Chris
Fritsch thanked all the kids who par-
ticipated, adding that some might use
the contest to springboard themselves
to something further.
“For many, we’re happy this is the
beginning of doing more in art and
making it more than just a hobby,” he
said.
Out of the contest’s 183 entries,
seventh-grader Viviana Martinez’s
poster emerged as the winner of this
year’s theme: “Kindness Matters.”
Her poster depicts a woman wear-
ing a red dress and matching blind-
fold as she cradles the globe. Both
items of clothing have a print featur-
ing flags from dozens of countries.
After receiving her $300 check and
posing for a number of photos with
her winning entry, Viviana, 12, agreed
to an interview about her victory.
E
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
First place winner Viviana Marti-
nez holds her entry in the Pendle-
ton Lions Club Peace Poster Con-
test at a ceremony on Tuesday at
the Pendleton School District ad-
ministrative offices.
She was shy about discussing her
inspiration and humble about what
she thought her prospects were head-
ing into the award announcement.
“I thought I’d at least get last
place,” she said.
Her family was more open about
Viviana’s talent and achievements.
Viviana’s mother, Gloria Corona,
said her daughter always had a knack
for art, drawing accurate recreations
of “The Powerpuff Girls” characters
on sticky notes when she was only 3
or 4.
“It’s definitely not me,” Corona
said about where her daughter got
her talent. “I can’t even draw stick
figures.”
As Viviana grew older, she showed
initiative and asked her mom to buy
her art books so she could improve
her technique in drawing human
figures.
Viviana’s older brother, Christian,
said her ambition extended to her
career, where she hoped to catch on
with a top animation studio like Pixar
or Disney.
While it may take a few years for
Viviana to realize her dreams, her art
is about to be seen by more sets of
eyes.
Bill Taylor of the Lions Club
said her first place win in Pendleton
means her poster will be advanced to
the regional competition. If her poster
continues to receive winning marks
from judging panels, it could advance
to the state, national, and eventually a
worldwide competition sponsored by
Lions Club International.
———
Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@
eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836.
“I thought I’d at least get last place.”
— Viviana Martinez, Pendleton Lions Club Peace Poster Contest first place winner
Kelsey Grey/Idaho Statesman via AP
In this undated photo,
Ammon Bundy receives
a call from a former fel-
low inmate while pick-
ing Gypsy Lust apples in
his orchard in Emmett,
Idaho.
years and years to kind of
dissolve.”
And in many ways, he
doesn’t want it to dissolve.
Bundy accepts speaking
engagements across the
West at conferences and
rallies that touch on gun
rights, environmentalism
and agriculture — some
of them controversial. He
often tells the stories of the
standoffs and the subse-
quent trials. And, of course,
he advocates the view that
has come to be synony-
mous with the Bundy fam-
ily: that the federal govern-
ment has no authority to
own or manage land in the
states.
“I believe that we have
to have government,”
Bundy said. “I believe that
it has to be accountable,
and it has to be limited,
and it has to be for the pur-
pose of protecting the indi-
vidual. Otherwise there’s
no need for it, and actually
becomes more destructive
than not having it in the
first place.”
Bundy espoused some
variation of these princi-
ples in Bunkerville and
Burns. Now he takes the
message to Utah, Montana,
and Idaho. At an April stop
in Modesto, California,
Bundy called the state’s
well-documented
water
issues “a lie,” claimed ice
from asteroids replenishes
the Earth’s water and said
environmentalists are out
to “entirely destroy the
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HERMISTON
Building official will be able to impose fines
Enforcement option
much like nuisance
ordinance
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The city of Hermis-
ton added some teeth to its
building code enforcement
during a city council meet-
ing on Tuesday.
The council passed an
ordinance allowing its build-
ing official to issue civil
penalties for violations of
the building code.
City Manager Byron
Smith said the ordinance
before the council on Tues-
day would institute a system
similar to the city’s nuisance
code enforcement, including
warnings and opportunities
to appeal.
“We need to have an
enforcement mechanism,”
he said.
Under the ordinance
unanimously passed by the
council, the building offi-
cial will be able to issue
stop work orders, revoke
permits, order vacation of
unsafe premises or issue
fines after the official has
made “reasonable attempts
to secure voluntary correc-
tion.” Hermiston’s current
building official is Chuck
Woolsey.
Prohibited acts that could
draw a penalty include vio-
lating building codes, build-
ing without a required per-
mit, lying on applications
for permits or ignoring a
lawful order from the build-
ing official.
According to the ordi-
nance, “Violation of a provi-
sion of this chapter shall be
subject to an administrative
civil penalty not to exceed
more than $5,000 for each
offense or, in the case of a
continuing offense, not more
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