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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, December 15, 2018 East Oregonian C5 9-year-old overturns snowball fight ban SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Col- orado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will be — his little brother. Dane Best, who lives in the often snow-swept town of Severance, presented his arguments at a town board meeting Monday night, and members voted unani- mously to lift the ban. “I think it’s an outdated law,” Dane said in the lead-up to the meeting. “I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble.” Dane’s mother, Brooke Best, told The Greeley Tri- bune her son had been talking about snowballs since he found out about a month and a half ago that it was illegal to throw them within town limits. The last time it snowed, Dane said he and his friends looked around for police and joked about breaking the law. Kyle Rietkerk, assis- tant to the Severance town administrator, said the rule was part of a larger ordi- nance that made it illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, any other public or private property or vehicles. Snowballs fell under the town’s definition of “missiles.” “All of the kids always get blown away that it’s illegal to have snowball fights in Severance,” Riet- kerk said before the meet- ing. “So, what ends up hap- pening is (town leaders) always encourage the kids with, ‘You have the power, you can change the law.’ No one has.” Then Dane took up the cause, writing letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban. And after Monday night’s success, his 4-year- old brother Dax had bet- ter watch out. When board members asked Dane during a meeting in Novem- ber who he wants to hit, he pointed at his little brother. Dane and his family have researched other Sev- Timothy Hurst/The Coloradoan via AP/ Range View Elementary School third-grader Dane Best throws the first legal snowball in the parking lot of the Town Hall after presenting his argument to the town board trustees to change a law in Severance that bans snowball fights . erance ordinances, includ- ing one that defines pets only as cats and dogs. Dane has a guinea pig, which is illegal in Sever- ance, too. OUT OF THE VAULT Hitchhiker catches ride straight to jail By RENEE STRUTHERS East Oregonian A deputy sheriff for Umatilla County gave a courtesy ride to a stranger in November 1928 — straight to the Uma- tilla County Jail. Deputy Sheriff Herman DeHart was returning to Pendleton from Freewa- ter on Nov. 10, 1928, and stopped at an eating house between Milton and Free- water for lunch. He stepped inside and asked the proprietress if the lunch was ready. When she said it was not, DeHart told her he would drive on to Pendleton and eat there. As DeHart was leaving the estab- lishment, a well-dressed man who was sitting in the eating room spoke up and said, “Never mind fixing anything for me, I’ll go to Pendleton with this man too.” Surprised at the man’s audacity of inviting himself along for the ride, DeHart nonetheless decided to give him a lift. “I have to make one stop,” DeHart said, “and then I’ll go on to Pendleton.” This was agreeable to his passenger, so the deputy stopped to see Charles Elliott, deputy sheriff for the Mil- ton-Freewater district. In the course of their conversation, Elliott told DeHart that a garage had been burglarized the previous night, and gave his fellow deputy a description of the possible perpetrator. After studying the description for a moment, DeHart said, “Why, I have that man in my car.” Elliott and DeHart went to the car and questioned the man, J.C. Kitchener, who finally admitted to the burglary. He even took the deputies to the garage to show them how he entered the building. Deputy DeHart and his passen- ger finally arrived in Pendleton later that evening, and Kitchener was taken straight to the Umatilla County Jail. It was discovered that the bold hitchhiker was wanted in Yakima for forgery, and for other crimes in Spokane. DEAR ABBY Daughter’s Peace Corps plan gets thumbs down from Dad Dear Abby: Our 23-year- ting away as a cushion after old daughter, “Alexa,” has a her return in the event she’s wonderful, well-paying cor- unable to find a job right porate job with good ben- away. Then explain that you efits and a flexible sched- are asking because you need ule. She has low expenses, to build up your retirement no debt and banks a respect- monies and won’t be able to able amount of her pay even give her further financial sup- port. It’s the truth, and she though she lives 1,500 miles J eanne P hilliPs needs to know it before she from home in a high-priced ADVICE quits her job. area. She works 40 hours Dear Abby: My wife and max and has plenty of free I have been married for 20 time. The issue? Alexa wants to quit her years. I’m retired, but she still works job and join the Peace Corps! Must 13-hour days in the ICU. we just say OK to chucking it all and When she told me before we were moving to a Third World country? married that she didn’t clean house, Honestly, our biggest concern after I didn’t realize she meant ever! I her safety is her investing two years, run the dishwasher, I wash and dry moving back home and us having clothes, and I pick up my stuff. When to support her while she looks for a I cleaned the kitchen and put all the post-Peace Corps job. My wife and I bills she had scattered around in one need to save for our own retirement, stack, I was told, “Now I can’t find not spend it on our kids. I’m trying anything! I have my own system, and to convince Alexa to use her free time you messed it up!” to volunteer (something she does not She has promised that “when she now do). What advice do you have? has time” she’ll clean house, but sev- eral times when she had a few days — Bad Idea Dear Bad Idea: Talk to Alexa about off, she spent them playing Candy your concerns for her future after she Crush on her tablet. I have never told leaves the Peace Corps. Ask if she her she must clean; I say we need to plans to use the money she’s been put- do it. She ignores me. Abby, we both have allergies and asthma issues, and the bugs are start- ing to get bad even though we don’t leave old food out. What can I do? Hope she forgives me after I clean? — In A Mess in the Midwest Dear In A Mess: No. The responsi- bility for ensuring your home is healthy and habitable should not rest solely on your shoulders. I do think you should hire a house cleaner to come in once a week. Your wife has a stressful job, and when she’s off she may need to rest. Because you are retired and she’s still working, it shouldn’t break the bank, so discuss this option with her. Dear Abby: I am a junior in high school, and there’s a cute guy on my cross country team I really like. What’s the best way to find out if he returns my feelings, and how can I deal with it if he doesn’t? — Teen in Montana Dear Teen: A way to find out if a guy likes you is to start talking to him about your sport or other school-re- lated subjects. If you do, you will soon see if you have anything else in com- mon. If he’s interested in talking to you, that’s a good sign. But if he isn’t, you’ll have to do what everyone else does: Accept the disappointment and move on. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15-16, 1918 Because it is absolutely impracticable for a county orga- nization to do honor to each of the individual soldiers and sailors as they return from service, the executive committee of the Umatilla County Patriotic Service League has decided to ask each community in the county to receive its own boys as they return from the service, through its commercial club or other purely local organization. The league expects to stand sponsor for a county-wide demonstration for all of the returned boys as soon as the majority of them have come back to their homes. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15-16, 1968 A snowmobile rescue mission was carried out by Umatilla County sheriff’s office and a pair of residents for eight Christ- mas tree hunters mired down in snow about eight miles east of Athena on Wildhorse Creek Friday night. Darrel Johnson and Dick Thompson, Athena, carried out the last few miles of the rescue mission with snowmobiles after sheriff’s deputies found they couldn’t make it all the way with cars. Russell and Margaret Remsen, Hermiston, hiked the nearly eight miles to the old Adams Ranch and got a ride to Athena where they called the sheriff’s office. Stranded when their car mired in deep snow were Diane, 17, Becky, 14, and Tom Remsen, 16, and Leo and Lillian Chranes and their three year old child, all of Hermiston, and Jack Hone, Athena. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15-16, 1993 Umatilla County Jail officials reenacted Monday’s escape this morning, hoping to learn how inmate Beacher Noble used a hacksaw blade to free himself from a fenced security area. The armed guard on duty at the time of the escape also has been placed on leave, pending a hearing on the guard’s performance. Eight other inmates were on the roof besides Noble, although he was the only one to attempt an escape. 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