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Governor appoints Judge Garrett
to Oregon Supreme Court
tive state legislator and a productive appel-
late judge. His brilliant mind and collegial
style will be tremendous assets to the court
The Oregon Court of Appeals judge who and the people of Oregon,” Brown said in
authored the opinion upholding the state law announcing his pick.
prohibiting discrimination based on sexual
Garrett is Brown’s fifth Supreme Court
orientation has been appointed to the Ore- appointment. She appointed Lynn Naka-
moto, the court’s first Asian Pacific
gon Supreme Court.
Chris Garrett, a former Lake
American, in 2015, Meagan Flynn
Oswego lawmaker, was appointed
and Rebecca Duncan, whose
Christmas Eve by Gov. Kate Brown
appointment gave the court its first
to succeed Justice Rives Kistler. Kis-
female majority, both in 2017, and
tler is retiring.
Adrienne Nelson, the court’s first
“Judge Garrett has quickly earned
African American, in January 2018.
a reputation as an intellectual leader
Kondayen said Garrett would be
Garrett
of the Court of Appeals,” said Kate
the only justice who served as a state
Kondayen, Brown’s press secretary.
legislator.
A year ago, Garrett wrote the opin-
His background in the Legislature “pro-
ion upholding enforcement of the state’s vides important perspective on the court’s
anti-discrimination law against Melissa and cases that interpret legislation and adjudicate
Aaron Klein, Gresham bakery owners, who the separation of powers,” she said.
Garrett was appointed to the Court of
refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-
sex couple in 2013 based on their religious Appeals by then-Gov. John Kitzhaber in
2014. He served as a state representative
objections.
Garrett wrote that baking a cake for any from Lake Oswego and southwest Portland
customer requires “compliance with a neu- from 2009 to 2013.
tral law.” Refusing to do so because of a
He brokered a bipartisan redistricting
customer’s sexual orientation violates the plan and championed a state law to keep
state’s anti-discrimination law and curtails people out of prison and in social and sup-
their right to free speech, according to the port services.
He graduated from Reed College and the
opinion.
The case drew national headlines in part University of Chicago Law School.
for the severity of the fine against the bakers
He teaches as an adjunct professor at Wil-
lamette University College of Law and vol-
but also as a milestone for gay rights.
The Kleins were ordered to pay $135,000 unteers as a judge for the Classroom Law
to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer in Project.
Paris Achen: pachen@portlandtribune.
2015 after the state Bureau of Labor and
Industries found the bakers violated the state com or 503-506-0067. Achen is a reporter
for the Portland Tribune working for the
anti-discrimination law.
Garrett’s appointment is effective Jan. 1. Oregon Capital Bureau, a collabora-
“He brings to our high court the experi- tion of EO Media Group, Pamplin Media
ence of a respected civil litigator, an effec- Group and Salem Reporter.
By PARIS ACHEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
Forecast for Pendleton Area
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Cloudy, a bit of ice
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50° 36°
38° 26°
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
37/27
Lewiston
45/38
38/28
Astoria
48/40
Pullman
Yakima 34/24
44/34
37/27
Portland
Hermiston
47/38
Salem
The Dalles 39/28
44/32
Corvallis
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La Grande
35/21
PRECIPITATION
John Day
Bend
48/34
37/21
33/21
Ontario
41/23
Caldwell
Burns
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Eugene
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40/21
33/13
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1.33"
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through 3 p.m. yest.
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TEMP.
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47/36
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Enterprise
Pendleton 32/16
48/37
48/35
38°
31°
39°
25°
67° (1980) -9° (1924)
PRECIPITATION
Moses
Lake
45/33
Aberdeen
30/21
35/23
Tacoma
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Wenatchee
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Medford
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W 4-8
Boardman
Pendleton
SSW 4-8
SSW 4-8
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Recycling rate short of 2020 goal
SALEM (AP) — Oregon
is unlikely to reach its goal
of recycling and recovering
52 percent of the waste gen-
erated in the state by 2020.
The Statesman Journal
reports that Oregonians recy-
cled and recovered about
42.8 percent of all waste in
the state in 2017. That’s just
a slight increase from the
state’s 42.2 percent rate in
2016.
The state’s lackluster
performance emerged in a
report released last week by
the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality.
The rate in the annual
report reflects the waste
that is recovered through
recycling and other means,
including composting and
incinerating to generate
energy.
Peter Spendelow, waste
reduction specialist with the
Oregon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality, said it’s
not realistic that the state
will meet the 2020 recycling
goal.
The change in the state’s
recycling fortunes came from
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stacks of baled cardboard sit ready to be shipped out at
Sanitary Disposal Inc. on Nov. 30, 2017, in Hermiston.
unanticipated circumstances.
The 2015 closure of a
paper mill in Newberg that
handled large amounts of
wood waste has dragged
down the state’s rate. Other
mills have stopped accepting
wood waste because of strict
federal air quality rules,
Spendelow said.
As a result, more con-
tractors are taking their con-
struction waste to landfills,
at a time when the overall
waste generated in Oregon is
on the rise amid a booming
economy.
The prospect of miss-
ing the 2020 goal doesn’t
mean recycling machinery
is idling. In 2017, Oregon
recovered 2.3 million tons of
waste for recycling, energy
and composting.
Overall, Oregonians put
5.4 million tons of waste
into garbage and recycling
bins. That’s up 2.7 percent
from 2016, but still below a
pre-recession peak in 2006.
Rogue Pack wolves take down
seventh cow at Jackson County ranch
MEDFORD (AP) —
Authorities say gray wolf
OR-7’s Rogue Pack has
killed another cow at
a northeastern Jackson
County ranch, marking the
seventh confirmed live-
stock kill attributed to the
pack since late October.
The Mail Tribune reports
that the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife reports
that the dead and partially
consumed cow was found
Sunday on a ranch in the
Boundary Butte area where
the Rogue Pack has killed
before, but a report did not
identify the ranch.
The Boundary Butte
area is in the vicinity of
rancher Ted Birdseye, who
has lost at least four cows
and a guard dog that were
confirmed as wolf kills in
the Rogue Pack’s home
range so far in 2018.
In Sunday’s case, a live-
stock producer discov-
ered one of his 8-month-
old, 550-pound calves dead
in private-land grass pas-
ture that morning, and an
ODFW biologist estimated
it had been dead any-
where from 12 to 48 hours,
according to an ODFW
report.
Extensive feeding was
discovered on the hind-
quarters
and
internal
organs, but the carcass and
hide were largely intact, the
report states.
Tooth scrapes and bite
marks were found on the
hind legs and multiple deep
bites on the neck, the report
states.
Along with other evi-
Crater Lake, Mount Rainier
limited after government
shutdown
SALEM (AP) — Access to Crater
Lake and Mount Rainier national parks
will be limited due to the government
shutdown.
The Statesman Journal reports the
lapse in federal funding prompted Crater
Lake managers to close the visitor’s cen-
ter, cancel ranger-guided snowshoe trips
dence, the biologist con-
cluded the wounds and
muscle trauma “are clear
signs of predator attack and
the size, number and loca-
tion of the bite injuries are
similar to injuries observed
in calves attacked by
wolves,” the report states.
The report states that the
Rogue Pack previously had
killed livestock on that par-
ticular property, but it pro-
vides no other detail.
One other cow was
killed on the ranch in
November, and one of
Birdseye’s guard dogs was
killed in a wolf attack in
mid-November, according
to the ODFW. Four head
of cattle killed in October
in Klamath County were
also attributed to the Rogue
Park.
and close the road to the lake’s rim.
Mount Rainier closed its road to popu-
lar winter recreation destination Paradise.
Both places remain technically open
but, as with most national parks and mon-
uments, there will be almost no services,
including search and rescue.
The federal government shutdown will
impact the more than 400 national parks
and monuments. In Oregon, that includes
John Day Fossil Beds and Oregon Caves
national monuments, in addition to Lewis
and Clark National Historical Park.
SUN AND MOON
Klamath Falls
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