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REGONIAN
JANUARY 19-20, 2019
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CTUIR gets
veterans’
service offi ce
Governor Kate Brown
approves service offi ce
for tribal veterans
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Oregon Legislature is looking to take up a
number of gun control measures in the 2019 session.
GUN PERMIT BILL
RAISES LOCAL
OBJECTIONS
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
J
esse Bonifer of Athena is
a staunch defender of gun
rights and was one of the
chief petitioners of the
Second Amendment Preservation
Ordinance, which Umatilla County
voters passed overwhelmingly. He
is no fan of the proposal in the state
Senate to require Oregonians to
have a permit before even buying or
receiving a gun.
“That’s just ridiculous,” Bonifer
said. “We already have our permit.”
That permit being the Second
Amendment. Bonifer said requiring
another would violate constitutional
rights.
See Bill, Page A12
“BAD GUYS
ARE NOT
GOING TO
COUNT THEIR
ROUNDS.”
Morrow County Sheriff
Ken Matlack
Veterans living on the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion will now have more direct access
to veterans’ services, after signing an
agreement this week to open a Veterans’
Service Offi ce on the reservation.
Tribal leaders and the Oregon Depart-
ment of Veterans’ Affairs signed a memo-
randum of understanding at the Oregon
Capitol. According to a press release from
Governor Kate Brown’s offi ce, the agree-
ment allows the tribe to create a service
offi ce that will operate in the same way as
a county Veterans Service offi ce. It will
provide direct services to tribal veterans,
such as pursuing disability claim, and
allowing more tribal veterans to receive
physical and mental health services.
CTUIR Spokesman Chuck Sams said the
tribes have had a veterans’ affairs offi cer
for almost 30 years, but the offi ce has
never before been designated through the
state.
Oregon Department of Veterans’
Affairs spokesman Tyler Francke said
the department will work with the tribe
to set up the offi ce, and that Sam Spino,
the current veterans’ affairs offi cer, will
be the offi cial Veterans Service Offi cer
for the tribes, and has to go through some
state training. The offi ce will also get
some new software from the state.
Sams, a veteran himself, said he
didn’t know the exact number of veterans
that live on the reservation, but said the
current veterans’ affairs offi ce sees a lot
of use from tribal members who have
served.
See CTUIR, Page A12
Historical society director
ready to write new chapter
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
It doesn’t take long for Barbara Lund-
Jones to identify her favorite exhibits at the
Heritage Station Museum in Pendleton.
One of them is an exhibit on the pioneer
kitchen in Eastern Oregon, complete with
period-accurate cookware and equipment.
Pat
McClintock
hugs family
members
after
learning she
is the 2019
Pendleton
Chamber of
Commerce
Woman of
the Year.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
Barbara
Lund-Jones
has retired as
executive
director of the
Umatilla County
Historical
Society. Lund-
Jones has served
in that position
since 2009.
But the newly retired executive director
of the Umatilla County Historical Society’s
other favorites are from a deeper cut.
She highlighted a small exhibit on the
Timber Culture Act, an 1873 law that
granted settlers 160 acres of prairie land if
they planted at least 40 acres of timber.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
See Director, Page A12
Chamber commissions First Citizens
awards for commissioner and Altrusan
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
The
announcement
speeches for the winners at
the Pendleton Chamber of
Commerce’s First Citizens
Banquet don’t spare super-
latives, but the people who
nominated Pat McClintock
for Woman of the Year didn’t
hold back in their apprecia-
tion at the Wildhorse Resort
and Casino Friday.
Reading from a prepared
speech, 2017 Woman of
the Year Kathy Houk said
the community volun-
teer’s peers compared her
to Mother Teresa and called
her “the jewel in the crown
of Pendleton.”
“It’s like opening your
door and letting in a warm
ray of sunshine,” Houk said.
See Chamber, Page A12
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