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HEMP LEGALIZATION CREATES QUANDARY FOR POLICE HERMISTON’S DAN EMRY HAS SPENT 18 YEARS CARING FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES NORTHWEST, A2 SPORTS, B1 E O AST 143rd Year, No. 117 REGONIAN FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 $1.50 WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend Worth every penny • Elvis Impersonator, Stanfi eld • Indoor Yard Sale, Pendleton • Veterans Salute Dinner, Irrigon FOR TIMES AND LOCATIONS CHECK COMING EVENTS, A6 Weekend Weather FRI SAT SUN 53/37 58/36 61/41 Taxes on business, labor may raise cash for schools Staff photo by E.J. Harris SALEM (AP) — Lawmak- ers are moving forward with discussions on three potential tax options that would create hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue specifi - cally for Oregon’s schools. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown wants to raise nearly $2 bil- lion for education in the 2019- 21 biennium and she’s tasked the Joint Committee on Stu- dent Success with making it happen. The Statesman Journal reports that the committee, comprised of 14 senators and representatives from both sides of the aisle, has been meeting since January 2018 to study the most critical issues in schools — including disruptive behav- iors in class and a lack of men- tal health counselors — then brainstorm ways to make the proposed solutions reality. A subcommittee on reve- nue has begun hearing logis- tics from the Legislative Rev- enue Offi ce on certain ideas. They heard three possible tax options at their meeting Kelly Shy gets a hug from sixth-grader Haley Bingham after an assembly where students gave donations to Shy to help in her fi ght against breast cancer on Friday at Armand Larive Middle School in Hermiston. Students at Sandstone and Armand Larive middle schools raise almost $6,000 in coin drives. Armand students raise $5,000 in pennies for staff member with cancer By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian n Thursday morning, Kelly Shy knew her workplace — Armand Larive Middle School — was having an assembly. She was asked to come in early and obliged, not suspecting a thing. Instead, Shy, who works in the kitchen at the Hermiston middle school, was greeted by the entire school, packed into the commons — waiting to give her a $5,000 check. Shy is battling breast cancer, and the students and staff had raised the money for her to use for treatment, through a month- long penny drive. After they presented her with the check, students and staff decked in pink shirts, tutus, and even pink wigs lined up to give her a hug and wish her the best. Shy wiped away tears, hugging stu- dents and staff members as she got over the shock. “I had no idea about any of it,” she said. “I was just told to wear pink and show up at 8.” Shy has been working at Armand Lar- ive since September, and was diagnosed with breast cancer in October. She is also a single mother and has two sons, a 2-year-old and a 12-year-old. Mariangela Summers, Armand Lar- ive’s media assistant, said the school wanted to do something for Shy, fi rst deciding to do a benefi t dinner. That will happen on April 18. But Summers said a group of students decided to do something more. See Pennies, Page A8 Staff photo by E.J. Harris Armand Larive Middle School Principal Stacie Roberts gets the crowd fi red up wearing a pink wig and a tutu during an assembly for Kelly Shy on Friday at Ar- mand Larive Middle School in Hermiston. See Education, Page A8 Bump stocks turned in or destroyed as ban takes effect By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — The larg- est supplier of bump stocks turned in its entire remaining inventory to be destroyed — some 60,000 devices. Washington state’s buy- back program was so popular it ran out of money. One dealer held a “Viking funeral” for his last bump stock, pouring a can of beer on it and then melting it down with a fl amethrower. A nationwide ban took effect Tuesday on bump stocks, the attachment used by the gunman in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre to make his weapons fi re rapidly like machine guns. How many of the estimated half-million devices believed to be in circulation in the U.S. are still around is anyone’s guess, but in the weeks leading up to the ban, there were signs that many were destroyed or turned in as required. Anyone in possession of a bump stock from now on can be charged with a federal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives outlawed the attachments at President Don- ald Trump’s direction after the Las Vegas gunman rained fi re from his high-rise hotel suite on concertgo- ers, killing 58 people in the dead- liest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On Thursday, the Supreme Court declined to put the ban on hold. See Ban, Page A8 CHI St. Anthony Hospital Family Clinic is recognized as a Patient -Centered Primary Care Home. What does that mean for you? • Better-coordinated care. • Healthcare providers who will help connect you • Listening to your concerns and answering with the care you need in a safe and timely way. questions. • Healthcare providers who play an active role in your health. • After-hours nurse consultation. 844.724.8632 3001 St. Anthony Way, Pendleton WWW.SAHPENDLETON.ORG Mon through Thurs, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. • Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat and Sun, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Walk-ins are welcome but appointments are preferred.
