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Emergency: Community response
is bringing the family to tears
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over a week to recover from
the unexpected surgery.
Tucelia Barkley started
a GoFundMe in the mean-
time, to help with travel
expenses and bills while
her mother recovers.
On July 14, she opened
the fundraiser. Her goal
of $2,000 was surpassed
within two days.
“We are very speech-
less, and my dad started
crying when he saw the
numbers,” Tucelia said.
But for donors, the
generosity was an obvi-
ous response to a family
deeply involved in the local
community.
“We’re very woven into
the Pacific Northwest in
general,” Tucelia Barkley
said.
She said her mother is
from the Yakima Tribe in
Washington.
A mother of four and
grandmother of four, Bar-
kley works in the janitorial
department at the Yellow-
hawk Tribal Health Center
in Mission.
“She takes her position
very seriously,” Tucelia
Barkley said.
Following the opera-
tion, Barkley won’t be able
to move around much for at
least six weeks.
When she’s not working,
Tucelia Barkley said her
mother is constantly work-
ing on projects. Recently
she has been crafting war
bonnets for Yakima war
veterans.
Just last month, Bark-
ley had driven 37 cases of
water bottles to the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs in Central Oregon,
following a declaration of
disaster over the drinking
water system in the area.
Tucelia Barkley said that
they’re uncertain about the
cost of the surgery at this
point.
“We’ll get to that storm
when it comes,” she said.
For now, she said, the
family is thankful for the
GoFundMe support.
“[Kathy] pours her heart
out so it’s good to see peo-
ple have her back,” she said.
AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman
Renewal: Damaged streets in urban
renewal area get boost in funding
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks with the media at the Capitol in Salem. The head of the Or-
egon Republican Party on Monday took a first step toward forcing a recall election of Gov.
Kate Brown, whose term expires at the end of 2022.
Recall: Forcing a recall
election is not easy in Oregon
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use all the district funds
for Byers. City Manager
Robb Corbett, the PDC’s
executive director, said not
necessarily.
“There’s a lot of work
that needs to be done,” he
responded. “I would request
that it not specifically be all
used on Byers.”
City
engineer
Tim
Simons told the council that
staff will consider what’s
the best use of the funds.
That could mean working
on the worst three blocks of
Byers or take on easier work
first. But construction won’t
begin right away.
Simons said it is late
enough in the year to get
engineering work done and
seek bids in October for
construction in March 2020.
That still allows for all the
work to occur this fiscal
year.
Councilor Scott Farley,
speaking over the phone
because he was out of town,
suggested holding off on
voting for the proposal.
“I want to fix streets as
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Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
The intersection of Southeast Ninth Drive and Byers Av-
enue in Pendleton shows signs of wear with cracks and
potholes. Byers Avenue is on the city’s list of road repair
projects.
bad as anyone,” he said,
but the advisory commit-
tee found other projects also
worthy of the urban renewal
money. He suggested to wait
a month to get a better sense
of what the public wants.
Mayor John Turner
said he expected a vote at
the meeting, and Chalm-
ers agreed. Turner moved
to use the money for roads
in the urban renewal dis-
trict. Councilor Carole Innes
seconded. Six were for it,
including Councilor Becky
Marks, who has been skep-
tical of using urban renewal
funds for streets.
Farley and Linda Neu-
man cast the votes against.
While the outcome was
not unanimous, the use of
urban renewal funds was a
critical component of Cor-
bett’s plan to fund street
repairs over a 10-year span.
The council continues to
work on proposals to pro-
duce millions more dol-
lars to pay for road work
throughout the city.
order,” Currier told OPB.
“A very challenging task.”
If either effort were suc-
cessful, Brown would have
five days to file a statement
of justification. A recall
election would be held
within 35 days after that.
Word of the recall effort
by the Oregon Republican
Party was first reported by
the Washington Times on
Monday.
Currier said his party
had made the decision just
recently to pursue a recall.
He believes that a number
of contentious issues sup-
ported by the governor and
other Democrats this year
have created the potential
for a coalition that could
bounce her from office.
Currier envisions that
coalition including groups
like truckers and loggers
who opposed the cap-and-
trade proposal, gun own-
ers who chafed at proposed
gun controls, parents who
railed against proposed
stricter vaccine regula-
tions, and more.
“The political landscape
changed
dramatically
toward the end of the ses-
sion,” Currier said. “All of
these groups, even though
there’s not much overlap
between them, combine to
represent well over a half
million voters. And there’s
an incredible opportunity
to harness that energy and
direct it toward the change
that they want.”
Currier said his party
will use professional signa-
ture gatherers to meet the
October deadline, and is
prepared to spend hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
In the document initiat-
ing the recall effort, Cur-
rier also made explicit
mention of Brown’s threat,
after the failure of the cap-
and-trade bill, to imple-
ment new greenhouse gas
regulations via executive
order.
“She has threatened to
usurp legislative power
with executive orders to
implement her failed leg-
islation, deciding sin-
gle-handedly what is best
for Oregon,” Currier wrote.
“This is not the Oregon
way.”
The governor’s office did
not immediately respond to
a request for comment.
Local legislators, Rep.
Greg Barreto (R-Cove) and
Sen.Bill Hansell (R-Ath-
ena), also did not immedi-
ately respond to requests
for comment.
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