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REGION Thursday, August 8, 2019 East Oregonian A3 National Night Out sparks neighborhood safety talks Top priority of the event is to strengthen bonds between neighbors By ALEX CASTLE East Oregonian PENDLETON — Lock your doors, turn off your porch lights, and get out- side to spend time with your neighbors and local law enforcement. That’s what the National Night Out campaign and Pendleton Police Department told the people of Pendleton and hundreds of them lis- tened, joining each other and units from law enforcement and the fire department for an evening of food and fun at seven different locations around the city. “It’s not usually the best day of someone’s life when we show up,” said Commu- nity Services Officer Shelly Studebaker. “So it’s nice to show up and people are happy to see us.” Studebaker added that it can be beneficial for people to get to know the officers away from those stressful situations. The top priority of the event though, Studebaker said, is to strengthen the Staff photo by Kathy Aney Neighbors socialize at the home of George and Donna Murdock during Tuesday’s National Night Out. bonds between neighbors so that they can take their safety into their own hands. “The more citizens look after themselves and each other, the more it helps us,” she said. For the party hosted by Umatilla County Commis- sioner George Murdock and his wife, Donna, on the city’s North Hill, National Night Out also serves as the com- munity’s annual Neighbor- hood Watch meeting. Their group, which includes about 80 families from the neighborhood, is the only one that’s been for- mally organized, according to Studebaker. The group formed in the past five years after a house was broken into in the area and earlier this year someone from the watch helped police locate a crimi- nal after jotting down a suspi- cious vehicle’s license plate. Cpl. Ryan Lehnert, who served as community ser- vices officer when Pendleton joined the National Night Out campaign a decade ago, came to speak with the group. He both praised them for the work they’ve done while highlighting some areas for improvement, such as mak- ing lists of valuable items with serial numbers and warning police when they may be leaving town for mul- tiple days. Studebaker said that there’s other neighborhoods City council narrowly supports tobacco license By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian PENDLETON — The Pendleton City Council voted to support a Uma- tilla County-wide tobacco license program, but only narrowly. According to city staff and multiple councilors, the council voted 4-3 to support the program, with councilors Becky Marks, McKennon McDonald and Dale Primmer voting against it. Councilor Jake Cambier was absent. The Umatilla County Health Department aims to reduce youth smoking by having every tobacco retailer in the county obtain a county-issued license. According to docu- ments provided to the council, Umatilla County is the highest in the state for youth use of e-ciga- rettes and third highest for youth tobacco use of any kind. Under the licensing program, the county could revoke the license if a retailer sold tobacco to anyone under 21. In an interview Wednes- day, Primmer said he voted against supporting the program because there were still too many unan- swered questions regard- ing how the county would implement and enforce the program. “If we do something, we need to make sure it’s effective,” he said. He also pointed to research that showed that most youth get their tobacco from relatives or friends rather than ille- gally buying it from a store. McDonald echoed many of Primmer’s points and added that only a few cities in Umatilla County have supported the license. Less contentious was approval of a $68,995 grant to install an elec- tric car charging station By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian HERMISTON — Fam- ilies and businesses whose names were featured on the fence around Fun- land playground in Herm- iston will be able to col- lect those fence pickets in September. The approximately 900 engraved slats were taken down and stacked onto pallets by volunteers before demolition of the burned playground began last week. They will be available for pickup at the Hermiston Commu- nity Center, 415 S. High- way 395, on Sept. 20-22 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. If anyone is not able to come in during those dates, they can contact Larry Fetter at lfetter@ hermiston.or.us or 541- 667-5009 after Sept. 22 to make an appointment. The city plans to rebuild Funland in early 2020, but the parks and recreation depart- ment determined that the wooden pickets from the playground that burned down earlier this year were too deteriorated to reuse. New opportunities for sponsorship of fence pickets, plaques and other items will be announced Man found dead in Hermiston identified near the Heritage Station Museum in downtown Pendleton. The grant covers the cost of installation and the city expects the charging fees will pay for the cost of operating the station. Although McDonald recused herself because her husband worked on the grant application, the council unanimously approved the grant, according to City Manager Robb Corbett. The council also unan- imously approved the purchase of two com- puter numerical control machines using a state grant. According to a staff report, the machines will be used in the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Sys- tems Range’s rapid proto- typing workshop, allowing the test range’s customers to manufacture part pro- totypes on-site rather than shipping them in from elsewhere. 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Board of Trustees vacate board member’s seat MISSION — The mem- bers of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Board of Trustees won’t be up for election until Novem- ber, but one seat is already open. The CTUIR announced Wednesday that the Board of Trustees, the tribes’ top governing body, voted to vacate at-large board member Sally Kosey’s seat because she didn’t live within the boundar- Pay one price for two great services: high-speed Internet Asked whether the board had engaged in an inves- tigation or process before vacating Kosey’s seat, Wright said he didn’t know. “As a sovereign govern- ment, they do what they do when they want to do it,” he said. “It’s the nature of it.” Due to the seat open- ing within 180 days of the tribes’ Nov. 12 elections, the seat will remain vacant until the election. Kosey was first elected to the board in 2017, emerg- ing with the second-highest vote total out of a 13-can- didate field seeking four at-large seats. 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Cineplex Show Times $5 Classic Movie * Matinee Pricing Save with Frontier Internet Bundles Serious speed! in the coming months. Fetter said the city has received seven proposals from playground design teams from across the country to rebuild Funland playground at Butte Park. The Funland Rebuild Committee will select a design firm on Thursday after interviewing each of the teams. “I am impressed with the quality of the propos- als and the local support to rebuild, so it is encourag- ing to get moving on this project,” he said. featuring his friend Don Lien dressed as a zombie. With scorching heat bear- ing down on attendees as the event opened at 6 p.m., the dunk tank ended up being one of the best seats in the park. There were also parties hosted at the Kiwanis Park, Indian Village Apartments, and a South Hill neighbor- hood along with others. In total from each loca- tion, Studebacker projected about 400 attendees before this year’s event. After mak- ing it out to all but one of the parties Tuesday night, Stude- backer said on Wednesday that they were close to that estimate despite the heat keeping people inside. While National Night Out partners with several spon- sors around the country, Tuesday night’s parties were also supported by more than a dozen local sponsors in organizing and supplying the parties. Next year, Studebaker said she hopes to get more civic groups involved to poten- tially have a party located downtown. But after her third year coordinating the program, Studebaker feels like it’s on the right track. “I couldn’t be happier with where this is going,” she said. BRIEFLY Funland fence pickets to be available Engraved slats will be available for pickup in September in the city that call in sus- picious activity but none that have organized for- mal watches. But she’s hop- ing National Night Out has started more conversations about changing that. “That’s the primary goal,” she said. “Of the places I was at, at almost every single one, somebody asked me about a Neighborhood Watch.” For those interested, she said that organization and recruitment has to start with the neighborhoods and from there Pendleton police can provide the resources. Jesselee Leachman was another host as he organized and led the party at Roy Raley Park for the second year in a row. “Last year, I was really stressed out,” he said. “I didn’t really get to enjoy it.” That’s because Roy Raley Park was the most attended party of the 10 hosted for National Night Out last year with more than 100 people coming out. Proud of what he did the first time around, Leachman returned as a host this year to outdo his debut. 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