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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
East Oregonian
BRIEFLY
People of the corn
Inmate dies at
state prison in
Umatilla
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Nick Faertta (carrying Nevaeh Faretta, 1) and Crystal Campos (carrying Aaliyah Campos, 2) wander through the Echo
Corn Maze on Sunday afternoon.
U M A-
TILLA —
The Oregon
Department
of Correc-
tions reported
the death of
Breneman
an inmate
at the state
prison in Umatilla.
Richard Lynn Breneman
died Sunday morning at Two
Rivers Correctional Institu-
tion. As with all in-custody
deaths, according to the the
corrections department, the
prison contacted Oregon State
Police, and the medical exam-
iner will determine cause of
death. The state also notifi ed
Breneman’s relatives.
Breneman was 79. He
entered state corrections cus-
tody on July 29, 2011, accord-
ing to state records, after
a Crook County jury con-
victed him of fi rst-degree
manslaughter.
Two Rivers Correctional
Institution in 2000 and houses
approximately 1,800 inmates
in medium and minimum
security.
Hermiston city
manager elected to
League of Oregon
Cities board
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Emmett Seeger, left, and Baylor Bronson navigate the hay bale maze set up next to the Echo Corn Maze during a Sunday
afternoon outing with their moms.
SA L E M
—
When
the board of
directors for
the League
of Oregon
Cities con-
Smith
venes
in
2020, it will
include two representatives
from Eastern Oregon.
The league announced
Monday that Hermiston
City Manager Byron Smith
has been elected to its board
of directors by the general
membership.
Smith joins Pendleton
City Councilor Paul Chalm-
ers on the 15-seat board,
which is comprised of munic-
ipal elected offi cials and city
administrators from across
the state. Chalmers is starting
his third year on the board
after he joined it in 2018.
According to a press
release, the league is an asso-
ciation dedicated to “provid-
ing advocacy services, policy
consultation,
intergovern-
mental relations assistance,
networking and training,
technical assistance and pub-
lications” to all of Oregon’s
incorporated cities.
Morgan receives
ICMA credential
HERMISTON — Assis-
tant City Manager Mark
Morgan recently received the
Credentialed Manager desig-
nation from the International
City/County Management
Association.
According to a news
release from the city of
Hermiston, Morgan is one
of 24 active city administra-
tors in Oregon credentialed
through the program. Herm-
iston City Manager Byron
Smith is another.
Morgan has a master’s
degree in public administra-
tion from Eastern Washing-
ton University, where he was
named the H. George Freder-
ickson Honor’s Graduate. He
has more than eight years of
executive local government
experience, including time in
Pullman and Cheney, Wash-
ington, and has been Herm-
iston’s assistant city manager
since 2012.
As part of Morgan’s
ICMA membership, he com-
pleted a two-year leadership
program, was accepted into
the ICMA Fellows program
in 2011 and was awarded
the Washington City/County
Managers Association’s Edu-
cational Fellowship in 2011.
Smith said in a statement
that Morgan “shows respect
for his colleagues and the res-
idents he interacts with every
day.”
He’s committed to trans-
parency and works to make
Hermiston a better place to
live,” Smith said.
— East Oregonian staff
Eastern Oregon could
get cold this week
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
calendar says it’s fall, but
this week’s temperatures
suggest a preview of winter
is coming.
According
to
the
National Weather Service
Forecast Offi ce in Pendle-
ton, light snow will sweep
through Eastern Oregon’s
higher elevations on Tues-
day before giving way to
bone-chilling temperatures
across the region for the rest
of the week.
Ann Adams, an assis-
tant meteorologist for the
service, explained how a
front from British Columbia
would lead to colder tem-
peratures back home.
“All of that is this large
area of colder air that’s
dropped in from the North-
west,” she said.
Although Pendleton and
other lower lying communi-
ties are unlikely to get snow,
it’s a different story in local
mountain ranges.
Adams said the north-
ern Blue Mountains and the
Eagle Caps should see about
2 to 3 inches of snow.
Less snowfall is expected
south of the Eagle Caps.
Adams said Tollgate
(elevation: 5,045 feet) is
expected to get 2 inches
of snow while Meacham
(2,694 feet above sea level)
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covering the foothills of the Blue Mountains in December
2017 east of Pendleton. The region is expected to experience
colder weather in the coming days, as well as snow at higher
elevations, according to forecasts from the National Weath-
er Service.
should get about 1 inch.
But once the storm
moves east and the cloud
cover dissipates, cold tem-
peratures are forecasted to
be felt across the region.
The weather service
anticipates Pendleton will
be sunny Wednesday with
a low of 24 degrees in the
evening. Thursday evening
will add little in the way of
respite, reaching a low of 26
degrees.
Hermiston will experi-
ence a similar trend, with
the weather service fore-
casting a Wednesday low of
25 degrees and a Thursday
low of 27.
Adams said many tem-
peratures expected across
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