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RECORDS Thursday, October 17, 2019 PUBLIC SAFETY TUESDAY 7:03 a.m. — Oregon State Police responded to Shaw Road near the McKay Creek National Wildlife Refuge for a deer car- cass. The state trooper found an elk carcass missing the back- straps and hindquarters with the rest of the animal left to waste. The trooper took photos and a meat sample. The cause of death appeared to be a bullet to the elk’s head; a metal detector did not find the round. 9:26 a.m. — A resident on Washington Lane, Irrigon, com- plained about the neighbor’s black Labrador always growling at them. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office contacted the dog’s owners, who said they are working to solve the problem of the dog getting out. 9:28 a.m. — A 911 caller reported a fight at North Ott Road and East Theater Lane, Hermiston. 11:16 a.m. — Hermiston police responded to the 600 block of Northwest Spruce Street for a burglary call. 12:11 p.m. — Milton-Freewater police took a complaint about someone keying a car on the 500 block of Northwest Fourth Avenue. 1:47 p.m. — Pendleton police responded to St. Anthony Hos- pital, 2810 St. Anthony Way, for a disturbance. 3:35 p.m. — The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from residents on Depot Lane, Irrigon, about people vandalizing their fence to access a hemp field and subsequently letting their cows out. 4:14 p.m. — Hermiston police responded to an assault report on the 400 block of Northeast 10th Street. 6:50 p.m. — The Heppner fire and ambulance service and Morrow County Sheriff’s Office responded to Highway 207 out of Heppner for a UPS vehicle that crashed. The van was was in water, and the driver caught a pinky on barbed wire and suffered an injury. The driver refused medical treatment. 7:17 p.m. — A caller at the Pendleton KOA campground, 1375 S.E. Third St., asked police for options on what to do about his child’s mother, who was coming to pick up up the child and was under the influence of drugs. ARRESTS, CITATIONS •Stanfield police arrested Juan Carlos Pena, 36, of Stanfield, for felony fourth-degree assault and reckless endangering. THURSDAY, OCT. 17 TUESDAY, OCT. 22 WEST EXTENSION IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 9 a.m., Irrigon Fire Department, 705 N.E. Main St., Irrigon. An executive session may be called to discuss legal issues. (Lisa Baum 541-922-3814) HERMISTON IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 4 p.m., Hermiston Irri- gation District office conference room, 366 E. Hurlburt Ave., Hermiston. (541-567-3024) ECHO CITY COUNCIL, 4 p.m., Old VFW Hall, 210 W. Bridge St., Echo. (541-376-8411) UMATILLA-MORROW COUNTY HEAD START, 11:30 a.m., Head Start boardroom, 110 N.E. Fourth St., Hermiston. (Monina Ward 541-564-6878) IONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3:30 p.m., Ione Community School, 445 Spring St., Ione. 3:30 p.m. work session, 4:30 p.m. regular meeting. (Kim Thul 541-422-7131) UMATILLA COUNTY SPECIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT, 5:15 p.m., Pendleton Center for the Arts boardroom, 214 N. Main St., Pend- leton. (Erin McCusker 541-276-6449) UMATILLA PLANNING COMMISSION, 6:30 p.m., Umatilla City Hall, 700 Sixth St., Umatilla. (Brandon Seitz 541-922-3226 ext. 103) FRIDAY, OCT. 18 MONDAY, OCT. 21 PENDLETON JUMP START COMMITTEE, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Red Lion Inn dining area, 304 S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton. (Charles Denight 541-966-0233) NIXYAAWII COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD, 4:30 p.m., Nixy- aawii Community School, 73300 July Grounds Lane, Mission. (541-966-2680) ECHO SCHOOL DISTRICT, 6 p.m., Echo Community School, 600 Gerone St., Echo. (541-376-8436) HELIX CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Helix City Hall, 119 Columbia St., Helix. (541-457-2521) PENDLETON YOUTH COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Intermountain ESD office, 2001 S.W. Nye Ave., Pendleton. (541-276-6711) WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 BUTTER CREEK IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 8 a.m., via telephone conference, 28790 Westport Lane, Hermiston. Those interested in attending may call the district office prior to the meeting. (Bonnie Kyger 509-820-3202) ECHO IRRIGATION DISTRICT, 8:30 a.m., via telephone con- ference, 28790 Westport Lane, Hermiston. Those interested in attending may call the district office prior to the meeting. (Bon- nie Kyger 509-820-3202) MORROW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m., Bartholomew Government Building upper conference room, 110 N. Court St., Heppner. (Roberta Lutcher 541-676-9061) HERMISTON LIBRARY BOARD, 4 p.m., Hermiston Public Library, 235 E. Gladys Ave., Hermiston. (541-567-2882) Brexit ignites fears of renewed violence in Northern Ireland By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ire- land — Kate Nash says the time known as “The Trou- bles” never really ended in Northern Ireland. While the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an era of relative peace and prosperity to the U.K. region, paramilitary groups still exist and lower levels of violence continue to plague the com- munity, says the 70-year- old grandmother who lost a brother in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Brexit may cause the smoldering conflict to flare up once again, she fears, espe- cially if there are renewed customs and passport con- trols along the now-invisible border between EU member Ireland and the U.K.’s North- ern Ireland after Britain leaves the European Union. “If they’re going to man the border ... that’s really something that will start violence again,” she said. “They’ll be targets, you know, for the IRA or whoever.” Fears about a return to the violence that killed more than 3,500 people over three decades have made Northern Ireland the biggest hurdle for U.K. and EU officials who are trying to hammer out a Brexit divorce deal. Besides securing the Irish border from fraud and smuggling, they must tiptoe around anything that will inflame the tensions between those who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the U.K. and those who want it to be reunited with the Republic of Ireland. “Brexit has been the greatest existential threat to the peace process in 25 years,” said Eamon Phoenix, a historian at Queen’s Uni- versity Belfast. “The island of Ireland has enjoyed really unbroken peace for 25 years AP Photo/Peter Morrison Vehicles cross the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on Monday. after violence in which 3,500 people died ... and suddenly in the last three years, we have the risk to all that.” The EU underpinned the Good Friday peace deal, negotiated with the help of the U.S., because both Brit- ain and Ireland were mem- bers of the bloc. That meant people and goods could flow freely across the frontier and allowed authorities to tear down the hated border posts that were once a flashpoint for violence. Over the past 20 years, the Irish land border has van- ished, marked only by chang- ing speed limits and signs targeted by vandals who obscure the word “Northern” with spray paint. Yet after Brexit — which U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to happen on Oct. 31 — the Irish land bor- der will become an exter- nal EU border. Negotiators are struggling to find a way to regulate trade without rebuilding checkpoints and destroying the cross-border links that have spurred eco- nomic growth on both sides. The conflict was born almost a century ago when the Republic of Ireland, dom- inated by Catholics, won its independence but Northern Ireland, which had a Protes- tant majority, remained part LOTTERY Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 Mega Millions 04-12-14-35-70 Mega Ball: 2 Megaplier: 2 Estimated jackpot: $65 million Lucky Lines 03-07-10-16-20-22-25-32 Estimated jackpot: $19,000 Pick 4 1 p.m.: 1-4-5-1 4 p.m.: 2-2-7-2 7 p.m.: 7-1-6-4 10 p.m.: 6-9-5-7 Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019 Pick 4 1 p.m.: 9-3-1-2 A5 OBITUARIES MEETINGS No meetings scheduled East Oregonian of the U.K. In the 1960s, divi- sions over whether North- ern Ireland should be part of Britain or Ireland flared into what became known as The Troubles. The Good Friday peace deal, which includes a pow- er-sharing unity government in Northern Ireland, let peo- ple identify as British or Irish or both regardless of where they lived, Phoenix said, allowing them to cooperate and put aside long-held politi- cal aspirations. But Brexit, driven by English voters, has hard- ened those divisions. While 52% of U.K. voters backed leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum, a majority in Northern Ireland — 56% — voted to remain in the bloc. Phoenix says the Brexit vote unleashed a political Pando- ra’s box. “Suddenly those aspira- tions have been sort of prior- itized,” Phoenix said. “And that is a factor that is leading to instability.” While the peace deal ended daily mayhem, it didn’t bring about recon- ciliation in Northern Ire- land. Communities remain divided, and so-called “peace walls” that sometimes glorify gun-wielding masked men are a backdrop of daily life. On West Belfast’s Shankill Road, the Union flag bunting crisscrosses the working-class neighbor- hood. Murals celebrate loyal- ist paramilitary fighters, with one proclaiming “We seek nothing but the elementary right implanted in every man: The right if you are attacked to defend yourself.” People here are wor- ried that Johnson will sacri- fice their interests in hopes of securing a Brexit deal and say anything that treats Northern Ireland differently than the rest of the U.K. is unacceptable. “There would be an organic explosion of anger and people would take to the streets. And obviously any sensible person would be urg- ing people ... to do so peace- fully,” said Jamie Bryson, editor of the Unionist Voice. “But we all have to live in the real world and know that once mass amounts of people take to the streets, and once something happens and that genie gets out of the bottle, it’s going to be difficult to put it back in.” Others think the genie has already escaped. Jack Duffin leans on a walking stick as he leads guided tours through the still battle-scarred neighborhoods of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. A former member of the Irish Republi- can Army, Duffin still wants to reunite the island of Ireland and thinks Brexit may help achieve that goal. “We have been trying to put the border to the fore- front of the international community for years,” Duf- fin said. “Brexit has done that for us.” Some didn’t need Brexit to be reminded of these long-standing issues. In her lap, Kate Nash cradled a pic- ture of her late brother Willy, a tall, lanky 19-year-old lean- ing against a wall, guitar in his lap. Kevin M. Chapman Boardman March 1, 1975 — October 12, 2019 Kevin M. Chapman of try music. He attended The Boardman was born March Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 1, 1975, in Hamilton, Mon- ter-day Saints. tana, the son of Jack and Bon- Kevin married Merrissa nie (Coomes) Chapman. He Murray on July 7, 2012, at passed away in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Richland, Wash., He is survived on Saturday, Octo- ber 12, 2019, at the by his wife Mer- rissa; sons Cody age of 44. and Cade Chap- Kevin grew up man; parents Jack in Hamilton, Mon- tana, where he and Bonnie Chap- man; and brother attended school Jack Chapman. He and graduated from has a large family high school in the Chapman of aunts, uncles, class of 1994. He cousins, nieces and attended a techni- cal trade school in Wyoming, nephews and extended family where he studied to become a members. A memorial service will be diesel mechanic. He lived in Coos Bay, Oregon, for three held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Octo- years and has lived in the ber 19, 2019, at the Burns Mor- Hermiston and Boardman tuary chapel, 685 W. Hermis- areas since 2014. He currently ton Ave., Hermiston, Ore. The family would like to worked as a diesel mechanic for Milky Way Trucking in thank the staff at Kadlec Hos- pital for their compassion and Boardman. Kevin loved the out- caring at this difficult time. doors, animals and the Ore- To leave an online condo- gon Coast. He enjoyed clas- lence for the family please go sic cars, monster trucks, loud to www.burnsmortuaryherm- engines and listening to coun- iston.com. D. LaVern Partlow Condon October 18, 1920 — October 13, 2019 D. LaVern Partlow, long- and supporting her grandchil- time Boardman, Oregon, resi- dren playing sports, partici- dent, was born on October 18, pating in rodeo, school activi- 1920, in La Grande, Oregon, ties or any activity they chose. to parents William and Ade- LaVern was a member of the line Gent Baker. Good Shepherd She died on Octo- Lutheran Church ber 13, 2019, in where she had Condon, Oregon, at served on the board the age of 98 years. and served on the board of the Board- LaVern was man Senior Center raised and attended for many years. school in Board- man, Oregon. She She is survived then attended East- by her daughter, ern Oregon Col- Susan McLauch- lege where she lan, and sons Partlow Johnny and Ste- earned her teaching degree. LaVern taught school phen Partlow, all of Board- for a year in a one-room man, Ore.; six grandchildren; school house in Vale, Ore- 10 great-grandchildren; three gon, before getting a teaching great-great-grandchildren; position in her hometown of and numerous nieces and Boardman. She continued to nephews. LaVern was preceded in teach in Boardman and Irri- gon for 38 years. death by her parents; a grand- LaVern retired in 1979, son, Aaron Partlow; and her although she did not slow brothers Willard and Harold down. She was always very Baker. A graveside funeral ser- active in the many proj- ects and events happening vice will be held on Thursday, in Boardman. LaVern was October 17, 2019, at 11 a.m. instrumental in the plan- at the Riverview Cemetery, ning and raising the money Boardman, Oregon. needed for the building of In lieu of flowers, contri- the Boardman Senior Cen- butions in LaVern’s memory ter, relocating the Lutheran may be made to the Board- Church after the building man Senior Center. Please share memories of the John Day Dam, and countless community events of LaVern with her family at to support any cause to ben- burnsmortuaryhermiston. efit others. com. She loved playing the Burns Mortuary of Herm- piano, was an avid Trail- iston, Oregon, is in care of blazer fan, watching sports, arrangements. DEATH NOTICES Marie A. Issel Hermiston Feb. 6, 1928 — Oct. 14, 2019 Marie A. Issel, 91, of Hermiston, died Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Hermiston. She was born Feb. 6, 1928. Services are pending with Burns Mortuary of Hermiston. Share memo- ries with the family at www.burnsmortuaryhermiston.com. Edna J. Lowrance Hermiston March 14, 1931 — Oct. 14, 2019 Edna J. Lowrance, 88, of Hermiston, died Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, at her home. She was born March 14, 1931, in Campo, Colorado. A celebration of life service will be held Saturday, Oct. 26 at 11 a.m. at Landmark Missionary Bap- tist Church, 125 E. Beech St., Hermiston. Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements. Share memories with the family at www.burnsmortuaryhermiston.com. Douglas B. ‘Doug’ Paine Hermiston March 15, 1957 — Oct. 13, 2019 Douglas B. “Doug” Paine, 62, of Hermiston, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019, at his home. He was born March 15, 1957, in Hermiston. A funeral service will be held Saturday, Oct. 26 at 11 a.m. at the Hermiston Christian Center, 1825 W. Highland Ave. Burial will follow at the Hermiston Cemetery. Burns Mor- tuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements. Share memories with the family at www.burnsmortuaryhermiston.com. OBITUARY POLICY UPCOMING SERVICES The East Oregonian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include small photos and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Expanded death notices will be published at no charge. These include information about services. Obituaries and notices can be submitted online at EastOregonian. com/obituaryform, by email to obits@eastoregonian.com, by fax to 541-276-8314, placed via the funeral home or in person at the East Oregonian office. For more information, call 541-966-0818 or 1-800-522-0255, ext. 221. THURSDAY, OCT. 17 PARTLOW, LAVERN — Graveside funeral service at 11 a.m. at Riverview Cemetery, Boardman. FRIDAY, OCT. 18 GRABEEL, SCOLLAN — Graveside service with mil- itary honors at 1 p.m. at the Hermiston Cemetery. URBANSKY, GITTA — Funeral service at 2 p.m. at Burns Mortuary, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton. A grave- side service will follow at 3 p.m. at Olney Cemetery, Pendleton.