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Newspaper Page TextREGION Saturday, October 26, 2019 East Oregonian A3 Safely dispose of prescriptions The sorting hat Local facilities have drop-off sites available year-round By JESSICA POLLARD East Oregonian UMATILLA COUNTY — Saturday is National Pre- scription Drug Take Back Day, according to the Drug Enforcement Administra- tion. Hospitals and police departments are urging people to safely dispose of expired or unwanted pre- scription medications. The Good Shepherd Clinic Pharmacy in Herm- iston installed a secure pre- scription medication drop off a few months ago, according to Ulysses Garcia, a phar- macy technician at the clinic. He said that people often try to ﬂ ush old drugs down the toilet. “If they ﬂ ush them, they get into the water system,” he said. “A lot of times, other people will get into someone’s medication. No one should take expired medication.” Garcia said that the drop-off box is always available during the phar- macy’s business hours. “We don’t just do this on National Drug Take Back Day,” he said. “We have it year-round.” Oregon Public Broadcast- ing wrote in 2016 that Ore- gon doesn’t test its water for pharmaceutical drugs. But a decade ago, the Associated Press conducted a study that found traces of drugs, like Prozac and antibiotics, were present in drinking water across America’s cities. Some scientists and waste specialists think ﬂ ushing might take part of the blame. Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts is concerned about unused prescription drugs — particularly nar- cotics — making their way into the community. He said there’s a drop-off in the Pendleton Police Depart- ment lobby from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Roberts said people shouldn’t feel nervous about coming to drop off their old medications and that the pro- cess is anonymous. “You don’t have to talk to people,” he said. “We don’t take any information and we’re happy to receive those narcotics.” The drop-off won’t be open for Saturday’s Take Back Day, but Roberts said the department partners with St. Anthony Hospital every spring to collect unwanted or expired medications. After the medications are collected, they are securely stored at the police depart- ment before being trans- ported to Spokane, Washing- ton, or Banks for incineration a few times a year. Roberts said if someone can’t make it down to the drop-off, they can give the police department a call. “Just bag them up. Even if it’s a situation where some- one might have surplus med- ications, we’ll pick them up. This is a signiﬁ cant issue,” he said. The Hermiston Police Department will be partici- pating on Saturday, and has a similar drop-off box in the police station lobby. It’s open 24 hours a day. Drop-off sites do not accept needles, liquids or sharps. In a recent news release, the Hermiston Police Depart- ment said in the past 17 years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has received almost 12 million pounds of pills through National Drug Take Back Day. Council may give up right-of-way By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian HERMISTON — The Hermiston City Council will consider vacating an unde- veloped right-of-way for Southeast 10th Street during its Monday meeting. If the city gives up the right-of-way to the prop- erty owners, it would clear the way for development of property between East Feedville Road and East Penney Avenue. The staff report on the proposal does not say who the developer is, but does list the property as part of a long-term enter- prise agreement. The city recently approved such an agreement with Amazon. Nearby, the city is con- sidering forming a local improvement district that would require adjacent property owners to con- tribute toward paving the remainder of Campbell Drive, installing water and sewer mains in the area and paving a different sec- tion of the Southeast 10th Street right-of-way, con- necting East Penney Avenue to Highway 395 across from Bellinger Farms. The city will reopen a hearing Monday on the mat- ter, which it continued for 90 days while waiting to hear IF YOU GO The Hermiston City Council meets Monday at 7 p.m. at city hall, 180 N.E. Second St. To view the full agenda packet, visit hermiston.or.us/ meetings. back about a federal grant that would pay for about half the project. Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan pre- viously said if the city does not receive the grant it does not plan to form the LID. Also on the agenda are three sections of the city’s code of ordinances that city staff have proposed updates to. One code, governing use of security alarms, has not been enforced since the 1990s and staff have recom- mended it be deleted alto- gether. Two other codes, regarding trials by jury and local initiative processes, need to be updated to con- form with current state law. The city council will also consider a request to rezone 5 acres north of Walmart, between Highway 395 and Northeast Fourth Street. Eastern Oregon Develop- ment LLC has requested the zoning change from C-2 outlying commercial to include a neighborhood overlay. The change would add mini-storage and apart- ment complexes to the list of allowable uses. According to the staff report by City Planner Clint Spencer, the devel- oper intends to place a stor- age unit business there. The city’s planning commission has recommended the city council deny the request, based on the unique posi- tion the property has as one of the few undeveloped sites left on that stretch of High- way 395, making it a good candidate for future retail development. “This property lies within an area that city staff have begun feasibility anal- ysis for potentially creating a second urban renewal dis- trict. It is the city’s conten- tion that utilizing an urban renewal district to construct a new east/west connection and signal will eliminate the constraints on this property and open the entire area for retail development,” Spen- cer wrote. 10/25-10/27 Cineplex Show Times $5 Classic Movie Naomi Molina, 5, lis- tens to the sorting hat during her visit to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wiz- ardry, aka the Uma- tilla City Hall, during Friday’s downtown trick-or-treat event. Madison Finck, play- ing the role of Moan- ing Myrtle of Harry Potter fame, assists the little girl. Staﬀ photo by Kathy Aney BRIEFLY Shed ﬁ re doused near Hermiston VFW leads to the conviction of the driver who killed her. Cobarubias was killed Aug. 31 about 2:30 a.m. on Highway 395 near Sherrell Chevrolet, in a hit-and-run crash while she was walk- ing along the road pushing a shopping cart. Left behind at the scene was a passenger-side mirror and a dark red bumper that appeared to belong to an Acura Integra from between 1994-2001. On Thursday afternoon, OSP released two stills from a security camera that they believe show the vehicle in question in the parking lot of Rocket Mart, which is just north of the crash site. They are requesting that anyone who can identify the vehicle or was in the area of Rocket Mart on Aug. 31 about 2:30 a.m. call Oregon State Police by dialing *OSP (*677). They can reference case number SP19-313012. HERMISTON — Smoke ﬁ lled the sky on South Highway 395 Fri- day morning as Uma- tilla County Fire District 1 arrived to a structure ﬁ re on Cherry Lane, near the Hermiston Veterans of For- eign Wars building. According to Battal- ion Chief Ed Clark, a shed behind a home caught ﬁ re after 10:30 a.m. on Friday. He said by the time ﬁ re- ﬁ ghters arrived, ﬂ ames were shooting in the air. The ﬁ re was put out within 10 minutes, but the shed was a complete loss. No one was injured in the ﬁ re, and the blaze did not spread to the nearby home. Clark said the cause of the ﬁ re is still under investigation. Family offering reward for crash information Willow Creek Reservoir health advisory lifted HERMISTON — The family of Antonia Coba- rubias is offering a $1,000 reward for information that SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority has lifted the recreational use health DEAR DRIVER, YOUR RIDE HAS ARRIVED. GET IN AND LET’S GO! 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