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bear arms, fi rearm acces-
sories, or ammunition,”
according to the Umatilla
County voters’ pamphlet.
“County offi cials could still
comply with fi rearms laws
that relate to convicted fel-
ons, could still participate in
the enforcement of fi rearm
crimes, and could still take
any actions necessary to
comply with court orders.”
Individuals who vio-
late the ordinance would be
subject to a $2,000 fi ne, the
measure states, and “corpo-
rations” would be subject to
a $4,000 fi ne. The measure
includes exceptions for reg-
ulation of fi rearms for those
convicted of felony crimes
or the prosecution of crimes
involving fi rearms, and
allows for an individual’s
“voluntary” participation in
fi rearm regulation.
If it were to pass, the Sec-
ond Amendment Sanctu-
ary Ordinance may subvert
Oregon law and could face
legal challenges.
A revised state statute,
ORS 166.170, explicitly
gives the Oregon Legisla-
ture sole authority to regu-
late fi rearms in the state and
voids any “county, city or
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian, File
Firearms line the wall of Smitty’s Ace Outpost in Hermiston on Feb. 5, 2020. The store is one of several locations in Umatilla
County where voters can sign a petition to declare Umatilla County a Second Amendment Sanctuary.
other municipal” ordinance
that confl icts with that
authority without the sup-
port of a state statute.
Sheriffs in other counties
where similar ordinances
are up to the voters have
weighed in, however, and
expressed concern with the
liabilities it may open their
offi ces up to.
Rowan said he’s a sup-
porter of the Second
Amendment but didn’t
know how the ordinance
would impact his offi ce’s
law enforcement, if at all,
except for the understand-
ing that regulations regard-
ing felons possessing fi re-
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football player to matriculate
from Pendleton High School
to Division I football, but
football wasn’t his favorite
sport growing up.
Rosselle’s fi rst love was
basketball, but he soon real-
ized that football would give
him more opportunities,
especially when his perfor-
mance at football camps at
OSU and the University of
Oregon garnered him atten-
tion from some big programs.
Rosselle, a defensive end,
said he chose to attend Ore-
gon State in 1997 because of
Mike Riley, the head coach
that would eventually win
93 games across two stints in
Corvallis.
Seigler grew up a world
away in Las Vegas, but he
also came to OSU because of
its head coach.
Riley
had
already
decamped for the NFL by
the time Seigler arrived on
campus in 1999, but what
sold Seigler, a linebacker,
on Riley’s successor Den-
nis Erickson was his run of
success at the University of
Miami.
In 1999, OSU had its fi rst
winning season in 29 years
and by the next season, Ros-
selle and Seigler knew they
were playing on a special
team.
Both described the intense
practices as an indicator that
Oregon State was on the rise.
“The practices were at a
level of competition that I
never thought I would be a
part of,” Rosselle said. “It was
the most competitive, aggres-
sive team day-in and day-out
that really challenged each
other to be their best.”
By the end of the season,
OSU’s fought its way to an
11-1 record, capped off with
a Fiesta Bowl victory over
Notre Dame.
The team would pro-
duce fi ve All-Americans,
including Seigler, and sev-
eral future NFL standouts,
including Chad Johnson, TJ
East Oregonian, File
In this Nov. 4, 2005, fi le photo, Pendleton’s Joe Williams
jumps on the back of defensive coach Kyle Rosselle after sev-
eral PHS players threw Rosselle face-fi rst in the mud late in
the fourth quarter.
Houshmandzadeh and Nick
Barnett.
If Division I college foot-
ball had incorporated a
playoff back in 2001, Ross-
elle was confi dent that Ore-
gon State would have been
crowned national champions.
Rosselle left OSU in 2001,
while Seigler stayed on for
a few more years, although
the Beavers were never able
to achieve the same level of
success.
The Pendleton
connection
After graduating, Ros-
selle quickly knew that he
wouldn’t have a future in pro-
fessional football.
“There’s a separation
between a high school and a
collegiate athlete,” he said.
“And there’s a bigger separa-
tion between college and the
NFL.”
Rosselle delved into K-12
education, returning to Pend-
leton in 2002 to become a
teacher at Pendleton High
School and help out as a
coach for the football team.
Career
advancement
pulled him further west, fi rst
as an athletic director in The
Dalles, then as an assistant
principal for Hood River Val-
ley High School, where he
has worked since 2013.
Seigler would play three
years in the NFL with the
49ers and Steelers, but once
he hung up his cleats, his
interests turned toward
psychology.
While Seigler’s inter-
ests were initially in provid-
ing therapy to athletes who
suffer from head trauma,
his interest in mental health
treatment broadened as he
returned to school to get his
master’s degree to become a
therapist.
Having returned to Las
Vegas, he was also looking
for a change in scenery for
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in quality from running its
own education program,
citing a press release from
the Oregon Education
Association announcing
the union’s support for the
community colleges.
In the press release, the
educators’ union states
that successful program
completion dropped by
50% and costs rose when
the Oregon State Peniten-
tiary moved its education
program in-house from
2003-06.
“We really think it’s a
disaster for the state and
its AICs,” Hernberg said.
Vanderzee
couldn’t
verify the statistic, but
added that it only applied
to one institution from 15
years ago.
Much has changed
since then, Vanderzee
wrote, including the use
of inmates as tutors and
educational software that
can adapt to the inmates’
needs.
As the year winds
down, the department
isn’t backing down from
its proposed reforms to its
adult education program.
If community colleges
wanted to keep their con-
tracts, Peters wrote in
her Sept. 30 letter, they
would need to agree to a
list of requirements deter-
mined by the DOC. The
colleges could take it or
leave it, but the require-
ment list wasn’t meant to
act as an opening offer for
negotiations.
Instead of each college
negotiating its own con-
tract, each school would
need to agree to a stan-
dardized contract that
would pay out based on
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each prison’s capacity.
Additionally, each school
would also need to offer
fl exible class schedules
and year-round educa-
tion, disregarding school
or term breaks.
Regardless of who
leads the adult education
programs, the DOC wants
to continue contracting
out vocational training.
Cam Preus, the exec-
utive director of the Ore-
gon Community College
Association and a former
BMCC president, said
her organization is act-
ing as a “convener” for
the community colleges
that are affected by the
state’s decision, which
also includes the commu-
nity colleges in Portland,
Salem, Bend, Ontario and
Coos Bay.
Preus said the college
presidents and their staff
are currently formulat-
ing a response to Peters’
letter, but have indicated
that they need more time
to study the proposed
funding formula and look
at how the new require-
ments would affect their
institutions.
“We are committed to
the success of adults in
custody,” she said.
In the meantime, the
colleges and their labor
unions are trying to rally
support for their cause.
Hernberg said BMCC’s
faculty union has already
put in calls into the gov-
ernor’s offi ce and is orga-
nizing an effort to call
legislators.
The college is trying
to stave off another round
of cuts after encountering
a $2.8 million shortfall
earlier this year. BMCC
closed the gap by elim-
inating two dozen posi-
tions, cutting half of them
through layoffs.
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his wife and three kids.
Seigler had stayed in
touch with his OSU team-
mates after college, and Ros-
selle was always singing
Pendleton’s praises.
When he and his wife
decided to take a tour of the
Northwest, Pendleton was
included as a top.
Seigler’s fi rst experience
with Pendleton was the 2018
Round-Up, and although the
town is much different the
other 51 weeks of the year, he
was sold.
He moved his family
and opened his practice,
Enrich Therapy, on South-
west Frazer Avenue. Ross-
elle’s family helped erect the
sign for the business, which
specializes in treating anxi-
ety, depression and relational
confl ict between couples.
“That’s just Beavers help-
ing Beavers,” he said.
Besides the fact that his
commute into work only
takes a few minutes, he loves
the people and the way they
come together as a com-
munity. He’s now involved
in “Healthy Body, Healthy
Mind,” an upcoming Pend-
leton initiative meant to
boost students’ mental health
through a combination of
physical education and
social-emotional learning.
Seigler has tried to stay
out of the spotlight since his
playing days, a small photo
of Reser Stadium the only
indication of his OSU star-
dom that hangs in his coun-
seling offi ce.
Despite all the differing
paths Seigler, Rosselle and
his teammates have taken,
Seigler said he still stays
in contact with them all
the time through a running
group chat.
“It’s a solid fraternity,” he
said.
arms and policing crimes
involving them would still
be enforceable.
“We’ll just have to see
how it all plays out,” Rowan
said.
Umatilla County Coun-
sel Doug Olsen didn’t return
multiple requests for com-
ment on the ordinance.
Regardless of what vot-
ers decide on Measure
30-145, Umatilla County
already approved an ordi-
nance to protect the right to
bear arms in 2018 with 65%
of the vote.
The Second Amendment
Preservation
Ordinance,
which would not be altered
or removed by the pas-
sage of the sanctuary ordi-
nance, currently restricts
the county from using
resources to enforce state
or federal laws that infringe
on the constitutional right to
keep and bear arms, while
simultaneously granting the
sheriff the authority to rule
on the constitutionality of
those laws.
In 2008, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled in Dis-
trict of Columbia v. Heller
that the Second Amend-
ment right to bear arms was
not unlimited and could be
regulated.
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