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Wallowa County Chieftain News wallowa.com March 18, 2015 A5 6XSSRUWHUVSXVKDGGLWLRQDOJXQFRQWURO check before transferring a gun to another person, such checks are not required. SALEM — Supporters of “That loophole does allow expanded gun sale background people to buy guns, no questions checks are renewing their push asked, without a background for legislation in the Oregon check,” said Mark Prentice, capitol this week. press secretary for Americans The Oregon Alliance for for Responsible Solutions. Gun Safety and the national Nine other states and the group Americans for Respon- District of Columbia already sible Solutions, founded by require people to pass back- former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle ground checks before purchas- Giffords and her husband Mark ing guns online or directly from Kelly, are bringing medical pro- another person, although two fessionals to the capitol Tues- of the states — Maryland and day to lobby for background Pennsylvania — only extend- checks before Internet and other ed that requirement to handgun person-to-person gun sales. sales. Oregonians already must Sen. Floyd Prozanski, pass background checks in or- D-Eugene, is drafting legisla- GHU WR SXUFKDVH ¿UHDUPV DW OL tion that could be introduced by censed dealers and gun shows. the end of this month to expand It is illegal for people in the the requirement for background VWDWHWRKDYH¿UHDUPVLIWKH\DUH checks to Internet and per- convicted felons, or were civ- son-to-person sales. illy committed to a psychiatric After the November elec- treatment facility or prohibited tion, Democrats in the Legisla- E\DFRXUWIURPKDYLQJ¿UHDUPV ture said the outlook to expand due to mental illness. background checks was bet- Although private individuals ter in 2015 than it had been in can request a state background years because of their expanded %\+LOODU\%RUUXG Capital Bureau majorities in both chambers and voters’ approval of a similar ex- pansion in Washington. Demo- crats attempted unsuccessfully to pass a handful of gun-related bills in 2013, after shootings in December of 2012 at Clacka- mas Town Center and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. In 2014, they tried again to pass a bill to ex- pand background checks to in- clude private gun transfers but the bill ran into opposition from Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scap- poose and Senate Republicans and ultimately died in commit- tee. At this point in the session, lawmakers have fewer options to introduce new legislation but Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Port- land, said the proposal to ex- pand background checks will be introduced as a priority bill. “I’m optimistic about its chances,” Burdick said. Law- makers do face some deadlines, including that they must post notice of a work session on a bill by April 10. Prozanski said he is draft- ing legislation based on the 2014 bill to expand background checks, with some amendments to provide even broader exemp- tions when guns are transferred among family members. He said background checks are ef- fective at keeping guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, but state law currently contains a major loop- hole. “So in the parking lot of a gun show, on the Internet, in your backyard, everywhere, those (sales), are currently not required to have a background check,” Prozanski said. Prozanski is a former deputy district attorney who also expe- rienced the impact of gun vio- lence in the early 1970s, when his older sister was murdered by her boyfriend. The family lived in Texas, and Prozanski was in high school at the time. His sis- ter was trying to leave her boy- friend, who was a drug dealer. “The guy that killed her had a gun, of course, and he was a felon,” Prozanski said. Prozanski said he is a gun owner, but considers back- ground checks for all non-fam- ily transfers to be “a reasonable step.” In addition to the back- ground check expansion, Prozanski’s bill will likely have two other components. One would broaden the existing provision on mental illness, to begin requiring judges to decide whether people mandated to re- ceive outpatient mental health treatment should be allowed to keep their weapons. “What we’re going to do is just have the court make a de- termination when someone is ordered into outpatient treat- ment for mental health, whether WKH\VKRXOGKDYHDFFHVVWR¿UH arms during their mental health crisis,” Prozanski said. The bill would also codify former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s policy that required the Oregon State Police to notify local law enforcement when someone who cannot legally purchase a gun, such as a felon, attempts to do so. Kitzhaber adopted the policy after Senate Repub- lican Leader Sen. Ted Ferrio- li, R-John Day, sent a letter to the governor pointing out OSP has authority to follow up on failed background checks. A spokeswoman for Senate Re- publicans said they would wait WRFRPPHQWXQWLOPRUHVSHFL¿F information on the planned leg- islation is available. It’s unclear whether gun control supporters have enough support to push through other priorities this session, such as yet-to-be-introduced legislation that would make it a crime for DQDGXOWWROHDYHD¿UHDUPLQD location where a child can ac- cess it. Jake Weigler, a spokesman for the Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety, said 27 other states and the District of Columbia have laws under which “basically you are criminally negligent if you leave your weapon un- locked and your child gets ac- cess to it.” The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group Dog bite; assault; DUII accident; out of control juvenile Dispatch Log 0DUFK 5:52 a.m. Cell 911 for Enter- prise ambulance. 9:37 a.m. Dog bite com- plaint in rural Joseph. 9:49 a.m. St. Bernard found in rural Enterprise. Reunited with owner. 1:58 p.m. Follow-up inves- tigation. SP7UDI¿FVWRSLQ-R seph. 3:48 p.m. Dog as a public nuisance complaint in Joseph. 5:49 p.m. Rural Wallowa WUDI¿FVWRS 8:29 p.m. 911 call for ambu- lance in Wallowa. 0DUFK Cell 911 public assist for stuck vehicle. FOR THE RECORD 11:38 a.m. 911 for ambu- lance in Joseph. 2:38 p.m. Darrel Wayne May, 46, Lostine, cited and re- leased on assault-4 charge stem- ming from 3/8/15 incident. 6:20 p.m. Life Line request- ing ambulance in Wallowa. 0DUFK 8:32 a.m. Dog at large in ru- ral Joseph. 10:26 a.m. Ambulance call for rural Joseph. 1:15 p.m. Controlled burn in Wallowa. 1:50 p.m. 911 requesting ambulance in rural Joseph. 2:09 p.m. 911 reporting an assault in Enterprise. 3:03 p.m. Report of solicit- ing in Enterprise. 4:46 p.m. Barking dog com- plaint in Enterprise. 5:48 p.m. Safe Guard securi- ty reporting a burglary alarm at Enterprise business. 6:05 p.m. Loose calf in rural Enterprise. 7:56 p.m. After receiving 911 call reporting motor ve- hicle hitting bicyclist, police arrested Charles Dennis Ander- son, 70, Enterprise. Charged with DUII and careless driving contributing to an accident. 10:26 p.m. Welfare check in Enterprise. 0DUFK 8:59 a.m. Public assist. 10:17 a.m. Civil dispute in Enterprise. 10:50 a.m. Agency assist. 3:55 p.m. Agency assistance in Enterprise. 4:30 p.m. Request for wel- fare check in Enterprise. 5:35 p.m. Barking dog com- plaint in Enterprise. SP7UDI¿FVWRSLQUX ral Joseph. 9:59 p.m. Joseph 911 for En- terprise ambulance at Wallowa Lake. 0DUFK 9:03 a.m. 911 for ambulance in rural Enterprise. 2:15 p.m. 911 reporting smoke on Alder Slope. 4:18 p.m. Report of con- trolled burn in rural Enterprise. 8:04 p.m. Lost black and white German Wirehaired Pointer in Joseph. 10:12 p.m. Non-emergency 911 from Joseph. /HWWHUVFladry costly and ineffective Continued from Page A4 Mr. Sykes and I have never met or talked nor has he even been to my place and seen how I handle, treat and care for my animals or know the costs and budgets of my business so why does he need and desire to tell me how to think and feel and how I should do my job? If he truly appreciated and admired the Canadian gray wolf why is he helping to set the wolf up for failure in a settled 2015 landscape while envisioning the landscape and timber wolf of the 1915 era? I believe his closing with the public land grazing issue shows the true agenda and it has nothing to do with the wolf other than using it as a pawn to try and destroy and ruin the economics and lives of those of us that make up the livestock industry. /RUL%XWWHU¿HOG Joseph Motive unknown LQIR[¶VNLOOLQJ 7RWKH(GLWRU Can you please answer me this? What sort of person would rather see a whimsical cay- enne-red fox shot dead and hang- ing from a barbed-wire fence than FDYRUWLQJZLWKLWVNLWVLQD¿HOGRI buttercups? The fox den on the Ant Flat Road is a source of delight — and a photographic destination — for many who walk/bike by it on a regular basis. I felt sick and sad at yester- day’s sighting — a fairly common human reaction to wanton killing. And while I don’t condone the quaint local custom of sport-shoot- ing such “varmints” as badgers and coyotes, I can understand a rancher’s rationale for wanting to do so. But a fox? I’ll wager the ma- jority of humans have never even seen one in the wild. It’s akin to de- claring open season on unicorns. The only reason I can fathom for someone to so cavalierly snuff out such a blithe spirit is because he’s jealous of its freedom. C.M. Sterbentz Enterprise 0DUFK 3:01 a.m. 911 report of do- mestic in rural Enterprise. 11:51 a.m. Complaint of dog as public nuisance in Enterprise. 2:57 p.m. Complaint of out of control juvenile in Enterprise. 6:19 p.m. Information call in Enterprise. 9:05 p.m. Theft complain in Joseph. 0DUFK 3:53 911 report of rural Wal- ORZD¿UH 9:12 a.m. Public assist in En- terprise. 10:21 a.m. Report of Joseph burglary. 11:57 a.m. Information, Joseph. 6:52 p.m. 911 non-emergen- cy call from Lostine. 11:01 p.m. Enterprise public assist. Circuit Court 0DUFK *DU\ (DUO 6WXEEOH¿HOG Enterprise, pleaded guilty to one count of wildlife violation. Sentenced to three years loss of hunting license, letter of apology, ¿QHG Corey Nathaniel Holt, 26, En- terprise, pleaded guilty to deliv- ery of marijuana. Sentenced to 24 months supervised probation, 15 GD\V:RUN&UHZDQG¿QHG Jefferey Harrison Hull, 30, El- gin, pleaded guilty to 1st degree forgery, sentenced to 24 months supervised probation, 10 days MDLO¿QHV3OHDGHGJXLOW\WRLGHQ tity theft. Sentenced to 24 months supervised probation, 10 days MDLOWRWDORI¿QHVFRXUW fees, restitution on both charges. Are you overwhelmed with the stress? 5HTXHVWLQJLWHPV UHODWHGWR2UHJRQ postcards, maps, pictures, sou- venirs, general information, this Do you feel hopeless or has newspaper article, or any other the joy gone out of your life? 7RWKH(GLWRU items that would be useful. I ap- Are you struggling to keep Dear Readers — Hello! I am preciate anything you can send! your family together? D ¿IWK JUDGH VWXGHQW LQ :DVK Thank you for taking time LQJWRQVWDWH,Q¿IWKJUDGHDWRXU to read my letter. 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It could be things like The 17th Annual Rocky Mountain I can help! Jeff Harman, MA., LPC W Name: ______________________________ Amount: ______________________________ Address: ______________________________ E-mail and Phone: ______________________________ Donations may be sent to: Friends of Enterprise Cemetery C/O Sondra Lozier, 104 W Main, Enterprise, OR 97828 Now you can get stress echocardiograms right here at Wallowa Memorial Hospital… • New technology allows an ultrasound of the heart • Better diagnostics during stress tests means improved outcomes • No more driving out of the county for this important test Ask your physician today for a referral for a stress echocardiogram! We treat you like family 601 Medical Parkway, Enterprise, OR 97828 • 541-426-3111 • www.wchcd.org Wallowa Memorial Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and provider. C Elk Foundation Banquet FRIENDS OF ENTERPRISE CEMETERY FUND The sole purpose of the FRIENDS OF ENTERPRISE CEMETERY grassroots movement is to assist in restoration of the Enterprise Cemetery. Many have expressed a desire to participate in this cause, so an account has been established at The Bank of Eastern Oregon in Enterprise for anyone wishing to make donations. Donors will receive recognition of gift and information quarterly of activity; full disclosure is available to anyone at any time. Your donation is not tax deductible. M "Thank You" for the best ever! This year we raised over $45,000 net to aid in habitat restoration that benefits all wildlife. 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