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MR. AND MS. DALLAS PAGEANT CENTRAL BASEBALL Page 12A Volume 142, Issue 16 LUIS AMADOR Page 10A www.Polkio.com April 19, 2017 $1.00 URA considers old armory building IN YOUR TOWN Urban Renewal committee recommends buying land for development By Jolene Guzman The Itemizer-Observer DALLAS — The Dallas Urban Renewal Agency Board reversed course on its decision last year to not purchase the former Dallas Armory site on Church Street in downtown. The board approved moving forward with a $100,000 sale Monday, fol- lowing a presentation by Urban Renewal District Ad- visory Committee chair- man David Shein. “As you recall, the middle of last year, we recommend- ed against acquiring the property,” he said. “There was a whole laundry list of reasons why. All of those circumstances have now changed from unfavorable to favorable.” The most critical issue at time was environmental re- mediation required on the site. The process didn’t have a clear end date. Now it’s nearing conclu- sion, said a representative of current site owner Ore- gon Military Department. The department esti- mates the Oregon Depart- ment of Environmental Quality will clear the site this fall and issue a “no fur- ther action” letter, said Art Arroyo, of OMD. Arroyo said the process has taken so long because the OMD has had to moni- tor the site for three years. It has tested clean after OMD’s clean-up efforts. “We have no intentions of selling the property until we have the no fur- ther action letter,” Arroyo said. “Until we see that let- ter, we’re not going to re- lease the property because we don’t want that liability going somewhere else.” Shein said another factor is the reduction in the price from $125,000 to $100,000, to be paid for with a $10,000 down payment and three annual payments of $30,000 interest free. “Which gives us plenty of time to turn the property around and sell it and get the money back,” Shein said. In another change from last July, there’s a buyer in- terested in the property, a local resident who plans to build a bakery on the site. Arroyo said that party ap- proached OMD to pur- chase it directly, but OMD preferred to sell the prop- erty to the URA. “The way that worked out, we had the buyer, but we didn’t have any real control over what they were going to do, but the city does,” Arroyo said. “That’s why it seemed more logical for us to sell it to the city. The city would, in turn, sell it to her and would be able put the con- trols on to what the devel- opment would be going for.” See ARMORY, Page 6A DALLAS Proposed budget would add more staff. »Page 3A FALLS CITY City reaches agree- ment with green Haven on rates. »Page 2A MONMOUTH No rules in self-defense Two in custody after fatal crash Deputies searching for one person of interest Itemizer-Observer staff report RICKREALL — Police ar- rested a McMinnville man Sunday on charges related to Friday’s fatal motorcycle crash. Brenden James Duck, 19, has been charged with criminally negligent homi- cide, felony hit-and-run, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, first-degree criminal mischief and pos- session of meth. He is in custody at the Polk County Jail on $160,000 bail. At about 6:30 a.m. on Friday, OSP responded to the motorcycle crash on Highway 22 near milepost 14. The victim of the acci- dent is James Rudolph Os- redkar, 43, of Sheridan, ac- cording to OSP reports. Shortly after arriving on the scene of the motorcy- cle crash, OSP was notified of a vehicle fire on Ford Street in Rickreall. OSP determined that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Lincoln County sev- eral days earlier. Evidence at the scene of the motor- cycle crash links the stolen vehicle to the fatality, OSP reports said. OSP located and ques- tioned Michala Ann Brown, 22, and Jessica Jaeger, 19, of Sheridan. Brown was arrested on a probation violation. A fourth person of interest, Makayla Aldeguer, hasn’t been found. If you have information on this case, call OSP Dis- patch at 1-800-452-7888. THE NEXT 7 DAYS PLANNING FOR YOUR WEEK Monmouth utilities adds online manage- ment capabilities. »Page 6A By Jolene Guzman SPORTS The Itemizer-Observer Dallas girls golf team looks to prove it’s among the league’s best. DALLAS — There are no rules when you are defend- ing yourself. “This isn’t a boxing match; it isn’t a wrestling match; it isn’t martial arts,” said Polk County Sgt. Jason Ball at Sat- urday’s basic self-defense class in Dallas. “You need to do anything and everything in your power to stop or thwart an attack and get away.” Ball said that’s the attitude women and girls — or any- body, really — must have when it comes to self-defense. In 2016 in Polk County, there were 213 victims of do- mestic or family violence and 117 victims of physical or sexual assault. Ball told the women and girls in Saturday’s class to vi- sualize what they would do to avoid becoming one of those numbers. “You need to mentally prepare yourself,” Ball said. “If you are on a long drive, whatever it is, think about what’s going to happen, what am I going to do if someone jumps up from be- hind and grabs me? What am I going to do if someone comes up face-to-face and grabs me and attacks me?” Those mental re- hearsals — along with train- ing from a self-defense or martial arts class — will pre- vent you from “freezing” if it does happen to you. “Rehearse how you would fight and we always win; we never lose,” he said. “Never, never, never, never.” Sgt. Mike Redding, Ball’s partner in teaching the class, adds to that, “The bad guys should hurt a little bit if they are trying to attack you.” The techniques taught Saturday: eye gouges, foot stomps, shin grazes, jaw, ear and nose strikes, and effec- tive use of elbows, knees and feet certainly could accom- plish that objective. But that is secondary to the overall goal — the real win — of getting away from an attack, or avoiding one to begin with. Ball said attackers, wed Instead of taking a car, grab a bicycle and go for a ride to help celebrate na- tional Bicycle Day. Rain Hi: 58 Lo: 45 »Page 10A EDUCATION Dallas school District receives results from radon tests. »Page 3A Indy Station under new ownership Itemizer-Observer staff report InDEPEnDEnCE — Pyatt/Broadmark, out of seattle, has taken owner- ship of Independence sta- tion. The company will do market research and see what makes sense, City Manager David Clyne said. “It’s good, the fact that it has finally changed hands,” Clyne said. Fire district to hold public forums Itemizer-Observer staff report Lukas EggEn/Itemizer-Observer Sgt. Mike Redding and Sgt. Jason Ball demonstrate a self-defense technique during a class on Saturday morning. whether they are strangers or someone you know, all go through the same decision- making process — observe, orient, decide and act, also called an OODA loop — when trying to overcome a victim. At first, attackers will have the advantage, so the strate- gy is to use your own OODA loop to throw theirs off. For example, an attacker may not anticipate a victim stomping on his foot or dig- ging the heel of a shoe into his shin. That may cause enough distraction and pain to the attacker for you to run. Getting away is the objec- tive, not grappling with your attacker. “Unless you’ve trained a lot or are very experienced in martial arts, you should never stand here and fight this person,” Ball said. All the while, you should be screaming to draw atten- tion to the situation and that you need help. “Good people are going to come to your aid,” Redding said. “Fortunately, the bad guys are the minority.” Ball said Saturday’s class had 21 women and girls, up from seven in the first class. Laura Dotson said she no- ticed a flyer for the class at her church and decided to take two of her daughters, Dorathy and Courtney. “I took a few defense classes when I was my daughters’ age and I realized that my daughters have never had the opportunity, and I really wanted that for them,” Laura Dotson said. “It’s a great mom-daughter date just to get started be- cause I have four beautiful daughters. I want them to feel confident and know how to protect themselves and know what to do if they are ever in a dangerous or difficult situation.” Dorathy said she thought the most critical part of the training is to get away. “It’s not just standing and fighting. It’s being able to break out quickly and inca- pacitate them for couple seconds while you can run away,” she said. See DEFENSE, Page 5A thu fri sat sun The Independence Elks Lodge hosts a veterans night each third Thursday. Din- ner is served, with Bunco for families. 6:30 p.m. Free. get ready for Earth Day by upcycling crafts at Independ- ence Public Library’s Fab Fridays. 4 p.m. Free. Downtown Dallas association will host a community cleanup downtown today in honor of Earth Day. 9 a.m. Free. Chuck neighbors, professional drama- tist, will perform, “not the way I heard it,” at salt Creek Baptist Church. 10:50 a.m. Free. Showers Hi: 57 Lo: 38 Sunny Hi: 68 Lo: 45 Cloudy Hi: 62 Lo: 44 Cloudy Hi: 60 Lo: 43 DaLLas — southwest- ern Polk Rural Fire Protec- tion District will hold com- munity forums on its 15- year, $5 million bond measure on Thursday and Tuesday. Thursday’s forum is at Dallas Fire station, 915 sE shelton st., Dallas at 6 p.m. Tuesday, the forum is at salt Creek Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 15075 salt Creek Road, Dallas. For more information, 503-831-3533. Newsletter Want to be more con- nected? sign-up to receive the Itemizer-Observer newsletter at www.pol- kio.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for updates and more. mon Learn about hardy fuchsias at the Dal- las garden Club’s monthly meeting, Evangelical Bible Church, Dallas. 6:30 p.m. Free. Rain Hi: 55 Lo: 46 tue Check out the work of Dallas artist Jim Rupp, on display through april at the Dallas Public Li- brary. 10 a.m.-7p.m. Free. Showers Hi: 56 Lo: 44
