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April 19, 2017
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Learn about hardy
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Check out the work
of Dallas artist Jim
Rupp, on display
through april at the
Dallas Public Li-
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10 a.m.-7p.m. Free.
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