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STATE
Overwhelmed by illegal pot, Oregon county declares emergency
traditional substitute license
but mandates impactful
administrative support for
the emergency licensed sub,”
Rosilez said. “This license
will allow school districts
to reach a wider pool of
potential substitute teach-
ers. In terms of the number
of people who are applying
for sub licenses, we can see
that number is signifi cantly
down.”
New licenses can take up
to seven weeks to process.
In the Banks School
District, which has about
1,050 students in rural
Washington County, middle
school principal Darla Waite-
Larkin said she submits to a
third-party contractor called
Education Staffi ng Solu-
tions, for around 10 positions
each day, some of which are
unfi lled staff positions. She
said before the pandemic,
the district traditionally has
been able to fi ll positions
open for hire and therefore
not rely on substitutes as
the pandemic hinders in-
person learning.
“It is a last-minute fi x,
and there isn’t much time to
prepare for a quality lesson.
We have also had to com-
bine classes and change the
lesson plan for the day to
provide a lesson for students
By DILLON MULLAN
Pamplin Media Group
Oregon is relaxing
requirements to become a
substitute schoolteacher
in the face of a widespread
shortage currently stretching
educators thin.
Oregon Teacher Stan-
dards and Practices Com-
mission Executive Director
Anthony Rosilez told Pam-
plin Media Group Monday,
Oct. 11 that the licensing
agency will fi le a temporary
rule in order to implement
an emergency substitute
teaching license.
In December 2019, he
said, the state had at least
8,300 active substitute
licenses, although that num-
ber does not include retirees
and other part-time school
staff with active teaching
licenses who can also sub-
stitute.
By December, that num-
ber dropped to 5,500, and
this month, Rosilez said, the
state is down to around 4,738
substitute teachers.
The emergency rule,
which Rosilez said he hoped
to fi nalize this week, will
relax a requirement for a
bachelor’s degree.
“It temporarily relaxes
the specifi c higher educa-
tion requirement of the
committed, the conduct
that had constituted ‘aggra-
vated murder’ does not fall
within the narrow category
of conduct for which the
death penalty is appropri-
ate,” the court wrote in
its opinion. “Given that
determination, we con-
clude that, although the
legislature did not make
SB 1013 retroactive as to
sentences imposed before
its effective date, main-
taining defendant’s death
sentence would violate
Article I, section 16 (of the
Oregon Constitution.)”
Marion County District
Attorney Paige Clarkson
criticized the high court
ruling and the new law re-
garding the death penalty.
“Regardless of one’s
opinion of the voter passed
death penalty, the fact
remains that every one of
these previously sentenced
cases represents a victim,
victims’ families and loved
ones whose faith in the
criminal justice system is
shaken today,” Clarkson
said in a statement.
While the law change
included a provision that
did not make it retroactive,
the court’s ruling appears
to do that, relying on a sec-
tion of the state’s Constitu-
tion that prohibits dispro-
portionate punishments.
“My expectation is that
every death sentence that
is currently in place will
be overturned as a result
of this,” said Jeffrey Ellis,
co-director of the Oregon
Capital Resource Center.
The ruling Thursday
stems from the case of
David Bartol, who killed
Gavin Siscel on June 4,
2013 in the Marion County
Jail. At the time, Bartol
was awaiting trial in a
separate case.
The Oregon Supreme
Court upheld Bartol’s
conviction, but ordered him
resentenced, likely for fi rst-
degree murder, which is
punishable by life in prison
rather than death.
“The enactment of SB
1013 refl ects a legisla-
tive determination that,
regardless of when it was
County Commission Chair
Rick Dyer and Commis-
sioners Dave Dotterrer and
Colleen Roberts and “looks
forward to further conversa-
tions about the best path
forward.”
The commissioners said
their code enforcement staff
needs to triple to nine offi cers;
more offi cers are needed to
adjudicate the volume of cita-
tions; the sheriff’s offi ce needs
34 more staffers, including
18 detectives; and the state
Water Resources Department
needs three more full-time
staff dedicated solely to
investigating water-related
complaints.
To reach those levels, the
commissioners asked for
additional state employees,
state funding for the county
to hire employees and con-
tractors and for a repeal of a
prohibition on local taxes on
registered, legal marijuana
businesses.
Oregon drops bachelor’s degree
requirement for substitute teachers
Oregon court ruling
could eliminate death
penalty for many
SALEM (AP) — The Or-
egon Supreme Court struck
down the death sentence
of an inmate in a ruling
Thursday, Oct. 7 that found
lawmakers had fundamen-
tally altered “prevailing
societal standards” for
executions with a 2019 law
change.
Oregon Public Broad-
casting reports experts
believe the decision could
eliminate the death sen-
tence for all inmates facing
the penalty.
State lawmakers passed
SB 1013 in 2019. The bill
narrowed what crimes
qualify as aggravated mur-
der — the only charge that
carries capital punishment
in Oregon — to murders
of children younger than
14 years old, murders of
law-enforcement offi cers,
terrorist attacks that kill at
least two people, and prison
killings carried out by
someone who’d previously
been convicted of murder.
That’s a narrower scope
than what formerly consti-
tuted aggravated murder.
Legislature passed a bill this
year that shifted how the
state regulates the hemp
industry and was aimed at
curbing illegal production of
cannabis, Brown created a
multi-agency team to imple-
ment the legislation.
She also authorized
doubling the size of cannabis
law enforcement grants in the
region and directed the Or-
egon State Police to dedicate
additional resources.
“The message is clear
— Oregon is not open for
business to illegal cannabis
grows,” Boyle said. “These
are criminal enterprises
that deplete water resources
while our state is in drought,
hold their workforce in
inhumane conditions and
severely harm our legal can-
nabis marketplace.”
For her part, Kotek’s
spokesman Danny Moran
said her offi ce is reviewing
the issues raised by Jackson
hemp farms inspected in the
state are illegally growing
marijuana, with a THC
content — the compound that
gives cannabis its high —
greater than legal limits.
About 25% of registered
hemp farms refused entry to
inspectors, the state agen-
cies said. In busts of illegal
marijuana grows, sheriff’s
deputies have often seized
fi rearms.
By September of this
year, the Jackson County
Code Enforcement Division
initiated almost 700 cases
of code violations related
to marijuana production or
processing, more than double
the number in all of 2016, the
commissioners said in their
emergency declaration.
Reacting to the com-
missioner’s letter, Brown’s
spokesman, Charles Boyle,
said the governor takes these
concerns very seriously.
He noted that after the
was drawing water from the
Illinois River was raided after
a dying person who worked
there was dropped off in a
nearby village.
Oregon voters made pro-
ducing, processing, selling and
using recreational marijuana
legal in a ballot measure in
2014. Pot businesses must be
registered by the state, which
enforces compliance with
rules. But some growers and
processors remain outside the
law, joined by a recent infl ux
of outsiders in Jackson and
Josephine counties who seek
large profi ts by selling on
the black market outside of
Oregon while avoiding state
taxes and regulations.
The illegal marijuana
farms are often posing as
legal hemp farms, the com-
missioners noted. The Oregon
Health Authority and the
Oregon Liquor and Cannabis
Commission recently reported
that nearly 50% of registered
as illegal growers steal water,
depriving legal users includ-
ing farmers and homeowners
SALEM — A county in
southern Oregon says it is so of the increasingly precious
overwhelmed by an increase resource.
“Jackson County strongly
in the number and size of il-
legal marijuana farms that it requests your assistance to
declared a state of emergency address this emergency,” the
commissioners said in a letter
Wednesday, Oct. 13, appeal-
to Gov. Kate Brown, Senate
ing to the governor and the
Legislature’s leaders for help. President Peter Courtney and
House Speaker Tina Kotek.
The Jackson County
Only four Oregon Water
Board of Commissioners said
law enforcement offi cers and Resources Department
full-time employees handle
county and state regula-
complaints and perform all of
tors and code enforcers are
overwhelmed and warned of their other duties in Jackson
County and neighboring
an “imminent threat to the
Josephine County, the com-
public health and safety of
missioners said.
our citizens from the illegal
Josephine County has also
production of cannabis in our
been hurt by illegal grows
county.”
that have drained creeks and
Illegal marijuana grows
siphoned off groundwater. Jo-
have been a persistent
problem throughout the West, sephine County Sheriff Dave
even in states like California Daniel believes there are
hundreds of illegal operations
that have legalized pot. A
megadrought across the West in his county alone. One with
has created urgency, though, 72,000 marijuana plants that
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
who might be in different
content classes or at a differ-
ent place in the curriculum,”
Waite-Larkin said. “We have
heard from a few of the
substitutes that we have
used in the past, that they
are not interested in coming
into the schools this year due
to concern about the virus. I
think this is the same for bus
drivers and other positions.
Most schools in the state are
in the same predicament
that we are.”
The minimum pay rate
for licensed substitute teach-
ers, according to state law,
is about $195 per day, but it
can vary by district.
“The trend we are seeing
is we are not fi lling our
absences with certifi ed sub-
stitutes on a consistent basis.
We’re only in week three. You
see mere absences in winter,”
Banks Superintendent Jeff
Leo said. “We usually fi ll
in-house or have an admin-
istrator sub. If a spot doesn’t
get fi lled, we ask teachers
during prep time if they can
cover that class. We do the
best we can.”
For information on becom-
ing a substitute in Oregon
schools, contact the Oregon
Teacher Standards and Prac-
tices Commission at contact.
tspc@tspc.oregon.gov.
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tion Depa
27, two
and Proba
ing, Dec.
ty Parole
Sunday morn of Baker City.
Baker Coun
ing of the
rescuing on
east
Lt. Ryan Down for, and eventually wa Mountains north
hing
Ash in searc ous night in the Wallo
Baker City.
previ
northeast of
Wal-
spent the
Huntington
appeals DEQ
penalties
y
Jacob
miles
By Jayson rcityherald.com
east into the
s that
ling a
Road 77 leads Eagle Creek.
temperature into
jjacoby@bake
to ward off
d
ington is appea
n De-
fl eece gloves
lowas towar that when he
The city of Hunt ty issued by the Orego )
turned Ash’s in just a few
(DEQ
penal
McCue said ed to Cathe-
$9,193 civil
ntal Quality water
ice sculptures
Environme
waste
and Coles return it around 3:30
of a winter
tes.
partment of
Summ
ions of the city’s
el
The cruel cold wa Mountains minu hunters were tired,
rine Creek
who’s Micha
for several violat t.
r
Both
Wallo
Bill Frazier,
y, but neithe
not had
permi
e’s
night in the
they
p.m.,
has
rge
if
l,
hungr
McCu
and
discha
ay
appea
asked
,
Cody
cold
ng the
said on Mond
obil-
was sapping wasn’t leaving.
Frazier’s father
The city, pendi said Jennifer Young, Hun-
he
was hurt, Ash
any other snowm
nes,
seen
g
fi
energy, but
had
the
missin
two
to pay
morning.
“infor-
recorder.
Not until the
s, 31, and
told
ers.
tington city she expects to have an in
found.
Joseph Curti r, 16, both of
Bill Frazier
McCue said
hunters were ty Sheriff Travis
Frazie
offi cials
Young said
two hunters,
Michael A.
panied
sion” with DEQ
Baker Coun
ing of
were accom also
him about the a snowmobile but
mation discus
Ryan Down
Baker City,
n
ry.
Ash and Lt.
proba-
dog. She was
who also had ed to the highway.
early Janua letter to the city, Kiera of
parole and
by a hound
it-
said.
the county’s
hadn’t return he told the elder
In a Nov. 12 ger of the DEQ’s Offi ce “by
were comm
uninjured, Ash started Satur-
that
McCue said
tion department as well.
night falling
O’Donnell, mana Enforcement, wrote
The incident
26, when
r that, with to come
and
ements,
Dec.
ted to the search that involved
Frazie
oon,
liance
requir
t
g
Comp
of
willin
day aftern
y with permi
risk
A rescue effort
James Coles ng
soon, he was failed to show
failing to compl ington increased the
with the search
McCue and
pair
that trio, along from the sher-
fi nished a day-lo t
back if the
al harmed public
the city of Hunt
teams
Baker City
Fores
water dispos
and rescue both Baker and
up.
obile ride along a popu-
feeling,”
that its waste
gut
a
snowm
in
ces
had
age 5A
offi
That’s
the
77.
in
“I just
iff’s
resources.”
See Appeals/P
ies, resulted
Service Road route that starts
Union count y morning, Dec.
McCue said.
obile
snowm
it
lar
e 3A
Creek Summ
rescue Sunda t hunters. They
at Catherine 203, about 14
See Rescue/Pag
27, of two bobca by nightfall and
ay
Highw
25
and
ken
along
were overta
east of Union
in a snowbound
miles south
spent the night a small fi re
only
canyon with
during the
has stopped
in his sales
Almond
I thought
pandemic.
fi nd online,”
ing to where
probably won’t
“I was climb peak out, but I’m
ted to
of
owner
said.
she has adjus and
it might kind that because every-
ky Stirrup,
s
Almond said
At the Squea holiday sales were
by placing arrow
way less than to spend their money,”
said
COVID-19 rs in her business to
Kirk and
Dylan Glock
scared
common
By Corey
ed
space
body’s
t
pretty
requir
nner
six-foo
O’Co
that’s
when no-
-
“all right.”
ers, who are
Samantha
he said. “But pandemic and every
a guy can do
direct custom
Herald
“As good as
s.
scared to
whole
is
Baker City
or
mask
the
y
ants
face
with
mone
and
to wear
City merch
the surfaces
body has any
“My business
d to see
Some Baker
g up to
thing.”
Glock said.
every
“I sanitize all
he’s disappointe are
in sales leadin mic also
spend any,”
fl oors as well
Glock said
saw a boost
I sanitize the d said. “I don’t do any
on businesses
but the pande
is doing OK.” good as he expected,
Christmas,
how restrictions economy.
” Almon
businesses.
as
nt.”
in
night,
not
ng
affect
local
mome
to
But
openi
at the
The
continues
harming the
years after
he
fi tting rooms Baker City business-
d, who owns
two and half
es
/Page 3A
building that
Johna Almon her sales picked up
that
believ
hants
Street
She
gifts
g
Merc
way
said
See
years.
a Broad
Kids Closet, of December, after be- es benefi ted from offerin elsewhere.
empty for 13
said had been the upward trajectory
y available
the third week rst half of the month.
aren’t readil shops have unique
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Glock said
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ing slow the holiday season, Al-
“A lot of the
that you
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about 40% gifts and unique items
Lottery Results ........2A
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Record
her sales were 2019.
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mond said,
g
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........3B &
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Horoscope
of what they
............ 4A
Community
4B
Jacoby
By Jayson rcityherald.com
jjacoby@bake
boost
liday sales
ants saw ho
Some merch
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