A4 The BulleTin • SaTurday, July 24, 2021
Henry Richmond,
1000 Friends of
Oregon founder, dies
The Oregonian
Henry Richmond, founder
of the land use advocacy group
1000 Friends of Oregon and a
leading supporter of Oregon’s
much-touted land use plan-
ning system, died June 21. He
was 78.
He died suddenly at his
family’s farm near Newberg
following a heart attack, OPB
reported.
Richmond had a national
reputation as an expert on land
use policy. As chair of the Na-
tional Growth Management
Leadership Project, a nonprofit
coalition of states looking at
growth issues, he once told an
Ohio audience, “How devel-
opment happens matters to
communities.” He promoted
land-use planning as a way for
communities to take control
over their growth, rather than
the other way around.
As executive director of 1000
Friends of Oregon for its first
two decades, Richmond kept
a watchful eye on the state’s
landmark 1973 law mandating
that Oregon cities and coun-
ties adopt comprehensive plans
and land use regulations. The
nonprofit went to court mul-
tiple times to enforce land use
requirements.
“Henry’s work has protected
some of the best farm and for-
est lands in the world for grow-
ing food and trees, preserved
iconic natural areas like the
Oregon coast, and cultivated
towns and cities with urban
growth boundaries that have
created walkable, more af-
fordable, and climate-friendly
places,” the nonprofit said in
a tribute to Richmond on its
website. “His groundbreaking
work and spirit of perseverance
will continue to shape Oregon’s
land use planning system and
the work of our organization
for generations to come.”
In awarding Richmond a
lifetime achievement award,
the national nonprofit Part-
ners for Livable Communi-
ties said the founding of 1000
Friends “was key to shifting
the dialogue and ensuring the
protection of the state’s natu-
ral beauty, productivity, and
overall livability. The broad
E. coli
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More samples were taken
Friday and the advisory could
be lifted as soon as next week
if the samples are clean, Fre-
und said.
“That’s the hope assuming
they get good follow-up sam-
ples,” Freund said.
In the meantime, the Ar-
rowood Community Water
Co. flushed out its system and
is prepared to add chlorine if
samples still show E. coli.
No cause has been deter-
mined yet, but Freund suspects
E. coli may have originated
in the system’s reservoir and
could have been introduced
through an insect, rodent or
dust that carried the bacteria.
“It’s an indication that some-
thing from outside is making
its way inside the system,” he
said.
Freund said E. coli is rare in
local water systems, but does
appear on occasion. Last sum-
mer, Freund responded to
three cases in the county.
“It’s not common, but we
Courtesy of 1000 Friends of Oregon
Henry Richmond, founder of
1000 Friends of Oregon, and his
son, Christian.
coalition he helped build was
essential for continued legis-
lative support and implemen-
tation in 36 counties and 241
cities. Forty years later, the law
remains a success — each city
has an urban growth boundary
(UGB) and 25 million acres of
farm and forest land are pro-
tected outside of UGBs.”
Richmond was an attorney
in his early 30s in 1974 when
he proposed to then Gov. Tom
McCall, a fierce proponent of
environmental protections,
that Oregon needed a “watch-
dog organization” to bark
whenever it sensed threats to
Senate Bill 100, the law Mc-
Call had put in place the pre-
vious year. Among those who
joined Richmond and McCall
in founding 1000 Friends were
Glenn Jackson, power com-
pany executive and state trans-
portation czar; John D. Gray,
chairman of Omark Industries
and developer of the Salishan
and Sunriver resorts; landscape
photographer Ray Atkeson;
state Sen. Hector MacPherson;
and newspaper publishers Eric
Allen Jr. of Medford and J.W.
Forrester Jr. of Astoria.
Henry Russell Richmond
III was born Feb. 7, 1943, into
a hazelnut farming family in
Yamhill County. He received
his law degree in 1971 from the
University of Oregon, where
he helped establish OSPIRG,
a student-run public interest
nonprofit. His experience with
that group laid the foundation
for his work with 1000 Friends.
usually see a handful of them
every season,” he said.
The Arrowood Community
Water Co. buys its water from
the Seventh Mountain Resort
on Century Drive, which owns
the reservoir and well.
The resort is not affected by
the advisory because the E. coli
was found downstream from
the resort, Freund said. The re-
sort is still flushing out its sys-
tem as a precaution, he said.
Most of the homes under the
advisory are vacation homes,
Freund said. If all the homes
are occupied, the advisory
could be affecting about 170
people. All the affected resi-
dents were sent notices about
the advisory.
Freund doesn’t believe the E.
coli is widespread since it was
found in just one sample.
“We err on the side of cau-
tion,” Freund said. “Even
though we only got one sam-
ple, let’s act as if there’s more
and then we will make sure we
cover ourselves from a health
perspective.”
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Warm Springs
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This means corrections offi-
cers must rely on first-person
supervision only.
“You don’t ever want to ever
rely on the cameras,” Greene
said. “You have to be very in
tune to your senses. You get
to know what it sounds like
when somebody punches a
wall, or when someone’s head
hits a wall.”
A number of tribal-owned
buildings in Warm Springs
are more modern than the po-
lice station, but they are trib-
al-owned, like the administra-
tive office on Veterans Street.
The police station, on the
other hand, is the property of
the federal government.
Bill Elliott, chief of the
Warm Springs Tribal Police
Department, compared the
process of upgrading the po-
lice station to a renter con-
vincing a landlord to make
much-needed improvement
to the rental property.
“The difference is, in the
county, they can float a bond
to build a jail,” Elliott said.
“But we’re dealing with a to-
tally different entity. We have
to go to the federal govern-
ment to build a jail.”
Elliott, 66, is a retired fed-
eral agent, Army vet and an
enrolled member of the Kiowa
tribe who keeps a residence
near Kah-Nee-Tah. He took
over as police chief around
March 2020 at the request
of the former Warm Springs
public safety director, whom
he knew.
On a recent Thursday, El-
liott was to meet with mem-
bers of the tribal council to
discuss three potential sites.
The council has indicated it
Dean Guernsey/Bulletin photos
Lt. Crystal Greene looks into the recreation yard Thursday at the Warm Springs jail, where trees are grow-
ing through the walls and floor. Greene jokingly calls the area her “green space. It’s where I go to relax.”
prefers a site with utility hook-
ups already in place and with
enough space for possible fu-
ture expansions, Elliott said.
The layout of the new facility
will be discussed once a loca-
tion is chosen.
The small department oper-
ates under a complex array of
three levels of government
The department lost a lot
of staff during the pandemic,
and after the jail closed in Au-
gust, most corrections officers
transferred to patrol.
“People have a misconcep-
tion about the reservation,” El-
liott said. “It’s no different than
anyplace else. Since COVID
hit, there hasn’t been a spike of
criminal activity.”
Warm Springs has had to
deal with the deadly drug
fentanyl, like most rural
communities in the West, El-
liott said. But the problems
that exist on the reservation
are often overlooked because
individually, they’re often too
minor to warrant federal in-
volvement.
“We’re never going to have
100 kilos of coke turn up,
but what gets us are those
low levels of drugs, and that’s
no different than any other
community out here,” Elliott
said. “In a rural community,
we die a death by a thousand
cuts.”
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Old restraining devices hang in
the Warm Springs jail.