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C OPS & C OURTS
Arrests and citations in
the Blue Mountain Eagle are
taken from the logs of law en-
forcement agencies. Every ef-
fort is made to report the court
disposition of arrest cases.
Circuit Court
CANYON CITY — The
Grant County Circuit Court
reported the following ines
and judgments:
• Derek Michael Mason
Cole, 33, pleaded guilty to
second-degree burglary com-
mitted on or about April 28.
He was sentenced to prison
for 18 months and post-pris-
on supervision for one year,
and ined $557.55. He plead-
ed guilty to second-degree
criminal mischief committed
on or about April 28, and was
sentenced to prison for 90
days, to be concurrent with all
previously imposed sentenc-
es. The court dismissed one
count of second-degree crim-
inal mischief.
Grant County Sheriff
CANYON CITY — The
Grant County Sheriff’s Ofice
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Federal
government
bullying states
To the Editor:
On May 13, (President
Barack Obama) King Obama
issued a decree that every
public school in the nation is
to accommodate transgender
students.
Boys who identify as girls
and vice versa must be al-
lowed to use the bathrooms,
locker rooms and shower
stalls of their choosing. And
they must also be allowed to
play on the sports teams of
their choosing.
This is one more example
where King Obama bypasses
Congress to make a sweeping
decree that takes away the
rights of privacy and safety
of our citizens. In this case, it
puts our teenage girls at risk
in the name of “political cor-
rectness.”
And this is not all. School
districts that dare to defy the
administration’s
directive
will face lawsuits and lose
millions of dollars in federal
funding.
In the case of North Car-
olina standing up to King
Obama, the Obama adminis-
tration responded by giving
them only three days to con-
form to their decree or face
losing federal funding for
education and threatening the
potential of withholding fed-
eral transportation funding as
well.
Where is the outrage about
a federal government that be-
lieves it can bully states into
doing anything they want
without congressional ap-
proval?
John Russell
Salem
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reported the following for the
week of May 13-19:
• Concealed handgun li-
censes: 7
• Average inmates: 14
• Bookings: 10
• Releases: 12
• Arrests: 1
• Citations: 3
• Fingerprints: 9
• Civil papers: 30
• Warrants processed: 3
• Asst./welfare check: 2
• Search and Rescue: 1
• Four juveniles were cited
on May 9 for second-degree
criminal trespass in Prairie
City.
• Megan Long, 23, John
Day, was cited on May 16 for
driving uninsured and operat-
ing without proper exhaust.
• Jordan Downing, 18,
Canyon City, was cited on
May 16 for purchasing or at-
tempting to purchase alcohol-
ic beverages by a minor.
Justice Court
CANYON CITY — The
Grant County Justice Court
reported the following ines
and judgments:
• Exceeding maximum
width: Leslie Woodworth,
67, Prairie City, May 3, ined
$110.
• Violation of the basic
rule: Charlotte Gay Doughar-
ity, 70, Mt. Vernon, 70/55
zone, May 7, ined $135.
• Dog as a public nuisance:
Arden T. Eby, 82, Canby,
April 23, ined $260.
• Charles R. Hunt Jr. was
found guilty of probation vi-
olation, and sentenced to 10
days in jail and ined $85.
Small Claims
• Quick Collect Inc. v.
Raelynn Cearns. Money judg-
ment awarded to Quick Col-
lect Inc. for $241.
Dispatch
John Day dispatch worked
166 calls during the week
of May 16-22. Along with
the various trafic warnings,
trespassing, injured animals,
noise complaints and juvenile
complaints, these calls includ-
ed:
• John Day Police:
May 16: Cited a Prairie
What is going on? Sad to lose
To the Editor:
‘squaw’ names,
What is going on?!
I hear that there are memories
two meetings of the Blue
Mountains Forest Part-
ners, one that is published
with an agenda and one
that meets before the pub-
lished one, and it doesn’t
have a published agenda.
This has the appearance
of being a secret meeting
and the one where the real
work is being done.
This then has the ap-
pearance of the public
meeting being only a
sham meeting to make it
look like they are an open
organization.
How can you trust the
Blue Mountains Forest
Partners to have the in-
terests of the good peo-
ple of Grant County at
heart?
This effectively locks
the public out of their
meetings where the real
work is being done, and
only what they want you
to hear is what you get at
the public meeting. Am
I the only one that sees
the appearance of it this
way?
If anyone has the an-
swers to what is going on,
please let me know.
I also want to thank the
voters of Grant County for
making your voices heard.
This is wonderful.
Nicky A. Sprauve
Public Forest
Commissioner No. 2
Canyon City
To the Editor:
I am weighing in late on
the “Squaw” issue. Words
change meanings over time.
Not too long ago, “gay”
meant a happy person. Not so
anymore. I could name some
other words that now have
different meanings.
I am almost positive that
by the time landmarks in the
West, and probably most other
places, were named “Squaw,”
the word meant a female Na-
tive American. I ind it really
sad that with the new names
given these places, the mem-
ory of these women are going
to be forgotten. Many of them
were the wives of trappers
that opened up this country
we now call home.
It also bothers me that some
of the new names being given
to “squaw” landmarks can’t
even be pronounced by the av-
erage person and maybe not by
quite a few of the Native Amer-
icans. English is the common
language understood by most
everyone. It makes better sense
to use that language.
Sandra Sutton
John Day
County elections
To the Editor:
The old council is losing its
stack.
Gone and not coming back.
W. Toop
Canyon City
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City woman for allowing a
dog to be a nuisance; theft of
a canopy reported on South
Canyon Boulevard.
May 17: Theft reported in
Prairie City.
May 20: Report of a bee
box stolen at Les Schwab in
John Day.
• Grant County Sheriff:
May 17: Arrested a person
for an assault at the rock pit.
May 18: Break-in reported
in Seneca.
May 19: Theft of service
reported at Clyde Holliday
State Park near Mt. Vernon.
May 20: Verbal domestic
reported at Humbolt Elemen-
tary in Canyon City.
• John Day ambulance:
May 16: Responded for a
58-year-old woman who fell
and was unresponsive.
May 17: Paged for some-
one with a leg infection.
May 18: Responded for a
78-year-old woman with ab-
dominal pain.
May 19: Paged for a man
with dificulty breathing.
May 22: Responded for a
71-year-old woman.
Protect our
children
To the Editor:
As you have probably
heard, President Barack
Hussein Obama is forcing
states to enact the trans-
gender bathroom law. He
is trying to extort states
by threatening to pull pub-
lic school funding from
the states that do not
comply.
The leaders of North
Carolina and Texas are not
going to comply to this will-
ful act of violating consti-
tutional law in regards to a
state’s choice in implement-
ing federal laws.
Despite this, Obama is
still pushing to get every
state to adhere to his newest
law.
Obama has forced the
Texas Department of Crim-
inal Justice to enact a simi-
lar law where a man/woman
can claim to be, mentally,
of the opposite sex and get
placed on a unit that hous-
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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Refuge occupier
arrested in Mt. Vernon
pleads guilty to theft
Maximum
sentence: 10
years, $250,000
By Sean Hart
Blue Mountain Eagle
After initially plead-
ing not guilty in March,
Scott Alan Willing-
ham changed his plea
to guilty on a theft
charge related to the
occupation of the Mal-
heur National Wildlife
Refuge.
In U.S. District Court
in Portland May 12,
Willingham, 49, Lead-
ville, Colorado, pleaded
guilty to theft of govern-
ment property in excess
of $1,000, which carries
a maximum punishment
of 10 years in prison and
a $250,000 fine.
es members of the oppo-
site sex. Over 50 percent of
TDCJ funding comes from
the federal government.
This executive law will
make it possible for a man
or a woman to enter into the
restrooms of the opposite
sex.
It is quite obvious that
Obama does not care about
the safety of our children.
Who is going to stop a pe-
dophile or a rapist from say-
ing that mentally they are
a woman, just so they can
gain access to women or
young girls?
I fear the worst on this
scenario, and it has made
me fearful for my own chil-
dren.
This is a real possibili-
ty! If you want to keep your
children safe, say no to this
In the
s i g n e d
plea, Will-
ingham
admitted
he
“did
k n o w -
Scott Alan ingly aid
Willingham and abet
another
to steal” federal gov-
ernment cameras in
mid-January during the
refuge occupation.
U.S. District Court
Judge Anna J. Brown
ordered that Willingham
remain in custody until
sentencing, which she
set for Sept. 23.
Willingham
was
taken into custody on
a federal warrant af-
ter being arrested by a
Grant County Sheriff’s
Office deputy the eve-
ning of March 16 in Mt.
Vernon.
abominable law. Write to
your leaders in Oregon, tell-
ing them to stand up against
this horrific law that has
come down from our tyrant
president.
This law cannot stand,
regardless of what ways
the president tries to ex-
tort us with. Morality must
stand above perversion if
we are ever going to make
a stand for true justice and
a state and country that
we can be proud to call
home!
Write to the governor
and to our congressmen,
and state your unwilling-
ness to allow harm to come
upon your children. God
bless Oregon and the Unit-
ed States!
Richard Shafer
Childress, Texas
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