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ECLIPSE
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Solar eclipses happen
when the moon passes be-
tween the Earth and the sun.
“Totality” occurs when the
moon completely covers the
sun, temporarily casting a por-
tion of the Earth’s surface in a
shadow of daytime darkness.
Bremner said most hotels
in the county are illed except
for those that had planned to
start booking a year out.
She added the county’s
population could double that
weekend, which she said is a
modest estimate.
The chamber is holding
monthly meetings about the
eclipse.
Their last meeting on
July 6 drew a crowd of about
75.
Scientist Darlene Yan will
speak at a town hall hosted
by the chamber from 6-8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 5, at the Canyon
City Community Hall.
A program coordinator for
Multiverse at the University
of California Berkeley’s Space
Sciences Laboratory, Yan will
share knowledge about next
year’s eclipse.
The eclipse will be seen
by people across a horizontal
swath of land across the U.S.;
however, experts say the most
valuable viewing spots will be
in less populated places with
no city lights.
Bremner said Newport will
be the irst city in the state to
experience the eclipse, but she
said that area is often foggy in
the morning. Portland will not
be in the path of totality.
“For me, it’s exciting to
think that so many people
want to travel here to be a part
of a once-in-a-lifetime event,”
Bremner said.
She added Travel Oregon
Type 3 team
called in from
central Oregon
By George Plaven
EO Media Group
Fireighters expected to
fully contain the Scott Can-
yon Fire in rural Gilliam
County by Monday evening,
according to a spokeswoman
with the Central Oregon Inter-
agency Dispatch Center.
The blaze, which start-
ed Thursday on private land
near the John Day River, has
burned 33,587 acres between
Condon and Arlington. A Type
3 incident management team
responded Saturday from
the Deschutes and Ochoco
national forests, as well as
the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment’s Prineville District, to
assist local ireighters.
The
ire
was
hu-
man-caused, though inves-
tigators are still working to
determine exactly how it
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Jenny Shaw, manager of Historic Hotel Prairie,
says they became booked up at the hotel in 2014
for a solar eclipse, which will occur in August of
next year.
estimates 50 percent of those
visiting the state for the eclipse
will be from out of the country.
John Day city oficials are
also planning for the inlux of
visitors.
City manager Nick Green
said forms are available for
temporary use permits for
lodging and concessions at
city hall.
“If people want to have
guests that come and pay rent
from out of town, they’ll need
a temporary use permit,” he
said.
Those selling concessions,
such as bottled water, ice, sno-
cones, etc., are also required to
have a temporary use permit.
He added the city doesn’t
plan to provide concessions.
Green said the city intends
to host at least 104 RV camp-
sites at the city-owned indus-
trial park.
“We’re going to try to use
this as an economic develop-
ment opportunity in partner-
ship with the chamber and
Grant County Economic De-
velopment as well as Travel
Oregon,” he said. “We’re en-
couraging public feedback.”
Shaw said one “eclipse
chaser” she spoke with has
traveled the world, including
Greece, to view solar eclipses.
The man was too late for a
room at Hotel Prairie but was
able to secure a nearby cabin
rental.
Shaw said he told her,
“This is ‘the spot’ to see the
eclipse.”
By Sean Hart
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant County Sheriff
Glenn Palmer
Their attorney, Brad Dan-
iels, said he and the defen-
dants’ attorney had reached
a tentative agreement that
would preclude the necessi-
ty for the restraining order.
On behalf of Palmer, the
sheriff’s ofice and records
employee Sally DeFord,
A MAN
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UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
Steven Dubois
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A mili-
tary veteran accused of taking
leadership roles in two armed
standoffs involving federal
authorities pleaded guilty last
week in Oregon to a conspiracy
charge and is expected to do the
same involving charges in Ne-
vada, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, a federal judge
decided to keep brothers Am-
mon and Ryan Bundy behind
bars as they await their Septem-
ber trial in Portland on conspir-
acy charges.
The brothers have been ac-
cused of leading the standoffs
at a wildlife refuge in Oregon
and their family ranch in Ne-
vada.
At the federal courthouse
in Portland, Ryan Payne of
Anaconda, Montana, acknowl-
edged that he conspired with
others to prevent Interior De-
partment employees from do-
ing their jobs this winter during
the occupation of the Malheur
National Wildire Refuge.
In a plea deal that included
talks with prosecutors in Ne-
vada, the U.S. attorney’s ofice
in Oregon recommended that
Payne’s likely 3½-year prison
sentence run at the same time
as the punishment he could
receive for his role in a 2014
standoff with federal agents at a
Nevada ranch owned by Cliven
Bundy, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Craig Gabriel said.
In Nevada, the deal calls for
Payne to plead guilty to three
charges, with one involving
the brandishing of a irearm
who was also named as a
defendant, attorney Zachary
Hostetter said the tentative
agreement included the stip-
ulation that all emails would
be maintained in electronic
form from July 25 forward.
Hostetter said, even be-
fore the agreement, Palmer
and the sheriff’s ofice com-
plied with email retention
rules by retaining printed
copies of emails when need-
ed.
Oregon law says every
person has a right to inspect
any public record of a public
body in the state, except for
certain exempt records. It is
a Class A misdemeanor for
a person, without lawful au-
thority, to knowingly destroy
any public record.
If the parties are unable
to reach a inal agreement,
a new hearing on the motion
for the temporary restraining
order was scheduled for 2:45
p.m. Aug. 3.
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Contributed photo/Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center
The Scott Canyon Fire has burned 33,587 acres
in rural Gilliam County between Condon and
Arlington.
started. High winds fanned
the lames up and down
several canyons in the area,
making for tricky ireight-
ing conditions. Crews on the
ground were supported by
six single-engine air tankers
and three helicopters, which
dumped water and retardant
around the ire perimeter
over the weekend.
The ire did destroy one
old homestead, which was un-
occupied. No other structures
were damaged. Lisa Clark,
ire information oficer with
the Central Oregon Inter-
agency Dispatch Center, com-
mended the initial response
for keeping local farms and
ranches safe.
Another ire in central
Oregon also erupted Sun-
day about 13 miles east of
Warm Springs. That blaze is
now roughly 4,800 acres, but
wasn’t immediately threaten-
ing homes.
Key Oregon refuge occupier
pleads guilty; Bundys stay in jail
Palmer tentatively agrees not to delete emails
The Grant County Sher-
iff’s Ofice and Oregonian
Publishing Co. reached a
tentative agreement before
a hearing on a motion for a
temporary restraining order
Tuesday, July 26.
Oregonian
Publishing
Co. and reporter Les Zaitz
iled the motion in Grant
County Circuit Court July
22 seeking to prevent the
destruction of emails from
Grant County Sheriff Glenn
Palmer’s account. They iled
a complaint in May asking
the court to force the sher-
iff’s ofice to release certain
records.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
concern about foreign mining
interest, tapping the minerals,
we have a mineral withdraw-
al.”
Instead of creating a na-
tional monument through a
presidential proclamation,
he said his bill would have
to be approved by Congress,
though it would not prevent
that carries
a mandatory
minimum
sentence of
seven years,
Gabriel said.
Nevada
prosecutors
Ryan
plan to rec-
Payne
ommend
12 years in
prison, and Payne’s defense
will push for less, Gabriel said.
Payne, 32, told U.S. District
Court Judge Anna J. Brown in
Portland that his irst adult de-
cision was joining the military,
where he took an oath to up-
hold the Constitution.
Payne said he came to Or-
egon last year to do that by
defending two ranchers he
believes were wrongly impris-
oned for setting ires.
He and others, including
Ammon and Ryan Bundy, oc-
cupied the refuge from Jan.
2 until their arrests nearly a
month later. A few holdouts
continued the armed protest un-
til Feb. 11.
“In pursuing that effort, I
have come to understand that
folks who work for the govern-
ment perceived my actions as
intimidating and threatening,”
Payne said in court.
Payne was arrested during
a trafic stop while traveling
with Arizona rancher Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum and others to
a community meeting off the
refuge.
Payne complied with ofi-
cers and left the vehicle. Fini-
cum and the others drove away,
and Finicum was fatally shot by
authorities at a roadblock.
Gabriel said Payne, the
eighth man to plead guilty in the
Oregon case, took a leadership
role in the occupation, coordi-
nating armed guards and pro-
viding tactical training.
He is scheduled to be sen-
tenced Nov. 18 but that date
could get pushed back based on
developments in Nevada, where
authorities say Payne recruit-
ed gunmen and led an armed
assault on federal oficers who
attempted to round-up the Bun-
dys’ cattle near Bunkerville.
Ammon and Ryan Bundy
are also charged in that case,
and would have likely been sent
to a Nevada jail if U.S. District
Court Judge Robert Jones had
not decided Tuesday to keep
them in custody at a downtown
Portland jail.
Jones previously granted
pretrial release to many of the
men and women indicted on
conspiracy charges in the case.
But in a written opinion, Jones
said the Bundys are not good
candidates for release because
the confrontations show they
believe they are justiied in re-
fusing federal orders and might
not appear for trial Sept. 7.
“More dangerously, they
may attempt to recruit anoth-
er standoff or occupation,” he
wrote.
The judge also cited what
jailhouse deputies described
as an effort by Ryan Bundy to
escape. A search of his cell on
April 8 yielded a rope made
with multiple sheets tied togeth-
er, authorities said.
“I reject his excuse that he
was practicing braiding,” Jones
wrote.
the president from proclaim-
ing a monument.
The bill would prevent
any new mining activities in
the 2,065,000-acre withdraw-
al area it would cover. The
bill also contains provisions
creating grant programs for
water improvements, infra-
structure and ireighting, an
Agriculture Center of Excel-
lence in Malheur County and
a study for rural air services
at the airport in Ontario.
Responding to other ques-
tions at the town hall:
• Wyden said he supports
“common sense steps” to re-
duce gun violence that do not
violate the Second Amend-
ment. He said terrorists and
people with domestic vi-
olence convictions should
be prevented from owning
guns but that the government
should be liable for penalties
if it prevents someone from
purchasing a gun who should
not have been. He also said
limits on research into gun
violence should be lifted.
• He said a conference
committee between the
House and Senate would
be meeting in September
to work on legislation that
could end “ire borrowing,”
where agencies are forced
to use funds intended for ire
prevention to cover the cost
of ighting ires.
• Wyden said infrastructure
would be his irst priority in
January, and he hopes to ind
funding through tax reform.
• He said he would not sup-
port term limits for Congress.
• He said he believed phar-
macists should play a larger
role in rural health care.
• When asked if he sup-
ports Democratic presiden-
tial nominee Hillary Clinton,
Wyden said he does not make
endorsements at town halls.
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