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FLOODING THROUGHOUT COUNTY CLOSES BRIDGES, ROADS PAGE A5 Wednesday, April 10, 2019 151st Year • No. 15 • 18 Pages • $1.00 BlueMountainEagle.com ZERO SUICIDE A new approach to an old problem What Oregonians say about suicide I have thought about suicide 21% ■ US ■ Oregon 31% EO Media Group fi le photo Someone I 22% know has attempted suicide 34% but didn’t die Someone I 22% know has talked to me about thoughts of suicide Community Counseling Solutions Executive Director Kimberly Lindsay stands on a hill above Heppner, which is home to the headquarters of the mental health provider that services Grant, Morrow, Wheeler Gilliam and Lake counties in Eastern Oregon. Grant County implementing national program shown to reduce suicides 45% Someone I know has died by suicide 31% I have worried about the mental health of someone I know 33% By Richard Hanners Blue Mountain Eagle 57% 70% SOURCE: Oregon statistics based on an online-survey of 309 Oregonians by DHM Research, Feb. 13-22, 2019. U.S. statistics based on 2018 survey by Harris Insights and Analytics for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. Pamplin Media Group Some behavioral health care profession- als are optimistic about a new approach to dealing with rising suicide rates across the U.S., and they place the onus on their own profession. The new initiative goes by the name Zero Suicide, and the Community Counseling Solutions board of directors adopted the approach at their February meeting. “In March, I was able to connect with Reynolds leaves behind giant legacy By Richard Hanners Blue Mountain Eagle Grant County and the state of Oregon lost a civic leader who left a tremen- dous legacy that his family, friends and the community can be proud of. Dennis Reynolds died April 1. He was 70 years old. Reynolds was born in the Zero Suicide institute for consultation,” CCS Executive Director Kimberly Lindsay told the Eagle, noting that CCS will hold its fi rst Zero Suicide leadership meeting in April. “The process for fully implementing Zero Suicide is lengthy — most say two years,” Lindsay said. “The fi rst year is largely completing organizational and workforce surveys. The second year is using the data to inform changes.” See Suicide, Page A18 Proposed gun legislation raises concerns for locals Senate Bill 978 contains a variety of provisions By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Eagle fi le photo Julie and Dennis Reynolds ride in the ‘62 Days parade in Canyon City in 2014. Prineville in 1949 and moved to John Day when he was in fi rst grade. Grow- ing up, he worked with his father, Percy, doing ranch work for Joe Oliver. He was a distance runner at Grant Union High School and held the state record in the javelin. It was at Oregon State University pursuing a degree in forestry that Reyn- olds started dating Julie Elligsen, who also gradu- ated from Grant Union in 1967 and was majoring in education. They were mar- ried at the St. Thomas Epis- copal Church in Canyon City in 1970. After college, Reynolds went to work for San Juan Lumber Co. in 1972, which later became Hudspeth Lumber Co., fi rst as a road superintendent and then as a general manager at the mill in John Day. His father was a logging foreman. In 1982, when Hudspeth closed down, Reynolds and his father went into custom timber harvesting and for- estry consulting as Key- stone Ltd. until 1994. County judge Reynolds served two terms as Grant County judge, from 1994-2006, surviving an impeach- ment election in his fi rst six months. In an April 2003 editorial, the Eagle asked “several local natural-re- See Reynolds, Page A18 The summary for Ore- gon’s latest proposed gun legislation, Senate Bill 978, is two sentences long, but the bill includes a 44-page amendment tacking on sev- eral new requirements for gun owners. The bill contains pro- visions about gun stor- age requirements, allowing retailers to raise the mini- mum age to buy a gun, reg- ulating 3-D printed guns, transferring guns and report- ing lost or stolen guns. A local fi rearms expert said the bill could take guns away from responsible citizens. “There are a lot of law-abiding gun owners — not right-wingers,” said Marc LeQuieu of Mt. Ver- non. “They just kind of want to be left alone.” The majority of gun own- ers are “responsible and do The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Ten-year-old Jaime Vandehey of Canyon City shoots a pistol at the hunters education fi eld test day at the law enforcement gun range. ODFW instructor Mark Boss was standing nearby supervising. what they’re supposed to do,” he said. LeQuieu has been involved in research and development in the fi re- arms industry over the past 20 years and said he’s worked with every fi rearms manufacturer. He’s a former profes- sional hunter in Botswana, Africa, and was a wildland fi refi ghter for 14 years until he was injured. LeQuieu, who describes himself as a moderate inde- pendent, said there are about 20 points made in the SB 978 that raise concerns for him. He said some would take away rights, some points are redundant and others make no sense. For example, Section 6 requires gun owners to place a trigger lock or cable on See Guns, Page A18
