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Graduation
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Prairie City Superinten-
dent Casey Hallgarth said
graduation for Prairie City
High School will be at 6 p.m.
May 28 on the football fi eld.
They will have 14 seniors
graduating.
Hallgarth said the plan
is to follow whatever guid-
ance they are currently under,
and they will have chairs and
bleachers for families.
“Prairie City School Dis-
trict would like to thank all the
staff for their commitment to
the students through the dif-
fi cult year,” Hallgarth said.
“They truly had the best inter-
est of the students.”
Dayville Superintendent
Kathryn Hedrick said gradua-
tion is at 2 p.m. June 4 on the
football fi eld. They have fi ve
seniors graduating.
She said they will ask that
social distancing practices be
followed; family units can
maintain less distance.
“...With the help of senior
advisor Mrs. Sydney Thomp-
son, it has been a diffi cult
year, but our seniors have
worked well together to get
a new version of Dayville
graduation together,” Hed-
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
rick said.
Monument Superinten-
dent Laura Thomas said grad-
uation is at 2 p.m. June 5
outside at the school. Seven
seniors will be graduating
from Monument High School
this year.
“Graduation this year
will look similar to last year
but with a few expansions
from last year,” Thomas said.
“Graduates and eighth grad-
ers participating in eighth
grade promotion will have an
allotted number of seats on
the grass for their family in
front of the gym and the rest
of the community is encour-
aged to park across the street
to view the graduation.”
Long Creek Offi ce Man-
ager Jennifer Garinger said
their graduation ceremony
is at 2 p.m. May 22 at the
city park. Long Creek High
School has fi ve seniors grad-
uating this year.
“It is nice this year to have
more of a normal — still not
completely normal because
we’re not holding it indoors
— graduation ceremony
when we have many gradu-
ates this year,” Garinger said.
“I’m excited that they can
have more of normal gradua-
tion with such a large class for
Long Creek.”
Guns
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Lyons took issue not only
with the restrictions but also
the process that allowed the
House to merge its safe-stor-
age bill with the original Sen-
ate version, which dealt with
fi rearms in public places.
“This is an example of
how bad this building can
get,” he said. “We were
locked out of the process in
this bill.”
But like his counter-
part in the House, Republi-
can Leader Christine Drazan
of Canby, Girod also took
issue with the way some gun
rights advocates lobbied in
opposition to it. The Senate’s
March 25 vote on the origi-
nal version prompted threats
against some Republican
senators, and a recall eff ort
aimed at Girod, because they
did not walk out to call a halt
to Senate business.
“There is a fringe group
out there that is sure not wel-
come in my offi ce,” Girod
said. “It is not OK to threaten
people’s lives, their staff . It’s
not an appropriate way to
lobby.”
Three senators from dis-
tricts east of the Cascades, all
Republicans, voted against the
bill.
“It clearly infringed on the
right to people’s self-defense,”
Sen. Tim Knopp of Bend said
after the vote. “I voted to sup-
port women and minorities
in my district who want the
opportunity for self-defense
for themselves and their fam-
ilies as the Oregon Constitu-
tion allows for.”
Sen. Lynn Findley of Vale
spoke at length against it.
“This bill is not about gun
violence, but about a fear of
guns,” he said.
Sen. Bill Hansell of Ath-
ena did not speak during fl oor
debate but said afterward he
agreed with the sentiments
expressed by the others.
Key provisions of the
revised Senate Bill 554:
• Guns must have trigger
or cable locks, be stored in a
locked container or in a gun
room. An off ense is a Class
C violation, which carries a
maximum fi ne of $500, unless
someone under age 18 obtains
access, in which case it is a
Class A violation with a max-
imum fi ne of $2,000. No jail
time is imposed for violations.
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The Oregon Senate voted May 5 to accept the House version of a bill that combines requirements for locks and safe storage of fi rearms with a narrowed ban on con-
cealed-handgun license holders bring fi rearms into some public places, notably the Capitol and the Portland airport.
• Stolen fi rearms must be
reported to police, generally
within 72 hours.
• Initial fi ling fees for con-
cealed-handgun licenses are
increased from $50 to $100,
and for renewals, from $50 to
$75.
• The Oregon Capitol
and the Portland airport pas-
senger terminal are off -lim-
its to all fi rearms, includ-
ing those borne by holders of
concealed-handgun licenses,
except for law enforcement.
(The bill specifi es airport ter-
minals with annual passenger
counts of 1 million; Eugene
and Medford were at those
thresholds in 2019 prior to the
coronavirus pandemic. Spon-
sors say that the ban applies
only to Portland.)
Violations are considered
Class A misdemeanors with
maximum punishments of
one year in jail and a fi ne of
$6,250.
• Firearms bans for license
holders are optional at the
discretion of the governing
boards of Oregon’s 197 school
districts, 17 community col-
leges, seven state universi-
ties and Oregon Health &
Science University. Notices
must be posted online, and
at entrances to buildings and
grounds.
• The fi nal version
removes optional bans by cit-
ies, counties and special dis-
tricts. Firearms bans already
apply to state courts, which
often are in buildings main-
tained by counties.
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A cable gun lock. A bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown for signature mandates gun storage require-
ments.
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