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TWELVE - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 28. 1992 Meet the candidates Peter Fels Peter Fels. 42. Pendeton. has lived in Umatilla County for the past 10 years and is currently the incumbent tor district court judge Umatilla-Morrow County District Court Judge Department 2 department 2. He was appointed by Governor Barbara Roberts upon Judge Ralph Currin’s retire ment the first of the year. He and his wife, Nancy Helget, have two children, six and nine. Fels attended Amhurst College at Amhurst Massachusetts and the University o f California at Berkeley where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish literature and minored in an thropology. He attended the university of Oregon School of law and received his J.D. in 1978. He was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1978 and the U.S. District Court for Oregon in 1980. From 1988 to Dec. 1991 Fels was regional director at the Pendleton regional office of the Oregon Legal Services Corpora- tion. From 1989 to present he Commission, the Great Start Ad- visory Committee, the board of was judge pro-tern of the Tribal Court of the Confederated Tribes directors of the Pendleton Arts of the Umatilla Indian Reserva Council, the Affordable Housing tion. From 1983 to 1988 he was Development Forum, board of co-director and staff attorney for directors for the Consumer Credit the Oregon Legal Services Cor Counseling Service of Umatilla poration at Pendleton and from County, Oregon State Bar com 1982-83 staff attorney there. He mittees on Rights of the Han was farmworker staff attorney for dicapped and Affirmative Action, the Ontario Regional Office of the board of directors for NOVA Oregon Legal Services Corpora Enterprises and the Pendleton tion from 1979-81. He has also Volleyball Association. ‘‘My goal has been to run the been a student advisor for the Oregon Student Public Interest court in a fair and professional Research group, a law clerk for manner,” commented Fels. ‘‘As a law firm in Eugene and in judge, I understand the law and private practice from Sept. ‘78 to apply it as it is written, not ac cording to my own personal Jan. ‘79. Fels has been a member of the views. My policies have been to Umatilla County Jail Monitoring make sure that everyone who Committee, the Umatilla Coun comes to court has a fair chance ty Juvenile and Youth Services and does not lose because of lack ple don’t have to wait in court for hours just to pay their fine. And I have insisted that victims be consulted and allowed to testify at sentencing of criminals, which, although required by law, was not always done in the past. ‘‘My plans include to work with all other courts to establish consistency in fines, bail schedules and sentences; to fight to make sure that there are no closures or reductions in the Heppner or Hermiston courts; and to utilize the court in Irrigon where more convenient. ‘‘My record shows that I am well qualified to carry out the duties of judge. Besides having been judge in district court, I have over two years’ prior judicial ex perience as a part time judge in Umatilla Tribal Court, handling of having a lawyer or money or failure to understand the law. ‘‘I have made some changes since becoming judge. I had speaker phones installed in the court in Hermiston so that at torneys and litigants can have telephone hearings recorded and avoid the expenses of travel. This includes people from Morrow County who want restraining orders, who previously had to wait until the judge came to Heppner on Friday or go to Her miston. 1 have imposed stiffer sentences for drunk drivers and used electronic surveilance and community service as sentencing options, which were not pre viously used. I have allowed first time simple fish and game infrac tions to be handled by the court clerk, like traffic tickets, so peo M o o n lig h t M a d n e ss S a le r Thursday, Oct. 29 m nm nnrn b i~nn n n i a nTn r m m y m m m r m T m T aT m T n T m m m T r m T » » ' MOOMGIU MADNESS Thursday, October 29, 5 to 8 p.m. __ : i Sale Racks ‘/i off the SALE price . Halloween Earings regular * 3 « NOW Don't lie caught dead anywhere else! Storewide tO% off We’ve got Tricks! We’ve got Treats! We’ve got great Boo Buys! 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