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Attorneys to City maintaining ban on commercial pot
present on Ordinance states businesses must comply with federal law
immigration
programs
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
Commercial marijuana
businesses will not be al-
lowed to operate in Herm-
iston without a legal battle.
City Manager Byron
Smith said the city plans
to maintain an ordinance
that prohibits businesses
Specialists will
discuss deferred-
action programs
expanded in
November
that violate federal law,
including both medicinal
and recreational marijuana
operations.
“We’ve had some dis-
cussions about the way
our ordinance is currently
written, and we feel pret-
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even with recreational
marijuana,” he said. “Basi-
cally, it currently says you
can’t have a business here
in Hermiston that violates
federal law. ... Our attor-
neys took a look at that and
still think it applies and
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The city passed an or-
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hibiting medical marijuana
facilities in March 2014,
but a broader previous or-
dinance states “all uses and
developments must com-
ply with all other appli-
cable city, regional, state
and federal regulations and
laws.”
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believe the ordinance is
valid because marijuana is
federally prohibited, de-
spite a measure approved
by Oregon voters in No-
vember to legalize recre-
ational marijuana.
Measure 91 allows rec-
reational users 21 and old-
er to possess up to 8 ounces
of marijuana and grow four
plants per residence in Ore-
gon outside of public view
and allows a person to car-
ry up to 1 ounce in public,
although public consump-
tion is prohibited, accord-
ing to information from
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MLK MARCH DRAWS LARGE CROWD
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
Immigration attorneys
will provide free informa-
tion in Hermiston about
immigration programs that
were expanded by a presi-
dential executive action in
November.
The Seventh-day Adven-
tist Church is sponsoring
the event, which will take
place from 6 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. Jan. 31 in the gym-
nasium at Hermiston Ju-
nior Academy, 1300 N.W.
Academy Lane.
Organizer Maria Duron
said everyone is invited to
learn more about the de-
ferred action immigration
programs that were expand-
ed by President Obama in
November. The informa-
tion will be presented in
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SEAN HART PHOTO
People carried signs and sang songs during the annual MLK Community Peace Walk, sponsored by the Hermiston Black International Awareness Club, in
Hermiston Monday.
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He said, in a U.S. histo-
ry class in his second year
of college, readings and
discussions about King
made an impact on his life.
Smith read a quote from
King’s “I Have a Dream”
speech, which conclud-
ed with “I have a dream
that my four little children
BY SEAN HART
will one day live in a na-
HERMISTON HERALD
tion where they will not be
A large crowd marched judged by the color of their
through downtown Herm- skin but by the content of
iston carrying signs of their character.” Smith
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ty Peace Walk, hosted by content of their character
the Hermiston Black Inter- and that everyone should
national Awareness Club, make the country and the
Monday in Hermiston.
community a better, more
After the march, the tolerant and inclusive
group of approximately place.
100 people gathered at
After the City Hall cer-
Hermiston City Hall for a emony, the group marched
speech from City Manager across the street to the First
Byron Smith.
United Methodist Church
Speakers highlight
personal
impact from civil
rights leader
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The crowd marching in support of Martin Luther King Jr.
turns onto Gladys Avenue during the annual community
walk in Hermiston.
for another ceremony that
included music and a key-
note address from Brandon
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As he looked out at the
audience comprised of
multiple ethnicities, Clay
said he believed the diverse
crowd was an embodiment
of King’s dream for an in-
clusive society.
Clay said King was
many things: a civil rights
activist, an educator, a
father, a husband and a
Christian man. He said not
only King’s accomplish-
ments, but also his charac-
ter and strong foundation
in Christian values, had a
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on his life.
“He was the son of a
pastor, and his father taught
him that all men are created
equal,” Clay said. “... I ac-
cepted that challenge in my
own life. At a young age, I
accepted Christ as my lord
and savior, and I learned
the power of uncondition-
al love, and I learned that
love is stronger than hate.”
He said King’s life also
taught him the importance
of reading and education
because “they serve as the
lights that dispel the dark-
ness of ignorance and mis-
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Organization
partnered with TRCI for
instrument donation
BY MAEGAN MURRAY
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston Herald $1.00
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During his daily rounds as an
orderly, Two Rivers Correctional
Institution inmate Patrick Tyson
stumbled across a guitar that had
been put in the trash.
Because it was Christmas at
the time, Tyson said he wouldn’t
have felt comfortable throwing it
in with the rest of the trash.
“I just felt, being Christmas and
all, I didn’t think it would be very
(festive) for a perfectly good gui-
tar to get thrown away,” he said.
Tyson talked with correctional
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to hang onto the instrument as they
made the rest of their rounds.
Given that they can’t leave the
institution, its owner, inmate Cory
Lewis, didn’t know what his op-
tions were for the instrument. He
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it away, since he was purchasing a
new guitar and had no place for
the instrument in his cell. After
getting his permission, correction-
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found a way so he could donate the
guitar to an organization to which
Lewis personally relates.
MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO
Demos’ sister, Kriss Dammey-
er, had just started an organiza- Two Rivers Correctional Institution inmate Cory Lewis hands his old acous-
tic guitar to Thrive founder and director Kriss Dammeyer, who gave it to a
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16-year-old girl who has a history of homelessness.
