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with the current salary of
$38,400, City Manager Blair
Larsen said. The public safe-
ty fee is projected to bring in
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said, and the revenue can only
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“Salaries were pathetically
low before,” he said. “Now that
the fee is in place, we still can’t
compete with what Hermiston
pays, but we are in line with
what other cities our size pay.”
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment currently pays patrol offi-
cers $49,224 or more per year,
according to the collective bar-
gaining agreement approved last
year. With a 5 percent increase
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will pay officers at least $37,104
annually, according to an agree-
ment approved in April.
Toombs said SPD hired
two officers to fill vacancies
May 15, 2014, after the salary
increase went into effect. Both
have attended the police acad-
emy, completed field training
and have been patrolling alone
since the beginning of the year,
he said.
Before the officers were
hired and during their training,
Toombs said he and Chief Bry-
on Zumwalt covered most of
the shifts themselves as the only
full-time employees. He said it
was difficult for two people to
provide adequate service to the
community.
“We’re definitely covering
those hours that we need to be
out (now),” he said. “With that,
the case load can be split be-
tween guys, instead of one or
two guys taking on a caseload
for a four-man department.
We’re just able to serve Stan-
field and Echo a lot better now
with two extra guys.”
Toombs said the department
can now have more of a pres-
ence in schools and catch up
from being understaffed.
“It’s been a positive for the
community,” he said of hiring
the new officers. “They’re fit-
ting in really well with the com-
munity. I think they do a really
good job with the communi-
ty-oriented policing and that
aspect of it.”
Officer Daniel Poffenberger,
one of the new recruits, said the
pay increase was already in-
cluded when he applied for the
position.
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ized he wanted to be a cop
after a weeklong SWAT
training he took while serv-
ing in a sniper unit in the
Oregon National Guard.
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up and attended school in
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returned, he still wanted
to be in the military, so he
joined the Guard.
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section before spending
his last several years as
a sniper. He said anoth-
er person in his unit had
friends in the Pendle-
ton Police Department.
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in civil engineering and
drafting. He then moved to
Lewiston, Idaho, working
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started applying for law en-
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because, all of the sudden,
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career. Every day is unpre-
dictable, he said.
“There’s no telling
what you’re going to get
as far as something that’s
going to come over the
radio that you have to go
and deal with,” he said.
“It’s ‘Hey, the neighbor’s
dog is in my yard again’ to
somebody scraped bum-
pers up at Pilot to here’s
mom beating up dad. It
changes every single day.”
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it might be too small, but it
has grown on him.
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and getting to meet some
of the people and interact
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awesome,” he said. “It’s a
great little small town. You
have shopping real close.
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close, and the river’s right
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keep them here.”
Poffenberger said a larger
salary certainly helps financial-
ly, but there is more to the job
than money. He said one of the
benefits is being able to make a
difference in the community.
The other new officer, Ryan
McBride, agreed.
“We’re a good team, so we
can make a difference, I think,”
he said. “The four of us get
along really well. I think we’re
doing positive (things) for the
community.”
years before I can write a book.
I had to sign a waiver saying I
won’t write anything until a cer-
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tain deadline.”
school, signed up for the mil-
After serving, many of his
itary police and then spent friends stayed in Washington,
four years traveling nationally D.C., joining the Drug Enforce-
and internationally with two ment Administration or the Se-
different presidents.
cret Service, McBride said, but
“I went to (Washington), he chose to return to his home-
D.C., and did four years at town of Olympia, Washington.
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One security,” he said. “I got there until deciding to move to
a top secret clearance and just a smaller town, when he saw
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elite duty.”
partment.
McBride said he traveled to
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tries. Bill Clinton was president have it in your blood, you have
for McBride’s first two years it in your blood,” he said. “I
on the Marine One detail, and came here, and I like the guys
he spent his last two years with a lot. ... I kind of look at it as
George W. Bush.
my retirement job. I did all the
“My last day in the military, military stuff, and (it’s nice) to
I was in the Oval Office hang- just come back here to the slow
ing out with George Bush,” he pace. Being in D.C. and being
said. “It was pretty cool. I’ve got LQ2O\PSLDLW¶VMXVWWKHWUDI¿F
a cool picture of me and him, the way of life. This is quiet.
what they call the ‘grip and grin’ It’s nice. Everybody knows
where he’s like, ‘I thank you for your name. Everybody waves.
your service’ kind of thing. It It’s fun.”
was pretty neat.”
McBride said he has no re-
McBride said he trained with grets about not pursuing a career
the FBI and received SWAT with a federal law enforcement
training. He said the experience agency. He said he can have a
was incredible, especially at larger impact on the community
such a young age.
here, and he plans to stay.
“I can’t explain it,” he said. “I
“This is more fun,” he said
could write a book. I still can’t, of working in Stanfield versus
though. I’ve got another couple Washington, D.C. “I can go
out there and see the kids and
make a difference. I can make
a positive influence every day in
someone’s life.”
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“Stackhouse ran from
the crash where he contact-
ed a victim on Northeast
Seventh and Catherine. ...
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tempted to steal her vehi-
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Girl Scouts help area food banks
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Above, members of Echo Girl Scout Troop 50488, led by Jenny Thomas and Jamie
Wiseman, and Hermiston Girl Scout Troop 51425, led by Amber Ruiz-Burleson and
Rebecca Higgins, pose by food they collected during their annual Scouting for Food
drive this year.
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington in Service Unit 22 collected a
total of 1,496 pounds of nonperishable food and $10 in donations for three Umatilla
County food pantries during this year’s drive.
On April 25, two Girl Scout troops rounded up 537 pounds of groceries for the
Echo Food Bank and one Girl Scout troop gathered 200 pounds for Pendleton’s Sal-
vation Army. Earlier in the month, three troops collected 759 pounds for Hermiston’s
Agape House.
Girl Scouts encourages everyone to continue making food and/or monetary dona-
tions to their local food banks.
The Girl Scouts is also in great need of adult volunteers — parents, grandparents or
neighbors — to lead troops or join our area’s leadership service team. Several girls
are waiting to join, but they need someone to be their leader. For more information
about joining or volunteering for Girl Scouts, contact Addie Bower at 541-389-8146
or abower@girlscoutsosw.org.
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