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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016
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2014
Calls for service
12,129
Officer initiated activity 10,970
Total violent
24
Homicide
0
Rape
2
Robbery
14
Aggravated assault 8
Total property
499
Burglary
75
Larceny
388
Auto theft
34
Arson
2
Total crime
523
2015
10,032
13,205
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53
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The drop in calls also corre-
sponds to police taking more initia-
tive. Edmiston reported Hermiston
police experienced an increase of 20
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up total reports 9 percent, arrests 6
percent and citations 11 percent.
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iston police from Dec. 21, 2015,
to Jan. 4 arrested eight people for
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Edmiston also plans to release
suspended and handed out 26 cita-
tions for hazardous crash-causing juvenile crime numbers later this
violations (not equipment-related vi- month.
In his presentation to the city,
olations). A grant provided the funds
Edmiston also looked ahead at chal-
lenges his department will face go-
ing forward.
Among his goals for the de-
partment are increased interaction
with the community for things like
Neighborhood Watch and Business
Watch projects in press releases sent
out through local media.
He also wants to increase interac-
tion with the Hispanic community,
which makes up roughly one-third of
the city’s population. The department
currently has seven paid employees
that are bilingual, which is 23 percent
of the staff and has 2 more volunteer
staff members that can speak Span-
ish. The department also hopes to
educate the public on ways to avoid
becoming a victim of crime.
Gary L. West contributed to this
report.
IN BRIEF
Inland Musicians
announce rehearsal
schedules
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PEACE:
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they needed to wait to win
the lottery in order to make
a difference in the world.
“As Americans we have
already won the lottery,”
she said. “Don’t wait to
be great to do something,
do something now and be
great at that.”
Pressing the theme of
contributing one’s best to
the world in every circum-
stance, Rome quoted King:
“If a man is called to be
a street sweeper, he should
sweep streets even as a
Michaelangelo painted, or
Beethoven composed mu-
sic or Shakespeare wrote
poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the
hosts of heaven and earth
will pause to say, ‘Here
lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.’”
She urged everyone in
attendance to follow King’s
words by doing their best to
build up their own commu-
nity.
Other speakers at Mon-
day’s ceremony spoke of
King’s devotion to making
the world a better place.
Jody Frost said she was
a little girl growing up in
Hermiston during the civ-
il rights movement. At the
time she didn’t really un-
derstand what all of the
fuss was about, she said,
but today she can appreci-
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his contemporaries made
so that when she marched
down the streets of Hermis-
ton on Monday with people
of various races she didn’t
have to wonder if she was
going to be shot, beaten or
The Inland Northwest
Musicians are getting set to
warm up their voices and
instruments for the new
year.
Rehearsals for the cho-
rale are Mondays from
7-9 p.m. at Harris Junior
Academy, 3121 S.W. Hai-
ley Ave., Pendleton. The
weekly practices lead up
to a pair of concerts, which
are April 2-3.
The orchestra’s weekly
rehearsals are Thursdays
from 6:30-9:30 p.m., also
at the junior academy.
Their upcoming concerts
are Feb. 20-21.
The Willow Creek
Symphony, the organiza-
tion’s preparatory orches-
tra, meets Tuesdays from
6-7:30 p.m. at Irrigon Jr./Sr.
High School, 315 E. Wyo-
ming Ave. The symphony,
which is open to youths,
as well as adults picking
up their instruments again,
will perform March 13.
Try-outs aren’t required
to participate with the orga-
nization’s ensembles.
Formed in 1999, Inland
Northwest Musicians is
committed to providing
free live performances
throughout rural East-
ern Oregon and southeast
Washington. The organiza-
tion’s mission is to provide
an atmosphere to support
musicians in developing
their talent.
For more information,
contact
541-289-4696,
innw@machmedia.net or
visit
www.inlandnorth-
westmusicians.com.
Bunco games benefit
hospital program
A fundraiser to purchase
a camera for the Sexual
Assault Nurse Examiner
program at Good Shepherd
Medical Center is planned
by Soroptimist Internation-
al of the Greater Hermiston
Area.
The Bunco Fundraiser
is Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 6:30
p.m. at Desert Lanes, 1545
N. First St., Hermiston.
Tickets are $10 at the door,
which includes snacks and
prizes.
The local Soroptimist
club is part of an interna-
tional group that promotes
education and leadership
to transform the lives of
women and girls. For more
information, call Brooke
Crow 541-914-5602.
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today,” she said. “They
suffered injustice and in-
dignity so we could sit here
today.”
Robert Davis said he
was glad to see so many
children participate in the
peace walk and ceremony,
learning the lessons of tol-
erance so that history did
not repeat itself.
“We have a brighter
future with the youth in-
volved,” he said.
The event was spon-
sored by Hermiston’s Black
International
Awareness
Club, which began in 1999.
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