WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
COUNTY RACE
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development as the county’s most
pressing concern and water as the
development driver. He said that
means working with state water
agencies for water rights. Sha-
fer, however, said mental health
and drug addiction are the big-
gest problems. He said Life-
ways, which provides local men-
tal health services, needs to make
good on old promises of providing
nine workers in the county.
Bailor said public health has to
be the top issue and suggested the
county needs a behavioral health
committee to find “home grown
solutions.” Murdock added hous-
ing to the mix and said the county
is working with the city of Herm-
iston on a project to add hundreds
of homes. And Pullen said the
county needs to hire a full-time
economic development director.
That left an opening for Mur-
dock, who on a subsequent
answer pointed out the county
did what Pullen requested back in
February, when former Pendleton
Chamber of Commerce director
Gail Nelson took the post as the
county’s new economic develop-
ment and tourism coordinator.
Pullen admitted that was news
to him.
Several candidates said the
county should be a companion
in economic development and
partner with cities and organi-
zations. Givens said the county
needs to continue using property
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around the state to gather infor-
mation about the best-perform-
ing schools in the state and how
their practices differ from those at
struggling schools.
Legislators’ visit to the area
will include listening sessions
with students, a tour of Uma-
tilla Morrow Head Start, a
meeting with the Hermiston
Kiwanis Club, a visit to Mor-
row County School District,
a tour of the Pendleton Tribal
Attendance Pilot Program, a
visit to the Columbia Basin Stu-
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Givens said the county is
one of the fastest growing in
Oregon, and growth brings
some pains. Even so, he said,
the county is in a good finan-
cial position. Pullen asserted
the county board of commis-
sioners’ first move in a budget
crisis is to fire personnel, but
that should be the last resort.
The board in 2017 cut 10 posi-
tions to fix a $1.7 million short-
fall, a move he called poor
management.
Murdock
stated
every
employee with the county from
the 2017-18 fiscal year will
remain in the upcoming fiscal
year.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
The condition of county
Athena Mayor John Shafer answers a question about the capabilities
roads was also discussed. Giv-
ens said road department funds
of the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Department during a commissioner
forum Wednesday in Hermiston. Shafer is challenging Umatilla County
come from the state gas tax,
Commissioner Larry Givens, at right.
which is declining in revenue,
and not the county’s general
tax breaks to bring in businesses. should have seen the mental fund.
Bailor said he sees the county as health crisis coming sooner and
The county prioritizes which
a “facilitator for economic devel- been more aggressive in pursu- roads to maintain or repair to
opment” and questioned if the ing state money to address those stretch those dollars, he said.
county was getting a good deal needs in the jail. The county
Shafer argued maintaining
needs to develop better mental roads on a rotational basis, while
from those business incentives.
Murdock and Shafer touted health services, he said.
Bailor said the county should
Murdock said the state cut entice companies to take on road
how the jail has boosted the
inmate population from about funding for mental health and has work.
135 per day to more than 200. But yet to bridge that gap. He advo-
Murdock said Umatilla County
Shafer said that means inmates cated for a mental health grant has more miles of roads than any
are sleeping in recreation rooms, program akin to the state’s Jus- other county in the state, and with
and a chunk of the inmate popula- tice Reinvestment Program, a bond a no-go, the county sets
tion has mental health problems. which funds local programs to aside money to keep facilities in
Pullen said mental health has keep offenders out of prisons.
good condition.
long been a concern and the num-
He also touted county suc-
Pullen suggested a program of
ber of people with mental illness cesses, including the resurrec- three years of regular road main-
is rising. He said he wants more tion of the drug treatment court, tenance, then dedicating the next
mental health services in schools. which closed last year due to a year to tackling out-of-the-way
roads.
Bailor said county leadership lack of state funding.
dent Homebuilders Program
and a dinner with local business
leaders.
• • •
Next week, from Monday to
Friday, on and off ramps between
Interstate 82 and Highway 730
near Umatilla will be intermit-
tently closed overnight.
According to the Oregon
Department of Transporta-
tion, the closures, which will
take place between 8 p.m. and
6 a.m., are for pavement work
being completed along Highway
730 between Old River Road in
Umatilla and Willamette Ave-
nue in McNary. Drivers will be
directed by signs to take the next
exit instead.
• • •
Celebration was in order as ath-
letes, volunteers and fans involved
with Hermiston/Pendleton Spe-
cial Olympics Local Program
#510 recognized award winners
for the 2017 sports season.
The April 10 event, held at
The Arc Building in Hermis-
ton, included the presentation of
awards announced by communi-
cations manager Kristi Smalley.
Those recognized incldued Jus-
tin Winter (Male Athlete of the
Year), Jennifer Williams (Female
Athlete of the Year), Jessica Sex-
ton (Volunteer of the Year), Win-
nie Burnett (Coach of the Year),
Boardman Pool and Recreation
Center (Business of the Year),
and Dalton Schneider (Youth
Volunteer Award).
Special Olympics provides
year-around training and athletic
competitions for people of all
ages with intellectual disabilities.
There is no charge to participate.
The current sports season
offers training in track and field,
Bocce` and golf. If interested in
participating as an athlete or vol-
unteer, call Angela Schneider at
541-314-0166.
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Seven dems
competing to
run against
Walden
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Unaffiliated voters will have
to wait until November to partic-
ipate in the race for Oregon’s 2nd
Congressional District, but Repub-
licans will find two challengers to
Rep. Greg Walden’s party nomina-
tion, while Democrats will be able
to choose from a field of seven
candidates hoping to challenge
Walden in the general election.
Walden, who is running for
re-election, has held the seat since
1999. He is being challenged by
Randy Pollock and Paul Romero
in the Republican party.
On the Democratic side are Eric
Burnette (Hood River), Michael
Byrne (Parkdale), Jim Crary (Ash-
land), Jennifer “Jenni” Neahring
(Bend), Raz Mason (The Dalles),
Jamie McLeod-Skinner (Terre-
bone) and Tim White (Bend).
The seven Democrats presented
a united front during a March 23
candidate forum in Pendleton,
choosing to take shots at Walden
instead of each other, accusing the
incumbent of neglecting his dis-
trict and criticizing him for recent
votes on taxes and health care.
“I live a couple of blocks from
Greg Walden, and that is in part of
why I’m running,” Burnette told
the audience during the forum.
Crary, a retired attorney and
veteran, was the party’s nominee
to challenge Walden in 2016 and
received 28 percent of the vote that
year. He has promised to run on
individual donations, not money
from corporations and special
interests, and said he is focused on
campaign finance reform as one of
the issues that first inspired him to
run.
McLeod-Skinner has been busy
on the campaign trail, including a
speech at Pendleton’s March for
Our Lives the day after the can-
didate forum. She calls herself a
“rural Democrat” and believes
both political parties need to spend
more time paying attention to the
rural areas of their districts.
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Pending...$239,000 3 Bedroom
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appliances included, great view
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4 acres planted in grass, yard
is landscaped, well/septic, all
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Beautiful canyon
setting. Zoned FR5. MLS#
18576020
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1439 NE Gladys Hermiston, OR
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