WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018
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Good Shepherd Medical Center, Hermiston
Fred Colmenero
Margaret Weaver Collatt
MAY 11, 2018
Hermiston
Feb. 8, 1937 - May 20, 2018
Salem
August 17, 1953 - February 19, 2018
Fred Colmenero, 81, of Hermiston died Sunday, May
20, 2018, at his home. He was born Feb. 8, 1937, in Colo-
rado. Services are pending with Burns Mortuary of Herm-
iston. Sign the online condolence book at burnsmortuary-
hermiston.com.
Margaret Weaver Col-
Margaret is survived
latt, 64, passed away Feb- by children Lester (Mary)
ruary 19, 2018, in Salem, Wall and Joann Wall;
Oregon. She was born mother and stepfather
August 17, 1953, in John Oradell and Claude Tal-
ley; brother Jim
Day to Buddie and
(Mary) Weaver;
Oradell Weaver.
sisters
Elaine
Margaret
was
Foster and Janet
raised in Mt. Vernon,
(Rick)
Hylton;
Oregon, where she
grandchildren
attended school and
Aspen, Madisen,
participated in many
Elijah, Noah and
school activities. She
Isaiah;
nieces
lived in Pendleton in Collatt
and
nephews
the ’80s while attend-
ing Blue Mountain Com- Christopher, Mandy, Jer-
munity College, where rod, Jennifer, Gregory,
she graduated with both Janel and Andrew; several
an RN and an accounting great-nephews and many
degree. Twenty years later cousins; and life-long
she graduated with honors friend Bruce Carlson.
She is preceded in death
from OHSU with a Bach-
elor of Science in nursing. by her father Buddie and
In 1984 Margaret brother Alvin.
In Margaret’s own
started working at the
Oregon Department of words at the acceptance
Corrections in Salem, of her last award: “Thank
where she wore many you to all of you who have
hats with Health Services been my friends, and now
and received numerous family, over all the years.
awards both locally and A few thoughts I would
nationally. She was part like to leave with you at
of the first nursing group this time. Find and cher-
that wrote the first set ish good mentors and
of health care policies good friends, to share the
and procedures for Ore- burden stories and the tri-
gon Department of Cor- umph stories, for occa-
rections. After 33 years sional ‘reality checks’ and
she retired due to poor for talks when times are
confusing. Every encoun-
health.
Margaret had an enthu- ter is a teachable moment,
siastic and vibrant person- and extend into the future.
ality. She respected the Treat
everyone
with
people she came in contact respect just as you would
with as they respected her a family member.”
A celebration of life will
as well. She was always
full of life, fun energy be held May 27 at the Mt.
and found joy in others. Vernon Community Center
She lived her life with her in Mt. Vernon, Oregon, at
3 p.m.
heart.
HUBER — Amanda L. Huber and Andrew S. Huber of
Hermiston: a girl, Hazel Jean Huber.
MAY 12, 2018
RAMIREZ CHAVEZ — Berenice Ramirez and Jho-
natan M. Ramirez of Boardman: a boy, Sebastian Ramirez
Chavez.
VERA — Brittney M. Clark and Sosimo Vera of Irrigon:
a girl, Emmalyn Aviana Vera.
COURTS
SENTENCES
PENDLETON — The following sen-
tences have been imposed in Umatilla
County courts:
FELONY
•Aaren Antheny Barrera Rivera,
27, Hermiston, pleaded guilty to two
counts of Theft I: sentenced to two
years probation, 120 sanction units, 60
maximum jail units, 80 hours commu-
nity service, $200 fine and restitution
to be determined for each count.
•James Joseph Martinez, 40, Herm-
iston, pleaded guilty to Possession of
Methamphetamine: sentenced to 18
months probation, 90 sanction units,
30 maximum jail units, 80 hours com-
munity service, $200 fine and 6 months
driver’s license suspension.
SUITS FILED
PENDLETON — The following suits
have been filed in Umatilla County
courts (interest, court costs and fees
not listed):
•Cavalry SPV I LLC vs. Vania Flores
of Hermiston: seeks $1,157.84.
•Bonneville Billing & Collections
Inc. vs. William Spaulding of Hermis-
ton: seeks $348.23.
•Credits Inc. vs. Jessie A. and
Brandi Aughinbaugh of Hermiston:
seeks $1,496.67.
•Credits Inc. vs. Abraham Arias of
Boardman: seeks $1,073.83.
•Midland Funding LLC vs. Karen
Mendoza: seeks $1,513.31.
•Bradley D. Zimmer of Hermiston
vs. Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany, Metlife Group Inc., Metlife Inc. and
John Doe; seeks $50,000 to $1 million.
•Midland Funding LLC vs. Derek
Anderson: seeks $795.38.
•Midland Funding LLC vs. Amanda
Grove: seeks $1,268.10.
•Midland Funding LLC vs. Julie
Clark: seeks $1,137.05.
•Merchants Acceptance Corp. vs.
Juana Delacruz of Hermiston: seeks
$3,361.99.
JUDGMENTS
PENDLETON — The following judg-
ments have been rendered in Umatilla
County courts (interest, court costs and
fees not listed):
•Discover Bank vs. Ronald W. Wart
of Hermiston: judgment for $7,278.09.
•Michael Robinson of Pendleton
vs. Lara Lea Arriola of Hermiston dba
Superior Northwest Buildings: judg-
ment for $12,425.
•OneMain Financial Services Inc.
vs. Daryan A. Lewis of Hermiston: judg-
ment for $3,485.06.
•Credits Inc. vs. Mary Melissa Dun-
leavy of Boardman: judgment for
$5,447.82.
•Credits Inc. vs. Hugo Arellano of
Umatilla: judgment or $6,845.79.
•Columbia River Powder Coating
LLC of Hermiston vs. Keith Friend Fab-
rication LLC of Hermiston: judgment for
$2,750.
•United Finance Co. vs. Tra-
vis Revoir of Heppner: judgment for
$3,888.07.
•Credits Inc. vs. Beverly A. Merri-
field of Umatilla: judgment for $636.06.
•Credits Inc. vs. Sandy J. Phillips of
Irrigon: judgment for $3,983.90.
•Credits Inc. vs. Sixto and Maria
Barrera of Boardman: judgment for
$1,506.65.
DIVORCES
PENDLETON — Divorce decrees
were signed in Umatilla County Courts
for:
John Michael McGregor of Osce-
ola, Wis., and Fayrine Ann McGregor of
Umatilla.
MARRIAGES
PENDLETON — Marriage licenses
have been registered in Umatilla
County for:
Rumaldo Alfredo Rodriguez, 52,
and Maria Guadalupe Mendoza Carde-
nas, 38, both of Umatilla.
Bernard ‘Larry’ Housden
Hermiston
Nov. 3, 1936 - April 19, 2018
Bernard “Larry” Housden, 81, of Hermiston died
Thursday, April 19, 2018, in Kennewick, Wash. He was
born Nov. 3, 1936, in Chehalis, Washington. A memo-
rial service will be held Saturday, May 26 at 1 p.m. at
the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 2260 N.E.
Fourth St., Hermiston. Arrangements by Burns Mortuary
of Hermiston. Sign the online condolence book at burns-
mortuaryhermiston.com.
Richard Edward Lenhart
Portland
Feb. 5, 1934 - April 21, 2018.
Former Hermiston resident Richard Edward Lenhart,
84, of Portland died Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Portland.
He was born Feb. 5, 1934, in Hermiston. Finley Sunset
Hills Mortuary in Portland handled arrangements.
POLICE LOG
Tuesday, May 15
9:21 p.m. — A suicidal subject
was reported at West McKenzie Ave-
nue, Hermiston.
Wednesday, May 16
10:16 a.m. — A caller on East
Hurlburt Avenue reported that she
was just scammed out of $1,000.
Scammers told her to buy a “green
dot” card, and she gave them the
code and bought it at Safeway in
Hermiston.
11:59 a.m. — A man came to the
HPD lobby to report that he’s in the
middle of a lawsuit, and two women
have been following him and his
children all over town. He said he
wants it to stop.
2:28 p.m. — A suicidal subject
was reported at West Highland Ave-
nue, Hermiston.
8:00 p.m. — Someone called
from Northwest 11th Street and said
people were trying to hurt him, but
then he disconnected.
Thursday, May 17
2:56 a.m. — Shots fired were
reported at Northwest Spruce Street,
Hermiston.
11:18 a.m. — A caller reported
that his half-brother received traffic
tickets, but used his name.
Friday, May 18
12:38 p.m. — A suicidal sub-
ject was reported on Craig Road,
Hermiston.
3:09 p.m. — A caller near Good
Shepherd Scheduling on West Elm
Avenue said that a dog was locked in
a light blue older sedan in the park-
ing lot. The caller believed the dog
was in distress and asked an officer
to respond.
Saturday, May 19
2:33 p.m. — An assault was
reported at North First Street,
Hermiston.
8:10 p.m. — Someone reported
screaming and yelling coming from
inside a house on West Ridgeway
Avenue, Hermiston.
8:22 p.m. — A runaway was
reported at Southwest Seventh Ave-
nue, Hermiston.
9:47 p.m. — A woman called
to report someone had been shot,
and that a man was on the ground,
at East Beebe Avenue and North
McNary Street, Hermiston.
Sunday, May 20
1:26 p.m. — A four year-old child
had been left in a black Kia Sedona
at North First Street, Hermiston.
3:23 p.m. — An assault was
reported at East Main Street,
Hermiston.
Suspect in storage unit burglaries arrested
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
A Hermiston man suspected of steal-
ing truckloads of items from Hermis-
ton and Umatilla has been arrested, and
police are working to find out just how
much he took.
Russell Scott Greene, 36, was taken
into custody in Kennewick on Satur-
day morning after police found him
at a local motel. The police found sus-
pected stolen property in the room, and
more stolen property may be recovered
in the area.
Hermiston Police will be in touch
with Kennewick Police about the
investigation.
Greene has been arrested in Herm-
iston before, most recently in 2017 for
identity theft and fraudulent use of a
credit card.
Hermiston Police Chief Jason
Edmiston said about 30 percent or 35
percent of the stolen items have been
returned or slated for return so far.
He said right now, the department is
preparing all their information to turn
the case over to the district attorney’s
office, and waiting for Greene to be
extradited back to Oregon.
Officers had been recovering stolen
property since April 5, including items
taken from residences around Herm-
iston and Umatilla, as well as storage
units in Umatilla.
Officers recovered several truck-
loads full of stolen items, which ranged
from televisions and bicycles to fire-
arms, artwork, furniture and military
ordnance.
The stolen items are all packed into
a room above the Hermiston Police
Department.
Edmiston said city ordinance
requires them to keep found property
for 30 days, but the police department
internal policy is to keep them for 60
days.
After that, he said, they will have to
decide what to do with the unclaimed
property.
Officers have also been making reg-
ular posts on Facebook reminding peo-
ple about the merchandise, and ask-
ing them to be diligent about checking
their storage units.
Oregon lawmakers mull big livestock operations
Senate committee
eyes problems
facing Lost Valley
Farm of Boardman
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
EO MEDIA GROUP
SALEM — The regu-
latory problems facing a
Boardman dairy have raised
questions among lawmakers
about avoiding “too big to
fail” livestock operations in
the future.
Negative publicity has
continued to mount for Lost
Valley Farm, which in 2018
has faced a $10,600 fine, a
lawsuit filed by state farm
regulators and financial
troubles resulting in bank-
ruptcy proceedings.
The 7,300-acre farm is
home to nearly 14,000 head
of cattle.
The Senate Interim Com-
mittee on Environment and
Natural Resources sum-
moned the state’s top agri-
culture and water regulators
for a legislative hearing on
May 21 to begin analyzing
what went wrong.
The hearing was cut short
after an hour because the full
Senate was expected to con-
vene, but Sen. Michael Dem-
brow, D-Portland, said the
matter will likely be revis-
ited during legislative com-
mittee days in September.
The state government
should be wary of confined
animal feeding operations,
or CAFOs, that are “too big
to fail” due to the large num-
bers of animals involved, he
said.
In the case of Lost Valley
Farm, the dairy’s size has
been used as an argument
against its forced closure,
since cows will continue
generating milk and waste
regardless of a court order.
The testimony of Alexis
Taylor, director of the Ore-
gon Department of Agricul-
ture, focused on the permit-
ting required for dairies and
how Lost Valley Farm navi-
gated this process.
Dairies make up 206 of
the 516 CAFOs inspected
by the agency, which issues
a civil penalty in fewer than
1 percent of the 880 inspec-
tions its employees conduct
each year, Taylor said.
Lost Valley Farm is the
most extensively moni-
tored CAFO in Oregon, with
groundwater from 11 wells
being tested for pollutants,
she said.
The ODA has acted
quickly in regard to the
dairy’s wastewater problems
— within roughly a year, the
agency has repeatedly noti-
fied the company of viola-
tions, issued a hefty civil
penalty and sought a tem-
porary restraining order that
resulted in a settlement, Tay-
lor said.
The court judgment,
entered in March, provides
an additional option for the
agency: The dairy can be
punished for contempt of
court for violating the agree-
ment, she said.
Such drastic measures
are rarely necessary in reg-
ulating CAFOs, Taylor said.
“It’s really when an operator
is unable or unwilling to be
in compliance.”
Weekly inspections of
the Lost Valley Farm facil-
ity have continued since the
settlement, but ODA is dis-
cussing further steps with
attorneys from Oregon’s
Department of Justice, she
said.
Any regulatory action is
separate from the company’s
bankruptcy proceedings, she
said.
The dairy’s owner, Greg
te Velde, has filed for bank-
ruptcy in California, where
he’s asked a judge to allow
for the dairy, cattle and prop-
erty to be sold for more than
$100 million. The compa-
ny’s largest creditor, Rabo-
bank, instead wants the herd
liquidated as soon as possi-
ble, arguing it’s losing value.
Tom Byler, the director of
the Oregon Water Resources
Department, said the dairy
was allowed to use ground-
water under an exemp-
tion for livestock watering
despite being located in a
restricted area.
The operation’s long-term
potable water needs remain
unresolved, since proposed
water transfers have been
blocked by administrative
protests, Byler said.
Chad Allen, president of
the Oregon Dairy Farmers
Association, drove to the
hearing in Salem from his
farm in Tillamook but was
unable to testify.
Allen said he wanted leg-
islators to understand Ore-
gon is a “leader” in the arena
of CAFO regulation and that
ODA acted aggressively in
reacting to problems at Lost
Valley Farm.
“The system clearly
works,” he said.
Patricia Fontaine Mason
Hermiston
April 13, 1934 - May 7, 2018
Patricia
Fontaine
Mason of Hermiston was
born April 13, 1934, in
St. Joseph, Missouri, the
youngest of 16 children
born to William W.
and Jessica (Mays)
Willis. She died
on May 7, 2018, in
Hermiston at the age
of 84.
As an infant,
Patricia was adopted
by Clifford and Mason
Beatrice Bean. She
married L.D. McCubbins
on October 4, 1949, and
settled on the family farm
in Touchet, Washington.
From this union six chil-
dren were born; the cou-
ple later divorced. In 1968,
she married Myron Lippin-
cott and they had one son
before they divorced. In
1970, she married LeRoy
Mason and the couple had
one son. Together the cou-
ple lived in a variety of
places including Union,
Portland and Hermiston,
Oregon.
She was preceded in
death by both sets of her
parents, all of her Willis
siblings, her daughter Eve-
lyn (Don) Patterson, and
sons Robert McCubbins
and James Mason.
She is survived by her
husband, LeRoy of Uma-
tilla; brother and sis-
ter Richard and Sharon
Bean of Milton-Freewa-
ter; children Dar-
lene
(Marty)
Schmid of Herm-
iston, Eileen (Jim)
Daniel and Malinda
(Shawn) Prendiv-
ille of Walla Walla,
Wash.,
Michael
(Julie)
McCub-
bins of Touchet,
Wash., and Brian Lippin-
cott of Portland; stepson
Jimmy Mason of Portland;
stepdaughter Kandie Jen-
sen of Stanfield; and sev-
eral grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life
and barbecue will be held
from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday,
June 2, 2018, at her daugh-
ter Darlene’s residence,
32407 E. Punkin Center
Road, Hermiston, Oregon.
Family suggest memo-
rial donations be sent to
Vange John Memorial
Hospice, 645 W. Orchard
Ave. #300, Hermiston, OR
97838.
To leave an online con-
dolence for the family go
to www.burnsmortuary-
hermiston.com.
OBITUARY POLICY
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541-966-0818 or 1-800-522-0255, x221.
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