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Naturopathic physician steps Police evader lands in jail
into his mentor’s shoes
Olney took off and dragged
Gill almost 100 feet, injur-
ing him.
Naythan Allen Olney
Hermiston Police Chief
evaded local police over Jason Edmiston said Olney
and over earlier this year then “kind of went on a
after injuring a
spree of sorts.”
Hermiston
offi-
The
Umatilla
cer. But his run-
County Sheriff’s
ning came to an end
Office has three
last Wednesday in
cases
involving
Clackamas County.
Olney, the Mor-
row County Sher-
Not that he didn’t
iff’s Office has
try to get away.
two and Boardman
Olney has been
police has one.
on the run since Olney
Olney got away
Feb. 24. Herm-
iston police Cpl. Leon- from the Hermiston police,
ard Stokoe stopped Olney, Umatilla police, Umatilla
36, early that morning in County sheriff’s deputies
a 2014 Toyota Camry for and the Oregon State Police
a traffic violation. Hermis- troopers.
ton police at the time also
Edmiston
said
his
reported Lucia Madrigal, department received a tip
30, of Boardman, was the Olney was in the Clacka-
mas area and worked with
passenger.
Stokoe found the car the Clackamas County
had the wrong license Sheriff’s Office. Deputies
plates, suspected it was sto- there caught Olney after a
len and asked for back-up. chase Wednesday morning.
Cpl. Doug Gill arrived.
Court records show
The officers tried to detain Clackamas
County
Olney and Madrigal, but arraigned Olney on initial
By PHIL WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
Hermiston native
returns home to
practice natural
medicine
By KATHY ANEY
STAFF WRITER
As a Hermiston High
School student interested
in medicine, Anton Alder
once dreamed of becoming
a neurosurgeon.
Then he got an after-
school job as a filing clerk
at the Peterson Clinic in
Hermiston. The teenager
came into the orb of natu-
ropathic physician Ken-
neth Peterson — Dr. Ken
— who eventually intro-
duced him to a different
approach to healing. Peter-
son, who started the clinic
in 1953, coupled traditional
medicine with alternative
practices such as nutri-
tion, herbs and chiropractic
manipulation.
Alder, now 32, recently
returned to Hermiston as a
licensed naturopathic phy-
sician to step into his men-
tor’s big shoes.
Peterson, who retired in
2017, was honored in 2010
as the longest continuously
practicing
naturopathic
physician in Oregon. He
received the Living Leg-
end award, given by the
National University of Nat-
ural Medicine and the Ore-
gon Association of Natu-
ropathic Medicine. In the
early days, he also provided
primary care and delivered
a number of babies.
After Alder earned a
biology degree at Brigham
Young University-Idaho,
he returned to Hermiston
to work as Peterson’s assis-
tant and help with the clin-
ic’s neurofeedback pro-
gram, led by Peterson’s
son, Kris Peterson. He
grew more intrigued as he
assisted Dr. Ken.
“I saw people get bet-
ter with really simple treat-
ments and thought that
is really cool,” he said.
“The more I followed him
around, the more I realized
that I really have to figure
out what he’s doing.”
He attended the Univer-
sity of Bridgeport’s Col-
lege of Naturopathic Med-
icine. The first two years,
he said, were compara-
ble to conventional medi-
cal school with classes on
microbiology,
anatomy,
physiology and other sub-
jects. The next two years
were largely clinical.
His dreams of becoming
a neurosurgeon faded into
the rearview mirror.
charges of vehicle theft and
two counts of fleeing, all
felonies. Edmiston said the
Clackamas County Sher-
iff’s Office also questioned
Olney about the Feb. 24
incident and is providing
that report to Hermiston
police.
Madrigal, too, is behind
bars, but in the Uma-
tilla County Jail, Pendle-
ton. The district attorney’s
office charged her with
committing vehicle theft
and first-degree criminal
mischief stemming on Feb.
24.
State court records also
show Olney has a crimi-
nal history going back to
the late 1990s, and his first
conviction for vehicle theft
came in 2001. He pleaded
guilty in 2006 in Clacka-
mas County to multiple fel-
ony counts of theft. Those
crimes landed him in prison
for a number of years.
Olney re-started his
criminal activity in 2017,
according to police and
court records.
Data center fee to be re-directed to taxing districts
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Naturopathic physician Anton Alder returned to his
hometown to practice.
Kenneth Peterson
“The more I got into
neurology, the more I real-
ized you do not want to cut
into that intricate system
unless it’s absolutely nec-
essary,” he said. “There are
times when it’s an abso-
lute necessity, but if there’s
any other way, it’s worth
exploring.”
Alder prefers to con-
centrate on prevention and
healing with less invasive
methods. He said patients
should expect long vis-
its at least initially as he
learns about physical con-
dition, environment, eating
habits and other relevant
factors. He may order lab
tests to provide additional
information.
“We have very distinct
therapeutic order that we
follow,” Alder said. “We
consider the least invasive
techniques first and work
our way up.”
That could mean nutri-
tional changes, supple-
ments, spinal manip-
ulation,
biofeedback,
counseling, homeopathy
or another technique.
“In school, we are
given a very large array of
ideas,” he said.
Alder said naturopathic
physicians look for trends
in the data as a way to pre-
vent health problems from
occurring.
“Say someone’s blood
sugar is going up and up.
It’s not in the danger zone
yet, but the trend is worri-
some,” he said. “Let’s not
wait until you are pre-dia-
betic or diabetic to treat it
if it can be prevented in the
first place.”
Alder knows his profes-
sion has its critics. Much
of the criticism comes, he
said, because of unlicensed
naturopaths who haven’t
attended four-year naturo-
pathic schools or passed
licensing exams, but prac-
tice
anyway.
Oregon
requires licensure.
Peterson expects his
protégé to flourish as he
launches his career.
“I’m very proud of
him,” Peterson said. “I’m
very confident in him. He’s
going to be a great doctor.”
Alder who lives in
Hermiston with his wife,
Patricia, and three children,
will start seeing patients
on July 16. He joins clinic
owner Kris Peterson, a
chiropractic internist, and
Trent Teegarden, who spe-
cializes in sports medicine.
By PHIL WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
The Umatilla County Fire
District and five other spe-
cial tax districts are in line
for a budget boost, thanks to
data center revenue.
The Umatilla County
Board of Commission-
ers during its public meet-
ing Wednesday in Pendle-
ton voted 3-0 to forgo any
of the $500,000 community
service fee from the Ama-
zon subsidiary Vadata Inc.
and distribute its share to six
special districts as follows:
64 percent to the Uma-
tilla County Fire District;
13.5 percent to the Uma-
tilla Special Library District;
7.4 percent to the West
Umatilla Mosquito Control
District;
6.2 percent to the Uma-
tilla-Morrow Radio District;
5.6 percent to the Port of
Umatilla;
3.4 percent to the Herm-
iston Cemetery District.
The fee is part of Vada-
ta’s deal with the county to
avoid paying property taxes
on massive data centers
spanning two tax code areas,
one inside the city of Uma-
tilla in another outside in the
county taxing district. The
county anticipates Vadata
will start paying the fee in
2019.
County counsel Doug
Olsen said the special dis-
tricts in the two tax code
areas met often to decide
how to divvy up the fee and
agreed to split it equally
between the two areas, with
each district then receiving
its share based on its prop-
erty tax rate.
Olsen said the Ore-
gon Business Develop-
ment Commission has final
approval and could consider
the plan when it meets in
July. He also said the com-
mission will probably con-
sider an earlier proposal to
divide the fee according to
what area is likely to have
the most development.
Commissioner George
Murdock asked if the city of
Umatilla was involved in the
talks. The city initially pro-
moted the idea of the county
helping out the districts, he
said.
Olsen said the city wanted
to “put everyone in the same
pool and then divide up the
$500,000,” but Oregon law
requires dividing the fees
according to tax code areas.
“Since the city was
unwilling to change that
approach ... they were not
included in the formal dis-
cussions,” Olsen said.
“I guess it makes it
sounds as if the city of Uma-
tilla doesn’t want to fol-
low statute,” Commissioner
Larry Givens said. “Is that
a good way of summarizing
that?”
Olsen answered, “Yes.”
No one from the city
of Umatilla attended the
meeting.
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row County Sheriff’s Office received the
report of the crash at 2:12 p.m. and notified
other emergency agencies.
Oregon State Police led the crash inves-
tigation and reported Smith died at the
scene.
The crash also prompted the closure of
the highway for about three hours.
The board also voted 3-0
to not renew their member-
ship with the Eastern Ore-
gon Counties Association.
Commissioner Bill Elfer-
ing said the association pri-
marily takes on forestry and
grazing issues, which don’t
have much effect on Uma-
tilla County.
“I don’t see we’re getting
our value out of the relation-
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the National Association of
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program Payment in Lieu
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about $1 million a year to
Umatilla County.
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days notice of its withdrawal
to the other nine counties in
the association.
In other business, the
county will form its own
committee to oversee a spe-
cial transportation improve-
ment fund program.
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counties in March decided
to have staff look into form-
ing a joint special trans-
portation committee with
the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reser-
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