WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018
Police arrest man for
sledgehammer attack
HEAT
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Keeping it cool
Knowing how different
animals regulate their body
temperature helped partic-
ipants at the fair keep their
animals from overheating in
temperatures that soared to
as high as 110 degrees.
Daytona Tracy of Herm-
iston, for example, showed
animals in every category of
the “fur and feathers” barn,
from guinea pigs to chick-
ens. She said rabbits strug-
gle the most in the heat,
because they only have two
small sweat glands in their
heads and so their large, thin
ears do all the work keeping
them cool.
Poultry, she said, shed
heat through their wattles
and combs but don’t sweat.
And guinea pigs only sweat
through the soles of their
feet.
“I think the ones that do
the best in the heat are the
ducks, because they have
their ponds to swim in,” she
said.
Many of the rabbits in
the small animal barn snug-
gled up next to frozen water
bottles quickly melting in
the heat. Tracy said cool
wet towels, misting animals
with a spray bottle and feed-
ing them frozen fruit also
helped.
“You usually freeze a lot
ahead of time,” she said.
“We had to buy a freezer
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL.
Fairgoers ride the ferris wheel at the Umatilla County Fair on
Wednesday night.
just for water bottles.”
Over in the largest barn,
Kove Harwood of Echo was
tending to his sheep named
Savage. Frozen water bot-
tles aren’t as much help to
the larger animals, but spray
bottles and baths work well,
he said. Keeping their drink-
ing water cool helps too.
The sheep are shorn as
closely as possible (oth-
erwise it’s like “one of us
wearing a wool sweater,”
Harwood said) and their
“tubes” that keep them
clean after a bath can also
be wetted down for some
extra cooling effect.
Pigs are tricky to keep
cool because they don’t
sweat and are sensitive to
sunlight.
“Pigs never tan, they
just burn and peel,” Hannah
Walker of Hermiston said.
Positive reactions
McNalley said she heard
positive feedback about the
entertainment, both from
performers and from fair
attendees.
Umatilla County Sgt.
Josh Roberts said there
were three arrests at the fair
this year: one for disorderly
conduct, one for a person
using a fake ID, and one for
a probation violation.
He said they had to tres-
pass a few more people than
last year during the eve-
nings, but overall, it went
well, and there were no
major incidents or assaults.
During the evenings, they
had at least 10 law enforce-
ment officials on duty.
Umatilla County Fire
District medics responded
six times to the fairgrounds
from Aug. 7 to 12.
assaulted by a woman on South High-
way 395 near Fourth Street.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
3:07 a.m. — A missing person was
reported on East Airport Road
reported at South Highway 395.
12:28 p.m. — A runaway was
reported at Southwest Seventh Street.
5:28 p.m. — An assault was
reported at Southwest 11th Street,
Hermiston.
11:35 p.m. — Shots fired were
reported at Southwest 13th Place,
Hermiston.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
1:43 p.m. — There was a pig at
large at East Oregon Avenue and
Northeast Fourth Street.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
12:07 a.m. — A prowler was
reported at East Ridgeway Avenue.
1:00 p.m. — A drunk driver was
MONDAY, AUGUST 13
11:08 p.m. — Someone reported
a fight on East Catherine Avenue, and
someone was assaulted.
POLICE LOG
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
1:19 p.m. — A possibly suicidal
subject was at Southwest 11th Street.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
4:22 a.m. — A prowler was
reported at North First Street,
Hermiston.
10:57 a.m. — A caller on East
Browning Avenue said her husband
told her that a male subject stole her
pistol. She doesn’t know how he got it
or where it was taken from.
2:18 p.m. — A man came to the
police department to report that he
was assaulted in the Walmart parking
lot, on North First Street, last night.
5:16 p.m. — A caller was verbally
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LOCAL
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9
11:16 a.m. — A woman from the
Oregon Humane Society received a
report of a dog on West Laird Avenue
that is being abused by its owner. The
reporter said the dog is chained up
constantly and has no food or water
HERMISTON — Paul
Thomas Cazares, 26, of
Umatilla faces assault and
other charges after police
reported he punched a man
and attacked him with a
sledgehammer.
Hermiston Police Chief
Jason Edmiston said at
about 11:52 p.m. Friday a
man, identified as Cazares,
walked uninvited through
the front door of an apart-
ment at 320 E. Cherry Ave.,
screamed at a 59-year-old
man inside and called him
a snitch.
Cazares
reportedly
punched the man while he
was sitting on the couch,
and when he stood to defend
himself,
according
to
Edmiston, Cazares picked
up a nearby 4-pound sledge-
hammer. Cazares made the
man sit down, the police
chief reported, and struck
his leg “several times caus-
ing visible injury and pain.”
Cazares
reportedly
threatened to kill the other
two members of the house-
hold if they called police.
Hermiston
officers
responded to the residence
on a call for a trespasser
and recognized Cazares,
who has a history of arrests
and convictions, including
for disorderly conduct and
harassment earlier this year.
Officers tried to arrest Caz-
ares, but he pulled away
and refused to comply with
orders, according to Edmis-
ton, and officers took him to
the ground.
An ambulance took
the assault victim to Good
Shepherd Medical Center,
Hermiston, for treatment of
minor injuries, Edmiston
reported, and police took
Cazares to the Umatilla
County Jail, Pendleton.
The district attorney’s
office Tuesday afternoon
arraigned Cazares on ini-
tial charges of first-de-
gree burglary, second-de-
gree assault, and unlawful
use of a weapon, all felo-
nies, and misdemeanors of
harassment and resisting
arrest. Court records also
show Circuit Judge Dan
Hill set bail for Cazares at
$200,000.
Cazares’s next court pro-
ceeding in the case is a prob-
able cause hearing Monday
morning.
Hermiston open to eminent domain
HERMISTON HERALD
The city of Hermiston is
moving ahead with plans
to acquire 1.5 acres of land
on the corner of Punkin
Center and Northeast 10th
Street, whether it’s through
a traditional purchase or
eminent domain.
The “resolution of
necessity” approved by
the city council Monday
allows the city to start the
legal process of acquiring
the land if the city cannot
come to an agreement with
the property owner.
Mark Morgan, the assis-
tant city manager, told the
council that the city needs
the land for a 1 million gal-
lon water tank to increase
capacity for emergencies
and future development in
the northeast part of town.
Morgan said staff have
also considered putting the
tank at different locations
or increasing booster sta-
tion capacity, but the 10th
Street site offers the best
combination of capacity
and water pressure without
having to build it outside
the urban growth boundary.
If the city were to acquire
the land through eminent
domain, Morgan said the
price would be determined
by a couple of independent
land appraisals.
The council approved
the resolution despite
two no votes from coun-
cilors Manuel Gutierrez
and Doug Primmer. Inter-
viewed after the meet-
ing, both councilors said
they’re generally opposed
to eminent domain as a
principal.
An amendment to the
noise ordinance wasn’t
as controversial with the
council, passing unani-
mously, but several mem-
bers of the public took
issue with it.
The council changed
the standard from a decibel
level to a “reasonableness”
standard that would be
determined by the police
officer on the ground.
Airport Road resident
Chris Waine has com-
plained about the noise
emanating from the East-
ern Oregon Trade and
Event Center, and he told
the council that the new
ordinance would actually
grant more leniency rather
than solving the problem.
Although many peo-
ple who live near EOTEC
are outside city limits, City
Attorney Gary Luisi said
the ordinance still applies
to complaints made from
outside the city as long as
the noise is coming from a
place inside the city.
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