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• Eastern Oregon National Guard unit gives former tankers chance to witness training By Pat Caldwell
the U.S. Army Brotherhood of Tankers — could participate in It all started with a phone call. a weekend training event at the One day, seemingly out of the Or c hard Combat Training Center blue, Master Sgt. Dan Ishaug, south of Boise. a member ofEastern Oregon's Th e n Osborne provided Ishaug Army National Guard unit, the wit h background information 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry on hi s organization. After that, Regiment, picked up the phone Ish aug said, he was sold on the a nd began a conversation with idea . Ken Osborne. "It started with a cold call," Osborne, of Roseburg, delivered said Ishaug, a La Grande resia simple request: What was the de n t . possibility that members ofhis That p hone conversation nonprofit organization — dubbed SeeGuard / Page 5A VVesCom News Service
ISLAND CITY — The longrunning dispute involving a trucking company situated in a residential neighborhood is back in the hands of the Island City City Council. A hearing by the council on the issue is set for 7 p.m., Aug. 25. The hearing will representthe latestchapter in the saga of the case of Jon Fregulia's trucking company, Oregon Trail Transport, which was granted a permit to operate in a residential zone with a home occupation permit in December 2010. The evidentiary hearing, which will give supporters and opponents the chance to submit any new evidence regarding the case, will be held at the Island City City Hall. Debra and Scott Stevens of Island City have battled the presenceofFregulia'strucking company, which is next door to their Buchanan Lane home, for years. The SeeDispute / Page 5A
Eastern Oregon University announced Tuesdayit will maintain its computer science program. Interim EOU President Jay Kenton saysthe program is too valuable to let it disappear. Page 7A
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WALLOWA COUNTY
County works to improve coordination with feds By Katy Nesbitt The Observer
ENTERPRISE — A decadeslong effort to refine relations between Wallowa County and the federal government continues through work on the Lower Joseph Creek environmental impact statement. Last week, the county's Natural Resource Advisory Committee presentedtheboard ofcommissioners with the 461-page"Lower Joseph Creek Watershed Assess-
ment" on which the environmen- agenciesisan on-going effort. tal impact statement is based. Commissioner Susan Roberts The commissioners scheduled said in 2009 she attended a two hearings, July 21 and Aug. 4, workshop with Fred Kelly to allow the public to review and Grant, a lawyer and expert in comment on the document before government-togovernment adoptingitaspartofthecounty's coordination. land use plan. "I took with me papers from "By adding this to our plan it Wallowa County covering cooptells the U.S. Forest Service they eration and coordination — used simultaneously — invoking our must coordinate with us," said John Williams, who is a member right in coming to agreements," of the advisory committee. Roberts said. Coordinating with various She said the next month
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Hayward attendedthe same workshop. ''We were told we had exactly what we needed," Roberts said. Hayward saiddespite sending requests through the years, he seesa need to keep in frontof the agencies all the time. Since 2009,there have been fourdifferent Wallowa-Whitman forest supervisors, two new Pacific Northwest regional foresters and a new district ranger in the SeeCounty / Page 5A
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Union County Chief Deputy District Attorney John Schilling has resigned from the position and plans to withdraw from the distric tattorney race. Schilling, who worked in the Union County DA's office as chief deputy since 2007, resigned July 7 for personal reasons. "I did find it necessary to resign from the DA's office," Schilling said."I'm relocating to Washington State due to some pressing family matters." The move will necessitate that he withdraw from the DA race. He was slated to face off against District Attorney Kelsie McDaniel, who was appointed by the governor from her deputy DA position to the office's top spot earlier this year following Tim Thompson's retirement. Prior to coming to Union County, Schilling SeeDA / Page 5A
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