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By Cherise Kaechele and Kelly Ducote The Observer
An incident at the Orchard Motel Friday morning
LA GRANDE turned tragic when a man took his own life after calling 911. The incident began before 5 a.m. Friday when the out-of-town man called 911 sounding despondent and saying he was considering suicide. La Grande Police Chief
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Man kills himself in motel • After hours of negotiation Friday, man pulls trigger at La Grande motel
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Brian Harvey said dispatchersand offi cerslostcontact with the man when his phone battery died. He later
called back. Police confirmed the man was at the Orchard Motel, 2209 Adams Ave., and were told the 32-year-old Montana man was armed with a handgun. Because of the SeeSuicide / Page 5A
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Police meet outside the Orchard Motel Friday morning to strategize how to save a suicidal man who had barricaded himself in one of the rooms.
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The owners of Eagle Cap Dispensary are appealing the hours of operation on their conditional use permit. Earlier this month, the La Grande City Council passed the medical marijuana facility's CUP but added a condition that the business must close between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. during the school year to avoid it being open while children are unloading off school buses. Jeff Durning and Wilma Reynolds, owners of Eagle Cap Dispensary, which will be located at 1601Albany St., must prove the condition on the CUP will have adverse effects on their business.
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together now," Durning said.cWe'll be talking to our lawyers soon to see what's the best way to handle this. We have to prove there is an adverse effect and an undue and unnecessary SeeAppeal / Page5A
Cove High School student Jacob Williamson examines a window in the Cove School District's old gym. Williamson is a member of a team of three CHS students that is recommending that the gym's windows be replaced with ones that will let less heat escape the building.
• Cove Kgh School students present options for preserving, restoring old gymnasium By Dick Mason The Observer
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It is a forgotten, fun and tumble-filled chapter from the Cove School District's past. At least six decades ago,the building today known as the distri ct' sold gym was used as an informal skating rink. The gym was sometimes open for roller skating between basketball seasons,according to a story in the Oct. 17, 1991, edition of The Observer. Roller skates marks are not evident in the gym today, but evidence of Father Time's corrosive hand is. The gym's bleachers are rickety, nail heads sometimes pop up from the floor, forcing extra layers of wax to be applied; the building's ceiling needsrepairwork, and itsold windows may be letting heat
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in Bruce Macke's natural resources class. The students, Chad Witty, Jacob Williamson and Austin Hankins, recently Dick Mason/TheObserver Much of the district's old gym building has been well main- completed an analysis of the building's energy usage and tained, but this has not prevented time from taking its toll. prepared a PowerPoint preseepoutfasterthan they once to addresssome ofthese prob- sentation on steps that can lems. Its study is being con(hd. be taken to help operate the The Cove School Board is duc ted with the help of three building more efftciently. now studying what it can do C o ve High School students SeeCove / Page 5A
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PENDLETON — The wife of an Eastern Oregon businessman shot and killed by a small-town police officer has lost a federal civil rights lawsuit that sought $10.5 million in compensation. Gloria Shafer accused police in Elgin of unreasonable force and wrongful death in the slaying ofher 60-year-old SeeCleared / Page5A
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Owners of Eagle Cap Dispensary have not officially filed an appeal with the city but plan to do so this week.
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