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A broken heart frames a construction excavator in front of the old Shelter From the Storm Community Advocacy Center building Wednesday. Protesters from the former Save our Shelter group placed hearts and stuffed animals on the fence outside the demolition area to pay respect to domestic violence victims.
• La Grande City Council OKs additional street vacation on the county campus By Cherise Kaechele The Observer
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Valerie Morrow hangs ribbons along a memorial outside the old Shelter From the Storm building.
• Protestrs e m ourn lossof17-year-old advocacy center building with memorial By Cherise Kaechele
the fence at KAvenue and Fifth Street on Wednesday in Teddy bears and baby dolls opposition to the demolition are pinned along the fence of the building. The Shelter line where the Shelter From From the Storm Advocacy the Storm building was once Center building is slowly located. An incomplete red coming down, and Morrow heart hangs on the fence and Lunsford have some with purple ribbons surchoicewords for the shelter's rounding it. A small group of board of directors. owe are representing the community members have put a memorial up to remem- children whose lives will be berthevictims ofdomestic altered by the lack of an apviolence. propriate, functioning facility Valerie Morrow and Diane for domestic violence," said Lunsford placed the toys Morrow, who once served and purple ribbons along SeeMemorial / Page 5A The Observer
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MONDAY IN HOME
The La Grande City Council voted to vacate KAvenue and a portion of Fifth Street Wednesday night, which allows the Joseph Building to remain in use and will create 115 parking spaces for the county campus. The city council approved to vacateon a 5-2 vote,with Mayor Steve Clements and City Councilman Gary Lillard voting in opposition. Union Countyrequested the vacation of KAvenue fiom Fourth Street to Fifth Street and on Fifth Street between K and L avenues. A total of 115 parking spaces will be available, with 15 designated for Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church, helping the county meet the city's parkingrequirements for the new county courthouse project. This also allows the Joseph Building to be available for use by abusinessororganization, a scenario that would not have been the case had the council not approved the vacation. Lillard and Clements
bothvoiced opposition to the request during Wednesday's meeting, saying more should have been done before the city council made a decision. "Clearly it's a worthwhile project and it's important it needs to be right," Lillard said. "My concern has to deal with tratfic. I don't think there will be an increase in tratfic, but I do think it will change the pattern of the tratfic.u Lillard said the La Grande Public Works Department indicated it believed the traffic pattern will definitely be changed with the vacation.
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council, there was a serious mistake made by not doing a tratfic study," Lillard said. Clements mirrored his concern and said the traffic will inevitably change. He worries about the children who are
dropped off and picked up at La Grande Middle School on Fourth Street. oTo me, it's inevitable that there will be an impact to the tratfic in that area," Clements said."There' s atleasttw o SeeVacation / Page 5A
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Marshals make fugitive arrest in La Grande By Cherise Kaechele The Observer
The La Grande Police Department, along with the U.S. Marshals, located and arrested a man out of Washington on a parole violation in La Grande on Wednesday. Zeshawn Durrani, 31, was accused of severely injuring his newborn baby while assaulting the mother during an incident in December 2011, the Yakima Herald Republic reported. Durrani pleaded guilty tocharges of second-degreeassault,intim idating awitness and tampering with a witness in 2012, according to the article. The assault charge was amended down trom an original charge of second-degreeassaultofa child. Durrani and the baby's 23-year-old mother were arguing when he began punching her, according to the article. The 6-day-old baby was in her hands at the time of the assault. La Grande Police Sgt. Jason Hays said Durrani was recently released trom prison, where SeeFugitive / Page 5A
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The cause of a major structure fire late Tuesday night at a Barenbrug USA seed plant south of Imbler has been determined to be accidental. The State Fire Marshal's office announced Thursday that the blaze was caused by maintenance work that was being performed in theplant'sseed processing area,according to La Grande Rural Fire Department Chief Larry Wooldridge. He said the State Fire Marshal's office believes cutting done in the process of the maintenance work several hours before the fire broke out may have created a spark that ultimately caused the fire. The spark could have smolderedforseveralhoursin thebuilding before progressinginto a fire, Wooldridge said. The fir e brokeoutaround 11 p.m. Tuesday. SeeFire / Page5A
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