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roo oun •W ith apacked houseonhand,tensions run hot; decisiontakeseffect immediately By Beau Eastes The Bulletin
PRINEVILLE — In front
of a room packed full of marijuana advocates, the
MeditatiOn —Newstudy
a n S 0 u SineSSe cy provision was tied to the
Wednesday morning to adopt an ordinance banning
"Crook County commissioners just turned a bunch of hard-working people into criminals and made it harderforthem to feed their
all marijuana-related busi-
families," said Justin Got-
nesses in unincorporated areas of the county.
tlieb, one of five marijuana proponents who gave public
three-man Crook County
The ban went into effect
Court voted unanimously
immediately as an emergen-
CrookCounty'svote on recreational marijuana
ordinance.
On Nov. 4, 2014, Crook County voted against Measure 91, which legalized recreational pot sales. A precinct-by-precinct breakdown is displayed on PageA4.
comment.
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By Kailey Fisicaro The Bulletin
JOHN DAY — The
EDITOR'5CHOICE
E-cigs: A 'gateway drug' for teenagers?
Canyon Creek Complex Fire spared the home of Steve and Debbie Corwin, but the wooden bridge they used to reach their house is gone.
36 homes havebeendestroyedasevacuees Fi ghtfires are left to wait out the 48,000-acrewildfire or let them burn out?
Other families have
By Keith Ridler The Associated Press
not been so lucky. The fire, the nation's top-priority wildfire, has destroyed 36 homes, damaged 50 structures
BOISE, Idaho — This summer's massive fires
have strained resources across the West to the point
and burned more than
that wildfire managers are
48,000 acres south of Canyon City in Grant County. When the Corwins
being forced to let some fires burn unchecked,
By Amina Khan
went into town for
Los Angeles Times
lunch Friday around 11:30 a.m., they didn' t
LOS ANGELES — Even
STRATEGY
INSIDETHE CANYON CREEK COMPLEX
though teenage smoking rates have plunged in recent decades, teen use of elec-
think the fire was any threat to their home.
tronic cigarettes has been on the rise in the last few
back at the intersection of Adams Drive
hn ...
and that has renewed a
longstanding debate about whether it is better to fight
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a fire — or to sometimes just let it burn out.
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Drought and heat have combined to make this
Whentheyarrived
one of the most active fire seasons in the Lower 48 in recent years. Nearly 29,000firefightersare battling some 100 large
years. Now, a new study
and U.S. Highway 395
involving more than 2,500 students at 10 Los Angeles
on their way home about an hour later, the
schools has found that teens who began using e-cigarettes were far more likely than their peers to start smoking traditional cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products. Although they don' t establish a causal link, the findings published in the
Oregon State Police
but it hasn't been enough.
stopped them. The road
In northern Idaho, private
was closed, state police said. The Corwins Joe Kline/The Bulletin asked if they could go to Molalla Rural Fire District firefighters Clinton Shaver, right, and Bryce Estabrook monitor a section of hill their house to save their burning outside of CanyonCity from the Canyon Creek Complex Fire on Wednesday afternoon. dog and get their travel
citizens have even jumped on fire lines to help overwhelmed firefighters. SeeStrategy/A5
Journal of the American
Medical Association have some experts worrying that e-cigarettes might lead
more young people to take up the habit. "What is extremely wor-
risome is that these findings further indicate that e-cigarette use by our nation's
youth, which is a major concern in itself, may also
be a gateway to smoking," American Heart Association Chief Executive Nancy Brown said in a statement.
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pl
blazesacross the West,
trailer.
State police let them through. The bridge was still intact. Since then, the Cor-
wins have been living in their travel trailer in John Day at the Grant
County Fairgrounds,
WARM SPRINGS AND OTHER FIRES
As fires ravagethe West, is this 'new normal'?
the command post for
the fire. Public information officials, fire crews and ground support have all set up there.
100 wildfires inWest;35 in2states
A number of residents who were
evacuatedfrom different areas have been
camping in trailers or motor homes near the Corwins.
SeeCanyon Creek/A5
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Fire crews were battling 35 active large wildfires Wednesday in Oregonand Washington.
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By The Associated Press PORTLAND — The in-
underway to bring in fire management personnel
Tidwell said the succes-
sionofintensefireseasons shows the need for thin-
tense wildfire season ravaging the West and taxing fire crews and equipment
from Australia and New
to their limits is the new normal, the chief of the
least 35 large active wild-
landscapes less vulnerable to fire.
fires burning Wednesday in Oregon and Washing-
"This is kind of the new normal," Tidwell said. "It
U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday at a fire site in Eastern Oregon. The statement came
as Chief Tom Tidwell visited the scene of the
Canyon Creek Complex Fire south of Canyon City
Zealand. Fire officials reported at
ning forests to make the
ton, where three firefight-
seems like almost every
ers were killed and three to four more were injured in raging wildfires.
year we get to this point
In Central Oregon, the County Line 2 Fire burn-
and it's really tight for resources for a few weeks." With civilian fire crews
ing on the Warm Springs
maxed out in Oregon fighting 11 major blaz-
that burned 36 homes last
Indian Reservation had
es, Gov. Kate Brown is
week, damaged 50 structures and burned more
scorched 63,600 acres as of Wednesday evening,
than 48,200 acres.
according to the InciWeb website. Containment
deploying 125 National Guard troops to help. They were to begin training this week in Sa-
Nationwide, 26,000 firefighters were battling blazes, including 8,500 in the Northwest. Talks were
was reported at 50 percent with 588 personnel as-
signed to the fire.
lem for assignment to fire lines late next week.
See Fires /A5
On his ownland, lion hunter istough on poaching By Jennifer Bjorhus (Minneapolis) Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — Longbe-
fore he was accused of poaching an African lion named Cecil, Walter Palmer was
stalking suspected poachers on his private hunting land in northwestern Minnesota.
Jenny Mongeau, whose district indudes Palmer's land. "You don't go close to it ated and even frightened local because he would report you," hunters, some Clay County res- said Mongeau. "He has zero idents and officials said. Runpositive relations with any of ins with Palmer became the the neighbors, which is very stuff of local hunting lore, said uncommon for thisarea." Clay County Commissioner A global furorerupted after The Twin Cities dentist
guarded his acreage and property lines so fiercely he alien-
news broke that Palmer, a
private land where, some au-
veteran big-game hunter, had killed the famous research lion
thorities have said, there was
in a nighttime hunt in Zimba-
bwe in early July, maiming him with a compound bow and then finishing him off hours later. The lion was baited and the hunt was conducted on
no permit to kill a lion. Despite accusations against Palmer,
only the pro hunter he hired, Theo Bronkhorst, and the land-
owner, Trymore Ndlovu, have been charged in Zimbabwe. See Lion /A6