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By GREG SKINNER
News Reporter
to
her reputation, Pat Arnold
when she joined the
Lunch With the Chamber
gave a short speech detailing
then sat in the middle of
and led a conversation
of being a County
adamantly about economic
through value-added
Arnold said this county needs
local business grow. She thinks
waste to continually seek the
goose elsewhere.
said that local growth would
address Klickitat County's
some of the of annual
revenue, Arnold would seek to
going for the county.
County Beef, she said, could
a branded and premium corn-
existing business makes
Sense to Arnold than spending
of thousands of dollars on
'Zone or $15 million
Dallesport Industrial Park.
ect has netted a single job.
from the ranch to the
Would cut out the middleman
ranch revenue many
Ranchers would increase their
That is the kernel
Farmers and ranchers in
health will spend their
r in Goldendale or Lyle, and
Pat Arnold, (CENTER) meets with the
during the organization's weekly forum
the economy will grow.
While discussing politics with the
Chamber's guests a question arose:
what kind of business she would sup-
port outside of agriculture? Something
like the racetrack? Clarifying an earlier
point, Arnold said she would support
any sound idea in the county, even a
racetrack. Arnold's reaction differs
from that of the current commision-
ers; she explained that she would look
at proposals with a more critical eye
towards functional reality, asking
whether a racetrack would really work
with all sides involved rather than sim-
ply permitting it in a yes or no manner.
Arnold said that the current commis-
sioners glad stamp any plan before
them with little thought to real out-
come, setting themselves up for the
numerous lawsuits that Klickitat
County has suffered in the last few
Goldendale
luncheon.
Photo by Greg Skinner
Chamber of Commerce
years.
Asked about the County's reputation
for complaint-driven code and permit
enforcement, Arnold said that the
County should follow its laws, noting
that at times the current commission-
ers do not.
"The County shouldn't fight the law,"
Arnold said. Instead of being on the
cutting edge of economic development,
the county is on the cutting edge of
legal issues, the EOZ and the move of
budget oversight into their own office
system.
If elected, Arnold promised a more
open and transparent local govern-
ment.
"They [the commissioners] need to
be nlore open with what they are doing
with money."
Hannigan
, ets17
Isaac Meagher Hanqigan,
arrested two months ago in a wide-
ly reported highway stop near
Roosevelt, took a prosecutor's plea
offer last Tuesday and will serve 17
months in prison for felony harass-
ment.
Initially Hannigan was also
charged with second-degree
assault; that charge was dropped as
part of the agreement.
On July 1, a Washington state
trooper reported coming upon a
vehicle partially blocking the east-
bound lane of Hwy. 14 and finding
a man in the front seat strangling a
woman with both hands. About
30o feet of black, eastbound skid
marks showed the vehicle had
come to an abrupt halt.
The man was later identified as
Hannigan, 46, of Toppenish, and
the woman another Toppenish-
area resident, apparently a stranger
to Hannigan. She was treated and
released from the Klickitat Valley
Hospital.
The woman told authorities that
Hannigan, after she picked him up
hitchhiking, forced her to turn con-
trol of her car over to him and said
he would kill her if she didn't.
When the woman saw the trooper's
car approaching she grabbed the
wheel of the car, forcing Hannigan
to slam on the brakes to keep it
from running off the road.
The incident made the day's five
o'clock news in Portland.
Hannigan, scheduled for a Sept.
pl
9jury trial, elected instead to plead
guilty to the lesser harassment
chm'ge so the more serious assault
charge would be dropped.
According to his court-appointed
defense attorney, Gerald Matosich
of Lyle, Hannigan's plea, called an
"Alford" or "Newton" plea, made
clear that he does not believe he is
guilty but is pleading to avoid more
serious consequences.
"[Hannigan] said he did not
threaten to kill her," Matosich said,
but "did it [pleaded] because the
prosecutor was willing to drop the
more serious count... The chances
of cxmviction were high."
Hmmigan has a criminal record
that includes several previous
felony convictions, including
voyeurism in 2002 and theft in
1999, court documents show.
Hannigan told The Sentinel in
August that he saw the news cover-
age of his arrest.
'qqaey made it sound like I was a
monster," he said. 'q'hat's not me."
Hannigan is the son of a late
Yakama tribal councilman, Martin
Hannigan, and a former Glenwood
Rodeo bareback riding champion,
he told The Sentinel. He has been
unemployed since his last job wild-
land fire fighting in 1995, he said.
Hannigan's sentence includes
pa)anent of fines and restitution;
he will also be required to undergo
alcohol abuse counseling, court
documents show.
- Sam £oun-y
violence summit set for Oct. 2
about domestic
not easy.
often agonizing con-
though, can help
new awareness for
victims, family
associates and
adult domestic violence pro- Programs for Peaceful Living,
grams, has worked with hun- Kick-It and others.
dreds of offenders. All of their perspectives will
His central point: Our soci- be represented at the summit;
ety teaches too few skills for so will many others.
self control. "Domestic violence is more
Task force members con- than a criminal justice prob-
sider domestic violence to be lem; it's an employee-employ-
Sixty-one members of the United Steel "[Wilcox] didn't see his creditors agreeing
Workers of America Local No. 8147 assem- on the [previous] profit-sharing language,"
bled on Friday to approve a new contract Peterson said. "He substituted 'gain shar-
proposal from Golden Northwest Aluminum ing'," which membership approved. "We
(GNA), owner of the closed-down smelter never really got a lot of profit sharing any-
southwest of Goldendale. way; we probably won't ever see anything."
According to union local president Mark Everything else in the contract was '~zen
Goldendale Domestic Klickitat County's number er problem, a family health Peterson, the contract is "part of [owner Bret for three years" and therefore unaffected,
Force (GDVTF) one public health concern, problem, a child's education Wilcox'] reorganization plan. He needed new Peterson said.
so; it has been spon- On Saturday, Oct: 2, problem and a spiritual prob- contracts here and in The Dalles," where Sixty-one of 196 eligible members, indud-
a public conversation GDVTF will further step up lem, said the announcement. GNA owns a second closed smelter, in order ing the union's negotiating comm._ittee, were
three months since its efforts to address that con- Speakers will be on hand to emerge from the Chapter n bankruptcy present; about two-thirds voted in favor of
cern. From 8:3o a.m. to 5 from the Washington State that GNA entered late last year. the contract, Peterson said.
Altman, judge for p.m. at the Goldendale Coalition Against Domestic "The main hit was the health care," with Some traveled two or three hours to be
t County's EastMiddle School, GDVTF .will Violence, that Yakima County employees responsible for a greater present, Peterson said.
Court, thinks so, tooi be holding Klickitat County s Prosecuting Atiorney s office, deductible, Peterson said. "A lot of places put "Some found other jobs; they don't intend
started "sentencing first Domestic Violence the Yakama Tribe, Nuestra it all on their employees.., it keeps going up to return here, but if it helps bring back jobs
Summit, a daylong event fea- Comunidad Sana, and and up.,, for others..."
to: these meet-
GDVTF's quarterly
Violence Impact
something every-
Brian Johnson
offenders, coun-
at the most
held late last
it, we go
, But I have to learn to
with times when I
Welcome
a counselor at
Elementary
a supervisor for
clist killed
'. 14 junction
motorcyclist
on Sunday alternoon
of Hwy. 97
14, above Maryhill.
to the Washington
(WSP), Ronald
died
~.ene from injuries
when the 20o3
he was dri-
Hwy. 14 col-
front of a
turning left
14, westbound, onto
Paulson was
Lumley, 61, of
of the pickup,
turing speakers, panels and Programs for Peaceful Living.
public discussion about Summit highlights include
domestic violence, discussions of domestic vio-
"If we want to bring an end lence's impact on children,
to this silent killer, the com- domestic violence in Native
munity as a whole must bear American and Hispanic cul-
the responsibility," said an tures, and officer-involved
announcement of the event, domestic violence.
The task force has been The summit is funded by
reaching out this year; it now the Gender and Justice
has representatives from the Commission of the
general public, the City of Washington Courts.
Goldendale's police and attor- Every concenred member
ney's offices, Klickitat County of the community is invited;
departments including cop there is no charge.
rections, probation and the Questions should be direct-
prosecutor's office, and coun- ed to Patty Cooper, (5o9)
seling programs including 25o-o315•
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Preliminary budget to be released Sept. 20
Klickitat County's preliminary budget for 2005 iuspecfion by any member of the public.
will be released to the public on Monday, Sept. Paper copies of the complete preliminary bud-
2o, according to Glen Chipman, the county's get will also be available for distribution to any
chief financial officer and budget director, member of the public, at no charge, in the county
Chipman said that budget workshops held in commissioners' office in Goldendale.
late August and early September, involving The commissioners will hold one public hear-
department heads and county commissioners, ing on the preliminary budget, scheduled for
went "smoothly" for the most part. "A couple of Tuesday, Oct. 5 in the commissioners' chambers,
departments were struggling with cash flow," he Chipman said. Written comments will be accept-
said. ed until Oct. 31.
The county will deliver copies of the completed The final budget must be adopted by the end of
preliminary budget to the Goldendale and White the calendar year, mad is usualy completed before
Salmon libraries, where they will be available for Christmas, Chipman said.
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