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A boarding home request will be considered again when the Pendleton Planning Commission meets in the council chambers at 4 p.m. Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones operate the boarding home at 704 S. Main St., for former patients of Eastern Oregon Hospital and Training Center. They applied earlier for permission to increase the number of boarders at the halfway house from six to 11. A petition opposing the location of the halfway house was presented at last Tuesdayâs Pendleton City Council meeting. Fear was expressed that residents of the house might harm children. 25 Years Ago April 13, 1996 Third grader Jessica Royal knows the President of the United States is a busy man. But that didnât stop the 9-year-old Lincoln Elementary School student from penning Bill Clinton a letter and sending it to his White House address. âI told him I wanted to become President,â said Royal. âI asked him to write back and give me some tips.â The next thing you ....
Jessica Royal, then Cothon, shot and killed her abusive partner to save her own life in 2013. She had endured unfathomable domestic violence at the hand of her partner, who beat her while she was pregnant, strangled her, fractured her face and even, at one time, tried to set her on fire. There was something different in his eyes, however, when he entered her home that morning, she recalled. That night, he set out to kill me, Royal said, noting that the minutes in which he was choking her to the brink of unconsciousness swirled like a fog in her memory. And then something came over me. It was playing over and over what my babies would do without me. I knew I had to fight with everything I had. ....