Sergeant Roberts and Chief Yamashita started the background check on our new hire, Sean Lundry in July.  After completing some research we left Sandy for The Dallas on July 3rd.  There we conducted interviews with The Dalles Police Chief, Captain and staff.  We also went to neighbors and interviewed them to see what type of family the Lundry’s were.  While it was 108 degrees the day we chose to walk around the neighborhood we were greeted by very nice folks all of which stated they were saddened to see Mr. Lundry leave.  They describe he and his family and great members of their community.  The officers and command staff at The Dalles PD think they will be “less” for not having Sean in their department.  Our gain for sure.  The only down fall is that we will now have two Sean’s (Shawn).  We may require him to change his name.  We are shooting for a start date of August 1st, 2015.  His swearing in will be shortly after.

July 4th went pretty well. There were a few complaints on line, mostly on Face Book, which we managed pretty well.  One of the complaints was the distance folks with disabilities or lots of equipment would need to travel because part of the parking lot was closed during a baseball tournament.  We fixed this issue by having our officers use the Gator and help folks get to the fields and seating.

We of course then moved right into planning and execution of the Parade and Mt. Festival. Overall things went very well.  We had about a dozen volunteer youth working on their Mormon Missions help with pedestrian traffic and standing posts and closed roads.

Dale Willcox graduated near the top of his class on July 17th.  He is already on the road working with Officer Hererra.  He will be off training on or before September 24, 2015.