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A14 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM CRIME: continued from Page A1 however, are up 10 percent (from 370 in 2015 to 407 in 2016), and felony arrests shot up 22 percent (from 79 to 96). Felony arrests also came with a large increase in one violent crime: aggravated DVVDXOW ,Q WKH ¿UVW TXDU- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 FROM PAGE A1 ter of 2015, the Hermiston Police Department handled three violent crimes: one murder, one rape and one aggravated assault. In the ¿UVW TXDUWHU RI KRZ- HYHU RI¿FHUV UHSRUW VL[ aggravated assaults, an in- crease of 500 percent over 2015. Cases of burglary (an increase of 11 percent) and larceny (an increase of 16 percent) also rose. “On the surface, I be- OLHYH LW LV UHODWLYHO\ ÀDW´ Edmiston said Monday. “In as much as there may be a draw to report vio- lent crime is up and out of control, over the course of a 10-year window, we are VWLOO UHODWLYHO\ ÀDW )DFWRU- ing in crime with the rise in population, I think we are doing as good as we can with the limited resources we have.” The population of Hermiston, as reported in the HPD crime report, was LQ WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU of 2015 and was 17,520 in WKH¿UVWTXDUWHURI First-quarter juvenile crime is down in both de- tainments and offenses from the same period in 2015. Hermiston First-Quarter Crime Statistics Total Incidents: Total Arrests: Misdemeanor Arrests: Felony Arrests: Total Violent Crime: Homicide: Rape: Total Property Crime: Burglary: Larceny: Auto Theft: Arson: Population: 2015 2016 Change 6114 370 291 79 3 1 1 122 9 100 12 1 17,345 5832 407 311 96 6 0 0 133 10 116 7 0 17,520 -5% 10% 7% 22% 100% -100% -100% 9% 11% 16% -42% -100% STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Wine barrels can be seen in the hole where grain was once poured at the old Echo grain elevator, which has been repurposed as a tasting room for Echo Ridge Cellars. WINE: continued from Page A1 building and has found a lot of people who are ap- preciative of the lengths the family has gone to both preserve and im- prove it. “We’ve been getting a lot of people in with their stories, and it has been re- ally cool,” she said. One of those people was 90-year-old Joseph Garcia, who stopped by unannounced on Friday morning with his daugh- ter Debra Thorton to present the Bales with a painting of the grain ele- vator he made more than a decade earlier. He got a tour of the newly reno- vated building and men- tioned the owls that used to live there. No one seems to know exactly what year the elevator was built, but the date on the concrete building next to it is 1909. And the grain elevator was in operation by the 1940s. The property was used by Pendleton Grain Growers in the 1950s and the co-op sold it to Glenn and Joyce Rohde in 1984. Kim Bales said she and her husband Jay bought their 89-acre vineyard near Echo in 2010 while living in Seattle, and bought the grain elevator property from the Rhodes in 2012. “My husband was looking at different vine- yards and came over here and fell in love with it, and how beautiful and quiet it is here,” she said. Last week they opened the tasting room inside the old grain elevator. Within the next year they plan on turning the neigh- STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Initials carved into the walls of the old Echo grain elevator were preserved when the building was turned into a tasting room for Echo Ridge Cellars. boring 14,400-square- foot storage building into a winery that could hold large events like wedding receptions and office par- ties. Someday, if all goes well, they would like to add a brewery, too. “We’ve got high hopes,” Kim said. She said they don’t plan on operating a restaurant, but they do plan on put- ting a wood-fired pizza oven in the outside seat- ing area and cooking piz- zas some nights when the weather is nice. H&P Cafe and the Wheat and Barley Pub also have agreed to deliv- er food to the tasting room if people call and order it. 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