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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A7 Herald Business Hermiston man celebrates 40 years with RDO Equipment Co. HERMISTON HERALD customers for the past 10 years. Reinie Fischer, a customer Fischer said he’s met a lot of service representative at RDO great people during his career Equipment Co. in Hermiston, and that RDO Equipment has recently celebrated his 40-year been a great company to be a anniversary with the company. part of. “Reinie is a plea- Employees from sure to work with and throughout the re- extremely committed gion’s stores, along to the success of our with customers and fam- customers,” said Ian ily members gathered Carey, vice president of recently to honor Fisch- the company’s north- er and acknowledge his west region. “He is a years of dedication to dependable asset to the community. Fischer Fischer our company and the joined RDO Equipment in 1976 as a baler/tractor tech- Hermiston community.” Founded in 1968, RDO nician. After two years, he was promoted to service manager, Equipment Co. sells and sup- a position he held for 28 years. ports agriculture, construc- He then moved into the custom- tion, environmental, position- er service representative role, ing, surveying and irrigation where he has taken care of RDO equipment. +HUPLVWRQ2I¿FH0D[WRFORVH 7KH+HUPLVWRQ2I¿FH Max has announced its plans to close its doors for good. According to Julianne Embry, a senior public relations manager for the company, the store will be VKXWWHUHGWKRXJKQRVSHFL¿F date has been given. Embry declined to comment further, citing competitive reasons. The store currently employs 18 people. 2I¿FH'HSRWKDVFORVHG nearly 400 stores since 2014, and plans to close 25 more by the end of 2016 and an additional 300 stores over the next three years, according to its second quarter results report. Follow us on Twitter @HermistonHerald Steakhouse changes names to aYoLG conÀLct ZLth hat comSan\ Restaurant has changed location and is now changing names By GARY L. WEST Herald editor Restaurant owner Frank Perkins has endured some VLJQL¿FDQW FKDQJHV ZLWK his steak house, including a move from one city to another. And now comes a name change. “Stetson’s hat company has decided they have an issue with our name after 18 years,” Perkins said. So Perkins, his staff and local sign company Sign Men ZHUH EXV\ SXWWLQJ WKH ¿Q- ishing touches on the name change, including signage for the Hermiston restau- rant formerly known as Stetson’s Steak House in Hermiston last week. The restaurant is now known as Stet’s Steak House. Perkins opened Stet- son’s Steak House in Pend- leton in April 1999. He STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST Ed Miltenberger, owner of Sign Men, takes the face off a sign at a Hermiston restaurant while sign technician Dave Schmidtgall assists. The men were updating the sign as Stetson’s Steak House has changed its name to Stet’s Steak House. relocated the business to 1619 N. First St. in Herm- iston in October of 2014. Perkins said the biggest problem with changing the name is all the time it takes to get things like menus, Facebook and website pages updated and notify- ing other social media sites like Trip Advisor and Ur- ban Spoon about the name change. “I’ve been working on it for a couple of months,” he said. ³, JHW D FHUWL¿HG OHWWHU from New York telling me what I haven’t done every couple of weeks,” Perkins said. This week, workers from Sign Men of Pend- leton were updating the signs on the restaurant and along the roadway leading to it. Ed Miltenberger, owner of Sign Men, said he was surprised that the hat com- pany would have a prob- lem with the name Stet- son’s Steak House on the Hermiston restaurant. “This place probably does Stetson’s, the hat company, more good than anybody,” Miltenberger STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST Workers from Sign Men update the signs for a Hermiston restaurant due to a name change. said. “They’ve got good food.” Miltenberger said Per- kins comes from a ranch- ing background and knows his beef. “With his reputation a lot of his customers came with him” when the busi- ness moved to Hermiston two years ago, Miltenberg- er said of Perkins. “He’s a hands-on operator. He has a passion for (the restau- rant business).” And now his business has a shorter name and up- dated signs and menus.