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REGION Saturday, March 12, 2016 PENDLETON East Oregonian Page 3A HERMISTON Roundabouts out, signal still needed Foods and the distribution center. On Monday the council also will discuss a contract with ODOT to construct a multi-use trail along Highland Avenue between Riverfront Park and Southwest 11th Street. The trail would be another piece in the planned city-wide loop that started By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian with the Oxbow Trail project. Under the agreement, ODOT would pay Roundabouts are off the table, but the 77 percent of the $663,225 project through Hermiston City Council on Monday night the Statewide Transportation Improvement ZLOOGLVFXVVDGGLQJDWUDI¿FVLJQDOWRVRXWK Program. The city’s remaining 22 percent match would come from the bicycle trails Highway 395. The council discussed updates to the reserve fund, community enhancement city’s transportation system plan on Feb. reserve fund and other reserves. Construc- 22 but voted to extend the public hearing tion is estimated to start in early 2017. The council also will consider a name to Monday after citizens and councilors alike expressed strong disagreement with proposal for the small neighborhood park the Oregon Department of Transportation’s at 80 Beech Avenue: Greenwood Park. The request that roundabouts be considered for VPDOO ORW LV ZLWKRXW DQ RI¿FLDOO\ UHFRUGHG name but is sometimes known as the several locations along the highway. According to a memo included in the Northside Park. The Parks and Recreation Committee council’s Monday agenda packet, city staff held a conference call with ODOT and the has been working with the park’s neighbors department agreed to withdraw its requests on a plan to update the park’s design and for roundabouts, which it considers safer in replace rusted, broken play equipment. As part of that process the committee has high-speed zones. The updated amendment being consid- requested that the council approve naming ered Monday night says nothing about the park after longtime Hermiston resident roundabouts but does shorten the length Greenwood Woodrow Luster. According to of a previously proposed “backage road” city records, Luster was the one who peti- parallel to the highway and proposes to tioned the city to create the park and got the DGGDWUDI¿FVLJQDODWWKH+HUPLVWRQ)RRGV Hermiston Jaycees involved in creating it. The city council meeting is 7 p.m. on truck entrance just north of the Wal-Mart Monday at city hall, 180 N.E. Second Street. Distribution Center. ——— The two adjustments would help accom- Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@ PRGDWH LQFUHDVHG WUDI¿F IURP D SODQQHG Ranch and Home store between Hermiston eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4536. Transportation update calls IRUWUDI¿FOLJKWDW+HUPLVWRQ Foods truck entrance Contributed graphic Sketches by Jerry Werner of the bronzes of Aura Goodwin Raley (left) and Chief Clarence Burke. Sculptors nominated for new downtown statues East Oregonian Familiar names could sculpt the next two statues on Pendleton’s Main Street. The Pendleton City Council will consider awarding $35,000 contracts to Jerry Werner and Greg Polutanovich to sculpt the bronzes of Aura Goodwin Raley and Clarence Burke, respectively. Werner, the owner of the Bend-based Werner Graphics, previously made the George Fletcher bronze and was recommended by the city’s committee to depict Raley. Known as the “Mother of Pendleton” for her role in founding Pendleton, Goodwin’s likeness will be featured on the 300 block of Main Street, across from the Stella Darby statue. In addition to his work in Pendleton, Werner has commissioned sculptures and other public art in Wilsonville and Bend. Polutanovich is no stranger to Pendleton either, having made the Jackson Sundown bronze. Burke’s statue on the 100 block of Main Street, across from the Sundown bronze, will memorialize the longtime co-chief of the Round-Up Indian Village. Polutanovich, a Simi Valley, Calif.-based sculptor, has also had work commis- sioned from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Academy of Televi- sion Arts & Sciences. “They were both good to work with, there’s no question about that,” said Phillip Houk, Pendleton’s mayor and a member of the art committee. Houk said the sculptures will cost $70,000 while ancil- lary costs like plaques and signs could cost an additional $5,000. The city’s art fund, which is funded through the 1.75 percent earmark of the transit room tax, has an estimated balance of $85,000. Houk said the fund will be used to pay for the statues’ upfront costs while the committee writes grant applications. The committee has already secured a $10,000 grant and will ramp up appli- cation efforts once the council approves the sculptors. The council meeting will be held Tuesday at the council chambers in city hall, 500 S.W. Dorion Avenue. Airport bike trails set to take off itive races could be sanc- Hill Meat waterline tioned, which will increase A grassroots effort to WKH HFRQRPLF EHQH¿W WR WKH expansion on create bike trails west of the community.” council agenda Chuck Wood, a city coun- Eastern Oregon Regional PENDLETON — A Airport could come closer to cilor and a founding member water project intended to of the Pendleton on Wheels fruition Tuesday. help Hill Meat Co. expand That’s when the Pendleton cycling club, also saw poten- may take a step forward. City Council will consider tial in the park, which he The Pendleton City a resolution converting 290 thinks could attract an event Council will consider acres of sparsely used land akin to the Echo Red 2 Red awarding a $190,764 into the Pendleton Adventure Cross Country Mountain bid to Quesenberry Trails Recreational Area, a Bike Race. That race brought Construction on Tuesday system of trails for hikers, more than 400 competitors, to expand water lines at along with their families, to cross country runners and the eastern portion of the the town. mountain bikers. Eastern Oregon Regional While approval of the According to a report from Airport industrial area, a City Attorney Nancy Kerns, bike trails is currently slated SURMHFWFLW\RI¿FLDOVVD\ a group of cyclists and the for the consent agenda — a will adequately supply Pendleton High School cross space reserved for lesser sprinkler water to the country team came together items that require minimal Hill Meat expansion and discussion — Wood said he to support the project. accommodate additional will request Mayor Phillip Kerns wrote that the area industrial expansion. is currently being leased for Houk move it to the “new Quesenberry’s bid cattle pasture, but the tenant business” section, where came in $25,000 less than is amenable to the bike trails. the issue could be discussed an initial estimate and Although improvements more thoroughly. will be partially covered The council meeting including signage and bike by a $150,000 state grant. racks will be needed, city will be held Tuesday at the The other $40,764 will RI¿FLDOV DUH HVWLPDWLQJ WKH council chambers in city hall, be covered by the city’s project will cost no more 500 S.W. Dorion Avenue. water fund. than $1,000. The city has received support from the people behind similar trail networks near La Grande and Echo. In a letter to the city, Bart Barlow of the Blue Mountain Singletrack Trails &OXE D QRQSUR¿W GHGLFDWHG to expanding and main- taining singletrack trails in Tell us about your workforce needs. Northeastern Oregon, wrote that he has already observed Search online for Umatilla County enthusiasm for the project. Workforce Needs Survey. “A properly designed and maintained trail system Make a difference, take part now! ZLOO DOVR EH D VLJQL¿FDQW economic asset to Pend- leton,” he wrote. “Access to the proposed trails is ideal with the nearby (Interstate) 84. Fun events and compet- East Oregonian Employers… we need your input. V iolet H all 90th Birthday Party! Hermiston Senior Center 435 W. Orchard Ave., Hermiston March 19, 2016 2:00-4:00pm Drop by for cookies & ice cream, to share a tall tale or two, wonderful visiting & great memories! Safe Communities terminates ODOT grant Group looking for new members, focus the Oregon Department of Transportation. The grant funded a Grant funding is gone, safety coordinator position but the West Umatilla/North and training for car seat Morrow Safe Communities technicians, as well as items distributed in the commu- will continue. This week, Safe Commu- nity such as bicycle helmets, QLWLHV QRWL¿HG WKH 2UHJRQ FDU VHDWV DQG UHÀHFWLYH Department of Transporta- clothing and materials for tion it would terminate its pedestrians and cyclists. “The diversion funds will grant at the end of the month. The organization itself, be set aside for car seats and however, will continue and helmets, but it won’t be the is looking for new members level we had,” said aid Juli Gregory, health educator and a new focus. Safe Communities is for Good Shepherd Medical a sub-committee of the Center. “It’s not a huge Healthy Communities amount of money, but it’s Coalition, a service of Good there.” The group is looking to Shepherd Medical Center. The coalition began in 2006 refocus on new issues and with a focus on health and discussed internet safety, homelessness, safety issues for the west bullying, end of Umatilla County domestic violence, fall prescription and the northern sections of prevention, Morrow County. The Safe disposal, child abuse, pedes- Communities sub-com- trian health and gun safety. “If we’re looking at mittee was created in 2009, ZKHQ WKH RUJDQL]DWLRQ ¿UVW community safety, it is received the grant from almost limitless,” Gregory By JENNIFER COLTON East Oregonian “If we’re looking at community safety, it is almost limitless. We’ll continue meet- ing and developing our focus.” — Juli Gregory, health educator for Good Shepherd Medical Center said. “We’ll continue meeting and developing our focus. I’m excited. We’ve got a lot going on and a lot of exciting things we’re doing.” For more information about Safe Communities, visit www.healthycommu- nitiescoalition.com, attend the committee meeting — the second Wednesday of each month at Good Shepherd Medical Center — or contact Gregory at 541-667-3506. ——— Contact Jennifer Colton at jcolton@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4534 ! s g n i l r a Little D This special section will be full of adorable little darlings that have arrived over the last 3 years to bless many families and our communities. Families will want to keep this special keepsake for their child and family for years to come. Submit a photo of your Little Darling (Age 0 - 3) & be entered into a drawing for prizes by local sponsors! 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