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Saturday, March 12, 2016
PENDLETON
East Oregonian
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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create bike trails west of the community.”
council agenda
Chuck Wood, a city coun-
Eastern Oregon Regional
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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
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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
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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
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to expanding and main-
taining singletrack trails in
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economic asset to Pend-
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the proposed trails is ideal
with the nearby (Interstate)
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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,
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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,
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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.
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Contact Jennifer Colton
at jcolton@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4534
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