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PENDLETON
Food truck rules drafted
as vendors seek clarity
Hermiston looks at increasing number of food trucks
By JADE MCDOWELL
and ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Customers order food at Giovanni’s food cart on Friday in Pendleton.
While one local city government
considers wheeling out new rules
for mobile food vendors, another
could ease the brakes on its own
food truck restrictions.
Pendleton city staff have drafted
an ordinance that establishes rules
for portable restaurants, which
would formally incorporate them
into the city’s business community.
City Attorney Nancy Kerns said
staff started working on the rules
when they realized there were no
laws on the books to answer a
request from a vendor to park on
public right-of-way.
In addition to requiring all mobile
food vendors obtain city business
licenses, the draft creates guidelines
for where a vendor can locate and
how it can operate.
Under the drafted ordinance,
vendors can park on any hard-sur-
See VENDORS/10A
HERMISTON
High risk
for second
tunnel
collapse at
Hanford
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — There
is a high risk that a second tunnel
fi lled with radioactive waste might
collapse at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation in Washington state,
the U.S. Department of Energy
said Friday.
A tunnel partially collapsed
on May 9, forcing some 3,000
workers to shelter in place for
several hours.
There were no injuries or
release of airborne radiation from
that accident, the agency said.
The Energy Department said
it had completed an evaluation
of a second tunnel on the former
nuclear weapons production site
and determined there is a high
potential for the 53-year-old struc-
ture to collapse. The agency has an
Aug. 1 deadline to develop plans
to prevent that.
Hanford is located in south-cen-
tral Washington state and for
decades made plutonium for
nuclear weapons. The site is now
engaged in cleaning up a massive
inventory of nuclear waste.
In a report released Friday, the
Energy Department said the two
sealed tunnels “do not meet current
structural codes and standards.”
“The report fi nds that Tunnel 2
is identifi ed as presenting a high
potential for localized collapse,”
it said.
Tunnel 2 was built of metal and
concrete in 1964. It is approxi-
See HANFORD/8A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Traci Dunsworth of Libby, Mont., picks blueberries on Friday at K&K Blueberries outside of Hermiston. Dunsworth was in town
visiting her grandmother and came out to pick berries with family.
Busy berry business
U-Pick farm draws gatherers from far and wide
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
It’s hot right now, but when winter rolls
around, many people will still have a piece of
summer within reach: local blueberries.
“I eat them, or freeze them to have
throughout the year,” said Ellyn Weeks. “It’s
a treat when the
weather’s bad, and
“We really
you think about what
enjoy the
it was like picking
them in the summer.”
family atmo-
Weeks and others
at K&K Blueberries sphere. It does
on Thursday were
picking fruit with my heart good
a long-term plan in when families
mind.
“I usually make come out and
three visits,” said
take pictures
Mary Burt, a Pend-
leton resident who
in the fi eld.”
has been coming out
— Kathy Dopps,
to the farm for four
co-owner of K&K
years. “We usually
Blueberries
pick 60 to 70 pounds
and can them, make
jam, or freeze them for smoothies or muffi ns.”
Burt and her friend Patty Rasmussen were
busy collecting large buckets full of berries
around 9:30 a.m., before the heat kicked in.
The berry farm, which has 20 acres of bushes
on a plot of land south of Hermiston, is open
from 6:30 a.m. to noon, and from 5 to 8:30
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Blueberries are considered a superfood packed full of antioxidants and nutrients.
p.m. on weekdays, from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30
p.m. Saturdays, and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays.
Kathy Dopps and her husband Ken started
the self-serve farm in 2008. Dopps is a
teacher and her husband owns Eastern Oregon
Mechanical, but the two decided they wanted
to do something with the land they had bought.
“We originally had 12 acres, and we ended
up planting blueberries,” Dopps said. “This is
what we do in the summer.”
The bushes require some off-season main-
tenance, such as pruning in the winter when
See BLUEBERRIES/10A