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Thursday, August 23, 2018
East Oregonian
Page 3A
Umatilla County sets
up committee to drive
public transportation
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Umatilla County is
preparing
for
public
transportation.
The county board of
commissioners Wednes-
day morning in Pendleton
established the advisory
committee for Statewide
Transportation Improve-
ment Fund projects. Com-
missioner Bill Elfering also
said the board approved
committee by-laws and
selected seven people to
serve on the committee:
• Seth Whitmer, CEO of
Columbia River Commu-
nity Health Services
• J.D. Tovey, plan-
ning director of Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation
• Linda Carter, finance
director for the city of
Pendleton
• Doug Primmer, Herm-
iston city councilor
• Esmeralda Horn, com-
munity development direc-
tor with city of Umatilla
• Jose Garcia with
New Horizon alcohol and
drug treatment program in
Hermiston
•
Teresa
Dutcher,
recently retired as Mil-
ton-Freewater’s
public
transportation coordinator.
The 2017 Legislature
established the Statewide
Transportation Improve-
ment Fund to provide
money to local agencies
for public transit projects.
The new statewide pay-
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
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Rider” adorns the side of a refrigerated rail car on a rail spur in the Port of Morrow in Tuesday in Boardman.
A century of farming
Special recognition for
farms that last 100, 150
years
By DESIREE BERGSTROM
EO Media Group
Founded in 1852, seven years before
Oregon became a state, a farm in Saint
Paul is continuing to build on its legacy
as a family operation.
Mullen Farms is one of two sesqui-
centennial
farms
designated
this
year by the Ore-
gon Century Farm
and Ranch Program
along with 12 cen-
tury farms. The ses-
quicentennial award
recognizes
fami-
lies who have con-
Jerry Mullen
tinuously farmed
some or all of their
original family acreage for 150 years or
more. Farms designated century farms
have been in continuous operation 100
years.
“We are definitely a family farm,”
said Jerry Mullen, great-great-grandson
of one of the farm’s founders, Patrick
Mullen.
Through the years, it has been
important to every generation to keep
the farm going and in the family, Mullen
said. Mullen never knew his dad, who
died when Mullen was two years old,
but Mullen spent a lot of time with his
grandfather, Charles S. Mullen Sr., who
taught him about the farm.
On the property is a house where
Mullen’s grandfather was born and lived
for 101 years.
“It was important to my grand-
dad especially that we kept the farm
together,” Mullen said.
Mullen recalled growing up on the
farm mentioning how they had their
Desiree Bergstrom/EO Media Group
The sign in the front yard of Jerry
Mullen’s yard was a gift from the
rest of the family.
own pigs, dairy and granary. “I grew
up with all that to self-sustain and then
grow enough to make some cash,” Mul-
len said.
Over time the farm has grown from
150 to 1,300 acres as the Mullen fam-
ily has added other farms and land to the
business. They now grow mainly seed
crops and hazelnuts.
The other sesquicentennial farm
honored this year is the Robinson Still-
well Taggart Farm in Dayton in Yamhill
County. It was founded in 1844 when
Benjamin and Elizabeth Robinson came
to the Oregon territory on a wagon train.
The farm is still in the family, though
pieces of it were sold off during the
Depression.
“(The farm) has been a source of
pride for our family for generations,”
said John Taggart, current owner of the
farm.
Also on the list are 12 newly desig-
nated century farms, including two from
Umatilla County and one from Morrow
County:
• Howard-Allstott Ranch in Umatilla
County was founded by William How-
ard in 1884, when the homestead claim
was approved. The ranch was eventually
passed down throughout the generations
to Richard and Dorothy Howard Allstott,
the great-granddaughter of the founder.
• The Rockwell-Doherty farm was
founded in 1906 by Seth and Sarah
Rockwell in Umatilla County near Pilot
Rock. The farm has seen many differ-
ent uses through the years, including
fruit orchards, raising horses and grow-
ing irrigated wheat, pasture grass and
alfalfa. Richard Doherty now runs it for
the family.
• Brown Farm, in Morrow County,
goes back to 1912 when Chris P. Brown,
an immigrant from Denmark, purchased
350 acres to grow wheat in the Willow
Creek drainage northwest of Heppner.
His grandson and his grandson’s wife,
Chris E. and Kathy Brown, currently run
the operation.
• Sandoz farm was founded in 1880
in Wasco County by three brothers,
Alphonse, Arnold and Charles San-
doz. They grew root vegetables, fruit
trees and grapes. Ted, Charles Lee and
Mary Sandoz are the third generation
and operate a farmstand where they sell
USDA beef and pork along with fruit,
vegetables and other products.
The awards ceremony for the cen-
tury and sesquicentennial farms will be
at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Oregon State
Fair picnic grove area.
The Oregon Century Farm and Ranch
Program is administered by the Oregon
Farm Bureau Foundation for Education.
It is supported by a partnership among
the Oregon Farm Bureau, the State His-
toric Preservation Office, OSU Univer-
sity Archives and by generous donations
of Oregonians.
For information, contact Andréa
Kuenzi, program coordinator, at 503-
400-7884 or cfr@oregonfb.org.
The application deadline for 2019 is
May 1.
Dangers of additional
fires remains high
East Oregonian
Firefighters continue to
make progress on wildfires
caused by thunderstorms in
Eastern Oregon, according
to an update issued Wednes-
day evening by the Umatilla
National Forest.
Fire managers anticipate
more fires may be reported
throughout the next few days
as weather conditions con-
tinue to stay warm and dry,
said Darcy Weseman, pub-
lic affairs officer for the U.S.
Forest Service, Umatilla
National Forest in a press
release.
Fire officials want to
remind everyone that the
current fire danger rating
remains at extreme and Pub-
lic Use Restrictions involv-
ing campfires and chainsaw
use are in effect.
The Harrison Fire, 16
miles west of Sumpter, is
about 30 acres, and is 100
percent lined and 50 contain
contained as of Wednesday
evening. The fire is located
within the Greenhorn unit
of the North Fork John Day
Wilderness on the North
Fork John Day Ranger
District.
This section of the wil-
derness is remote and in
steep terrain, making access
difficult, according to the
U.S. Forest Service.
Firefighters continued
to strengthen the fire line
Wednesday while watching
for new spot fires.
A helicopter supported
Courtesy of John Taggart
Left: A house built on the Robinson Stillwell Taggart Farm around 1849 near Dayton, Ore. Right: Still sitting
on a portion of the original Mullen farm, this barn was built during the first part of World War II. The top part
of the barn was used to store feed and below was a dairy, Jerry Mullen said.
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