BUSINESS
Saturday, October 20, 2018
East Oregonian
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HERMISTON
Lorenzen of Pendleton
Drugstore celebrates fall, 91st birthday joins nonprofit Energy
Trust of Oregon board
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Hermiston Drug & Gift
showed its appreciation for
customers Thursday with a
Fall Open House.
The Main Street drug
store has been in business
91 years.
Employee Lisa Keltz
said as far as they can
trace, current owners Bob
and Lois Mullay are only
the fifth owners in its his-
tory. She said that out of 15
employees, only three did
not grow up in Hermiston.
“There’s a great sense of
community,” she said.
The store tries to foster
that sense of community
in a variety of ways. The
Mullays donate to youth
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
The lunch counter at Hermiston Drug & Gift sells
milkshakes, pie, sandwiches and more.
sports, provide a place
for band students to rent
instruments, participate in
the Umatilla County Fair
parade, and serve Thanks-
giving and Christmas
meals. Hermiston Drug is
also member of the Herm-
iston Downtown District
and a participant in its First
Thursday events.
Keltz said they get “lots
of regulars” at the store,
which features everything
from kitchenware to per-
fume. In the back sits a
pharmacy and an old-fash-
ioned counter where cus-
tomers can order up any-
thing from a sandwich to
“the best milkshakes in
town.”
“Our (soda) fountain
is always popular,” Keltz
said.
On Thursday, custom-
ers were treated with apple
cider and fall foods, dis-
counts and drawings for
prizes during the afternoon.
East Oregonian
Henry Lorenzen of Pend-
leton joined the volunteer
board of directors for the
Energy Trust of Oregon.
The board added Loren-
zen and three other members
Wednesday, according to an
announcement from Energy
Trust. Lorenzen, an attor-
ney, family farmer and engi-
neer, is the first board mem-
ber from Pendleton.
“As a recent member of
the Northwest Power and
Conservation Council, I have
been an avid advocate for
energy efficiency and con-
servation as a most cost-ef-
fective approach to meeting
regional energy require-
ments as well as reducing
carbon emissions,” Loren-
zen said in the announce-
ment. “As a board mem-
ber of Energy Trust, I look
forward to championing
an organization that imple-
ments the regional conser-
vation targets established by
the power council.”
Lorenzen from 2002-
18 served on the Power
and Conservation Council,
which develops a regional
Postal union warns of fallout if US leaves
By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press
GENEVA — No inter-
national letters, no inter-
national packages: A top
official with a 192-coun-
try postal union says that’s
what Americans can expect
if the Trump administration
goes through with plans
to pull of an international
postal treaty over concerns
about China.
Pascal Clivaz, dep-
uty director-general of the
Switzerland-based Univer-
sal Postal Union, says the
agency reached out quickly
to U.S. officials after receiv-
ing a letter from U.S. Secre-
tary of State Mike Pompeo
this week announcing
Washington’s plan to pull
out of the union in a year if
the treaty isn’t renegotiated.
The U.S. says it’s willing
to renegotiate. But the threat
is the latest sign of U.S.
President Donald Trump’s
go-it-alone approach to
many issues, from the envi-
AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file
In this Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 file photo, Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at the State
Department in Washington.
ronment to trade to the Iran
nuclear deal.
“It will have dramatic
consequences for Ameri-
can consumers. It will cost
them enormously. They
will be all alone against all
the countries of the world,”
Clivaz told The Associ-
ated Press on Friday. “They
won’t even be able to send
(a package) to a neighbor-
ing country. It’s an accord
that links everybody.”
Word of the planned
pullout is the latest facet of
Washington’s multi-level
trade dispute with Bei-
jing. The U.S. administra-
tion says the treaty allows
China to ship packages to
the U.S. at discounted rates
at the expense of American
businesses.
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Clivaz acknowledged
the U.S. concerns about
China were at the root of
the problem, but said agree-
ments within the UPU since
2016 have moved toward
“improving the issue with
China.”
“It’s not at the level that
Mr. Trump and others want
it, but we’re close. So we
want to continue negotiat-
ing,” he said.
The U.S National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers
has applauded the planned
U.S. move, calling the
postal pact “outdated” in
the age of e-commerce and
at a time of Chinese manu-
facturing dominance.
A U.S. pullout from the
144-year-old organization,
a specialized U.N. agency,
would strip the U.S. from
access to special codes
needed to send and receive
mail internationally, Clivaz
said. Any U.S. compa-
nies that need them — like
FedEx or UPS — would
lose access too, he said.
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