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REGION Thursday, August 15, 2019 East Oregonian Seventh-day Adventist Church ready to rebuild Hermiston church plans to construct slightly larger church on lot of former building By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian HERMISTON — The Hermiston Seventh-day Adventist Church is ready to rebuild a year after fire gutted their building on Highland Avenue. The church plans to tear down the old building and build a slightly larger, more modern-looking church on the same lot. Demolition of the old church will begin in the next two to three weeks. Construction on the new building will take eight to 10 months. “It’s going to be awe- some,” contractor Mark Black said. “I’m excited about it.” Black, manager of Advantage Construc- tion Management in Walla Walla, is an Adventist him- self and was anxious to help the church go through a design-build process that would help them save money and get what they wanted. “This is a small project for me, but it’s very import- ant to me and to the mem- bers,” he said. The church burned down in June 2018 due to a lamp left on overnight near a wooden table. Umatilla Staff photo by Jade McDowell The Hermiston Seventh-day Adventist Church is preparing to demolish their church building that burned in order to construct a new building on the same site. County Fire District Fire Marshal Scott Goff at the time described is as a “long, slow, smoldering fire that kind of cooked the whole building.” While the build- ing’s exterior looks mostly whole, the interior is a mess of charred wood, broken glass and melted plastic that could not be salvaged. Sid Rittenbach, chair- man of the church’s building advisory committee, said the Adventists had hoped to tear down the burned build- ing sooner, but had to leave it up until they were done negotiating with the insur- ance company. They will get money for replacement costs for the 1960s-era building, but the settlement isn’t enough to cover bring- ing the new building up to modern codes for fire pre- vention, accessibility and energy efficiency. Rittenbach said the con- gregation also plans to add on some extra space, includ- ing a fellowship hall with a kitchen that could be used for cooking classes and other health-focused events. There will be classrooms, the large sanctuary, a small chapel for weddings, space outside to resume the annual Journey to Bethlehem pag- eant and a wide entrance to the grounds located in a safer place than the current Highland Avenue driveway. “There will be lots of windows to let in natural light,” he said. A large pine tree must be removed to accommo- date the construction, and the church hopes to time removal so that it can be used as this year’s city Christmas tree on the festi- val street downtown. Their goal is to raise about $700,000 from church members and community donations toward the total project cost of more than $4 million. People can donate by going to www.hermis- tonadventist.org, clicking on “Online Giving” and labeling their donation for the “local building fund.” “Adventists are faith- ful tithe-payers and very benevolent, but this is still a crushing burden for the organization, so it’s great when the community rec- ognizes that and steps in,” Black said. In the 14 months since the fire, the Seventh-day Adventists have been meet- ing at Hermiston Junior Academy at 1300 N.W. Academy Lane. They have also been able to continue some services at the small community building next to the burned church. Guy Oltman, who helps with the Open Table pro- gram, said some people were under the impres- sion that charitable pro- grams like Open Table had stopped after the fire. Instead, people can still come and get a free din- ner, no questions asked, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. each Wednesday at the com- munity building at 855 W. Highland Ave. “We target people who are struggling financially, but it’s a free meal for any- one who so desires and feels the need for the assis- tance,” he said. Deadline nears for comments on B2H power line East Oregonian PENDLETON — The public has until Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. to submit comments on the Oregon Department of Energy’s order to approve the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line. The 500-kilovolt power line would run more than 300 miles from Boardman to Idaho Power’s Heming- way Substation in Owyhee County, Idaho. The regional Stop B2H Coalition is trying to drum up more opposition to the project. The coalition in a news release stated it has vol- unteers to help people write and submit comments on the Boardman to Hemingway line by the deadline. “Landowners, families, and friends of our Eastern Oregon communities must submit their comments by Aug. 22 or they will not be able to continue in the state’s siting process in the future,” according to the coalition. People who comment in writing and on the record gain the “standing” to con- test or appeal the process. “The procedures are strict in terms of comment- ing,” the coalition stated, “and you need to cite a rule or standard that is not being met and state why it is not being met; or challenge a conclusion in the application or state’s Draft Proposed Order,” or DPO. The coalition also advised people can submit as many comments as they like and can address one topic in each comment letter or many top- ics in one letter. The coalition provides a “how to guide” for com- menting at stopb2h.org. Peo- ple also can submit com- ments via mail, email or fax in care of Kellen Tar- daewether, senior siting ana- lyst, at the following: Ore- gon Department of Energy, 550 Capitol St N.E., Salem, OR 97301; or B2H.DPOCo- mments@Oregon.gov; or 503-378-6457 For more information on the Stop B2H Coalition, visit http://stopb2h.org/, email info@stopb2h.org or call 541-406-0727. TO read the Oregon Department of Energy’s 605- page proposal for the order granting a site certificate for the transmission line, go here: https://www.oregon. gov/energy/facilities-safety/ facilit ies/ Facilit ies%20 library/2019-05-22-B2H- Draft-Proposed-Order.pdf PacifiCorp acquires ownership of Wyoming wind project East Oregonian CHEYENNE, Wyo. — PacifiCorp has acquired sole ownership of the Foote Creek I wind generation facility, a 41.4-megawatt renewable energy project in Carbon County, Wyoming. The move will allow for the wind generation facility to be repowered with new tur- bine technology that will increase energy output of the entire facility by 60%. The repowered facility will produce enough energy to meet the needs of 19,500 typical homes in Pacifi- Corp’s service territory. It is anticipated that the project will generate an additional $14 million in tax revenue for rural Wyoming commu- nities over the next 30 years. PacifiCorp, which oper- ates as Pacific Power in Washington, California and Oregon, including the Pend- leton and Hermiston areas, serves more than 1.9 mil- lion customers in six West- ern states. Foote Creek I was the company’s first wind facil- ity and the first utility-scale wind project in Wyoming, a jointly owned demonstra- tion project commissioned in 1999 with PacifiCorp and the Eugene Water & Elec- tric Board as co-owners and supported with a power pur- chase agreement with the Bonneville Power Admin- istration. The success of the facility and ongoing tech- nological advancements led PacifiCorp to invest billions of dollars in low-cost wind energy, create associated tax revenue benefits and new wind energy jobs in rural communities in Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon. PacifiCorp is today the larg- est regulated utility owner of wind assets in the West. “Twenty-one years ago, PacifiCorp and its part- ners’ development of Foote Creek I helped pave the way for utility-scale wind energy as an industry-defin- ing demonstration project,” said Stefan Bird, president and CEO of Pacific Power. “Today, this new investment in the project builds on our vision to even better har- ness wind energy and power the grid with increased effi- ciency, delivering even more low-cost, renewable energy to our customers.” PacifiCorp will begin the process of repowering the Foote Creek I facility by removing the 68 exist- ing 600-kilowatt wind tur- bine generators originally installed between 1998 and 1999 and replacing them with 13 new modern tur- bines with a much higher output capability that will be supported by new foun- dations, along with new energy collector circuits, switchgear and controls. The result is significantly fewer wind turbines needed to produce an equivalent peak output, while dramat- ically increasing the energy production from the facility. Repowering in 2020 will requalify the facility for fed- eral production tax cred- its, which will be passed on as savings to Pacifi- Corp customers. It will also reduce ongoing oper- ating costs associated with the older turbine equip- ment. The repowering proj- ect will extend the useful life of the facility by more than two decades, creating substantial ongoing benefits for customers when instead the facility would other- wise have been retired from service. 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