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East Oregonian
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Rondon lands new position with pest management center
She is appointed director of Oregon
Integrated Pest Management Center
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
HERMISTON — When
Silvia Rondon fi rst arrived
in Hermiston in 2006, local
farmers were struggling
with a surge of potato tuber
moths damaging their crop.
Rondon, a professor and
entomologist at Oregon
State University’s Hermis-
ton Agricultural Research
and Extension Center,
was just establishing her
program focused on inte-
grated pest management for
irrigated row crops in the
Columbia Basin.
A f t e r st udy i ng t he
pernicious insect, Rondon
and her team learned the
moth’s larvae prefer to
feed on the leaves of young
potato plants. Rather than
spraying pesticide applica-
tions throughout the grow-
ing season, farmers could
spray once or twice closer
to harvest before the foliage
shrivels and dies.
“That is the critical time,”
she said. “Once the foliage,
which is the preferred feed-
ing host of
the pest, is
gone, that’s
when they
start attack-
ing
the
tubers.”
Rondon
O v e r
the years,
Rondon has helped grow-
ers in Northeastern Oregon
and Southeastern Washing-
ton battle a variety of infes-
tations, including potato
psyllid, potato beetle and
lygus bugs.
Her experience has led
Rondon to a new posi-
tion as director of OSU’s
Integrated Pest Manage-
ment Center, helping farm-
is eff ective July 1.
“I am super excited about
this position, and the new
challenge ahead of me,”
Rondon said. “I think my
expertise fi ts really well.”
In an email announc-
ing Rondon’s appointment,
Alan Sams, dean of the OSU
College of Agricultural
Sciences, said she will help
to strengthen the center,
“enhancing our strategic
goal to help our industries
compete in their markets,
domestically and globally.
Being based in Herm-
iston has given Rondon
a broad grounding. The
Columbia Basin, with its
loamy soil and climate
ers across Oregon and the
Pacifi c Northwest improve
their production.
The Integ rated Pest
Management Center —
formerly known as the
Integrated Plant Protection
Center — is based at OSU’s
main campus in Corvallis,
though Rondon said she will
remain in Hermiston for the
time being and continue to
oversee the station’s ento-
mology program.
Rondon was selected
by an 11-person search
com m it tee consist i ng
of members from OSU,
the state Department of
Agriculture and industry
groups. Her appointment
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consisting of hot days and
cool nights, grows more
than 200 irrigated crops,
each of which poses its own
challenges and opportuni-
ties.
Umatilla County leads
the state in production of
vegetables, melons and
potatoes, according to the
most recent USDA Census
of Agriculture, with sales
topping $111 million.
“My specific program
here in Hermiston will
continue to be driven by
the needs of local grow-
ers,” Rondon said. “I am
extremely appreciative for
all the support they have
given me.”
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By JEDIDIAH MAYNES
of the Walla Walla
Union-Bulletin
WALLA WALLA —
This Memorial Day, one
poignant stop could be
the monument near Fort
Walla Walla Museum on
Myra Road that honors the
local men who died during
World War II.
And to complete the
ode to the fallen, you can
even read a miniature
biography on all 93 of
them, thanks to the work
now completed by Neil
and Sherilyn Jacobson.
The book, “Infamy and
Beyond: Servicemen from
Walla Walla County, WA,
Who Died in WWII,” is
available in paperback
exclusively at Fort Walla
Walla Museum’s gift shop
or its website.
The project essentially
went hand-in-hand with
the creation of the monu-
ment, the Jacobsons said.
“There were quite a
few unusual things that
don’t usually go along
with publishing a book,”
Sherilyn Jacobson said.
“Because ... this turned
out to be one of many
offshoots from being
involved in building the
World War II monument.”
The duo began collab-
orating with team of
volunteers building the
monument early on and
stuck with the project all
the way up to its dedica-
tion in 2018.
“One thi ng led to
another,” Sherilyn Jacob-
son said. “And then —
being masters of overkill
— we wound up with a
400-page book.”
Their research even
helped complete t he
monument to a greater
extent.
Two soldiers had been
left off , they discovered
during their perusing.
Luckily, the monument
was designed with the idea
that more names could be
added, they said.
The process for the
Jacobsons was a labor of
love and longevity.
The two veterans took
the past two years and
essentially any free time
they had and poured it into
the research and writing of
the book.
Some of the content
also was used in a Walla
Wa l l a Un i o n - B u l l e -
tin supplement written
by former U-B reporter
Andy Porter and former
U-B editor Tom Skeen.
Porter was one of the
final reviewers of the
book, along with museum
volunteer Kathy Stritzel
who pored over micro-
fi lm of the Walla Walla
Union-Bulletin at Whit-
man College’s Penrose
Library for pictures of the
soldiers.
What resulted is one of
the most in-depth histor-
ical books written about
Walla Walla County and
its people.
“It was hard to know
where to stop,” Sherilyn
Jacobson said.
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