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A native of
Hermiston returns
“The things that I stood
for, they were also for,” she
said.
In her campaign, she
frequently spoke of the
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment. Following the election,
she still was talking about it.
The department, she said,
needs to add staff to meet the
growing size of the city. In
addition, she said, homeless-
ness needs to be addressed.
“I’m very concerned
about our homeless popula-
tion,” she said. “I’ve always
been concerned about them.”
She said that she was
raised with values that
include looking after people
and giving them “a hand up”
when they need one. Mental
health assistance, jobs and
addiction recovery services
should be high priorities
when addressing homeless-
ness, she added.
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Hermiston City Council candidate Jackie Linton introduces herself at a candidate forum
April 12, 2022, at the Hermiston Community Center. Linton said she is looking forward to
being part of the council.
Linton attended the recent
joint meeting of the Hermis-
ton City Council, Umatilla
City Council and Umatilla
County Board of Commis-
sioners, where the local
Survivor:
The British Army liber-
ated Heerenveen, but it didn’t
have enough food to share.
Neither did the Canadians,
who followed. Bloomfield
foraged for food. If she found
a turnip or potato, she dusted
it off and ate it raw.
Finally, the Americans
arrived and took pity on a
lousy, scrawny girl with
frightful hair, a coat shot full
of holes and her toes sticking
out. They dusted her hair with
insecticide DDT and told her
not to wash it for three days.
“The bread with butter
was the best cake I ever had,”
she said.
One day, she was told to
report to a truck. There she
met her youngest brother,
now 5, who, unbeknownst to
her, had also been sent north.
They returned home together.
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Under the Nazis, every-
one 10 and older had to get
ID cards. By acting indignant
when asked if he were Jewish,
her father managed not to get
a “J” stamped on his.
Bloomfield had three
brothers, Claas, born in 1934,
Bert in 1938 and Tom in 1940.
Their circumstances grew
progressively worse. Her dad
kept his job for a while. Shell
continued to pay him, even
though he couldn’t work later
in the war. They suffered
wartime food and fuel short-
ages and German soldiers
conducting searches, sweeps
and roundups. One neigh-
bor was a Dutch collaborator
with the occupiers.
Family sends her away
Shor tages worsened.
Bloomfi eld’s father made her
shoes from wooden planks in
the attic fl oor.
Bloomfi eld said her family
sent her three times to live
with strangers. Her parents
feared the situation in The
Hague had become too
dangerous for her and her
siblings to stay there. They
might be outed as Jews at
any time.
Her older brother was sent
away fi rst. Her parents didn’t
tell their children the real
reason why they were being
sent to the country. They said
it was for lack of food.
“Imagine how little kids
would feel,” Paster said.
“What did we do wrong?
Don’t you love us?”
The first time, Bloom-
fi eld went south to near the
Belgian border, to stay with
a couple without children.
When it became riskier to
hide children, they returned
her home.
“In Eastern Europe, the
Nazis killed people who hid
children,” Bloomfi eld said.
“In the Netherlands, the
penalty wasn’t always death,
but the consequences were
severe.”
Her family decided to send
her away again, this time to
a farm up north. There she
stayed with a family that
took good care of her. They
had a daughter about her age.
Bloomfi eld had never tasted
pork, but loved it. The rich
food made the starved little
girl sick, so she was once
governments discussed the
plan for a facility to assist
homeless people. She said she
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
This photo on display Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at the Pendle-
ton Public Library shows Holocaust survivor Anneke Bloom-
fi eld as a young girl. Bloomfi eld was a child from the Nether-
lands who hid in safe houses to escape Nazis in World War II.
again sent home.
Her father was in the
Dutch Resistance. People
could enter a library with-
out suspicion, so he became
a conduit of information
for the Underground. At 8,
Bloomfi eld said she carried
two “newspapers” — fi ling
cards with intelligence, to
contacts after dark, but before
the 8 p.m. curfew.
went north again to Heeren-
veen on a bus full of other
children, and a man she
knew. The bus was bombed.
The man was bleeding from
his ear. Her new coat was torn
in many places, but she didn’t
get a scratch. She and another
girl ran from the bus. They
were let into the third house
they approached and waited
until it was safe again.
“THE BREAD WITH BUTTER WAS
THE BEST CAKE I EVER HAD.”
— Anneke Bloomfi eld, Holocaust survivor
If out after then, she’d be
shot.
She saw two men try to
evade detention by German
soldiers beneath an under-
pass.
“It didn’t work,” she said.
“They got pushed up on the
wall, and they got shot.”
Bloomfi eld made it home
without being caught, but she
was too scared to work as a
courier anymore. Her father
decided she was no longer
safe in The Hague.
Leaving a third time
Her mother gave her a coat
and a fl annel sheet to make
warm clothing. Her father
acquired used shoes with the
toes cut out.
The third time Bloomfi eld
was sent away, she said she
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When she returned to
the bus, only seven children
remained, but they resumed
their journey. By the time
Bloomfield arrived at her
new refuge, she had lice and
was hungry. Food and fuel
were scarce. In the morn-
ings she would go to the soup
kitchen for food and warmth.
There was no way for her to
contact anyone she knew, so
she continued to live in fear
and hunger.
“For a year, from 9 to 10, I
didn’t grow an inch,” Bloom-
fi eld said.
Hitler was punishing the
Netherlands for its support
of the Allies after their liber-
ation of part of the Nether-
lands in September 1944. She
witnessed the Germans evacu-
ating the Netherlands in 1945.
Nothing the same
after liberation
Back with her family,
Bloomfi eld asked where her
toys had gone, including her
scooter. Her parents explained
she now had a baby sister,
Henny, but her starved mother
couldn’t make milk, so they
farmed out the infant. The
family that agreed to take her
demanded all Bloomfi eld’s
toys.
“It took Anneke three
years to reestablish a relation-
ship with her father,” Paster
said. “They took long walks
together, but she was never
able to bond with her mother.”
Bloomfi eld said that she
wasn’t able to eat normally
until she was 31.
Her older brother was the
most damaged, she said. He
kept running away to the
farm family that had fostered
him. Then, at 18, he left for
Alberta, fi nding work as a
truck driver in Calgary.
When she turned 20,
Bloomfield also went to
Canada. She was able to
track Claas down. Against
her father’s wishes, she stayed
in Canada, married a Swede,
adopted a son and moved to
Phoenix, Arizona, with her
family.
She relocated 19 years
later to North Hollywood,
California. Her husband died.
She eventually retired to the
Portland area.
“Some people claim you
can’t be a Holocaust survivor
without having been in the
concentration camps,” Paster
said. “But those who escaped
capture suff ered as well.”
since,” she said. “This is
home, and I’m going to stay
home until Jesus calls me
home.”
Work, hobbies
fi ll her life now
Linton was born in Herm-
iston in 1957. She attended
schools in town until her
junior year of high school,
she said. In the middle of
her junior year, she moved to
Tacoma, Washington, with
her mother and stepfather.
After graduation, she
returned to Hermiston for a
couple of years, until she was
laid off from a job at Lamb
Weston.
“I moved ba ck to
Tacoma,” she said. “I got a
job there, and that’s where I
stayed until retiring.”
She moved to Geor-
gia to care for a grandchild
after her retirement, and it
wasn’t until 2012 that she
returned to Hermiston. She
came back to care for a sick
family member. According
to Linton, she was glad to be
here again.
“I’ve been here ever
While she lives here,
Linton said she works at a
solar power plant in Arling-
ton. It’s a new job, she said,
and it’s scheduled to end in
November. After it ends, she
will look for new employ-
ment, possibly working as a
substitute teacher, she said.
“I’ll be working doing
something,” she said.
She likes to travel at least
once a year. She said she has
been to Israel, Germany,
Mexico and Fiji. She named
Africa as a place she would
most like to see next. She said
she hasn’t been there before.
“I like traveling to other
cultures and seeing how
other people live,” she said.
She said she hopes she can
bring insights, which she has
learned from other individu-
als and cultures, to the council.
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“Our offi cers arrive and
go in,” he said. “It’s not prac-
tical to wait for a team to
form to eliminate the threat.
Create a distraction. Buy
time for kids or customers
to evacuate. Even if just one
or two offi cers, we train to
enter, fi nd and engage the
threat, while communicat-
ing with others.”
Hermiston police has
three school resource
officers. Several HPD
members have received
Advanced Law Enforce-
ment Rapid Response Train-
ing, Edmiston added. The
ALERRT Center at Texas
State University is widely
considered to offer the
best research-based active
shooter response training in
the nation. And the depart-
ment spends $70,000 per
officer to make sure they
have all the equipment they
need.
“Even allowing $50,000
for the car, that leaves
$20,000 for personal gear,”
he said.
Hermiston offi cers and
the Oregon State Police
SWAT team plan to train
for three days in late July at
Rocky Heights Elementary
School, slated for demoli-
tion, Edmiston said. The
old Armand Larive Middle
School previously served
as a training site prior to its
demolition.
“It’s a good deal for both
of us,” he said. “The OSP
‘ninja’ team gets to practice
at a real world site, and we
can learn from them.”
Training together
essential for
local police
Boardman Police Chief
Rick Stokoe echoed his
colleagues. He said his
department’s procedure on
a school shooter and the like
is to “immediately engage
the threat.” That applies to
a school resource offi cer or
the fi rst patrol unit to arrive
at the scene, he said, but the
situation dictates what the
engagement looks like.
A shooter who drops
their weapon, surrenders
and complies with police is
likely to end up in handcuff s.
“If they are actively
shooting, that’s proba-
bly not going to be a good
outcome,” he said.
Police in that situation
can “neutralize” — shoot
and even kill a suspect —
and Stokoe said that’s about
minimizing the number of
people who are victims.
“That’s the way our
agency trains,” he said, “and
we do train on it.”
Riverside Junior-Senior
High School in April 2018
was the site of an active
school shooter training that
involved Boardman police
and local law enforcement
from throughout the region,
as well as Oregon State
Police. Almost 400 people
in all watched or partici-
pated in the drill, includ-
ing 45 students and 260
members of the Morrow
County School District.
Stokoe stressed the impor-
tance of area law enforce-
ment training and learning
together.
“In small rural commu-
nities, we have to rely on
each other,” he said.
Three Boardman police
personnel were among other
locals who responded Feb. 7
to Richland, Washington,
for the deadly shooting at
a Fred Meyer store. If there
was a similar shooting in
Boardman, he said, offi cers
from Umatilla County and
agencies in Washington are
likely to respond.
Stokoe said Boardman
police follow the model from
the I Love You Guys Foun-
dation, which developed its
Standard Response Protocol
based on fi ve actions: hold,
secure, lockdown, evacuate
and shelter. According to
the foundation, more than
30,000 schools, districts,
departments, organizations
and cities around the globe
use the protocol.
But not every agency in
the area follows the proto-
col, he said, and one element
of training is to make sure
different agencies can
communicate effectively
with each other during a
crisis.
“You want everyone on
the same sheet of music,” he
said.
Stokoe added he recently
reached out to the Morrow
County School District and
Mark Mulvihill, superinten-
dent of the InterMountain
Education Service District,
to do more training for this
kind of school emergency.
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