2A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • February 11, 2015
Polk County News
New WOU public safety officer
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By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Otis Pettit, son of original Dandy Burger owner Bill Pettit, has reopened the fondly re-
membered burgers and fries drive-thru on Monmouth Cutoff Road in Dallas.
Burger fans rejoice: An
oldie, but goodie is back
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — OK, longtime
Dallas residents. Ready for a
blast from the past?
Remember the name
Dandy Burger? It’s back, now
operated by original owner
Bill Pettit’s son, Otis Pettit.
The first Dandy Burger
was only open from 1982 to
1987 before the Pettit family
sold the drive-thru-only
restaurant. It closed shortly
after, but those first five years
made an impression on Dal-
las. Pettit said since he’s been
open, he’s seen a stream of
familiar faces come through
his new location off Mon-
mouth Cutoff Road in Dallas.
“They are happy that I’m
back, everybody that remem-
bers it,” Pettit said. “A lot of
people I grew up with used to
eat here back in the day.
That’s why I came back here
to do it, because I knew I had
a pre-existing clientele.”
Those former customers
will find that only the location
has changed. The menu —
with the addition of a few
Check It Out
What: Dandy Burger.
Where: 888 SE Mon-
mouth Cutoff Road, Dallas.
Business hours: Mon-
day through Saturday, 10
a.m. to 10 p.m.
Phone: 971-284-9469.
items, such as fish and chips,
a BLT, grilled ham and cheese,
and a garden burger — is the
same, as are the recipes.
“1950s-style burgers and
fries,” Pettit said, describing
the drive-thru’s fare.
Pettit, who formerly was in
the construction field, wanted
to reopen Dandy Burger for
years, but didn’t get the oppor-
tunity until he moved back to
Dallas about a year and a half
ago. Upon returning to his
hometown, he noticed a for-
mer coffee drive-thru was
available and decided there
was no time like the present.
Pettit opened about a
month ago, welcoming back
customers he hadn’t seen
since he was in high school.
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student life, is larger be-
cause you have a lot more
students on campus.”
As director of public safe-
ty, it is her job to oversee the
safety and security of the
campus and everybody on
it, she said, including facul-
ty, staff, students, visitors
and property.
Chiles focuses on commu-
nity policing, noting that
public safety staff can’t be pa-
trolling everywhere at once.
“We need everybody to
work together and see
things and report things and
be aware of things,” she said.
“This is our place, our envi-
ronment. This is where you
live, you work, you learn,
you do all of those things.
Let’s do it together. Let’s
make it safe together.”
Chiles hopes to get cam-
pus public safety more of a
presence on social medi-
ums like Twitter and Face-
book to help keep the stu-
dent body, faculty and staff
updated quickly.
To contact Chiles: send an
email to chilesr@wou.edu.
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Back then, Pettit was a cook
at the original restaurant and
had fond memories of the
time he spent in the kitchen
— that’s still his favorite part
— working with his dad.
“He didn’t pay us anything
back then, we just got to eat
all the food we wanted,” Pet-
tit said, chuckling. “That was
our payment.”
Pettit recalls working a lot
of late nights after Dallas
High home games. Back in
those days, there were
dances after the games, so
customers would pull in late
into the night.
“We’d stay open until mid-
night or 1 in the morning for
that, when the games (and
dances) were over,” he said.
That tradition is re-emerg-
ing, as customers came
through after a recent home
basketball game.
With only himself and one
employee, covering the Fri-
day night football crowd may
be a challenge, but Pettit is
looking forward to it.
“I like operating this place
and seeing all the people I
grew up with,” Pettit said.
MONMOUTH — One
thing Louisiana native Re-
becca Chiles is sure of:
Southern hospitality is not
just in the south.
“I’ve been welcomed
more warmly in this town
and on this campus than
I’ve been welcomed any-
where else,” she said. “It’s
not a Southern hospitality
thing; it’s a people thing.”
Chiles, 45, took the job of
Western Oregon University’s
director of campus public
safety on Feb. 2, making the
move from Shreveport, La.,
to Monmouth.
She said it hasn’t been a
huge culture shock, noting
that Monmouth’s as-yet
mild winter has been a nice
change from Louisiana’s
typically extreme weather.
“People are the same
wherever you go, I guess, but
I think maybe (there’s) a bet-
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about Monmouth. “It’s more
open, more accepting, a cel-
ebration of diversity more up
here in the Pacific North-
west, more than in the Deep
South area where I grew up.”
Chiles has spent 18 years
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after graduating from the
University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville with a degree in
criminal justice.
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