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CELEBRATES 20 YEARS
THE DALLES DOWN
BULLDOGS, 10-8
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
Port
candidates
answer
questions
Franell, Imsland
share ideas
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
Two candidates are
competing for the Port of
Umatilla Board of Com-
missioners Position No. 1
on the May ballot.
Both Joseph Franell
and Jerry Imsland partic-
ipated in a forum Monday
hosted by the Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce
Government Affairs Team
and the Eastern Oregon
Women’s Coalition.
Franell, CEO and gen-
eral manager of Eastern
Oregon Telecom in Herm-
iston, was appointed to
the commission in March
after another commis-
sioner resigned. Franell
serves as the chairman
of the Oregon Broadband
Advisory Council and
the Hermiston chamber
board.
Imsland, a certified
real estate appraiser and
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Residents share
hopes for antique store
building
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
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sorrow over the loss of a long-time
Main Street business Saturday but
also hope the now-vacant downtown
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Elephants Trunk Antiques owner
Dave Meyers retired after almost 20
years in business and auctioned off
his remaining inventory Saturday. He
now plans to sell the highly visible
building at the intersection of Coe
Avenue and Highway 395.
Address: 105 S. Main St, Stanfield.
Built: 1904
Details: Three stories, including
basement on .11 acres in downtown
Stanfield
Square footage: About 6,000
Zoning: Commercial with residential
space upstairs
Asking price: $399,950
Diane Barton, who purchased a
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1910 at the auction, said it was sad to
see the antique store close.
“It’s been here for a long time, and
it’s been a great building for people
SEAN HART PHOTO
to come and buy antiques for years,”
she said. “I can remember — it’s been The remaining inventory from Elephants Trunk Antiques was auctioned off
Saturday, and the owner hopes to sell the building at the intersection of
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he said, he purchased a set of
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the help of YouTube Univer-
sity, he is learning the basics
of the complicated instru-
ment, which he said requires
a lot of lung power and arm
coordination.
BY JESSICA KELLER
“I haven’t yet mastered
HERMISTON HERALD
it or even played a tune yet,
Steven Evans-Renteria’s so it’s a very slow process,”
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back as early childhood.
He is determined to keep
According to the Hermis- trying, however.
ton High School senior, his
“I want to be a jack of all
family said even before he trades, a master of — maybe
could construct sentences as a few,” he said.
a young boy, he already had
Evans-Renteria said his
a couple of songs memo- favorite instrument, howev-
rized.
er, is his voice. When he’s
Evans-Renteria
never not in the band room prac-
outgrew that love for music ticing his more conventional
and has taken it so far as to instruments, he can frequent-
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The instruments Ev- up the trombone, but he
ans-Renteria plays depend said, really, it began when he
on the setting, however. banged on his great-grand-
When he’s playing for the mother’s piano as a small
high school symphonic boy. His interest in choir
orchestra, he favors trom- came later.
bone. For wind ensemble he
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prefers euphonium. In jazz he attended school before
band, he prefers trombone moving to Hermiston a few
and piano. He also plays gui- years ago, did not have a
tar and dabbles in trumpet.
choir program, and he didn’t
After attending the Cale- get to really sing until he
donian Games in Athena, performed in the school’s
he heard pipes and drums “You’re a Good Man Charlie
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love with that music, along Inland Northwest’s chorale.
with Scottish dress — he
“I think that’s really
frequently sports a kilt and where the honing of my skill
sporran at school.
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A couple of months ago,
Hermiston senior
takes love of music
to great heights
JESSICA KELLER PHOTO
Hermiston High School senior Steven Evans-Renteria practices his euphonium in the band
room Monday. Evans-Renteria will attend OSU in the fall, where he intends to major in music.
Living out a dream
Fawning around
Warners find hobby
farm fulfilling
BY JESSICA KELLER
HERMISTON HERALD
SEAN HART PHOTO
Hermiston Herald $1.00

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Two deer play in a meadow near the McNary Channel Ponds in Umatilla on Saturday. The
weather was great for working or playing outside with sunny and warm condition. The high
temperature Tuesday was in the low 80s, but cloudy and cooler temperatures are expected
to return today with the high expected to reach 66 and winds out of the west-southwest at
18 mph. Partly cloudy conditions will continue through Saturday with highs near 70. Sunday
could bring a chance of a morning shower and a high of 72. Look for temperatures mostly in
the 70s next week.
While tending a hobby
farm on 15 acres of land in
addition to working full-
time jobs keeps Shawn
and Christy Warner busy,
the Hermiston transplants
say they are happy with
their lifestyle
Ever since the Warners
moved the Hermiston 10
years ago, they knew they
wanted to start their own
small farm. When they
purchased their farm nine
years ago, it was the be-
ginning of a dream.
“He had this vision,
and that’s where we’re at
with it,” Christy Warner
said. “We’re just lucky he
could see further ahead
because I couldn’t see it.
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a lot as far as farming
goes.”
He is an electrician by
trade, and she has a job
with the state.
Shawn Warner said he
was raised on a small fam-
ily farm, and he wanted
the children in their blend-
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as well.
“It was the way I was
taught, and I wanted my
kids to know that, and I
wanted to be able to teach
them, too,” Shawn Warner
said, adding he learned a
lot on his parents’ small
farm growing up in west-
ern Oregon.
He wanted his children
to learn responsibility on a
farm, as well.
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