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JESSICA KELLER PHOTO
Andrew Barboe, left, Hermiston, and John Addleman, Oregon
City, hold up spring Chinook salmon they hauled in Thursday
afternoon along the Columbia River below McNary Dam.
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this time of year as it’s popu-
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“McNary is one of the best
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Of course, that could
change this spring as the
ODFW announced Thursday
it will begin transporting re-
turning adult spring Chinook
salmon from Threemile Dam
directly to spawning areas in
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“Low water levels and
high water temperatures can
have tragic consequences for
spring Chinook migrating
to their natal waters,” Bill
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in Pendleton, said in a press
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nook reach critical holding
and spawning areas, we will
begin trucking them from the
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Regardless, the Nortons
and their friends will enjoy
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they will return to the area in
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ing June hogs, referring to the
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than the spring Chinook, and
they’re a lot harder to catch,” he
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give back to one of the
places he constructed
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were very good to us when
we built Sage Manor Apart-
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getting at the age where
we’re trying to give back to
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ly, we’ll work northward,
because (Hermiston) is our
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Casper said he and his
wife, both 84, moved to
Hermiston, where they
both graduated from high
school, in the 1940s with
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Laura Casper moved to
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to Hermiston in 1944, and
Milton Casper moved to
Hermiston in 1940 when he
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through (school) thanks to
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as freshmen in high school
and pretty well have been
together ever since, except
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went to Portland to nurse’s
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The Korean War start-
ed three days after he had
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served and was honorably
discharged, Casper said, so
he was called back in and
served in Korea in 1950
and 1951 with the Army
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orably discharged a second
time, he returned to Herm-
iston and married Laura in
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He began working at
the Army depot, where he
worked for the Department
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He was then transferred to
an Army depot in Cham-
bersburg, Pennsylvania, for
three years and then to Al-
abama for three years, and
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guided missiles at the
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guided missile fuels and ox-
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of us were needed in Pueb-
lo, Colorado, in the special
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“We’re getting at the age where
we’re trying to give back to
the communities. Eventually,
we’ll work northward, because
(Hermiston) is our hometown.”
— Milton Casper
Hermiston resident
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After about three years
in Colorado, he was sent
back to Korea as a civilian
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to transfer to Seneca, New
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foot down and said, ‘No,
I’m not going to go any-
more,’ and we came back
to Hermiston and started
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stopped homes and built
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ments — then Sage Manor,
then Butte Manor, Lakev-
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We had about 14 years of
commercial building, and
we’ve been retired for 34
years pretty much, ex-
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Casper said the couple
plans to make donations in
other communities in the
future as they are able, and
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worked pretty hard for
those 14 years when we
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