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Early results: People want to elect judge
EOTEC
board OKs BMCC measure passing
Election
results
center
design
BY JADE MCDOWELL
EO MEDIA GROUP
The details are in place
for a major piece of the
Eastern Oregon Trade and
Event Center after the
project’s board approved
a design for the event
center Tuesday.
Choosing a final de-
sign this week kept EO-
TEC on track for a March
2016 completion date.
The
building
will
include a more than
12,000-square-foot
ex-
hibition hall, three large
meeting rooms, a board-
room, a kitchen, offices
and storage.
After examining plans
drawn up by LRS Archi-
tects and G2 Construc-
tion, the authority did
make a few changes while
trying to stay within the
building’s $2.7 million
budget.
Vijay Patel convinced
the other board mem-
bers that a long hallway
stretching the length of
the exhibition hall need-
ed to be expanded from
12 feet to 15 feet wide so
the hall could be used to
locate vendors, displays,
buffet tables or other
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cial results indicate 45 percent were
in favor of the amendment, with 55
percent opposed.
The city decided to update its
BY JESSICA KELLER
City Charter last year after deter-
HERMISTON HERALD
mining the document, which had
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election results posted by Umatilla created 60 years ago, needed to be
County, Hermiston residents will modernized. In some cases, provi-
continue to elect their municipal sions in the new document were re-
court judge.
vised to make them constitutional.
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idents overwhelmingly supported ter changes the mayors term from
updating the city’s charter, 73 per- two years to four years.
cent to 27 percent, but they were
The item that drew the greatest
not in favor of an amendment to attention was that of the munici-
allow the City Council to appoint pal court judge, with some people
the municipal court judge position, questioning why the council want-
currently held by Thomas Creasing. ed to set a new precedent by ap-
They vote tally was not as close as
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Note: Results are unoffi cial and
are the latest Umatilla County
results as of the Herald press time
Tuesday evening. For more, go to www.
HermistonHerald.com or see the Umatilla
County Elections Division website at www.
co.umatilla.or.us/Elections
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ing, it can be a greeting. It
can mean stay away or let’s
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cure for cancer.
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money for cancer research
and recognize the role dogs
play in their owners’ bat-
tles with cancer.
“The presence of a
dog is so lighthearted and
warming,” Pittam said. “I
think they contribute to
people’s general health tre-
mendously.”
She said Bark For Life
honors canine caregivers,
including service, therapy
and diagnostic dogs, while
advocating for people
who have survived or are
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money for cancer research.
She said Bark For Life not
only raises money for the
American Cancer Society,
it is a precursor for Hermis-
ton’s Relay For Life event,
which will take place June
26-27 at the Armand Lar-
ive Middle School track.
“It helps get awareness
out there for that and raise
more money for that pur-
pose,” Pittam said.
Pittam said people can
still donate to Bark For
Life or to various Hermis-
ton Relay For Life teams.
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American Cancer Society.
JESSICA KELLER PHOTO
Jennifer Mulhollan, left, Kennewick, ties a Bark For Life bandanna around the neck of her Cavalier King Charles spaniel Shir-
le\, held b\ Miranda Hunt, Hermiston, at the À fth annual Bark For Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Societ\ Saturda\ at
McKenzie Park in Hermiston.
Although
Saturday’s
event at McKenzie Park in
Hermiston failed to gen-
erate the $4,000 to $5,000
Pittam was hoping to raise,
she said, between the
$2,600 garnered through
Bark For Life and the oth-
er fundraising she and her
Team Bud-Rich members
are doing for Relay For
Life, she thinks they will
be able to hit their target.
Pittam said she became
involved in Relay For Life
HERMISTON HERALD
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Hermiston judge appointment
Yes 45%
√ No 55%
√ David W. Smith (67%)
Rob Lovett (33%)
BY JESSICA KELLER
BY SEAN HART
Hermiston charter
revision
√ Yes 73%
No 27%
Hermiston School Board
√ Joshua Goller (58%)
James T. Leach (41%)
Fundraiser leads
into Relay For
Life in June
Hermiston pastor met
British monarch during
an internship in Scotland
BMCC Bond
Umatilla County votes
√ Yes 52%
No 48%
BARKING FOR A CAUSE
with her mother, Sher-
ry, and the Bark for Life
event was organized to
raise money for their team.
Pittam said she and her
mother became involved
because one of Pittam’s
grandmothers is a breast
and lung cancer survivor,
while another died from
cancer.
“So it’s something that
my family, we’ve been af-
fected by cancer in more
than one way,” she said.
Sometimes it’s good to be last
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Port of Umatilla
Joseph Franell (38%)
√ Jerry Imsland (61%)
In a humble position last in
line, a Hermiston pastor had the
chance to spend 15 minutes visit-
ing with Queen Elizabeth II.
During a one-year internship
as an assistant minister at Dundee
Parish Church St. Mary’s in Scot-
land in 1991, Bruce Sexton as-
sisted with the festivities for the
church’s 800th anniversary, in-
cluding a visit from the queen.
Sexton, who is now the pas-
tor of Faith Presbyterian Church
in Hermiston, said dignitaries,
including city and other church
leaders, lined up outside the
church to greet the queen as she
arrived. Sexton said he and his
wife were last in line to meet
Queen Elizabeth and her hus-
band, Prince Philip, so they were
standing inside the entryway to
the building.
Members of the queen’s secu-
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ing the building when she arrived
in the entryway, so Sexton and his
wife had a private audience as the
queen waited there for about 15
minutes.
“My wife and I were the only
two inside the building,” he said.
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Including dogs in the
event not only recognized
the value canines play in
their owners’ health, it also
attracted people to Bark
For Life, if only as a way
to socialize their animals.
Andrew Barthel, Herm-
iston, attended with his
family and his Irish setter/
golden retriever mix Red
Baron. Barthel said he has
come for the past few years
as a way to remember his
friend Ryan Sherman, who
died of lung cancer at the
age of 29. Barthel said
Sherman frequently ac-
companied him and Red
Baron on hunting expedi-
tions even as cancer over-
took his friend.
“Dogs, I believe, are a
very essential part of a hu-
man’s life,” Barthel said.
“They have so many things
to offer.”
Other people stopped by
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Committee opening
doors for Latino students
New Hispanic scholarship
foundation to seek
tax-exempt status
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston businessman Eddie
De La Cruz’s family did not have
the resources to send him to four
years of college, and he hopes a
scholarship foundation he is help-
ing form will provide the oppor-
tunity to the younger generation.
De La Cruz, chairman of Herm-
iston’s Hispanic Advisory Com-
mittee,
announced
the formation of the
Eastern Oregon His-
panic
Scholarship
Foundation at the
Monday meeting.
“When I wanted
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to go to school, my
folks didn’t have the dollars,” he
said. “... It’s a decision that, if
you can afford it, you go, but if
your parents cannot afford it, you
just hang around and hope there
is some money coming over from
somewhere.”
The scholarship foundation
has been a longtime goal for the
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