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A18 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015 FROM PAGE A1 VETS: continued from page A1 learn whether they have veterans in their families. Websites, such as fold3. com and findagrave.com and even general Internet searches provide valuable information, he said. “It can give you a bet- ter idea where your an- cestors did come from,” he said. While researching his own family and helping others, May discovered other Civil War veterans in Hermiston. He said the city was formed in 1907, but the cemetery was not established until about 1911, so he began to re- search. “In roughly that five- year period, where did settlers actually get bur- ied?” he said. “It got me thinking: Where’s the early burials, and that’s when I started to come across the Civil War vet- erans.” MEMORIAL: SEAN HART PHOTO Benjamin Parsons is one of at least four Civil War veterans buried at Hermiston Cemetery. Local observances will include a ceremony at continued from page A1 the Hermiston Ceme- tery. ÀRZHUV RQ WKH JUDYHV RI Led by VFW Post Union and Confeder- 4750 and American Le- ate soldiers at Arlington gion Post 37, a Memo- National Cemetery, ac- rial Day service begins cording to the Oregon at 10 a.m. Monday at the Department of Veterans’ Hermiston Cemetery, lo- Affairs. Now, as a feder- cated off South Highway al holiday, it is observed 395. the last Monday in May. Members of the Army New HPD landscape complies REVIEW: with proposed ordinance continued from page A1 ments of the commercial landscape code,” he said. HERMISTON HERALD “Some people might look New landscaping at at it and think, ‘I don’t like the Bob Shannon Safety that’ or ‘I don’t want to fol- Center not only improves low that.’ You can apply the aesthetic appeal of those rules in very different Hermiston’s police and ways, but this is an exam- ¿UH VWDWLRQV EXW DOVR ple of how to do it.” serves as an example of The project included how to comply with the a new stamped concrete city’s proposed landscap- walkway, a new irriga- ing ordinance. tion system and new trees, Hermiston Parks and VKUXEV ÀRZHUV VRG DQG Recreation Director Larry mulch. Fetter said he se- Fetter said he designed the lected plants suited for the landscape following the local environment and de- guidelines established by signed the site to comple- the Community Enhance- ment the area. ment Committee. “It’s a real game-chang- “I did it in a way so that er over there,” he said. “It we could show an example looks great. It ties it in with of how to meet the require- the landscaping of McK- BY SEAN HART enzie Park, and then they have an annex building that we did two years ago, so it kind of ties those land- scapes all together.” Except for the concrete, Fetter said parks depart- ment employees com- pleted all of the work in about six weeks while still performing other duties. He said the total cost was about $4,000. Before the project, Fet- ter said, the concrete was broken, and trees had been removed after growing into power lines. “It was long overdue,” he said. “It’s really nicely done, and, as the plants mature, it’s going to look even better.” Commission for further work or to schedule a pub- lic hearing, likely in July, at which point the new regula- tions could be adopted. According to the draft or- dinance, new construction on commercial, industrial and multi-family residential devel- opments would be required to landscape a certain percentage of the property. The ordinance would not impact single-fami- ly residences and would only impact properties already de- veloped if they undergo reno- vations in excess of half of the assessed value of an existing building. The ordinance would set different coverage re- quirements for each type of development: multi-family residential, 15 percent; out- lying C-2 commercial zone, 6 percent; central C-1 com- mercial zone, 3 percent; M-1 and M-2 industrial zones, 3 percent or 10,000 square feet. Developments in the down- town commercial overlay and other areas with impediments to meeting the requirements could receive credit for spec- L¿HG DOWHUQDWLYH LPSURYH- ments, such as ornamental May said James T. Da- vie, Benjamin H. Parsons, William C. Morse and Ben- jamin F. Strohm are the Civil War veterans buried at Hermiston Cemetery that he is aware of, but there are also many veterans from other wars as well. “There’s a lot of not only local history, but U.S. history, that are bur- ied in these cemeteries,” he said. “Take the time to look at their past and remember the other vet- erans.” National Guard will SUHVHQW D ÀDJ FHUHPR- ny. The program also includes the reading of names of all area veter- ans who died in the past year and a Naval piping ceremony. The Avenue of Flags, featuring more than 600 ÀDJVZDVHUHFWHG)ULGD\ 7KH ÀDJV ZLOO UHPDLQ through Tuesday. lighting and water features. Morgan said three people of- fered feedback on the ordinance and an accompanying manual that provides examples at an open house earlier this month. “The comments that we got were, ‘This is too specif- ic,’ but, really, what they were talking about was the com- panion document,” he said. “The ordinance is more broad than that. The ordinance sets the requirements, but the city also made a document to show some examples.” Morgan said the com- mittee tried to incorporate the feedback, but no major changes were made. would like to thank the citizens of Umatilla and Morrow counties for their support of the successful BMCC bond! Your support will enable BMCC to provide an affordable education that leads to family-wage jobs! www.bluecc.edu
