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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 COMMUNITY Hermiston Garden Tour planned Saturday Slime time Event provides scholarship funding for women BY SEAN HART HERMISTON HERALD People can enjoy re freshments while touring local gardens Saturday, all while helping women at tend college. 7KHWK3(2&KDSWHU DR Hermiston Garden Tour WDNHVSODFHIURPDPWR SP 6DWXUGD\ IHDWXULQJ six local gardens. 3(2PHPEHU-XGL0D son said some of the gar dens have been on the tour before and others are new this year. The gardens are owned by Audney Cosand and David Hutchinson, Quinn and LaDonna Quae mpts, Jake and Deanne Malmberg, Mark and Kris Mulvihill, Cody and An gela Pursel and Doug and Kris Bennett. “They’re all really won derful,” Mason said of the gardens. “I would absolute ly recommend people come see them. They’re all differ ent.” Kris Mulvihill said she KDVOLYHGKHUHIRUDERXW years but never thought her garden was ready for the tour. “I just got to thinking it’s such a beautiful yard, I’ve got to share it,” she said. The Mulvihill garden features a variety of pe rennials grown from starts from friends and family members, she said, along with annuals planted for the tour this year. Mulvihill said yard work is therapeutic for her, and she enjoys moving the plants from year to year to see what she can create. “It’s living art,” she said. The Mulvihill garden is SEAN HART PHOTO The garden of Mark and Kris Mulvihill on Southeast Eighth Street is one of six featured in the 11th Hermiston Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The event raises funds to provide scholarships for women. Tickets cost $10, available at The Cottage, 1725 N. First St., Hermis- ton, or any of the individual gardens on the tour during the event. awarded to a Hermiston High School graduate who is attending college, she said. “It’s been very success ful for us,” she said. “We’ve met a lot of nice people. We’ve gotten a few people who were on our tour as members in our group, so LW¶V EHHQ SUR¿WDEOH LQ WKDW way too.” )RXQGHGLQ3(2 is a women’s organization in the United States and Canada that provides lo cal, state and international SEAN HART PHOTO scholarships. Chapter DR This pond is one of the features in Mark and Kris Mulvihill’s LV RQH RI WZR 3(2 FKDS garden, which is one of six featured in the Hermiston Garden ters in Hermiston, Mason Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. said, and membership is by invitation. listed as No. 4 on the tour, the tour during the event. “I absolutely love my as but attendees can visit the Mason said the tour is VRFLDWLRQ ZLWK 3(2´ VKH gardens in any order on the group’s largest fund said. “I’ve been in the chap WKH VHOIJXLGHG WRXU 7KH raiser of the year. WHU VLQFH ,W¶V D YHU\ WLFNHW SULFH LQFOXGHV ³2XU PDMRU JRDO LV WR very compatible and lovely a map to the various loca raise money for women’s bunch of women.” tions around Hermiston. higher education,” she said. For more information Tickets are available at The “That’s why we have our about the garden tour, &RWWDJH 1 )LUVW 6W little projects like our gar contact Mason, judi Hermiston, or from any of den tour.” PDVQ#HRQLFRP the individual gardens on The funds are usually CONTRIBUTED PHOTO To celebrate reading the most words for their respective grade levels, six Rocky Heights Elementary students slime outgoing Principal B.J. Wilson the last day of school June 4. The students who performed the honors were ÀUVWJUDGHU(PLOLH:\DQWVHFRQGJUDGHU2ZHQ7KRP- DVWKLUGJUDGHU/HVOLH0HQGR]D5RPHURIRXUWKJUDGHU .DPHURQ5RELVRQÀIWKJUDGHU&DLQ2UWHJD6DQFKH]DQG ÀIWKJUDGHU7\OHU%HOOZKRZDVQDPHGWKH6XSHU6OLPHU after reading the most words for the entire school — just less than 4 million. 3LFWXUHGLV2UWHJD6DQFKH]GXPSLQJDEXFNHWRIVOLPH over Wilson’s head with the help of elementary media specialist Kristi Smalley. NEWS IN BRIEF Reception planned for artist Cimmiyotti Saturday furniture VDOHEHQH¿WV Martha’s House A reception will be held for Sandstone Middle School art teacher Nici Cim PL\RWWLIURPSPWRSP Thursday at the Hermiston 3XEOLF/LEUDU\(*ODG ys Ave. A collection of Cim miyotti’s work is on display at the library throughout the month of June. Cimmiyotti is a graduate of Hermiston High School. For more in formation, contact the li EUDU\ A furniture sale bene ¿WLQJ 0DUWKD¶V +RXVH ZLOO WDNHSODFHIURPDPWR p.m. Saturday at Treasures 7KULIW 6WRUH 6 +LJK ZD\ +HUPLVWRQ 0DU tha’s House, an outreach of (DVWHUQ2UHJRQ0LVVLRQ² $JDSH+RXVHLVDQRQSUR¿W organization serving home less families in Umatilla and Morrow counties. For more information, call Jodene +XJKHV District wants to create health center at high school and make referrals or estab lish a connection. 7KH FDPSXVEDVHG KHDOWK center would not be the pri mary care provider, provide BY JESSICA KELLER reproductive health exams, HERMISTON HERALD prescribe/distribute contra The Hermiston School ceptives or condoms or test District wants to remove all for sexually transmitted dis possible reasons children HDVHVRQVLWH have for missing school, and Mishra said the health RI¿FLDOVKRSHDVFKRROEDVHG center is not designed to take health center will help ac business away from primary complish that. care physicians in the city, a According to information statement Meghan DeBolt, in a presentation to the School public health administrator Board Monday by Jon Mish for Umatilla County, echoed. ra, executive director of spe “A SBHC is really just an FLDO VHUYLFHV D VFKRROEDVHG health center is a medical clinic that offers primary care services within a school or on school grounds. The school district’s plan would be to provide an SBHC at Hermiston High School that, at least to start with, would serve actively enrolled QLQWK WKURXJK JUDGHUV The center would be situated in the print shop. The tenta tive launch date is January or )HEUXDU\RI The School Board ap proved the pursuit of bringing a center to the school district, including working with the Umatilla County Health De partment, at Monday night’s meeting. Mishra said offering basic health care services to stu dents who may otherwise not have access to them and may miss school because of health UHDVRQV ZLOO EHQH¿W ERWK WKH district and the students. “Ultimately, this is going to help our kids, and that’s what we’re about — breaking down the barriers to help our kids,” he said. Mishra said the high school’s health center would offer physical exams, diag nosis and treatment of acute conditions, treat minor in juries and illnesses, provide screenings, administer vac cinations, provide mental health services, deliver pre ventative and health wellness messaging, prescribe limited medications, help support existing community services Board OKs pursuing program for 2016 access point into the health system, into the community,” DeBolt said. “This is just one more access point into the community. It’s just one more set of eyes on your students.” Mishra said, according to the county, the state awards EHWZHHQDQG IRU VFKRROEDVHG KHDOWK FHQ ters. The district will provide the facilities and work with the county and any success ful bidders to establish launch costs. Also at the meeting, the School Board received the SDJH \HDU &RPSUH hensive Facility Master Plan and site analysis of current facilities completed by the Facility Master Planning Committee. The detailed re port included three proposals, ranging in price, to address burgeoning student growth in the district. The “modest” PLOOLRQ SURMHFW LQ cludes building an additional elementary school on school district property on Theater /DQHEXLOGLQJDQHLJKWFODVV room addition to Sandstone Middle School; and expand ing Hermiston High School WRDFFRPPRGDWHXSWR students. The comprehensive or gold star plan included re placing Rocky Heights and Highland Hills elementary schools; building an addi tional elementary school on Theater Lane; adding on eight classrooms to Sandstone Middle School; and expand ing HHS to accommodate up WR VWXGHQWV 7KDW UHF ommendation came with an HVWLPDWHG SULFH WDJ RI million. The School Board took no action on the master plan, but Superintendent Fred Maiocco said the next step would be to form a com mittee that would develop a facilities recommendation that would take into consid eration the master plan, as well as other factors, such as community support. 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