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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.
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six local gardens.
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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
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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
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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.
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who were on our tour as
members in our group, so
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is a women’s organization
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garden, which is one of six featured in the Hermiston Garden
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Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
said, and membership is by
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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
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after reading the most words for the entire school — just
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over Wilson’s head with the help of elementary media
specialist Kristi Smalley.
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Reception
planned for artist
Cimmiyotti
Saturday furniture
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Martha’s House
A reception will be
held for Sandstone Middle
School art teacher Nici Cim
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Thursday at the Hermiston
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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
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District wants to create health center at high school
and make referrals or estab
lish a connection.
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center would not be the pri
mary care provider, provide
BY JESSICA KELLER
reproductive health exams,
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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
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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
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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
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The center would be situated
in the print shop. The tenta
tive launch date is January or
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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cludes building an additional
elementary school on school
district property on Theater
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room addition to Sandstone
Middle School; and expand
ing Hermiston High School
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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
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ommendation came with an
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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. That
committee would not begin
until the fall, and Maiocco
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dation would take a year to
complete.
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