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Hermiston Eagles Auxiliary
Last year, the Hermiston Eagles Auxiliary raised more than $6,000 for charitable
causes, including $1,200 for the David Heller Foundation and $1,400 for the Desert
Shrine Club to provide transportation to the Portland hospital for local children.
The group also made donations to local dialysis and rehabilitation centers, Special
Olympics, Christmas Express, 4-H, Project Graduation, Music Ambassadors, Domestic
Violence Services, Cub Scouts, Friends of the Library, the senior center, the warming
station, Agape House and The Arc of Umatilla County.
For more information about the group, call 541-567-2909 or stop by the lodge, 160
N.W. Second St., Hermiston.
STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART
By SEAN HART
your vocation or your av-
Staff Writer
Hermiston High School
ocation.
GARY L. WEST
A recent donation could Athletic Director Blaine
If you are interested in
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writing a column, email save the lives of Hermiston Ganvoa shows the new
us a letter of interest to student athletes, coaches GeÀ Erillator GonateG E\ the
editor@hermistonherald. and fans suffering from car- Hermiston Eagles AX[iliar\
It will Ee NeSt on the siGelines
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going,” she said. “It’s my she said, would be even
ur community is of Column Proposal. Mail
After fundraising in Feb- GXring sSorting events anG
understanding that they’ll broader.
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full of experts on a applications can also be ruary, the Hermiston Eagles will travel with teams
need volunteer physicians.
variety of topics and sent to 333 E. Main St, Auxiliary recently pre-
They’ll need nurses to do with Hermiston High
careers, and we are looking Hermiston OR 97838. In sented to Hermiston High ing a high school basket- screenings and possibly a School, but this screening
for local experts with your letter, tell us what School Athletic Director ball game in Portland. The cardiologist or two to do- clinic has the potential to
information they can share topic you would like to Blaine Ganvoa an auto- foundation has sponsored nate their time for this clin- cover most of Umatilla
County and maybe part
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a whole.
basis. Please include a to be kept on the sidelines ic in Portland since 2006,
Baldassarre said she and of Morrow County,” she
We have a variety of draft of a sample column during sporting events. and Ganvoa said he would the other Auxiliary mem- said. “This is a big deal.
options you can choose of about 500 words. If Ganvoa said the ability to look into the possibility of bers were happy to make a This is saving families
from to help your neigh- we accept your proposal, provide quicker treatment replicating the program in local impact with the dona- from having to make a trip
bors or to help us at the your draft submission will would enhance the safety Hermiston.
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Hermiston Herald be a VHUYHDV\RXU¿UVWFROXPQ of everyone in attendance.
“I’m always interested impact of the screenings, saving lives.”
more valuable resource for publication.
“It’s certainly something in enhancing the welfare
for the community.
We are also looking for that is proactive, for sure,” of our student athletes,” he
A few weeks
a key position he said. “Even though we said. “In the end, they’re
ago we an-
to help us with have several on the facili- somebody’s
children.
nounced that
our news cov- ties, their goal is to have it They’re somebody’s family
we were form-
erage. We have right there available at all member. With that in mind,
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ing a citizens
an opening for times to lessen the response that’s where the screen-
advisory com-
a news assis- time. You never really know ing comes into place. That
GARY L. WEST
JADE McDOWELL
mittee to help
tant. To see until that moment gets there awareness is what allows
EDITOR
REPORTER
gwest@hermistonherald.com
jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com
us make im-
the job posting and you realize just how us to be as prepared as we
541-564-4532
541-564-4536
provements to
and other job important it is to not have possibly can.”
the paper. We
o p p o r t u n i t i e s to run into the building or
Toni Baldassarre, vice
have received
with EO Me- the concessions stand to get president of the Hermiston
SEAN HART
SAM BARBEE
a few letters of
dia group, see something. That 30 seconds Eagles Auxiliary, led the
REPORTER
SPORTS REPORTER
smhart@hermistonherald.com
sbarbee@hermistonherald.com
interest, but we
our list of cur- extra makes all the differ- local fundraising effort for
541-564-4534
541-564-4542
are still taking
rent openings ence in the world.”
the David Heller Founda-
self-nominations for peo- at http://careers.eomedia-
Teams will also take the tion in February. She said
KIM La PLANT
ple who can devote an group.com.
portable device to events in the group was able to raise
JEANNE JEWETT
MULTI-MEDIA CONSULTANT
hour or two once a month
We are building a rec- other cities. Ganvoa said more than $1,200.
MULTI-MEDIA CONSULTANT
klaplant@
jjewett@hermistonherald.com
to talk about the chang- ipe for a bigger, better, the teams are usually not
Auxiliary groups across
hermistonherald.com
541-564-4531
541-564-4530
es we are making in the more interesting Hermis- familiar with the facilities the state participated in the
Herald and advise us on ton Herald. But something at other schools, so the trav- fundraiser, she said, and
how to make the best use is still missing.
eling AED could save time Hermiston raised more than To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information:
of our staff and our space
Perhaps that missing and even lives outside of any other single lodge. For • call 541-567-6457
info@hermistonherald.com
to keep the people of our ingredient is you.
Hermiston.
its effort, she said the group • • e-mail
stop b\ our of¿ ces at 333 E. Main St.
community informed.
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Gary L. West is editor
To apply for a position of the Hermiston Herald
part of a toolkit from the to be awarded the toolkit,
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David Heller Foundation and she hoped a screening Delivered by carrier and mail Wednesdays
committee, email a let- for the East Oregonian.
that also included informa- clinic could be established. Inside Umatilla/Morrow counties ......................................................................................... $42.65
ter of interest to editor@ Reach him at gwest@
tion about setting up teen
“Mr. and Mrs. Heller of Outside Umatilla/Morrow counties ...................................................................................... $53.90
h e r m i s t o n h e r a l d . c o m hermistonherald.com or
athlete cardiac screenings. the Heller Foundation are The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston
with the subject line of follow him on Twitter @
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at the age of 17 follow- planted and get the clinic
iston OR 97838. In your
letter of interest, tell us a
little about yourself and
why you would like to be
a member of our advisory
panel.
In the coming weeks
you may also be asked
to participate in a focus
group about the Herald
and how we can make the
paper more valuable to
you and your neighbors.
The focus groups are a
follow up to a recent on-
line survey. That survey
$
has helped us decide on
some of the changes we
(does not include admission)
have already made but also
prompted some questions
for us at the paper that re-
quire more examination.
One of the big ones for me
was seeing survey results
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We also will be looking
•
Pendleton
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for local experts to write
• Columbia State Bank
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interest.
Ideally, we’d like to get
several columnists lined
up to write on a variety
of topics so that we could
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have a rotation with each
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write about once a month,
so that the column dead-
lines won’t interfere with
career or family responsi-
bilities.
Columns could be on
virtually any topic, like
taking better photographs
or how to use social me-
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