WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015
Tan while standing
By SEAN HART
Staff Writer
A tanning salon in Hermis-
ton offers quick solutions for
darker skin, and customers
don’t even have to lie down.
Belinda Selleck and David
Hamill opened The Tannery
& Boutique at 1565 N. First
St., Suite 7, May 11, and a
grand opening is planned for
5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Chili, cornbread and des-
sert will be served at the cel-
ebration, and people can enter
a door prize drawing to win a
month of free tanning.
Selleck formerly had a
tanning salon in Montana,
and she said she thought that
type of business would do
well here.
“We felt like Hermiston
needed a good tanning salon
with really good beds,” she
said. “We have the only stand-
up (booth) in town. It seems
to be the most popular.”
The stand-up tanning
booth is also the quickest, she
said. People usually start with
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and some work their way up
to the maximum 11 minutes.
She said people who buy a
package deal for the stand-up
booth can also use the other
tanning beds for some of their
sessions. The business fea-
tures two 12-minute beds and
one 20-minute bed.
“Some people may come
in three times a week, twice
in the stand-up, and one time
a week they just lie down,”
Hamill said.
Selleck said, although the
primary business is tanning,
the store also sells quality
STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART
The Tannery & Boutique owners Belinda Selleck and David
Hamill opened the store in May at 1565 N. First St., Suite 7,
Hermiston. A grand opening is planned at 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 21, featuring chili, cornbread, dessert and a door prize
drawing for a month of free tanning.
The Tannery &
Boutique
Who: Belinda Selleck and David
Hamill
What: Tanning and lotions
When: From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays and
tanning lotions, clothing and
other items. The summer in-
ventory is almost sold out, she
said, and the winter wear will
soon be featured.
Business has been going
well so far, Selleck said, with
110 customers served in the
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“We get a lot of people
that will start in spring so they
won’t burn for summer or
at the end of summer when
they’re starting to lose their
summer tan,” Hamill said.
Selleck said many custom-
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays
Where: 1565 N. First St., Suite
7, near Quiznos, in Hermiston
Grand opening: 5 p.m. Wednes-
day, Oct. 21, featuring chili,
cornbread, dessert and a door
prize drawing for a month of
free tanning
ers also try to get tan before
traveling to prevent sunburns.
“A lot of times, they come
in too late,” she said. “They
want to hurry up and get
tanned in a week, but it’s not
possible to get tanned in a
week.”
Selleck
recommended
tanning for at least a month
before a sunny vacation for
the best possible results. She
said the ultraviolet rays also
provide vitamin D, which can
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ailments.
District, ConAgra Foods,
Larry Ables of B.D. Ables
Construction and Hector
Ceniceros of C&C Con-
struction Services.
The arch, which reads
“May Peace Prevail on
Earth,” is on Good Shep-
herd Medical Center land
and the city has agreed to
maintain the arch and sur-
rounding landscaping. A
drinking fountain donated
by ConAgra Foods will be
installed in the spring.
Columbia Grange sets Guardian Angel Homes
hosts Fall Festival
special meeting
and cupcake decorating.
Money and prizes will
be awarded for the scariest,
prettiest, most original and
most outrageous costumes.
The meal includes chili, hot
dogs, cornbread and des-
sert. Also, pressed apple ci-
der, cotton candy and pop-
corn will be available.
For more information,
call 541-564-9070 or visit
www.guardianangelhomes.
com.
A new arch marking
the entrance to the Oxbow
Trail was highlighted as an
example of Hermiston’s
collaborative spirit during a
ribbon cutting ceremony on
Thursday, Oct. 15.
The large wooden arch,
benches and landscaping
was an Altrusa Internation-
al project supported by sev-
eral local partners.
Rep.
Greg
Smith
tions of the depot site zoned
for industrial use. Port of
Negotiations for water Morrow director Gary Neal
rights are the next hurdle the said an enterprise zone —
Columbia Development Au- which gives developers a
thority is facing in the pro- break on property taxes for
cess to transfer the former WKH¿UVWIHZ\HDUVRIDSURM-
Umatilla Chemical Depot ect — was a must, consider-
land from the U.S. Army to ing any developer shopping
for a site would be offered a
the local reuse authority.
Greg Smith, executive tax break at other potential
director of the development locations in the state.
“I think if you’re not go-
authority, told the board that
the Army’s Base Realign- ing to have one, you’re not
ment and Closure staff have going to be in the game,” he
proposed giving the author- said.
The question that re-
ity the use of two wells, to-
taling about 25 percent of mained unanswered during
the meeting was whether
the site’s water capacity.
“That is not going to get the Columbia Development
us where we want to be,” he Authority would apply to
the state for an enterprise
said.
Smith said he had ex- zone, keeping in mind that
pected an offer closer to the authority was expected
50 percent, based on a wa- to last seven years after the
ter study indicating that land transfer, or if some-
amount would not encroach thing should be cobbled
on the National Guard’s together from Umatilla
water needs for its portion County, Morrow County
of the depot land. He told and Confederated Tribes of
the board he thanked the the Umatilla Indian Reser-
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The meeting took place in
the conversation about wa-
WHUEXWZDV¿UPWKDWWKHWZR the Stafford Hansell Govern-
wells would not be enough ment Building in Hermiston,
to make it worthwhile for signifying the change from
the reuse authority to take administrative functions be-
the land off of the federal ing housed by the Port of
Morrow to being under the
government’s hands.
“You’ve made it very umbrella of Umatilla County.
clear to me that we want Smith said the change was
to be very professional and suggested because up to 80
consensus-minded, but also percent of the future econom-
that you need the land to be ic development on the depot
free, need it clean and need land is expected to take place
on the Umatilla County side
it with water,” he said.
Smith said the Army had of the line.
When Smith was hired
heard about the water fund-
ing package the state leg- as executive director he opt-
islature passed to provide ed to work as a contractor
more water to the Umatilla instead of an employee be-
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used for the site. He said he job as a state representative.
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already committed to much Economic Adjustment re-
more attractive agricultural cently renewed the grant that
projects and wasn’t avail- funds the Columbia Devel-
able for the development opment Authority, however,
it said that Smith must be
authority’s use.
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question of applying an en- lose it” situation in which
terprise zone to at least por- the board would no longer
Staff Writer
(R-Heppner) likened the
project to a group of people
moving a grand piano.
“So many partners came
together and lifted where
they stood ... that’s what
makes Hermiston so suc-
cessful,” he said.
In-kind donations, la-
bor, money and expertise
were donated by Altru-
sa, the city of Hermiston,
Good Shepherd Com-
munity Health Founda-
tion, Hermiston Irrigation
Staff Writer
Water rights the next hurdle
for depot development
By JADE McDOWELL
Oxbow Trail entrance arch dedicated in spirit of giving
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the board listened to a short
presentation from Northeast
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He said if the association
was given permission to run
a 42-inch pipeline inside
the east fence at the depot
it would be much easier
than trying to get easements
from nine different property
owners on the other side of
the fence.
“There will be a trench,
we’ll put the pipe in, put the
sand back over it and in a
year you won’t even know
it’s there,” Cook said.
Smith encouraged the
board to sign a letter in
support of asking the Army
for the easement before the
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over to the Columbia De-
velopment Authority.
“I think this is a great
opportunity for us to help a
partner,” he said.
The board voted unani-
mously to sign the letter.
In other business the
board also reviewed the com-
pleted survey by Ferguson
Surveying and Engineering
and discussed the process
of updating the master lease
with the Army that is allow-
ing the authority to make
some revenue by renting out
the cement igloos on the site
to the Walla Walla Foundry
and other entities.
IN BRIEF
A meeting of the Colum-
bia Grange is set for Friday.
The gathering begins
with dinner at 6:30 p.m. at
the grange hall, 32339 Di-
agonal Blvd., Hermiston.
The business meeting will
follow.
For more information,
call Doris Reid at 541-567-
8663.
Cash prizes, a free din-
ner and loads of fun are
planned for the Guardian
Angel Homes Fall Festival.
The free event is Friday
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 540
N.W. 12th St., Hermiston.
The event includes face
painting, a freaky feeling
room, a maze, a bouncy
house, painting pumpkins
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