COMMUNITY
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Hermiston
School District
hosting college
and career night
The Hermiston School
District is hosting its third an-
nual K-8 College and Career
Family Night on Feb. 18.
The event will run from
5-7 p.m. at Armand Larive
Middle School, 1497 S.W.
Ninth St.
Students will be able to
explore their options after
high school by talking to rep-
resentatives from various col-
leges and career paths, while
parents will be provided in-
formation about ¿nancial aid
and other opportunities.
Students who attend will
receive a free piggy bank, and
drawings will be held for free
books.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Highway 395 committee still seeking corridor improvements
By JADE McDOWELL
Staff Writer
A year after a citizen
advisory committee was
formed to improve Highway
395 north of Hermiston, in-
terest is still high but funding
is not.
“We want this industri-
al area to thrive,” Umatilla
County planning director
Tamra Mabbott said. “We
want to see new develop-
ment come in there.”
The advisory commit-
tee, made up of property
owners along the 395 cor-
ridor, is looking for funding
to implement landscaping,
paving and safety improve-
ment ideas for the highway
and roads around it. The
group’s focus is on imple-
menting a February 2015 re-
port centered on the stretch
from Punkin Center to Ben-
sel Road that lies between
Hermiston and Umatilla’s
urban growth boundaries.
Mabbott said the com-
mittee’s biggest focus right
now is road improvement.
Many of the roads branch-
ing off of the highway, in-
cluding Old¿eld, Lauback
and Birtrand, are roads that
are open to the public but
not part of the county’s road
system. If area property
owners don’t decide to ¿x
potholes or come up with
the money to pave the roads
on their own it doesn’t hap-
pen. And poor-quality roads
don’t encourage new devel-
opment.
“The roads out there are
pretty tough,” Mabbott said.
Committee
members
haven’t given up on ¿nding
grant funding, but they have
also discussed rallying sup-
port for a local improvement
district, which the owners of
51 percent of property that
might be included in such
a district would have to ap-
prove.
“It all depends on get-
ting information out there,”
committee member Bryan
Medelez of BJK Transport
said. “It’s dif¿cult, I think,
but not out of the realm of
possibility.”
His father Benny Me-
delez said his top priority
for traf¿c safety along the
corridor would be to see a
traf¿c signal put in at Bag-
gett Lane. Several trucking
companies and construction
companies with heavy ma-
chinery enter and exit the
highway in the area.
ANNIVERSARY
Stoddards celebrate
60th anniversary
On Feb. 13, 1956, a
young Marine and his bride
slipped away to Yuma,
Ariz., to be married. They
had met just three months
before at a Serviceman’s
Dance at the YWCA in San-
ta Ana, Calif. It was the only
time that either had been to
the dance. Despite friends’
and neighbors’ dire predic-
tions that “it won’t last a
year,” the couple is celebrat-
ing 60 years of marriage.
Loren served 22 years in
the U.S. Marine Corps. When
he retired from the service in
1975, they moved from Ha-
waii to Washington state. He
went to work for Reinell Boat
Company and later the Bay-
liner Boat Company. He also
worked as a rural route mail
carrier in Everett, Wash.
In 1983 they moved to
Eastern Oregon and he de-
livered rural route mail in
Hermiston and operated a
small family cattle ranch.
Beverly worked as a regis-
tered nurse at Good Shep-
herd Hospital for 27 years.
Now both are retired and
they are enjoying travel
and hobbies as well as their
eight grandchildren.
They have three children:
Debbie Pugh (Pete) of Moses
Lake, Wash., Sandra Van-
Dyke (Terry) of Arlington,
Wash., and Don Stoddard
(Marie) of Roseburg, Ore.
No anniversary celebra-
tion is planned, but they are
looking forward to a cruise
later this year to celebrate
this important event.
PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
SUNDAY
3:04 a.m. - A female in Boardman
reported someone hit her at a karaoke
event.
8:26 a.m. - Stanfield police received a
report of a husband assaulting his wife.
11:40 a.m. - A parent told Stanfield
police their son heard a bullet whiz by a
male on North Wayne Street, possible
from a .22 caliber gun.
1:01 p.m. - The Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office and Oregon State Police
responded to a report out of Benton
County, Washington, of a 9-1-1 caller in the
Irrigon area that sounded like a juvenile
male stating “I will kill her.” Police were
not able to find the source of the call or an
emergency in the area.
8:01 p.m. - A man outside Hermiston
on Highway 395 North reported someone
got into his pick up and loosened the
alternator belt and drained the battery.
SATURDAY
12:59 p.m. - A Hermiston-area man
reported his ex-girlfriend called him more
than 80 times Saturday and would not
stop harassing him.
FRIDAY
11:04 a.m. - A Stanfield resident re-
ported two people poked holes in his RV.
4:38 p.m. - A man asked the Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office to have a deputy
contact him after receiving information
that a man threatened to kill his mother.
THURSDAY
11:30 a.m. - A man reported the theft
of sod from property on Southwest 11th
Street, Hermiston.
11:58 a.m. - A woman on West Furnish
Avenue, Stanfield, reported someone
tapped on her window for the second
time in the last two hours.
WEDNESDAY
7:10 a.m. - An Irrigon man said he
has made multiple complaints about a
white Ford pickup that races up and down
Southeast Utah Avenue and also spins
its tires in front of his home. He said the
Oregon license place number is 802HSQ.
9:08 a.m. - A caller with Steve’s
Assured Security Storage, 80886 Highway
395, Hermiston, reported burglars “drilled
out” another unit but did not know if they
stole anything.
1:09 p.m. - An Irrigon caller reported
garbage all over Northwest Washington
Avenue between Fourth and Seventh.
1:42 p.m. - An ambulance took a
teenage boy to a hospital after he fought
with another teen in Irrigon.
3:49 p.m. - A Umatilla woman on
Columbia Boulevard wanted an officer to
tell her neighbor to stop swearing at the
caller’s sister.
4:17 p.m. - One male followed another
to his home on North Ott Road, Hermiston,
and screamed at him due to a road rage
argument. A caller asked for a Umatilla
County sheriff’s deputy.
11:11 p.m. - A mother told the Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office someone broke
into their house on Lind Road and stole
her son’s knife collection.
TUESDAY
2:17 a.m. - Boardman police received
a tip that a man could be planning to
break-in and steal from a place on Sky
View Drive.
12:07 p.m. - The Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about
the Facebook page Public Lands Hunt
Club, which states the following (unedited
for grammar): “Since the Bundy Militia has
secured public lands for the good of the
people all Federal restrictions are null and
void. Cattle season is open!”
Page administrators are anonymous
and posted the number “29” late Tuesday,
possibly to total the number of cattle
followers have killed on public lands.
The page has 299 “likes” and several
comments critical of the page and what
it stands for.
1:06 p.m. - The owner of a 26-foot
travel trailer at an Irrigon storage business
reported someone broke in and stole
multiple items, including a desktop
computer and fishing gear.
3:49 p.m. - A sex offender told
Umatilla police he would not be in for
sex offender registration because the
government deported him to Mexico.
6:59 p.m. - A driver reported she was
near High Desert Marine, 30618 Bensel
Road, Hermiston, when a metal barrel
fell from the bed of a work-style pickup
lacking a tailgate and she crashed into it.
She said she was at Auto Zone, 1795 N. First
St., Hermiston, and was afraid to drive.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office
arrested Eric Michael Masterson,
24, of Heppner, for fourth-degree
assault, after a woman at 7:24 p.m.
reported Masterson was drunk, came
home, threw a female across the
kitchen and tried to hit her head on
the counter top.
•Oregon State Police arrested
Charles Clark Jr., 57, of Kennewick,
for DUII.
•Umatilla police arrested
Stanley Oneil McKight, 29, no address
provided, for fourth-degree assault,
second-degree mischief and hit and
run (property).
•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office
arrested Curtis Dean Belcher, 46, no
address provided, for duii.
•Hermiston police arrested Shyan
Rae McDonald, 19, and Maxamillion
Bernard Eagle, 38, of 303 S.W. Desert
Sky Drive, Hermiston, for first-de-
gree burglary, first-degree criminal
mischief and third-degree theft.
•Umatilla tribal police arrested
Mayro Mike Guzman, 24, of Herm-
iston, for possession and delivery
of methamphetamine and cocaine,
driving while suspended, violating
probation and on a warrant for
failure to appear.
•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office
arrested Christine Luzette Mendoza,
42, of Boardman, for domestic
violence third-degree assault after
receiving a call from a woman who
said her boyfriend beat her.
•Boardman police arrested Saula
Esau Sandoval Pinto, 25, no address
provided, for third-degree rape,
third-degree sexual abuse, sexual
misconduct and contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
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CAREER FAIR
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