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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
Our Community
Lions Club member
receives service pin
Hermiston Lions Club
member Kelly Sanders
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for his years of service.
Dr. Jitsuhiro Yamada,
Lions International presi-
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who received his 25-year
service pin from Presi-
dent Phillip Spicer-Kuhn.
Sanders is vice president
of human resources at
Good Shepherd Health
Care System.
For more about the
Lions Club, call Hopkins
at 541-534-4390 or visit
www.lionsclub.org.
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Kelly Sanders, left, is presented with a Lions Club 25-year
service pin by President Phillip Spicer-Kuhn.
IN BRIEF
Season springs
with seed swap
With spring just around
the corner, it’s time to fresh-
en up that green thumb.
The Bloomer Girls Gar-
den Club is teaming up
with the Hermiston Pub-
lic Library to help share
the bounty. A Seed Swap
& Seed Starting Event is
planned Saturday at 2:30
p.m. in the library’s Lan-
ham Room, 235 E. Gladys
Ave., Hermiston. Everyone
is invited — from seasoned
seed collectors to novices
in the world of gardening.
People are invited to
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pots for those needing help
getting seeds started. A lim-
ited amount of soil will be
available.
For more information,
call Jodi Hansen at 541-
567-2882.
Fire chief brews
coff ee, conversation
The public can learn
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district during Coffee with
the Chiefs.
Chief Scott Stanton of
Hermiston Fire & Emer-
gency Services and oth-
ers will meet with people
over a cup of joe Thursday
from 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the
Chuckwagon Cafe, 81027
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ton. The March 17 gather-
ing is at Lucky Jam Barn,
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Watch the Hermiston
Herald coming events
calender for the venue
of other meetings this
month. Stanton hopes
to reach out to people
about the upcoming
reformation vote, as
well as general infor-
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district.
For more informa-
tion, call Stanton at 541-
567-8822.
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Community Editor
thor, who will speak to stu-
dents at Armand Larive Mid-
dle School. Also, the public
is invited to a book-signing
and presentation by Estes
Monday, March 14, at 7 p.m.
at Hermiston Church of the
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Ave. The event is free, al-
though, people are encour-
aged to bring a book to do-
nate to Altrusa’s Little Red
Library at Belt Park.
For more information, call
Armchair Books at 541-276-
7323 or visit www.kelliestes.
com.
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Michael Shafer
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Michael is currently a junior at Weston-McEwen High
School. He has a 4.57 GPA and ranked 1st in his class.
Michael has served as president of his class both his
freshman and sophomore years and is the student body
representative to the school board this year. He is an
active member of the Weston-McEwen Band and Pipes
and Drums, FFA and plays tennis for the TigerScots.
Last year as a sophomore he was awarded the Rickard
McCracken award for outstanding sophomore boy.
After graduation in 2017, Michael’s plans include
attending Harvard and obtaining his Juris Doctorate
Degree in Law and then becoming a Politician.
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in the Chinese culture, Estes
Delving into Chinese said it was the perfect way to
history and culture, Seat- tie together the past and pres-
tle-area author Kelli Estes ent in telling the stories of
weaves together a historical Mei Lein and Inara Erickson.
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The book appeared on the
chapters with a story in the USA Today Bestsellers list
present day in “The Girl in December 2015. “I loved
Who Wrote in Silk.”
books so much that I
After reading about
believed authors must
the brutal deaths of
be magical beings born
Chinese people be-
with special powers,
ing smuggled by boat
and I certainly believed
through the San Juan
they lived somewhere
Islands, Estes was
far away from the rural
compelled to learn
town where I grew up
more. Researching the Estes
in eastern Washing-
Chinese Exclusion Act
ton,” Estes said.
of 1882, Estes read about the
When Carolynn Landwehr
intense anti-Chinese senti- Estes — who is now Estes’
ment in the United States, sister-in-law — mentioned
which led to whole commu- she was writing a book, it
nities of Chinese being driv- opened up Estes’ world.
en out, Chinatowns burned /DQGZHKU(VWHVZDVWKH¿UVW
to the ground, beatings, person the would-be author
lynchings and massacres.
had met who professed to be
“As a lover of history and a writer — and she appeared
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west, I was surprised that I creatures of Estes’ imagina-
had never known about any tion.
of this before,” Estes said. “I
When out promoting her
decided right then that it was book, Estes especially enjoys
up to me to write about it so connecting with students.
this shameful and important With so much emphasis on
part of our history isn’t for- STEM — science, technol-
gotten.”
ogy, engineering and math
Inspired by a souvenir — Estes said kids that are
from China — an embroi- drawn to the arts aren’t al-
dered silk sleeve — the au- ways validated. It’s her goal
thor stitches together the to inspire students to dream
tales of two women in her big and to pursue what inter-
debut novel, a story that in- ests them.
cludes tragedy, romance and
Altrusa International of
mystery. Intrigued with the Hermiston is hosting the au-
By TAMMY MALGESINI
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Congratulations! We are so very proud of you.
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