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Serious charges
after stabbing,
strangling
By JENNIFER COLTON
Staff Writer
HUNGER
MEETS ITS
MATCH
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY FARMERS ENDING HUNGER
Volunteers bag potatoes at the Oregon Food Bank donated by growers through Farmers Ending Hunger.
FARMERS ENDING HUNGER GROWS TALL FROM HERMISTON ROOTS
By JADE MCDOWELL
Staff writer
W
hen Fred Ziari of Hermis-
ton heard in 2004 that Ore-
gon was the hungriest state
in the nation, he knew he
couldn¶t stand by idly
“It was shocking to me
that a state with a seeming abundance of
food and beautiful landscape had such
an issue,´ he said
Fortunately for Oregon, Ziari hap-
pened to be president and CEO of IRZ
Consulting, a ¿ rm that specializes in
state-of-the-art irrigation technology
and water resource management His
years in the indus-
try had introduced
him to a network
of the very peo-
ple best suited to
help ¿ ght hunger
farmers
He gathered his
contacts togeth-
er to discuss the
— Fred Ziari
problem, and the
result was Farm-
President and CEO
ers Ending Hun-
of IRZ Consulting
ger, a statewide
nonpro¿ t that last
year donated 42
million pounds of produce to Oregon’s
neediest families through the Oregon
Food %ank
Ziari said it has been gratifying to
EO MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTO
see how much the program has grown
John Burt, left, and Fred Ziari unveiled the new Farmers Ending Hunger exhibit at the SAGE Center in
See HUNGER, A7
2015.
Richard David Taylor,
32, also known as Rich-
ard David Heathman, is
facing an attempted mur-
der charge after stabbing
a Hermiston woman and
attempting to strangle a
Hermiston 3olice 2f¿ cer
On March
17, Herm-
iston Police
and Hermis-
ton Fire and
Emergency
Services re-
sponded to
Taylor
a report of
a domestic
disturbance on Sunland
$venue in Hermiston
While paramedics treat-
ed a 41-year-old woman
with a stab wound to her
neck, of¿ cers searched
the neighborhood and
apprehended Taylor, go-
ing by the alias Richard
D Heathman While in
transport to the jail in
Pendleton, Taylor dam-
aged the patrol car and
tried to choke &pl Doug
*ill with a seatbelt
The woman was hos-
pitalized, treated and re-
leased
On March 23, a grand
jury indicted Taylor on
charges of attempted
murder, ¿ rst-degree as-
sault, unlawful use of a
weapon against another,
attempted escape, crim-
inal mischief, attempted
assault of a public safe-
ty of¿ cer and attempted
strangulation
The attempted murder,
¿ rst-degree assault and
unlawful use of a weapon
charge stem from the do-
mestic violence against
the female victim, Uma-
tilla County District At-
torney Dan Primus said
See CHARGES, A18
“WE’RE PROVIDING
THE RIGHT FOOD AT
THE RIGHT TIME.”
Council looks at schematics for $2 million senior center
By JADE MCDOWELL
Staff writer
Plans for a new senior center in
downtown Hermiston are taking
shape, but the city council isn’t sure
yet whether it wants to spring for a
basement
The council held a work ses-
sion Monday night to look at pre-
liminary schematics, but requested
more concrete budget information
before making a decision on wheth-
er to pay an estimated $480,000
for a basement Construction of the
main level will be paid for with a $2
million Community Development
%lock *rant from the state
Krista Appleby of Ascent Archi-
tecture shared drawings of an 8,000
square foot senior center based on
input from current senior center
members They included a great
hall that is about one and a half
times the size of the current senior
center’s dining area, a reception
area, two large breakout rooms, an
of¿ ce and a kitchen that is larger
than the one the seniors currently
Little
D a r li n gs !
use The plans also included green
space outdoors and a parking area
with 92 spaces and a circular drive
to drop people off at the front door
Not a roundabout, the council
con¿ rmed
Appleby said the plans as drawn
would cost $200 to $250 per square
foot to build, which would equal
$1 million to $2 million before
paying for the parking and land-
scaping An un¿ nished ,000 square
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
This stop sign at Highland
Avenue and S 1st Street
will be replaced by one
with solar-powered LED
lights around the edge.
Solar-powered
stop signs coming
Solar-powered
stop
signs illuminated by LED
lights are being installed
at four Hermiston inter-
sections
The Oregon Depart-
ment of Transportation
will install the lighted
signs at the corner of
Highland Avenue and 1st
Street, Highland and 7th
Street, Orchard Avenue
and 1st Street and Or-
chard and 7th Street
See SIGNS, A18
See CENTER, A18
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