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however, are up 10 percent
(from 370 in 2015 to 407
in 2016), and felony arrests
shot up 22 percent (from 79
to 96).
Felony arrests also came
with a large increase in one
violent crime: aggravated
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ter of 2015, the Hermiston
Police Department handled
three violent crimes: one
murder, one rape and one
aggravated assault. In the
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aggravated assaults, an in-
crease of 500 percent over
2015.
Cases of burglary (an
increase of 11 percent) and
larceny (an increase of 16
percent) also rose.
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Edmiston said Monday.
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be a draw to report vio-
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population, I think we are
doing as good as we can
with the limited resources
we have.”
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population
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First-quarter juvenile
crime is down in both de-
tainments and offenses
from the same period in
2015.
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STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Wine barrels can be seen in the hole where grain was once
poured at the old Echo grain elevator, which has been
repurposed as a tasting room for Echo Ridge Cellars.
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building and has found a
lot of people who are ap-
preciative of the lengths
the family has gone to
both preserve and im-
prove it.
“We’ve been getting a
lot of people in with their
stories, and it has been re-
ally cool,” she said.
One of those people
was 90-year-old Joseph
Garcia, who stopped by
unannounced on Friday
morning with his daugh-
ter Debra Thorton to
present the Bales with a
painting of the grain ele-
vator he made more than
a decade earlier. He got
a tour of the newly reno-
vated building and men-
tioned the owls that used
to live there.
No one seems to know
exactly what year the
elevator was built, but
the date on the concrete
building next to it is 1909.
And the grain elevator
was in operation by the
1940s. The property was
used by Pendleton Grain
Growers in the 1950s and
the co-op sold it to Glenn
and Joyce Rohde in 1984.
Kim Bales said she and
her husband Jay bought
their 89-acre vineyard near
Echo in 2010 while living
in Seattle, and bought the
grain elevator property
from the Rhodes in 2012.
“My husband was
looking at different vine-
yards and came over here
and fell in love with it,
and how beautiful and
quiet it is here,” she said.
Last week they opened
the tasting room inside
the old grain elevator.
Within the next year they
plan on turning the neigh-
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Initials carved into the walls of the old Echo grain elevator were preserved when the building was turned into a tasting room
for Echo Ridge Cellars.
boring
14,400-square-
foot storage building into
a winery that could hold
large events like wedding
receptions and office par-
ties. Someday, if all goes
well, they would like to
add a brewery, too.
“We’ve
got
high
hopes,” Kim said.
She said they don’t plan
on operating a restaurant,
but they do plan on put-
ting a wood-fired pizza
oven in the outside seat-
ing area and cooking piz-
zas some nights when the
weather is nice.
H&P Cafe and the
Wheat and Barley Pub
also have agreed to deliv-
er food to the tasting room
if people call and order it.
Kim said that is one of
several businesses that
have welcomed the family
to Echo, including Knerr
Construction, which did
the renovations, and Sno
Road Winery, which Kim
said refers people to Echo
Ridge Cellars just as they
give referrals in return.
“There’s no competi-
tion,” she said. “We’re on
the same team.”
“We’re all Team Echo,”
Berlyn chimed in.
The tasting room at 551
Theilsen St. is open noon
to 6 p.m. on Wednesday
and Thursday, and 11
a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, and also by ap-
pointment.
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