WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016
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Onion shed ire caused $1.2 million in damage
Hermiston Herald
A ire that consumed an
onion shed outside Hermis-
ton Wednesday, June 1, af-
ternoon caused an estimat-
ed $1.2 million in damage
to the building, according
to Hermiston Fire & Emer-
gency Services Chief Scott
Stanton.
Stanton said that estimate
does not include a pickup
truck, tools and a piece of
machinery that were also in-
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY HERMISTON FIRE & EMERGENCY SERVICES
Hermiston ireighters work to extinguish a ire at Columbia
Basin Onion southwest of Hermiston on Wednesday afternoon.
side the building at the time.
About 45 ireighters
were on scene at Columbia
Basin Spreaders’ Westland
Road location for more than
two hours Wednesday after
the blaze started about 3:30
p.m.
One person was injured
in the blaze, and was lown
to a Portland burn unit for
treatment.
The cause is under inves-
tigation.
Senator visits Hermiston High
STAFF PHOTO BY GEORGE PLAVEN
One man was taken to the hospital with injuries after a
truck versus motorcycle crash Friday in Hermiston.
By JADE MCDOWELL
Staff Writer
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to
put Hermiston High School
in the spotlight as Congress
works to implement new ed-
ucation legislation.
He met with career-tech-
nical education students
Wednesday, June 1, includ-
ing business students and
members of the Columbia
Basin Student Homebuild-
ing Program.
“If it’s all right with you,
I’m going to talk about you
guys on the loor of the Sen-
ate,” Wyden told the stu-
dents.
He had high praise for
Hermiston’s CTE programs,
calling them “exactly the
kind of model” he wanted
to highlight as he works to
create legislation aimed at
raising graduation rates.
“I haven’t heard of any-
one else that has the array of
programs you do,” he said.
Wyden said Oregon has
a lot to be proud of, but its
high school graduation rate
is not one of those things. As
he has been looking at what
type of legislation might
help boost graduation rates,
research has shown that
those rates are tied to atten-
dance, and CTE programs
help boost attendance.
When Congress passed
the Every Child Achieves
Act to replace No Child
Left Behind, Wyden includ-
ed language that will give
schools with low graduation
rates access to federal grants
for programs that help keep
at-risk students interested in
school.
He told the students the
“spark” he could see in them
as they talked about their
hands-on projects is some-
thing he wants to see spread
to other schools.
“You guys have a chance
to be a real model, and that’s
why I came here today,” he
said.
One of the students who
shared their project with
Wyden was Hannah Re-
ese, who won a gold medal
at state for Family, Career
and Community Leaders of
America (FCCLA). She re-
ceived 97 of 100 points for a
recreation and tourism proj-
ect that involved creating a
detailed business plan for a
restaurant and catering busi-
ness that she said she plans
to open someday. One of
her ideas included cupcakes
made fresh every day that
will appeal to a variety of
customers.
“I want to invest in veg-
an and gluten-free options,”
she said.
Wyden said he was
working on a bill that would
help cut red tape for recre-
ation and tourism business-
es, such as requiring all of
the permit applications to be
accessible online.
“I’d like you to take a
look at it,” he told Reese.
“I’d really like to have your
comments.”
Man hospitalized
after pickup truck
hits motorcycle
Hermiston Herald
A Umatilla man was
taken to the hospital Fri-
day afternoon after his
motorcycle was clipped
by a pickup truck on
Highway 395 across from
Rogers Toyota in Hermis-
ton.
Gordon Adams, 50,
sustained non-life threat-
ening injuries and was
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Sen. Ron Wyden listens to Hermiston senior Hannah Reese, second from left, talk about her
project on hospitality and recreation Wednesday, June 1, at Hermiston High School.
and will be working with
the national council to draft
proposals for education-re-
lated legislation. She said
she didn’t know what she
would be doing if she didn’t
have programs like FCCLA
to keep her busy.
“Not all schools in Ore-
gon have the awesome op-
portunity to take the classes
we do,” she said.
After the roundtable with
students, they took Wyden
on a tour of the Java Dawgs
coffee shop run by account-
ing students, and the Dawg
House, a shop selling Bull-
dogs gear that is also run by
business students.
“I’ve decided Hermiston
High is a hotbed of capital-
ism,” Wyden said.
Following the tour at the
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hermiston senior Dru
Walchli, bottom, makes a
coffee drink for Sen. Ron
Wyden as senior Kiersten
Miller talks about Java Dawg,
the Hermiston High School
student run coffee shop, on
June 1 in Hermiston.
Salma Anguiano, a soph-
omore, shared that she was
recently elected president of
the Oregon FCCLA chapter
high school the group head-
ed over to Fieldstone #2, the
second student-built home
created by the Columbia
Basin Student Homebuild-
ing Program. While students
from an agricultural class
worked to landscape the
yard, homebuilding students
put the inishing touches on
the highly energy-eficient
home, which is on the mar-
ket for $345,000.
“This is gorgeous,”
Wyden remarked as he got
the grand tour.
The home was open to
the public for tours on Fri-
day, June 3.
taken by ambulance to
Good Shepherd Medical
Center. Adams was trav-
eling north when he was
clipped by Alfredo San-
tana, 47, of Kennewick,
driving for Star West Sat-
ellite.
Santana was cited by
Hermiston Police with
careless driving. He was
not injured.
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