WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016
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Hermiston man celebrates 40
years with RDO Equipment Co.
HERMISTON HERALD
customers for the past 10 years.
Reinie Fischer, a customer Fischer said he’s met a lot of
service representative at RDO great people during his career
Equipment Co. in Hermiston, and that RDO Equipment has
recently celebrated his 40-year been a great company to be a
anniversary with the company. part of.
“Reinie is a plea-
Employees from
sure to work with and
throughout the re-
extremely committed
gion’s stores, along
to the success of our
with customers and fam-
customers,” said Ian
ily members gathered
Carey, vice president of
recently to honor Fisch-
the company’s north-
er and acknowledge his
west region. “He is a
years of dedication to
dependable asset to
the community. Fischer Fischer
our company and the
joined RDO Equipment
in 1976 as a baler/tractor tech- Hermiston community.”
Founded in 1968, RDO
nician. After two years, he was
promoted to service manager, Equipment Co. sells and sup-
a position he held for 28 years. ports agriculture, construc-
He then moved into the custom- tion, environmental, position-
er service representative role, ing, surveying and irrigation
where he has taken care of RDO equipment.
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Max has announced its plans
to close its doors for good.
According to Julianne
Embry, a senior public
relations manager for the
company, the store will be
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date has been given.
Embry declined to
comment further, citing
competitive reasons.
The store currently
employs 18 people.
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nearly 400 stores since 2014,
and plans to close 25 more
by the end of 2016 and an
additional 300 stores over the
next three years, according
to its second quarter results
report.
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Restaurant has
changed location
and is now
changing names
By GARY L. WEST
Herald editor
Restaurant owner Frank
Perkins has endured some
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his steak house, including
a move from one city to
another. And now comes a
name change.
“Stetson’s hat company
has decided they have an
issue with our name after
18 years,” Perkins said. So
Perkins, his staff and local
sign company Sign Men
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ishing touches on the name
change, including signage
for the Hermiston restau-
rant formerly known as
Stetson’s Steak House in
Hermiston last week.
The restaurant is now
known as Stet’s Steak
House.
Perkins opened Stet-
son’s Steak House in Pend-
leton in April 1999. He
STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST
Ed Miltenberger, owner of Sign Men, takes the face off a
sign at a Hermiston restaurant while sign technician Dave
Schmidtgall assists. The men were updating the sign as
Stetson’s Steak House has changed its name to Stet’s Steak
House.
relocated the business to
1619 N. First St. in Herm-
iston in October of 2014.
Perkins said the biggest
problem with changing the
name is all the time it takes
to get things like menus,
Facebook and website
pages updated and notify-
ing other social media sites
like Trip Advisor and Ur-
ban Spoon about the name
change.
“I’ve been working on
it for a couple of months,”
he said.
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from New York telling me
what I haven’t done every
couple of weeks,” Perkins
said.
This week, workers
from Sign Men of Pend-
leton were updating the
signs on the restaurant and
along the roadway leading
to it.
Ed Miltenberger, owner
of Sign Men, said he was
surprised that the hat com-
pany would have a prob-
lem with the name Stet-
son’s Steak House on the
Hermiston restaurant.
“This place probably
does Stetson’s, the hat
company, more good than
anybody,” Miltenberger
STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST
Workers from Sign Men
update the signs for a
Hermiston restaurant due to
a name change.
said. “They’ve got good
food.”
Miltenberger said Per-
kins comes from a ranch-
ing background and knows
his beef.
“With his reputation a
lot of his customers came
with him” when the busi-
ness moved to Hermiston
two years ago, Miltenberg-
er said of Perkins. “He’s a
hands-on operator. He has
a passion for (the restau-
rant business).”
And now his business
has a shorter name and up-
dated signs and menus.