A6 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM
Holiday honors those not here for the holidays
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Presidential
preference
Stop and think about
the responsibility we have
as voters in this upcoming
election before you mark
your ballot.
I don’t like Mr. Trump
anymore than you do, but
please take a moment and
look at the alternative we
have. Not because Hillary
Clinton is a woman, that has
nothing to do with it. But
take a look at the record.
Benghazi, The Clinton
Foundation and the email
mess she has created. After
you have thought about it
and still use your vote to put
Hillary Clinton in the White
House, remember who you
voted for when your Second
Amendment rights are re-
duced and or gone for good,
Remember who you voted
for when your 401k is sud-
denly placed into the Social
Security fund or the general
U.S. budget fund, Remem-
ber who you voted for when
you see other countries take
American service people’s
lives and we stand by and do
nothing or we don’t supply
them with the equipment
they need. Remember who
you voted for when you see
our military forces decline
even more than they already
have. Remember who you
voted for when you see
our national highways and
bridges get no attention.
Remember who you voted
for when you see flood-
ing in the Eastern U.S. and
nothing is done. Remember
who you voted for when
you see and hear on TV
that there has been another
mass shooting somewhere
in the U.S. Remember who
you voted for when you see
new neighbors move in next
door and wonder where
650,000 people came from
and how they live because
they don’t work or have a
car. Remember who you
voted for when you read
the crime reports in your
local paper and the names
of people you know are not
citizens of our country. Re-
member who you voted for
REPORTS
continued from Page A5
and West Walls roads, Hermiston.
A deputy discovered the carcass
wrapped in a tarp at 9:30 a.m.,
but was unable to find anything to
indicate a suspect.
8:23 a.m. - The Boardman
ambulance transported a man to
Good Shepherd Medical Center,
Hermiston, after the Boardman
resident took a reported 200
ibuprofen and 13 unknown tablets
the previous night and was having
trouble breathing.
11:15 p.m. - The Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office is investigating
a criminal mischief report from
Irrigon High School, 315 E. Wyoming
Ave.
7:07 p.m. - Stanfield police and
the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office
were advised of a report of possible
shots fired, or fireworks, in the
vicinity of Ardith Street and South
Edwards Road, Stanfield.
11:14 p.m. - A resident of
Southeast Fourth Street, Hermiston,
called Hermiston police when her
daughter’s ex-boyfriend broke into
her house, entered her bedroom
and started yelling at her.
when you hear about anoth-
er accident where someone
was killed and the other
driver who was not hurt or
killed did not have insur-
ance or even a driver’s li-
cense. Remember who you
voted for when you read sto-
ries like the young Seaman
who took pictures aboard
his boat (submarine) of his
bunk, the place where he ate
his meals and the recreation
area (when there was no re-
strictions about cell phones
on the boat, but there is
now) how he is in federal
prison for one year. Or the
young officer who was dis-
charged when he went to
find a fellow worker that
was needed on the phone
and left a classified letter on
his desk in open sight (gone
for less than five minutes).
Remember who you voted
for when you see that your
non-taxable retirement or
annuity is called unearned
income and is now being
taxed. Remember who you
voted for when you see our
SSI funds disappear and the
government is wanting to
tax you for extra funds.
Just think, had you re-
membered who you voted
for and thought about it long
and hard, we can prevent all
of this and MAKE AMERI-
CA STRONG AGAIN.
These are my thoughts
and I just thought I would
share them with you. God
Bless America.
LARRY STORMENT
HERMISTON
Vote for Hillary
People should vote for
Hillary. She will care for
families, children and poor.
She cares about schools and
colleges. Trump wants to
build a wall.
It interferes with Mexico
and people seeing their fam-
ilies.
She won’t take away our
guns. You should vote for
Hillary.
EMMA STREGE
FOURTH GRADE, MCNARY
HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,
UMATILLA
deputy about a father who punched
his son in the stomach. School
authorities made a report to the
Oregon Department of Human
Services.
1:16 p.m. - A power line broke
off a pole at North Ott Road and
East Beatrice Avenue, Hermiston,
and struck a vehicle, scratching its
top and breaking a window.
1:40 p.m. - A resident on Lind
Road, Hermiston, reported her ex
came to her home two days ago
and threw a cup of hot coffee into
her face. The caller, though, said
she did not report it at the time
because she is wanted for failure
to appear.
3:29 p.m. - A man reported the
theft of a generator from property
on Rivera Lane, Hermiston.
6:52 p.m. - A Stanfield resident
on West Ball Avenue told police a
female broke into her vehicle and
also stole its spark plugs.
10:48 a.m. - The Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office began an inves-
tigation after a caller reported a
smaller white four-door car with
Washington plates chased a male
riding a bicycle on Sandy Court,
Boardman.
11:34 p.m. - A resident on Yaki-
ma Street, Umatilla, reported her
friend “must not have locked the
By GARY L. WEST
Herald Editor
COURTS:
continued from Page A5
suspension, plus court costs and fees;
pleaded guilty to Failure to Appear II:
sentenced to $100 fine.
• Miguel Angel Martinez Morales,
42, Stanfield, pleaded guilty to two
counts of Assault of Public Safety Of-
ficer: sentenced to 3 years probation,
180 sanction units, 90 maximum jail
units and $200 fine for each count;
pleaded guilty to Possession of Meth-
amphetamine: sentenced to $200 fine
and 6 months driver’s license suspen-
sion; pleaded guilty to Possession of
Controlled Substance II: sentenced
to 18 months probation, 90 sanction
units, 30 maximum jail units, $200
fine and 6 months driver’s license sus-
pension; pleaded guilty to two counts
of Possession of Forged Instrument I:
sentenced to $200 fine for each count.
Worship
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
door when she left,” and someone
ransacked her home, though she
did not notice anything missing.
11:52 p.m. - When your party is
loud enough to shake the neigh-
bor’s windows, you’re likely to draw
complaints. That’s what happened
at a residence on Blue Jay Street,
Umatilla, whose neighbors asked
police to have the party turn down
the music. Police arrived and gave a
warning about the noise level.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26
3:50 a.m. - Someone crashed a
car into a telephone pole on the 700
block of West Hermiston Avenue,
Hermiston, which broke a cable
from the pole, and left the vehicle
at the scene.
6:28 a.m. - A Hermiston mother
on Northeast Fourth Street reported
someone during the night stole the
front tire of her child’s bicycle.
7:12 a.m. - Threemile Canyon
Farms, 75906 Threemile Road,
Boardman, was the victim of vehicle
theft. Someone stole one of the farm’s
pickups, stripped it, and left it on
Kunze Lane about half a mile from the
Driftwood RV Resort, Boardman.
12:56 p.m. - The dean of students
for Hermiston schools reported a
student received “a bunch” of ha-
rassing calls Wednesday night from
approximately six other students,
• Taylor Gordon Morris, 25, Hermis-
HEAD ONLINE TO SEE THE COMPLETE POLICE REPORTS AND ARRESTS
HERMISTONHERALD.COM
ton, pleaded guilty to Failure to Appear
I: sentenced to 2 years probation, 120
sanction units, 60 maximum jail units,
120 hours community service, $200
fine and $1,800 fine-suspended, plus
court costs and fees; pleaded guilty
to Possession of Methamphetamine:
sentenced to 18 months probation, 80
hours community service, $500 fine,
$1,250 fine-suspended and 6 months
driver’s license suspension, plus court
costs and fees.
160 days jail-suspended, 3 years pro-
bation, 80 hours community service,
$1,000 fine and $1,000 fine-suspend-
ed, plus court costs and fees.
MISDEMEANOR
• Troy James Abbott, 23, Umatilla,
pleaded guilty to Harassment-do-
mestic violence: sentenced to 90 days
jail-suspended, 1 year probation, 40
hours community service, $100 fine
and $1,650 fine-suspended, plus court
costs and fees.
• Karl William Heinz Millard, 30,
Hermiston, pleaded guilty to Menac-
ing, Resisting Arrest and Driving While
Suspended: sentenced to 180 days
jail-suspended, 2 years probation, 40
hours community service, $100 fine
and $1,650 fine-suspended for each
count, plus court costs and fees.
• Adam Lee Crawford, 48, Herm-
iston, pleaded guilty to Menacing
and Attempt to Commit Class A Mis-
demeanor: sentenced to 20 days jail,
I am thankful for family
and so many friends — of
mom’s, of dad’s, of mine,
of my brothers’ who have
shared cards, flowers, hugs
and condolences. I am par-
ticularly grateful for all of
those who visited my mom
in her final weeks to share
hugs and tears and tell her
they loved her. I wish you
all peace and may the love
you’ve shown be returned
many times over.
I may not manage the
celebratory spirit that
comes with many Dia de
los Muertos celebrations
familiar to the indigenous
people of Southern Mex-
ico or other parts of Latin
America. But those that
have gone will be in my
thoughts and prayers today,
this week and for the rest of
my life.
Gary L. West is editor
of the Hermiston Herald
and Hermiston editor for
the East Oregonian. Reach
him at gwest@hermiston-
herald.com or follow him
on Twitter @GaryLWest
or on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/journalist.
glwest.
Coping with grief
This year, the beginning
of November, particularly
For help coping with grief, Vange John Memorial
the cultural holiday of Dia
Hospice offers programs.
de los Muertos, has particu-
One offering starts tonight, a GriefShare program
lar significance to me.
on Surviving the Holidays. The class meets weekly
I’ve been long been in-
through the new year. It meets at 7 p.m. on Wednes-
trigued by the holiday hon-
day at New Hope Community Church, 1350 S. High-
oring loved ones who have
way 395, in Hermiston.
died since learning a bit
There is also a GriefShare program that meets
about it from Latino rela-
Thursdays at 1 p.m. at Sun Terrace, 1550 NW 11th
tives and friends and for-
St., Hermiston.
mer coworkers from years
For more information on these or other services
in Southern California.
available, contact Vange John Memorial Hospice at
This year the signif-
541-667-3543.
icance of the holiday is
particularly important. Sat-
urday, Nov. 5, would have I was, but we were in town relationships far richer and
been my mother’s birth- running errands or some- more rewarding than I had
day. She died of cancer in thing and mom said some- known.
That is perhaps one of
August and the pending thing like, “I’m ready to
anniversary of her birth go home.” The comment the hardest parts of her
and the upcoming Thanks- shocked me, I asked mom if death. I did not know my
she meant she wanted mother as well as I should
giving and Christmas
to go back to Nebras- have and would have liked.
season is making her
ka. “No,” she clari- I had been gone for a long
absence profoundly
fied. “Our home. Our time, away from home on
felt.
my own personal and pro-
house. Here.”
So, today, Nov. 2,
I used to worry fessional adventures. We
I will be remember-
about mom when I had only begun to become
ing, and attempting to
was young, because re-acquainted.
honor, several family
There are other regrets
she didn’t seem to
members who have Gary
L. West
have many friends of as well.
gone. There are two SHADES
In grief, I am prone to
her own. There were
sets of grandparents, OF GRAY
the people dad did be sullen and selfish. But
several aunts and
uncles, some cousins and business with and the par-
friends. But foremost in my ents of my friends or my
mind, and in the forefront brothers’ friends, but at that
point I didn’t really know
of my grief, is my mom.
My parents moved from if she had close friends. I
Nebraska to Eastern Or- needn’t have worried.
As the parade of friends
egon in 1973. I was only
in second grade, but had a who came to visit when
hard time adapting to the she was in Good Shepherd
move. We went from liv- Medical Center for a few
ing in a town where lots hours, at Oregon Health
of family also lived and I and Sciences University
could walk to school to liv- for about a week and at Re-
ing out in the country in a gency Hermiston Nursing
place where I didn’t know and Rehabilitation Center
anyone and I had to ride a demonstrated that she had
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
made many lifelong and de-
bus to and from school.
DAILY MASS:
Like most kids do, I soon voted friends. Friends like
Monday-Fri: English 7:00 am
made friends and there was Elaine Ramos, Diane Gett-
Thursday: Spanish 6:00 pm
room to roam and explore mann, Marilyn Perkins,
SATURDAY:
Beth McDaniel, Sandy
at home.
English 5:00 pm • Spanish 7:00 pm
The move seemed dif- Warner, Rita Walker, Nellie
SUNDAY:
ficult for my mother, too. Madison, members of her
English 9:00 am • Bilingual 11:00 am • Spanish 1:00 pm
For years, when she spoke church and so many others.
Offi ce: 567-5812
The hundreds that came
of home she meant the Ne-
braska panhandle, where to say goodbye at her funer-
she grew up and had lived al, many of whom stood up
LANDMARK BAPTIST
most of her life prior to that. to share memories through
CHURCH
Thing changed at some their own tears was pro-
125 E. Beech Ave. • 567-3232
point. I don’t remember foundly moving and testa-
Pastor David Dever
where we were or how old ment that she had a life and
THURSDAY, OCT. 27
9:58 a.m. - Umatilla police went
to the Amazon data center at 82792
Beach Access Road, Umatilla, after
an employee there reported he was
the victim of an assault.
11:12 a.m. - Someone in Irrigon
told a Morrow County sheriff’s
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2016
COMMUNITY • RECORDS
• Octavio Morales Martines, 38,
Hermiston, pleaded guilty to Failure
to Carry/Present Operator’s License:
sentenced to 15 days jail-suspended,
1 year probation, 30 hours community
service and $500 fine, plus court costs
and fees.
Divorces
Divorce decrees were signed in
Umatilla County Courts for:
Kandie L. Jacobs and Claude For-
rest Jacobs; Dustine Ramirez and En-
rique Ramirez; Justin Michael Boyd and
and some “were pretty serious in
nature.”
2:29 p.m. - The Morrow
County Sheriff’s Office received a
second-hand report of a burglary of a
trailer at Southeast Park Place, Irrigon.
4:45 p.m. - Someone shot and
killed a peacock on Kunze Lane,
Boardman, the bird’s owner report-
ed. The Morrow County Sheriff’s
Office took a report.
5:21 p.m. - Hermiston police
received a report of a driver in a
dark blue Chevrolet Tahoe texting
and running a stop sign and nearly
crashing into another vehicle at
West Hermiston Avenue and North
First Place. That other driver called
police.
6:02 p.m. - Members of the
Morrow County Sheriff’s Office and
Oregon State Police responded
to the area between Tower Road
and the Boardman rest area off
Interstate 84 and cut the horns off
an elk.
7:34 p.m. - Umatilla police re-
sponded to the 1500 block of Sixth
Street, Umatilla on a 9-1-1 report of
a man and woman fighting.
8:01 p.m. - A woman on East Jennie
Avenue, Hermiston, reported someone
was on the roof of her house.
10:50 p.m. - Residents of Colum-
bia Crest Apartments, Umatilla, told
police the complex was without
water since 10 a.m. Wednesday. One
caller reported the manager gave
notice the water would be down
for about an hour, but that later
changed to “sometime” Thursday.
The caller said they could not use
the bathroom nor cook food, and
the manager was of no help.
Amanda Jordan Boyd; Ainslee June
Harris and Bryen Leslie Harris; Katy F.
Childers and Bryan F. Childers; Whitney
Nichole Tullis and Jesus J. Flores.
Sun. Bible Classes...................10:00am
Sun. Worship Service..............11:00am
Sun. Evening Worship..............6:00pm
Wed. Prayer & Bible Study......6:00pm
www.hermistonlmbc.com
The Full Gospel
Home Church
235 SW 3rd
Phone 567-7678
Rev. Ed Baker - Rev. Nina Baker
Sunday:
Sunday School........10:00 am
Worship...................11:00 am
Evening Service........7:00 pm
Wednesday Service..7:00 pm
“Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for you.”
1 Pet. 5:7
Grace Baptist Church
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
Nursery provided for all services
Sunday School - 9:30 AM
Worship - 10:45 AM
6:00 pm
Wed Prayer & Worship - 7:00 PM
“Proclaiming God’s word,
growing in God’s grace”
Seventh-day
Adventist Church
Saturdays
Sabbath School........9:30 a.m.
Worship Service......11:00 a.m.
567-8241
855 W. Highland • Hermiston
NEW BEGINNINGS
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Worship Service 10:30 AM
Sunday School 9:00 AM
Pastor J.C. Barnett
Children’s Church
& Nursery Available
700 West Orchard Avenue
P.O. Box 933
Hermiston, Oregon
541-567-8441
Echo
Community Church
21 N. Bonanza Street, Echo OR
Phone: (541) 376-8108
Sunday School • 9:30am
Worship • 10:45am
Children’s Church • 11:15am
Potluck & Communion ~
First Sunday of the Month
1255 Hwy. 395 S. • 567-5834
oasisvineyard.us
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
First Christian
Church
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
“come as you are”
“Proclaiming the Message of
Hope, Living the Gospel of Love”
Scripture, Tradition and Reason
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
who w
Worship 10:00 AM
Bible School 9:15am
Worship Gathering 10:30am
567-3013
775 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston
Marriages
Marriage licenses have been reg-
istered in Umatilla County for:
Landon Russel Alexenko, 30, and
Heather Kimberly Ternes, 25, both of
Hermiston.
Jeremy Scott Martin, 37, and Billie
Michelle Sexton, 38, both of Hermiston.
Edgar Manuel Pamplona, 32, and
Ashley Nicole Martinez, 28, both of
Hermiston.
Jeffrey Alan Terry, 29, and Amber
Rachel Kay Terry, 30, both of Hermis-
ton.
Connor James Webb, 32, and
Kelsey Ann Kuzis, 26, both of Kenne-
wick, Wash.
Manuel Phillip Yetter Jr., 25, and
Elizabeth Rose Serry, 24, both of
Hermiston.
To share your worship times call
Terri Briggs
541-278-2678
