G.M. ‘JERRY’ REED • 1935-2016
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
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QUARTERFINALS
HEPPNER ALSO WINS BIG
IN STATE PLAYOFFS
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VETETAN’S DAY
INSIDE
RESULTS?
DUE TO AN EARLY PRESS
TIME, LOCAL ELECTION
RESULTS HAD TO BE POSTED
ONLINE. RESULTS ARE ALSO
AVAILABLE IN THE NOV. 9
EDITION OF OUR SISTER PA-
PER, THE EAST OREGONIAN.
LOST IN THE MAIL
SOME HERMISTON PROPERTY
OWNERS REPORT THEY HAVE
NOT RECEIVED THEIR TAX
STATEMENTS, WITH DEADLINE
TO PAY LOOMING.
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RECORD RAINS
A WET OCTOBER DIDN’T
ADVERSELY IMPACT POTATO
HARVEST IN OUR AREA AND
GROWERS SAY EARLY SEASON
WEATHER ACTUALLY HELPED.
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BRIEFLY
FILE PHOTOS
Veteran Bill Linder sings “God Bless America” surrounded by members of Dance Unlimited during a previous Veterans Day breakfast in
Hermiston.
HONORING VETERANS WITH
PROGRAMS, FREE MEALS
Civilians salute those who have served with variety of events
HERMISTON HERALD
eterans Day provides an opportunity to express appreciation to those
who have served in our country’s military. Several local schools, orga-
nizations and restaurants are planning special events or meals to honor
those who served our country.
Echo students to
recognize veterans
Sam Boardman assembly
honors veterans
Students from the Echo School Dis-
trict are celebrating veterans on Thurs-
day.
The public and area veterans are
invited to attend the Veterans’ Cele-
bration, which begins with a parade
Thursday at 10 a.m. at the school,
600 E. Gerone St., Echo. It will trav-
el down Main Street and return to the
school. Honoring all military branch-
es, the parade will be escorted by local
police, fi re and military personnel. An
assembly starts at 1 p.m. in the school’s
gymnasium, which will include an in-
troduction of local veterans by fourth
and fi fth grade students.
To participate or honor a veteran, fi ll
out a postcard at local VFW halls or call
the school at 541-376-8536.
For more information, contact Billie
Parker at 541-376-8536 or billie.park-
er@echo.k12.or.us.
Local veterans will be the guests of hon-
or during an assembly at Sam Boardman
Elementary School.
The event, which is also open to the
general public, is Thursday at 10 a.m. at the
school, located at 301 Wilson Lane, Board-
man. Students will perform patriotic songs.
For more information, call Clara Beas
Fitzgerald at 541-481-7383 ext 2446.
FILE PHOTOS
Army veteran Ben Harvey, left, and his wife Sharon Harvey
of Sharon’s Sweet Treats serve breakfast to veterans
Carolyn Jacobs (Marines), Jim Jacobs (Air Force) and
Louis Nakapalau (Army) during a Veterans Day breakfast at
the Hermiston Conference Center in 2014.
Conference center hosts
veterans breakfast
Reservations are required for a free
breakfast event planned for Veterans Day at
the Hermiston Conference Center.
Open to all veterans, service members
and their families, the meal and program
is free but those who plan to attend must
RSVP. The event is Friday at 8 a.m. at the
See VETS, A14
Members of the dance troupe Dance Unlimited perform
at a the 2014 Veterans Day breakfast in Hermiston.
Student voters pick
Clinton, Brown
If it was up to students at
Hermiston High School, Hil-
lary Clinton would become
the 45th president of the Unit-
ed States and Kate Brown
would keep her place in the
Oregon governor’s mansion.
Released on Election Day,
results from the high school
mock election, which polled
368 students, show Clinton
with about 37 percent of the
vote and Donald Trump re-
ceiving 33 percent in the pres-
idential race.
Oregon governor’s race
was even tighter, and Liber-
tarian candidate James Fos-
ter drew nearly even with
the major party candidates.
Brown, the incumbent Dem-
ocrat, took 37 percent — 136
votes and the exact same slice
of the electorate as Clinton.
Bud Pierce, a Republi-
can, fell fi ve votes short and
took about 35.5 percent of the
vote, while Foster’s 101 votes
gave him a 27.5 percent slice
of the pie.
The high school voters
also re-elected Sheriff Terry
Rowan in a landslide with 71
percent of the vote. Rowan
lives in Hermiston and lost by
a similar margin in Pendleton
High School’s mock election
to challenger Ryan Lehnert,
who is from Pendleton.
The student voters rejected
Measure 97, a corporate sales
tax that would fund educa-
tion. About 55 percent of vot-
ers were against the measure.
Former Herald owner/publisher Jerry Reed has died
BY JADE MCDOWELL
one of the charter members of the
Hermiston Development Corpo-
Gerald Michael “Jerry” Reed, ration, which attracted employers
81, former owner and publisher of and jobs to Hermiston throughout
the 1970s and 1980s.
the Hermiston Herald, died
Around 1978 Reed
Friday morning in Hermis-
brought the Hermiston Her-
ton.
ald into a merger with Dick
Reed, who bought a mi-
Nafsinger of the Hood Riv-
nority ownership stake in the
er News and Denny Smith
paper in 1969, became the
of the BlueMountain Eagle
sole owner in 1974, building
Newspaper Company, form-
the Herald’s staff, coverage
ing Eagle Newspapers Inc.
and page count and garner- G.M.
‘Jerry’
Reed served as vice presi-
ing multiple awards, until Reed
dent of Eagle Newspapers
selling the paper to West-
for a time, and when he sold
ern Communication Inc. of
his interest in the company in 1984
Bend in 1992.
He was a past president of the it owned 18 newspapers across the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Pacifi c Northwest.
Association and American News-
See REED, A14
paper Representatives and was
Staff Writer
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Members of the Hermiston Development Corporation pose for a photo. Jerry Reed
(top row, second from right) was one of the charter members of the organization.
Others in the photo include: (back row) Tom Harper, then-city manager of
Hermiston; Russ Dorran of Umatilla Electric Cooperative, Joe Burns of Burns
Mortuary; and Walt Eiring; (front row) Bruce Giddings; Walt Pearson; Doris Bounds
of Inland Empire Bank; A.F. Rohrman of Rohrman Motors; and L.A. Moore.