WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016
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STUDENTS HONOR VETERANS WITH PARADE
training he received and
the various positions of
leadership he held during
his time in the National
Guard he also found the
confidence to do things he
never thought he could do.
Sweet told the students
that his service did not come
without a price, however.
While deployed he missed
many moments in his chil-
dren’s lives that he will never
get back.
“The best feeling in the
world, after being deployed
and away from family is
coming home — when I got
home and off the plane and
my family and friends were
waiting,” he said.
Sweet said he was hon-
ored to be called a veteran,
and humbled by the support
the Echo School students
and others had shown to him
for carrying that title.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at 541-564-4536.
By JADE McDOWELL
Staff Writer
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
The Broken Barrel is now open for business at 120 W. Coe
Ave. in Stanfield.
Broken Barrel offers new
dining option in Stanfield
By JADE McDOWELL
Staff Writer
Stanfield has added a
new bar and grill to bolster
the area’s list of dining op-
tions.
The Broken Barrel fea-
tures local wine, cocktails,
craft beer, milkshakes,
hand-pressed burgers, and
other food. It opened Oct.
19 at 120 W. Coe Ave.
Owner Martha Mc-
Clusky said she opened the
Broken Barrel because she
loves pairing good food
with good alcohol. She said
the menu is starting out
fairly simple, but she likes
adding a new twist to famil-
iar menu items.
“I just want really ap-
proachable
food,
like
cheeseburgers, and then we
make it a little bit better,”
she said.
An example of that is the
tequila lime burger, made
with local beef and topped
with homemade guacamole.
Another current offering is
mozzarella sticks wrapped
in egg roll wrappers and
served with sriracha aioli.
The cozy bar features
a pool table and multiple
televisions, and McClusky
said she is working on
adding lottery and would
like to add outdoor seating
when the weather warms
up. She said she is striving
for an atmosphere that is
fun and casual, suitable for
a business lunch or a drink
after a day in the fields.
“We want people to be
able to come straight from
work and not feel uncom-
fortable,” she said.
She said she moved
to Hermiston about three
years ago and had been
looking for the right place
to open a restaurant. When
the space on Coe Avenue
and Main Street in Stan-
field opened up she felt like
it was the “right place at the
right time.”
McClusky said she has
extensive experience in the
food service industry, in-
cluding several restaurants
on the East Coast.
“I’ve been everything —
dishwasher to waitress to
manager,” she said.
So far she has four em-
ployees and said that things
have been busier than she
expected during her first
three weeks. She said she
has been grateful for the
support of the community
and hopes that the Broken
Barrel will help contribute
to Stanfield’s growth.
The Broken Barrel is
open 11 a.m. to midnight
seven days a week.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at 541-564-4536.
Openings now available on
EOTEC board, city committees
The city of Hermiston is
accepting applications for
the Eastern Oregon Trade
and Event Center board
and four city committees.
The Parks and
Recreation Committee
has an opening for a one-
year term, the Budget
Committee has three
three-year terms open, the
Recreation Projects Fund
Advisory Committee has
two three-year terms open
and the Hispanic Advisory
Committee is looking for
someone to fill the final
six months of a three-year
term.
The seat on the Eastern
Oregon Trade and Event
Center board representing
the hotel industry —
currently held by Vijay
Patel — is also up for
appointment. The city of
Hermiston and Umatilla
County jointly appoint
someone to the seat every
four years.
For city committees,
applicants must not work
full-time for the city, sell
to the city or already be
serving on another city
committee. Preference will
be given to city residents.
Applications are due
to the Hermiston City
Hall, 180 N.E. Second
St., by 5 p.m. on Nov.
28. They can be found
at City Call or online at
www.hermiston.or.us.
Questions can be directed
to Lilly Alarcon-Strong at
541-567-5521.
With chants of “USA!
USA!” the students of
Echo School showed their
appreciation for military
veterans Thursday with a
parade through town.
Kindergarteners
were
dressed in camouflage,
holding signs up thanking
those who served in the U.S.
Army. Other classes honored
the other branches of the
military, or held signs paying
tribute to specific veterans.
During an assembly
held later in the afternoon,
students shared songs and
poems to thank veterans
from the community who
were in attendance. Each
fourth and fifth grader also
shared information about
two or three veterans with
ties to the community.
“Above all, we want to
honor our veterans,” junior
high teacher Brandi Rus-
sell told the audience. “But
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Echo School high school students lead a Veterans Day
parade through Echo on Thursday.
just you being here also
allows these young men
and women to see what
honor and courage is, and
that somebody stood up for
what was right.”
The assembly’s keynote
speaker was Lee Sweet, a
former sergeant with the
1186 MP Co. Oregon Na-
tional Guard. He served
from 2005 to 2013, de-
ploying to Afghanistan in
2011. Sweet told the stu-
dents that his time in the
National Guard helped
him learn teamwork and
serve with people from all
over the world.
“I made many new
friendships with people I
still keep in contact with
today,” he said.
He said through the
Umatilla County sheriff’s office adds to ranks
Hermiston Herald
Two new Umatilla
County sheriff’s deputies
are on their way to police
school.
The sheriff’s office re-
ported in a written statement
that Steven McDaniel and
Jeff Brown will attend the
16-week basic police course
at the Oregon Public Safety
Academy in Salem. Once
they complete that work,
they will have several more
weeks of field training.
The sheriff’s office hired
McDaniel as a full-time
patrol deputy on Sept. 15.
He worked as an on-call
corrections deputy with the
agency since 2014. He has
18 years of experience in
the Oregon Army National
Guard and is a chief warrant
officer with Bravo Compa-
ny, 168 Aviation, Pendleton.
McDaniel, a Riverside High
School, Boardman, gradu-
ate, pilots a CH-47F Chi-
nook helicopter and served
two tours of combat duty
in Iraq and Kuwait and this
summer returned from duty
in Afghanistan.
Brown has been a Uma-
tilla County Community
Justice probation and pa-
role officer since 2006. He
has started work as sheriff’s
patrol deputy. He is a Pend-
leton High School graduate
and has a state certification
for parole and probation of-
ficers.
On Dec. 1, sheriff’s
deputy Loren Westmore-
land takes on the role of
detective with the Umatilla
County Community Justice
Department. The new po-
sition came about through
a collaboration between
community justice director
Dale Primmer, Sheriff Ter-
ry Rowan and their depart-
ments.
Westmoreland
will
head up fugitive appre-
hension for probation and
parole absconders, sex
with sheriff’s office for
more than four-and-half
years. He holds an interme-
diate police certification and
has a bachelor’s degree in
criminology.
offender registration and
compliance, and investigat-
ing new charges involving
persons under community
justice supervision.
Westmoreland has been
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