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LIBRARIAN DELIA WALLIS READ.
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OPEN POSITION
SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL DEVIN GRIGG IS
LEAVING HERMISTON.
SMALL SCHOOLS: Pilot Rock softball, Stanfield baseball aims for state title repeats—
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EAT FOR
A GOOD CAUSE
STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
Choir students Colton Hollis, Yanira Garcia, Babali Peterson (Ione), Julia Fernandez and Natalie Sherman (Echo) are all traveling to Hawaii to
sing in a choir with students from around the Pacifi c Rim.
Local bands, choirs
travel to Hawaii
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
Staff Writer
everal students from
Echo, Ione, Irrigon and
Stanfi eld will soon get
to travel to Hawaii to
share their musical tal-
ents.
Fifty students and 20
adult chaperones will spend
spring break at the Pacifi c Ba-
sin Music Festival in Honolulu.
The choir and band festival is
in its 32nd year and brings high
school and junior high students
together from nations in the Pa-
cifi c Rim, such as Canada, Aus-
tralia, Japan and the U.S., for a
week of learning and perform-
ing classical music.
“They’ll perform with oth-
er groups,” said Stanfi eld band
director Deborah Wryn. “There
are adjudicated activities. Our
band will meet and rehearse with
a band from Perth, Australia.”
The students, 10 of whom
‘It’s pretty exciting. For my
senior year, it’s cool to get
to do something like this.’
– Jenny Stanger, Student
are singing with the choir, and
the rest of whom are in band,
had to commit to the trip last
school year, and since then have
been rehearsing once a month.
Each group is learning a col-
lection of songs, from different
genres of music, which they will
perform with another band or
choir. They will also perform a
few songs with the entire group
of students attending the event.
The trip was open to any
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A FUNDRAISER DINNER WILL
BENEFIT LONGTIME COMMUNITY
MEAL COORDINATOR
LAURIE BALL-KISER.
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A SORE THUMB
COMMUNITY EDITOR TAMMY
MALGESINI PONDERS ODD
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
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BRIEFLY
Hermiston park
leading at the buzzer
An offi cial winner has not
yet been announced, but the
Moda Assist Program com-
petition to bring a new play-
ground to Sunset Park end-
ed Monday night showing
Hermiston about 4,000 votes
in the lead.
Moda and the Portland
Trail Blazers have pledged
to donate $10 for every assist
made by Blazers team mem-
bers during regular-season
games toward an all-abilities
playground for the communi-
ty with the highest online vote
tally — a pledge expected to
bring in about $20,000.
After making sure the
rules allowed for multiple
votes by the same person, the
Hermiston parks and recre-
ation department sponsored
contests and drawings to en-
courage people to keep up the
voting, resulting in a tally of
more than 19,000 votes for
Sunset Park by the deadline.
A representative of Moda
said the offi cial winner will
be announced today.
Sanitary Disposal
hosts cleanup week
STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
Ione music teacher Bryan Bates directs band students in a rehearsal leading up to their trip to Hawaii, where they will meet and perform with
students from several different countries.
Del’s Feed and Farm Supply closing its doors
Del’s Feed and Farm Supply
is closing its doors in Hermiston
this fall.
The store’s parent company,
Tractor Supply Company, an-
nounced Thursday that it had
made the decision to close the
Hermiston location and all other
Pacific Northwest locations later
this year.
John Logan, regional vice
president for Tractor Supply
Company, said in a statement
the decision was based on “many
business factors” after “much
analysis.”
He and Hermiston store man-
ager Jeremy Miller both thanked
customers for their support.
“On behalf of the entire Del’s
team, we are extremely grateful
to our Hermiston customers for
their many years of patronage,”
Miller said.
Tractor Supply Company also
‘On behalf of the entire
Del’s team, we are
extremely grateful to
our Hermiston customers
for their many years
of patronage.’
owns and operates Petsense,
which recently opened a new lo-
cation in Hermiston.
Despite the loss of Del’s,
and the loss of Pendleton Grain
Growers’ retail store in late 2014,
Hermiston will gain another “ru-
ral lifestyle” retail store in Ranch
& Home, which plans to build on
south Highway 395 this year.
Del’s Feed and Farm Supply
was founded in 1972 in the Seat-
tle area. The company has had up
to 21 stores in Washington, Ore-
gon, Idaho and Hawaii. Many of
the Washington state stores have
been rebranded as Tractor Supply
Company stores.
Del’s Feed and Farm Supply is
located at 2055 N. First St., north
of Theater Lane on the west side
of Highway 395.
Sanitary Disposal in
Hermiston is hosting its
annual spring cleanup
week April 1-7. During
the week, cash customers
using the Sanitary Dis-
posal Transfer Station in
Hermiston will receive a
discount of up to $14 off
each load.
During cleanup week,
loads measuring up to 2.5
cubic yards with a max-
imum weight of 454 1/2
pounds can be disposed
of free of charge. This in-
cludes all acceptable solid
waste with the exception
of tires, which will be
charged at the regular rate.
The transfer station is
located two miles north
of Hermiston on the west
side of Highway 395, and
is open weekdays from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. and week-
ends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information,
call Sanitary Disposal at
541-567-8842.