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makes the things asked of
them, like working hard
in practice and doing their
schoolwork, seem like less
of a burden.
“Waking
up
early
doesn’t seem like much of a
sacrifice looking at these,”
Faaeteete said, gesturing at
the hundreds of full-sized
flags lining walkways and
rows of graves.
He said he appreciat-
ed the veterans who help
put together the Avenue
of Flags project for taking
the time to talk to the team
each year about the values
of teamwork and trust.
On Friday two trailers
pulled by tractors circled
the cemetery slowly, piled
high with flags. Football
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Members of the Hermiston
High School football team
grab more flags to put out
for the Avenue of Flags at
Hermiston Cemetery.
players and coaches ran
back and forth, grabbing
a new flag pole and then
working in teams of two or
three to snap the poles to-
gether, place them upright
in the holes in the ground
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She will now graduate with honors,
and looks forward to the next chapter
in her life.
“I’d like to get good grades in col-
lege, and meet a lot of new people,”
she said.
She said while she loves Hermis-
ton, she’s not sure where she wants to
end up, and is excited about living in
the city. She hopes to eventually pur-
sue a career in accounting.
Justin Maret
Umatilla High School
Justin Maret said his
parents were the main
driving force in his de-
sire to succeed in school.
When his father died in
October, he was devas-
tated. But he didn’t let
the obstacle stand in his
Maret
way of graduation.
“They always wanted me to do
well, and be good in school,” he said.
Maret will graduate from Umatilla
High School this year as a four-year
athlete in basketball, football and
track, a robotics student and a mem-
ber of the National Honor Society. He
will attend Eastern Oregon University
in the fall, and wants to pursue a ca-
reer in nursing.
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and unfurl the flag wrapped
around it. Monday after-
noon they repeated the en-
tire process in reverse.
Emilio Ortiz, a junior,
said the small holes around
the main walkways were
marked in orange, but the
ones running through the
grassy parts of the ceme-
tery were harder to find.
He didn’t mind searching
in the hot sun, however.
“We’re just giving back
to the community for all
the stuff they’ve done for
us, and for our program,”
he said.
Jonathan Hinkle, also a
junior, echoed Ortiz’s sen-
timents as the two worked
together to put a flag pole
in place. He said he liked
the opportunity to give
back to the community and
pay respect to veterans. He
also appreciated the sym-
“I want to be a nurse practitioner,”
he said. “Those are the people I’d al-
ways go see when I was younger, and
I was fascinated by that.”
Maret said while he’s not sure
where his career will take him after he
graduates, he’s fond of his hometown.
“I’d like to come back,” he said.
Ryan Bailey
Stanfield Secondary School
Ryan Bailey graduat-
ed high school this week
— and simultaneously
completed enough cred-
its to start college as a
junior in the fall.
He will enter Eastern
Oregon University in the
Bailey
fall, a campus where he
has already been a familiar face.
“My freshman and sophomore years,
I went to Eastern Oregon University
and did a summer program, and got 10
credits each time,” he said. “Then last
summer, I took classes online through
BMCC, and took online classes during
the school year as well. I took every-
thing our school has to offer.”
Bailey said the main motivation to
get ahead before college started was to
save money.
“Especially looking into college
this year and seeing how expensive it
is,” he said.
With 97 credits under his belt, Bai-
ley will attend EOU and study politics
bolism of all the flags.
“It represents America
to me,” he said.
Phil Jarmer of Hermis-
ton’s Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 4750 said a lot
of the veterans who attend
the annual Memorial Day
ceremony are no longer
physically able to come out
and help drag flag poles off
trailers and put them up, so
the football team’s work
is something the VFW is
very grateful for.
“They help us every
year and we really appreci-
ate it,” he said.
Jarmer said they also
appreciate the Boy Scouts
who came out ahead of
time to clear grass and
mud out of hundreds of
small holes in the ground
so that the football team
could find them and fit the
poles in.
and economics, with a goal of eventu-
ally attending law school.
Bailey is also a four-year basketball
and baseball player, and had hoped to
continue sports in college, but it didn’t
work out.
“I’m just going to focus on getting
my education,” he said.
Bailey hopes to stay in Eastern Ore-
gon near his parents, older brother and
sister, whom he credits with encourag-
ing him to succeed in high school.
“I really wanted to make them
proud,” he said.
Miriam Mendoza
Echo School
Miriam
Mendoza
spoke no English when
she started high school,
but four years later, she’s
easily chatting with peers
and staff.
“I came to Echo from
Mendoza Mexico,” she said. “It took
me two years to pick up
the language.”
She said that while it was really dif-
ficult and sometimes frustrating, she
took classes and worked on her language
skills to become fluent.
Now, Mendoza will graduate from
Echo School and plans to move to Herm-
iston or Boardman for work. Once she
turns 21, she has another goal in mind.
“I want to go to the academy to train
to be a police officer,” she said.
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ty, community college, the
military, the workforce or
trade school got to partic-
ipate in a “signing day,”
reserved at many schools
for students signing to
play with a college sports
team.
The students were also
treated to speeches by
Athletic Director Larry
Usher and Principal Tom
Spoo, encouraging them
to pursue one of the many
paths available to them.
•••
On Saturday, recent
Hermiston-area
trans-
plant musician Lincoln
Barr played to a full
patio at the Echo Ridge
Cellars winery enjoying
the beautiful evening.
The car show crowd from
earlier in the day brought
their lawn chairs and
lined the enclosed area.
If you didn’t make it
out, don’t worry — For-
est VanTuyl, a Wallowa
County musician who
performs under the stage
name An American Forest,
is playing at The Gather-
ing Place at Bellinger’s on
Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
The forecast is calling
for more sunshine.
•••
Quick work by the
Umatilla County Fire Dis-
trict 1 knocked down a
brush fire near Cemetery
Road in Hermiston Tues-
day afternoon.
Fire Marshal Tom
Bohm said the flames
were likely started by
someone cooking, or leav-
ing an unattended camp
fire. Several shopping
carts with some items in
them were clustered in
the brush, with flames still
lapping under them. No
one was injured.
With fire season nearly
upon us, it’s good to know
the fire department is on
its toes.
•••
Children are now re-
quired by law in Oregon
to stay in a rear-facing car
seat until they turn two.
Oregon’s previous law
only required children to
be rear-facing until age
one or until they weighed
20 pounds. Governor Kate
Brown signed House Bill
3404 into law on May 25,
requiring them to stay fac-
ing the back of the car for
an extra year.
The bill passed 48 to
9 in the House of Repre-
sentatives and 27 to 3 in
the Senate. The offense is
a Class D violation in the
same category as failure
to wear a seatbelt.
•••
Hermiston
resident
Jaclyn Crowder got an
enthusiastic response on
Facebook last week when
she floated the idea of sell-
ing her gourmet salads in a
food cart or restaurant.
Crowder said she is
still in the “planning and
logistics” stage, but af-
ter 612 likes and 325
comments on her post to
gauge interest, she has de-
cided she wants to move
forward with opening a
salad shop or food cart in
Hermiston.
She said she is excited
to be able to provide more
healthy eating options to
people locally.
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