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A14 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM BTW: continued from Page A1 He said as far as he could recall, no other chiefs from Hermiston had served on the board of that group. • • • The Hermiston School District is seeking community feedback af- ter voters rejected a $104 million bond measure this May. The district will collect informa- tion from the community through an online platform called “Thought Exchange,” which allows people to submit comments and opinions anonymously. District adminis- trators and school board members will use the feedback to decide when they might put another bond measure on the ballot. To comment, community mem- bers can go online signup.thotex. com/hermiston/Lnj and sign up, and then click on the “Share your thoughts” link. Participants will then answer a series of questions, and can add, delete, or change their answers any time after completing it, until the forum closes on June 11. • • • Hermiston High School’s grad- uation will be Saturday, June 10, at 10 a.m. at the Hermiston High School gymnasium. Audience members must have a ticket to en- ter the gymnasium. Overflow seat- GRADS: continued from Page A1 high school. Our 12th grade class was 377 students at the last enrollment report. Next year’s freshman class is 410. If you project down the road, the junior class will be at 382. And the cur- rent seventh grade class is at 447.” The 2010 census data showed that between 2000 and 2010, Hermiston saw an increase of 712 children ages 5 to 17. In 2000 there were 2,880, and by 2010 it had jumped to 3,592. Mooney said the growth of the youth population is reflective of changes in the surrounding area. “When the community grows, the school grows,” she said. Mooney said the increase in enrollment has had some benefits, including the po- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2017 FROM PAGE A1 ing is in the auditorium and does not require a ticket. The event will also be live-streamed, and the link is at the district website, hermis- ton.k12.or.us. • • • A large Eastern Oregon contin- gent was on hand in Clackamas on Sunday to attend the ceremony for Daniel J. Hill, who was promoted from colonel to brigadier general in Oregon National Guard. Hill’s father, Jim Hill of Hermiston par- ticipated in the ceremony by help- ing to affix is new one-start rank insignia to Hill’s dress uniform jacket. Hill’s daughter, Mackenzie Hill, a junior at Hermiston High School, also participated by hold- ing the Bible that was used when Hill took the oath of his new office (see story Page 7). Among those in attendance were several current and former staff members from the Circuit Court where Hill is judge in his civilian life. They included Roy Blaine, trial court adminis- trator, Judge Eva Temple, Judge Christopher Brauer, and former judge Jeff Wallace. • • • You can submit items for our weekly By The Way column by emailing your tips to editor@ hermistonherald.com or share them on social media using the hashtag #HHBTW. Follow the Hermiston Herald on Twitter at @ HermistonHerald. tential to add new programs. “The really good aspect is that there are more op- portunities for kids,” she said. “The ability to offer different programs is good. I know we’re looking at add- ing some health occupation programs. We’ve been able to offer a greater range of elective classes.” The district has sever- al programs aimed at ca- reer preparation, includ- ing agriculture, food and natural resource systems; arts, information and com- munications; business and management; family con- sumer sciences and human resources; health sciences; and industrial and engineer- ing systems. One such class is the Co- lumbia Basin Student Home Building Program, which al- lows students to construct a home that will then be sold. She said that those addi- tional classes are the areas in Flora School Days PAUL WAHL/EO MEDIA GROUP Lee Carlson of Hermiston brought a team of fjord horses and a wagon to provide tours of the town of Flora during Flora School Days Saturday. Flora is 40 miles north of Enterprise on the Lewiston Highway. The day-long event showcased dozens of crafts and old-time experiences and drew visitors from across three states. It is a fundraiser for Flora School Education Center. Carlson is organizer of the CC Plowing event at Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center in Hermiston. which a larger student pop- ulation allows the district to expand. “Math requirements, language arts requirements — other schools will have those same offerings,” she said. “What sets us apart is the ability to offer outside of that.” The programs can offer some incentives for students in smaller districts. Mooney said 134 students transferred into the district this year from other areas while 131 transferred out. Mooney said there are some challenges that come with the growth, as well. “With growth comes growing pains,” she said. “In Pendleton, the pains are different, and the opportuni- ties are different.” The biggest challenge for the district will be space. Af- ter a failed bond in May that proposed to build a new el- ementary school and rebuild IMPORTANT BENEFIT INFORMATION FOR CURRENT AND FORMER Hanford workers two others with increased capacity, the district is go- ing to have to take another look at how to handle the still-growing student popu- lation. Right now, the solu- tion to the growth has been to use modular classrooms, but district employees have said that will be difficult to maintain as a long-term solution. The city of Hermis- ton presented data col- lected by Portland State University that looks at projections for the area’s urban growth boundary. Although Hermiston and Pendleton were found to have similar populations within their city limits at the time of the fore- cast, Hermiston’s urban growth boundary was projected to grow much faster. In 2000, the popu- lation within Hermiston’s urban growth boundary was 15,635. In 2010 it was 19,234. The projected popu- lation for 2016 was 21,488, and for 2035, it was 28,667. By contrast, the popula- tion within Pendleton’s ur- ban growth boundary was 17,161 in 2000, but dropped a bit by 2010, and is project- ed to increase just slightly, to 18,395 people, by 2035. Hermiston Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan said the reason for overall growth in the area is fairly straightforward. “People follow the jobs,” he said. “Unless it’s a resort destination, people don’t typically say, ‘I’m going to move to Hermiston and then find a job.’ It’s really just general economic growth in the region.” He cited the expansion of several food processing plants and new data centers in the area in the last few years, all of which have cre- ated scores of jobs and, as a result, growth in other parts of the community. Morgan said another reason Hermiston might be seeing more people mov- ing in is its proximity to the Tri-Cities. “We are absolutely dif- ferent housing markets,” he said. “But with the correla- tion in commuting patterns, there’s ways I believe we’re tied to them.” He added that because most people seeking a place to live based on work are more likely to be at the age where they have school-go- ing children, it’s safe to assume that with this pop- ulation increase, school enrollment will continue to climb. “I don’t see it going any- where in the near future,” he said. –—— Contact Jayati Ra- makrishnan at 541-564- 4534 or jramakrishnan@ hermistonherald.com 7KH¿UVWKHDULQJGHYLFH WKDWUHYROYHVDURXQG\RX RESOURCE FAIR ExhibitS Information Community ★ ★ Cold War Patriots is hosting a workers’ Resource Fair which helps connect current and former Hanford workers and their families to helpful resources with health care, financial, safety and benefits information. 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