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INSIDE SPORTS STANFIELD SQUAD TAKES TOP HONOR IN ANNUAL 3-ON-3 TOURNAMENT PAGE 9 Hermiston Herald WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 HermistonHerald.com $1.00 INSIDE HALL OF FAME FORMER HERALD PUB- LISHER HONORED BY STATE JOURNALISM GROUP. PAGE 3 FAIR SEASON DEADLINES ARE FAST APPROACHING FOR COUNTY FAIR ENTRIES. PAGE 4 BUSINESS FARM TECHNOLOGY TO BE DISPLAYED AT EXPO NEXT MONTH. PAGE 8 Summer meals fuel vacation activities BY THE WAY Turn on the smoke... Rabekah Williams, 8, and Jayziah Williams, 10, work on an art project after eating lunch at the Umatilla-Morrow County Head Start summer lunch program. By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER S chool doesn’t start up again for more than a month, but students and families still can access free meals and activities around Umatilla and Morrow counties, thanks to several summer meals programs throughout the area. Umatilla-Morrow County Head Start offers meals Mon- day through Friday, serving an average of 55 lunches per day to students all summer long. Four-year-old Alfredo Mendez was enjoying carrots and a banana at lunch on Thursday, but said he was most excit- ed about something else. “I’m coming to get a toy,” he said, beaming. The students get a punch card and receive a toy if they return for fi ve meals. People come to the free meals for lots of reasons: to get a balanced meal, to give their kids a chance to socialize, or to do the activities many of the free lunch venues provide. See MEALS, A14 STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN Juliah Williams, 7, paints a picture at the Umatilla-Morrow County Head Start summer lunch program. There will be a new “Boomer” the bulldog es- corting athletes onto Ken- nison Field this fall. The Hermiston High School Associated Student Body posted a video and two pho- tos of the new tunnel athletes will run through prior to games this fall on the group’s Twitter account (@Herm- istonASB) this week. The infl atable tunnel features the Hermiston Bulldogs name and logo on the side and a purple-and-black clad 25- foot tall Boomer on the front of the tunnel. Apparently there is a smoke machine to go with the new tunnel to provide that big-time sports effect to the players making their entrance through the new tunnel. • • • More than 60 athletes representing the Herm- iston/Pendleton Special Olympics Local Program #510 traveled to Corvallis July 7-9 to participate in the Special Olympics State Summer Games. Competing at Tryst- ing Tree Golf Course, fi ve golf athletes brought home a handful of medals — in- cluding two fi rst time golf athletes. David Andrews earned gold in the Individ- ual Skills Competition and Saul Lara got a bronze. Three athletes along with their Unifi ed Partners par- ticipated in an alternating See BTW, A14 Dehydration plant odor causes stink in Stanfi eld By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY Odors wafting from the 3D Idapro Solutions plant prompted some Stanfi eld residents to report the company to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Stanfi eld residents have long looked forward to summer as a time when the air is perfumed with the smell of local mint harvests. But this year the small town has been inundated with a not-so-pleasant scent that has caused many to complain. Leland Winebarger has a welding business in Stanfi eld that is located close to the factory. “It was just awful,” he said of the smell last week. “Today, I threw up.” Several others have complained about the stench emitting from a local dehydration plant run by 3D IdaPro, the product from which is primarily used to make dog food. See ODORS, A14 Hermiston has an aroma issue too The city of Hermiston on Friday posted a message to Facebook encouraging its residents to make complaints to the city about foul odors emanating from properties in the city limits that may be in violation of the city’s nuisance code. “That means you don’t have to live with it, you can actual- ly do something about it!” a Facebook post from the city said. During a May 22 city council meeting several citizens who live on the southwest side of Hermiston off of Highway 207 complained about the smell from a property owner’s wet silage nearby. They were told the city must give due process to violators of its nuisance ordinances and were encouraged to document the problem and submit it to the city so that it can be used as evidence in court. Residents with complaints about smell nuisances are en- couraged to contact code enforcement offi cer Mike Marcum at mmarcum@hermiston.or.us or by phone at 541-667-5030 and submit details about where and when the problem occurred.
