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Hermiston
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017
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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.