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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 LOCAL NEWS Stanﬁ eld council lists top goals for city By JADE McDOWELL STAFF WRITER Developing Stanﬁ eld’s interchange with Interstate 84 is the city’s top priority, according to a goal-setting process with city councilors. Councilors had two dif- ferent brainstorming sessions earlier in the year, then indi- vidually ranked all projects according to importance. Fostering development at the interchange by expand- ing the city’s urban growth boundary was the ﬁ rst of 21 goals released Friday by the city of Stanﬁ eld. City manager Blair Lars- en said he expects the goals to guide the city’s work for the next ﬁ ve years. Some projects on the list are al- ready in the works, while others will need grant mon- ey or other revenue sources behind them before they be- come a reality. “Funding is always the is- sue,” Larsen said. As far as development of the land around the inter- change, Larsen said there are two main ways a city can directly inﬂ uence develop- ment: putting the necessary infrastructure into place and working to match the needs of potential developers. The state often sends “leads” to cities, letting them know that a company is in need of a piece of land in their area that meets a certain list of criteria. Larsen said Stanﬁ eld usually doesn’t have a match because its available com- mercial and industrial land is too small or too far away from the city’s infrastructure. The state is extremely restrictive on when cities can add space to their ur- ban growth boundaries, and Larsen said Stanﬁ eld’s needs wouldn’t ﬁ t that criteria. However, he believes the city would qualify to swap land, taking a chunk out of the city’s UGB elsewhere and putting in the land around the interchange instead. Developer Kent Madi- son is looking to develop an RV park and commercial space on the opposite side of the interchange, near Echo. That land is in Echo’s urban growth boundary, not Stan- ﬁ eld’s, but Larsen said if it goes through it could still help Stanﬁ eld in its goal of making the interchange near the Pilot truck stop more than a place for travelers to pull off the road. “A more developed inter- change, I think, is better for everybody,” he said. A few of the council’s goals are already well on their way to being a reality. Goal number 10 is to in- crease the hours of the city’s part-time code enforcement ofﬁ cer to make her a com- munity enforcement ofﬁ cer who spends time in Stanﬁ eld and Echo schools, increases the amount of time spent on code enforcement and helps out with goal number seven, which is to increase the Stan- ﬁ eld Police Department’s public outreach and visibil- ity. Larsen has been work- ing with the school districts to make that happen in the coming year. ONPA inducts Reed into Hall of Fame The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in- ducted G. M. “Jerry” Reed, former own- er and pub- lisher of the Hermiston Herald, into the Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame on Thurs- G.M. “Jerry” day, July 13, Reed during a cer- emony at the group’s sum- mer convention in Bend. Reed was honored for “extraordinary contribution to the newspaper industry of Oregon” during the event. Reed bought a half in- terest in the Herald in 1970 and became the newspaper’s publisher. He bought the re- maining interest in the paper from Marge Bartlett in 1975 and continued as publish- er until selling the paper to Westcom Publishing in De- cember 1991. Kathryn Brown, publish- er of the Hermiston Herald and East Oregonian, said that Reed “had a tremendous positive impact on the city of Hermiston. Under his own- ership in the 1970s and ’80s, the Hermiston Herald was an integral part of Hermiston’s evolution from a small farm town to the fastest-growing city in Eastern Oregon.” Brown added that “we are proud to have a connection to his legacy today.” Reed died Nov. 4, 2016, in Hermiston at 81. During his career Reed Herald wins two awards from ONPA STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST Penny Reed shows off the plaque her family was given to commemorate her late husband Jerry Reed’s induction to the Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association during a ceremony July 13 in Bend at Tetherow resort. was also publisher of the Itemizer-Observer in Dallas, Oregon, was a partner in Ea- gle Newspapers with Denny Smith and Dick Nafsing- er, was a past president of American Newspaper Rep- resentatives and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Asso- ciation. Members of Reed’s fam- ily, including his widow Penny Reed, daughter Shan- non Paxton (the Hermiston ofﬁ ce coordinator for the Hermiston Herald and East Oregonian) and sons Sean and Marc were in atten- dance during the ceremony to accept Reed’s induction The Hermiston Herald was honored with two awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publish- ers Association during the orga- nization’s annual convention last week in Bend. Jade McDowell, a Hermis- ton-based reporter for both the East Oregonian and Hermiston Herald, placed second in the Best Spot News category for her reporting on the aftermath of a murder-suicide that rocked the community in August 2016. Doug Sanders also placed second in the Best Front Page Design category for a selection of his front page designs for 2016. plaque along with Kathryn Brown, current publisher of the Hermiston Herald and co-owner of EO Me- dia Group, which currently owns the Hermiston Herald. Reed becomes the 58th person inducted into the Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame since it was estab- lished in 1979. Past inductees are legend- ary ﬁ gures in Oregon jour- nalism, including Claude Ingalls of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Charles “Sam” Jackson of The Ore- gon Journal, former Oregon governors Elmo Smith of the Albany Democrat-Her- ald and Charles Sprague of the Salem Statesman, E. B. Aldrich of the East Orego- nian, Alton F. Baker Sr. of the Eugene Register-Guard, J.W. “Bud” Forrester of the East Oregonian and Daily Public can attend superintendent interviews HERMISTON HERALD Hermiston School Dis- trict staff and members of the public are encouraged to sit in on the district’s in- terview process for an in- terim superintendent. The district is look- ing for someone to ﬁ ll in for Superintendent Fred Maiocco after Maiocco an- nounced at a school board meeting July10 that he leaves July 24 to serve a 15 to 18 month tour of duty in Europe with the U.S. Army Reserves. Interviews for the posi- tion will take place July 24 in the school district ofﬁ c- es at 305 SW 11th Street. If two candidates are in- terviewed, the interviews will take place at 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. If three can- didates are interviewed the interviews will take place at 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. A news release by the district said the interviews will be a formal process, not the meet-and-greet the public is used to attend- ing for principals. Attend- ees are encouraged to sit through the full interview process for all candidates, then provide written feed- back on cards that will be available. School board chair Karen Sherman said in a statement that she en- couraged as members of the community as possible to attend. “Selecting an interim superintendent is a very important function for the board, and is one that should not be taken light- ly,” she said. “The super- intendent position is very CALL TODAY AND PAY LESS 800-718-0153 • Speeds up to 100Mbps • Unlimited data – no data caps BEST INTERNET OFFER AS LOW AS 34 99 $ /per mo. for 12 mos UP TO 100MBPS UNLIMITED CALLING Hermiston ﬁ re burns grass land, barn A brush ﬁ re started by a lawn mower burned about 30 acres and a small barn Sunday in Hermiston. The ﬁ re started late Sunday morning between West Highland and Or- chard avenues in an open ﬁ eld, just north of the Hermiston Christian Cen- ter church and school. According to a press release from the Umatil- la County Fire District, the ﬁ re was sparked by a mower hitting something, and the operator was un- able to control the ﬁ re in the high grass because of high winds. 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