WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017
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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
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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
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ter church and school.
According to a press
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the fi re was sparked by a
mower hitting something,
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Flames were as high as
15 feet when fi refi ghters
arrived and the wind was
blowing 10 mph, rapidly
moving the fi re.
Firefi ghters from Echo,
Umatilla and Boardman
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fi re, and Cascade Natural
Gas, Umatilla Electric and
local police agencies were
also on scene.
There was one wreck
caused by a driver distract-
ed by the fi re. Traffi c was
closed on both Highland
and Orchard for a time.
Firefi ghters had the
blaze under control by
mid-afternoon.
Inmate dies Saturday at TRCI
A convicted murderer
died at Two Rivers Cor-
rectional Institution early
Saturday morning.
According to an Oregon
Department of Corrections
press release, Richard
Bradbury, 61, was found
unresponsive in his cell at
approximately 3:38 a.m.
Despite life saving ef-
forts from medical staff,
Bradbury was declared
dead at 4:16 a.m.
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On the administrative
side, the council wants to
complete a salary study,
give cost of living raises
every two years and make
police salaries more com-
petitive. One way to do that
will be goal number four,
which is to raise franchise
fees on utilities to 7 percent.
The extra revenue can be
part of the city’s goals to
develop fi ve-year fi nancial
forecasts and to write a cap-
ital improvement plan.
The other goals on the
council’s list are to con-
duct annual meetings be-
tween the city council and
business owners, expand
the public library’s hours,
present the council with an
annual performance report
and update the city’s web-
site quarterly.
visible in our schools and
community. The board feels
that it’s imperative that we
include stakeholders in the
process.”
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Astorian, as well as Reed’s
former Eagle Newspapers
partners Richard Nafsinger
of the Hood River News and
Denny Smith.
Reed becomes the fi rst
person inducted into the
Hall of Fame since 2013. No
members were inducted in
2010 or 2014-2016.
“This is not really a reac-
tive position, but a proactive
one,” Larsen said.
The majority of the coun-
cil’s goals fall into the public
works category. The council
would like to see the city
rehabilitate the old water
tower standing over down-
town, add more playground
equipment to parks, improve
park signage, install history
markers around town, con-
struct a bike path to Pilot and
construct a trail along Stage
Gulch. The city is also hop-
ing to develop a concrete list
of projects for volunteers and
get everyone together at least
once a year for a citywide
cleanup event.
“Nobody wants to vol-
unteer for something that is
going to be a never-ending
job,” Larsen said.
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