WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017
COMMENTARY
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Changes needed at
highway intersection
To the Editor:
Recently I witnessed
a potential accident that
haunts me still today. I
was stopped at the light on
Highway 395 waiting to
turn East onto Elm Street.
A flatbed semi and trailer
was slowly turning East
onto Elm Street. At the
curb there were two girls,
probably middle school
age, waiting to cross Elm
Street northward. One of
the girls seemed engaged
in texting. As the semi part
of the truck combo passed,
the girl texting stepped off
the curb. The truck stopped
and the other girl grabbed
her texting friend and
pulled her back. The truck
then proceeded slowly with
the rear tires missing the
curb by inches. If the truck
driver had not been so alert,
I feel quite sure I would
have witnessed the third
fatality at this intersection
in the past couple of years.
After the second fatality
at the intersection of
Highway 395 and Elm
Street the children of
the first fatality made an
impassioned plea for the
Oregon Department of
Transportation to route
trucks away from the
Diagonal/Elm Street route
to a designated truck route
following Highway 730 and
Highway 395. This route
would increase travel only
4 miles. It would remove
trucks from the Diagonal
Road which is primarily
residential and place them
on the 730/395 route which
is mostly commercial. It
would also make it possible
for children along the
Diagonal Road to once
again be able to use bicycle
lane ODOT promised them
when they improved the
road and placed lanes along
the route.
After the second fatality
I spoke with an ODOT
official about the likelihood
of ODOT requiring trucks
to use the 730/395 route.
His response was they
had spent a lot of money
improving the intersection
of Elm Street/Highway
395, and he doubted they
would be interested in
making this change. He did
say that ODOT had been
known to make changes
if enough pressure was
brought to bear.
After this conversation
I wondered at what level
of mortality would it take
to have ODOT move the
trucks off the Diagonal/
Elm Street route to the
Highway 730/395 route.
We know that two deaths
in the past couple of years
have not done it. Would the
death of a child have made
any difference?
CARLISLE HARRISON
HERMISTON, OR
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So long, Buckaroos, it’s been great
T
here are many
ingredients to a great
sports rivalry.
First, something has
to be at stake. The pride
of winning carries some
weight, but there has to
be an extra motivation.
A perfect example are
the Los Angeles Lakers
and Boston Celtics, two
teams from opposite coasts
whose ongoing rivalry was
borne solely out of both
teams’ excellence. They’ve
faced off 12 times for NBA
titles and both boast deep
Hall of Fame rosters.
Proximity is a helpful
ingredient, though not
necessary. If two teams
are based near each other
then a win is more than
just a “W” in the sports
pages. It’s a merit of
accomplishment a fan can
bring up over (and over)
in mixed company, and
people who live in the area
are well aware
are often forced
of the decades
to pick a side.
of frustration
Think Duke/
through most of
North Carolina,
the 20th century,
two college
but that era
basketball
certainly made
powerhouses
the first few
separated by
Daniel
about 10 miles of Wattenburger Hermiston wins
even sweeter.
road.
So it’s a shame that
And for a rivalry to
we’re going to have to
be truly great, there must
close the book on this
be some parity. Nothing
rivalry after Friday. The
in sports is as exciting as
reasons are clear and
regular clashes between
understandable — the
two teams that defy the
odds and expectations each schools are no longer
really in the same size
time out, and can bring
bracket, and Hermiston is a
even non-sports fans into
better fit with the Tri-Cities
the fray.
and Walla Walla than Bend
By these standards,
and East Portland. But
the Hermiston/Pendleton
football rivalry has become it’s still hard to picture a
a great one in recent years. football season when the
Bucks and Bulldogs don’t
There have been surprises
and upsets, twists and turns face off.
We will still see our
as the teams have traded
cross-county friends
home fields and bragging
(foes?) in other athletic
rights. Hermiston fans
arenas as the rivalry will
continue to play out in
non-league action. But
we won’t see, at least in
the next four years, a do-
or-die game where both
teams are playing for their
postseason lives. We won’t
have the reason to travel
to Pendleton on a cold
October night, or welcome
their buses to Kennison
Field and get together to
cheer on our team.
Maybe there’s a natural
rival for Hermiston
somewhere in the Mid-
Columbia League. I sure
hope so. But for now
we’ve got our purple on
and our banners ready for
one more trip to Round-Up
Stadium. We hope it’s one
for the ages.
———
Daniel Wattenburger, a
former sportswriter, is
the interim editor for the
Hermiston Herald.
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