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BY THE WAY
To-go diners add
seating for winter
Two Hermiston restau-
rants founded as carry-out
enterprises are expanding
to allow people to eat in-
side.
New salad restaurant
Veg Out has expanded
and added indoor seating
just in time for winter
weather. The shop at 319
W Locust Ave., owned
by Jaclyn Crowder and
Ben Millard, has also
added wraps and soups to
its menu since opening in
August.
Delish Bistro, anoth-
er local restaurant that
started as take-out only
and then added outdoor
seating, will also be able
to offer tables indoors
starting in February af-
ter owners LaNae and
Carol Hull started rent-
ing and renovating the
former Stet’s Steakhouse
building at 1619 N First
St. For now the restaurant
remains behind Cottage
Flowers.
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Activity around the
vacant former bank in the
Safeway plaza parking lot
has sparked rumors of a
gas station, but the build-
ing is slated to become
the new home of the
Hermiston Department
of Motor Vehicles. A
DMV spokesman said it
will still be a few months
before the DMV moves
in, but the move should
happen in the spring or
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
A whirlpool feature and a waterslide are two of the main attractions of the indoor pool at the new Boardman Pool and Recreation Center.
As winter weather hits and
parks become less inviting,
parents have other options for
keeping children entertained
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
A
newly revitalized Sunset Park
unveiled last week will not
have long until winter sets in,
but Hermiston children have
other options for recreation on
cold, snowy days.
A central piece of the park’s new
playground, which was paid for by a
grant from Moda Health and the Port-
land Trail Blazers after Hermiston won
an online voting contest last spring, has
yet to arrive. But several pieces — in-
cluding swings, climbing equipment,
giant plastic drums and two large bears
for sitting and climbing — have joined
the new basketball court installed last
year after the city doubled the neigh-
borhood park’s size.
City councilor Doug Primmer de-
scribed an “epic battle” between
western Oregon and eastern Oregon’s
STAFF PHOTO BY TAMMY MALGESINI
Director Jenny Walker adjusts 13-year-old Jubilee Barron’s hair while Emma Rodgers,
14, looks on. The Hermiston Parks & Recreation youth drama program will present
“Dorothy in Wonderland” April 21-22 at Armand Larive Middle School.
largest cities during a ribbon cutting
ceremony Wednesday.
“When the dust settled, the clear
winner was the children of Hermiston,”
he said.
Rebecca, Natalia and Camille La-
Belle voted in the online contest and
came out Wednesday to see the fruits
of their labors. Natalia said she was
glad to see Sunset Park expanded and
improved with equipment that seemed
safer than the old playground.
See WINTER, Page A16
See BTW, Page A16
Zabransky refl ects on rivalry
By ERIC SINGER
STAFF WRITER
Former Hermiston quarterback
Jared Zabransky had a memorable
career with Boise State, capped
by a 13-0 season in 2006 with a
remarkable win against Oklaho-
ma in the Fiesta Bowl.
But despite his success col-
legiately, he never saw a win
against rival Pendleton while he
was on the varsity high school
team.
Zabransky and the Pendleton
Linebacker’s Club were honored
at halftime of Friday’s Hermis-
ton/Pendleton game at the Round-
Up Stadium as part of the Great
American Rivalry Series.
Sports reporter Eric Singer
caught up with Zabransky prior
to the start of the second half, and
here are a few of the highlights
from that conversation.
ERIC SINGER: What do
you remember from your high
school days about the Pendle-
ton-Hermiston rivalry?
Jared Zabransky: “Pendleton
beat us all three years I was on
varsity. We missed a fi eld goal my
sophomore year that would’ve
won the game for us, but the
other two years they (Pendleton)
had some really good guys, some
big-time Division I linemen in
Roy Scheuning and Sean Per-
kins and their running backs Ste-
phen Bisnett and J.D. Lambert.
I played defense in three games
in high school and two of them
were against Pendleton. I played
safety and we’d line up and yell
‘They’re going to run the B gap,
stuff the B gap!’ and sure enough
Scheuning would just downblock
and lay out our tackle, the line-
backers would get blown up and
I’m trying to tackle Bisnett and
Lambert and get dragged 10 yards
in the defensive backfi eld. Those
were always exciting though.
You prep for those games, your
focus was 100 percent for those
games fi rst and foremost, and if
you didn’t win that game it didn’t
really matter what the rest of the
See ZABRANSKY, Page A16
STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC SINGER
Hermiston alum Jared Zabransky,
right, poses with his parents and
a United States Marine after being
inducted into the Great American
Rivalry Series Hall of Fame game.