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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2017
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BY THE WAY
WINTER
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Camille, 10, said she
thought the giant bears
were “cool” and fun to
climb. She was one of
about 40 children partici-
pating in basketball clinics
at the park, hosted by the
Trail Blazers youth devel-
opment staff.
Matt Dietrich, lead
youth development coach,
said he enjoys hosting clin-
ics around the state to help
the Blazers’ youngest fans
get active and have a pos-
itive experience with bas-
ketball.
“I can’t believe I get
paid to do this,” he said
after one of the half-hour
clinics.
Once the temperature
dips below freezing, par-
ents who want to keep
their children’s minds and
bodies active will have a
harder time finding outdoor
activities like the basket-
ball clinics. Here are some
of the area’s best winter
options for keeping kids
entertained after school
and on the weekends once
the weather turns cold:
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STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Children play on new playground equipment on Wednesday at Sunset Park in Hermiston.
the region. Displays in-
clude a video simulation of
a hot air balloon ride over
Morrow County, interac-
tive games and a running
model of equipment used to
make french fries at nearby
potato-processing plants.
During the winter the cen-
ter is open from 10 a.m. to
5p.m. Monday through Sat-
urday at 101 Olson Road.
for children with sensitivity
to light and noise. On Sat-
urday morning the theater
is having a free showing of
The Lego Batman Movie
for children while collect-
ing nonperishable food for
local food banks. Doors
open at 8:15 a.m. and seat-
ing is on a first-come, first
served basis until full.
City offerings
basketball clinics for pre-
school children begin.
The department also
has special events planned.
Children can have pancakes
with Santa on December
16 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at
the Hermiston Community
Center, and on December 7
at 6 p.m. the city will hold
its free annual tree-lighting
ceremony on NE Second
Street next to city hall.
The city of Hermiston’s
parks and recreation de-
partment offers classes,
sports leagues and events
for children year-round.
Most of the department’s
fall classes wrap up soon,
but the third installment of
the “Film Kids” and “Mini
Filmmakers” classes begin
in November. Film Kids
ages 9 to 16 can work with
DSLR cameras, lighting
and sound equipment and
editing software to shoot
collaborative short films on
Tuesdays from 6:15-7:15
p.m. starting Nov. 7. Mini
filmmaker students ages 5
to 8 can practice creating
short films with their class-
mates from 4:15-5:15 p.m.
on Thursdays starting Nov.
2.
On January 6, indoor
basketball leagues for
school-aged children and
Twenty miles down the
interstate, kids and teens
can swim, play basketball
or climb the rock wall at
the Boardman Recreation
Center. The center’s indoor
swimming pool includes
lap swimming, recreation-
al swim areas, a whirl-
pool and water slide. The
center also features gyms,
exercise equipment and
a 27-foot rock climbing
wall with routes of vary-
ing difficulties. Times vary
for open gym and family
swim, but schedules can be
found each month on the
Boardman Recreation Cen-
ter Facebook page.
The recreation center
is next door to the SAGE
Center, an interactive vis-
itor center where children
can learn about agriculture
and sustainable energy in
Located on Highway
395 across from Wal-Mart,
the Desert Lanes Bowling
Center offers bowling, food
and an arcade-style game
room where players can
win tickets to redeem for
prizes. On “tightwad Tues-
day” games are half priced
from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. and
the bowling alley runs spe-
cials on bowling through-
out the week, including
family days on Sundays,
where bowling is $2.75 per
game, shoe rentals are $1
and children 4 and under
bowl free.
Families can also hit
the movie theater together.
Most movies at Hermiston
Cinema are only $5.50 on
Tuesdays. The theater also
offers special events, in-
cluding one-time screen-
ings of old musicals and
sensory viewings designed
At McNary Dam in
Umatilla, parents can take
their children to tour the
interpretive displays at the
Pacific Salmon Visitor In-
formation Center, 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday. The dam’s pow-
erhouse, with views of
the turbines that generate
electricity, is also open to
the public, provided guests
check in with a security
guard and those 18 and old-
er provide photo ID. Cam-
eras, purses and other bags
are not allowed.
Outdoors, families can
also bundle up and play
disc golf on the McNary
Dam course (which starts
near the northwest corner
of the parking lot), play on
the West Park playground
or wander the nature trails
that stretch from the dam to
the Interstate 82 bridge.
honored and humbled to
receive it here.”
ES: After your football
career ended, what did
you get into?
JZ: “For the past 10
years my home base was
in Houston, Texas, where
I followed (my) pro foot-
ball career for five years
and then got into a career
in the oil and gas industry.
But I moved back to Boi-
se in January and opened a
real estate company called
Zabransky & Clark Real
Estate. I’m onto my third
career and hopefully this
one will stick for longer
than five or six years.”
ES: Are you still in-
volved with the sport of
football at all?
JZ: “I have a couple of
clients in Boise that I do
some skill development
stuff, so I stay around the
game. Also I color com-
mentate for AM630 The
Fan Game of the Week in
Boise. I try to stay around
it as much as possible.”
ES: Looking back
on your athletic career,
could you have dreamed
of having the experienc-
es you did coming from
a small town in Eastern
Oregon?
JZ: “When I was a lit-
tle kid I dreamt of being a
professional athlete. I told
my mom when I was sev-
en when she dropped me
off at Mighty Mites (youth
football) practice ‘Hey I’m
going to play professional
sports’ and she was like
‘oh that’s so nice.’ And as
I started getting closer and
closer to graduating high
school it became fairly real
that I was a pretty decent
athlete and that I might
get a shot at the next lev-
el, but you go from being a
big fish in a small pond to
a small fish in a big pond
and you do that again and
again from college to the
pros and you can’t fear the
challenge. You just have
to go in and work as hard
as you could. That was
something that was never
an issue, hard work was
not something that was
foreign to me and as long
as a man applies that and
puts his head down and is
coachable they’ve got a
shot. It’s not always about
the fastest guy on the field
or the strongest, a lot of the
time it’s grit and determi-
nation that will succeed. I
knew I had a chance, but
to write that sort of a script
and to finish off my college
career the way that it did?
No, I couldn’t have fore-
seen anything like that. It’s
crazy how it all turned out
like it did, kind of capped
off my college career at the
ESPY awards and winning
those two awards and put-
ting my college life to bed
per se, it was so unique.”
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season looked like.”
ES: What does it mean
to you to be inducted
into the Great American
Rivalry Series’ Hall of
Fame?
JZ: “Oh this is a pretty
cool honor. I don’t quite
know the history behind
this precisely, but I know
the history behind this ri-
valry and it’s a long-ten-
ured and pretty heated,
pretty ferocious rivalry.
These guys have always
been a good opponent for
us Bulldogs. You get ready
primarily to try to win a
state title when you start
out, but this is as big of a
game as any for any sport.
That’s almost 100 years
of playing each other and
that’s extremely unique.
There’s not a lot of rival-
ries like that in America
maybe, so it’s bittersweet
to get this award on the
last time these guys play
each other but I’m pretty
Head west
Indoor entertainment
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nature
summer of next year.
• • •
For those already look-
ing ahead to Veterans
Day, the annual Greater
Hermiston Area Cham-
ber of Commerce break-
fast honoring veterans
will be Friday, Nov. 10 at
8 a.m. at the Hermiston
Conference Center. The
chamber is still collecting
photos of veterans for a
tribute slide show. They
can be emailed to kelly@
hermistonchamber.com or
dropped off at the cham-
ber offices, 415 S High-
way 395, by Nov. 6. All
veterans and family mem-
bers are asked to RSVP to
at 541-567-6151 or info@
hermistonchamber.com.
For a full listing of Veter-
ans Day events in the area,
plus a special tribute to
local veterans, check out
next week’s Hermiston
Herald.
• • •
Eighty pounds of pre-
scription drugs were col-
lected on Saturday at a
deposit site for unused
pills set up in front of
the Hermiston Police
Department. The event
was one of many across
the state of Oregon, and
across the United States,
organized by the DEA to
crack down on the opi-
oid crisis affecting people
across the nation. A simi-
lar event in April brought
in more than 12,000
pounds of prescription
pills to collection sites
around Oregon.
• • •
For the 60th year, the
Dad’s Cake Bake raised
money to benefit students
at West Park Elementa-
ry School in Hermiston.
With a “Let the Adventure
Begin” theme, 61 culi-
nary creations brought in
$1,000 during the Oct. 9
event. Mary Gorham, a
second grade teacher, said
Ford Bonney, who donat-
ed his services as auction-
eer, interjected a humor-
ous dialog as cakes were
on the auction block.
The tradition started
in 1957 when Herold
Miller, then president of
the West Park Parent
Teacher Organization,
suggested the event as a
way to help raise money
to put crosswalks around
West Park and Good
Shepherd Hospital, which
used to be next door to the
school. This year’s dia-
mond anniversary event
featured a performance
by kindergarten students
and awards for cakes, in-
cluding “Best Theme” and
“Most Humorous.
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PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY MARY GORHAM
More than 60 cakes were featured during the Dad’s Cake
Bake Oct. 9 at West Park Elementary School in Hermiston.
In its 60th year, the event raised $1,000.
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