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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2017
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STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN.
Rocio Potter leads a tour of the new Women’s Center in the Good Shepherd Medical Center
plaza Tuesday night.
who used to live in Hender-
son, Nevada, provided emer-
gency care at a trauma cen-
ter during the recent Nevada
shootings. Scott is a Hermis-
ton native who was formerly
a competitive athlete. Jones
is fluent in Spanish.
After speeches, wom-
en’s center staff took vis-
itors on tours of the new
facility, showing off features
such as the exam rooms (all
of which have sound-proof
barn doors), the procedure
rooms and the ultrasound
rooms, which will allow
doctors to work with high-
risk patients.
Dr. Allison Khavkin is
one of four providers cur-
rently working for the Wom-
en’s Center. She said she was
excited about the growth
potential the new space
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had been a long time com-
ing, Good Shepherd admin-
istrators said, noting that it
had taken a four year wait
and about two years of con-
struction to complete the
project.
CEO Dennis Burke also
introduced five new health-
care providers that have
joined Good Shepherd. They
included Matthew Carlson,
an urgent care doctor; Allen
Damien, a pediatrician; Pat-
rick Harrison, an orthopedic
surgeon; Todd Jones, a gen-
eral and venous surgeon and
Chris Scott, a chiropractor.
He also shared some tidbits
about each doctor. Carlson,
offered. The hospital said in
a news release that the extra
space will allow it to keep
up with the rapidly-growing
Hermiston population.
Khavkin, a Canada
native, has been in Herm-
iston for about a year, and
said Hermiston was the
only place in Eastern Ore-
gon with a facility to handle
high-risk pregnancies.
“It’s convenient for
patients to do care here,”
she said. “And we also work
with Legacy Health in Port-
land, which is nice for high-
risk patients.”
She said the new space
should make daily opera-
tions a little smoother. She
said they were also look-
ing forward to adding more
midwives and nurse practi-
tioners to the practice.
has also arrived and will
be placed soon as part of
a total make-over of the
small neighborhood park.
Fetter said the depart-
ment is also ready to install
a series of interpretive pan-
els at McKenzie Park and
the Oxbow Trail, includ-
ing a map of the new disc
golf course at the head of
the trail across from Good
Shepherd Medical Cen-
ter. The bases for the pan-
els, made of wrought iron
and featuring water fowl
and cattails, have been sit-
ting with blank tops for
over a year as the depart-
ment worked to gather
information and design the
panels.
• • •
Eric Reise, a member
of the Hermiston Rotary
Club and the West Coast
team leader for ShelterBox
USA, recently accepted a
donation from the Pendle-
ton Rotary Club. George
Murdock, the club’s pres-
ident-elect, said the group
raised $4,000 in recog-
nition of relief efforts on
behalf of hurricane victims
in Florida and Texas. .
Rotary
International
partners with ShelterBox
to provide emergency shel-
ter and provisions to help
people and communities
impacted by disasters. For
more information, visit
www.rotary.org or www.
shelterboxusa.org.
• • •
It’s Farm Fair week here
in Hermiston (pick up a
copy of last week’s spe-
cial section in the Hermis-
ton Herald if this is news to
you).
Farmers and trade pro-
fessionals will gather at the
Eastern Oregon Trade and
Event Center, and will get a
first-hand view of a newly
planted crop — winter
wheat in the overflow dirt
parking lot.
The wheat will help con-
trol the dust, and the wheel
line to keep it irrigated was
donated by Elmer’s Irri-
gation and Valmont N.W.
The EOTEC board com-
plimented the fine wheel
line at its meeting last
week, and board mem-
ber Kim Puzey noted the
uniqueness of such praise.
“You might be from
Eastern Oregon if you
think a wheel line looks
nice,” he joked.
• • •
Congratulations are in
order to those chosen to
receive a Linda Gilleese
Memorial
Scholarship
from Altrusa Interna-
tional of Hermiston. The
recipients and their majors
include Jackie Barlow
(health), Debbie Smith
(elementary education) and
Stephanie Loving (inte-
grated studies). All three
are students at Eastern Ore-
gon University. The schol-
arships are given in mem-
ory of Linda Gilleese, a
former Altrusan and Herm-
iston community member
who was a strong advocate
for education. Additional
scholarship opportunities
will be available in Febru-
ary. For more information,
email hermistonaltrusa@
gmail.com or visit www.
districttwelve.altrusa.org.
• • •
And finally, the Hermis-
ton Public Library is tap-
ping into some old-school
technology — the bulletin
board — to help the city
connect with its patrons.
The library will pose
questions on a weekly
basis and solicit comments
to be hung on a board by
the front entrance.
This week’s ques-
tion: “Why do you live in
Hermiston?”
Next time you’re in the
area, make sure to stop
by, fill out an answer and
check out what else is on
the board.
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