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A12 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2018 FROM A1 “I think Lifeways has been trying very hard, but when you get behind the eight ball, help can be appreciated.” REBIRTH continued from Page A1 After ending their run as RoeMark’s Men’s and West- ern Wear from 1974 to 2012, the building and its coun- terpart next door were pur- chased by Simmons Insur- ance in 2016. The building next door was turned into office space for the com- pany, but Simmons Insur- ance has been looking for the past year for someone to lease the corner space for a project to help revitalize downtown. The Union Club will be completed sometime this year, but Doyle said a time- line hasn’t been nailed down yet. He sees opportunity in working on the remodel at the same time as the city of Hermiston works to turn Second Street into a fes- tival street; plans for the remodel include installing a sliding door on the Second Street side that would lead to patio seating with a view of events taking place there. Inside, they plan to feature a fireplace surrounded by couches. “We’re focusing on the quality of beverages and the sense of community,” he said. He said the Union Club will feature a very “inten- tional” selection of cof- fees, craft beers, wines and other beverages served in a cozy, welcoming place that will encourage people to spend more time downtown. The upstairs will be turned into meeting spaces where groups will be able to hold gatherings and the Union Club will host classes on things like exploring Scotch or specialty beers. Joshua Woods, another partner in the project, is working to gather photos of what the old Union Club looked like, as well as mem- orabilia from the building such as the old Coca Cola sign they hung up after find- ing it in a crawl space. “We’re trying to bring back as much of the original Kevin Campbell | Lifeways CEO LIFEWAYS continued from Page A1 STAFF PHOTOS BY E.J. HARRIS Sam Nobles of Hermiston gestures while recounting a story about the old Union Club on Wednesday during a gathering in Hermiston. A group of Hermiston locals gather to share stories about the old Union Club over lunch Wednesday with new business owners planning to revive it. building as we can,” he said. He, Doyle and oth- ers working on the proj- ect hosted a luncheon in the Union Club building last week to try and tease out some memories from former patrons of the original Union Club. Those memories might be taken with a grain of salt. “In the men’s bathroom there was a sign in there that said ‘Please flush the toilet, Umatilla needs the water,’” Bill Meyers said as he ribbed Sam Nobles about growing up in Umatilla. “Now that’s fake, B.S. news!” Nobles said. “It was in there for a while,” Meyers insisted. That particular debate was never settled, but Nobles did say despite being from Umatilla he has fond memories of time spent in the Union Club. “They had a poker room and it was downstairs,” he said. “I could go down and play poker when I was 18 even though I couldn’t drink.” The Union Club started in the 1940s as hundreds of men from various trade unions flooded the area to work first on the igloos at the Umatilla Chemical Depot and then on the McNary Dam. Its exact closing date was unknown by the group but they guessed it was in the mid-1960s. Meyers said during that time period Umatilla boys like Nobles used to come into town and “try to steal our girlfriends” before being chased back home. The run- ning rivalry between the two towns, which has since faded somewhat as Herm- iston has grown, was the subject of some discus- sion on Wednesday. Mey- ers remembers an old cham- ber pot — known by its slang term “white owl” — that a schoolmate found and tied to the back of his truck. Umatilla students stole it (Nobles claims to have had no part in the heist, although he knows who did), and for a while stealing the chamber pot from the other town was a frequent target of weekend teenage hijinks. When asked if he had ever gotten kicked out of the Union Club, Meyers said he might have a time or two. “Sammy knows, we’d get in here and everyone would get louder and louder,” he said. “Every beer you’d drink, you’d get louder, and they’d say you either quiet down or get out.” Judy Cordeniz, who had her last day as CEO of Lifeways on Friday, said GOBHI had not discussed their announcement with her prior to a pointed press release Friday. “I had not heard of this, so I’m not going to com- ment,” she said. “I can assure you that Lifeways will do what we need to do to ensure that clients and service areas are ade- quately taken care of.” Tim Hoekstra, who was announced Friday as the new CEO of Lifeways, has not returned calls for comment. Umatilla County Com- missioner George Mur- dock is a board member of GOBHI. He said he was not surprised by the announce- ment, as there have been many discussions about concerns with crisis ser- vices in the county. “About a month ago, all the law enforcement offi- cers in Umatilla County signed a letter to GOBHI indicating that they needed a new source of crisis intervention services,” Murdock said. “They sub- mitted it to GOBHI and the GOBHI board.” Campbell said he had received the letter, which EO Media Group has filed a public records request for. “I’d say (the letter) as much as anything was the catalyst for speeding up the changes,” he said. “I think Lifeways has been trying very hard, but when you get behind the eight ball, help can be appreciated.” He said goals for Life- ways would include decreased reliance on emergency rooms and jails for people in mental health crisis. He said that could include assessing people in need at home or in the streets, instead of automat- ically transporting them to a hospital or jail. “That’s something the entire state has been push- ing for the last several years,” he said. Murdock said the Aspen Springs facility, which is being constructed in Herm- iston and is slated to be run by Lifeways, could be one part of a solution. The facility, which he said is still in the licensing phase, has 16 beds to hold people in crisis. “I think if we can get some true changes (to Life- ways) in the next 60 to 90 days, it would enhance the operations of Aspen Springs,” he said. Though he did not iden- tify any specific entities, Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston said on Thursday said he was frus- trated with the lack of mental health services in the county, and concerned with the increased pressure on police to handle people in mental crisis. “At what point do we say the police can only do so much?” he said. “I am concerned at this trend of ‘train the police more.’” Edmiston said 20 of his department’s 27 sworn officers have received cri- sis intervention training. But he said their training does not always ensure mental health profession- als will follow through once the initial crisis has passed. SHOP ONLINE 24/7 FORDCOUNTRY.COM YOUR LOCAL FORD TRUCK HEADQUARTERS Get Your Finances In Shape! You Don’t Have To Do All The Heavy Lifting! 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