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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
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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
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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.
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