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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2018
COMMUNITY
THREE MINUTES WITH ...
HERMISTON HISTORY
MEL SWARTZ
Pastor, Oasis Vineyard Church
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
We moved in May of 2017 to take over the church. I
moved from Daytona Beach, Florida.
What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston?
So far, it depends on the food. I love Tacos y Mas, La
Palma, Delish for city food. I like Last Supper Dining
— they do a prime rib dip that’s amazing.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I have young children – 8, 6, and 3 — so mostly
I spend time with them. We try to do family hikes,
but it doesn’t always work out. We try to go to the
mountains.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
I think what surprised me is that I thought I was
moving to a small, rural farming community —
and I did — but it’s really about business. It’s very
business-savvy.
What was the last book you read?
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline. It was good; it’s
science fiction, if you like that sort of thing.
What app or website do you use most often
other than Facebook or Google?
Spotify.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
I love to travel. Lately, I’ve been wanting to go back
to Scotland, I lived there when I was a kid on the
Kintyre Peninsula. Paul McCartney wrote a song
about it.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
I was supposed to give a speech for a class in college,
and I went to the wrong room. The professor wasn’t
there, but the TA was. They asked me who I was, and
I said I was supposed to give a speech. So I stood up
to give this persuasive speech, and it was so off-topic
– it was a chemistry class or something. I got about
10 minutes in before the TA said, “I think you’re in
the wrong spot.”
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
We have a garden at church that we grow produce
from and give away. I’d like to expand that garden
and have more types of produce. This past year we
gave 2,500 pounds of produce, but the previous year
we gave 4,000. We give it to people who need it —
fresh produce can be hard to find.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Three children and 13 years of happy marriage.
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HH FILE PHOTO
Hermiston students board a school bus during a snowstorm in January 1993.
25 YEARS AGO
we dedicate these
lines, in the hope
Because of slick
that it will be the
means of a gen-
roads and dangerous
tle reminder that
driving
conditions,
we need money
area school districts
at this time to pay
have been using up
our obligations.
their few “emergency
It costs money,
closure” days at an
moreso now than
alarming rate. Herm-
iston School District,
it ever did, to
operate a newspa-
which has the luxury
per, so we would
of five closure days,
admonish those
has already used half
who do not come
their margin. “Basi-
cally we’ve used up
across in a rea-
sonable time on
about two and a half
subscription not
days, which is about
to feel unkindly
half our total days,”
toward
us
if
said Hermiston Super-
intendent Jer Pratton.
their names are
According to a
dropped from our
HH FILE PHOTO
recent report by the
list of subscribers
due to non-pay-
Oregon Health Divi- Then-county commissioner Bill Hansell gives Hermiston High School
sion 1,537 cases of students in Kyle Kennison’s senior social studies class a lesson on county ment of dues.
AIDS have been government in January 1993.
Little did the
reported in the state.
least three of the
Of that number, 35
city council dream
are listed here in Uma- munity need.
purchasing $238,862.80 of that they would be caught
tilla County, reports Sha-
Hermiston area soci- war bonds during Novem- in a web of their own mesh,
ron Kline, RN, administra- ety will be host to literally ber, the last month for when, at the last meeting of
tor of the Umatilla County champion guests on Jan. 19 which official figures are the city fathers, they passed
Public Health Department. — a Japanese all-star high available. Total statewide a resoltion instructing the
The real problem with that school championship wres- sales are $10,787,000. city clerk to enforce the
last figure is not that it is tling team. The Japanese Oregon’s national record water ordinance and see to
so high for a rural county will wrestle Hermiston and is the largest purchase of it that all who had not paid
such as Umatilla, but that it Stanfield boys at the senior war bonds in proportion to their monthly rental by
is only the tip of the deadly high school here that night income of any state in the the 10th of this month be
iceberg. Kline explains that beginning at 7:30 p.m. and union. Oregon has led the deprived of the use of the
for every one reported, sta- following the competition nation twice in the last four city’s domestic fluid. But
tistics show as least 50 the Japanese will spend the months, having also been every lane has a turn, and
cases of the always-fatal night at homes of Hermis- the number one state in when the 10th of the month
disease go undetected. The ton families.
rolled around the shoe was
August.
administrator goes on to
on the other foot, for on
warn that while every sexu-
turning the faucet at their
75 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO
ally active individual or IV
respective homes and hear-
JAN. 21, 1943
JAN. 19, 1918
drug user is at risk, teenag-
ing only a gurgle therefrom,
ers are especially suscepti-
Hermiston dairies are
At the close of the old Aldermen Carl McNaught,
ble to the disease. Accord- telling their patrons that year we mailed to all the Harry Straw and Frank
ing to the Oregon Health the “Milk Bottle Loss is subscribers whose sub- Woughter quickly came to
Division report, over 50 Too High.” Instructions scriptions to this paper a realization that they had
percent of all Oregon teens are given in an advertise- were due or overdue a been caught in a trap of
have reported having sex- ment on page 4 as to the statement, to which many their own making, and it is
ual intercourse; of those proper care of milk bot- immediately
responded. said that all three forthwith
teens, only 25 percent tles and readers are urged The balance, however, hastened from their homes
reported using a condom to cooperate in this matter. have evidently mislaid without breakfast to hunt
during the last experience.
Due to the extreme short- and forgotten the state- up City Clerk Jensen to pay
age of bottles and the high ment, and it is to them that their water dues.
cost of replacing them,
50 YEARS AGO
the matter is quite seri-
JAN. 18, 1968
ous. Samples of damage
Hermiston’s first audi- done by housewives
torium per se is about to who used too hot water
become a reality even to rinse the bottles can
though it will be located be seen at The Her-
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