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INSIDE ! S R E OU S DAY B PPY VALENTINE HA RIVALRY Hermiston boys snap five-game losing streak to Pendleton. HermistonHerald.com WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2018 PAGE A10 FUNNY STORY HERMISTON COUPLES See what Umatilla School District superintendent said was one of the funniest moments of her career. PAGE A2 LOVE ASSAULT INCREASE Crime is down overall in Hermiston, but aggravated assaults continue to rise. PAGE A3 STORIES CHESS SUCCESS Hermiston and Heppner students learn patience, skill and strategy through chess. PAGE A9 By JADE MCDOWELL and JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITERS Jim and Michelle McAllister as a young couple. E very good romantic movie has a meet-cute moment where the two main characters see each other for the first time. Some- times there’s a stolen identity or crazy mix-up involved, other times it’s love — or hate — at first sight. Real life isn’t always so picture perfect, but there are plenty of good stories to be found. We asked three sets of Hermiston res- idents to tell us theirs. BY THE WAY Three Bulldogs sign letters of intent Three Hermiston Bull- dogs signed letters of intent Tuesday after- noon to further their ath- letic careers. Football players Jonathan Hin- kle and Joey Gutierrez will join the Eastern Ore- gon University Mountain- eers, while Antonio Cam- pos, of the boys soccer team, will go on to play at Walla Walla Community College. Hinkle and Gutierrez are coming off a cham- pionship season where they both received all- state honors for their work on defense. Hinkle was named to the first-team as a linebacker after record- ing 122 tackles and four interceptions on the sea- son. Gutierrez joins him on the first-team as a defen- sive back with 70 tackles and six interceptions. Campos, Hermiston’s starting goalkeeper before going down with an injury, will join a number of Ore- gon soccer players that will make the trip north to play with the Warriors. $1.00 Jim and Michelle McAllister PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY MICHELLE McALLISTER, LILLIAN SMITH, WANDA HUNT Lillian and Jack Smith sit on Lillian’s dresser. Wanda Hunt and Richard Scarlett’s school photos. When Jim and Michelle McAllister met, she wasn’t having a great day. She had cut her finger badly at work, slic- ing through a small artery. Jim picked her up in an ambulance. The pair were both in the Navy, stationed in Key West, Florida. Jim was a corpsman, Michelle was a weather observer. She turned 19 at midnight while getting her finger stitched up; he was in his early 20s. “I picked her up and thought, ‘She’s kind of cute,’” Jim said. He did some due diligence and suddenly found himself with a frequent craving for McDonald’s, where she worked the drive- through. Eventually he worked up the cour- age to ask a friend to tell her Jim wanted to go on a date, and they made a plan to go. But Jim accidentally stood her up after going sailing with friends earlier that day and los- ing the wind while they were out to sea. “I called her up from a pay-phone,” Jim said. “At 9 p.m.!” Michelle interjected. She forgave him, and they started going steady not long after, sticking together even though Jim got transferred out to California. When he came back to Florida for a visit a few months later, he wanted to go to the beach, where he planned to surprise her with flowers and an engagement ring. But Michelle had a softball game to play, and she refused to miss it. See LOVERS, A16 See BTW, A16 District aligns 2019 spring break with Washington Interim superintendent Tricia Mooney said she was making the recommendation to the board at the Hermiston School District stu- suggestion of the Educational Coun- dents will align even more closely cil, a group of staff representing each school, two administra- with their Washington tors and two school board peers next year, as the school board on Mon- Spring Break members that makes rec- ommendations about day voted 4-1 to adopt scheduling. the same spring break as At two previous school Washington next year. board meetings, some ele- The decision means mentary school teach- spring break will be from ers had spoken against April 1 to 5 in 2019, the the proposed change. same as Washington state schools and Hermiston’s new athletic At Monday’s meeting, Josh Linn, a league rivals, instead of the last week Rocky Heights Elementary School in March along with Oregon schools. teacher who has been a vocal oppo- Board members Jason Middleton nent of the schedule change, again and Dave Smith were absent for the voiced his concern about the change. vote, and Mark Gomolski was the See BREAK, A9 lone dissenter. By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER 2019 April 1 - 5 HH FILE PHOTO A school bus leaves the Hermiston High School parking lot.
