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A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2018 COMMUNITY THREE MINUTES WITH ... HERMISTON HISTORY 25 YEARS AGO MAY 11, 1993 BRIANA MONTANO Community Development Coordinator, Umatilla-Morrow Head Start When and why did you move to Hermiston? I moved to Hermiston in January 2017. My boy- friend and I both wanted to move, and he transferred here for FedEx. We moved from Albuquerque, New Mexico. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? I love Delish Bistro. What do you like to do in your spare time? I like to garden, cook, make bath bombs and cosmet- ics. And we have a cat, we like taking her for walks and to the park. What surprises you about Hermiston? How similar the weather is to back home. The terrain is also very similar. It looks a lot like New Mexico; I was surprised. What was the last book you read? “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” What app or website do you use most often other than Facebook or Google? Probably Pinterest. I love getting different pictures and inspiration from different places. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? My boyfriend has family in France. I really want to visit France, Spain and Italy. What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? When I was younger, I did 4-H. I did sewing, and I had made a skirt. For the awards show, the sewing contestants did a fashion show for the whole crowd. I was walking and I fell of the stage face-first. I was in a skirt, and I just heard my mom start laughing. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? I really want to start graduate school. And I want to travel, see parts of Oregon and Washington, and go to Canada. What is your proudest accomplishment? Graduating college, and moving out here. Oth- ers move away and come back home, but I’m proud we’ve been able to stick it out. Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 112 ● NUMBER 18 Jade McDowell | Reporter • jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4536 Jayati Ramakrishnan | Reporter • jramakrishnan@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4534 Tammy Malgesini | Community Editor • tmalgesini@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4539 Hermiston School Board members heard the first solid suggestions for cutting about $1.5 million from the district’s budget. “When we started mak- ing the list, we tried to find things to cut before cutting people,” said Hermiston Superintendent Jer Pratton. “Another thing we kept in mind was reducing pro- grams before cutting pro- grams out.” Pratton stressed that the list contained proposals for the next school year. How- ever, the proposals were approved by the board and will go to the budget com- mittee to serve as a basis for building next year’s budget. To raise revenue the dis- trict is looking at charging a $50 user fee for partici- pating in one high school sport. The fee would be $100 for two sports or $140 for a family. It was also considering increasing pool rates by 50 percent and increasing breakfast and lunch prices by 25 cents. • Finding ways to cre- ate new space for the grow- ing population in Hermis- ton schools could involve the construction of one or two new buildings, if Hermiston School Board agrees with recommenda- tions from the Planning for Growth Committee. Board members heard three options for new build- ings in the district. The choices, ranging in cost from $11 million to $17 mil- lion, all included construc- tion or major remodeling. The first recommenda- tion was to build two new middle schools on prop- erty owned by the dis- trict on Diagonal Road and Johns Avenue. The mid- dle schools would hold grades six through eight, solving some of the over- crowding at the elemen- tary schools. Each building would be designed for 600 students, and would include a remodel of Armand Lar- ive Junior High for use as a small elementary. The second recommen- dation was to build one large junior high for about 900 students on the Diag- onal property. In addition to the junior high a new 500-student elementary would be built on the Johns Avenue property. A third recommenda- tion also asks for the con- struction of a large junior high. However, instead of building a new elementary school, additional wings or musical classrooms would be added to the existing ele- mentary buildings. HH FILE PHOTO Ryan Ferguson (left) and Bucky Jacobsen round the bases after hitting home runs in a double-header sweep of Redmond in 1993. Jacobsen went on to play for the Seattle Mariners in 2004. HH FILE PHOTO More than a dozen people turned out in 1993 at City Hall to take part in the National Day of Prayer. Despite heavy winds, the groups prayers for the nation, the city and our schools cound be heard by passers-by. 50 YEARS AGO MAY 9, 1968 75 YEARS AGO MAY 6, 1943 Hermiston School Dis- trict 8-R was among the many throughout the state whose school bud- get went down to defeat Monday when the polls closed. There were 428 ‘No’ votes and 301 ‘Yes’ on a $1,063,873.56 bud- get above the 6 percent limitation. The Intermediate Edu- cation District levy passed 372-364. Most of the larger dis- tricts throughout the state were defeated as well as those with extremely high budgets. Umatilla and Mor- row counties also defeated the IED equalization levy of $1,570,586 with 2,794 against and 2,440 for. • Kenny Ferguson, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fergu- son, was tossing rocks at a bottle. The bottle broke and a sliver of glass flew into his right eye, cutting the eyelid and the eyeball. He was taken to a Pendleton hospital. In February he was hos- pitalized for treatment on his left eye which he injured with a sharp stick. Rodell Atkins received a 60-day jail sentence and 90 days suspended provided he leave Umatilla County for a year. He pleaded guilty to an attack with a dangerous weapon, drunkenness and vagrancy, and was taken to the Pendleton jail late that afternoon. Atkins went on a drunken spree Tuesday, slashing his daughter-in- law, Mrs. Christina Atkins, in the arm causing a gash that required seven stitches. The assault almost back- fired when he gashed him- self in the leg accidentally. He was arrested by chief of police B.J. Nation Alexis Mansanarez | Sports Reporter • amansanarez@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4542 DENTAL Itsuratce Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 Physiciats Mutual Itsuratce Compaty Dawn Hendricks | Office Manager • dhendricks@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4530 To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information: • call 541-567-6457 • e-mail info@hermistonherald.com • stop by our offices at 333 E. Main St. • visit us online at: hermistonherald.com The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Inside Umatilla/Morrow counties .......... $42.65 Outside Umatilla/Morrow counties ....... $53.90 Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. 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Evidently he had no intention of evading the outcome, for on leaving Shoshone County he came to his home in Irrigon on a visit to his parents and hap- pened to be in Hermiston on the day the order for his apprehension came to the chief of police. He took it quite as a matter of fact on being informed that the draft board wanted him in Wal- lace, and together with the police chief officer left that night for the Idaho mining town, where he was deliv- ered into the hands of the sheriff Sunday afternoon. What disposition will be made of his case is not known as yet, but it is prob- ably the young man will be sent across the big pond to the battle front or interned until the war is over. www.PrestigeCare.com V OTE 4L OU OU O O GDEN GDEN . . COM V OTE 4L COM A COMMISSIONER WHO IS DEDICATED, ACCOUNTABLE AND FULLY ENGAGED What are observers saying about what Commissioner Murdock has brought to Umatilla County in his first full term? 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