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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.
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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
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Chief
of
Police
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order from the Shoshone
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