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HERMISTON COMES OUT ON TOP AT DISTRICT TRACK AND FIELD WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 HermistonHerald.com » SPORTS PAGE 10 Madison Wilson won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.73 seconds. $1.00 INSIDE FORE! Hermiston’s new disc golf course hosting its first professional tournament Saturday. PAGE A4 TROOP SUPPORT The National Guard is educating employers about new training schedules that will take soldiers away from their jobs more days out of the year. PAGE A6 BY THE WAY Election results available online Curious about election results? The Hermiston Herald has them online at www.hermistonherald. com. The Herald prints at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights, and Election Day results are not announced until after the 8 p.m. dead- line for turning in ballots, so we weren’t able to get them into today’s paper. But updates can be found online, or in the print edi- tion of our sister paper the East Oregonian, which has a later deadline. • • • Billed as a Night of Champions, a faith-based event in Hermiston will feature music, feats of strength and a motiva- tional message. Power & Rap includes profes- sional rapper George Moss and 1983 Hermis- ton High School graduate John Kopta, a staff mem- ber with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Arkansas and member of The Power Team. The event is Thurs- day, May 24 at 7 p.m. at Hermiston Assembly of God Church, 730 E. Hurlburt Ave. Admission is $2 at the door. Watch for more details in the May 23 Hermiston Herald. MAXWELL MARKET BACK ON TRACK Two venue changes and a new opening date for Hermiston farmers market By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER A fter a rocky week for the Herm- iston Farmer’s Market, it is now scheduled to open May 24 under the name Maxwell Market. A week ago it wasn’t certain Hermis- ton would have a farmers market at all. At a vendors meeting last Wednesday, orga- nizer Mitch Myers announced he was can- celing the event, which had been slated to start June 2, due to a dispute with the city over the Maxwell Pavilion that was to be the market’s new home. On Thursday, citing a flood of calls from disappointed citizens, city parks and recreation direc- tor Larry Fetter said Hermiston was will- ing to host the market on its new festival street, which is also under construction. On Friday, Myers then announced he had decided to hold a farmers market on a dif- ferent property he owns, and he “could care less” what the city did in response. On Monday, the city announced that it wasn’t interested in holding a competing market and would defer to Myers if he was indeed holding one after all. See MARKETS, A16 HH FILE PHOTO Fresh onions line the table as Naomi and Ildefonso Zuniga of Finley’s Fresh Produce ring up customers at the Hermiston Farmer’s Market. OTHER FARMERS MARKETS IN THE REGION Irrigon Farmers Market • Every Saturday, May-September • 3-7 p.m. • Irrigon City Hall parking lot Echo Open Air Market • This Saturday, May 19 at 4 p.m. at George Park • There will be a second market on June 16 and a third in October Pendleton Farmers Market • Every Friday, May-October • 4-7 p.m. • 300 block of South Main Street The Maxwell Market is planned for this property across First Place from the Maxwell Event Center, 145 N First Place in Hermiston. STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL See BTW, A2 City to add park foreman, water tower to budget Budget passed out of committee, still needs final approval from city council By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER New staff are being added to the city of Hermiston to support its expanding services, including a parks foreman to allow the parks and recreation director to focus on longterm projects as the city eyes the possibility of a new aquatic center. The changes were reviewed STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS by the city’s budget committee, A group of walkers strolls down the paths of Riverfront Park in October which approved the 2018-2019 2017. The city of Hermiston will hire a parks foreman in the next fiscal year. budget Thursday and passed it on to the city council for approval. City Manager Byron Smith said the city is currently conducting an aquatic center feasibility study and also plans to create an overall mas- ter plan for parks and trails in 2018- 2019. Hiring a full-time parks fore- man, who will oversee day-to-day maintenance of city parks, will free up department head Larry Fetter to focus on more “longterm vision” projects like the possible indoor aquatics or “wellness” center, which was a top request citizens made during a livability study in 2015. “At the end of this study we will have a dollar amount, an estimate of what it would cost ... then we will be able to figure out how we are going to pay for that,” he said. Part-time clerical positions are See BUDGET, A16
