HERMISTON COMES OUT ON TOP
AT DISTRICT TRACK AND FIELD
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
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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.
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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.
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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