INSIDE
SMALL SCHOOLS
The region’s 1A, 2A and
3A schools competed last
week at Hayward Field
for state track and field
titles.
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RAISE THEM UP
Hermiston’s Tyler Rohrman raises his arms as he learns he broke the state
meet record for the 5A 110-meter high hurdles Saturday during the OSAA
State Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene.
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
POWER & RAP
A professional rap artist
will visit Hermiston this
week.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018
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BY THE WAY
Memorial Day
services set
The public is encour-
aged to join a pair of local
veterans’
organizations
who are organizing cer-
emonies in Hermiston
and Irrigon to remember
the service and sacrifice
of those who died while
in military service to our
country.
Leading up to Memo-
rial Day, the Avenue of
Flags will be erected at
the Hermiston Cemetery,
located off Highway 395
at the south end of town.
Upwards of 800 flags
will be installed Friday
at 5 p.m. and will remain
through Monday at 5 p.m.
The cemetery is open from
daylight to dusk.
Post commander Ron
Jardine of Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post No.
4750 said members of the
Hermiston High School
football team will assist
with putting the flags in
place this weekend. Oth-
ers are invited to help with
the project.
The ceremonies, coor-
dinated by the VFW and
American Legion Post
37, are Monday at 10 a.m.
at the Hermiston Cemetery
and Monday at 11 a.m.
at Desert Lawn Memo-
rial Cemetery, located off
Highway 730 in Irrigon.
Jardine, who served in
the U. S. Army from 1966-
68, said it’s important
to participate in Memo-
rial Day events to express
appreciation and respect
for military personnel —
especially those who gave
the ultimate sacrifice.
The state has pub-
lished an online direc-
tory of Memorial Day
events
around
Ore-
gon
at
oregondva.
com/2018memorialday.
• • •
Umatilla County is get-
ting its own methadone
clinic.
The clinic will open in
ONE LAST RUN
Hermiston athletes bid goodbye to
Hayward Field during state track
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
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Right: Hermiston’s Scout
Reagan takes the baton
from teammate Makaylee
Young on the final leg
of the 4x100-meter relay
Saturday. Hermiston
finished second (49.05)
just behind Bend (48.81).
UGENE — Before Hermiston’s Tyler
Rohrman competed at the historic Hay-
ward Field for the last time, he penned
his signature on a national letter of intent to
Whitworth University to continue his track
career. And a couple of months prior, he
helped the Bulldogs to a Class 5A football state
championship.
After claiming a state championship of his
own in the boys 110-meter hurdles and help-
ing Hermiston to an eighth place finish on Sat-
urday, the credits are rolling on his prep career
and Rohrman couldn’t be happier.
“I’m on top of the world,” he said after his
busy day. “Like I said, it’s a movie and I’m just
blessed to be in it.”
Running at Hayward Field at the University
of Oregon isn’t something many Hermiston ath-
letes who come after Rohrman will experience,
at least in the near future. As part of Hermiston
School District’s move to the Washington Inter-
scholastic Activities Association, the next crop
of Bulldogs will compete for state in Washing-
ton starting next year.
The self-titled ‘Roller Coaster Ride of Tyler
Rohrman’ had plenty of up-and-down moments
during the final day of the OSAA State Track
and Field Championships.
Rohrman competed in four different final
events Saturday. First up was the 4x100-meter
relay.
After losing their second leg at districts,
the Bulldog squad was now made up of two
STAFF PHOTOS BY KATHY ANEY
See TRACK, A11
Above: Hermiston’s
Madison Wilson and
Quin Fraley, of Summit,
battle it out during the 5A
girls 100-meter hurdles
Saturday during the
OSAA State Track and
Field Championships at
Hayward Field in Eugene.
Fraley outleaned Wilson
to take first.
See BTW, A16
Election shakes up council, board
Shafer beats Givens,
Gomolski wins primary
to force run-off
HERMISTON HERALD
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Umatilla County commissioner candidate John Shafer reacts to the first
round of results showing him ahead of Larry Givens on election night.
Candidates are looking to the
future after last week’s elections
placed some new faces in seats and
pushed other races into a November
run-off.
The Hermiston City Council will
have least one new face in January
with Roy Barron, who won the Ward
2 seat with 56.2 percent of the vote,
beating out Shean Fitzgerald. Barron,
who moved to Hermiston in 2015
after graduating from Xavier Univer-
sity in Cincinnati, grew up in Weiser,
Idaho and now works for Umatilla
County in the RISE program, which
sends mental health counselors into
schools.
“This town has given me many
opportunities, and I’m so grateful
it’s giving me another,” he said. “I’m
ready to go.”
He said he already has some expe-
rience with the city through his mem-
bership on the Hispanic Advisory
Committee but he will also begin
attending city council meetings in
preparation for when the new coun-
cilors take their seats on Jan. 1, 2019.
Whether Hermiston residents
will also see a new face represent-
ing Ward 1 won’t be revealed until
See ELECTION, A16