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INSIDE SPORTS | BROTHER-SISTER DUO RULE THE PLATE >> PAGE A9 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018 $1.00 HermistonHerald.com INSIDE DIPLOMA TIME Blue Mountain Community College graduates took many paths to their degree. PAGE A3 NEW ERA R I D E Eastern Oregon Telecom celebrates new building and new ownership. PAGE A8, A15 LIGHTEN UP Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is working to make hunting and fishing regulations simpler. PAGE A10 BY THE WAY By the way: New ice cream shop in Hermiston Hermiston has a new shop selling cool treats, just in time for tempera- tures that are expected to reach well above 90 degrees this week. Helados la Michoac- ana sells various flavors of ice cream made directly by the store using fresh fruit and other natural fla- vors. It also sells other treats, most of them fruit- based, including strawber- ries and cream, cheese- cake, shaved ice, and bianocos (a sort of fruit salad). The store is owned by Jesus Higareda, who also owns a Helados la Michoacana in Pasco. It is located at 1875 N First St., Suite C, next to Fiesta Foods. For now hours vary while new staff are being trained but regular hours are expected to be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday. • • • The Hermiston Police Department took some space on their Facebook page last week to thank the Umatilla Police Offi- cer’s Association for helping one of their own through the association’s annual golf tournament, which raises money for local charitable causes. See BTW, Page A16 Hermiston Corvette turns heads at Tri-Cities car show By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER W illiam and Christy McMillen’s 1976 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a thing of beauty. And it’s not just the McMil- lens who think their car is some- thing special. The root beer-col- ored Corvette recently took home the top prize at one of the larg- est Corvette shows in the Pacific Northwest, beating out more than 240 other Corvettes for the Deal- er’s Choice award at Corvettes on the Columbia in the Tri-Cities. “There were a lot of really beautiful cars up there,” William said. “I was shocked when we won.” They had been a little disap- pointed not to win any awards in their class, Christy said, but when the final award of the night came the emcee started talking about how the winners had five kids and eight grandkids vying to inherit the car someday. “We looked at each other and thought, ‘No way!,’” she said. The McMillens are relatively new to the car show circuit. Wil- liam brought home the Corvette about three years ago. Forced into early retirement by an autoim- mune disorder, he bought a clas- sic car because knew he needed something to focus his energy on. He had loved Stingrays ever since high school, when a friend drove into the school parking lot with an orange one from the early 1970s. “It was the first Corvette I was actually able to touch,” he said. “I fell in love with that body style STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS A Corvette emblem adorns the fuel tank hatch on a 1976 Corvette Stingray owned by William McMillan of Hermiston. “There were a lot of really beautiful cars up there. I was shocked when we won.” William McMillen that day.” He always dreamed of own- ing one in retirement. And when retirement came sooner than expected, he told Christy that a friend was driving him to a doc- tor’s appointment in Portland. Instead, they were headed there to look at Corvettes they had seen advertised online. See CORVETTE, Page A16 STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS William McMillan washes his 1976 Corvette Stingray in the driveway of his home Friday in Hermiston. Migrant education program keeps kids on the move caught up By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER A group of seventh and eighth-graders were given one task: make a boat out of foil and plastic straws. And the goal? Hold as many pennies as possible without sinking the boat. Though the boats were not always seaworthy, the students learned about buoyancy in one of several les- sons at the migrant education sum- mer school program in Hermiston. Run by the InterMountain Edu- cation Service District, there are programs throughout the sum- mer at different locations in Uma- tilla and Morrow County, includ- ing Boardman, Hermiston, Irrigon, Milton-Freewater and Umatilla. Each program runs for about three weeks. The classes focus on reading and math instruction and, as of this year, science, for students between pre-kindergarten and eighth grade. For students to qualify for the migrant education program, their families have to have moved in the past three years to find work in the fields of agriculture, forestry or fishing. The classes are split up by grade level, with a fifth/sixth grade and seventh/eighth grade blend. Because of the short session, pro- gram coordinator Loretta Fitterer said teachers have to target specific concepts. “At the lowest level it may be letter sounds,” she said. “The next step may be sight words, and for See MIGRANT, Page A16 STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS Sixth-grader Karla Llamas places pennies in her tinfoil boat during a science class for ESL students Friday at Sunset Elementary School in Hermiston.
