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A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2018 COMMUNITY THREE MINUTES WITH ... HERMISTON HISTORY ANGIE MCNALLEY Umatilla County Fair Coordinator (see A5) When and why did you move to Hermiston? We moved here in 2009 on my son’s eighth birthday when the economy took a dive that year and I was laid off for the first time in my life and struggled to find work and afford to live in Southern California. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? That’s easy, Midway Bar & Grill. #broastedchicken What do you like to do in your spare time? Fishing, hunting, boating, crabbing and bonfires with our other friends who have also moved to Ore- gon from Southern California. What surprises you about Hermiston? What surprises me the most is how giving people are. No matter what their socioeconomic “status” or background, the people seem to give and give to sup- port youth programs, service organizations and com- munity events. The level at which that occurs here is astonishing to me in the best sense of the word. What was the last book you read? To be honest, I’m more of a fan of TV documenta- ries. I especially love a good crime documentary or Planet Earth and National Geographic specials. What app or website do you use most often? Amazon and YouTube, but I can’t live without my cal- endar widget! If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? I want to stay here in the good ol’ U.S. I want to see the Grand Canyon, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone and the Sequoias. What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? Well in the spirit of Fair, I’ll keep it Fair related. A few years ago, probably my second year working for Umatilla County I became engaged and as a joke, our Fair Board Chairman Gay Newman purposely started a rumor that I was going to get married during the fair on the Main Stage before one of the concerts. It was Director Steve Anderson’s first year on the Fair Board and he came up to me to congrat- ulate me but was frantic about when and how it was going to work logistically and wanted to help in any way he could. I had to tell him that it was a prank and that I wasn’t really getting married on stage during the fair. We had a GREAT laugh. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? Simply to put everything that I’ve learned about the fair since 2012, into action. I’ve learned something from every single one of my predecessors and have paid attention to things that have worked and things that have not worked. This is the first time that I will have a full year to implement what I’ve absorbed and to make some changes for better efficiency, bet- ter sponsor relations and to further the fair’s rela- tionship with every organization and entity who has a part in its annual creation. My goal in this position is to be transparent with my fair board and with the county commissioners so that we can all communi- cate and do what is necessary to support the fair and all of the youth programs that benefit from it. 25 YEARS AGO JULY 6, 1993 Oregon is still only one of two states imposing a ban against self-serve gas stations. An attempt to join the majority of the states was quashed last week when a House vote of 36-23 put an end to the bill for the remainder of the session. The bill would have allowed the self-service sale of gasoline and uni- versal access to card-lock facilities in certain east- ern Oregon counties. The “county option” would have allowed Umatilla, Morrow and 14 other counties the opportunity to choose to pump their own petrol. According to Rep. Chuck Norris, the county option evolved “after it became clear that an out- right repeal of the self-ser- vice ban, which has been in place since 1951, or a referral of the issue state- wide, was not supported by a majority of the House Natural Resource Commit- tee members.” • Driving through the Hermiston and Stanfield farming areas, small sec- tions of lily blossoms can be seem sprinkled across the green fields. Those small sections are color blocks of several varieties of lilies, a new, successful crop grown in the area. Even though there are 250 acres of lilies grow- ing in different locations, fields of full-blown flow- ers swaying in the breeze will not be seen, as grow- ers are focused on build- ing a good root system and allowing the bulbs to reach full maturity would be counterproductive. HH FILE PHOTO Rod Bragato (left) organizer of the Campus Life youth programs in Hermiston, received a truly big check from Chuck Steltenpohl for $10,000 from the local Rotary Club in July 1993. phone calls to parts of Europe and the Pacific. But satellites are just beginning to cast their shadow across the globe. According to Dale Slusher, local manager for Pacific Northwest Bell, sat- ellite telephone service will be available before long to Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia. The construction of new ground stations in these distant lands and the launching of higher-capacity satellites will make this expansion possible. 75 YEARS AGO JULY 8, 1943 Like the baseball player who ran to third base instead of first, the Herm- iston fire department did a good job of extinguishing the flames of some small barns on the W.J. Warner property south of town but found out the next morn- ing that the original call for help had come from a trailer house fire in Cabin City. A third fire started just a short distance east of the other two fires. The barns were destroyed, the trailer house seriously damaged and no report was made of the third fire. However, one thing was quite certain, all the fires had some connec- 50 YEARS AGO JULY 4, 1968 Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 112 ● NUMBER 26 Jade McDowell | Reporter • jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4536 Jayati Ramakrishnan | Reporter • jramakrishnan@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4534 Tammy Malgesini | Community Editor • tmalgesini@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4539 Alexis Mansanarez | Sports Reporter • amansanarez@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4542 HH FILE PHOTO Hermiston’s VFW Auxiliary float took third place at the Stanfield Fourth of July parade in 1993. Hermiston telephone users who call overseas may not know it, but their voices are traveling by sat- ellite with increasing regu- larity these days. Communications sat- ellites supplementing lon- ger-established undersea cables are carrying a steadi- ly-growing number of tele- tion. The barn fire was the third similar case in recent months indicating that a firebug might be active here. Residents with small outbuildings are urged to keep on the lookout for sus- picious characters or indi- cations which might lead to another fire. • Army Ordnance is learning a lot about women it never knew before. Women are replacing men called to the Armed Forces or shipped overseas. They are helping relieve the manpower shortage. A realistic survey of female employment has been made available by Colonel A.S. Buyers, com- manding Umatilla Ord- nance Depot, which employs a large number of women. Here is what bat- tle-tough Ordnance per- sonnel experts discovered: Women have greater finger dexterity than men, greater patience, greater enthusi- asm. Women will accept 99 percent responsibil- ity, but they always like to receive a final OK on their work from men. Women want their jobs glamorized for them. Women do not mind getting their hands and faces dirty, but the lack of beauty shops in the com- munity will cause a seri- ous personnel problem. Women take instructions and directions in a far more personal manner than men. Women are patriotic with- out cynicism. 100 YEARS AGO JULY 6, 1918 When the change is made from gas power to electricity at the city pump- ing station the reservoir on the Hermiston Butte will be flushed and cleaned. At that time the council plans to do a little road improvement by flushing the city streets with water that will come from the hydrants, and then put on the road drag and smooth up the holes on the main thoroughfare. Owners of shade trees on thoroughfares that obstruct the vision of oppo- site-going vehicles will be asked to trim them in order to avoid accidents Picnics, reunions and family gatherings marked the celebration of Indepen- dence Day this year, and the noisy firecracker was for once noticeable in its absence. Thursday morn- ing a large caravan of peo- ple from town and coun- try with well-filled baskets began moving toward the picnic ground on the Uma- tilla River, where all who participated had a most excellent time. Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 OUT WITH CABLE. IN WITH SAVINGS. Dawn Hendricks | Office Manager • dhendricks@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4530 To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information: • call 541-567-6457 • e-mail info@hermistonherald.com • stop by our offices at 333 E. 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