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A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018 COMMUNITY THREE MINUTES WITH ... HERMISTON HISTORY ALEXIS MCCARTHY Promotions Director, KOHU/The Q, and Studio Director, Dance Unlimited When and why did you move to Hermiston? I grew up here, and came back June of last year after graduating with my music degree from Whitworth University. I love this town, and being able to do good work in this community with the radio stations and dance studio is very fulfilling. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? We have so many great restaurants, what a hard deci- sion! If I have to pick just one at the moment, Del- ish Bistro. What do you like to do in your spare time? I love to read, but music is my biggest passion, so you can find me singing most days. What surprises you about Hermiston? Growing up here, I don’t have a big surprise that stands out. However, I am so pleased with how much the arts scene is growing here. What was the last book you read? “Better Than Before” by Gretchen Rubin. A great read for anyone looking to form (and stick to) new habits. What app or website do you use most often other than Facebook or Google? Gohermiston.com. It’s the perfect one-stop-shop for any information and websites local to our area! If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? That probably changes on a daily basis. Today I’ll say Italy; I want to tour Europe’s opera houses, and Italy is the perfect place to start! What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? I was barrel racing one day as a kid when I started falling off of my horse, but refused to let go. So I grabbed my horse’s neck and slowly slid sideways until I was hanging upside-down before finally fall- ing off. Spectators thought it was pretty funny! What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? I will be soloing with the Oregon East Symphony in February, so I am working toward that performance. What is your proudest accomplishment? Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Voice Perfor- mance last year. It was the culmination of hours and hours in a practice room and the library, and it was so worth it. Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 112 ● NUMBER 27 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 Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 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. Main St. • visit us online at: hermistonherald.com The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Inside Umatilla/Morrow counties .......... $42.65 Outside Umatilla/Morrow counties ....... $53.90 Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. Postmaster, send address changes to Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838. Member of EO Media Group Copyright ©2018 CORRECTIONS: It is the policy of the Hermiston Herald to correct errors as soon as they are discovered. Please contact the editor at editor@hermistonherald. com or call (541) 564-4533 with issues about this policy or to report errors. Ultimate Hawaii Save up to $ Tour with Pearl Harbor Experience per couple 13 days from TM JULY 13, 1993 The Hermiston School District approved the sign- ing of a “memo of under- standing” at its monthly board meeting. The doc- ument helps prepare pub- lic schools for “maximum protection” in the event of an accident at the Umatilla Army Depot. The memo provides for two options for responding to a chemical agent acci- dent at the depot. The first is to provide buses to trans- port students out of the Immediate Response Zone — the area immediately surrounding the depot, which includes the Herm- iston, Umatilla and Irrigon area. The second option is to have portions of the affected schools “pos- itive-overpressurized.” According to the memo, overpressurization would eliminate the need for an evacuation, “ensuring to the maximum extent pos- sible with technology that the school children would be safe.” Pratton told the board that overpressurizing part of the school facilities is the recommended choice of Army Depot Lt. Col. William McCune. With the overpressurization method, students could be expected to remain confined in the “safe haven” for at least 72 hours. 50 YEARS AGO JULY 11, 1968 Excerpt from an op-ed from The American Rifle- man published in the Her- ald: The rights of 200 million law-abiding Amer- icans to own and use fire- arms legitimately are gravely threatened because of three assassins, all of them possibly Communist tools. Two are alleged to have extensive Communist contacts. The triggermen who horribly and deplorably shot down President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King and U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy also, it now appears, struck a stag- gering blow to the Amer- ican tradition of firearms ownership that has stood since the first settlers landed gun in hand. Some Congressmen and anti-gun extremists now demand that all pri- vate ownership of firearms be stamped out as an evil. If the Administration con- curs in this, it will show a morale-crushing lack of faith in the integrity and HH FILE PHOTO Youngsters play in the Hermiston swimming pool on a hot day in July 1968. good intentions of the American people. Any such step will also in some measure betray behind their backs thou- sands of young Americans now obeying orders to die gun in hand, if necessary, to halt Communism in dis- tant Vietnam. A distinct percentage of the 500,000 servicemen there believe devoutly in the right of American civilians to keep and bear arms. They write home, distressed, about the ease with which the Communists capture dis- armed Vietnam villages. If the National Rifle Association could believe that gun controls sponsored by the Johnson Adminis- tration and its Congressio- nal adherents really would reduce crime, we as loyal and law-observing Amer- icans would be the first to fall in line and support them. 75 YEARS AGO JULY 15, 1943 The Umatilla Electric Cooperative association this week enters its sixth year of supplying elec- tric service to farmers and other rural consumers in this area. Citing the progress of the Cooperative since its lines were first energized on July 16, 1938, Manager Ray L Woolley, recalled that the system had only 381 consumers at the end of its first month of oper- ation. Today the Coopera- tive furnishes electric ser- vice to 774 consumers along 271 miles of distri- bution lines in Umatilla and Morrow counties. 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