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UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR SPECIAL SECTION » INSIDE WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018 HermistonHerald.com $1.00 INSIDE FOOD TRUCKS The Hermiston city council discusses new rules for mobile vendors and creation of a food truck “pod.” PAGE A3 WHAT’S COOKING? HOOP BATTLE More than 150 teams participated in Hermiston’s Takin’ it to the Streets 3 on 3 basketball tournament over the weekend. PAGES A9, A15 DANGEROUS BUGS Mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise, and local mosquito control districts are working hard to beat the insects. PAGE A10 BY THE WAY Hermiston giving watermelons to Portland Hermiston will be prac- ticing a bit of watermelon diplomacy on Friday, Aug. 3 as representatives of the city head to Portland for the annual seed-spitting contest and watermelon giveaway. “This is a great event that continues to build on our relationship with our partners in Portland,” Hermiston Mayor David Drotzmann said in a statement. The tradition was started by the late Frank Harkenrider when he was mayor in the 1980s and challenged then-Port- land Mayor Bud Clark to a seed-spitting contest. After a break in 2007, the event resumed in 2015. This year’s giveaway is sponsored by the city of Hermiston, city of Portland and Greater STAFF PHOTOS BY E.J. HARRIS Samantha Hernandez, Ilana Castillo and Victoria Erevia-Garcia work on making a Mexican vegetable-beef skillet dish Thursday during a family cooking class for the OSU Extension Service’s nutrition education program in Hermiston. Family class is setting the table for healthy eating habits By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER A ngie Treadwell wants to talk produce. “Does anybody here have a favorite vegetable?” she asked the 10 people in her cooking class. “Carrots!” shouted four-year-old Angel. He was in luck. For the “Fruits and Vegeta- bles for Families” class on Thursday in Herm- iston, Treadwell, coordinator for OSU Exten- sion Service’s nutrition education program, taught families how to make two dishes using the orange root — an Asian carrot salad, and a Mexican vegetable-beef skillet dish. Even though several of the people at the class knew how to cook, many were there to learn how to use more vegetables in their meals, and how to make healthier choices when cooking. Each family in the program gets a bag of produce to take home at the end of the class. See FOOD, A16 See BTW, A16 New subdivision underway on Gettman Road By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER The Wolf Run subdivision is just getting started, but it already had a neighborhood barbecue Friday. The barbecue was part of a rib- bon-cutting for the new 13-acre housing development on Gettman Road in Hermiston, which so far has one house completed and four more in construction. The subdivision is expected to feature 46 homes in total. New housing is a welcome sight in rapidly growing Hermiston, where the real estate market overall is tight. Heidi Carver of RE/MAX Corner- stone, the listing agent for the homes in Wolf Run, said new industrial developments by Amazon, Lamb Weston and other companies has cre- ated an increase in prices paid for family homes. Debbie Pedro, director of the Greater Hermiston Area Chamber of Commerce, told the gathering at the ribbon-cutting that the chamber was happy to see investment in the community. “We’re excited about this subdi- vision,” she said. “Boy, do we need houses!” Developer Frank Gehring of Frank W. Gehring Construction has experience developing other housing in Hermiston, including small pock- ets of eight to 12 lots built in recent years, and was a key player in the Overlook Ridge subdivision in the northwest part of town. Carver said so far the largest home in the subdivision is $379,900 See SUBDIVISION, Page A16 STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL Developer Frank Gehring and real estate agent Heidi Carver cut the ribbon on the first completed house of the Wolf Run subdivision.
