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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018
NEWS
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
TRCI food services manager Matt Vester (from left) and
superintendent Troy Bowser present a check to Debbie
Pedro, Fran Rice, Brad Wayland and Briana Cortaberria of
Leadership Hermiston.
Prison inmates donate
more than $4,000 to
Leadership Hermiston
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
HH FILE PHOTO
United Parcel Service employees load an Ameriflight Metroliner cargo plane with overnight packages from the area in 2015 at
the Hermiston Municipal Airport.
Airport looks for feedback on master plan
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
The public is invited
to learn about current and
upcoming projects at the
Hermiston Municipal Air-
port next week.
The airport is hosting an
open house Wednesday, July
25 from 3-4 p.m. at the air-
port on 1600 Airport Way,
Hermiston, where project
consultants and airport staff
will be on hand to answer
questions about recent
upgrades to the airport and
what projects are being con-
sidered for inclusion in the
Airport Master Plan.
Rolf Anderson Leirvik,
who started as the airport’s
new general manager this
month, said he wants to hear
from people.
“It’s a great opportunity
for people to come in and
ask questions or raise any
issues,” he said.
Hermiston’s airport has
received millions of dollars
in upgrades over the past
few years, thanks mostly to
grants from the Federal Avi-
ation Administration and
Oregon Department of Avi-
ation. In 2015 and 2016 con-
tractors performed runway
paving work and moved the
airport’s taxiway to comply
with FAA standards. During
the project, the airport’s
fueling station was moved
and enlarged. Anderson
Leirvik said the “great new
fuel farm” was more conve-
nient and also helped the air-
port be prepared for serving
larger planes in the future.
Last year the city
accepted federal and state
grant funding to hire Cen-
tury West Engineering to
update the airport’s master
plan. At the time assistant
city manager Mark Morgan
said that using the state grant
as matching dollars for fed-
eral funds means the city’s
out-of-pocket costs for the
$300,000 project is expected
to be about $3,300.
Anderson Leirvik said
airports are required to sub-
mit a master plan to the FAA
for approval about every 10
years. The plan studies the
airport and its traffic, poten-
tial growth and other fac-
tors in-depth and creates a
roadmap for the next 10 to
15 years that the airport is
required to follow.
“If it’s not on the mas-
ter plan, you’re not going
to get a grant for it,” he
said. “It’s never going to go
anywhere.”
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While the Hermiston
Municipal Airport doesn’t
have commercial passenger
flights, it is more than sin-
gle-engine hobby planes.
Traffic in and out of the air-
port includes UPS deliv-
eries, corporate traffic and
agricultural uses. A 2014
report from the Oregon
Department of Aviation
stated the airport supported
80 local jobs and 26 else-
where in the state.
Anderson Leirvik said
the master plan that citi-
zens can give feedback for
on Wednesday will help the
city get funding for future
projects to help it continue
to improve and expand over
the next decade.
“The community has
grown a lot, and the airport
is going to grow with it,” he
said.
Leadership Hermiston
got a boost in funds after
Two Rivers Correctional
Institution inmates chose
to raise money for the pro-
gram that tours the prison
each year.
The Greater Hermiston
Area Chamber of Com-
merce got a $4,321 check
Thursday. The chamber
offers Leadership Herm-
iston to a class of about
20 people annually. Peo-
ple who live or work in
Hermiston learn about the
city and get involved in a
group service project of the
class’s choosing.
Public Safety Day
includes a tour of the “city
within a city” that is the
prison.
“It’s a great opportunity
for folks in our region to
see what you do out here,”
chamber director Debbie
Pedro told superintendent
Troy Bowser. “It’s one of
the best things we do.”
TRCI allows inmates
to create fundraisers inter-
nally to help local groups.
And after the Leadership
Hermiston tour, some of
them decided they wanted
to help the program.
Matt Vester, food ser-
vice manager for TRCI,
said many of the forms
giving permission for
money to be drawn from
their accounts included a
thank-you note for allow-
ing them the opportunity to
contribute to a good cause.
“At the core of our mis-
sion is rehabilitation, and
a lot of them want to do
that,” he said. “A lot of
them want to give back.”
Pedro said the steer-
ing committee would dis-
cuss how the funds would
be used to improve the
program.
The chamber is taking
applications for the next
Leadership
Hermiston
cycle, which begins Sept.
11 and ends in June 2019.
Classes are the second
Tuesday of each month
from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
April’s
class
will
include an overnight trip to
Salem to learn about state
government.
To apply for a spot,
download the applica-
tion at hermistonchamber.
com, email info@herm-
istonchamber.com or call
541-567-6151.
Tuition is $700 for
chamber members and
$850 for non-Chamber
members, due upon notifi-
cation of selection.
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