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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2018
COMMUNITY
THREE MINUTES WITH ...
HERMISTON HISTORY
25 YEARS AGO
ANNETTE
WEBB
Retail Nursery Owner
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I moved here in 2013 — My daughter didn’t know a
lot of people here, and my grandkids were here. I was
between jobs, so it was perfect timing.
What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston?
Probably La Palma. I haven’t eaten out much since
I’ve been in Hermiston.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Read. I do a lot of reading.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
I think when I first moved here, I thought it’d be like
a desert. There’s a lot more greenery than I expected.
As much, if not more, farming than on the west side.
What was the last book you read?
I’m reading “The Walled City” by Ryan Graudin. It’s
pretty good — I started it this morning and am a third
of the way through.
What app or website do you use most often?
Pinterest
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
I always thought Australia or New Zealand would be
an interesting place to visit.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
Afterward it was funny — during, not so much. I was
home alone and it was early morning. I was still in
bed. Our cat, Houdini, was still a kitten. He would
always jump on my bed to wake me up. I felt some-
thing move up alongside the covers, so I look over the
covers, and I’m staring a baby possum in the face. It
was alive. He’d brought it in the house to play with.
We laugh at it now, but it was pretty freaky at the
time.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
To get a job in the Eugene area. Now that I’m almost
60, I want to be in AC in the summer, and heat in the
winter. It’s time to go back to an indoor job.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Raising my kids to be self-sustaining adults that our
raising their own families the way they should be. It’s
important to raise good people.
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AUGUST 3, 1993
The float that will repre-
sent the city of Hermiston
in area parades emerged
unscathed when the out-
building where it is being
built was vandalized by
bullets.
Jeff Pardue, who is
building the float at his
home on South Highway
395, said he believes van-
dals fired several shots
from a small-bore rifle
from a nearby hill.
The shots hit the trailer
that the float will rest on,
but not the float itself.
“It was probably some
punk having a gay old
time,” Pardue said.
This is only the latest in
a line of setbacks Purdue
has experienced since tak-
ing on the project. To date,
he has spent more than
$2,000 of his own money
on the float.
• The Regional Water
Project participants will
have to come up with $13
million to build all of a
proposed new water supply
system for the West End if
projections come true.
Bob Vivian of Ace Con-
sultants in Portland, the
engineering firm on the
project, delivered the pre-
liminary figures in a meet-
ing of the participants last
week.
Hermiston city adminis-
trator Ed Brookshier said,
however, that only one-
third to one-half of the
water system will be built
initially.
“There’s a strong like-
lihood that it will not be
constructed all at once,” he
said.
Plans call for a system
that will supply six pub-
lic and private entities
with water piped out of the
Columbia River.
HH FILE PHOTO.
Saddlemaker Rich Boyer poses with the All-Around saddle he created for RoeMark’s
Men’s and Western Wear, owned by Roe and Marilyn Gardner.
building, barely reaching it
in time to rescue Mrs. Hunt
and the infant baby who
were asleep there.
50 YEARS AGO
AUG. 1, 1968
Well-known radio per-
sonality Ira Blue of San
Fransisco radio station
KGO will appear in Herm-
iston on Aug. 10 in con-
junction with the second
half of the Becky Howland
benefit auction.
Blue became interested
in Becky and the town’s
fundraising efforts primar-
ily through a series of radio
interviews with Ken Cap-
per, local barber.
Officials have revealed
that numerous donations to
the Becky Howland Heart
Transplant Fund have come
from the Bay Area, and can
be attributed directly to the
publicity afforded to the
Hermiston drive by Blue.
Plans are for the auc-
tion to commence on Satur-
day immediately following
the Umatilla County Fair
parade, and will again be
held at the high school foot-
ball field.
• Forest Grove will be
the scene of this year’s Lit-
tle League taournament and
Hermiston team members
hope to get off to a good
start as they open the tour-
nament tonight at 6 p.m.
against the winner of Dis-
trict 2. There are six teams
in the state tournament.
The team earned their
way into the state tourna-
ment by first beating Tri-
angle, John Day and Pend-
leton in the sub-district
tournament in Pendleton
and then on Friday night
beating The Dalles for the
district title in Hermiston.
100 YEARS AGO
HH FILE PHOTO.
Stanfield police officer Al Humphrey assists six-year-old
Nathan Dick with some bike maintenence in 1993.
75 YEARS AGO
AUG. 5, 1943
Bold thieves entered the
Umatilla liquor store late
Tuesday night and took
approximately $90 in cash,
besides several bottles of
brandy and rum. Due to the
liquor shortage, the shelves
were quite empty, mak-
ing the loot smaller than it
might have been.
Entrance was gained by
jimmying the front door.
The cash register was also
pried open. State police are
aiding the investigation.
• Mr. and Mrs. O.C.
Piece received word early
this week of the mar-
riage Wednesday of their
son, Lt. Gene Pierce, to
Miss Fay Baker, formerly
of Tulsa, Okla. Lt. Pierce
is with the U.S. Armed
Forces somewhere in Aus-
tralia and now-Mrs. Pierce
is a 2nd Lt. in the Trained
Nurse Corps. Mrs. Pierce
has been in Australia over
a year, slightly longer than
Lt. Pierce.
• The second major fire
in recent weeks occurred
early Monday morning
when flames gutted the inte-
rior of Stone’s Store west of
the tracks, seriously damag-
ing the building and ruining
the greater part of the stock.
The fire started in the
rear of the building where
Jack Crane was working
with the refrigeration sys-
tem. Gas fumes from one
of the tanks used for refrig-
eration escaped and were
ignited by a burning torch.
The flames spread rap-
idly, causing painful burns
to Crane, who ran to the
front of the store warning
Mike Hunt, the manager,
who was working there.
Mr. Hunt quickly dashed
through the front door of
the store to an upstairs
apartment at the rear of the
Stanfield has organized
a company of home guards.
It already has 35 men, and
drilling exercises are being
carried on in an able manner
by Jack Stork, who knows
the military game from a
to izzard, and other equally
qualified instructors. Echo
also has organized a home
guard company.
• Yellow jackets attacked
Mrs. J.P. Utterback of Echo
while that lady was out for a
walk one evening last week.
The attack of wasps
was so sudden that she was
unable to protect herself,
and was stung a number of
times before escaping from
them.
After trying many rem-
edies to alleviate the pain,
the best one, so she claims,
was the application of flan-
nels wrung out of hot lard
and applied as hot as possi-
ble. This ought to be a good
remedy for Hermiston bee
men to remember.
• We have often heard
remarks derogatory to the
purity of the city’s water,
but these allegations are
put to rout by an analysis
of three samples sent from
here to the state board of
health at Portland on July
25 by City Clerk Jensen
under instructions from the
city council. The analy-
sis, a report of which was
returned to the clerk early
this week, shows that not a
trace of gas or colon bacilli
was recovered after an incu-
bation of 72 hours.
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