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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018
Yard sales turn unwanted items into bargains
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
Nowhere is the phrase
“one man’s trash is another
man’s treasure” more true
than at a yard sale.
Each Saturday when
the weather is good, bar-
gain hunters comb through
tables of items in yards and
garages that the owners no
longer want, looking for that
perfect find at a fraction of
its usual price.
Karen Bower found one
of those recently.
“I found an antique
oak rocking chair that was
beautiful, just last week,”
she said. “It was $35 but
it should have been a lot
more.”
On Saturday she was
back at it again, combing
through items at a $2-a-bag
sale in Hermiston.
“I just love to go to
garage sales. I find great
stuff I need,” she said, hold-
ing up a plastic grocery bag
that included a lightly-used
Carhart jacket, desk lamp,
wall hangings and a few
small electronics. “This is a
$2 bag. Imagine!”
She goes yard sale-ing
whenever she can, and said
multi-family sales usually
have the best finds.
The one she was at Satur-
day morning was put on by
three families and included
a wide variety of clothing,
furniture and household
items.
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Yard sale signs are posted at the corner of Seventh Street and Highland Avenue.
Tammy Wagner, who
was handing out grocery
bags to customers, said her
family had been saving up
items for a couple of years.
“We did the $2 a bag so
we could get rid of stuff,”
she said.
Several young families
were there at about 10:30
a.m. picking through tables
of children’s clothing, and
Wagner said there had been
a steady flow of people all
morning. She wasn’t sure if
people would be out look-
ing for sales the weekend
before school started, she
said, but since it was such
nice weather and the smoke
had finally cleared it seemed
like a good opportunity.
Some sales draw in
casual passerby with signs,
while others that are held
farther out of town might
require some advertising
on Facebook or in the clas-
sifieds to let the serious
bargain hunters know that
the sale is worth tracking
down when they go out that
weekend.
Off Edwards Road, an
expansive multi-family sale
featured clothing, tools,
housewares, books and
other items laid out over the
yard and inside the barn.
Organizer Jan Hern-
dan said she tries to have
one with a few other fami-
lies once every other year.
The sale was set to run Sat-
urday and Sunday but she
said a few people actually
showed up Friday to ask
if there was any way they
could buy things early (they
were asked to come back the
next day). She said Saturday
morning had been steady,
and the camping equipment
in particular had been going
quickly.
She said usually knows
it’s time to put on a yard
sale when she is running
out of room for new posses-
sions and she has articles of
clothing she isn’t wearing
anymore because her style
has changed. Her husband
passed away since her last
yard sale, she said, so she
was also parting with quite
a few of his things.
“It was just time,” she
said.
On Division Avenue,
a smaller sale of cloth-
ing, jewelry and a few
larger items such as a gui-
tar were on display. Lola
Lopez said she had priced
things according to what
she would be willing to pay,
and most of what she didn’t
sell would likely be donated
to Goodwill while the big-
ger-ticket items she would
try and sell online. She had
a DeWalt drill sitting near
the front of the yard and said
throwing in a power tool or
some fishing equipment can
help wives convince their
husbands to stop and take a
look at a sale.
She is also a frequent
shopper at yard sales her-
self, and said her favorite
thing she ever bought at a
yard sale was a small micro-
wave that looked like it
belonged in the 1970s.
“It was just the cutest
ever microwave,” she said.
“It was $5.”
Jackie Alleman showed
up at Lopez’s sale with a
couple of kids from her
neighborhood and a college
student from her church.
She said they carpooled
from Heppner to hit up as
many sales in Hermiston
as they could, looking for
back-to-school clothes and
other deals.
It can be tricky to know
what time to go out —
some of the best finds get
snatched up early in the day,
but Alleman said the later
in the day you go the more
people are usually willing to
come down on their prices.
“There’s a whole eti-
quette to yard sales,” she
said.
WORSHIP
COMMUNITY
East Theater Lane to get paved sooner
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
Residents of Theater
Lane will be happy to hear
the gravel portion of East
Theater Lane will be paved
sooner.
On Monday the Herm-
iston city council approved
a request from city staff to
“flip-flop” two items on its
streets capital improvement
plan.
The plan was for the city
to take on no major projects
from the plan in fiscal year
2019-2020, then complete
a realignment of the three-
way intersection of Geer,
Harper and Umatilla River
roads in 2021 and pave the
eastern portion of Theater
Lane after.
Assistant city manager
Mark Morgan said the city
has since changed its phi-
losophy on paying for side-
walks on new projects and
decided to only pave travel
lanes on Theater Lane, leav-
ing the addition of side-
walks, curbs and gutters to
developers who build out
there. That cut down the
project’s cost from approxi-
mately $1.3 million to about
$600,000.
At the same time, engi-
neers are having a harder
time than expected coming
up with a re-design for the
Geer/Harper intersection,
where three roads cross over
the railroad behind Home
Depot.
“One of the things we
have realized when we got
into looking at Geer and
Harper is that there are no
good solutions there,” Mor-
gan said.
Some solutions would
favor everyday vehicles,
others would be better for
the truck traffic to the nearby
Marlette plant. A round-
about would make sense,
Morgan said, but members
of the public spoke out vehe-
mently against roundabouts
last time the city considered
them.
Flipping the Theater and
Geer/Harper projects would
be easier from a cash flow
perspective, give engineers
more time for design work
and have East Theater Lane
by the end of 2020.
Councilor John Kirwan
said he was opposed to the
idea because the portion of
Theater Lane that would be
paved is beyond where the
housing development lies.
“No citizens of the city of
Hermiston live past there,”
he said.
But councilor Jackie
Myers, who lives in the area
of the project, said residents
still use the road frequently
to get to other places. She
has asked for years when
the city will pave the road.
And councilor Doug Smith
said his family would use
Theater Lane more often
if the unpaved portion got
paved. Some councilors also
pointed out the Hermiston
School District owns prop-
erty along there and hopes to
re-try for a bond that could
include a new elementary
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school on Theater Lane,
which would also increase
traffic there.
In the end, all councilors
but Kirwan voted in favor of
the change.
Before Monday’s regu-
lar city council meeting, the
council discussed sidewalks,
housing and other topics
during a work session.
Morgan said Hermiston
had 46 new single family
home permits through the
end of July.
“We’re easily on track to
pass last year’s 81 residen-
tial units,” he said.
He said there is also
a plan in the works for a
new multi-family housing
between Southeast Fifth and
Sixth streets that would pro-
vide an additional 50 units
to Hermiston’s stock of
apartments.
The
city
continues
to work on new ways to
encourage housing growth
in the area,.
It is also turning its atten-
tion to sidewalks.
An intern with city engi-
neering firm Anderson Perry
has been cataloging the
city’s sidewalks and wheel-
chair ramps all summer, and
Morgan displayed a map
Monday with sidewalk-less
streets in red.
“I was actually pleasantly
surprised with our side-
walks,” he said. “We have
quite a few sidewalks.”
The city has about $1.2
million in sidewalk projects
it hopes to complete, how-
ever, and is applying for
funding through the Safe
Routes to Schools program.
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Umatilla Electric Cooperative; The Knights of
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SILVER MEDAL SPONSORS
Inland Pool and Spa Centre; Swain Motors, Inc.; Wyatt
Harris/Second Chance; Schroth Financial Services;
Barak & Associates; Parkins Door Co.; Burns Mortuary
of Hermiston; RDO Equipment, Inc; “Best Dressed
Team” was sponsored by Dan & Christine Aguirre Family.
Hermiston Dental Group; Hermiston Drug & Gift; Gary
Culp Machine; Mary Bousquet; Doris Boatright; Dan &
Christine Aguirre Family; R & R Sports Trophies; Eastern
Oregon Telecom; O So Kleen, Inc.; Northwest Livestock
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Sun. Worship Service..............11:00am
Sun. Evening Worship..............6:00pm
Wed. Prayer & Bible Study......6:00pm
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First United Methodist Church
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Sunday School 9:00 AM
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Hermiston, Oregon
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Water Station Sponsors: Jilli’s Silly Golfers and
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Club 24 Express Fitness; Desert Lanes; Ste. Michelle
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Jeff Edmundson; Les Schwab; Smitty’s Ace Hardware
and Deanna Plum/Tastefully Simple.
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Lunch sponsored by Tom Huxoll, owner of Cascade
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and Special Olympics coach, Doris Boatright. Hermiston
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