WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018
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Time capsule to offer a slice of life in 2018
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
When Hermiston resi-
dents’ grandchildren open
the city’s time capsule 50
years from now, Mark Rose
hopes they find a treasure
trove of interesting Herm-
iston memorabilia that pro-
vides a window into 2018.
So far, the Hermiston
Public Library director said,
there haven’t been many
offerings. A small collec-
tion of items ranging from
a Hermiston Police Depart-
ment patch to a commemo-
rative coin from Hermiston’s
75th anniversary sits on dis-
play in a glass case at the
library, but there is plenty
more room inside the two-
foot-tall metal capsule that
will be sealed up Sept. 8.
Rose said there are a few
plans in the works for more
items — a city employee
was going to gather up some
menus from local restau-
rants, and a local teenager
volunteered to submit some
writings and photographs
about everyday life as a teen
in Hermiston in 2018. The
photography club that meets
at the library plans to take
photos of places in the city
they think may look dramati-
cally different by 2068, such
as the fields around the water
tower north of town.
“There will be people
that will watch this go into
the ground that will watch it
come out again,” Rose pre-
dicted. “But the city will be
bigger. There will be differ-
ent buildings. It will be a dif-
ferent place.”
The plan is to seal the
time capsule in an under-
ground vault behind Herm-
iston Public Library, next to
the arch that marks the loca-
tion of the old Armand Lar-
ive Middle School. The arch
is getting new landscaping,
LED lighting and an inter-
pretive panel as part of the
construction of the Harken-
rider Senior Activity Cen-
ter nearby. Burns Mortuary
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Camila Cazana, 6, practices brushing a stuffed dragon’s
teeth at the Mirasol Family Health Clinic’s health fair.
Mirasol health fair spreads
wellness information
“We just want kids to be
safe,” Tabitha Woods said.
They were also work-
ing on spreading the word
about WIC and who is eli-
gible for the service. The
most popular part of the
booth, however, seemed to
be the opportunity for par-
ents to measure their child’s
height. Next door, Cathy
Wamsley was promoting
the InterMountain Educa-
tion Service District’s free
oral health program. Work-
ing with Advantage Dental
and a grant from the Ore-
gon Community Founda-
tion, the IMESD is offer-
ing free dental checks to
kids in all school districts
in Union, Umatilla and
Morrow counties.
She asked parents to
give permission when
schools sent home forms
asking if their child could
have a free dental exam
as school, and handed
out “tooth timers” to help
kids know how long they
should brush their teeth.
“I want the kids to know
that it’s important to brush
their teeth at least twice a
day,” she said.
The health fair was held
in the Mirasol parking lot
on Saturday and offered
other informational booths
about wellness, as well as
services such as $10 sports
physicals.
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL.
The time capsule that will be sealed up Sept. 8 sits in the Hermiston Public Library.
of Hermiston is donating a
stone marker to place over
where the capsule is buried.
A ribbon cutting cere-
mony for the new senior
center will take place on Sat-
urday, Sept. 8 at 1 p.m., with
the overall dedication cel-
ebration from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Rose said he plans to
have photo boards or some
other medium to show peo-
ple attending the celebration
what is in the time capsule
before it is buried that day.
In the meantime he hopes
people continue to drop off
Hermiston-branded items,
photos and other contribu-
tions at the library. He sug-
gested service clubs could
contribute
a
one-page
write-up of their current
officers and doings, or the
schools could drop off items
frequently confiscated from
students as a slice of “human
interest.”
Submissions will be
accepted through Sept. 5.
The city is being careful
to mark the location of the
capsule and register its lat-
itude and longitude with a
national registry after a pre-
vious Hermiston time cap-
sule went missing.
Jim Sexton, Hermis-
ton Class of 1992, said he
and his classmates submit-
ted items for a Class of 1992
time capsule to be opened at
their 20-year reunion, but no
one knows where the cap-
sule went. Some have spec-
ulated it was buried and
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then accidentally discarded
during construction of a new
school.
“The new HS was built
and our capsule was never
seen again,” he said in a
Facebook message. “We
have contacted several teach-
ers of our era and nobody
knows anything about it.”
City manager Byron
Smith said the city was
told that the capsule might
have been buried in the area
where the Harkenrider Cen-
ter was being constructed
and the arch was being
re-landscaped, but contrac-
tors kept a lookout and never
saw anything.
“People reported it was
there, but we never found
it,” he said.
Wellness checks, immu-
nizations and free tacos
were all offered up at the
Mirasol Family Health
Clinic’s wellness fair
Saturday.
The Hermiston medical
clinic offered the health fair
to connect families with
health services and infor-
mation, and there were
several families browsing
through the booths on Sat-
urday afternoon.
Tera Kulhanek was
manning a booth for Life-
ways, handing out infor-
mation about mental health
services in the area. She
said she hoped to con-
nect people with resources
to help them have a more
positive outlook on life.
“We’re here to support
people,” she said.
The Umatilla Morrow
County Head Start booth
had car seats, so that staff
could teach parents about
the proper car seat for their
child and the safest way
to buckle them in. Head
Start provides free car seat
checks for parents at their
offices, as well, and dis-
counted car seats are avail-
able for people who qual-
ify for Women, Infants and
Children or the Oregon
Health Plan.
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