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STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
Ramon Quirarte and Joel Varela enjoy breakfast before class at Armand Larive Middle School in Hermiston.
Students benefit from free breakfast
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
Often touted as the “most import-
ant meal of the day,” breakfast is fre-
quently overlooked in favor of more
sleep or hurried morning routines. The
Hermiston School District hopes to
change that and has started offering
free breakfast to all students this year.
The district contracts with Chart-
wells, a catering service, for all its
meals. Chartwells’ new director, David
Busch, hopes that more students will
take advantage of the opportunity.
“We saw a great need for students,”
Busch said. “Every child deserves the
opportunity to learn without a grum-
bling stomach, or wondering when
lunch is.”
Breakfast is available at all schools,
and to all students regardless of eco-
nomic status.
“The district has always had free
breakfast, depending on the need of
individual students,” he said.
But Busch said some students have
been hesitant to eat school-offered
meals, even if they do qualify.
“A lot of kids don’t participate
because of peer pressure, or they want
to spend time with their friends,” he
said. “Now, we’ve created an envi-
ronment where everyone can still be
together and get something in their
stomachs.”
He said currently about 22 percent
of the district’s students take advan-
tage of the free breakfast program and
he hopes to see at least a 10 percent
increase in participation this year.
“If we went to 50 percent, I’d be so
pleased,” he said.
Chartwells offers a different main
morning meal each day, such as bis-
cuits and sausage with gravy, egg-and-
cheese burritos, scrambled egg pizzas
or cinnamon oatmeal. Students can also
get cereal, milk and fruit every day.
Katie Saul, Hermiston School Dis-
trict’s director of business services,
said some funding for meals comes
from the state and the rest is covered by
the district’s contract with Chartwells.
“It’s built into the contract price,”
Saul said.
Busch said Chartwells is also look-
ing into some other new meal programs
for the district.
“At the high school we’ll be imple-
menting a student choice program,”
he said. Every few months, Chart-
wells will have a tasting table at the
high school with several different types
of food. Students can try the different
meals and vote for the ones they’d like
to have served at lunch.
“Because they choose meals,
we’re hoping for greater participa-
tion,” Busch said. He said he hopes to
encourage students to eat on campus,
instead of going to nearby convenience
stores for lunch.
“We can give better nutritional
choices,” he said.
Echo looking at sewer rate increase
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
The city of Echo is ready
to dive into its new waste-
water systems upgrade, but
the project will come at a
cost.
City manager Diane
Berry said engineers esti-
mate the city will need to
charge residents between
$74 and $75 a month to
operate the new system and
pay off its debt service. The
city council will vote on a
resolution raising rates at
the city council meeting
next Thursday.
The
city
currently
charges residents $47 per
month for sewer. Berry will
recommend the council
raise rates to $60 starting in
October and then up to $75
in the spring.
The wastewater the city
discharges into the Uma-
tilla River does not meet
state standards for biolog-
ical oxygen demand, and
the Department of Environ-
mental Quality has ordered
the city to fix the problem
by 2019. The city got about
12 years’ worth of exten-
sions from the DEQ before
then, but the state agency
has warned it will not con-
tinue giving extensions
indefinitely and failure to
comply would result in sig-
nificant fines.
The city of Stanfield
has volunteered to take the
recycled water generated by
Echo, and Echo is ready to
move forward on designing
the project.
During the November
election, Echo residents
will be voting on who will
help guide the city through
the project. Four of Echo’s
seven at-large council seats
are up for election, as well
including the four on the
ballot and any write-in can-
didates — will receive spots
on the council.
In other news, Berry said
the Thielsen Street proj-
ect is nearly complete. The
project placed sidewalks
along Thielsen Street from
Main Street to the bridge
before the cemetery, with
benches, planters and a bike
lane added as well. Land-
scaping will be added in the
spring.
as its mayor.
Berry said incumbent
Jeanne Hampton was the
only person to file for the
mayor’s position. On the
council, Karl Jensen and
Gayle Yoder did not re-file.
Tammie Williams, who was
appointed to fill a vacant
seat earlier this year, has
filed, as has incumbent
Janie Enright and newcom-
ers Dick Yoder and Chad
Ray. The top four vote-get-
ters in the election —
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541-567-8441
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565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
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Thursday...............Spanish 6:00 pm
SATURDAY:.........English 5:00 pm
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