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FOOTBALL | BULLDOGS TAKE DOWN WALLA WALLA BLUE DEVILS » SPORTS, A10 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 HermistonHerald.com $1.00 INSIDE NEW ADMIN Tricia Mooney to be officially named Hermiston School District superintendent Wednesday morning. PAGE A3 END OF A SEASON BUSTED Lost Valley Farm founder Greg te Velde arrested in Hermiston on meth charges. PAGE A3 NEW LOOK Hermiston’s Greenwood Park is being revamped, while a new trail is under construction along Highland Avenue. PAGE A8 BY THE WAY Umatilla students bury time capsule The students of Clara Brownell Middle School immortalized some of their favorite items Tues- day, burying a time cap- sule in the newly-remod- eled Umatilla school’s entryway. Students voted on all the items, which included several snack foods like Twinkies and Cheetos, as well as a year- book, an athletic jersey, photos of current students, and a brick from the old high school. Superinten- dent Heidi Sipe included a letter she had written to the future superinten- dent. The capsule will be opened up in 50 years. For a story about the burying of the time cap- sule, visit www.hermis- tonherald.com. • • • For an a-mazing time, head to the Echo Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch. The Tyhuis family is ush- ering in fall fun, beginning this weekend and running through Nov. 3. In addition to the regu- lar corn maze, people can wander through the sun- flower bale maze, dig into the corn pit and check out the pumpkin patch. The See BTW, Page A6 STAFF PHOTOS BY E.J. HARRIS Becky Satter Kaaen of Halfway, Oregon, talks to Deanna Garrard as she twists wool at her booth Wooly 1 on Thursday at the Hermiston Famers Market. By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER H ermiston residents have one last chance to hit up their local farm- ers market. The Maxwell Market’s last day will be Thursday, from 4-7:30 p.m. The market has grown since its start earlier in the summer, with more than two dozen vendors under the giant canopy on the corner of First Place and West Locust Avenue. Quarters are a little tight, but Nikki Brown, who has been coordinating the market this summer, said by the end of the summer she had more than 30 ven- dors she had needed to turn away for lack of space. “We had as many as we had in the market that couldn’t get in,” she said. Brown said vendors interested in par- ticipating in next year’s market should keep an eye on the Maxwell Market Facebook page for future announce- ments about vendor meetings and early sign-ups. There may be slightly more room next year when the market moves across the intersection to the Maxwell Pavilion, a large, permanent shade structure where See MARKET, A16 A new location and a new day of the week have worked well for the Maxwell Market. Experiencing the English language Hermiston class helps speakers of indigenous languages acclimate By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS Freddy Cruz Perez helps quiz his fellow classmates while instructor Loretta Fitterer supervises the exercise last week in the Hermiston School District’s Newcomers Program at Highland Hills Elementary School. The students in Highland Hills Elementary School’s Newcomers class know the difference between the numbers 15 and 50. Regardless, they take a few min- utes during a math lesson to repeat them over and over again — “fif- TEEN, fif-TY, fif-TEEN, fif-TY” — emphasizing the last syllables that distinguish the two. As they learn English, repetition is an important part of understand- ing the vocabulary for all subjects, from the pronunciation of numbers to learning the words for different parts of the body. “The Newcomers program is all about helping our kids express what they know,” said teacher Loretta Fitterer. The program is open to third- through eighth-graders, who attend a class at Highland Hills Elemen- tary School, and ninth- through 12th-graders, who meet at Hermis- ton High School. To qualify for the program students must have been in the United States for less than a year and a half, and must speak “level one” English — meaning they have See CLASS, A16