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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
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NEW ADMIN
Tricia Mooney to be officially
named Hermiston School
District superintendent
Wednesday morning.
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END OF A SEASON
BUSTED
Lost Valley Farm founder
Greg te Velde arrested in
Hermiston on meth charges.
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NEW LOOK
Hermiston’s Greenwood
Park is being revamped,
while a new trail is under
construction along Highland
Avenue.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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