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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 NEWS Hermiston School Board hires Mooney By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER Superintendent Tricia Mooney can now drop the word “interim” from her title. The Hermiston School Board unanimously voted to appoint Mooney as the Herm- iston School District’s leader at a meeting last week. “I am honored and humbled to be selected to serve this amazing community as the superintendent of the Hermiston School District,” Mooney said in a statement. Mooney had previously served for more than a year in the interim role, after then-superintendent Fred Maiocco left for active duty as a brigadier general with the U.S. Army Reserves. He submit- ted a letter of resignation in August 2018, after he informed the board that his term of service had been “I am honored and humbled to be selected to serve this amazing community as the superintendent of the Hermiston School District.” Tricia Mooney extended for another year, and he would only return to the district in January 2020. The board appointed Mooney one month after Maiocco offered his resignation. At a meeting in early September, board members discussed how to fill the role. Many said they considered expanding the search to other applicants, but felt Mooney had demonstrated her capability in the role, and hiring her would maintain stability in the district. The district held a meet-and- greet Sept. 24 where the commu- nity was invited to hear Mooney talk about her work and history in Hermiston, and asked participants to fill out a survey. About 30 peo- ple attended the meeting, half of them district staff and administra- tors, and the rest parents and com- munity members. Mooney spoke about the strains of a growing school district and strategies to improve the high school’s graduation rate. At a special meeting Sept. 26, board chairwoman Karen Sherman reviewed the survey results, and said they were “overwhelmingly positive.” Before the vote, board mem- ber Dave Smith said he was con- vinced the job should be offered to Fire on Navy property near Boardman burns 10,000 acres Free flu shots available in October By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER Opportunities for free flu vaccines are plentiful in Umatilla County after the flu killed an estimated 80,000 people in the United States last year. Good Shepherd Health Care System is doing a free clinic on Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the hospital’s conference rooms, 610 N.W. 11th St., Hermiston. Mar- keting and communications director Nick Bejarano said the clinic is open to all ages — no insurance required — and will have the special- ized doses for infants and the elderly on hand. Vaccines are also avail- able through primary care providers and are often cov- ered 100 percent by insur- ance. Good Shepherd administers the vaccine to emergency room patients during flu season. Businesses can also arrange for the hos- pital to come and host a flu shot clinic for employees. “Statistically speaking, (the vaccine) is very helpful to prevent the flu,” Bejarano said. Local pharmacists around HERMISTON HERALD An influenza vaccine is prepared in this 2015 file photo. the county also offer flu vac- cines, including the pharma- cies at Walmart, Safeway, Rite Aid and Bi-Mart. Alisha Southwick, school health and community well- ness supervisor for Umatilla County Public Health, said people can get the flu shot wherever is most conve- nient for them — the import- ant thing is that they get the shot. The public health depart- ment encourages people to get the vaccine through their pharmacist or primary care provider but the department does have regular flu vac- cines for adults and children on hand. People should call ahead and make an appoint- ment, but the Hermiston office at 435 E Newport St. is taking walk-ins Oct. 26. Southwick said children and the elderly are most at risk of serious complications from the flu, and she highly encourages they get a vac- cine before flu season gets into full swing. “We don’t know what this season will bring,” she said. According to the Associ- ated Press, last year’s sea- son was particularly deadly. About 80,000 Americans died, compared with 12,000 to 56,000 in a normal year. Crews contained a wild- fire near Boardman on Sept. 26 that had started about 24 hours earlier and burned 10,000 acres. The fire started at Bombing Range Road, at the Naval Weapons System Training Facility, around 1 p.m. Sept. 25, and was con- tained around 1:20 p.m. the next day. Mike Welding, a pub- lic information officer for Naval Air Station Whid- bey Island, said the bomb- ing range is about 48,000 acres, and the fire was about 10 miles away from Interstate 84. He said the fire moved southwest, away from the freeway. It got within about a mile of the coal-fired plant in Boardman. Welding said the cause HH FILE PHOTO The flu can increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other deadly complications. The flu vaccine is more effective some years than others, because scientists developing each year’s vac- cine have to guess which strains will take off. 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