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HERMISTON HISTORY
BRANDI HOWARD
Owner, Andee’s Boutique
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I grew up here.
What is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Probably Ixtapa.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy watching my girls play sports and dance. I
also enjoy time with friends and family.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
The warm, generous hearts.
What was the last book you read?
I honestly don’t know.
25 YEARS AGO
What app or website do you use most often?
Instagram
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Some place without cell phone service where
nobody would know me.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
We did an American Idol skit for the Chamber of
Commerce secretary appreciation day, and I was
Paula Abdul.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
To make happy memories
What is your proudest accomplishment?
My four strong daughters
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HH ﬁ le photo
Jamie Beinhauer, 8, is presented with a portable television set by the Irrigon Lions Club in 1968. He had just returned from
the hospital after suﬀ ering a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the head while playing in the area where his older brother and
a neighbor boy were shooting cans.
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DEC. 21, 1993
Don Eppenbach remem-
bers when he attended the
old Irrigon High School.
Everybody was involved
in sports — everybody.
“It was a small high
school, but it was compet-
itive,” the man who is now
mayor of the town says.
“All the boys turned out
for sports, and the one who
didn’t became the manager.
We never won a whole
whale of games, but we had
a good sports program.”
It is that degree of com-
munity pride that is one of
the reasons a number of
area residents want the city
to get a high school sepa-
rate from their neighbors
down the road at Riverside
High in Boardman.
A split between the two
schools is dead, at least
for now, after the Mor-
row County School Board
voted to keep Riverside
a grade 9-12 high school,
with both Boardman and
Irrigon students.
The split would have
dropped the schools to
about 200 students each,
putting them back in the
Class 2A Columbia Basin
Conference. For the last
three years, Riverside
has been in the Class 3A
Greater Oregon League.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 19, 1968
The City of Hermis-
ton can expect at least one
group to ﬁ le a remonstrance
against the proposed local
improvement district pav-
ing project near the junior
high school at the public
hearing set for Wednesday,
Jan. 8 at the city hall.
Surprisingly
enough,
that group is made up of
School District 8-R board
members who came to
HH ﬁ le photo
The grand champions of Echo’s Christmas light contest in
1993 were Lorraine and Stu Bance.
such a decision after board
members ﬁ rst failed to sec-
ond a motion not to protest
the project, then rejected
a motion to pave the sec-
tion from Gladys Avenue to
Third Street.
The entire project under
question runs from Sec-
ond and Gladys northeast,
then east to Wilshire and
Fourth. School District
8-R is the largest property
owner along this route and
subsequently would have
to come up with approx-
imately $14,000 as its
share of the construction
costs, according to esti-
mates made by John Cer-
mak, Elementary Educa-
tion Director.
75 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1943
The annual report of the
Bonneville Power Admin-
istration, released by Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold
Ickes, urged early construc-
tion of a Umatilla dam and
other projects to insure an
additional power supply by
1946.
The report, by Admin-
istrator Paul J. Raver, said
the combined capacity of
Bonneville and Grand Cou-
lee dams is expected to
reach 1,316,400 kilowatts
by next spring, and is now
about 1,275,000 kilowatts.
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The report said rough esti-
mates indicate an addi-
tional capacity of about
1,700,000 kilowatts during
the ﬁ rst postwar decade.
The Umatilla dam, long
advocated by the United
States army engineers who
built Bonneville, has been
approved by the rivers and
harbor committee of the
House.
2) Leo D. Parrott is in
the county jail in Pendle-
ton following a drunken
spree Tuesday night which
besides other things cost
him all his household
furniture.
He was arrested Wednes-
day by Chief B.J. Nation
following issuance of a
warrant for his arrest. He
was placed under $1,000
bond and taken to Pend-
leton Wednesday night by
state police.
Parrott is alleged to have
taken a hand axe Tuesday
evening and broken up all
the furniture in the Parrot
cabin, including beds, cedar
chest, chair and other valu-
ables. He is charged with
drunk and disorderly con-
duct and willful destruction
of property.
100 YEARS AGO
Dec. 21, 1918
Col. J. F. McNaught,
county leader of rodent
control, has declared war
on the pests — principally
jackrabbits and gophers –
and the modus operandi
to be employed by him
in their extermination is
strychnine, which he will
secure and distribute to
ranchers. This he will pur-
chase in large quantities,
about three hundred ounces
right away, from a revolv-
ing fund of $500 appor-
tioned by the county court
for this purpose.
The territory to be cov-
ered includes Echo, West-
land, Umatilla and Hermis-
ton, and the ﬁ rst good snow
will see operations begin
in earnest. Therefore he
would like all ranchers who
want to secure their portion
of the strychnine to leave
word at Hitt’s Confection-
ary when in town. The
formula is once ounce of
strychnine to 16 pounds of
chopped hay. Dissolve the
drug ﬁ rst in very hot water,
stir up well and sprinkle
over the hay.
2) It now looks as
if Umatilla County is
about to have the Colum-
bia Highway completed
from the Morrow County
line to Pendleton, and it is
expected that grading and
graveling the road will start
by Feb. 1. This good news
was brought back by W. L.
Thompson on his return to
Pendleton last week from
the state road commis-
sion meeting in Portland.
According to Mr. Thomp-
son, contracts are to be let
by the state with a view
of ﬁ nishing the entire road
from Pendleton to The
Dalles in the coming year.
If the Columbia High-
way is constructed in the
coming year as outlined by
Mr. Thompson — and there
seems to be no doubt now
but what it will — it will be
a great boon to this and all
other towns through which
it passes.
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