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you were good to go,” he
said.
Deciding to save money
by doing some work them-
selves has added more
time than expected as well.
The building — which has
served as everything from
a Sears to a church — is
getting an extensive make-
over with a completely new
layout.
Lambert said new “to
do” items keep popping
up as they go along. They
decided to double-insulate
all the interior walls with
sound-proofing materials,
for example, because they
plan to lease part of the
building to professionals
such as lawyers and doc-
tors, who want to keep con-
versations confidential.
Still, he said, they are
lucky to be able to continue
operating out of their cur-
rent building they can stay
in until the remodel is fin-
ished, and they are excited
about the chance to cus-
tomize a new, larger office.
Another business move
still waiting to happen is
Delish Bistro, which is
located at 1725 N. First
Street but is also leasing
the former Stet’s Steak-
house building on Highway
395. The bistro at one point
was slated to move to the
former steakhouse build-
ing in February 2018, but is
still at its original location.
Herman Hull said the
restaurant plans to remodel
the kitchen before mov-
ing in, but is waiting on the
financing to do it.
“It’s going to be a while
yet,” he said.
The move will pro-
vide indoor seating, and a
larger kitchen will open up
new options on the menu.
If anyone is interested in
participating in a private
financing initiative — 9
percent annual interest paid
monthly — they should get
in touch with Delish Bistro,
Hull said.
The Union Club, a proj-
ect that originally envi-
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Financing has held up Delish Bistro’s planned move into the old Stet’s Steakhouse in
Hermiston.
sioned a summer 2018
opening, is now looking
at opening its doors during
the upcoming summer
instead.
“Obviously I can’t say
anything with complete
assurance, because you’ve
seen how it’s been, but I’m
more sure now that I have
been,” said Justin Doyle,
one of the partners in the
project.
The club will be a cof-
fee-by-day, bar-by-night
gathering space that plays
homage to the original
Union Club of the 1940s.
The building on the corner
of Main Street and North-
east Second Street, which
was erected in 1906, was
most recently home to Roe-
Marks Men’s and Western
Wear.
Doyle said he wasn’t
interested in recounting a
blow-by-blow of what the
holdups have been, but he
did say that remodeling a
historic buildings comes
with extra challenges. It’s
a “game” of finding out
which elements — plumb-
ing, wiring, etc. — need
replaced, and special care
also needs to be taken to
preserve the building’s his-
torical integrity as much as
possible.
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“It definitely adds addi-
tional layers of discovery,
but the value of keeping
the history alive outweighs
all the difficulties,” he said.
Doyle said they are get-
ting ready to sign off on
a bid and final design,
however, and contractors
should be starting on the
four- to five-month project
within weeks.
“It’s been challeng-
ing, it’s taken longer than
we thought, but we’re still
here,” he said.
Other Hermiston-area
projects delayed but still
in the works include Ranch
& Home. The retailer was
originally slated to open by
Jan. 1, 2018, but has yet to
announce an opening date.
While the company has
mostly been silent about
the construction process,
it did cite a problem with
finding electrical subcon-
tractors when discussing
an extension of its incen-
tive package with the city
of Hermiston in early 2018.
Because the retailer missed
a June 2018 deadline, it is
missing out on $100,000
in reimbursed develop-
ment costs from the city of
Hermiston.
The Maxwell Pavilion,
originally slated to host
the summer 2018 farmer’s
market in Hermiston, is still
putting finishing touches
on the project after a dis-
agreement between owner
Mitch Meyers and the
city’s building department
resulted in a stop-work
order over the summer.
The city was set to build
an RV park at the Eastern
Oregon Trade and Event
Center in time for the 2019
Umatilla County Fair, but
a ruling by the city’s own
planning commission, ban-
ning construction at the
site until an overflow park-
ing plan is approved, has
put the original timeline
in doubt. The delay is far
from the first construction
delay for EOTEC.
In December the Wash-
ington State Department of
Transportation announced
that the Interstate 82
bridge across the Colum-
bia River would not be fin-
ished in 2018 as originally
planned, but instead finish
up sometime in the spring
or summer of 2019. The
department blamed “addi-
tional work” that cropped
up unexpectedly, causing
workers to not get concrete
pouring finished before the
weather turned too poor to
continue.
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Deacon Eddie Cobbs of Pasco gives the opening prayer
Monday during a service for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in
Hermiston.
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said, and “seeks to defeat
evil, not people.” It is also
built on the belief that the
universe is on the side of
justice.
“Nonviolence is not for
cowardly people,” he said.
“You have to be able to know
how to take it.”
He said King may be com-
monly associated with fight-
ing for civil rights for black
Americans in particular, but
what King was really against
was injustice of all kinds.
Whitfield noted the large
number of children and teens
in the audience, and said he
was glad to see the next gen-
eration coming out to honor
King’s legacy. John Wither-
spoon, a Tri-Cities area per-
former, also addressed the
young people in the audience
before performing two origi-
nal raps.
“Step out of your shell,”
he said, encouraging them
to stand up for what is right.
“Step out of that thing. Who
cares if someone makes fun
of you or calls you stupid?”
He told them that things
like video games or scrolling
endlessly through Facebook
were distractions from “who
you’re supposed to be.”
Younger children in the
audience were also encour-
aged to do what is right, as
they listened to Jackie Lin-
ton of Hermiston read the
children’s book “Let the
Children March” by Mon-
ica Clark-Robinson. The
book details the 1963 Bir-
mingham Children’s Cru-
sade, explaining how young
people stepped up to march
against segregation despite
being met with fire hoses,
police dogs and arrests.
The Martin Luther King
Jr. event, hosted by the
Hermiston Cultural Aware-
ness Club, began with a short
march through Hermiston’s
downtown, including a stop
at city hall. There, city man-
ager Byron Smith thanked
participants for doing their
part to carry on King’s leg-
acy in Hermiston.
“Our community is rich
and vibrant because of you,
the people who are here,
the people who are trying
to make it a better place to
live,” he said.
He quoted from King’s
famous letter from Birming-
ham Jail:
“Human progress never
rolls in on wheels of inevi-
tability; it comes through the
tireless efforts of men willing
to be co workers with God.”
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