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About Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 1994-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 2019)
COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019 HERMISTON HISTORY CARTER CHILDS Electrician When and why did you move to Hermiston? I moved to Hermiston in 1998, because my parents moved here from Salt Lake City. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? Kobe Hibachi Sushi What do you like to do in your spare time? I enjoy fi nding projects, planning them out and working on them — like small home improvement projects. 25 YEARS AGO What surprises you about Hermiston. It’s always growing. FEB. 8, 1994 What was the last book you read? I haven’t read a book in forever. What app or website do you use most often other than Facebook or Google? Spotify If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Australia What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? I’m a pretty goofy guy. One time, my friends and I rented a house in California. I found a stuffed ele- phant in the room I was staying in. I was riding the stuffed elephant around the house, and there was a step down I didn’t see. I stepped down and rolled my ankle. Everyone got a good laugh out of that. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? Get a promotion What is your proudest accomplishment? Paying off my truck Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 06 Jade McDowell | News Editor • jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4536 Jayati Ramakrishnan | Reporter • jramakrishnan@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4534 Tammy Malgesini | Community Editor • tmalgesini@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4539 Annie Fowler | Sports Editor • afowler@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4542 Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 Dana Tassie | Offi ce Coordinator • dtassie@eastoregonean.com • 541-564-4530 To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information: • call 541-567-6457 • e-mail info@hermistonherald.com • stop by our offi ces at 333 E. Main St. • visit us online at: hermistonherald.com The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. HH fi le photo Billie Westlund of the PayLess fabric department helps customer Georgie DeBoie with a purchase in 1994. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Inside Umatilla/Morrow counties ........... $42.65 Outside Umatilla/Morrow counties ........ $53.90 Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. Postmaster, send address changes to Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838. Member of EO Media Group Copyright ©2019 CORRECTIONS It is the policy of the Hermiston Herald to correct errors as soon as they are discovered. Incorrect information will be corrected on Page 2A. Errors commited on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections also are noted in the online versions of our stories. Please contact the editor at editor@hermistonherald.com or call (541) 564-4533 with issues about this policy or to report errors. SUBMIT A LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letters Policy: Letters to the Editor is a forum for the Hermiston Herald readers to express themselves on local, state, national or world issues. Brevity is good, but longer letters should be kept to 250 words. No personal attacks; challenge the opinion, not the person. The Hermiston Herald reserves the right to edit letters for length and for content. Letters must be original and signed by the writer or writers. Anonymous letters will not be printed. Writers should include a telephone number so they can be reached for questions. Only the letter writer’s name and city of residence will be published. OBITUARY POLICY The Hermiston Herald publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include small photos and, for veterans, a fl ag symbol at no charge. Expanded death notices will be published at no charge. These include information about services. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Obituaries and notices may be submitted online at hermistonherald.com/ obituaryform, by email to obits@hermistonherald.com, by fax to 541-276-8314, placed via the funeral home or in person at the Hermiston Herald or East Oregonian offi ces. For more information, call 541-966-0818 or 1-800-522-0255, x221. U.S. Generating’s $2 million settlement with two environmental groups was necessary to keep the Herm- iston Generating Project on schedule, offi cials from the company said. Under the terms of the agreement, neither the Columbia Basin Institute nor Lloyd Marbet can inter- fere further with the proj- ect or with any enterprise it relies on, such as the Regional Water Project. Not all are happy with the settlement, however. Hermiston Development Corporation director Tom Gilleese said he fears the $500,000 settlement with CBI will be used to fi ght the expansion of irrigation district boundaries in the Umatilla River Basin. 2) With the state’s new bail schedule, traffi c infrac- tions have become much more a matter of high fi nance. The schedule, a list of the minimum fi nes for infractions, went into effect Feb. 1. Driving at 70 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone — not an uncommon occur- rence — can result in a $134 ticket. Last month, that driver could have sent in a check for $57 and called it good. The logic implicit in the increase, approved in the last legislative session, is to encourage compliance with the rules of the road. How- ever, local police offi cials have their doubts. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1969 A large youth activ- ity park, featuring several baseball diamonds and an extensive recreation com- plex, may become a real- ity if current negotiations between several city and county organizations are successful. Meeting Tuesday eve- ning, Jan. 28 for the sec- ond time in recent weeks, members of the Hermis- ton Baseball Commis- sion appointed Earl Tor- ris, Hermiston school teacher, as chairman of the committee to pur- sue such a site at the county fairgrounds in Hermiston. Positive support has already come from the county fair board, says Torris, inasmuch as they have tentatively given permission for the facil- ities to be placed in the east end of the fair- grounds, encompassing approximately 250,000 square feet in an area roughly outline as being 525 feet by 550 feet. McKenzie Park, which will border the tract on the north, may at some later date also be included in the portion allotted to playground equipment and orga- nized court activities. Such court facilities as volleyball, handball and basketball are being con- sidered, as well as outdoor play equipment, horseshoe pits and whatever else the local citizens would like to see installed. 75 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1944 Two brothers, Mark Twain Shoemaker, 26, and Sheridan S. Shoemaker, 32, residents of Hermiston for a short time after mov- ing here from near Yakima, are being held by county offi cers on direct informa- tion charging them with burglary not in a dwelling house. They were arrested here this week by Sheriff Bob Goad and Sgt. Louis Johnson of the state police. The brothers were accused of entering Hale’s Confectionary & Sporting Goods Jan. 30 and steal- ing a reported some of over $1,000. Some of the money has been recovered. District Attorney A.C, McIntyre said offi cers had reported to him that Mark had admitted he stood out- side the building while his brother obtained the money. 2) The annual meeting of HH fi le photo Richard Brinson shovels snow away from his mailbox at Hat Rock in 1969. the Farm Bureau Coopera- tive of Hermiston on Feb. 18 will mark the 20th anni- versary of the organization. It has grown in vol- ume of business from about $4,000 in 1924 to $350,000 in 1943. Its fi rst business was done from the car door when a group of farmers clubbed together and bought and distrib- uted one car of feed. They later rented a small build- ing where the work of the cooperative was continued. The present paid up membership is approx- imately 800, consisting mostly of farmers at Board- man, Irrigon, Umatilla, Hermiston, Stanfi eld, Echo, Butter Creek, Lexington, Ione, Heppner and the sur- rounding district. 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 8, 1919 The half century mark passed on Tuesday since the town of Umatilla lost the county seat to Pend- leton. Just think of it, 50 years ago Umatilla was one of the top-notchers in the way of a fl ourish- ing western business city, being the outfi tting point to which all cattlemen, horse- men, sheepmen and mining men in eastern Oregon and Washington had to come to get their supplies. To look at it now one couldn’t con- ceive that it had once been a city of importance — but it is coming back, and very soon when the railway ter- minal is again established there. 2) W.J. Dobler, the well known rancher four miles north of town, while in this city Monday said an endeavor is being made by himself and others in his neighborhood to secure the promise of every auto- mobile owner in that dis- trict to bring a load of vot- ers to the polls on the day of the road bond election. Mr. Dobler is an enthusiast on good roads, and will leave no stone unturned in his endeavor to have the pro- posed bond issue carry. His idea of using automobiles to get out the voters seems to have found favor, to the extent that the scheme is now being urged in every district in the county. New nonprofi t works to ‘mobilize and engage underserved populations’ By JADE MCDOWELL NEWS EDITOR An Oregon nonprofi t expanding into Hermis- ton hopes to empower its residents. Euvalcree is opening an offi ce at 210 Main St. in Hermiston Wednesday. The nonprofi t’s purpose is to “mobilize and engage under-served and under- represented populations.” Executive director Gus- tavo Morales said the group started in Ontario in 2014, when leaders of the town’s Latino commu- nity decided to respond to frustrations of Latino res- idents who felt like they were being marginal- ized and blamed for the town’s problems. Their early efforts turned into Euvalcree, which offers services to people of all demographics. Services Euvalcree pro- vides include free family events, educational out- reach, application assis- tance, scholarships, lead- ership development and training sessions for com- munity members with titles such as “Commu- nity 201” and “Know Your Rights.” “We are a fi rm believer in teaching people how to fi sh, instead of giving them a fi sh,” Morales said. The nonprofi t has sev- eral contracts with gov- ernment agencies, such as the Oregon Health Author- ity, to do outreach and sign-ups for various health programs. Morales said the com- munity events are designed to help foster better under- standing between different people and cultures. Hermiston is Euval- cree’s fi rst satellite offi ce, and Morales said they hired local residents to staff it. They are working to get involved with estab- lished community events, such as Cinco de Mayo, and also plan to host events of their own. The fi rst will be a grand open- ing celebration on April 7 with live music and food. For more informa- tion about Euvalcree, visit www.euvalcree.org.
