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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
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Billie Westlund of the PayLess fabric department helps customer Georgie DeBoie with a purchase in 1994.
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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.