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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2019 HERMISTON HISTORY ROY LINDSKOG Retired truck driver When and why did you move to the area? I moved to Stanfi eld in June. Before that, I’d been on the road from Minnesota. What is your favorite place to eat in the area? I like the Senior Center, Panda — we make the rounds to different places so we don’t get sick of one place. What do you like to do in your spare time? Whatever I want to do. I like to play guitar. What surprises you about Hermiston? It’s good country — the people are nice. What was the last book you read? I don’t read much. I use my phone a lot. What app or website do you use most? Facebook If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? If I could, my zip code would be my license plate. I used to drive truck, I have over a million miles. What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? I can’t think of any one thing. I have had a lot of fun with the things I’ve been doing — I don’t get too serious. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? I want to go back to my hometown — Grand Marais, Minnesota. Then I want to go visit my sis- ter in northern Wisconsin. What is your proudest accomplishment? Driving truck and only having one unavoidable accident and one speeding ticket. Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 07 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 As time ran out, the Hermiston bench (left to right) Brandi Lowrance, Lynette Hickey, Erin Hansell, Jamie Shirley and coach Mike Royer celebrated Hermiston’s 55-52 win over Pendleton in 1994. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1994 A pick-up truck rested on the bottom of Willow Creek Reservoir outside Heppner. Oregon State Police and Morrow County Sheriff’s Department per- sonnel were called to the scene. They in turn called Toby Hall. Hall, 17, of Boardman, is one of Morrow Coun- ty’s three certifi ed divers and fi rst responders. The job called for grace under pressure. Inside the truck was the body of an Ione man, who had failed to get out in time. Hall attached the hook at the end of a wrecker’s winch cable to the bumper of the submerged truck. He then had to close the driv- er’s side door to prevent the body from falling out. Hall’s ability to keep his cool during a traumatic task was impressive. “I think he did a fantastic job,” Morrow County Sher- iff Roy Drago said. 2) Up to fi ve thousand buyers, sellers and specta- tors from throughout the United States and Can- ada are expected at this week’s Hermiston Extrava- ganza Horse Sale at at the Northwestern Livestock Commission. Motel rooms and trailer spaces are already in short supply as buyers and sellers prepare to attend the sale. “We’ve been full-up for the weekend for a long time,” said Angela Lam- bert, co-owner of the Rest a Bit Motel in Umatilla. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1969 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. 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. 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Lee Urbaur, Good Shep- herd Hospital Administra- tor, says the architect fi rm of Wilmsen, Endicott and Greene of Portland has been chosen to draw up plans for the proposed expansion and modernization of the hospi- tal that may run as high as a quarter of a million dollars. Urbauer says prelimi- HH fi le photo Toby Hall, 17, gets a hand suiting up from his brother Ty before helping retrieve a truck that crashed into the Willow Creek Reservoir in 1994. nary plans call for an addi- tion to present facilities to accommodate approx- imately 14 more beds, as well as modernization and enlargement of the rest of the hospital. The hospital, originally built in 1954, was increased from 30 to 42 bed capac- ity in an expansion in 1964 and the current addition of 14 beds will bring the total to 56. 2) Members of the school board of Hermiston School District and the teachers’ negotiating committee were deadlocked after nearly four hours of discussion at a special meeting convened at the high school last Mon- day evening. The meeting was called because three prior meet- ings between the teach- ers and the school district’s salary consulting com- mittee had resulted in an impasse over wages and assigned duties outside the classroom. The teachers group, rep- resented by Matt Doughty, pressed for a salary sched- ule starting at $6,400 for beginning teachers with an automatic annual 4 per- cent increment. The school board countered with $6,300 and a variable incre- ment index that is now spread between 2.5 and 5 percent. 75 YEARS AGO Feb. 17, 1944 The past several days have seen considerable basketball in these parts with the high school Bull- dogs winning two and los- ing two in a quartet of con- tests. Unfortunately, the two losses were in the sub-district playoff with Pendleton and Mac-Hi and consequently eliminated Coach Frank Davidson’s proteges from the running. Unless a late-season contest is scheduled, the Mac Hi game Tuesday ended play for the Bulldogs. Tuesday night Hermis- ton was eliminated from further play in the tourney by losing at Mac Hi 41 to 26. The Bulldogs did not show the form displayed against Pendleton the night before and were behind 8 to 27 at half time. The second half found them outscoring the Mac Hi squad 18 to 14 but the lead was too large to overcome. Frank Har- kenrider played his best game of the year, lead- ing his teammates with 10 markers and generally playing a fi ne fl oor game. 2) A lesson to those who are “stumped” when war time restric- tions and priority rat- ings prove troublesome should visit the Vigirbilt Hatchery where the own- ers, N.J. Van Skik and Curtin Walls, took mat- ters into their own hands. When they were unable to obtain a new hatcher they decided to build one of their own, with “Van” doing the carpenter work and Mr. Walls the wiring. Does it work? The apparatus is turning out two hatches of 4,800 birds twice a week with every- thing is hunky-dory. 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1919 There are eight little Poland-China pigs out on the ranch of Mr. and Mrs. John McElroy that are fast acquiring knowledge of the food value of milk. These little piggies have everything cheated when it comes to nosing out a good thing. One day recently the family cow failed to give the usual quota of milk, and from that time the milk fl ow kept dwindling. It was hard to fi nd a reason for this, but it came a few days ago when Mrs. McElroy had occasion to visit the barnyard lot, for there before her astonished eyes were the eight piggies taking turns getting their dinner from the four teats of old bossie as she plac- idly lay chewing her quid and playing mother to the bunch of swine. The mystery of where the cow’s milk was going to was solved, but the joke was so good that the McEl- roys have decided to let the pigs continue to double shoot the turn and get meals from their own and their adopted mother. EOTEC manager seeking more weekday bookings Weekends are mostly full, but mid-week events needed to meet goals By JADE MCDOWELL NEWS EDITOR Individuals, businesses and government bodies booked the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center for a total of 210 events in 2018. Al Davis, general man- ager of EOTEC for the past year, told the Hermis- ton City Council during its Monday meeting that if they take into account the 40 or so days EOTEC is out of circulation for the Umatilla County Fair and Farm-City Pro Rodeo, “we’re pretty busy.” Last year’s events included 53 public events, 74 corporate bookings and 84 private events. The event center already has more than 100 events booked for 2019. “If you’re looking for a weekend, you will be hard- pressed to fi nd one,” he said. Weekdays are more of a challenge to fi ll, Davis said, and he’s working on recruit- ing more business confer- ences, corporate trainings and other events to fi ll those days. EOTEC is a good loca- tion for companies that want to do a training on the east side of the state, he said, but they have to know it exists. The venue offers some unique options — for exam- ple, Davis said RDO Equip- ment likes having train- ings in the main room of the event center because the large garage door on the side allows them to bring farm equipment right inside the building. The city is working on plans for an RV park that will give EOTEC a more stable source of revenue year-round. Davis said the original goal when Venu- Works was brought on board in January 2018 to manage EOTEC was that the venue would become self-sustain- ing between years three and four, and that’s still the goal. The RV park was stalled from breaking ground in February after the city plan- ning commission banned all new construction at EOTEC until an overfl ow park- ing plan was submitted and approved. Councilor John Kirwan said city staff pre- sented the draft parking plan to the EOTEC advi- sory committee Thursday and plans to present it to the planning commission Feb. 27. Kirwan said Travis Lund- quist, who runs two RV parks in the area, came and answered questions about RV parks and “brought a lot of enlightenment” to the committee. Mayor David Drotzmann said the discus- sion with Lundquist and with advisory committee members was helpful. “There were some great ideas coming out of there and I think we’re going to have a better project as a result,” he said. During Monday’s city council meeting the coun- cil also approved a franchise agreement with the city of Umatilla. The agreement allows Hermiston to install infra- structure for the Regional Water System in Umatil- la’s rights of way in order to serve a project by Vadata — a subsidiary of Amazon — off of Lind Road that has been annexed into Umatilla.
