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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.
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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
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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.