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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019 HERMISTON HISTORY RICHARD KENNEDY Retired — former custodian at Stanfi eld Secondary School When and why did you move to Hermiston? I moved here in 1950 — I was only 10 or 12 years old, so I didn’t have much choice. My dad came here to work. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? I don’t know whether I have a favorite — I just go to different places depending on what I want to eat that day. What do you like to do in your free time? In my free time I’m a coin collector — I collect foreign coins. You never know what you’ll fi nd. You may get one from 1895, or a brand new one. I collected pennies before I started off. The Stanfi eld Library has one of my books of pennies I set up. What surprises you about Hermiston? It’s grown faster than what I realized. Hermiston was only about 4,000 people when I moved here. What was the last book you read? It was probably a coin book. If I pick up a book, it’s going to be a coin book. I’ve got books on paper money and coins. What app or website do you use most? I don’t own a computer. I don’t even have a smartphone. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? I’ve already been where I want to go — Alaska. I went to Fairbanks for 15 days. We went to see a ballgame that started at midnight. What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? I don’t know that it’s funny — I’ve had a lot of enjoyment and good times. I was with a lady friend — she was handicapped — for 35 or 40 years. I used to take her fi shing. Seeing her catch a fi sh made my day. She caught an 18 and a half inch trout one day — that was a fantastic day. We had a lot of memories. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? I wish the snow would get out of here — I want the roads clear so I can get out of here and go places. What is your proudest accomplishment? I’m lucky to be alive. I’ll be 79 next month. I’ve been retired since March of 1999, and I’ve lived around here the whole time. Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 08 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. Oregon State Police Sgt. John Collins tapes off an area of vandalism at Columbia Travel Service in Hermiston, one of several businesses to be hit in February 1994. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1994 Several manufactured home and travel trailer dealerships spent Mon- day morning assessing damage from a rash of vandalism on Highway 395 north of Hermiston. Investigators believe the incidents are related. “These people weren’t kind,” Carol Frink, gen- eral manager of Oregon Trail Mobile Homes said. “It looks like they went through it with a baseball bat.” Five of Oregon Trail’s 17 display homes suffered damage — overturned refrigerators, broken glass, spray paint on walls and cabinets ripped off their hinges. 2) A suggestion to merge Echo and Stanfi eld school districts was rejected at a meeting of the two school boards Wednesday. Both boards agreed, though, to continue to explore ways to cut costs through sharing services. Lewis Martuscelli, chairman of the Stanfi eld board, said he proposed the meeting to explore the Echo board’s position on a merger or increasing shared academic programs. Board members dis- cussed sharing music teachers, shop facilities and agricultural programs as possible alternatives to combining districts. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 20, 1969 “Marijuana is harmful, regardless of what some groups would have you believe,” said Cpl. Robert Rothermel in his talk before the Hermiston Rotary Club last Thursday. During the colorful pre- sentation, the corporal gave the Rotarians some practi- cal examples of the expe- rience he and other offi cers of the Oregon State Police have had in dealing with narcotic transportation and narcotic users. Most of the large caches of marijuana in Umatilla County have been taken off persons transport- ing the goods from one area to another, says Rothermel. In classifying narcot- ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Inside Umatilla/Morrow counties ........... $42.65 Outside Umatilla/Morrow counties ........ $53.90 more miracles for indus- trial production. A lesser use of appli- cation of electronics will enable you to open your garage doors with a push-button control from your approaching car. Most post-war homes will have complete auto- matic laundry equipment and an economical electric clothes dryer will dispel the inconvenience of rainy wash days. 100 YEARS AGO March 1, 1919 Editor’s note: The Feb. Sgt. Vern Boyer of the Oregon State Police receives a special 22 edition of the Hermiston safety award honoring the Hermiston unit from Capt. N.W. Herald is missing from our Smith in 1969. archives. Are there any more ics, the corporal said the ing general change in the bachelors on North Ridge? “heavy” drugs such as her- coaching staff of the three Don’t know, but we do oin, morphine and codeine areas of basketball, baseball know there is one less this can quite often shorten a and football was needed to week than last week. And heavy user’s life expec- bolster the morale of these we do know where one lonely man live heretofore tancy to only fi ve years. various departments. on the aforesaid ridge, now Marijuana will appar- 75 YEARS AGO two loving hearts beat as ently grow anywhere and Feb. 24, 1944 one, and the bachelor apart- huge batches of the plant Precipitrons that will ment there has been trans- come into the United States daily from across prevent the tiniest particle formed by the hands of a the Mexican border, as do of dust, soot, smoke or dirt woman. The central fi gure in this large quantities of other from entering the house- holds they guard, and home little love episode is our narcotics. The smell of ignited laundry equipment that time-honored friend and marijuana is much like the does the family wash with fellow citizen, Judge J.T. smell of burning rope, as the push of a button are Embry, who, be it known, Rothermel demonstrated to but samples of new electri- quietly slipped away to the group by lighting some cal conveniences that await Pendleton Thursday, where help in the ash tray at the users in the post-war world, he met Miss Anna Bridge, according to D.B. Leonard, a cousin of Mrs. F.J. Aus- beginning of his talk. “There are known nar- Pacifi c Power & Light Co. eon, who had that morn- ing arrived from her home cotics users in Umatilla commercial manager. Though manufactur- in Chicago. After procur- County and the use is on the increase” said the OSP ing facilities are devoted ing a marriage license they to war goods, and peace- returned to this city and offi cer. 2) Three coaches in time products are still in were quietly married at the the Hermiston senior high the blueprint stage, post- home of Mr. and Mrs. Aus- school will no longer han- war development plans are eon, Father Butler tying the dle their respective coach- now so complete that a fi ve- nuptial knot. This was all done by ing assignments during the fold national increase in the 1969-70 school year as a average home use of elec- prearrangement, and was result of action taken by the tricity has been predicted, the climax of a courtship extending over four years, local school board Monday. he said. Leonard was one of when Miss Bridge was here Coaches George DeLap (basketball), Bob George more than 200 representa- visiting at the Auseon home (football) and Arnold tives of the nation’s major that number of years ago. It’s hard for us to for- Owens (baseball) were all electric companies invited relieved of their coaching to attend a post-war power give the Judge for not let- assignments for the coming use forum conducted by the ting us know so we could years in a marathon teacher Westinghouse Manufactur- have written up in advance in more fl owery language, evaluation session that ing Co. in Pittsburgh. New developments in nevertheless we extend lasted seven hours, begin- lighting will deliver almost felicitations to the happy ning at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Armand Larive, super- double the foot-candles of couple, and we hope to be intendent for the Hermis- illumination that pre-war able to attend the forth- ton schools, said it was the uses of electricity provided. coming charivari that the board’s general consensus Applications of electron- boys are planning on giv- of opinion that a sweep- ics and dialetric heat hold ing them. COLUMN Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. Postmaster, send address changes to Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838. Weight is just a number 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. I was diagnosed with an eating dis- Not only did I have to weigh myself, order (some in the community but I did it in front of my teammates. I call it ED) my sophomore was embarrassed; I felt out of year of high school. It’s been shape and just fat. But over the a diffi cult thing for me to talk course of the wrestling season, about. I came to see my weight in a At fi rst, I knew that my more positive light. eating habits changed, and I I only dropped one weight started to restrict what food class during the season (which I ate but I didn’t see that as a is equal to 5 pounds). My Sally Wooster bad thing. However, it wasn’t teammates really helped me a healthy thing either. I hated change my mindset about eat- what I looked like; I didn’t want to ing and weight; they had positive eat things that were high in calories, body images, and they got excited and it physically pained me to step on about eating. That sounds stupid, but it helped me feel better about myself. the scale and see how much weight I Another thing that helped me was had gained. So you would think that going to tournaments; there I was able joining a sport like wrestling, where to see that everybody has a different weight is important, would be a bad body type and that a certain body type idea. doesn’t equal a certain weight. The fi rst time I had to weigh Wrestling taught me that weight is myself during the wrestling season it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. really just a number. It doesn’t matter in the middle of a match. What mat- ters is that you try your best. Weight doesn’t defi ne whether you’re attrac- tive or not, it doesn’t defi ne who you are (you’re not just that overweight kid or underweight kid), and it’s something that a lot of people strug- gle with — not just physically try- ing to lose or gain weight —but men- tally, too. I want everyone, not just indi- viduals with eating disorders but to everyone that has struggled with their weight, to know that they are not alone. It may sound hackneyed, but it’s true. If you have an eating disor- der it’s important to talk to somebody. People with all different body types and backgrounds can have eating dis- orders, and help is available. Sally Wooster is a member of the Women’s Wrestling Team at Hermis- ton High School.
