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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.