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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Tammy Nycz prepared bottles of formula for their newborn triplets on Thursday in Hermiston. The Nycz must feed their
triplets every three hours.
TRIPLETS
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triplets in 23 years of per-
forming ultrasounds. The
news they would be wel-
coming three children at
once into their family came
as a shock.
“She cried and I laughed
hysterically,” Josh said.
“I’m
still
crying,”
Tammy quipped.
There are challenges that
didn’t come with having
one child at a time. Some
of it is financial — even
simple things like the $25
fee for a birth certificate is
three times as much. The
family is also using an aver-
age of 30 diapers a day, and
is already going through an
entire can of special “pree-
mie” formula per day.
“Everything is tripled,”
Tammy said.
There are also logistical
challenges. Neither of the
family’s cars can fit three
car seats, so they have to
take both cars every time
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Shannon Crosby feeds formula to Rylee Nycz while helping
take care of the Nyczes triplets on Thursday in Hermiston.
they go to the doctor. Josh
said parents of multiples
they have befriended in
online forums have given
them a lot of good tips
and life hacks, such as the
information that the Honda
Odyssey is currently the
only van on the market that
has more than two seats
equipped to handle a car
seat.
For now, they haven’t
tackled going grocery shop-
ping together.
“They would take up
three carts by themselves,
and then how do we push
all of them?” Tammy said.
They have taken the
triplets to Good Shepherd
Women’s Center for check-
ups, however. Josh said it’s
fun seeing people do a dou-
ble take and ask if they had
three babies all at once.
“I say, ‘Actually it was
buy one get two free,’” he
said.
Josh said he wasn’t look-
ing forward to the day when
the triplets were old enough
to realize that their parents
couldn’t catch all three of
them at once if they were
up to mischief. But he and
Tammy are looking for-
ward to a lot of other things
in the future.
“I can’t wait to teach
them to fish, or ride a bike,”
Josh said.
“I talked to the person
managing Costco and told
him, ‘I don’t have to come
up here,’” she said.
She has family in Port-
land who shop in Vancou-
ver, she said, who are also
upset about the change.
“It’s going to hurt all the
way down the Gorge,” she
said. “A lot of people will
just go back to Amazon.”
Roberta Temple, of
Hermiston, said she goes up
to the Tri-Cities about twice
a month and estimated she
spends $400 to $1,000 a
month at the bulk retailer
Costco. Washington’s state
sales tax is 6.5 percent,
which would come out to
between $312 and $780
a year for taxes on those
Costco purchases.
“I absolutely won’t go up
there to shop,” she said.
She said she was pleased
that Ranch & Home just
opened
in
Hermiston,
because that was the other
main place she makes pur-
chases in the Tri-Cities.
“This will hurt Washing-
ton businesses,” she said.
“I feel bad for them, but
maybe we will get a Costco
in Hermiston.”
Kacie Evans, Umatilla
Chamber of Commerce
director, said she thinks
Washington’s loss will be
Oregon’s gain as more Ore-
gonians choose to shop
local.
“I think a lot of people
are going to stay home,” she
said.
Evans said cities on the
Washington border already
benefit from a daily flow
of Washington residents
choosing to make big pur-
chases in Oregon to avoid
sales tax.
If Inslee signs Sen-
ate Bill 5997, Oregon resi-
dents who wish to be reim-
bursed for sales tax will be
required to submit proof of
nonresidency and informa-
tion required by the rev-
enue department, which
may include, “a descrip-
tion of the item purchased
for which a remittance is
requested, the sales price of
the item, the amount of sales
tax paid on the item, the date
of the purchase, the name of
the seller and the physical
address where the sale took
place, and copies of sales
receipts showing the quali-
fied purchases.”
According to a legisla-
tive staff summary of the
bill, public testimony on
behalf of the bill has stated
that it is “thoughtful tax pol-
icy” that helps bring in ade-
quate revenue for state ser-
vices and pay for roads and
other services visitors use.
Opponents of the bill
testified that it would hurt
retailers living near the Ore-
gon border and be “dev-
astating” to Washington’s
travel industry.
Pacific Power rolls out smart meters
Pacific Power is changing
its electric metering systems
for thousands of customers
across Eastern Oregon.
Lori Wyman, Pacific
Power regional business
manager for northeast Ore-
gon, said the Eastern Oregon
push is part of a statewide
rollout for smart meters that
will affect 590,000 custom-
ers that started in 2018.
Pacific Power will install
a total of 22,000 new meters
for customers in Umatilla
and Morrow counties start-
ing May 13 and continuing
through July.
According to a press
release, each customer
should receive notice of the
impending change in the
mail and follow-up calls
as the installation date gets
closer.
Installations will be han-
dled by Pacific Power con-
tract Aclara, and as long as
power meters are located
outside,
the
installer
shouldn’t need to enter any
residences or businesses.
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