SPORT / NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019
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Variety of camps offered this summer at HHS
Cost is $100 and includes a
T-shirt. Family discounts are
available.
The Big Dawgs Football
Camp will be July 23-24
at Kennison Stadium for
players going into grades
7-8. Each session will run
from 10 a.m. to noon. The
camp will focus on drills
and skills, and offense and
defense that players will run
in middle school. Cost is
$40 per player and includes
a T-shirt.
The Youth Football
Camp, for players in grades
1-6, will run Aug. 14-15 at
Kennison Stadium. Sessions
will be from 5-7 p.m. each
day. Cost is $30 per player
and includes a T-shirt.
All of the football camps
are co-ed. For more infor-
mation, contact David
Faaettetee at david.faaette-
tee@hermistonsd.org.
BY HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston High School
is offering a variety of youth
sports camps this summer,
including football, basket-
ball, soccer, cross country
and tennis.
There also is a march-
ing band camp, and a golf
camp through the Hermis-
ton Parks and Recreation
Department.
Tennis
The boys and girls camp,
for players in grades 3-8,
will be June 13-15 at the
high school courts. Begin-
ners will run from 6-7 p.m.
the fi rst two days, and from
9-10 a.m. the fi nal day.
Intermediate players will be
the same dates, but times are
7-8 p.m. the fi rst two days,
and 10:30 a.m. to noon the
fi nal day.
Beginning sessions are
for those just starting to play
and learning the basic skills.
The intermediate session is
designed for middle school
athletes who would like
to play in high school, and
who already understand the
basics of the game. Cost is
$50 per player, and includes
a T-shirt.
Basketball
The boys and girls
camps, for players in grades
Steve Hoff ert, standing in purple, talks with participants of the Hermiston girls summer camp during a previous sports camp.
3-8, will be June 17-19 in
the gold gym. Girls will
go from 9 a.m. to noon,
with the boys from noon to
3 p.m. Cost is $65 per ath-
lete, and includes a T-shirt.
Soccer
The boys and girls camp,
for players in grades 3-8,
will be June 18-21 from
6-8 p.m. at Kennison Sta-
dium. Cost is $45 per player
(includes T-shirt), or $80 for
two players.
Marching band
The co-ed camp is June
24-28 at the high school and
Kennison Stadium. Sessions
will from from 1-3:30 p.m.
each day, with a fi nal fi eld
performance on the last day.
The program is designed
for band members going
into the seventh and eighth
grades. Cost is $30 per stu-
dent, which includes a
T-shirt.
Golf
Big River Golf Course
will host a co-ed camp for
golfers ages 6-14 from July
15-19. Sessions each day
will be from 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Cost is $55 per player,
which includes a tourna-
ment July 19.
Registation is through
the Hermiston Parks and
Rec Department at: bit.ly/
hermistonrecreation.
Football
The Little Dawgs Agil-
ity and Speed Camp will be
July 8-11 and July 15-18 at
the high school. Sessions
are for athletes going into
grades 5-8, and will run
from 10-11 a.m. each day.
The fall youth program,
for runners in grades 1-6,
begins Sept. 12 at 6:30 p.m.
at Sandstone Middle School.
Cost is $35 per runner, or a
max of $75 per family, and
includes a T-shirt.
Forms for the camps are
available at the high school
or you can register and pay
online at: https://or-hermis-
ton.intouchreceipting.com/
signin.aspx
Foster child
review board seeks
volunteers
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Duck races
Giving of your time one
day a month can make a
difference in the life of a
foster child.
The Citizen Review
Board hopes people will
consider volunteering in
this capacity as they seek
community
members
to serve. To ensure they
are receiving adequate
care, each child in foster
care must have their case
reviewed every six months
by a judge or the Citizen
Review Board.
The board consists of
three to seven local citizens
who should be represen-
tative of the population of
their county. There are two
local boards: Pendleton
(east Umatilla County) and
Contributed photo by Leadership Hermiston
Volunteers collect rubber ducks on the Umatilla River during a Leadership Hermiston Class 22 fundraiser on Saturday.
The leadership class, hosted by the Greater Hermiston Area Chamber of Commerce, put together the event to raise money
for Made to Thrive. The organization gives area youths from low-income families the money and support to participate in
sports and other extra-curricular activities.
Pacifi c Power to begin installation
for smart meters June 17
Contributed photo by Pacifi c Power
A Pacifi c Power employee works on a meter at a recent smart meter installation demonstration
in Pendleton.
Hermiston (west Umatilla
County/Morrow County).
Volunteers are needed to
serve on each board.
Members of the board
are provided case fi les 10
days in advance. They
serve on a board one day a
month to review foster care
cases with others involved
in the case, including the
Department of Human Ser-
vices, parents, attorneys,
Court Appointed Special
Advocates (CASA), foster
parents, and often the chil-
dren themselves.
For more informa-
tion, contact John Nich-
ols at 541-233-8142,
john.a.nichols@ojd.state.
or.us or visit www.courts.
oregon.gov/programs/crb.
I-82 bridge expected
to reopen this month
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
Hermiston-area residents
who get their electricity
from Pacifi c Power will get
new “smart” meters.
The meters will give cus-
tomers the ability to track
their energy usage by the
hour, helping them see ways
to conserve electricity, and
helps the power company
respond more quickly to
outages.
Installations in the area
are expected to start June 17
and the last meters should
be swapped out by the end
of July. They are part of a
statewide rollout of 590,000
meters. Hermiston Energy
Services and Umatilla Elec-
tric Cooperative already
use similar smart meter
technology.
Pacifi c Power recently
held a demonstration of the
new meters at the home of
Gwen and Pat Fjeld in Pend-
leton. According to a news
release, Pat said he was
interested in seeing how the
new meter would help him
save electricity and will use
the ability to track his usage
to experiment with how set-
ting his air conditioner dif-
ferent ways affects his bill.
Cross country
Work won’t be complete
on the Interstate 82 bridge
at Umatilla by Hermis-
ton High School’s gradu-
ation, but it is expected to
be done in time for Fourth
of July traffi c.
The
Washington
Department of Transpor-
tation has been working
to replace the deck of the
bridge leading into Ore-
gon for the past two years,
moving all traffi c crossing
the Columbia River onto
the two lanes of the adja-
cent Washington-bound
bridge.
The $11 million project
was originally expected to
wrap up in the fall of 2018,
but WSDOT reported
that crews had discov-
ered additional mainte-
nance work that needed
done. Those items pushed
the timeline into 2019 as
the department waited for
the weather to warm up
enough to fi nish the con-
crete work. Costs for the
project were split between
Oregon and Washington,
but WSDOT managed the
construction.
WSDOT spokeswoman
Jackie Ramirez said they
didn’t know the exact date
the project would be com-
pleted, but it would be
sometime in “mid-June.”
Once the bridge reopens
there will be some tem-
porary one-lane closures
for a few minor repairs,
and temporary one-lane
closures on the Wash-
ington-bound bridge as
the medians that directed
the two-way traffi c are
removed.
All
closures
are
expected to be fi nished
before July 4, in time for
holiday travelers.
The two-year bridge
closure has at times cre-
ated long delays for com-
muters, particularly during
a crash or large event like
the solar eclipse of Aug.
2017. Last year’s Hermis-
ton graduation ceremony
in Kennewick started late
because so many parents,
students and staff were
stuck in a bottleneck of
traffi c on the bridge.
Hermiston
High
School’s graduation will
take place Thursday at
7 p.m. at the Toyota Cen-
ter in Kennewick.