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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019
HERMISTON HISTORY
JIM SCHLENKER
HH fi le photo
Chief Operating Offi cer,
Good Shepherd Health Care System
Cameraman Bryan Bates fi lms Mark Galbraith while Al Herberholz takes a break from fi shing in 1994. An episode of “Fishing
the West” was being fi lmed at the Umatilla Marina.
25 YEARS AGO
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
My family and I moved to Hermiston in March of
2015 as I took the job of Chief Operating Offi cer
at Good Shepherd Health Care System.
What is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Walker’s Kitchen
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to golf when I am not playing with my kids or
traveling with my family.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
How many things there are to do and how friendly
the people really are.
What was the last book you read?
“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
WPT Online Poker (LOL)
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Anywhere tropical. I love the tropics.
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
After a late night of studying in college (yes some
of us actually did that), I ended up in the wrong
showers very early in the morning.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Finding time to plan a special trip for my family
and my wife to celebrate our 10 years together.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Going back to college and completing my Masters
degree (at Penn State University) in December
while working and my family being there to sup-
port me the whole time.
Printed on
recycled
newsprint
VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 23
JUNE 7, 1994
One man is dead and
another will be charged
today with fi rst degree
murder after a shoot-
ing in downtown Herm-
iston yesterday at about
2:30 p.m.
Joe Perez, 36, of
Hermiston was pro-
nounced dead at Good
Shepherd
Community
Hospital after being shot
at least three times in the
back. Police arrested John
Ralph Crespin, Jr. in con-
nection with the crime.
According to wit-
nesses
and
police
accounts, the incident
began with an attempted
car theft in the 700 block
of East Newport. After
Perez allegedly failed to
take the car at knifepoint
from Crespin’s wife, a
chase ensued, with John
Crespin and his son, Billy,
pursuing Perez on foot.
Perez pleaded with cus-
tomers of the Eastside Mar-
ket to drive him away, but
found no takers.
The chase continued
for fi ve blocks to the inter-
section of Newport and
Southeast Second with
Crespin now alone in pur-
suit. As Perez crossed the
south edge of St. Antho-
ny’s Clinic property, he
was shot by several rounds
from a .22-caliber revolver
at short range.
Perez fell to the ground
in Fontaine’s Restaurant
parking lot. Crespin then
went into the lounge and
surrendered the revolver to
Karen Fontaine, who was
tending the bar.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 5, 1969
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The one thing that has
been established about the
controversial proposal to
change the name of the
pool behind the John Day
Dam is most people in
the area apparently like
what it’s called now: Lake
Umatilla.
A few politicians have
been agitating to change
the name and want to call
it Lake Aldrich, honoring
E.B. Aldrich, publisher of
the East Oregonian, his
widow still being president
HH fi le photo
Lyle Crane, left, Duane Alexander, seated, Vince Watson and Jerry Sobotte check out the
prizes for Hustler Days in 1969.
of the newspaper.
But Mayor A.L. “Bud”
Draper of Umatilla is lead-
ing the vocal defense of
the “good” name of Lake
Umatilla.
A voice from another
world, the Tri-City Herald,
has come out with a dif-
ferent version of what the
lake should be called. The
Washington
newspaper
wants to tab it Lake Dodd
for Elmer Perry Dodd of
Hermiston, who did a lot
of leg work to secure the
McNary Dam.
75 YEARS AGO
JUNE 8, 1944
Editor’s note: The Allied
invasion of Normandy,
France known as D-Day
took place June 6, 1944.
The fi rst news of the
great invasion was received
in Hermiston Monday eve-
ning shortly after 10 o’clock
over the radio. Many of
those who were fortunate
enough to be tuned in at
that time remained on the
networks most of the night
as all stations were buzz-
ing with news. When early
morning came, the news
spread and most of our citi-
zens spent the larger part of
Tuesday listening in on the
radios or inquiring about
At a meeting of the city
council Thursday night a
motion prevailed that the
city attorney be instructed
to draw up an ordinance
which will have for its pur-
poses the abolishing of all
future building of board
sidewalks in Hermiston,
and that hereafter only con-
crete sidewalks will be
allowed.
This is a good move, and
it is hoped the civic body
will go a step further and
order at once the removal
of a few of the derelict side-
walks now existing in the
main part of town and have
them replaced with con-
crete ones.
2) Advertising mer-
chants constitute only 16
percent of all business fail-
ures reported in Bradstreet
and in Dunn’s, says an
OAC news exchange. Of
all business failures in the
entire country, 84 percent
are non-advertisers, mostly
small town merchants.
The Oregon dispatch
says that Oregon editors
have long known that the
phenomenal success of
mail order houses in Ore-
gon is due to paid public-
ity, but many merchants
seem to think that this
fact is used only to whee-
dle money out of them.
The merchants can hardly
accuse the great rating
fi rms of Bradstreets and
Dunn being partners in
this imaginary scheme.
Qualifying groups or
projects include cultur-
al-based activities in Mor-
row County. Categories
include literary, histori-
cal preservation, visual
and performing arts, or
humanities, and cultural
organizations.
Grants can be awarded
for up to 50% of the total
project cost. For complete
guidelines and an applica-
tion, contact Gayle Guti-
errez at 541-676-5630 or
ggutierrez@co.morrow.
or.us. Applications must
be submitted by Thursday,
Aug. 1.
• • •
Hermiston School Dis-
trict held a public open
house for Fieldstone #5
on Monday, showcasing
its fi fth student-built home
since the Columbia Basin
Student Homebuilders
program started.
The four bedroom,
three bathroom, highly
energy effi cient house was
built and landscaped by
high school students from
Hermiston, Stanfi eld and
Umatilla over the course
of the school year. It is
now up for sale, with pro-
ceeds from the sale fund-
ing future homebuilding
classes.
• • •
The menu for the Har-
kenrider Senior Activ-
ity Center for Thursday
is spaghetti, garlic bread,
tossed salad, vegetables
and dessert. Friday’s menu
is a smorgasbord of hot
foods and dessert. Mon-
day is salad bar, garlic
bread and dessert. Tuesday
will be roast pork, dress-
ing vegetable, salad and
dessert. Next Wednesday
will be turkey or egg salad
sandwich, bowl salad and
dessert.
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items for our weekly By
The Way column by email-
ing your tips to editor@
hermistonherald.com.
the streets as to the latest
hourly reports. Few peo-
ple thought of, or talked of,
anything else.
A loud speaker was
kept going from the Car-
penters Local hall during
the day giving promi-
nent events as they were
reported from the scenes
of the battle. Flags were
unfurled from many build-
ings, and churches were
opened for prayer services
and a community prayer
meeting was held at the
Baptist church at 8 o’clock
in the evening.
Much concern was felt
for some of our Hermis-
ton boys who were last
reported
in
England,
some of whom are pilots,
while others are with the
amphibious and ground
forces. All are prayerful
and hopeful that they have
safely endured the terrible
ordeal of the last few days
and will be successful in
the days to come.
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 7, 1919
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Continued from Page A1
from noon to 9 p.m. at Roy
Raley Park in Pendleton.
People are encouraged to
form teams or come out
and walk or participate
in fundraising activities
to support the American
Cancer Society.
For more information,
contact Carol Preston at
relaypendleton@yahoo.
com, 541-379-6294 or visit
www.relayforlife.org.
• • •
Wheatstock
Music
Festival announced that
Reckless Kelly, an Amer-
icana band out of Aus-
tin, Texas, is headlining
the Aug. 17 event. The
12th annual music festival
will be held at Quantum 9
Arena in Helix.
The fi rst 500 tickets are
$20 each (through June 30)
— then, the price increases
to $30. Tickets at the gate
are $35. Admission is free
for active military person-
nel and kids 12 and under.
Also, VIP packages (which
includes a meet-and-greet
with headliners and event
swag) and shade cabana
rentals are available. For
more information or to pur-
chase tickets, visit www.
wheatstock.org or www.
brownpapertickets.com.
• • •
Rocky Heights Ele-
mentary School is our
spotlight school for the
month of June, so look
for news about the school
throughout the month. For
today, see A15 for photos
of the school’s The Amer-
ican Dream play and news
on A8 about the school’s
new principal.
• • •
The Morrow County
Cultural
Coalition,
funded by the Oregon
Cultural Trust Founda-
tion, is accepting appli-
cations for the 2019 grant
period.