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Newspaper Page TextFROM A1 A14 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM BTW PARK Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 or to reserve seats for the 20th anniversary concert, call 541-289-4696. For more about the organiza- tion, visit www.inlandnorthwestmusicians.com. • • • Dr. James Burgess of Country Animal Hos- pital in Hermiston is teaming up with the city of Boardman to help pet owners in keeping their cats and dogs current on vaccinations. A low-cost clinic is planned for Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Boardman City Park. Residents can get rabies vaccinations for their dogs and cats at a cost of $20 each. In addition, people can have their dogs licensed at no charge during the clinic. All dog owners living in the city of Boardman are required to license their dogs for identifica- tion purposes. For more information, call Jose Fernandez, Boardman animal control officer, at 541-481-9252. • • • A familiar face — and voice — to many people in Morrow County, area residents have a chance to see Lindy Gravelle on stage. Gravelle is one of the opening acts of the upcoming show at ‘Live from the Leslie.’ Pendleton’s newest nightlife hotspot offers spe- cial monthly shows. Petunia & The Vipers are the headliners for the upcoming show. In addition, local cowboy crooner James Dean Kindle with his Hyper-Modern Country Quartet will perform. The concert doors open Saturday at 7 p.m, with music at 8 p.m. at The Lodge, 14 S.E. Third St., Pendleton. Advance tickets are $10 via www. brownpapertickets.com. Tickets sold at the door are $12. The Stag Bar opens at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Adam Mack at thependletonlodge@gmail.com or visit www.face- book.com/thependletonlodge. • • • The Hermiston Herald recently heard back from Tiffiny Shontz. The fourth grade student in Mrs. Smith‘s class at Charlotte Latin School in North Carolina had written earlier this spring. She asked readers for assistance with a school project that included research about the state of Oregon. She wrote back to thank everyone. “Your response was overwhelming! I appreciate the time, thought, effort and money that you took to help me with my project. I learned so much, and I will never forget this experience,” she said. Tiffiny said information and items received were on display as part of a “State Fair” event. She said the state of Oregon, including Hermiston, was well represented thanks to everyone’s help. • • • The menu at the Harkenrider Senior Activ- ity Center for Thursday is biscuits and gravy, sau- sage, fruit and scrambled eggs. Friday is chili dogs, chips, salad and dessert. Monday is salad bard, gar- lic and dessert. Tuesday is tuna loaf, rice pilaf, veg- etable salad and dessert. Next Wednesday is BLT sandwich, potato salad and dessert. ———You can submit items for our weekly By The Way column by emailing your tips to editor@ hermistonherald.com. the late Greenwood Luster, including his granddaughter Jackie Linton who lives in his former home near the park today. Linton showed up at city council meet- ings multiple times during the past three years to advocate for pushing the park project forward when it stalled, foster- ing a continued interest in city govern- ment that inspired her to run for a seat on the council in 2018. She was unsuccess- ful, but continues to attend city council meetings and is often the only citizen to give input there. Linton said she was sure her grandfa- ther, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, would have been moved to tears to know the park had been restored and renamed after him. “He was just crazy about Hermiston,” she said. He must have said 10 million times the labor market, when choos- ing Hermiston for its expan- sion. Potato growers in the area, who partner with Lamb Weston, played a big role. “We get some of the best-quality products from the Columbia Basin,” he said. Those potatoes get turned into frozen french fries, tater tots and other products before being shipped worldwide for sale at restaurants and grocery stores. Martin said the 18-month construction process went smoothly and wrapped up on time despite the challeng- ing winter weather during February. “It’s a brand-new, state- of-the-art facility that incor- porates everything we’ve learned about producing french fries in the past 50 years,” he said. The expansion just out- side of Hermiston city lim- its won’t be added to the city’s property tax rolls in a traditional sense, but Lamb Weston is part of a long-term rural enterprise zone agree- ment with Umatilla County. 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For more details call 1-888-21-TOYOTA. said. “In the end I think what we have is a really child-centered and family-centered facility.” He said the parks staff did a great job of getting the park ready in time, despite also dealing with one Hermiston park damaged by flooding and another play- ground destroyed by fire within a few weeks of each other. He said Linton, who lives next to the park, had his cell phone number and was a great built-in guardian and security sys- tem for Greenwood Park. Linton said her grandson had been asking her for months when the new play- ground would be ready and was thrilled when she told him Thursday was the day. He and a dozen other children wasted no time testing out the new equipment, par- ticularly the new merry-go-round that neighbors had insisted needed to be part of the design. “They’re so excited today,” Linton said. WESTON BuyAToyota.com $ 399 mo. 36 mos. that Hermiston was a wonderful place to live, she said. Luster was a Baptist deacon and later became pastor of the Church of God. He worked for Union Pacific and Sanitary Disposal, where Linton said he was the type of person to go up and get the trash from elderly customers who forgot to put it out on the curb. Neighborhood residents who remem- bered Luster or learned about his leg- acy through Linton felt it only appropri- ate to name the park after him. With the help of the city, Lions Club and Kiwanis Club newly-renovated park got a deco- rative stone wall and wrought-iron fenc- ing, bark chips, a wooden shade struc- ture, benches and brand new playground equipment in the process. Parks and recreation director Larry Fetter said at Thursday’s ribbon-cutting that the park was “a very tired and worn down park” before. “There were a lot of discussions,” he Continued from Page A1 2019 LEASE A NEW 2019 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2019 $ 2,999 Due at Signing All new Toyotas are covered by ToyotaCare. Toyota's no cost maintenance plan for two years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes ﬁrst. 24 hour roadside assistance is also included for two years. Contributed photo by Lamb Weston Contractors pose for a photo during construction of Lamb Weston’s new $250 million expansion in Hermiston, which was completed in 2019. years, but in exchange it will pay $1 million per year to be split between the county and the city. As part of the deal, all of the new jobs added must meet or exceed Uma- tilla County’s average wage, which is currently about $18 per hour. Hermiston city manager Byron Smith and several city councilors were present at Thursday’s event. “We’re just really excited to see this open, and the employment it opens up,” Smith said. Lamb Weston has a long history of employing Herm- iston residents after opening there in 1972. Leslie Winker, who works in the Hermiston plant in the continuous skills and development department, has been working there since it opened. She met her hus- band there and now her son works there too. Before help- ing to cut the ribbon on the new line Thursday, she said between the three of them they had 110 years of experi- ence at Lamb Weston.