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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
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HIT AND RUN
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Cobarubias after she was
killed Saturday morning
by a driver who fl ed the
scene. » A6
JUSTICE
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ed back his houses and
$127,000 after a court
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BY THE WAY
Good Shepherd
off ers naloxone
training
NEW LIFE TO
OLD BUILDING
Union Club reopening historic Hermiston building
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
O
ne of Hermiston’s most
iconic buildings is going
back to its roots.
On Friday, the Union
Club will reopen, more
than 50 years after the original
business shut down in the 1960s.
The Union Club bar began
when men from the trades fl ocked
to Hermiston in the 1940s to build
the Umatilla Chemical Depot and
McNary Dam. Today’s version is
a coffee by day, bar by night gath-
ering space reimagined for a new
generation of Hermiston residents.
Justin Doyle, owner of the
club, said they tried to preserve as
much history as possible for the
113-year-old red brick building
at the corner of Main Street and
Northeast Second.
Where parts of the wooden
fl oor had to be removed, those
slats were repurposed to line the
stairs. Shelving was built out of
posts from the dressing rooms
used during the building’s turn
as RoeMark’s Mens and West-
ern Wear, plus wood that was
replaced with glass in the upstairs
window wells.
See Union Club, Page A14
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Union Club owner Justin Doyle was in the building Tuesday
putting fi nishing touches on the establishment before its
grand opening Friday.
Training, information
and distribution of nalox-
one will be provided free
of charge during a work-
shop presented by Max’s
Mission.
Executive director Julia
Pinsky founded the organi-
zation in 2016 in response
to the opioid overdose
death of her son, Max, in
2013. Max’s Mission is rec-
ognized as a community
leader in free naloxone dis-
tribution, training and infor-
mation in southern Oregon.
The Community Nal-
oxone Training is Wednes-
day, Sept. 11 from noon to
1 p.m. It will be held in Con-
ference Center 1-2 at Good
Shepherd Medical Center,
610 N.W. 11th St., Hermis-
ton. Lunch is provided.
For more information
or to register, visit www.
eventbrite.com. For ques-
tions, call 541-667-3509.
For more about Max’s Mis-
sion, visit www.maxsmis-
sion.org.
• • •
The Hermiston Her-
ald has offi cially launched
its very own app. Check out
the advertisement on the
last page of today’s paper
for instructions on how to
download the mobile app,
which offers everything
from faster browsing to the
ability to personalize your
home page.
The Union Club
will open Friday.
See BTW, Page A14
OSU names interim director for research station
By GEORGE PLAVEN
CAPITAL PRESS
Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University
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08805 93294
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Clive Kaiser has been named interim director of Oregon State University’s
Hermiston Agricultural Research and Experiment Station.
Oregon State University has
appointed a new leader at the Hermis-
ton Agricultural Research and Exten-
sion Center.
Clive Kaiser, horticulture profes-
sor and Umatilla County extension
agent for OSU in Milton-Freewater,
will take over as interim director at
HAREC beginning Sept. 3. He takes
over for longtime station director and
plant pathologist Phil Hamm, who
retired earlier this year.
Hamm spent 44 years with OSU,
and 14 years overseeing research
programs at HAREC. Farmers grow
more than 150 different crops in the
Umatilla Basin, including potatoes,
wheat, corn and onions.
Kaiser, who arrived at OSU in
2006, said Hamm encouraged him to
apply for the station director’s job.
“Obviously, I have big shoes to
fi ll,” Kaiser said. “Phil Hamm did an
amazing job running the station all
these years.”
Kaiser’s work has largely focused
on assisting tree fruit and wine grape
growers in Milton-Freewater, part of
the Walla Walla Basin in northeast
Oregon. Through his research, he
helped to develop a protective coat-
ing for cherries and blueberries to
keep them from cracking — a product
marketed in the U.S. under the brand
name “Parka.”
Two more products are also pat-
ent-pending, including “Hydro-
Shield,” a spray that reduces water
usage in plants and prevents insects
See OSU, Page A14