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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019
HERMISTON HISTORY
COREE TERJESON
Dean of Students
at West Park Elementary
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I actually don’t live in Hermiston. I commute each
day from outside of Helix.
HH fi le photo
What is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Taste of Thai
Undersheriff Ron Harnden, left, and Deputy Mike Boise of the Umatilla County Sheriff ’s Offi ce pose with new dirt bikes
purchased by the department for patrolling off -road in 1994.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy baking, crafting, traveling and spending
time with my family.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
The community. Even though Hermiston seems
small, there are many outreach programs and ser-
vices in our area that support families in need.
What was the last book you read?
”Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel Tammet
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
Pinterest
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Bora Bora
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
I can’t think of anything too funny in particular...
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Travel and make memories with my family.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
My two children, Mazee, 7, and Jens, 4. They
mean the world to me, and they are defi nitely my
proudest accomplishment.
25 YEARS AGO
OCT. 11, 1994
School supporters made some
digs at the site of the new Hermis-
ton middle school last week.
Not criticism, mind you, but lit-
eral dirt tossing as community lead-
ers turned out to celebrate the begin-
ning of construction on the school.
Like many groundbreaking cer-
emonies, though, a lot of dirt has
already been moved on the corner
of 10th Street and Diagonal Road.
2) Just when you thought it was
not safe to go back into the water,
everything seems to be OK.
A decidedly ferocious-look-
ing fi sh found near the Irrigon fi sh
hatchery two weeks ago has been
diagnosed as less dangerous than
it looks. Although it bears a strik-
ing resemblance to the fl esh-eating
piranha that has spooked movie-go-
ers for years, the fi sh appears to be a
fruit-eating cousin.
Positive identifi cation is still lack-
ing, but warm water biologists have
tentatively tagged the toothy creature
as a pacu on the basis of descriptions.
Pacu are a sub-species of the piranha
family that eat fruit and other plant
matter that make their way into South
American streams.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1969
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Two little orphan girls, Melissa
and Leanna Turk, ages 5 and 7
respectively, will be under temporary
custody of an uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Bell, Kent, Wash., as the
result of a court order by Umatilla
County Circuit Judge Henry Kaye,
who appointed the Bells temporary
guardians for a period of 90 days.
Bell is the brother of the girls’ mother.
The girls were cared for at Uma-
tilla Hospital suffering from shock
and exposure after they were found
on the Washington side of the Colum-
bia River after the houseboat in
which they were occupants capsized
Monday night, Sept. 29. They were
released from the hospital last Friday.
The body of their mother, Mrs.
Marian Turk, washed up on the
Washington side near where the girls
were found. Their father, James Turk,
and another man, Herbert Ramsey,
who were on the house boat, are still
missing.
The two girls were found, cling-
ing to rocks, by Deputy Sheriff Don
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Mrs. Cephus Buck, R.N., watches as Melissa Turk, age 5, and her sister Leanna,
age 7, play with dolls in their room at Umatilla Hospital while recovering from
exposure after nearly drowning in the Columbia River.
McGee and Mike Corbett, a senior
at Umatilla High School. Helping in
the rescue work were Deputy Sher-
iff Ralph Tassie and a Umatilla High
School senior, Mike Kennedy.
diately, according to manager R. A.
Brownson.
75 YEARS AGO
Oct. 12, 1944
There seems to be no surcrease to
the improvement era in Hermiston
that began early in the summer, and
the work of constructing substantial
business buildings and the laying of
concrete walks in the residential and
business portions goes steadily on.
All this, added to the paving of
Main Street, which work will soon be
under way, will make Hermiston the
hub of all the thriving towns in the
west end of the county.
2) With each year that rolls around
you celebrate a birthday, but are you
positive the day in question is actu-
ally the anniversary of the day you
were born? Could you go to court,
say, and prove the date of your own
birth except by your own or parents’
verbal evidence? Is there any record
of your birth except in the family
Bible?
It is likely there is no other record
and that you could not prove the date
beyond a reasonable doubt. Why?
Because birth registration is compar-
atively new in the United States.
Because your own birth is not
recorded, however, is no good reason
why your children should not have
the benefi ts of birth registration.
Several cases of residents burning
leaves and other trash in city streets
have been reported. In one case a
fi re was built in a newly oiled block,
causing considerable damage to the
new oiled surface.
Mayor F. C. McKenzie stated this
week that all practices of burning rub-
bish in the streets must be stopped at
once. While in a scolding mood, citi-
zens once more are urged not to fl ush
rags and other articles down the city
sewer as this practice is causing con-
siderable concern.
2) A greater portion of about 75
tons of coal was destroyed in an early
Sunday morning fi re which com-
pletely burned the Tum-A-Lum Lum-
ber Co. coal shed just north of the
depot.
Although the cause of the fl ames
has not been defi nitely determined, it
is thought that it was probably started
by combustion. Although fi remen and
others reached the scene, very little
could be done because of lack of suf-
fi cient hose to reach the fl ames.
The shed will be rebuilt imme-
100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 1919
DHS raffl e springs excitement with winners
By TAMMY MALGESINI
COMMUNITY EDITOR
A pair of local families were the
recipients of a labor of love in the
form of heavy-duty spring horses.
The two rocking horses were
awarded during a raffl e to support a
winter event for area foster children
and their families.
They were created by Marvin
Hamilton and Jason Bremner, both of
the Department of Human Services
Child Welfare program, Bremner’s
son, Gavin Payne; and Lani Hamil-
ton and Tile Poumele, members of
the Firestarter Youth Group from The
County Church in Hermiston. In addi-
tion, parts were donated by the Herm-
iston Goodwill store.
On Sept. 16, Judge Eva Temple
drew the two winners. They included
Jessica Moreno, who planned to pres-
ent the Princess Unicorn Pony to her
daughter, Paloma Contreras, for her
birthday. The Mini Mustang Pony was
taken home by the Al and Michelle
Davis family, who have three sons
who will enjoy it.
Hamilton said the raffl e garnered a
Photos contributed by Marvin Hamilton
Left, Paloma Contreras, 2, sits on the Princess Unicorn Pony, which her mother,
Jessica Moreno, won during a Department of Human Services Child Welfare
program fundraising raffl e. Right, Camden Davis, 3, enjoys a ride on the Mini
Mustang Pony, which was won by the Al and Michelle Davis family.
total of $640.
The money will be used for the
“Foster Child Cabin Fever Event,”
which will be held in February 2020.
The event, he said, will be bigger and
better than the one held in 2019 —
thanks to the generous support from
the community.
“DHS would like to thank it’s local
Morrow and Umatilla county com-
munity for your continued support,”
Hamilton said. “Thank you for sup-
porting your local children when there
is a need.”
For more information or to volun-
teer during the Feb. 15, 2020 event,
contact Hamilton at 541-564-4484 or
marvin.hamilton@dhsoha.state.or.us.