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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019
HermistonHerald.com
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INSIDE
FATALITY
A crash on Highway 395 south
of Hermiston on Tuesday
morning resulted in the death
of a Stanfi eld man.
INTO THE FUTURE
A6
SOFTBALL
The Hermiston Bulldogs placed
second in last weekend’s state
tournament for slow-pitch
softball.
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HALLOWEEN
See photos of Hermiston’s
Treats on Main.
B9
BY THE WAY
Election results coming
late Tuesday night were
not posted in time to make
it in today’s print edition
of the Hermiston Herald,
which prints at 7 p.m. on
Tuesdays. However, the
results of the Hermiston
School District bond vote
and Umatilla County char-
ter measures can be found
online at www.hermis-
tonherald.com, in today’s
East Oregonian or in next
week’s Hermiston Herald.
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The Hermiston down-
town area was invaded by
hundreds of costume-clad
kids and youths (as well
as some teens and adults)
during Treats on Main
and Beyond. The yearly
Halloween event provides
a fun and safe trick-or-
treating environment for
area families.
Gina Wicks of Herm-
iston Parks & Recreation
expressed thanks on behalf
of the City of Hermiston
for all the businesses and
individuals who contrib-
uted to the event’s success.
“The sidewalks were
packed,” she said. “It was
so crazy and fun for all
attending.”
Also, Wicks said a
number of new businesses
not located on Main Street
headed to the festival street
area to “set up shop” so
they could hand out candy
to little ghosts, goblins and
super heroes.
For photos of Treats on
Main, see page B9.
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Get ready for a zany
See By The Way, Page A10
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Janelle Almaguer, 17, steams milk in the Java Dawg coff ee shop during the an evening event highlighting Hermiston High School’s
Career and Technical Education program Monday night at the high school.
Hermiston High School’s
long-running CTE program
prepares a new generation
of future workers for success
By JESSICA POLLARD
STAFF WRITER
H
annah Melville is a sophomore
at Hermiston High School. At
16, she can’t register to vote
yet, but she does know how to operate
a laser cutter and a 3D printer, thanks
to the school’s Computer Aided Design
classes.
“You have to be open to tweaking with
the machine,” she said as she and sopho-
more Quinton Peterson, 15, watched the
laser cutter burn the phrase “GO STEM”
into a small wooden key-chain tag.
It’s a Monday night at the Hermiston
High School, and students who are part
of some of the high school’s Career and
Technical Education programs—some
of which involve CAD classes—are
showcasing their skills for parents, sib-
lings and fellow students during parent
teacher conferences.
Melville’s journey to CAD class was
a long time in the making. Knowing how
to use design software is an integral skill
for architects, engineers and artists alike.
“I started to like making fl oor-plans
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Quinton Peterson, 15, opens a laser cutter to remove a freshly cut wooden keychain
during a school function highlighting Hermiston High School’s Career and Technical
Education program Monday night.
in middle school,” she said. “Now I lean
towards mechanical engineering.”
When she heard about CAD classes,
she said she couldn’t wait to sign up.
“This is what I want to do,” she said.
Peterson pointed to some of their fi rst
attempts at wood-cutting with the laser
Monday night, which were burnt and
smudged.
He noted that earlier in the night, there
was an error present in the programming
that stopped the laser cutter from punch-
ing a key-chain hole through the tags. It
had since been corrected.
“There are some failed designs; it’s
all trial and error,” he said.
See CTE, Page A10
City committees struggle to keep members
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
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Sheriff Terry Rowan, left, speaks during a 2018 Hispanic Advisory Committee
meeting at Hermiston City Hall.
If giving approval for a $55 mil-
lion budget sounds fun, the city of
Hermiston’s Budget Committee has
a few openings that might be right
for you.
“Position No. 8 has been open for
about two years, and position No.
9 has been open for about a year,”
City Recorder Lilly Alarcon-Strong
said.
The budget committee is one of
about 15 committees that the city
regularly fi nds itself struggling to
keep full. If someone wants to vol-
unteer for the city, Alarcon-Strong
said, there’s generally at least a cou-
ple of openings on committees at
any given time.
Currently there are fi ve open
positions on the Budget Commit-
tee, one on the Recreation Projects
Fund Advisory Committee, one on
the Faith Based Advisory Commit-
tee and one on the Eastern Oregon
Trade and Event Center Committee.
A committee can’t vote on any-
thing without a quorum — meaning
at least half the committee members
are present — so some committees
have reduced the number of peo-
ple on their committee in order to be
able to meet that requirement more
often when seats are vacant or com-
mittee members are absent.
“The Hispanic Advisory Com-
mittee went from nine to seven to
fi ve,” Alarcon-Strong said.
The commitment for serving on
a committee varies. Some, like the
See City, Page A10