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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019
HERMISTON HISTORY
BECKY BACON
Dean of Students at
Sunset Elementary School
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I moved to Hermiston four years ago when my
husband got a job at the high school as an assis-
tant principal.
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Offi cers of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4750 and the Auxiliary present a plaque to Good Samaritan Center in 1969. Left to
right are Mrs. Don Day, Mrs. Clarence Martin, Russell Morris, Clarence Martin and Al Frederickson.
What is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Shiki Hibachi Sushi
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Watch my kids play sports
What surprises you about Hermiston?
How much I love it here! I was born and raised
in Pendleton and the colors purple and gold were
not allowed to be worn. There may be some deep-
rooted rivalry I grew up in, so now I love saying,
“Go DAWGS!”
What was the last book you read?
“Culturize” by Jimmy Casas
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
Amazon and Walmart Grocery Online
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Pretty much anywhere tropical and warm. This
morning I looked into Belize and the year-round
average high temperatures are upper 70’s to mid
80’s. I’m ready to go teach there for the winter
months!
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
I asked my family if they could come up with a
funny story about me and their funny stories are
terrifying to me, which I guess is why they are
funny to them. I have a slight phobia of snakes
almost to an unhealthy point, I hate to admit. Once
when our kids were a little bit smaller we were
playing around in the North Fork in the Uma-
tilla National Forest. I happened to step on a
water snake and I screamed and ran away, leaving
behind my kids to fend for themselves. My husband
tells it a lot better, but to me it was terrifying and
everyone else thought it was funny. We also have a
few snakes where we live and my husband and our
neighbor get a kick out of having me come to look
at something, and that something being a snake. It
scares me so badly!
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
To slow down and enjoy my family. Time seems to
be going faster and faster and before I know it my
kids are going to be off to college.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
My three children Jacob, Sydney and Carson.
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Saul Castro, co-owner of Maria’s Panaderia in Hermiston,
makes tortillas in 1994.
Hermiston High School counselor Jan Levy, right, trains
students to be “natural helpers” to their peers in 1994.
25 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1994
Three property owners along the
transmission line route for a new
power plant may go to court to settle
compensation for use of their land as
an easement.
Umatilla Electric Cooperative has
fi led suit at the circuit court in Pendle-
ton to begin the process of condemn-
ing the land.
Allan Lambert, Bruce Scott and
John Shafer are the last property own-
ers along the line who have not settled
with the co-op. They say the utility
has not offered them fair compensa-
tion for the land.
Use of their land is needed to
meet national safety requirements for
power lines.
2) An environmental special inter-
est group has fi led objections to the
City of Hermiston’s application for
a permit to pump water from a city
well it has been recharging for sev-
eral years.
Offi cials from WaterWatch, a Port-
land-based group, told the state’s
Water Resources Department the per-
mit application is technically defec-
tive and the proposed use is detrimen-
tal to the public interest.
The city has been using water from
one of its shallow wells to recharge
its deep well near Newport Park.
The recharge project has been going
on since 1988, at a cost to the city of
nearly $177,000 in engineering fees
alone.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1969
A feasibility report on water capa-
bility given by City Engineer John
Morgan at last Wednesday night’s
Hermiston city council meeting
showed that the city has ample water
supplies.
Morgan said that the city’s wells
have a capability of 4,000 gallons
a minute or 5,760,000 gallons per
day. The city’s wells have a pump-
ing capacity of 1,087 gallons for each
person in the city per day, compared
to the national average of 100 gallons
per day, Morgan related.
Opening bids to re-roof the res-
ervoir on Hermiston Butte was post-
poned from the previous meet-
ing because only one bid had
been received and it was returned
unopened.
75 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1944
The farm home of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Bellinger west of Hermiston
was completely leveled by fi re Tues-
day morning, including all household
effects. The fi re started while Mrs.
Bellinger was away from the house
doing chores. When she returned the
interior was all in fl ames, too late to
save one single item.
Neighbors were summoned to the
scene but nothing could be done to
stop the fi re. There was no insurance
on either the house or the furniture,
leaving the Bellinger family quite
destitute.
2) The largest vote in the history of
Hermiston voting was cast at the elec-
tion here Tuesday with 698 voting in
Precinct 33 and 662 in Precinct 32.
When last minute efforts failed to
locate a voting place at the town of
Ordnance, a bus was chartered from
O. O. Felthouse and residents of that
city who were unable to drive to town
were given free transportation. This
greatly added to the number voting in
Precinct 32.
Local betting was at its lowest ebb
in recent years when very few citi-
zens were willing to go on the line for
a Republican victory. (Those who did
brave thin ice, of course, lost.)
Apparently infl uenced by the Ord-
nance voters, Hermiston for the fi rst
time in recent years went Democratic
in voting for President Roosevelt,
giving him a plurality of 67 in those
two precincts.
100 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1919
Tuesday while playing on the
school grounds, little George McK-
enzie, son of Mayor and Mrs. F. C.
McKenzie, was kicked by a horse
belonging to one of the scholars.
The boy was injured severely, and
he is now in a plaster cast extending
around his body and one limb. In this
he will have to remain for fi ve weeks.
While there was a fracture of the
hip bone and slight internal injuries,
it is thought by the attending physi-
cian that no permanent disability will
result.
2) P. B. Siscel moved his con-
fectionary and ice cream establish-
ment Wednesday evening into its new
home in the building just completed
for it between the post offi ce and the
Oregon Hardware & Implement Co.
store.
Besides catering to the public with
his usual line of confectionery, soft
drinks, stationery, cigars and tobacco,
Mr. Siscel has decided to give patrons
who so desire a little recreation, hav-
ing added a pool hall in the rear of the
store in a room partitioned off for this
purpose. The new quarters are light
and airy, and makes the place a citi-
fi ed establishment.
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Marlette Homes employees fundraise for two causes
HERMISTON HERALD
When workers at Mar-
lette Homes realized that
October was both Breast
Cancer Awareness Month
and Domestic Violence
Awareness Month, they
didn’t choose just one
cause. Instead, they raised
over $1,000 for each.
The company presented
two checks Monday morn-
ing totaling $1,013.84 each
for the Tri-Cities Can-
cer Center and for Pendle-
ton-based Domestic Vio-
lence Services Inc.
“It’s been a really fun
month,” said Erinn Gai-
ley-Genack,
human
resources coordinator for
Marlette. “Both are seen as
women issues.”
It’s the fi rst time employ-
ees in the company raised
money for the cause of
domestic violence.
Staff photo by Jessica Pollard
Marlette Homes in Hermiston presented checks Monday to-
taling $1,013.84 each for the Tri-Cities Cancer Center and for
Pendleton-based Domestic Violence Services Inc.
“It’s an issue close to my
heart,” Gailey-Genack said.
“There was a lot of pink and
purple (last month).”
National Domestic Vio-
lence Awareness month,
represented by a purple
ribbon, was started in the
1980s by the National Coa-
lition Against Domestic
Violence. National Breast
Cancer Awareness month,
represented by a pink rib-
bon, is organized by several
breast cancer charities.
The company held raffl es
and bake sales for employ-
ees to raise the funds. But
the most popular event by
far, Gailey-Genack said,
was the pie-in-the-face
event, where employees
could use pocket-change
to vote for which manager
would get “pied” in the face
with a plate of whipped
cream.
Marlette Homes is a
mobile-home manufacturer,
which originally opened
in Michigan in 1953. The
company currently employs
more than 200 people in
Hermiston.