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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 HERMISTON HISTORY TEESIE HILL Server at Pizza Hut and director of the Hermiston Warming Station When and why did you move to Hermiston? I was born and raised here. I moved away for 18 years and came back with my family in 2015. HH fi le photo What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? Honestly, my tia Theresa Rodriguez’s kitchen. My tio and tia make some pretty good food for the soul. It’s more than just food, it’s love, laughs, joy, tears, advice and hugs. You can’t get that in a restaurant. She’s more like a mom than an aunty. I also have a couple of favorite family kitchens in Stanfi eld! What do you like to do in your spare time? I’m always so busy with different things and fam- ily that if I get spare time I’m usually taking a nap. Lol. Refresh the mind for the next big adventure!! What surprises you about Hermiston? The growth. When I left there it was under 10,000 people. What was the last book you read/are cur- rently reading? ”Deja Dead” by Kathy Reichs. What app or website do you use most other than Facebook or Google? Play Music. I listen to a wide variety of music from Amadeus to Zeppelin. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? The southern parts of the Appalachian Mountains. What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you? Probably when I had a cortisone shot in my spine. The nurse forgot to tell me there would be lido- caine added when we went over the paperwork. I had someone else driving me about half an hour home. By the time we got home, I didn’t realize my legs were numb. I went to get out of the car and almost fell fl at on my face. The way I had to walk had my family rolling with laughter. I’m so happy that no one had a camera. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? Finish upgrading my home. It was built in 1940 so there’s a lot to do. What is your proudest accomplishment? My family. I have amazing kids, some with special needs, and some without. But, without the support of my husband Justin, I wouldn’t have the cour- age to do many of the things I do, like the Warm- ing Station. Printed on recycled newsprint VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 47 Chris Rush | Publisher • crush@eomediagroup.com • 541-278-2669 Jade McDowell | News Editor • jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4536 Jessica Pollard | Reporter • jpollard@eastoregonian.com, 541-564-4534 Community Fellowship Dinner organizer Laurie Ball takes delivery of 100 pounds of peas from Hermiston Foods quality assurance manager Andy Horyza in 1994. 25 YEARS AGO NOV. 22, 1994 Hermiston Police Chief Grant Asher is calling it a career effective Nov. 30, citing the passage of Mea- sure 8 as the primary reason for his retirement. In a letter to city manager Ed Brookshier, Asher said the mea- sure would cost him $350 a month in retirement benefi ts if he stayed on the job full time. “I’d like to have worked until June 30 of ‘96,” Asher said. “I’d have about 30 years in.” Measure 8, passed by a paper-thin margin on Nov. 8, requires public employees to contribute six percent of their salaries to PERS. That six per- cent had previously been donated by the employers. The measure also pre- vents unused sick leave from being added to retirement. 2) A gunman holding two hostages kept police at bay for four hours Fri- day night at an apartment building on Southwest First in Hermiston. Steve Lynn Weaver, 37, of Bakers- fi eld, Calif., is in the Umatilla County Jail on $60,000 bail facing kidnapping and fi rearms charges stemming from the incident. Hermiston Police Sgt. Jerry Rob- erts said the incident began about 9 p.m. when a Umatilla County Sher- iff’s Offi ce deputy attempted to arrest Weaver for pawning a stolen gun last week. Offi cers surrounded the com- plex when Weaver wouldn’t leave the apartment. Weaver’s captives, Susan and Sandy Patterson, escaped unharmed after he fell asleep early Saturday morning. Police then moved in and arrested him without incident. 50 YEARS AGO NOV. 20, 1969 Matrons of the Hermiston Police Department are wearing new blue uni- forms which have won the admiration of fellow workers at city hall. With their new dresses, the matrons wear the same type of shoul- der patches as the men, and also offi - cial badges. Wearing the uniforms while on duty are Dolores Wilson, secretary-matron, who works days, and Mary Bloom, clerk-matron, on the swing shift. 2) A proposal to close the Oregon State Employment Offi ce in Herm- iston is meeting opposition of local civic leaders. The move to protest the proposed HH fi le photo Jerry Smith, left, races to put a snow tire on a car at Les Schwab during the fi rst snow of 1994. action followed a Thursday morning meeting at Hermiston city hall when Robert Keilbach, district supervi- sor, and Gordon Clutter, manager of the Pendleton offi ce, related plans to close the local offi ce on a full-time basis January 1. Lack of federal funds was given as a reason for the district move. 75 YEARS AGO NOV. 23, 1944 Anxious housewives who have been calling the Herald offi ce asking about the next tin drive are informed that it is slated for Saturday, Dec. 2, in Hermiston. The Boy Scouts will collect the cans here and they will be taken to Pendleton by truck where a car will be loaded, according to Mrs. Walter Hamm, local salvage chairman. Tin cans should be washed, mashed and put in boxes and placed on the curbing by 9 p.m. Farmers who are coming to town prior to that time may leave tin cans at the Cooperative Can- nery and Laundry. 2) With the impetus given the west end of Umatilla by Stanfi eld’s Sixth War Loan bond rally, solicitors are combing every corner of Herm- iston for that extra dollar that should be working for Uncle Sam, accord- ing to A. F. Rohrman, chairman of the drive. In Hermiston, committees of business men began making their rounds Tuesday afternoon and reports were that citizens were cooperating whole-heartedly in the campaign. 100 YEARS AGO NOV. 22, 1919 It has been a long time since the city jail has had an occupant. This con- dition of peace was broken Sunday, however, when a sheepherder who had broken into a farm home south- east of town terrorized the inhabi- tants, who telephoned to Hermiston for assistance. Justice of the Peace E. P. Dodd received the message, and on account of it being Sunday could fi nd no dep- uty, so he went out in his car and made the arrest, bringing his prisoner in safely and lodging him in the city jail. 2) There is much talk and conjec- ture going on as to what will happen between December 17 and 20. Astron- omers claim that seven of the plan- ets will come together and cause an explosion so huge that it will make a hole in the sun that can be seen with the naked eye. It was cause on our Earth terrible storms, earthquakes, volcanic erup- tions and thunder, lightning and cold weather such as man has never seen the likes of. Such a conjunction of planets has never before occurred, and what will happen to us after or between the above dates will proba- bly be aplenty if the astronomers are correct. Tammy Malgesini | Community Editor • tmalgesini@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4539 Annie Fowler | Sports Editor • afowler@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4542 Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 Umatilla National Forest to offer permits online Dawn Hendricks | Circulation assistant • dhendricks@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4530 HERMISTON HERALD To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information: • call 541-567-6457 • e-mail info@hermistonherald.com • stop by our offi ces at 333 E. Main St. • visit us online at: hermistonherald.com The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Digital + e-Edition .............................. $39/year Full Access (print and digital) ............. $49/year Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. Postmaster, send address changes to Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838. Member of EO Media Group Copyright ©2019 CORRECTIONS It is the policy of the Hermiston Herald to correct errors as soon as they are discovered. Incorrect information will be corrected on Page 2A. Errors commited on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections also are noted in the online versions of our stories. Please contact the editor at editor@hermistonherald. com or call (541) 564-4533 with issues about this policy or to report errors. SUBMIT A LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letters Policy: Letters to the Editor is a forum for the Hermiston Herald readers to express themselves on local, state, national or world issues. Brevity is good, but longer letters should be kept to 250 words.No personal attacks; challenge the opinion, not the person. The Hermiston Herald reserves the right to edit letters for length and for content.Letters must be original and signed by the writer or writers. Anonymous letters will not be printed. Christmas tree permits for the Umatilla National Forest are now avail- able to purchase at for- est offi ces, several local businesses and online. The Umatilla National Forest is one of 13 national forests partici- pating in a pilot program to offer permits online through the Open Forest system. The Open Forest program allows the pub- lic to purchase a 2019 Christmas tree permit from home, or by using a mobile device, instead of traveling to a Forest Ser- vice offi ce. Christmas tree per- mits purchased online at openforest.fs.usda.gov/ christmas-trees/forests will have to be printed to be valid and can only be used on Umatilla National Forest lands. Permits cost $5 each and are limited to one per household. Traditional Christmas tree permits will still be available at local Forest Service offi ces, or participating vendors. Forest Service offi ces are open for business Monday through Fri- day at the four Uma- tilla Ranger District offi ces in Ukiah, Hep- pner, and Walla Walla, Washington, and Pome- roy, Washington; and at the supervisor’s offi ce in Pendleton. Traditional permits are valid on National Forest System lands only and do not authorize tree cutting on private, state or other federally man- aged lands. James Pooley and his son, Conner, carry the family Christmas tree during a past holiday season.
