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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.