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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019
HERMISTON HISTORY
TANYA KENNEDY
Dean of students at Desert View
Elementary School
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I moved to Hermiston in 2012 after my husband
and I got married. We moved from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania with the hopes to live in Portland.
However, we landed in Hermiston with the support
of his parents.
What is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Ixtapa
HH fi le photo
Brothers Morgan Russell, left, and Joshua Russell have a snowball fi ght in front of their house in 1994.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to spend time with my husband and kids as
well as craft.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
The people. The people in Hermiston are amazing!
They are kind and respectful. The city also sur-
prises me and a lot of people back east! It is very
hard to explain how small Hermiston is yet so big
at the same time!
What was the last book you read?
”Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard” by Linda
Cliatt-Wayman
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
I have a few games that I like to play daily on my
phone.
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Germany! I studied German in both high school
and college and it has always been my dream to
visit.
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
Hmm… that is tough. I’m not really sure.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Work on the last few steps of getting my adminis-
trative license.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
My two kids, Ryker and Kiya.
25 YEARS AGO
DEC. 13, 1994
An Army bomb squad removed a
homemade explosive from the park-
ing lot of a north Hermiston super-
market Thursday.
“What they did was pulled the
fuse, brought it back here and
destroyed it,” said Army spokesman
Ken Cooper.
Ted Owens, manager of the Shop
‘n Kart, said a customer had found
a ball about four inches in diame-
ter with what may have been a fuse
sticking out of it near the store’s exit
doors.
Owens called the Hermiston
Police Department. Police cordoned
off signifi cant portions of the lots in
front of the supermarket and Coast-
to-Coast Hardware next door for
more than four hours.
Cooper called the device a “home-
made fi recracker,” composed of gun-
powder and a timed fuse, that was no
more powerful than a M-80 fi rework.
2) The Stanfi eld Public Library
has taken the on-ramp to the infor-
mation superhighway.
The city council agreed to distrib-
ute money for a computer network
that will allow access to the Internet,
a worldwide network of computer
bulletin boards and data.
For $75 a year, the library will use
the “Compass” network software and
a local phone line set up by the Ore-
gon Department of Transportation to
access a computer server in Salem.
50 YEARS AGO
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Many letters and telegrams have
been sent to President Nixon, Gover-
nor Tom McCall and the state’s Con-
gressional delegation giving unani-
mous support of the Army’s plan to
store various types of war gases at
the Umatilla Army Depot.
Leading the campaign to show
support for the Army plan is the
Hermiston Coordinating Council
headed by Joe Burns.
The council is composed of the
heads of the city’s top civic orga-
nizations including the chamber
of commerce, Kiwanis and Rotary
clubs, junior chamber of commerce,
the mayor and city manager. Each of
these men had conferred with mem-
bers of their groups and were all
unanimous in their feeling that the
storage of such materials at UAD
posed no problem in this area.
“This has been done for years
and it has created no problem of any
kind,” one council member stated.
“This is what an Army depot is for.”
BTW
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gift certifi cates at several
downtown businesses, as
well as merchandise and
services at Affordable
Family Eyewear.
For more informa-
tion, call 541-567-3790,
visit www.affordablefam-
ilyeyewear.com or search
Facebook.
• • •
If you don’t have health
insurance through your
employer, this is your last
week to sign up for cover-
age for 2020, and get help
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Michael Rupe creates marshmallow snowfl akes with his teacher Joanne Crutcher
at Sunset Elementary School in 1994.
75 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO
DEC. 14, 1944
DEC. 13, 1919
The safe return of Lt. Leonard
Keller to American lines near St.
Nazaire, following his escape from
the Germans, was the glad tidings
received by Mrs. Keller and young
son here this week. Lt. Keller, who
is a pilot of a transport plane, was
reported missing as of Oct. 30.
No detailed news of his escape
has been received but the fact that he
is safe behind American lines is quite
suffi cient.
2) With strict orders coming from
the state War Price and Rationing
offi ce, the local board will be forced
to view requests for extra fuel oil
and gasoline with more concern. The
board has been informed that its duty
is to cut consumption, whenever
humanly possible, to a minimum.
F. C. McKenzie, chief clerk here,
announced Wednesday that both gas
and oil are available for emergency
cases but urged that no requests for
extra rations be made unless abso-
lutely necessary.
Mr. McKenzie also advises that
applications for supplemental gaso-
line must be accompanied by mile-
age ration slips given with A books
or they will be returned.
Also, employers who sign appli-
cations for supplemental gas for
employees must state specifi cally the
number of miles the employee must
drive to work and the number of days
he is employed.
On Monday Mrs. Isabel Kennedy
was taken to Pendleton by Deputy
Sheriff Joe Blakely on complaint that
she was mentally unbalanced. After
being examined on arrival there she
was committed to the state hospital.
For several weeks the lady had
been acting queerly, and her wander-
ings and utterances had irritated peo-
ple on the West Side, where she lived
with her husband and family a cou-
ple of doors west of the Auditorium
building. She had hallucinations that
she was some sort of a Messiah, but
seemed to be harmless.
Her mental condition seemed,
however, to have taken on a tragic
aspect Sunday evening, for on going
on one of her visits to a nearby house
in order to tell the occupants who she
was and what was going to happen,
she drew from the folds of her dress
a huge butcher knife and made a pass
or two at one of the occupants who
had asked her to leave.
After fl ourishing the deadly
weapon for a moment or so, she took
her departure. The next morning a
complaint was fi led with Justice of
the Peace Dodd, and later she was
taken away by the deputy.
The case is a sad one, for it leaves
three small children minus a moth-
er’s care and love. The Kennedys
have been here for some months,
during which time Mr. Kennedy has
worked on the section.
paying for it, in the insur-
ance marketplace.
People needing insur-
ance can shop for plans,
sign up and apply for a sub-
sidy through oregonhealth-
care.gov.
The deadline to apply
for coverage for next year
is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday,
Dec. 15.
For help signing up, call
1-855-268-3767 toll free.
• • •
Nashville recording art-
ist Cale Moon is swinging
through town again. See
next week’s Hermiston
Herald for a story about
his Dec. 21 performance at
The Pheasant Blue Col-
lar Bar & Grill. The eve-
ning crescendos with the
(F)ugly Sweater Party. For
questions, call The Pheas-
ant at 541-567-3022.
• • •
Desert View Elemen-
tary School is our fi nal
spotlight school of the year,
after a year-long project to
highlight local schools. See
page A2 for a “Three Min-
utes With” feature about a
Desert View staff member,
and page A15 for photos
from Desert View’s holi-
day concert.
• • •
The menu for the Har-
kenrider Senior Activ-
ity Center on Thursday
is roast beef, corn, baked
potato, fruit and birthday
cake by Sun Terrace. Fri-
day is chili dogs, potato
salad and apple dessert.
Monday is three tacos,
chips and salsa and des-
sert. Tuesday is beef stew,
biscuits, fruit and des-
sert. Next Wednesday is
chicken fried steak, pea
salad, fruit and dessert.
The senior center will be
closed the week of Christ-
mas and on New Years
Day.
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