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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020 HERMISTON HISTORY CASSANDRA EVENS Business owner & organizer of the Hermiston Rock Hunt group When and why did you move to Hermiston? I actually moved here in 2011. I was living in Port- land with my sister. Her husband was going to school in California, she introduced me to a guy he went to school with. He ended up being my hus- band and I followed him to Hermiston. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? I would have to say Ixtapa or Panda Express. What do you like to do in your spare time? I don’t get to travel much. My small business is pretty much what I like to do in my free time when I have it. I’m really artistic so I turned that into my business. I like to do photography. I have one Etsy store where I design baby onesies, another geared toward adults where I do designs on make-up bags and totes, and I have another shop in the making involving cement crafts. What surprises you about Hermiston? I would say how many people are actually in this town for being in this area. I’ve seen some pretty good growth. Walmart seems a little more crowded than it usually is. What was the last book you read? “Outside the Lines” by Amy Hatvany What website or app do you use most other than Facebook? Etsy and Pinterest. Since I started my cement crafting, I was on Pinterest and got the idea to redo our countertops, which we’re in the middle of right now. My husband hates Pinterest because of that. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Anywhere? I really want to go to the Bahamas. The water looks amazing, I’ve always wanted to take a cruise to there. I’m not big into fl ying. What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap- pened to you? It might not have been funny at the time, but I still remember it to this day: we had this big staircase in the middle of my high school. It was a popular hangout between classes. I was walking through it to get to my next class, and when I got to the top I tripped. My books and binders went everywhere. A bunch of kids saw it happen and were laughing at me. Everyone knew me after that, but they were kind about it. That was probably the most I’ve ever been the center of attention. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? I have a sales goal for my businesses. My goal for the next year is to try and grow and double. What is your proudest accomplishment? Defi nitely my kids. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old. 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HH fi le photo Mayor Frank Harkenrider signs an agreement that formalizes the city of Hermiston’s relationship with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation while Antone Minthorn, left, and Donald Sampson, right, look on in 1995. Citizens submit names for new middle school was a whopper. And the carrot was a whopper. It tipped the scales at 5.25 pounds and would furnish vitamins for an average family for many meals. The giant car- rot was displayed at the Red & White store. 2) Coach Frank Davison’s high school basketeers literally “went to town” Tuesday night when they ran up a score of 77 to 15 against a fi ght- ing Irrigon fi ve that never gave up until the fi nal whistle blew. Led by Schoonover with 18, Belt with 15 and Connors with 14, the Bulldogs made the merry most of the evening. Coach Davison substituted freely but the new men scored almost as well their “older brothers.” 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1995 It is now illegal for vandals in Stanfi eld to possess a felt tip marker or a can of spray paint. The city council unanimously passed an ordinance Jan. 3 aimed at reducing the amount of graffi ti in the city and making graffi ti writing illegal. The city now has the power to pun- ish a person found with a can of spray paint, a felt tip marker larger than one-fourth inch wide, or any marking device — including chalk — intent on applying graffi ti. 2) The names of leading Hermis- ton citizens like Henry Ott, Ed Ben- sel or Doris Bounds could grace the name of the new middle school under construction at the corner of 10th and Diagonal. Residents have until Friday to sub- mit suggestions for the new school, which opens in the fall. The commit- tee has already received a long list. Suggestions range from rodeo themes to geographical references and big names in Hermiston develop- ment. Although the committee is only looking for a school name right now, many suggestions also included mas- cot possibilities. Included on the list are the Farm- City Middle School Wranglers, the Hermiston Desert Middle School Rat- tlers and the Tom McCall Mavericks. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1969 Last Friday night a robber or rob- bers broke into the Stewart’s Town and Country Market in Umatilla and helped themselves to approximately $6,600 in cash and checks, along with numerous other business papers. Entry was gained to the building by breaking a door glass and opening the door. The money was taken from a hiding place in the store, not a safe. Monday the store got the checks back in an envelope bearing a Herm- 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1920 HH fi le photo Summer Edgerly and Jodi Kasparek carry a U.S. fl ag during the opening processional of the Grand Council Fire of the Camp Fire club in 1995. iston postmark. All had been stamped “For Deposit Only” so they could not be cashed. In today’s paper Stewart is running an ad thanking whoever returned the checks and offering them the chance to keep $500 of the cash for their efforts if they would return the undis- closed balance, saying the store would not prosecute. At press time Wednesday there had been no reported takers on the offer. 75 YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1945 O.C. Pierce, manager of the Farm Bureau Mill, has told many tall fi sh stories in his day. This week he had a story to tell that sounded “fi shy” but he had the goods to back it up. His tale was that he had raised a large carrot on his plot of ground in Hermiston that Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Miles of Pendleton have leased the old rest room building one door east of First National Bank, that is being vacated by the second-hand store, in which they are about to establish a restaurant to be operated under the name Amer- ican Cafe. They expect to be ready for busi- ness by the 15th of this month, hav- ing received their full equipment from Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Miles have had many years experience in the restaurant business, and no doubt will received a fair share of public patronage after they start up. 2) Business places in this city are beginning to shy at taking Canadian money on account of the unstable con- dition it has assumed in the exchange rate, which fl uctuates from around 10% to as high as 20% on the dol- lar. The First National Bank of Herm- iston accepts Canadian money at 90 cents on the dollar, but is not anxious to handle it at all, only doing so as a matter of accommodation to its cus- tomers. Many banks have discontin- ued accepting the coins and currency of the Dominion altogether. Our New Neighbors: Electrical system operator fi nds new terrain in Umatilla County By ALEX CASTLE STAFF WRITER Despite spending most of her life in the region, Kathryn Kennington, 54, hadn’t done much more than pass through Pendle- ton or Hermiston. After working for the Oregon Trail Electric Co-Op in Baker City and La Grande since 1989, Ken- nington needed something new in 2019. She got it in February when she left her longtime home in La Grande to start as a system operator for Umatilla Electric Coopera- tive in Hermiston. “I just needed a job change,” she says. “That opportunity came up and I was able to take advantage of it.” The work itself is mostly the same, Kennington says. As a system operator, the same position she held with OTEC, she’s primar- ily responsible for switch- ing lines back on, tak- ing care of power outages that may occur, and other maintenance. Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Kathryn Kennington poses for a portrait at her workstation at Umatilla Electric Cooperative in Hermiston on Monday morning. Kennington, a system operator for the cooperative, is responsible for switching lines on and off as well as taking care of power outages and other maintenance. While some days are spent in her Hermiston offi ce, others are spent out in the fi eld confi rming what exactly is out there as UEC updates the map- ping of its systems, an espe- cially important task as the co-op’s footprint grows throughout the region. On Dec. 23, UEC broke ground for the construc- tion of its new substation at Juniper Canyon West, according to a press release, becoming the fourth project that’s already under devel- opment with more planned for 2020. “Some days are busier than others,” Kennington says. Kennington grew up in Washington and gradu- ated from Northwest Naz- arene University in Nampa, Idaho, with a degree in music. But after Kenning- ton ended up working at OTEC in Baker City, she decided to dive into her eventual career path when a lineman apprenticeship opened in La Grande. Kennington took it, completed the three-year apprenticeship, and spent nine years out in the fi eld erecting and tending to power lines. When she’s not on the clock in Hermiston these days, Kennington lives in an apartment in Pendle- ton with her husband, who still works in La Grande for the Oregon Department of Transportation. A self-described animal lover, Kennington spends at least a few hours once per week volunteering at PAWS, the Pendleton Ani- mal Welfare Shelter. Ken- nington and her husband have two pets of their own: a Great Dane, Tara, and a cat, Snuggie. Kennington also enjoys going for walks around the parks near her in the city, and says she and her hus- band have appreciated the greater availability of din- ing options compared to La Grande.
