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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2020 HERMISTON HISTORY SHERYL MCKINLEY-CUNDIFF Homemaker When and why did you move to Hermiston? I moved to Hermiston in 2015. My then fi ancé (now husband) worked at Union Pacifi c’s Hinkle yard so I moved from Western Washington to be here with him. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? My favorite place to eat is Ixtapa. I can’t get enough Mexican food. HH fi le photo Joanne Dority, Vicky Mesteth, Mike Boedigheimer and Mike Frink (left to right) represent several local car dealerships that donated car seats for a drawing at First Interstate Bank in 1995. What do you like to do in your spare time? I like to paint and hide rocks with my best friend, Sherriy. We are part of the Hermiston Rock Hunt. What surprises you about Hermiston? I guess I’m surprised how everyone seems con- nected here, in one way or another. I’m from a much bigger, more populated area! What was the last book you read? Boy, I think the last book I read was “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins. What website or app do you use most other than Facebook? Pinterest, defi nitely. I get a lot of art inspiration from there. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? If I could travel anywhere, I think it would have to be to Europe. Greece, France, Spain ... pick one! What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap- pened to you? I was in a store and I was going through the dis- count carts up by the registers. I found a pack of red meat at the bottom of one, and vocally expressed my disgust. Then a man came around the corner and stared at me. Apparently that was his cart. I laughed for days. Lesson learned: if you don’t see clearance stickers, it’s probably not part of the clearance... What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? One of my goals in the next 12 months is to move and get settled in Las Vegas. My husband recently started a new career there. What is your proudest accomplishment? My kids. They’re pretty fantastic! VOLUME 114 • NUMBER 6 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 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 Dawn Hendricks | Circulation assistant • dhendricks@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4530 The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1995 The sign on Hermiston’s water tower says it all. “Watch Hermiston Grow.” If local government offi cials and businessmen are correct, those watching in the next fi ve years will see quite a lot. With at least three natural gas- fi red cogeneration plants in various stages of construction, a chemical weapons destruction facility of some variety certain in the Umatilla Depot Activity’s future and rumors of a large retail distribution center thick in the air, Hermiston is set for what may be the strongest period of eco- nomic growth since the 1970s. “I just added up the different proj- ects, the cogen, the distribution cen- ter — the possibility of this thing, we’re looking at upwards of around 4,000 to 4,500 interim people within our community,” said Hermiston Development Corporation President Tom Gilleese. The interim people to which Gilleese refers are construction workers and their families. He said those people, when done, will be supplanted by new, more permanent residents. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1970 Printed on recycled newsprint 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 Tower urges to ‘Watch Hermiston Grow’ 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 ©2020 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. Writers should include a telephone number so they can be reached for questions. Only the letter writer’s name and city of residence will be published. A master key to 700 lockers and approximately $200 in cash were taken from the Hermiston Senior High School offi ce safe sometime between Thursday morning and Friday, according to Jack Jenkins, principal. The items were taken from a walk-in safe used daily by offi ce per- sonnel. In addition to monies that are kept there, student fi les, confi dential reports and other school valuables are lodged within the safe. 2) Oregon hunters were consid- erably more careful with fi rearms in 1969 than they have been for quite a spell and ended the season with the fourth lowest number of casualties in the past 12 years and the lowest num- ber of deaths since 1951. Records of hunter-caused fi rearm accidents in 1969 compiled by Cal Giesler, hunter safety supervisor for the Oregon Game Commission, show 67 casualties, six of which were fatal. The low point in the 12-year period was 62 casualties recorded in 1962. However, serious accidents were the highest that year with 15 fatalities recorded. As usual, the records show that the hunter is his own worst enemy through careless mishandling of his own fi re- arm. This carelessness resulted in 39 HH fi le photo Jimmy Hatfi eld, age 10, shows the $101 he collected for March of Dimes in 1945. self-infl icted incidents, two of which were fatal. Pendleton, Portland, Redmond, The Dalles and St. Helens. 75 YEARS AGO Feb. 8, 1945 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1920 Your government is interested in contacting persons who have lived in or visited enemy or enemy-occu- pied territory since 1935. Anyone fall- ing into this category is asked to write U.S. Army, P.O. Box 951, Portland, Oregon. 2) The state house military affairs committee has introduced a bill in the legislature to let the people vote on a tax levy to construct armories in 20 Oregon cities. The bill provides for a 45 cent mill tax levy for 10 years, but the levy would be offset by surplus income tax revenues as long as they are available. The state adjutant general will be in charge of acquiring armory sites, most of which probably would be contrib- uted by the cities, and to let contracts and determine the priority for erection of proposed armories. Should the people vote favorably, armories would be built in Baker, Bend, Corvallis, Forest Grove, Grants Pass, Gresham, Hermiston, Hills- boro, Hood River, La Grande, New- berg, Lakeview, Ontario, Oregon City, Think of the billions of dollars that are handled by American banks with- out the loss of a dollar to depositors. This is a record to be proud of and is in marked contrast to the banking busi- ness of the past. Banking has been stabilized in this country until it is next to impossible to have a bank failure entailing loss to depositors. The rapid increase in bank deposits is largely due to the fact that the public is becoming convinced that modern banks are the safest places in which to keep money. The old shoe, the stocking and the tin can are going into discard. 2) The mild epidemic of what was termed the fl u has moderated to such an extent that the mayor has deemed it advisable to raise the ban that had been placed on public gath- erings. Therefore, beginning tomor- row (Sunday) morning, all religious, social and lodge meetings will again be permissible. The public schools, which have been closed this past week, will also resume Monday. EO Forum focuses on mental health of youths The Eastern Oregon Forum returns in February with a discussion regard- ing the mental health challenges fac- ing children today. The fi rst forum of 2020 features Chris Bettineski, who holds a doc- torate in education and works as the director of School Psychology & Behavioral Services for InterMoun- tain Education Service District, and Micaela Cathey, a Licensed Clin- ical Social Worker (LCSW), who is an executive administrator with Lifeways. The event is 7 p.m. on Tuesday in ST-200 (Science and Technology building) at Blue Mountain Commu- nity College, 2411 N.W. Carden Ave., Pendleton. Admission is $5 at the door and free for students. The Eastern Oregon Forum is a collaborative effort between BMCC, InterMountain ESD, the Hermis- ton Herald and East Oregonian, the American Association of University Women and Harriet Isom, a former United States ambassador. Topics of upcoming EO Forums include: • March 10, Climate Change from a Youth Perspective; • April 21, Bees and Their Impact on Our Region’s Agriculture; and • May 12, LIKE: The Impact of Social Media on Our Lives. For more information about the Eastern Oregon Forum, con- tact Shannon Franklin at 541- 278-5951, sfranklin@bluecc. edu or visit www.facebook.com/ EasternOregonForum.
