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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!
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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
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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.