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HERMISTON HISTORY
STEFANI CRANDALL
Certifi ed Pharmacy Technician
Hermiston Drug & Gift
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I am a lifelong resident of Hermiston. We have
stayed here to be near both of our families.
HH fi le photo
Where is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Oh hard choice, I would have to say La Palma or
Delish Bistro
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Binge watch all my favorite shows like Tiger King.
But the real question is, did Carol Baskin kill her
husband?
What surprises you about Hermiston?
I would have to say the most surprising thing
about Hermiston is how big and diverse we have
gotten over the years.
What was the last book you read?
The last book I read is the Pharmacy Certi-
fi ed Technician Training Manual. Not much of a
reader; if it isn’t on Instagram I don’t read it.
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
I am not on Facebook at all. My go-to app is
Instagram.
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
My dream vacation is to Bora Bora.
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
On our wedding day it was time for my hus-
band to do the garter toss. My dad’s response to
this moment made me laugh hysterically. Let me
start by saying my dad is one of the quietest, most
reserved men in the world. My husband was slink-
ing his way up my dress. He had only made it half-
way up, when my dad came rushing over arms in
the air yelling, “No, no, stop, stop!” At fi rst fi rst
everyone thought he was serious and didn’t know
how to act. However, he began laughing and at
that moment we all joined him in laughter.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
My husband and I would like to start a family
within the next year.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
My proudest accomplishment was buying our fi rst
home.
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recycled
newsprint
Osborne cousins Lucas, 4, Dustin, 3, and Caleb, 2, eat snow cones at a carnival in Hermiston in 1995.
Umatilla man attributes escape to angels
25 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1995
Angels are alive and active,
according to a Umatilla man.
Dean Black, 40, attributes his
escape from what could have been a
deadly accident to his angel.
Black, a welder for Jones-Scott
Company, jumped into a plugged-up
sand and gravel hopper to free the
machinery feeding rocks to the
washer.
Sand and gravel began falling on
Black, covering his body.
“Except for my arm sticking up
out of the sand, I couldn’t move,”
Black said. “I was trying to get the
sand out of my face when I lost it
(fainted).”
Still running, the machine pulled
Black to the bottom of the hopper with
fi ne rock engulfi ng him. One leg made
it through an outlet in the base of the
large machine.
Three men working nearby pulled
on Black’s leg, removing him from his
entombment.
“I was glad they were there to get
me out,” Black said. “I never would
have made it out without them.”
Miraculously, besides a bruised
and sore body, Black escaped with
only a dislodged hip.
50 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1970
“Eastern Oregon is facing a slowly
eroding economic base and declin-
ing population,” state treasurer Robert
Straub told a gathering of Democrats
here on Friday.
Straub, Democratic candidate for
the nomination for governor, was
guest speaker at a potluck dinner
sponsored by the Umatilla County
Democratic Central Committee.
The need for a rural renewal pro-
gram and small industry fi nanc-
ing were cited as important goals by
Straub. “I am working with several
others at the present time on a long-
range plan that would be benefi cial to
Eastern Oregon,” he said.
dle the heavy work load which is
expected when the war shifts from
Europe to the Pacifi c.
2) Plans for the big annual
U.O.D.-U.S.O Amateur Show were
completed this week after two audi-
tions were heard at the U.S.O. club.
The yearly event will be held in the
high school gym Saturday, April
28 at 8 p.m. There is no admission
charge and a free dance, with the
Music Makers playing, will follow
the show.
100 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1920
HH fi le photo
Michael Fisher, 6, carries a bag of
cotton candy at a carnival in Hermiston
in 1995.
2) The number of display booths
and spaces at Hermiston’s Expo-70
has grown to well over 80 with mer-
chandise and services of every type
and description planned for showing.
The event, the fi rst of what is
planned as an annual event of the
Hermiston Hustlers, the sponsoring
organization, will be held Friday and
Saturday, May 1 and 2, in two build-
ings and surrounding grounds at the
Umatilla County Fairgrounds.
75 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1945
The Umatilla Ordnance Depot will
be having troops again in the next
few weeks, according to the infor-
mal information received by the Com-
manding Offi cer.
Civilian workers will still be in
demand at the Depot and the active
recruiting campaign for employees
will continue.
The ammunition company, which
is due to arrive soon, will be used for
maintenance work and to help han-
There being no snow on the
ground, and the shoemaker know-
ing of no one wearing a No. 15
boot, those mysterious white tracks
on the sidewalks Wednesday morn-
ing caused no end of speculation.
It never was ascertained whether
they were made by a slew-foot man
from the sunny south who had fallen
into a lime barrel, or a rejuvenated
dinosaur from the Arctic region —
except that they all led to the store
of Sappers’ Inc., which fi rm was cel-
ebrating its fi rst anniversary as hard-
ware merchants of Hermiston by giv-
ing away 10% of its profi ts.
2) A social event of great interest
and almost as a complete surprise was
the quiet, unannounced wedding of
Miss Alice Prann and Frank H. Stone
at noon on Tuesday, April 13, which
took place at the home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Prann.
Immediately after the simple and
unelaborate ceremony, performed by
Rev. M.R. Gallaher, the newlyweds
surreptitiously hied away to Stanfi eld,
where they took train No. 7 to Port-
land to spend their honeymoon.
All our readers, we daresay,
know pretty, vivacious, lovely Miss
Prann, who has been employed as
stenographer and bookkeeper at
the Inland Empire Lumber Co. for
some time past, and the groom is
one of the young prosperous and
progressive ranchers of the irriga-
tion district.
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by school buses.
In response to ques-
tions about Umatilla resi-
dents’ concerns, the gover-
nor’s offi ce sent a statement
that residents in both Ore-
gon and Washington need
to comply with social dis-
tancing requirements and
limit all nonessential travel,
including crossing state
borders for recreational
reasons.
“(Brown) is urging
everyone in Oregon to limit
nonessential travel — espe-
cially to our rural commu-
nities that do not have the
hospital capacity to treat
an infl ux of patients from
other parts of the state,” the
email said. “In line with her
orders, the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wild-
life has closed recreational
hunting and fi shing to non-
residents to discourage
nonresident travel amid
COVID-19
restrictions.
Such travel could spread
the virus and put more of
a burden on Oregon’s rural
communities.”
But coupled with con-
cerns about recreational and
nonessential travel spread-
ing the virus between the
two states is the common
and essential commutes
some workers must make
to their workplaces across
the border.
In Walla Walla County,
health offi cials have con-
fi rmed 37 cases as of Tues-
day, eight of which have
been linked to a multi-
county outbreak at Tyson
Fresh Foods in Wallula.
The beef production plant
has already reported that
90 employees have tested
positive.
Fiumara said four people
who tested positive in Uma-
tilla County are connected
to the outbreak. While that
doesn’t mean all four indi-
viduals are employees
of the plant, it shows the
threat of workers bringing
COVID-19 back home with
them on the other side of
the border is real.
However, Milton-Free-
water City Manager Linda
Hall said citizens on the
northeast end of the county
have yet to voice concerns
about transmission between
the states.
“I have not heard any
complaints or necessarily
any concerns,” she said in a
voicemail. “Honestly, we’re
so close to Walla Walla that
it’s pretty common to have
people going back and forth
between those state lines.”
Meanwhile,
Fiumara
and the Umatilla County
Health Department have
been fi elding calls from
businesses along the bor-
der that have been confused
by the information fl ow
between the two states.
While Oregon and
Washington are mostly
consistent in the businesses
restrictions and basic infor-
mation about the pan-
demic, one subtle differ-
ence does exist — Oregon
considers someone recov-
ered from COVID-19 and
safe to return to work after
spending 72 hours without
symptoms, but Washington
mandates at least 14 days of
self-isolation before being
allowed to return to work.
Businesses are under the
jurisdiction of whichever
state and county they are
located in, but the discrep-
ancy has led to employers
and employees on either
side of the border being
unsure of when exactly
someone is legally allowed
to return to work.
Fiumara highlighted that
the threat of COVID-19
spreading between coun-
ties on opposite ends of
the state border will also
pose challenges as govern-
ments begin to formulate
their plans for reopening
economies.
Earlier this week, The
Oregonian reported a
draft of Brown’s plan will
include the option for rural,
Eastern Oregon coun-
ties to reopen before their
more urban counterparts.
But whether the restric-
tions being lifted coincides
with counties in Southeast
Washington doing the same
may be just as important.
“If Umatilla County
took the position that we’re
going to open the restau-
rants and bars, how many
people are going to come
down from Walla Walla
or the Tri-Cities area?”
Fiumara said. “We could
quickly fi nd ourselves in a
tough situation.”
Umatilla County Com-
missioner George Murdock
said conversations about
reopening businesses have
begun between the board
of commissioners and have
been pushed to the fore-
front of statewide discus-
sions among county lead-
ers. He acknowledged the
need to consider the risks of
cross-county transmission
in those discussions.
“I think any county like
ours feels good about what
people locally are doing,”
he said. “It’s the things you
can’t control like people
coming from the outside
that are concerning.”