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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2020
Community garden opens for 2020
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
After a pandemic-induced
delay, Hermiston’s Lovin’
Spadefuls community garden
is open for the 2020 season.
Registration is open at the
garden, located on the Elm
Avenue side of the Good
Shepherd Health Care System
Campus, May 26-28 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eighty plots
are available for $10 apiece.
“We’re about three weeks
behind schedule, but I think
it’s certainly still feasible for
everyone to still garden,”
organizer Chelle Hankinson
said.
The garden got a late start
while visitors were prohib-
ited from Good Shepherd’s
campus under COVID-19
restrictions, but the hospi-
tal has given the garden the
go-ahead. Participants are
asked to stay 6 feet apart from
people not in their household
and to wear masks. Gloves
are encouraged when touch-
ing shared items, such as the
water spigot.
Overall, however, Hankin-
son said the garden should be
a fairly safe family activity,
given the nature of each fam-
ily or individual having their
own plot to work at on their
own schedule, and the out-
door environment.
“It’s so freeing,” she said.
“It’s kind of a sense of ther-
apy, especially after people
have been locked up.”
The garden will be getting
a greenhouse partway through
the summer donated by Head
Start. Hankinson said she also
still has donated seeds left for
people to use.
She said there is a lot of
weed cover in the garden
right now because volunteers
haven’t been able to get in to
get them cleared out, but they
have been working hard the
last few days to make up for
lost time.
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Sharron Reis, 90, waves from the window of Avamere at
Hermiston during a drive-thru birthday party in her honor
on May 19, 2020.
Celebrating 90
HERMISTON HERALD
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A zinnia blooms at the Hermiston Community Garden in 2019.
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The Hermiston Community Garden is located at the base of Hermiston Butte on property
owned by the Good Shepherd Medical Center.
IN BRIEF
Hermiston library
resumes partial
on-site services
The Hermiston Public
Library resumed limited ser-
vices on May 26 and will
begin lending physical mate-
rials in June.
The library is accept-
ing returned items that were
checked out before the
library’s closure in April.
Borrowed materials may be
dropped at the north side of
the library into the labeled
receptacles under the eaves of
the building near the bench.
The drive-up, stainless-steel
drop will not be used for
now, allowing library staff
to safely receive and quaran-
tine returned items. Returns
The family of Shar-
ron Reis wanted a safe
and fun way to celebrate
her 90th birthday at the
Avamere at Hermiston
assisted living facility,
so they created a small
parade of cars to drive
past her window.
Reis has been at Ava-
mere for about a year and
has lived in Hermiston for
more than four decades,
according to her daughter
Nolan Quinn. She has four
children, lived through
the Great Depression, and
is a polio survivor.
Quinn said her mother
felt like queen for a day
during her social distanc-
ing birthday celebration
on May 19.
“She had a ball,” she
said. “She thought it was
the most fun.”
will be received between
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.
On June 1, library staff
will begin offering curb-
side service for the checkout
of library materials. Phone
requests and online holds will
open on Friday.
“We are excited to begin
lending and sharing physical
materials, including books,
audio and video,” library
director Mark Rose said. “We
look forward to a full reopen-
ing as soon as it is safe to do
so.”
There is no set date for
the public to enter the library,
and library programming will
continue via electronic means
throughout the summer.
Library staff are planning a
Summer Reading Program
and will provide additional
information before its launch.
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