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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2020
Generation Club seniors honor former teachers
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston High School
Generation College students
are continuing a tradition
of recognizing elementary
and middle school teachers
whose hard work and inspi-
ration helped them realize
their dreams and sparked the
desire to pursue a college
degree.
According to a news
release from the district, the
Geny Award given by the
club symbolizes the team-
work needed to help stu-
dents reach their dreams,
and honors those that pro-
vided a helping hand when
students faced challenging
moments.
This year’s Geny Award
recipients are Anne Lusted,
math teacher at Armand
Lusted
Muldowney
Larive Middle School; Lisa
McElroy, science teacher at
Sandstone Middle School;
and Colleen Muldowney,
English language develop-
ment teacher at Highland
Hills Elementary School.
HHS
seniors
Eli-
ana Esparza and Anthony
Jiménez, who both plan to
attend Western Oregon Uni-
versity in the fall, said that
Lusted helped them with
other classes by checking
in with them to make sure
they stayed on track.
“Mrs. Lus-
ted helped me
with my shy-
ness with her
jokes and giv-
ing me advice
to
prepare
McElroy
me for high
school,”
Esparza said in a state-
ment. “She inspired us to
be a better person by being
herself.”
Lusted responded to the
award by saying she was
very honored to receive
it, according to the news
release.
“It is nice to know that I
made a difference, that my
seventh- and eighth-grade
students still remember
our time together, and that
it still is impacting them
to this day,” she said in a
statement. “I had teachers
in my past that I still refl ect
back on that helped develop
me as a person, and I’m so
proud that I have done that
for another student.”
Omar Sánchez, who
plans to attend Portland
State University, said he
recalled fun, energizing les-
sons about plate tectonics,
making ice cream, compet-
ing for the Golden Peanut
in science class, but most
of all that McElroy had
a genuine interest in see-
ing her students succeed.
He thanked McElroy for
“teaching us to imagine.”
McElroy said she “could
not be prouder to be part
of the ripple of infl uence
that Omar will undoubtedly
continue.”
“I believe it takes each of
New Mutual Aid Network helps
community with food access
By NADA SEWIDAN
STAFF WRITER
Eastern Oregon Healthy
Living Alliance created
the Mutual Aid Network
to assist low-income com-
munity members with
food access in the time of
COVID-19.
The network assembles
a repository of resources,
services and support and
coordinates volunteers to
help individuals needing
groceries, prescriptions and
other small errands. Pro-
gram Coordinator Meghan
Chancey said the assistance
program was a result of the
pandemic and its effect on
food access.
“We had sent a survey
out to Eastern Oregon pre-
viously and we found that
there were some needs
directly correlated to food
access or local food pan-
tries needing assistance,”
Chancey said. “That’s why
we started it.”
Community members
can fi ll out support forms
and state what specifi c
needs they may have and
Chancey will fi eld those
requests, connecting indi-
viduals with the appropri-
ate resource or service.
Chancey said the Mutual
Aid Network initially
started as a way to provide
COVID-19 relief. The net-
work was awarded a par-
tial grant from the Ore-
gon Community Recovery
Fund to help with its ini-
tial launch, which pro-
vides funding for up to four
months. In addition to the
grant funding, community
members can also donate
directly to their GoFundMe
page. Chancey said the
money donated supports
grocery deliveries or gen-
eral funding for local food
pantries.
“It’s a way to help con-
nect community mem-
bers together who may not
know there are people here
to support or that there are
people that need support,”
Chancey said.
Those interested in
applying
for
services
or looking to volun-
teer can sign-up on their
website
at
eohla.org/
easternoregonmutualaid/.
Eastern Oregon Healthy
Living Alliance is a non-
profi t founded in 2014 to
help support Oregon com-
munity health through
implementing
differ-
ent programs that address
socioeconomic and envi-
ronmental concerns.
Hermiston School District to host
conference for educators, police
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston School Dis-
trict and InterMountain
Education Service District
will host a regional Con-
scious Discipline confer-
ence July 6-10, at Armand
Larive Middle School.
According to a news
release from the district,
Conscious Discipline is
an “evidence-based trau-
ma-informed approach to
provide behavioral man-
agement strategies and
classroom structures edu-
cators can use to teach
students the skills they
will need in everyday
situations.”
The social learning pro-
gram, created by author
and early childhood educa-
tion expert Becky Bailey,
helps educators teach stu-
dents “foundational rela-
tionship skills,” such as
anger management, empa-
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Hermiston School District will host a regional Conscious
Discipline conference in July.
thy, cooperation and prob-
lem solving.
Attendees will include
members of Hermiston,
Morrow County, Pendle-
ton, Stanfi eld, Helix, and La
Grande (remotely) school
districts; Umatilla-Morrow
Head Start, Blue Moun-
tain Early Learning Hub,
Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity Head Start, and school
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resource offi cers from the
Hermiston and Pendleton
police departments.
Jake Bacon, Hermiston
School District’s new direc-
tor of human resources and
one of the event’s organiz-
ers, said in a statement that
he was excited for the dis-
trict to host the conference
for a second year.
“This year’s partnership
with IMESD allows us to
open the conference to our
regional school districts,”
he said. “I see it as a win-
win for all of us. Home and
school life are so intercon-
nected, and this program pro-
vides powerful techniques
that enable adults and chil-
dren alike the ability to han-
dle life’s diffi cult situations.”
For more information
about Conscious Discipline
visit www.consciousdisci-
pline.com.
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us to make a difference for
all of us. Omar’s willing-
ness to reach back in grat-
itude is, frankly, inspiring.
I’m honored to have made a
difference in a life — there
is absolutely nothing more
rewarding,” she said.
Maria Alatorre Ledezma,
who plans to attend Eastern
Oregon University in the
fall, selected Muldowney
for being instrumental in
her transition to the U.S.
and in learning a second
language.
“She’s the teacher that
has had the biggest impact
on me because she started
teaching me this language
and it’s something I’m
never going to forget,” she
said.
Muldowney said she
was honored to work with
Alatorre Ledezma at the
beginning of her time in
Hermiston.
“It was a time that really
sticks out in my mem-
ory too, as I had just tran-
sitioned to Eastern Ore-
gon from the Midwest,”
she said. “We were learning
new things together.”
This is the 15th gradu-
ating class since the incep-
tion of Generation College
in 2004.
The club was estab-
lished to support students
who would be the fi rst in
their families to attend col-
lege through the applica-
tion process. Geny Award
recipients are encouraged
to continue to impact and
inspire future generations
and spark many more con-
versations about college.
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