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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2020
HERMISTON HISTORY
Man dies after shooting himself in the foot
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 22, 1995
JACKIE LINTON
Substitute teacher
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I was born in Hermiston.
Where is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Shiki Hibachi Sushi, Delish Bistro, and Kobe Hiba-
chi Sushi
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Be with my twin grandkids
What surprises you about Hermiston?
The unity they showed in the peaceful march
What was the last book you read?
“Forgotten,” by Linda Hervieux
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
AARP Yahtzee game
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
Ghana
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
I was acting like a donkey when I arrived at a sur-
prise birthday party for me. At least it ended up
funny.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Have my business ready
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Getting my teaching license
School district
looking for feedback
on child care needs
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston School District
is working to add child care
options to Hermiston during
the upcoming school year,
and is asking the public for
feedback.
According to a news
release from the district, it
is working with the Cham-
pions after-school child
care program to provide day
care, and is working with
the city of Hermiston on
using the Eastern Oregon
Trade and Event Center as
a venue.
To
determine
need,
the district is asking par-
ents to fi ll out a survey
at
surveymonkey.com/r/
ChampionsChildcare.
Interested families should
mark “yes” when asked
whether they would like
more information about the
program.
The Champions weekly
rate is $190 per student for
all day care, but the district
plans to offset a portion of
the costs, and opportunities
for discounts and waivers are
available.
To fulfi ll state require-
ments about keeping chil-
dren in stable “cohorts,”
Champions will only offer
full-day, full-week care.
The recent arrest of an Irrigon
couple for possession of native
artifacts is not unusual, says an
authority on cultural resources.
Jeff Van Pelt, manager of the
Cultural Resources Protection
Project of the Department of Nat-
ural Resources and the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, said he comes across
these cases all the time.
The Irrigon couple were arrested
earlier this month and charged
with a felony for possession of
the 30,000 artifacts found in their
home. The artifacts were probably
found in Benton County, sheriff’s
offi cials said.
The couple pleaded not guilty
but could face up to fi ve years
in prison and a $10,000 fi ne if
convicted.
Van Pelt said their case is a typ-
ical example of people who make
looting a profession.
“[Cases such as this could be] a
good example of extensive collec-
tors who do it for money,” he said.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1970
City Councilman Frank Harken-
rider of Hermiston was shaken and
his pickup heavily damaged when
it was struck by another vehicle
early Tuesday morning at the inter-
section of Highland Avenue and
South First Place.
The accident occurred at
8:50 a.m. when Delbert L. Starr,
26, of Caldwell, Idaho, failed to
notice a stop sign on Highland
Avenue.
Passengers in Starr’s car
included his wife and two children.
No one was injured.
2) The Hermiston School Board
Monday night postponed its deci-
sion whether to appeal the Aug.
13 ruling by the State Court of
Appeals on the Owens case.
Arnold Owens, a former teacher
in the Hermiston School District,
was not offered a new contract last
year and claimed in a lawsuit that
the district broke its own rules by
not giving him a hearing and not
giving him a cause for its action.
The district contended that its
rules were not binding because
they contravened a state statute.
The Umatilla County Circuit
Court ruled for the district, but the
Court of Appeals reversed the deci-
sion, ruling that a school district
may adopt stricter rules on teacher
employment than statutes provide
for.
75 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1945
Now it can be told — without
fuss or fanfare, Umatilla Ordnance
Depot at Ordnance has been doing
a big job toward bringing V-J Day
nearer, as shown in fi gures released
this week by Col. A.S. Buyers,
commanding offi cer.
A monthly average of 1,230 car-
loads of ammunition and quarter-
master supplies have moved in and
out of the depot since it opened in
1941. From the beginning of this
year, the tempo has been stepped
up to nearly 1,900 cars per month.
Over 68,000 cars have been han-
dled since 1941.
The Chief of Ordnance fore-
casts that the work to be done at the
depot through the end of this year
shows only a slight decline. The
personnel policy, as outlined by
Colonel Buyers, will be that civil-
HH fi le photo
Benton County Sheriff ’s Department Lt. John Hodge displays some of the
30,000 looted artifacts confi scated from a couple in Irrigon in 1995.
HH fi le photo
The Umatilla County Fair Court in 1970 was Queen Janet Hopkins, top, and
Princesses Pam Moyer, Pam Mason and Bev Burns (left to right).
ian employees are to replace Ital-
ians, and no lay-off of any kind is
contemplated at this time.
100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1920
W.C.E. Pruitt of Pendleton, well
known in Hermiston, died Monday
at St. Frances hospital. Mr. Pruitt
accidentally shot himself in the foot
while hunting grouse in the moun-
tains near Meacham, last Sunday. It
was impossible to get medical aid
quickly and when he was taken to
Pendleton, it was found necessary to
amputate the foot, and the delay and
the shock from the operation proved
fatal.
Mr. Pruitt was 43 years old and
had lived in Pendleton since 1902.
He has been a newspaper man, has
practiced law and recently was
with the Umatilla Auto Co. He was
advertising manager for the Pendle-
ton Round-Up.
He is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Cosbie Raley; a daughter,
Ray, by a former marriage; and lit-
tle Mary Helen Pruitt, a daughter by
adoption.
2) Raymond W. Hamm, pro-
prietor of the Liberty Bakery, evi-
dently discouraged by the recent
fi re in the Adams building on Main
Street, decided to seek fresh fi elds
for his labors and left Monday night.
He neglected to leave a forwarding
address at the Oregon hotel where he
has been staying, which is a source
of much regret to his landlady and to
a number of creditors.
It is reported that the sum of
his debts is in the neighborhood of
$2,500. Mr. Ham had worked up a
good business in both his bakery and
lunchroom trade, and it is under-
stood that outsiders are already
looking over the ground with a view
to reopening the bakery.
BY THE WAY
Survey to help select new elementary school name now online
Hermiston School District’s survey about the name
of its new elementary school planned for Theater Lane is
now live. The survey can be accessed until Aug. 28 at sur-
veymonkey.com/r/ElemSchoolName.
After 61% of respondents to a previous survey stated
they would prefer to see the school named after a geo-
graphical feature, all three names are refl ective of the
landscape around the site, and are in Spanish to refl ect the
demographics of the school district, where a majority of
students are Latino.
The three choices are Artemisa Elementary School,
Loma Vista Elementary School or La Senda Elemen-
tary School. Artemisa means sagebrush in Spanish, Loma
Vista means hill view and La Senda means the pathway.
• • •
The funding is available to businesses Umatilla, Mor-
row, Union, Wallowa, Harney and Malheur counties.
According to a news release, the purpose of the Incum-
bent Worker Training Program is to “assist employ-
ers in training currently employed workers in an effort
to keep businesses and workers competitive.” They can
use the funds to train employees on new skills, equip-
ment or systems and help them attain new certifi cations
or credentials.
Priority is given to applicants who show how the fund-
ing could help them prevent layoffs or retain current
employees.
To learn more, contact Tara Bishop at 541-377-6209
or tbishop@tecteam.org.
• • •
Money available for employee retraining
Children’s summer meal program extended
Businesses can access funding from the Train-
ing & Employment Consortium to help retrain their
employees.
Hermiston School District’s summer meal program
has been extended through Sept. 4 after the district voted
to move the fi rst day of school to Sept. 8.
Students will be able to continue to pick up meals at bus
stops and from Armand Larive Middle School, Herm-
iston High School, West Park Elementary School and
Sandstone Middle School through Sept. 4.
The meals, free to any child ages 0-18, are available
from 7:30-8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• • •
Senior meals are pork chops, taco casserole
The Harkenrider Senior Activity Center continues
to provide takeout and delivery meals to senior citizens
in the community.
The menu for Thursday, Aug. 20, is pork chops, scal-
loped potatoes, applesauce and dessert. Tuesday, Aug. 25,
is taco casserole, green salad, garlic bread and dessert.
For a Meals on Wheels delivery, call 541-567-3582
before 10 a.m. to place an order. To pick up a meal from
the center at 255 Northeast Second St., call the same
number before 11 a.m. Meals are $4 and can be picked up
between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.