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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020
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Hermiston Herald wins General Excellence award
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
The Hermiston Herald
took home the top prize for
newspapers in its size cate-
gory in the Oregon Newspa-
per Publishers Association’s
annual Better Newspapers
Contest.
Contest results for 2020
were announced Sept. 29,
including the Herald’s fi rst
place General Excellence
award. Entries were from
the 2019 calendar year.
The Herald placed fi rst
over newspapers in size
category D, while the Hood
River News came in sec-
ond and the Newport News-
Times came in third. The
East Oregonian also took
home the General Excel-
lence award for its size cat-
egory, placing fi rst for the
ninth time in 10 years.
Andrew Cutler, man-
aging editor of the East
Oregonian and publisher
for several of EO Media
Group’s newspapers, said
having both the Herald and
the EO win General Excel-
HH fi le photo
The Hermiston Herald took home an Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association prize for
reporting on the fi re at Funland Playground on May 10, 2019.
lence in the same year is
“quite an achievement.”
“The newsrooms in
Hermiston and Pendleton
— and the entire EO/HH
staff — work tirelessly to
bring Umatilla and Mor-
row counties accurate and
timely information,” he
said. “The Oregon Newspa-
pers Publishers Association
allows our reporters the
opportunity to compete for
the top awards in the state.
They’ve done phenome-
nal work over the last 12
months. I couldn’t be more
proud of our institution.”
In addition to General
Excellence, the Hermis-
ton Herald and East Ore-
gonian also won several
individual awards in the
contest, which covered the
2019 calendar year and saw
976 entries in 33 catego-
ries from 31 Oregon news-
papers and was judged by
a panel of editors and pub-
lishers from newspapers
around the country.
For the Herald, edi-
tor Jade McDowell’s arti-
cle “What’s the Holdup?”
about local businesses that
saw long delays for con-
struction projects won sec-
ond place for Best Cov-
erage of Business and
Economic News.
“From
the Ashes,”
McDowell’s article about
the fi re that burned down
Funland
Playground,
placed third for Best Spot
News.
Former Herald reporter
Jayati Ramakrishnan’s fea-
ture ”Recovery takes pri-
ority at Hermiston facility”
about Power House Treat-
ment Center in Hermiston
won second place for Best
Spot News.
The East Oregonian
staff won fi rst place for
Best Special Section, Best
Enterprise Reporting and
Best Spot News Coverage.
Staff also took home sec-
ond place prizes for Best
Editorial Page, Best Fea-
ture Photo, Best Sports
Photo, Best Government
Coverage and Best Sports
Story, and third place for
Best Feature Photo.
“Our company is hon-
ored to be recognized for
the quality of our news-
papers by our peers in the
newspaper industry,” owner
Kathryn Brown said. “Our
editors and reporters work
hard to shine a light on our
communities and keep our
readers well informed, and
I’m grateful to work with
such talented and dedicated
journalists.”
Umatilla welcomes three new businesses to town
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
Umatilla
rolled
out
the red carpet — fi gura-
tively speaking — on Sat-
urday, Oct. 3, for three new
businesses.
Lite em Up BBQ, Fru-
teria Piqui and Evange-
line Gift Shop share a
newly renovated space at
1201 Sixth St. in Uma-
tilla. The Umatilla Cham-
ber of Commerce and City
of Umatilla hosted a rib-
bon-cutting celebration for
them on Saturday.
“It’s unbelievable to
have three businesses
(open) all at once,” City
Manager David Stockdale
said, noting he knew that
a lot of “blood, sweat and
tears” went into all three.
The building, formerly
home to Honey Bunnz
strip club, was purchased
by Umatilla School Dis-
trict Superintendent Heidi
Sipe and her husband Kyle
Sipe in December 2019 in
an effort to make sure a
more family-friendly busi-
ness moved in. Heidi said
they bought the building
“on faith” not knowing
whether it would work out
into a good investment.
She said they decided to
offer up smaller spaces to
multiple businesses to keep
rent low and make starting
a new business in Uma-
tilla more affordable. They
have since seen some set-
backs with COVID-19 and
ongoing road construction
in front of the building, but
now all three businesses
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CONTACTS
Lite em Up BBQ: 541-656-6598
Fruteria Piqui: 541-314-4333
Evangeline Gift Shop: 541-720-0227
are fully open.
The Sipes own Evange-
line Gift Shop, which fea-
tures décor and accessories
from multiple local artists
in Umatilla, Irrigon and
Hermiston.
The greeting cards sold
at the shop are made by a
retired Umatilla principal,
and 100% of the proceeds
go to Clara Brownell Mid-
dle School.
Fruteria Piqui, owned
by Gerargo Mejia, offers
smoothies and other fruit-
based treats, inside the
building or through a
drive-up window on the
west side.
Lite em Up BBQ is run
by Rikkilynn and Brian
Starliper. For now, the
BBQ restaurant only oper-
ates on Fridays and Sat-
urdays, but Rikkilynn
said they will continue to
expand hours as the busi-
ness grows.
She said they make
everything from scratch,
including the sides.
“We slow smoke every-
thing and put a lot of time
and love into what we
offer,” she said.
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Mayor Mary Dedrick, second from left, speaks at the ribbon cutting for Lite em Up BBQ, Fruteria
Piqui and Evangeline Gift Shop in Umatilla on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020.
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