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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020
HERMISTON HISTORY
Potato truck driver rescued after collision
DAWN HEADINGS
Nurse practitioner,
Family Health Associates
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
In August 2005, my husband Kevin was hired to be
the elementary principal at Stanfi eld School Dis-
trict. We moved to Hermiston from Lebanon with
our three children, including a 1-week-old baby, not
knowing anyone and away from all family.
Where is your favorite place to eat in
Hermiston?
Farmers Kitchen. I’m still holding out hope that they
will return someday.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Travel!
What surprises you about Hermiston?
It is actually similar in size to the community we
moved from, and similar in many ways, but we were
surprised to see four seasons and didn’t have 300
days of rain like we were used to in the Willamette
Valley.
What was the last book you read?
Audible counts as reading, right??? “The Return”
by Nicholas Sparks. Almost fi nished with “There,
There” by Tommy Orange. Actually READ book
would be “Educated” by Tara Westover.
What website or app do you use most other
than Facebook?
According to my phone ... it’s my games. So appar-
ently that’s what I do in my spare time! I like Best
Fiends and a couple of others. Audible as well, since
I listen to books whenever I’m in my car alone.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
Sunny, warm, and beachy. (No desire to do any
cruises, ever.)
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
I can’t think of any recent ones, but there are many
with my kids that I’ll remember later. I do recall one
time before we had children, Kevin and I were catch-
ing crawdads in the Alsea and a bumblebee was fl y-
ing around my head; Kevin tried to catch it and
smacked me in the forehead with his crawdad net. I
laugh now.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Get my high-schooler through her sophomore year
with all of us maintaining a reasonable level of
sanity. This distance learning is hard for every-
one involved and not the preferred method for many
teachers and students alike.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Getting my degree and life-goal job at age 40. I was
a registered nurse from age 20 on, and received my
Master of Science in nursing with a specialty in fam-
ily practice (FNP) from Georgetown University
and then began working at Family Health Associ-
ates as a primary care provider in 2014. I recently
was hired by Georgetown as a clinical faculty advi-
sor working with family nurse practitioner students
in their clinical sites in various parts of the country
and am loving this new opportunity as well.
Hermiston Herald, File
Unknown vandals broke in and trashed the newly opened Hermiston Community Center in October 1995.
25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 17, 1995
A 23-year-old man is in serious
condition today at Oregon Health &
Science University hospital in Port-
land after two potato trucks collided
Friday on Westland Road near Lamb
Weston, which left him trapped in
his truck for more than an hour.
Alejandro Madrigal’s 10-wheel
potato carrier collided Friday with
a semi-truck leaving Lamb Weston.
The accident sent Madrigal’s load of
potatoes tumbling over the cab and
onto the road. The front of his truck
was crushed under the force of the
impact, spilling diesel fuel.
Emergency workers were called
to the scene at 12:21 p.m. Hermiston
Fire Chief Jim Stearns immediately
called for assistance from an Army
fi re brigade at the Umatilla Army
Depot. Workers took more than an
hour freeing Madrigal and had to use
a pair of Jaws of Life tools to safely
extricate him.
“It was probably the most diffi -
cult extrication we’ve done with the
patient conscious,” Stearns said. “He
was jammed in there against another
vehicle.”
For every move rescuers made,
they had to take care not to further
injure Madrigal. Madrigal was con-
scious and alert throughout the extri-
cations and spoke to rescuers via a
translator. He told them he had no
feeling below his waist. Rescuers
feared he may have lost his legs.
At one point during the rescue, one
emergency medical technician com-
mented that Madrigal shouldn’t have
survived the wreck.
Umatilla County Sheriff’s Dep-
uty Mike Boise said interviews with
the other driver indicate Madrigal
may have had his turn signal on and
was attempting to brake for the turn
just prior to impact.
“It was like two brick walls run-
ning into each other,” Boise said.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15, 1970
Further knowledge of living con-
ditions among the Umatilla Indians
and others in past centuries is being
gathered with the beginning of the
second excavation project in the old
Umatilla townsite by the Mid-Co-
lumbia Archaeological Society.
The fi rst “dig” was completed on
E Street near the Columbia River
the Memorial Day weekend. The
research is being done under a permit
Hermiston Herald, File
Firefi ghters work to extricate Alejandro Madrigal from a potato truck after a
crash in 1995.
issued to the anthropology depart-
ment of the University of Idaho at
Moscow.
Among interesting things found
the past weekend was a bone bead
approximately 3/8 of an inch in
diameter and 2 inches long. It was
highly polished and intricately
carved. After being catalogued
the items are returned to the fi nd-
ers with the exception of approxi-
mately 10% which are retained for
display purposes. These displays
will be returned to the county at such
time as a suitable permanent home is
available.
At the end of the permit period
a detailed report of the activities
involved will be published in book
form and will be available as well
as placed in libraries locally. This
area has been inhabited continuously
for some 6,000 years, so this book
should prove to be of interest.
75 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1945
M. K. Ransom, local Chevrolet
dealer, returned from Portland yes-
terday where he attended a preview
of the new 1946 Chevrolet at the
company’s zone headquarters. He
was reluctant to discuss the mechan-
ical and style features of the new
car, but by his eager attitude it was
apparent that he expected the formal
announcement and public showing
of the car to be at an early date.
Mr. Ransom said he and other
dealers in the area were confi dent
that the 1946 Chevrolet will main-
tain the record of top volume sales,
which Chevrolet reached in 10 of
the last 11 prewar years of automo-
bile production, to meet the unprece-
dented pent-up demand for new cars.
Throughout the war period, car
owners have been forced to get
along with their old automobiles. At
the same time dealers have expended
every effort to service these cars, and
to keep them rolling for the duration.
100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15, 1920
Oregon Must Have a Port Equal
to Any Port on the Pacifi c Coast.
Initiative measure No. 310 on the
ballot gives to the Port of Portland
means to create such a port. The
primary object of this bill is to fur-
nish the means to insure the opening
and maintaining of a 30 foot chan-
nel from Portland to the sea and of
building and establishing port facili-
ties at the City of Portland suffi cient
to handle the foreign and coastwise
shipping of that port. The cost of this
improvement will be met by the peo-
ple living within the boundaries of
the Port of Portland.
The passage of this bill means
lower rates for the products of Ore-
gon in reaching the markets of the
world and a consequent greater
profi t to the producer. This is the
most important and the most valu-
able measure that has ever been put
up to the voters of the interior por-
tions of the state.
— Oregon Port Development
League, G. S. O’Neal, Secretary
BY THE WAY
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Stokes Landing off ers senior meals
Chicken, fi sh and beef on menus
The Stokes Landing Senior Center will offer meals
to go beginning on Monday, Oct. 26. The meals will be
prepared at the senior center, 150 Columbia Lane in Irri-
gon, and will be served in drive-thru fashion on-site.
Pick-up will be between noon and 12:30 p.m. each
Monday of the month. Payment will be accepted with
correct change only or by check. Cost per meal is $4 for
those 60 years of age and over, and $5 for individuals
under 60.
Those wanting a Monday meal must call 541-922-
3334 by 3 p.m. on the Friday preceding the Monday
meal, beginning Friday, Oct. 23. Leave a name, number
of meals ordered and a phone number.
For more information, call the senior center at
541-922-3603.
The Harkenrider Senior Activity Center‘s take-
out and delivery menu for Thursday, Oct. 22, is baked
chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, veggies and dessert.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, will be baked fi sh, pea salad, fruit and
dessert. For a Meals on Wheels delivery in Hermiston,
call 541-567-3582 before 10 a.m. to place an order. To
pick up a meal from the center at 255 N.E. 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.
The Boardman Senior Center is now providing meal
delivery. Meals are $4 paid upon delivery. Call 541-481-
3257 to order. The Boardman menu for Thursday, Oct. 22
is roast beef and gravy, mashed potatoes, salad or veg-
gie and cake. Tuesday, Oct. 27, is hot turkey sandwiches,
mashed potatoes and gravy, salad, veggies and dessert.