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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020
Students building home at Fieldstone Crossing
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
Hermiston High School
students are putting up walls
for the Columbia Basin Stu-
dent Homebuilding Pro-
gram’s seventh student-built
home since the program
began.
After a grant from the
state provided the seed
money for the fi rst home,
high school students in
west Umatilla County have
worked each year with men-
torship from area profes-
sionals to build a new home
in the Fieldstone Crossing
subdivision next to Armand
Larive Middle School.
“It gives them real life,
hands-on experience build-
ing a house,” teacher Curt
Berger said.
The money from each
home sale provides the fund-
ing for materials for the next
year’s project. Last year’s
home sold in August for just
over $400,000, according to
a news release from Hermis-
ton School District.
This year’s home got
started about a month
behind schedule because of
the complications to educa-
tion brought on by COVID-
19. But students are cur-
rently able to work on the
home outdoors, 6 feet apart,
in two cohorts of less than
10 students. This year, only
Hermiston students are
participating.
Berger said the homes
are “very high-end homes”
and people are always
impressed with the crafts-
manship of the students,
who are taught by Berger
and industry profession-
als, and subject to the same
inspections any newly built
house would face.
According to the news
release, the seventh addition
to Fieldstone Crossing will
be a 2,232-square-foot home
with three bedrooms, two
and one-half baths, and an
oversized three-car garage
able to accommodate a large
pickup truck with a 10 foot
Curt Berger/Contributed Photo
Students begin work on the seventh home built by the Columbia Basin Student Homebuilding
Program through the Hermiston School District.
PET OF THE
W EEK
Little Meno is about 2 years old, he is blind and
weighs less than 5 pounds. A fenced yard is a
must, and needs to be in a home where someone
is home with him because he cannot be in a crate
all day alone. Cannot be around children under
the age of 8. Likes to play with other dogs, so
another small, non-agressive dog would make a great
companion. No large dogs. He will require several visits
before adoption.
MEET
MENO
Curt Berger/Contributed Photo
At top, students begin framing the seventh home built by
the Columbia Basin Student Homebuilding Program through
Hermiston School District. Above, a student stands inside the
framing.
by 8 foot bay. The home will
be built to “above-code stan-
dards with Energy Trust of
Oregon, featuring enhanced
insulation, energy-effi cient
windows, sealed ductwork,
energy-effi cient
heating,
cooling and ventilation sys-
tems, envelope tightness
measures, energy-effi cient
lights, and appliances.”
For
more
informa-
tion about the student
home-building
program,
visit
columbiabasinstu-
denthomes.org.
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