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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022
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Adriana Coleman, 17, is a
senior, and was helping the stu-
dents on the tables outside the
high school building.
“As a student leader, I am set-
ting an example for the students
at earlier stages at school to
come back to normal after the
pandemic hit in 2020,” she said.
Adriana is a basketball player
at school and is looking forward
to seeing more students engag-
ing with extra-curricular activ-
ities and seeing the community
attending games.
“I’m a captain in the team
and everybody calls me ‘Dri,’”
she said, “and I plan to stay in
Oregon and major in marketing
at college.”
The district reported 5,482
students registered for the
school year.
Tallman also accuses
Umatilla Electric Coopera-
tive of working with Ama-
zon to take his family’s land.
He and his parents own a
coffee shop in Boardman in
which they sell their fruits
and vegetables.
“Amazon Web Services
has moved in right next
door and has teamed up
with UEC, by using the law
of eminent domain, to take
my parents’ land away from
them. They intend to use the
land to put in a 230 kilovolt
power line to deliver electric-
ity to their business,” he said.
According to Tallman, his
family offered to work with
UEC and Amazon to find
a way to compromise and
benefit both of them.
“They would rather just
take the land for their own
personal use,” he com-
plained.
Tallman said he remem-
bers that around 1994 he
met Wenholz and they used
to play basketball together.
“I still consider Jeff a
friend of mine, but he thinks
he is above all of us,” he said.
Wenholz, who lives in
Irrigon, has served on the
Morrow County Solid Waste
Advisory Committee and
Morrow County Planning
Commission. Additionally,
he served on the Morrow
County Umatilla Chemical
Depot Citizens Advisory
Commission for 11 years.
He has also served for the
past five years on the Mor-
row County Budget Com-
mittee, and since 2019, on
the Good Shepherd Medical
Center Board of Trustees.
He narrowly defeated Me-
lissa Lindsay of Heppner for
Position 2 on the Morrow
County Board of Commis-
sioners in the May 17 pri-
mary election.
Lindsay received 1,287
votes to Wenholz 1,313, with
six write-ins, for a total cast
of 2,606. Wenholz received
50.4% to Lindsay’s 49.4% in
the final tally. He received a
majority of votes, plus one;
the number required to win
was 1,304.
The race did not qualify
for an automatic recount,
despite Wenholz’s thin mar-
gin of victory, county Clerk
Bobbi Childers reported at
the time. To qualify requires
a difference of just a fifth of
1% of all votes, or about 5.2
in this case, well below Wen-
holz’s 26-vote advantage.
That’s just under a 1% differ-
ence. Childers certified the
results on June 8.
THINK BIG SPACE IN PROGRESS
Hermiston School District
also is a couple of months away
from opening its first Think Big
Space in partnership with Blue
Mountain Community College
and Amazon Web Services. The
space at Hermiston High will
provide enhanced classrooms
for students in grades three to
post high school to participate
in interactive learning experi-
ences, grounded in STEAM.
Umatilla High School, the
SAGE Center in Boardman and
the Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion near Pendleton also have
the AWS spaces that promote
science, technology, engineer-
ing, arts and math.
“At first we will promote ac-
tivities to elementary and high
school students, but we are go-
ing to include middle school-
ers soon after,” explained Katie
Corral, science instructional
lead teacher for the district.
“This way we plan to integrate
knowledge from an early age.”
The space still is receiving
equipment and will have 22
state-of-the-art computers in
the computer lab to increase the
students’ technology literacy
in the areas of coding, robot-
ics, machine learning and in-
ternet-connected devices. The
space also includes 3D printers,
full color plotters to print post-
ers and laser engravers.
John Fisher, Hermiston
High’s engineering and robotics
teacher, said he was excited to
give a tour to seven high school
students who will volunteer as
monitors in the space.
“One of the most exciting
projects is the AWS Deep-
Racer,” Fisher said.
This autonomous 1/18th
scale race car is designed to test
reinforcement learning models
by racing on a physical track.
Using cameras to view the track
Photos by Yasser Marte/Hermiston Herald
Students work on 3D print mapping Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, at the Think Big Space in Hermiston High School on the first day of the new fall term.
Above left: Layla Lucas, 17, a senior at Hermiston High School, learns about the functions of 3D printers Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, during the school’s
lab tour at its Think Big Space. “What I love here the most is to be able to be in control of what I create,” Lucas said. Above right: Students line up
Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, at the administration office at Hermiston High School on the first day of fall term.
Above left: Hermiston High School atudents arrive on the first day of school Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as they pick up their new schedules and nav-
igate their way to classrooms. Above right: Adriana Coleman, 17, a senior varsity basketball player and student leader, was helping her fellow
classmates Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, with their school schedules in Hermiston High School. “As a student leader, I am setting an example for the
students at earlier stages at school to come back to normal after the pandemic hit in 2020.”
and a reinforcement model to
control throttle and steering,
the car shows how a model
trained in a simulated environ-
ment can be transferred to the
real-world environment.
One of the monitors, senior
Jaxson Gribskev, 17, was de-
signing rooms for an engineer-
“As a student leader, I am setting an example for
the students at earlier stages at school to come back
to normal after the pandemic hit in 2020.”
— Adriana Coleman
ing class in one of the desk tops
in the Think Big computer lab.
“I’m planning to study me-
chanical engineering after I fin-
ish high school,” he said.
Senior Laylah Lucas, also 17,
is a graphic designer and has
been creating products
for the high school in the last
few years.
“What I love here the most
is to be able to be in control of
what I create,” she said.
The school is opening the
Think Big Space on Oct. 25.
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