Yakima Herald-Republic back issues from August 1998:
Naches parish builds on donation -- St. John's Catholic Church
Aug 01, 1998 ... NACHES - Talk about tithing. An anonymous $100,000 gift is helping build excitement - and anew fellowship hall - at St. John's Catholic Church. When the roof-raising (and the fund-raising) is all done, the 98-year-old church will have a 40-foot-by-60-foot addition, ...
Slice of Yakima -- Chernobyl kids enter world of business
Aug 01, 1998 ... ELLENSBURG - In addition to unspoiled food, warm baths and cozybeds, a group of Belorussian children is experiencing the thrill offree enterprise this summer. The seven youngsters, who are staying with local families as partof the Children of Chernobyl program, have launched their ...
Facts and Records
Aug 01, 1998 ... Yakima police District 1 Car prowl, 12:13 a.m., Thursday, Boca Del Rio. Car prowl, 8:19 a.m., Thursday, 200 block East E Street. Auto theft, 7:20 p.m., Thursday, 400 block Erickson Lane. Hit and run, 10:31 p.m., Thursday, 500 block North Second ...
Workers: UPS not honoring contract
Aug 01, 1998; ... Nearly a year after the United Parcel Service strike ended, thecompany and its union workers remain at odds. The division surfaced publicly on Friday when about 15 driversprotested outside the UPS facility in Yakima, claiming that thecompany is reneging on their new ...
Office hopefuls step up -- Candidates line up as filing week ends
Aug 01, 1998; ... A parade of surprise candidates marched into the campaign seasonFriday, setting up crowded races for the 4th Congressional District,the Yakima County Assessor's Office and the Klickitat County Boardof Commissioners as filing week drew to a close. The Reform Party will see its ...
Democrats steer clear of Mary Skinner
Aug 01, 1998; ... Yakima County's top Democrat said Friday the party will steerclear of the crowded race for moderate Republican Mary Skinner'sseat in the state House. Skinner, of Yakima, is being challenged for the GOP nomination tothe 14th Legislative District seat by conservative Republican ...
Effort aims at expanding consumer base
Aug 01, 1998 ... Guest Commentary By Steve Lutz A few weeks ago, the Washington Apple Commission's board ofdirectors decided to ask growers to increase the assessment onapples in order to expand the commission's consumer advertisingprogram. Since that time, the WAC's staff has traveled ...
Candidate Filings -- Here are the candidate filings for Yakima, Kittitas, and Klickitat counties through Friday. Incumbent denoted by (i).
Aug 01, 1998 ... CONGRESS 4th Congressional District (Adams, Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas,Klickitat, Okanogan and Yakima counties) (i) Doc Hastings, Pasco, RPeggy S. McKerlie, Wenatchee, RFM Gordon Allen Pross, Ellensburg, DRon C. Rouston, Benton City, ...
Growers group opposes assessment increase
Aug 01, 1998 ... Guest Commentary By Harold Winckler (EDITOR'S NOTE: The author declined to have his photo accompanythis article.) Washington Apple Growers for Common Sense came as a result of ahandful of growers who began to ask questions about the WashingtonApple Commission's ...
Farm-worker housing group meets to discuss state financing for projects
Aug 01, 1998 ... A group seeking solutions to the severe shortage of farm-workerhousing will recommend a combination approach involving statefinancing for new projects and greater regulatory reforms. Participants in the Farm Worker Housing Forum met Friday inYakima to develop strategies that will ...
Letters to the editor
Aug 01, 1998 ... Another use To the editor - In reference to Ms. Welniak's letter of July 30questioning the need for yet another upscale hotel. Indeed! Perhapsthat federal grant could be used for things that Yakima reallyneeds. How about the recent urgent need for migrant housing? Nowthere's ...
Death Notices
Aug 01, 1998 ... June M. (Clary-Rossow) Cort June M. (Clary-Rossow) Cort, 84, of Yakima died Thursday. Mrs. Cort was born in Rantoul, Ill. She was a diamond salespersonfor 24 years and had worked for Weisfields Jewelry and Zales Jewelrybefore retiring in 1977. Survivors include her husband, ...
Yakima-Tieton irrigators should get full service soon
Aug 01, 1998 ... Full water service should be restored to Yakima-Tieton IrrigationDistrict water users by Tuesday, the district's manager saidFriday. The 27,000-acre district has lived with water rationing sinceJuly 23 when heavy rain undermined a section of the district canaleast of Windy Point ...
Sally Nardone of Maltby shines the door windows on a 1938 Chevy bus that her husband found in the Tri-Cities area.
Aug 01, 1998 ... Staff photo by Kim Eiselein This photo ran with ...
"We take the aircraft to the limit' -- Soaring with the Snowbirds
Aug 01, 1998; ... They've got the moxie of cliff divers, the grace of synchronizedswimmers and the steel-lined stomachs of luge sliders. And on top ofthat, they're a gosh-darn friendly lot. The Snowbirds, Canada's precision military aerobatics team, willperform a 30-minute show of gut-flopping ...
Kiwanian heads to state meeting the hard way: 300 miles on foot
Aug 01, 1998 ... His climb to the summit of 19,000-foot Mount Kilimanjaro inAfrica isn't close to the challenge Earl Hill is taking on thismonth. Neither are his several ascents of Mount Rainier, according tothe 60-year-old retired banker from Buckley. What Hill is doing this month is making ...
Capt. Mike Ayling flies in the first line astern position during the Snowbirds' performance.
Aug 01, 1998 ... Staff photo by Gordon King This photo ran with story: "We take ...
Former cheerleader Kay Brown rallies Selah reunion -- Classes from 1930 to 1948
Aug 01, 1998; ... SELAH - When it comes to high school reunions, Kay Brown knowshow to put it all together. Each of the past few years, she has hunted down addresses, sentout numerous invitations and prepared an informal banquet at her ownhouse. "I got it down to a system," she said with a ...
Vintiques: A classic case of car fever
Aug 01, 1998; ... Shirley Fairbanks first learned about classic cars - and pranks -as a small child when her father sent her to the garage to grab the"elbow grease." She looked high and low, wanting desperately to beinvolved in her father's passion for his car. When she couldn't findthe elbow grease, the ...
[The Yakima International Air Fair schedule...]
Aug 01, 1998 ... The Yakima International Air Fair schedule, which is subject tochange, is as follows for today and Sunday: n 11:30: Skyhawks/Buffalo n 11:35: Canadian T-33 11:55: Bud Granley T-6 (15 minutes) nNoon: Canadian Skyhawks n 12:30: Buffalo Demo (10 minutes) n 12:45:Griffon Helo ...
ACLU member to attend Sunnyside City Council meeting and ask Chad Werkhoven to resign
Aug 01, 1998 ... SUNNYSIDE - At least one man has promised to again requestCouncilman Chad Werkhoven's resignation at Monday's City Councilmeeting. Though he's not scheduled for an appearance, Yakima resident AlMarquez has said he will ask Werkhoven to step down when citizenshave an opportunity ...
Group asks Chad Werkhoven to resign
Aug 01, 1998; ... SUNNYSIDE - Upping the ante in a two-week disagreement that hasonly further split this city's cultural divide, a local group Fridayasked for the resignation of Councilman Chad Werkhoven. Reading from a letter at a press conference that drew about 25people, David Silva, chairman of ...
Slade Gorton defends Interior bill against critics
Aug 01, 1998 ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Slade Gorton on Friday defended anInterior spending bill that has come under attack as anti-environmental, and he predicted President Clinton will sign it. The $13.4 billion bill authored by Gorton, R-Wash., is one of 13spending bills Congress must pass to ...
Briefs: Volunteer firefighter arrested in arsons -- Seattle man injured in motorcycle crash -- Ephrata dries out after flooding
Aug 01, 1998 ... Volunteer firefighter arrested in arsons PLYMOUTH - A volunteer firefighter, another man and a 12-year-old boy have been arrested for investigation in a series ofintentionally set fires, the Benton County Sheriff's Departmentreported Friday. Aaron A. Lewis, 22, a Benton ...
Legion suspends Columbia Basin for pulling out of the Senior Legion District baseball tournament earlier this week
Aug 01, 1998; ... Pulling out of the Senior Legion district baseball tournamentearlier this week will cost the Columbia Basin team a chance to playLegion ball next summer. State Legion chairman Gary George of Yakima said the Moses Lake-based team will be suspended for one year as required by ...
Parker Bridge reopened after small crack fixed
Aug 01, 1998 ... Yakima County Public Works engineers re-opened the bridge onParker Bridge Road, south of Union Gap, Friday afternoon afterworkers repaired a cracked weld in a bridge support plate. County officials closed the bridge Thursday morning afterinspectors discovered the crack during a ...
Newt Gingrich planning Hanford Reach float
Aug 01, 1998 ... Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and other congressionalRepublicans will journey down the Hanford Reach as part of an Aug.26 tour of Washington and Alaska. The trip is designed to allow the lawmakers to experience thelast free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River, while showing ...
Rain helps firefighters in the Bickleton area
Aug 01, 1998 ... The Associated Press Firefighters on Friday finished clearing a trail around an 18,500-acre fire that destroyed five homes near Bickleton. Authorities anticipated reopening the Goldendale Road throughBickleton and nearby Cleveland today and allowing the peopleevacuated from ...
Gary Lewis wins with help from Yakima friends
Aug 01, 1998; ... Each weekend when the best drivers in the region fire up theirengines on the Raybestos Northwest Tour, hoping anew that the raceat hand will be theirs, the reality is simply this: Gary Lewis hasthe best car. Throughout this long season, Lewis' 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix hasbeen ...
Tracy Toothe applies soap to a car at a recent carwash. While carwashes are popular as fund-raisers, some carwash owners say charities don't have to
Aug 02, 1998 ... follow the same regulations they ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: With Washington's cherries picked and the apple harvest on the horizon, thousands of migrant workers are making their move from one makeshift
Aug 02, 1998 ... camp to another, where the Yakima and Columbia rivers serve formany as their latrine, bathtub and laundromat. The luckier ones may find space in overcrowded trailers inMattawa or run-down motel rooms or outbuildings between Yakima andWentachee. Meanwhile, thousands of the state's ...
You gotta roll with the stunts -- YHR reporter Colleen Pohlig rode with pilot Eddie Andreini
Aug 02, 1998; ... "OK, you pull this if anything goes wrong," pilot Eddie Andreinitells me, pointing to the metal loop on my parachute vest, whichseems to be swallowing me whole. From his casual tone, he could have been talking about what hehad for breakfast instead of the possibility of me having ...
Herald-Republic reporter Colleen Pohlig, left, prepares for a wild ride in a Strearman biplane with pilot Eddie Andreini.
Aug 02, 1998 ... Staff photo by Kirk Hirota This photo ran with ...
Boeing shows off vision of new fighter -- Joint Strike Fighter Program
Aug 02, 1998; ... Retired fighter pilot Chip McNees was having no trouble drawing acrowd Saturday at the Yakima Air Fair, and he never even left theground. "It's been a pretty steady stream of pilots, mostly, and aviationenthusiasts," said McNees, now a business development manager at TheBoeing ...
Crime can take a hike on Night Out -- National Night Out
Aug 02, 1998 ... Neighbors from Sunnyside to Naches will get together Tuesdayevening to renew acquaintances, share a cold drink and recommitthemselves to giving crime in their communities the boot. The annual National Night Out crime-prevention event will be heldin most communities in Yakima ...
Big planes, big fun at the Yakima Air Fair
Aug 02, 1998; ... Wide-eyed and awestruck, young Andrew Palomino had never seen anairplane so big. "That's bigger than a house," the 7-year-old Fresno, Calif., boysaid Saturday, staring up at the massive C-141 B Starlifter as heclimbed down out of its cargo bay. "No," said Palomino's cousin, ...
Yakamas grant access -- Stray dogs getting out of hand in projects-- county will help
Aug 02, 1998; ... Monday marks a new effort to address stray dogs in and aroundYakama Nation housing projects. An agreement between the county and the Yakama Nation HousingAuthority that took effect Saturday gives county animal controlofficers their first access to the Yakama housing projects, ...
Valley man served in original rescue squadron -- Bill Hambelton
Aug 02, 1998; ... For 79-year-old Bill Hambelton, a little history came to theYakima International Air Fair this weekend. From 1943 to 1945 during World War II, the Tieton native was astaff officer at Kodiak and Adak in the Alaskan Aleutian Islandchain with the 10th Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron ....
Death Notices
Aug 02, 1998 ... Laura (Jean) Guinn Laura (Jean) Guinn, 61, of Sunnyside, died Friday in Yakima.Guinn was born April 2, 1937, to Walter and Irene Schlosser. Shelived in Sunnyside most of her life. She and her husband, TroyGuinn, pastored a church in Manson for two years. Then they spent 38years ...
Letters to the editor
Aug 02, 1998 ... Licensing upgrade To the editor - I would like to take a moment to respond to therecent letter to the editor from Jeanene Sutton regarding theDepartment of Licensing. I assure you that we are aware of the problems faced by ourcustomers in Yakima DOL staff work hard to ...
Graffiti is more than just an expression of gang art
Aug 02, 1998; ... The article "Art from a different perspective," (June 28, 1998)about the Experimental Art and Music Festival intimates that graffiti isart. It featured spray-paint artist Dan Jefferson who stated thathis and his friends' work can be found on overpass walls and onabandoned, ...
Editorial -- Sunnyside controversy has now run its course
Aug 02, 1998 ... Now that everyone has weighed in on the controversy surrounding aMexican celebration in Sunnyside, a new course of action should becharted. Namely, it's time to move on. Let it drop. The whole fuss should never have started in the first place. Itbegan when a local group applied ...
In Basket -- Business Promotions, moves, etc...
Aug 02, 1998 ... Agriculture Several Yakima area residents recently graduated fromthe Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation's two-year leadership program. They are: JIM BLACK of Yakima, FRANKHENDRIX of Selah, LISA MARTINEZ of Moxee, PAUL MCDONALD of Wapato,SHAN SCHNEBLY of Ellensburg ...
Local Book Notess
Aug 02, 1998; ... Summer is a time of family reunions and Yakima's literary familyis no exception. A number of authors with connections to the Valley have alreadycome and more are scheduled at Sunshine and Wisteria Book Company,4001 Summitview Ave. Upcoming at 7 p.m. Saturday is a reading and ...
Anniversaries that ran August 2, 1998
Aug 02, 1998 ... McKinney - 25 years Randy and Jan McKinney of Yakima will celebrate their 25thwedding anniversary with an open house from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 12 at thehome of Hank and Lucille Kalmin. The event will be hosted by VickiMills, Sandy Duerie and Hank and Lucille Kalmin. Randy McKinney ...
Engagements that ran August 2, 1998
Aug 02, 1998 ... Prins-Newhouse John and Patsy Prins of Granger have announced the engagement oftheir daughter, Amber Prins, to Todd Newhouse of Sunnyside. He isthe son of Darrell and Debbie Stenburg of Grandview and Steve andMickey Newhouse of Sunnyside. The bride-to-be graduated from ...
Carwash managers say charities are fine, but ... enough is enough
Aug 02, 1998; ... Ryan Kirby and Dick Dreher have nothing against charitycarwashes. Any good cause deserves support, the Yakima commercialcarwash operators say. Kirby manages Richard Hernandez's Premier Carwash near North 40thAvenue and Fruitvale Boulevard, and Dreher owns GTO Carwash alongSouth ...
Weddings that ran August 2, 1998
Aug 02, 1998 ... Trull-Timmermans Lori Ann Timmermans and Jeremy Allen Trull were married June 27at Sunnyside Christian Reformed Church in Sunnyside. A reception washeld at Snipes Mountain Brewery. The bride is the daughter of Bill and Linda Timmermans ofSunnyside. The bridegroom's parents ...
Time to grieve -- Room to heal -- Step by step, children learn to live through devastating loss -- Annie Tran Center in Yakima
Aug 02, 1998 ... Farther along we'll know all about it Farther along we'llunderstand why Cheer up my friend Walk in the sunshine We'llunderstand it All by and by. - Anonymous By JANE GARGAS Of the Herald-Republic Survivors. Survivors in the purest sense. The ...
Sarah Jenkins column -- On agreeable language and a new spate of e- mail trivia
Aug 02, 1998 ... NOUN-VERB AGREEMENT got me into trouble the last time I wroteabout it, and it seems that other writers continue to struggle. The problem gets worse with nouns that may be either plural orsingular, depending on how they are used. Reader Hal Skinner, a regular "corrector" of ...
In the comfort of friends -- Annie Tran Center in Yakima
Aug 02, 1998 ... Sometimes healing comes from friends. Sami Russell, 11, and Jacob Miller, 12, met two years ago whenthey began attending twice-monthly support group meetings at AnnieTran Center in Yakima. They've discovered adults aren't the onlyones who dispense compassion at the center; it's ...
Born out of loss, Annie Tran centers growing on hope
Aug 02, 1998 ... Eight years ago the first Annie Tran Center for Grief and Lossopened in Prosser. It was named for, and inspired by, Peter and AnHang-Tran's daughter, who died when she was 6 of aplastic anemia, adisease that destroys bone marrow. Even though the center was bornof loss, it was ...
[Growers are not required to provide housing]
Aug 02, 1998 ... n Growers are not required to provide housing for their workers,as with any other business or industry. Growers who provide housing for 10 or more workers must belicensed by the state Department of Health. Roughly 200 of 1,000growers in the state have licenses. Licensed ...
Tent Camps -- Some in the cherry industry say they are better than nothing, but to others they are substandard housing.
Aug 02, 1998; ... When Victorino Martinez discusses his family's housing needs asthey make their annual migration through the farms of EasternWashington, he boils down the controversial issue of farm-workerhousing to a few basic issues. "Of course we'd prefer to rent a house, but they are ...
Grower: Building housing "grinding' -- Farm-worker housing
Aug 02, 1998; ... Royal City grower Earl Fromdahl sums up his venture into buildingfarm-worker housing rather concisely. "It's grinding bureaucracy and bureaucratic blackmail," saysFromdahl, describing his 7-month ordeal to build two dormitory-style complexes for his workers at Columbia Crown ...
Jeff Jefferson second in Tour main event -- Yakima Speedway
Aug 02, 1998; ... There's going to be a fair amount of repair work needed on thebody of Jeff Jefferson's red No. 50 car, which was on loan no less,but it will be happy work indeed. The young driver from Naches raced to his best career finish onthe Raybestos Northwest Tour last night, charging to ...
Growers say obstacles outnumber incentives -- Farm-worker housing
Aug 02, 1998; ... After building housing for his workers several years ago, Wapatofarmer Lon Inaba says he now understands why he's among the minorityof growers in Washington state to do so. "There were so many hoopsto go through," said Inaba, who farms 1,000 acres of vegetablesranging from asparagus to ...
Briefs: Mom, child survive, father dies in crash --- Death penalty sought in trooper killing---EPA investigating---Mattawa man hurt in motorcycle crash
Aug 02, 1998 ... Mom, child survive; father dies in crash HAINES, Ore. - A woman whose plane crashed in Oregon's ruggedElkhorn Mountains was rescued, along with her 2-year-old daughter,after she called for help on her cellular phone. Her husband, Brad Kirkpatrick, 44, of Eagle Creek, a ...
Monica Lewinsky letter details forgery
Aug 02, 1998 ... PORTLAND (AP) - A Lewis & Clark College employee says MonicaLewinsky may have never become a White House intern if he hadpursued his claim that she forged his signature to a phony job offerfor her lover. David Bliss provided The Oregonian with a copy of a three-pageletter ...
Submarines run silent and deep in Idaho lake -- Navy goes to the mountains to test advanced designs
Aug 02, 1998 ... "Missile submarines were by definition beyond any control fromland. Their entire mission was to disappear." -Tom Clancy, from hisnovel, "The Hunt for Red October" By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS The Associated Press BAYVIEW, Idaho - Dave Pierce likes to play with model ...
Ephrata dries from flooding
Aug 02, 1998 ... EPHRATA (AP) - The city is drying out from sudden heavy rainsthat flooded city streets. Intense rain that fell Friday morning prompted city workers tolay sandbags outside downtown buildings, said City Manager JimCherf. Many streets were completely flooded because storm ...
Defending the dams -- President Clinton, Congress battle to see who controls dams
Aug 02, 1998; ... WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt sledgehammered twodams in the West last month, underscoring the uncertain future ofsome of the nation's 75,000 dams. But Sen. Slade Gorton has a hammer, too - a gavel. As chairman of a Senate appropriations subcommittee, ...
Yakima Reds use shutout to gain final
Aug 02, 1998; ... SPOKANE - The Yakima Reds knew the task before them was simple.Defeat the Seattle Bigfoot and advance to the Northwest Divisionchampionship game of the USISL Northwest Division playoffs at JoeAlbi Stadium. As an added incentive, the winner would play fourth-seededOkanagan by ...
Perez holds Yakima Amateur lead
Aug 02, 1998 ... Manny Perez shot a 5-under-par 66 at the Elks Saturday to take atwo-shot lead into the final round of the Yakima AmateurInvitational golf tournament. Perez, who had a 74 in Friday's first round at SunTides, has a 36-hole total of 140. Scott Bullek followed his first-round 70 with ...
Wendell Simmons ascends Bear rotation -- Yakima reliever has been brought along carefully
Aug 02, 1998; ... are similar to the fable of the tortoise and the hare. Simmons has been brought along slowly, but he has steadilyimproved his performances coming out of the bullpen for the YakimaBears. The 6-foot-1 right-hander from Southern University has mademarked progress from his early ...