HERMISTON â As Cindy Middleton accepted Hermistonâs Woman of the Year award on Wednesday, Feb. 24, she thought back to the day in 1992 that her father called her while she was away at college to tell her that her own mother, Judy Bracher, was Woman of the Year.
âI was deeply touched by the way that Dad described what Mom was being recognized for,â she remembered.
Middleton was one of several people recognized during the Hermiston Chamber of Commerceâs annual Distinguished Citizens Awards banquet, along with Ken Huber as Man of the Year. The event, which usually hosts several hundred people in the Hermiston Community Center, was limited to award winners and their families this year and was held in a greenhouse at Bennett Botanical Gardens.
HERMISTON â The Hermiston City Council will discuss a utility rate increase during their Monday, Feb. 22, meeting.
A resolution adopted by the city council in 2018 dictated that water and sewer rates would go up according to inflation each year, starting in March 2020, in an attempt to create more gradual increases over time.
According to the agenda packet for the meeting, the increase will be based on the Engineering News-Record Construction Cost Index as of December of the preceding calendar year. That index rose by 2.15% from December 2019 to December 2020, meaning water and sewer rates in Hermiston are set to rise by that much, adding an average of $2.13 per month to the median customer s combined water and sewer bill.
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