PHOTO COURTESY OF ODOT
Don Kendall, a longtime ODOT employee, was memorialized with the installation of a new sign designating a stretch of Highway 395 in his honor.
Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) maintenance crews installed two signs along a section of Highway 395 north of Ukiah designating the route as the Don Kendall Memorial Highway. The brown informational signs are located at mile post 23.66-B near the junction of Highway 74 and at mile post 48.60-B near the junction of Highway 244.
On May 18, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, signed into law SB 628, a bill chiefly sponsored by Sen. Bill Hansell (R-Athena) and Rep. Greg Barreto (R-Cove). SB 628 designates a portion of U.S. Highway 395, between Highway 74 and Ukiah as the Don Kendall Memorial Highway. It also required ODOT to erect and maintain the memorial designation signage along the route.
Kendall, a longtime resident of Eastern Oregon, was a transportation maintenance specialist for ODOT for 30 years. He was killed on the job on July 22, 2014.
