On June 5 in ...
* 1982 -- Kennewick High's Pam Board finished second at the 10th annual state heptathlon meet in Lacey, scoring 5,005 points. Kamiakin's Camille Harding placed third with 4,912 points. Aberdeen's Debra Larsen won the event with 5,311 points.
* 1980 -- The consolidation proposal that would have geographically realigned the AA Mid-Valley and AAA Big Nine leagues is now a dead issue. By a 10-6 vote, the involved school districts voted down the proposal at a meeting in Sunnyside.
* 1969 -- In his From the Sidelines column, Herald staffer Tom Burnside reported that Los Angeles Times sports columnist Charles Maher took some jabs at Kennewick in a feature on former Tri-City baseball star Ted Sizemore. Maher wrote in part: "Sizemore was a catcher for the Tri-City Atoms, a Dodger farm club in the Northwest League ... in a place called Kennewick, Wash., a Columbia River town surrounded by bleak, rolling country. There is this to be said for Kennewick: it is not out of place in bleak surroundings" and "When they were at home, the Tri-City ballplayers stayed at a motel -- the Black Angus, I think it was called. Nothing fancy, even by Kennewick standards."
* 1968 -- Richland bowler Ken DeVine, 19, joined the Professional Bowlers of America summer tour. DeVine posted a house five-game record at Atomic Lanes with 1,201 and sported a 211 average in league play the previous year.
