WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A7 FAIR Umatilla County Fair 2015 in pictures STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Cate Doherty, left, and Alejandro Montellano, right, help Addison McClure hold Cate’s rabbit Pippin at the Umatilla County Fair. STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART Kari Tripp, left, chows down on an apple pie without using her hands in the pie eating contest at the Umatilla County Fair on Saturday. The 1-year-old from Weston À nished in second place behind Matthew Demianew, a 14-year-old from Pendleton. STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST Safety harnesses keep the riders in their seats, but can’t keep the riders’ hair, or stomachs, in place Saturday, Aug. 15. The more daring carnival attendees at the Umatilla County Fair sampled rides like the Power Surge, which sent riders on a twisting, Á ipping, spinning Á ight high over the fairgrounds. STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART Front row from left, Umatilla County Fair court chaperone Machelle Watts holds a balloon for Dex Jones, a 5-year-old from Pendleton, as princess Catie Krumbah Kuhar holds a tape measure during the fair watermelon seed spitting contest Saturday. Jones spit a seed 11-feet, 7-inches in the contest. From left, 10-year-old Lilly Wallace, from Hermiston, meets the 2015 Umatilla County Fair Court princesses Elizabeth Olsen, 17, Pendleton, Kaleigh Waggoner, 17, Pilot Rock, Sevana Patrick, 16, Hermiston, and Catie Krumbah Kuhar, 17, Milton- Freewater, on Friday at the fair. STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Rhea Flores applies an airbrushed tattoo to a customer at the Umatilla County Fair.