2B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021
OUTDOORS & REC
Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show goes on
■ It’s one of the few major events in
Deschutes County during the pandemic
By Brenna Visser
The (Bend) Bulletin
REDMOND — The
Central Oregon Sportsmen’s
Show at the Deschutes
County Fair & Expo Center
this weekend is one of the
fi rst major events the county
has seen since the pandemic
began a year ago.
Trey Carskadon, who does
marketing for O’Loughlin
Trade Shows, which puts on
the event, said the company
is making several changes
to the long-running annual
event to make it as safe as
possible in the COVID-19
era.
“Our goal from the outset
is to create a zero transmis-
County moved into moderate
risk under the state guidelines
on Friday, Carskadon said the
company is not considering
sion environment,” Carska-
increasing its threshold.
don said Tuesday, March 9.
“Unlike sporting events or
Aside from masks and so-
concerts, we can control the
cial-distancing requirements,
fl ow of people, and we intend
the biggest change is a limit
to,” he said.
on the number of people who
The event has also made
will be allowed into the show
other changes like widening
at any one time. The event is
the space of aisles between
being held in four-hour shifts
exhibits, providing plastic
to manage the number of
barriers between booths and
people in the facility.
holding about one-third of
Dean Guernsey/The (Bend) Bulletin the whole event outdoors,
For example, a ticket
Travis Barker and Shelley Howell of Augusta, Montana,
holder can only go to the
Carskadon said.
set up the Ford Creek Guest Ranch booth on Tuesday,
show within that four-hour
“We’re just trying to run
March 9 before the Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show at our business and keep people
window.
When that window closes, the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in Redmond.
those patrons are fi ltered out
and a new group can attend. company has lowered the
Sportsmen’s Show could
Under state guidelines, the
threshold to 2,000 people,
see between 6,000 and 7,000
event could have more than Carskadon said.
people on a Saturday, he said.
4,600 people at once, but the
In a normal year, the
Even though Deschutes
safe,” Carskadon said.
The Sportsmen’s Show and
the county have drawn criti-
cism by some in the commu-
nity after it was announced
the vaccination clinic held at
the fairgrounds would have
to move its operations out to
accommodate the show.
Carskadon said he was
sorry that people were upset,
and that this show has had
these dates on the books for
years.
“Nobody ever asked us to
move (the dates); nobody ever
asked us to modify them,”
Carskadon said, referring to
the county.
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