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MUSIC: County gets slice of merchandise What does it pay to play?
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Coke, two of Diet Coke with
Splenda and 24 bottles of water.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
has the longest rider this year, at 40
pages, which lists 37 items for the
dressing room, from a jar of natural
peanut butter to eight bottles of ine
red wine to plenty of fresh coffee.
“Homemade cookies,” the rider
also notes, “are always appreci-
ated.”
The county, though, attaches a
ive-page addendum that supersedes
the riders and cuts out bunches of
the speciic requests, including the
booze.
“Purchaser” — which in these
cases is the county fair — “shall
provide well balanced meals
as advanced with production
manager,” according to the
addendum.
“Dressing
room
hospitality will be limited to snacks
and beverages. Purchaser will not
provide alcoholic beverages or
tobacco products, or any food or
beverage for off-site consumption.”
Umatilla County counsel Doug
Olsen said some artists have speciic
and expensive tastes in alcohol and
the county does not want the head-
ache of furnishing that.
He also said the county does not
ask others to provide libations for
bands, but contract language does
not prohibit another party from
doing that.
The county is giving 80 compli-
mentary tickets to the performers,
with The Bellamy Brothers and
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
each receiving 25.
The addendum also allows
the county to get a slice of sales
merchandise from the big names on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday night. The groups agree
to hand over 25 percent of gross
sales from T-shirts and other “soft
merchandise.” A Thousand Horses
and Brothers Osborne, though, also
agree to give the county 10 percent
of sales from compact discs and
other “hard merchandise.”
Olsen said that, overall, the
fair makes a little money. County
budget oficer Robert Pahl said this
year the fair budgeted expenses of
$1.15 million and revenues of $1.2
million.
A Thousand Horses
$30,000, 10 complimentary tickets
The county receives 25 percent of gross sales
from T-shirts and other “soft merchandise,”
and 10 percent of sales from recordings and
other “hard merchandise.”
The Bellamy Brothers
$10,000, 25 complimentary tickets
The county receives 25 percent of gross sales
from T-shirts and other “soft merchandise.”
Brothers Osborne
$20,000, 20 complimentary tickets
The county receives 25 percent of gross sales
from T-shirts and other “soft merchandise,”
and 10 percent of sales from recordings and
other “hard merchandise.”
Montez De Durango
$9,000
Tormenta De Durango
$500
Domador De La Sierra
Contract not available as of Wednesday
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
$65,000, 25 complimentary tickets
The county receives 25 percent of gross sales
from T-shirts and other “soft merchandise.”
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to a substation at the Port of
Morrow.
But Irene Gilbert, who
works with the Friends of
the Grande Ronde Valley
group that has opposed large
wind farms in the past, said
approving a wind farm without
a connection to the power
grid would create a dangerous
precedent. In addition, she said
there are no other develop-
ments that have committed to
connecting to a UEC-owned
line, and no guarantee there
ever will be.
“They are basically treating
UEC as a subcontractor, in my
mind,” Gilbert said. “That’s
not how the rules work.”
Gilbert argues the transmis-
sion line needs to be included
in the site certiicate applica-
tion to mitigate possible risk
for landowners. She plans to
ask the Department of Energy
for a contested case hearing on
the matter.
“I can’t see letting a prece-
dent like that happen,” Gilbert
said.
Only
parties
who
commented on the draft
proposed order are allowed to
participate in a contested case.
The deadline to request party
status is Friday, Aug. 26.
The Energy Facility Siting
Council has the inal say on
whether to grant a site certif-
icate for the project, taking
into consideration both the
proposed order and contested
case. If a site certiicate is
granted, Wheatridge will be
allowed to break ground.
At
500
megawatts,
Wheatridge would be the
second-largest wind farm
currently operating in Oregon.
Shepherds Flat Wind Farm
dwarfs all other developments
at 845 megawatts, operating in
Morrow and Gilliam counties.
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