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FAIR IS ON A Nubian goat looks out of its pen on Tuesday in the large animal barn at the Umatilla County Fair. Staff photo by E.J. Harris WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2018 142nd Year, No. 198 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD HERMISTON UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR Backup critical on hectic late shift Sweating like a pig (and other animal myths) Three major incidents on June 4 scrambled officers from other agencies By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian It was an officer from Umatilla who found the suspect in a Hermiston stabbing. Aaron Zuwala was arrested early Monday, June 4, after several out-of- town officers, members of the major crime team help- ing Hermiston police on a hectic night, knocked on doors looking for someone who just stabbed two men near a storage unit on Kelli Boulevard. Between 9 p.m. June 3 and 7 a.m. June 4, three inci- dents took place in Herm- iston — the stabbing and two shootings — stretching Hermiston Police Depart- ment resources thin. During the initial response, the department relied on assis- tance from the major crime team, officers from neigh- boring agencies that help out Staff photo by E.J. Harris A Jersey-Guernsey cross calf sits in front of a fan in the large animal barn at the Umatilla County Fair on Tuesday in Hermiston. Protecting fair animals from the heat is an all-day job By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian See POLICE/8A A 4-H or FFA kid showing an animal at the fair has to have specialized knowledge about all sorts of things — including animal sweat. Knowing how different animals regulate their body temperature helps participants at the Umatilla County Fair keep their animals from overheating in temperatures that are expected to soar to as high as 110 degrees this week. Daytona Tracy of Hermiston, for exam- ple, is showing animals in every category of the “fur and feathers” barn, from guinea pigs to chickens. She said rabbits struggle the most in the heat, because they only have two small sweat glands in their heads and so their large, thin ears do all the work keeping them cool. “That’s their only heat regulation,” she said. Poultry, she said, shed heat through their wattles and combs but don’t sweat. And guinea pigs only sweat through the soles of their feet. “I think the ones that do the best in the heat are the ducks, because they have their ponds to swim in,” she said. Many of the rabbits in the small animal barn on Tuesday were snuggled up next to frozen water bottles quickly melting in the heat. Tracy said cool wet towels, misting animals with a spray bottle and feeding them frozen fruit also helped. See FAIR/8A PENDLETON National Night Out block parties spread out By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Jesselee Leachman flips hamburgers at his Na- tional Night Out block party Tuesday at Roy Ra- ley Park in Pendleton. Shauna Altman found a way to get her Pendle- ton neighborhood to turn out Tuesday for National Night Out. Altman lives near Kiwanis Park, 1800 S.E. Byers Ave., and she said a neighbor told her about the annual event and Pendleton’s shift from the police department hosting one central party to asking resi- dents to hold block or park parties. The Kiwanis Club volun- teered to play host at the park, which it did on its own last year. Altman said she want to get the word out to her neigh- bors about National Night Out. “So I just made a flier and made an ad for Facebook,” she said. Altman and fellow Pendle- ton elementary school teacher Lisa Bork set out with the fli- ers and discovered most homes See PARTIES/8A
