REGION
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
ECHO
Corn Maze open for business
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Fall has officially arrived
in Echo with the opening
of the Echo Corn Maze &
Pumpkin Patch.
Forty-five minutes into
Saturday’s opening day
no one had shown up yet,
but organizers weren’t that
worried.
“The first day’s always
quieter,” Gina Tyhuis said.
“It’s Saturday and people
like to sleep in.”
She was working with
Val Anctil and Jeff Lorton to
arrange hay bales and corn
stalks into a photo backdrop
for visiting groups as they
waited for the first visitors to
arrive.
The Tyhuis family started
the corn maze three years
ago, with the help of some
friends. The maze at 100 N.
Dupont St., across from Echo
Ridge Cellars, takes about
an hour to get through. The
site also features a zipline,
pumpkins for sale, fire pits
for groups to rent, a hay bale
maze for young children and
a haunted scare path on select
evenings.
Melissa Lambert and
her husband were putting
together the hay bale maze
Saturday morning, sur-
rounded by pumpkins and
sunflowers.
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
Gina Tyhuis, left, Jeff Lorton and Sierra Hermsen create a photo backdrop at the
Echo Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch on Saturday.
“I planted 3,500 pump-
kins in my back yard by
seed,” Lambert said. “We
hand-planted every single
pumpkin.”
She said she had also gone
over every part of the maze
with caution tape, looking for
any dangerous spots.
Lambert said she became
friends with Tyhuis while
babysitting her kids and
began helping out with the
maze that way. One of her
favorite things about living in
Echo is how community-ori-
ented and family friendly it
is, she said. The corn maze
is a good example of those
qualities.
“We got a few sponsors
this year,” she said. “Every
year is getting bigger and
bigger. It’s exciting.”
Tyhuis said the hay bales
were donated by Jeff Spike,
and the maze itself was
designed and cut by Barton
Laser Leveling.
“We definitely wouldn’t
have a corn maze without
Barton,” she said.
Admission is $10 for
a day pass or $12 for the
haunted path. Regular hours
for the corn maze are Tues-
day through Thursday 2-6
p.m., Friday 2-10 p.m., Sat-
urday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and
Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The
haunted path, known as the
Field of Screams, is open
Oct. 13, 20, 27 and 31 from
7-9 p.m. The normal corn
maze isn’t haunted.
“We don’t scare the whole
thing,” Tyhuis said. “A lot of
people don’t like to go if they
don’t like to get scared, so
this way they have a choice.”
She said it’s mostly local
FFA students who do the
scaring, but she has gotten
out there herself on occasion
and it was fun.
For more information
about special events, group
rentals, field trips and rules
visit echocornmaze.com or
find them on Facebook.
a large river cruise boat
that was coming downriver
toward him.
Deputies went on the
river in a jet boat, and found
the disabled boat about half
a mile west of the mouth
of the Umatilla River. They
safely towed the boat and its
occupants to the Umatilla
Marina.
The sheriff’s office
advised people to make sure
their boats are in good con-
dition before going on the
water, and to take all nec-
essary safety equipment,
such as life jackets, lights,
and sound-producing equip-
ment. Those who want to
have their boats inspected
before going on the water
can contact the sheriff’s
office at 541-966-3650 to
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Nationwide test of Wireless
Emergency Alert System
scheduled for Wednesday
East Oregonian
Boater rescued on Columbia River
The Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office rescued one
person after his boat stopped
working Friday evening.
The boater was safe and was
not injured. Around 5:30
p.m. Friday, sheriff’s dep-
uties responded to a call on
the Columbia River west of
the Interstate 82 bridge, for
a boater whose motor had
stopped working. The boater
said he was near the ship-
ping lane on the river, and
was paddling away from the
main river channel to avoid
East Oregonian
A nationwide test of the
Wireless Emergency Alert
System should send a text
message to everyone’s cell-
phone at 11:18 a.m. Pacific
Time on Wednesday.
Two minutes later, the
regular Emergency Alert
System will also broadcast
a message via radio and
television.
A Wireless Emergency
Alert can be used to warn
citizens of danger via text
message. The system has
been put in place since
2012, but according to the
Oregon Office of Emer-
gency Management, a
nationwide test has never
been tried.
“A nationwide WEA
message would only be
used in the most extreme
emergency
situation,”
the OEM wrote in a news
release.
The text being sent out
Wednesday will have the
Baked goods sale
benefits student
book clubs
PENDLETON — For
some tasty treats and to help
support elementary school
book clubs in the Pendleton
School District, the Friends
of the Pendleton Public
Library is hosting its annual
bake sale.
heading “Presidential alert”
and state “THIS IS A TEST
of the National Wireless
Emergency Alert System.
No action is needed.”
There is no way to opt
out.
Any cellphone from a
participating carrier that is
turned on between 11:18-
11:48 a.m. should receive
the test message from
FEMA. The EAS will be
broadcast for one minute
via television, cable and
radio stations at 11:20 a.m.
Both systems have been
used in the past for regional
or local warnings, such as
an AMBER alert for miss-
ing children. In January,
Hawaii accidentally used
the system to send a mes-
sage stating (falsely) that
a nuclear missile was
inbound.
The test was originally
scheduled for Septem-
ber, but was postponed to
Wednesday due to Hurri-
cane Florence.
The event is Thursday
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the
Pendleton Public Library,
502 S.W. Dorion Ave.
Those with a culinary flair
are invited to donate baked
goods.
Each year, the library
friends hosts the event to
pay for books for the pro-
gram, which is open to sec-
ond- through fourth-graders.
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