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143rd Year, No. 193
REGONIAN
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2019
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WINNER OF THE 2018 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
WHISKY FEST
Pendleton
Bike Week
to thunder
into town
Wednesday
By BEN LONERGAN
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Thou-
sands of motorcycle enthu-
siasts will ride into Pendle-
ton this Wednesday for the
fi fth annual Pendleton Bike
Week and Northwest Moto
Show at the Pendleton Con-
vention Center.
While last year’s event
drew more than 16,000
attendees over the four-
day event, Pendleton Bike
Week co-founder Eric Fol-
kestad expects turnout to
exceed last year’s numbers.
“We don’t have the
smoke and hot weather
from last year, so I expect
a much better turnout,”
he said. “We have a lot of
interest from riders from
throughout the country,
we love Pendleton and it’s
been really good for us to
be here.”
In place of the annual
Sheriff Til Taylor Ride,
Pendleton Bike Week will
kick off with the “Ride With
the Raiders” event at the
Eastern Oregon Regional
Airport in Pendleton. The
event, a tribute to the Doo-
litte Raiders, will feature a
fl yover by a B-25 bomber
similar to those used in
the 1942 Doolittle Raid on
Tokyo, Japan. The plane is
set to touch down at the air-
port where it will be met by
a motorcycle hearse carry-
ing the names of all Oregon
service members who have
died in the line of duty.
This year, the North-
west Moto Show will fea-
ture a variety of motorcy-
cles spanning many years,
makes and models with
a new Sheriff Til Taylor
commemorative
Harley
Davidson expected to be a
major attraction.
Family day at Pendleton
Bike Week is Thursday and
will offer free admission
for Umatilla County resi-
dents and their families.
The Seattle Cossacks
Motorcycle Stunt and Drill
Team will perform Friday
and Saturday afternoon at
the convention center for
crowds.
Prior to the wrap-up
of Pendleton Bike Week
See Motorcycles, Page A8
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Post Malone performs during Saturday’s Pendleton Whisky Music Festival.
By WYATT HAUPT JR.
East Oregonian
P
SEE PAGE B3 FOR MORE WHISKY FEST PHOTOS
ENDLETON — A bet by con-
cert promoters on the appeal
of rap in a region where coun-
try music is king paid off Sat-
urday night as about 17,000
people fl ocked to Pendleton
Round-Up Arena to catch two of the
genre’s biggest names — Post Malone
and 50 Cent — at Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest.
The daylong event drew people
from across Oregon, as well as neigh-
boring states, on a beautiful sunny day
when the temperature hovered around
the high 80s only to cool off a bit and
give way to a star-fi lled evening sky
by the time Post Malone took the stage
amid much fanfare.
For some concertgoers, such as Jake
Thomas of Madras, the event marked
his fi rst visit to Pendleton. But it was
the second time he attended a concert
at which Post Malone was performing.
Thomas, who came to the show with
Bridget Neikirk of Bend, said the fi rst
time he saw Post Malone perform was
in Brisbane, Australia.
“It was just a random event,” said
Thomas in recalling a moment leading
up to the performance.
“OK. So let’s go see (American DJ)
Diplo and Post Malone ends up open-
ing for him. And I’m just like, ‘This
could be the best night of my … life.’”
Thomas and Neikirk were pumped
to be in the company of the thousands
See Whisky, Page A8
Music fest puts demand on Pendleton police
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
P
ENDLETON — Pend-
leton police offi cers
worked as human shields
for the main entertain-
ers Saturday night during
the Pendleton Whisky Music
Fest. Police Chief Stuart Rob-
erts said accommodating the
unusual request took every
offi cer he had on duty in the
Round-Up Arena.
“It seemed like each time
we pulled our people out of
the venue, we’d have a skir-
mish,” he said.
As many as 17,000 peo-
ple attended the event, now in
its fourth year, and a throng
of around 6,000 packed the
party pit. Police handled sev-
eral incidents of disorderly
conduct, he said, and when
offi cers could intervene they
escorted people from the fes-
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Police offi cers subdue a suspect during Saturday’s Pendleton
Whisky Music Fest.
tival and released them to
responsible people rather than
haul them to jail.
Pendleton offi cers and
Oregon State Police troop-
ers on bicycles worked the
event while security fell to
three companies. TCB Secu-
rity Services of Newport was
the main provider, and Elite
Security Professionals of
Salem also was on site. Rover
Security of Gresham, a staple
of local events, kept eyes on
the camp sites. Festival orga-
nizers also brought in a secu-
rity expert with the National
Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas,
Nevada, who created safety
plans and coordinated efforts
on the ground.
Rapper 50 Cent and head-
liner Post Malone had a num-
ber of safety concerns, Rob-
erts said, and he and his
department strove to meet
them. The most signifi cant
challenge came in delivering
the two entertainers from their
green rooms at the nearby
Pendleton Convention Center
to the backstage of the musi-
cal festival. The route wove
around next to the new areas
for campers, and Roberts said
there was concern someone
could run up to the vehicles.
See Police, Page A8
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