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Wallowa.com
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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Show & Shine: Event brings much show and shine
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the fender off the truck and
making another one,” he
said. “I only had one shot to
get it cut off the right spot
and get it mated with the
other, but we got it done.”
The truck has much of
its history documented in
photos, something Vernam
takes pride in, as it took a lot
of work fi nding the photos,
combing though the family’s
archives. He even found one
of his great grandfather with
the truck.
Other than a couple of
pieces of trim, the pickup is
fi nished.
“It’s just as original as
we could possibly do it,”
he said. “How many vehi-
cles do you see that last fi ve
generations?”
On Saturday, hundreds
came out to show their
appreciation of the vehicles
and to vote for their favor-
ites. Thirteen food and craft
vendors were very busy
catering to customers while
emcee, Brett Hays, kept the
crowd informed.
After the awards cere-
mony, a number of the car
owners participated in a
cruise down to Wallowa Val-
ley Senior Living in Enter-
prise as well as the the Alpine
House in Joseph which
thrilled residents to no end.
Doug Crow, one of the
originators of the festival,
called this year’s event one
of the best ever, with 130
vehicles entered into the
books. Only the inaugural
Show and Shine event has
had more entrants, at 134.
Crow also noted that atten-
dance by people outside the
area more than fulfi lled his
expectations.
The 50/50 raffl e proved a
boon for everyone involved
as a lucky California fam-
ily on vacation walked away
with $820 for their half.
“I told them to make sure
and spend as much as they
could in Wallowa County,”
Crow said with a laugh.
Speaking of local, Crow
said that all awards and tro-
Photos by Ellen Morris Bishop
TOP A 1931 Packard 840 Phaeton, owned by Lew and Carol Baynes of Joseph, was among the many locally owned, stunningly restored vintage automobiles
featured at the Main Street Show & Shine car show on Aug. 16-17. LEFT Quinton and Malia Mahew of Enterprise were more enthralled with Kodiak, a 9-week-
old Great Dane puppy, than with any of the shiny vehicles at the Show and Shine. Lots of people brought their dogs to both the Friday night concert and the
Saturday car show. CENTER Casey Kiser and the Jakewalk Saints played blues and rock and bluesy rock from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday in Warde Park, Enterprise, as
part of the Show and Shine kickoff . RIGHT This 1935 Ford 2-door sedan is nothing but fl ame.
phies for the event were
crafted by local artisans.
Crow also wanted to offer
special thanks to Candy
Bunn for all her work in put-
ting the event together.
It seems like Dick Stan-
gel and I get all the credit for
this,” he said, “but Candy
puts in six or seven months
a year getting this together.
Without her, it would never
get off the ground.”
Top three award winners:
Kid’s Choice” 1947
Dodge
Power
Wagon
owned by Matt Sirrine of La
Grande.
People’s Choice: 1935
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Chevy 3-window coupe
owned by Rick and Diana
Arnett of Kendrick, Idaho.
Best in Show: A 1940
Willy’s Coupe owned by
Larry Soule’ of Roseburg.
Soule won the Furthest Trav-
eled Award at 500 miles.
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Bennett
616 W. North Street, Enterprise, OR 97828
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Thank You to the:
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28 Local Business Sponsors
30+ Volunteers
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Without all of you we would not be able to put
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