»9
Special Edition MorrowCountyFair4 Rodeo Heppner Gazette-Times, Wednesday, August6,1997
Activities planned for fair
Safety Day
' ■ ■
'.i
«
Everyone is invited to come on
out to the fair on Friday, August
15, for Safety Day.
One of the activities planned for
Safety Day will be learning about
drug awareness and meeting the
Morrow County Sheriff’s K-9
cop.
The Heppner Fire Department
plans to have a "smoke house" so
kids can leam first hand what it’s
like to be in a smokey house and
leam the procedure for escaping.
The NRA has sent free
literature on gun safety for the
kids. Smokey the Bear will be
there to help kids leam about our
national forest and how to be safe
in the woods. Wally Wisecracker
will be on hand to teach us what
to do in case of an emergency.
"We hope you will come to the
fair and leam about safety
issues," said a fair spokesperson
Youth Parade
J
Bring your kids in at 11:30 a m.
Thursday to participate in the
Youth Parade. The theme this
year is "Boots, Jeans and
Cowboy
Dreams."
All
participants 18 and younger will
receive a silver dollar for
entering.
Twice Around Revue
I
The Twice Around Style
Review, set for Friday, August
15, is being held with the
cooperation
of the United
Church of Christ Thrift Store in
Condon and the South Morrow
County Neighborhood Center.
Come and enjoy the fun and
see the many outfits you can
find.
Seed Spitting Contest
The fair will have another
favorite back from last year. The
Watermelon
Seed
Spitting
contest is planned this year for
Saturday at 4 p.m. Come see
who can spit the farthest.
There will be three age groups
and prizes for the winners.
Street Dance & Karaoke
Friday and Saturday nights
there will be Karaoke at 9:30 at
the fairgrounds. Come kick up
your heels and sing along.
Pedal Power
Kids may want to start building
up their leg muscles for the Pedal
Power Tractor Driving Contest,
sponsored by Pioneer Implement
of Hermiston on Wed., Aug. 13,
at 5 p.m.
Pioneer Implement donates
their time and furnishes all the
prizes for this popular contest.
Master Gardener
clinic slated for fair
The Blue Mountain Master
Gardeners are conducting their
annual Morrow County Fair
Plant Clinic at the Morrow
County Fair.
If you have any questions
about gardening, a garden
problem, weed or pest bring it to
the fair on Thursday, August 14,
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m..
The booth will be set up in the
picnic area.
For more
information, call the Morrow
County Extension office, (541)
676-9642.
Fair phone numbers
The telephone number for the
fair office is 676-9474. The 4-H
office at the fairgrounds during
fair week is 676-9451.
Plenty to eat at the county fair
Jan Coe and Pam Piper are once
again organizing a busy crew
this year to help feed the hungry
Monday through Saturday at the
4-H Snack Shack during the
Morrow County Fair and Oregon
Trail Pro Rodeo August.
On their menu this year are the
usual hamburgers, chicken strips,
nachos and fries but this year
they are also adding a variety of
sub sandwiches to their menu.
They are also open for breakfast
Thursday through Saturday.
Shalimar will back this year with
his popular chicken fajitas,
chicken
or beef kabobs,
Hawaiian chicken and fried nee.
New to the fair this year but not
to Heppner is Bernard Lind.
Bernard has been selling elephant
ears, caramel apples, frozen
chocolate covered bananas,
cotton candy and popcorn during
St Patnck's weekend for several
years and this year he is also
going to be joining us at the fair.
CR's Hawaiian Ice Co. will
have available fresh juice, apple
cider, tropical tea, Hawaiian
Coffee, shaved ice and Italian
sodas for a nice cool, refreshing
treat.
The Heppner Nazarene Church
will be selling German sausages
and sauerkraut.
Of course in the middle kitchen
fairgoers will be able to purchase
delicious homemade pie from the
senior citizens and stuffed baked
potatoes from
Soroptimist
International of Heppner.
Oregon's Best
prizes arrive
The prizes for the contest
winners of the Oregon’s Best
recipes have arrived. Mugs, t-
shirts, hats and coupons are
some of the items that
participants will win.
Oregon's Best recipes and
requirements are found on pages
50-59 of the Morrow County
Fair Premium Book Recipes
include
appetizers,
breads,
cookies, cakes and pickles and
there will even be a watermelon
seed
spitting
competition
sponsored by the Hermiston
Watermelon
growers
on
Saturday, Aug. 16, at 4 p.m .
Fair Committee busy getting fair ready
. • *< •
The Morrow County Fair
Committee has been busy the
past months getting ready for the
1997 Morrow County Fair.
The Fair Committee was in the
St. Patrick’s Day parade in March
handing out information on their
new project this year. The All
Alaskan Racing Pigs.
The new project has been
interesting and a challenge for
the committee members.
The committee gave out pig
programs and schedules at five
parades hoping to get people to
come to the fair and rodeo to
watch the entertainment. Joe
Yocom furnished his time and
team for the committee at some
parades.
The committee also had a new
fair sign made which was put up
by Larry Kennedy.
Committee members decided
to see how artistic they were by
making banners to hang on the
hall and making schedules for
display
The committee said they
enjoyed listening and reading
different literature on performing
acts and inviting them to come to
the fair.
The committee would like to
hear comments on the fair this
year and ideas for next year's
fair.
Everyone is invited to look at
the entertainment schedule for
more information on local talent
performing this year.
New open class
category for fair
A new classification will be
found in several open class
departments this year.
The
professional category has been
formulated this year to enable
professionals to display their
items for the public to see and
enjoy. These exhibits will not be
judged.
A “professional" is defined in
the premium book as "one who
frequently accepts money for the
teaching or selling of an item".
31MWZ
Relaxed pit Cowboy Cut Jeans
The Western Originar’
EVERYBODY'S HOMETOWN STORE
Hermiston
567-5591
4
Milton-Freewater
938-5551
Pendleton
276-7611
Í
;
£
-,