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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 COMMUNITY Swim team talent show earns more money than last year Tiboni wins top honor again BY SEAN HART HERMISTON HERALD Musicians and dancers took the stage at the Hermis- ton High School auditorium Saturday raising funds for the swim team, and the audience voted singer Corrina Tiboni as the best performer for the second consecutive year. Tiboni, who was accom- panied by pianist Josh Rist, said she spent a month prac- ticing the song “I Have Noth- ing” for the fourth annual HHS Swim Team Variety Show, and this year’s compe- tition went well. “I thought it was really good, and I had some really good competitors that were GH¿QLWHO\ WDOHQWHG DQG GH- served to win, too,” she said. “I never expected to even win last year, let alone two years in a row. It’s really crazy.” The contest featured 34 performers, and audience members voted with their wallets, giving $186.33 on behalf of Tiboni. She won the $50 top prize. The $25 sec- ond prize was awarded to the Filipino American Commu- nity Dancers, who generated $157.91 from the audience. Tiboni said she started singing when she was about 7 SEAN HART PHOTOS The Filipino American Community Dancers perform ‘Tinikiling,’ which won second place at the Hermiston High School swim team’s annual talent show Saturday. years old in church. “Singing, I guess, is just the one thing that I love,” she said. “When I’m either happy, sad, angry, surprised, singing, and music in general, is always just there to comfort me or to make me even more happy. It’s my passion.” Tiboni is in three HHS choirs and said she enjoys performing. “I love being able to just, even for one moment, show someone not necessarily my own talent but how beautiful it can be,” she said. “I just like being able to give that to other people, as well.” HHS swimming coach Kevin Hamblin said he was impressed with the talent at the show. “I love this fundraiser be- cause, four years ago when ZH ¿UVW VWDUWHG LW ZDV RQH of those things that I’ve nev- er been around a stage and performance, and somebody said, ‘Oh, you should try it,’ because they used to have (a talent show),” he said. “Now, I look forward to it because we have some great perfor- mances. It’s just amazing watching the talent that those kids have.” He said the event raised $3,687.65 this year, $600 more than last year, and the funds will be used to help offset the $5,000 in transpor- tation costs the team incurs each season. “We have the highest bud- get for transportation in the high school because we trav- el to Pendleton and swim at Blue Mountain Community College every single day, and From left, Remington and Terika Christensen dance to ‘Footloose’ during Saturday’s Hermiston High School Swim Team Variety Show. then, on the weekends, we go to swim meets away because we don’t have an indoor pool,” Hamblin said. “I have to really tell everybody this is a fundraiser for the swim team so we can participate in swimming. ... It’s one of those things we just want to make sure they have in this area.” His wife, Lynne Hamblin, has helped organize the fund- raiser each year, and she said the event went well Saturday. “Overall, I think it was a hit,” she said. “We had three more acts than we did last year, and we got done in less time. I think there were more people here than last year. We gave back to the com- munity, and the community helped us, so it was a win- win. So now we book the au- ditorium and start planning for next year.” His Way of Hope Series Beginning January 10 6:30 PM Members of the Hermiston High School boys swim team perform a synchronized dance at the team’s annual talent show Saturday. Bring a friend Umatilla robotics kicks off season BY MAEGAN MURRAY HERMISTON HERALD The Umatilla robotics team was one of sever- al teams across the world watching intently Saturday morning as For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology announced its new game set up this year through a live stream. Nearly 75,000 teams joined the 2015 kickoff via a live Comcast NBCUni- versal broadcast, which announced that the teams would be competing in a new game known as Re- cycle Rush. The challenge requires teams to use their robots to stack boxes and recycling bins to score points. Some of the Umatilla team members were also at Eastern Washington University for the kick-off event to pick up their kit of parts and give a demonstra- tion to other teams. 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Highland Ave. Hermiston, OR press release. “We’re truly trying to engineer a robot that will compete against the clock and our own lim- itations.” This year, 42 members are on the build team, the most it has ever had. When the program started four years ago, it had nine members. BEST STAND-UP COMEDY ON IT'S WAY TO HERMISTON! Melonville Comedy Festival January 24, 2015 Hermiston Community Center The 22nd edition of the Melonville Comedy Festival will feature three headlining stand up comedians. The comics have been seen on Last Comic Standing, HBO, Comedy Central, and on the Bob and Tom Radio Show. Lecture Series Theme: Where we stand in world history according to the Bible, and how to be prepared for what is coming. There will be 19 lectures in the series. 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